“The most sacred film I have ever watched!!
This is an absolutely beautiful and inspiring film that heals and activates the viewer.”
– Lalah Delia : Los Angeles, California
“A unique experience and much more than a movie; a valuable and beautiful, long forgotten message to the core of our ancient souls.”
– Katrine Kløvstad : Oslo, Norway
“Experiencing this film was the second most meaningful experience of my life. The first was the birth of my son.”
– Fotini Karaelefteriou : Athens, Greece
“It is a prayer that has been written next to a mountain, amid starlight and human aspiration for all that is and may be.”
– Elizabeth Hin : Dallas, Texas
A GIFT OF LIGHT & SOUND
Wisdomkeepers, Paqo Andino is an inspirational film conveying the heart-centric, eco-spiritual wisdom and celestially-integrated lifeways of the Andean-Inkan Holy Mountain Tradition. Recorded on location in the Peruvian highlands, the film's non-narrated format offers an unmediated experience of the maestro’s animistic consciousness and unconditional relationship with the life force that inhabits all forms of reality. Viewers experience wholeness and holiness through immersion into a way of life based on equality, equanimity, reciprocity, sustainability, kindness and the sanctity of daily activity– the Living Peace.
The Andean-Inkan Holy Mountain Tradition has come forward to offer its sacred lifeways and knowledge at a time when many people find themselves out of balance and searching for deeper meaning, connection and renewal. Wisdomkeepers, Paqo Andino conveys a heartfelt message to help reawaken our Eternal Essence, and offers universal insights to help people of all ages better understand their place and responsibility within the greater Whole.
“The findings of modern physics and the principles of perennial wisdom traditions are converging. The spiritual values associated with these wisdom traditions are being validated by science as beneficial to both individuals and society in general.”
– Institute of Noetic Sciences, Shift Report: Evidence of a World Transforming
MASTERS OF THE LIVING ENERGY
The Andean-Inkan Holy Mountain Tradition comprises an ancient lineage of terrestrial and celestial wisdomkeepers who operate as intermediaries between Heaven and Earth. Known as Paqos, they are revered for their animistic consciousness, holistic lifeways and ability to summon elemental, terrestrial and celestial forces for the benefit of all.
Spanish chroniclers referred to them by two names: Pampamisayoq, meaning practitioners who tend to the balance of the land, animals and people; and Altomisayoq, referring to Celestial Paqos who care for the Earth and her inhabitants as well as the overall, interdimensional relationships between consciousness and matter. Additionally, there are the Inka levels of initiation that when embodied, operate in ascended consciousness with and within Living Presence.
Back in the 1530s, Andean Paqos, who are the traditional consciousness holders of the People, came under attacked by Conquest and Inquisition forces due to their abilities and working relationship with the Inkan Empire. In order to safeguard their lives and sacred wisdom, Paqos and their families fled to remote, high-altitude locations where they persevered in extreme conditions, seclusion and secrecy for over four hundred years.
In the 1950's, Peruvian anthropologists discovered a few Paqos attending to physical and spiritual needs of indigenous hacienda workers in the highlands. Over the course of the next decades, relative ideological safety and modern convenience brought increased interaction with the general population. This led to more and more Paqos living and working within traditional Andean communities. In recent decades, Paqos have begun sharing their wholistic wisdom via ceremonies, talks, conferences, retreats and apprenticeships. This cosmological exchange has helped strengthen inter-cultural appreciation, cosmological understanding and respect for indigenous wisdom in general.
Currently, there are only a handful Paqos working within the tradition’s Alto levels due to disruptive influences, elder die-off and very few initiates willing to undertake the dedication of this rigorous path. As a result, Andean Paqos and their over-lighting Mountain Spirit Benefactors have begun initiating and training western practitioners to help humanity reweave animistic consciousness, restore balance, teach holistic lifeways and promote spiritual responsibility among industrialized peoples.
The Andean-Inkan Holy Mountain Tradition traces its origins back before the great planetary deluge of the Younger Dryas period. The lineage has never been separated from Source and remains to this day, one of the few remaining, unbroken wisdom traditions on this planet.
REALIZING A VISION : BRIDGING WORLDS
by Jeffrey Wium
In 2002, I injured myself while filming a reality television series. This was my reality check. It upended my world and pointed me back to myself. In the process of recuperating, I realized that I needed to connect and integrate the personal and professional aspects of my life. And to harmonize my neural-physical-emotional systems to embody more ease and functionality. I needed a cohesive life.
I began focusing on education and certification in a variety of integrative healing modalities. In 2005, I undertook an apprenticeship in Peru, and made a series of journeys into the Amazon to experience the realities beyond the western mind. These processes completely changed my perspective and comprehension. I felt like I had come home to place I’d never been, but had know for some time.
This commenced an intensive period of experiential learning, oral-direct learning education, nature ceremonies and cosmological expansion. In 2007, I was invited into the celestial levels of the Andean-Inkan Holy Mountain Tradition. I then began a more intensive apprenticeship based in terrestrial and cosmos-based learning. Asian practices provided pathways for embodiment.
Communion at the Altars of the Apus & Pachamama
Attending to the wellbeing of the community
In August 2008, I received a vision for what was to become WISDOMKEEPERS, PAQO ANDINO. After arriving home from Peru, I shared my experience with a friend. He offered Tupaq and I production funding. Humbled, I realized my two worlds were coming together. I started gathering my 'hats' and listening. I would learn, and sometimes stubbornly at times, that letting go precedes birth. There were several instances during production where I could only laugh with myself and my mind trying to direct the flow of the Eternal. I had to learn to think different.
The Mountain-Spirit Collective that oversees the tradition asked me to record the film as a solo filmmaker and initiated Paqo. They wanted to maximize energetic clarity and make sure the film was a transmission originating from the lineage instead of an anthropological study.
In early 2009, we travel in the Peruvian altoplano to record traditional ceremonies, invocations and wholistic ways of life. We held it as an opportunity to convey the Andean wisdom as an offering to humanity. We filmed ten pilgrimages over eighteen months to get the footage.
Making our way amongst the Mountain Spirits
Doña Maria Apasa Machuaca and Jeffrey Huamanchiq-Wium
Editorial was a lesson in direct learning, intuition and trust. I worked on the film in a single pass from beginning to end without revisions. The locations, natural settings, energetics, prayers and ceremonial rhythms guided me. I learned to let go of my mind and attend to the process– somewhat like a midwife. I relied on what the imagery and sounds; a mix of discovery, education, extension, pause, patience, prayer and Faith/Flow. The process was teaching me to trust inner wisdom and ancestral guidance. I saw it moment to moment. It was very much like the pregnancies and birthing of my children.
I found the mystery when the subtitles were added. I could then see how the dialogue and prayers, nature ceremonies and experiences flowed together. It was a living experience of an orchestrated motion. One where we can find our place in the larger Whole.
The film asked for, faith, to navigate unknown cultural and dimensional environments, balance production mindedness and receptivity; continue initiations, record transmissions and convey living examples of ancient life ways. This experience taught me the function of a living cosmology rooted in our original, unified state of consciousness, forgiveness, and ayni (unconditional right relationship).
I am grateful for the collective collaboration, guidance, encouragement, patience and support. I am deeply appreciative for my family, friends, colleagues and all of the individuals and organizations who helped bring this to two-dozen countries and shared digitally online. I am deeply grateful for the Apu and Ancestors whose wisdom held the container for this work, and whose foresight set this in motion long ago.