“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 relationiship 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 highlanss. 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 to the era before the Great Planetary Deluge. It has never been separated from Source and remains to this day, one of the few unbroken wisdom traditions still operating 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 own reality check. It upended my world and helped lead me back to my true self. While recuperating from the injury, I realized that I needed to fully integrate my personal and professional lives, harmonize my mind-body-spirit, and embody more cohesive life practices.
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 understand extended realities beyond my western mind. These process completely changed my life and ironically, I felt like I had come home to place I’d never been before.
After an intensive period of experiential learning, ceremonies, expansion and loss of limiting constructs, I was invited into the celestial realms of the Andean-Inkan Holy Mountain Tradition. This begin an even more intensive period of learning and embodiment.
Communion at the Altars of the Apus & Pachamama
Attending to the wellbeing of the community
In 2008, while on pilgrimage in the Andes, I received a vision for what was to become WISDOMKEEPERS, PAQO ANDINO. When home, I shared my experience with a friend-colleague who unexpectedly offered to fund the project. Humbled and surprised, I realized my worlds were coming together and I went about gathering my 'hats' without knowing the depth of what was in store. I would learn, and not always the easy way, that surrender always precedes birth. There were several instances during production where I could only laugh with/at myself and shake my head at my temporal mind trying to direct the Eternal.
The Mountain-Spirit Council that oversees the tradition asked me to record the film as a solo filmmaker and celestial Paqo. They wanted to maintain energetic clarity and make sure our cinematic offering was a transmission originating from within the lineage instead of an external, anthropological interpretation.
In early 2009, Tupaq Ttito, Doña Maria, two Pampamisayoqs and I set out into the Peruvian altoplano to record our tradition’s ceremonies, prayers and sacred lifeways as an offering to the People of Earth. Ten pilgrimages and eighteen months later, we had the breath of footage needed.
Making our way amongst the Mountain Spirits
Doña Maria Apasa Machuaca and Jeffrey Huamanchiq-Wium
Editorial was a lesson in trust, intuition, engagement and surrender. The film came together in a single pass from beginning to end without revision, the aid of speaking the Quechua language, or reliance on translation. Instead, the locations, natural settings, energetic prayers and ceremonial rhythms were my guides. Suffice it to say, I had to learn how to let go of my mind and attend to the process as a midwife. It was a mix of excitement, discovery, education, patience, prayer-filled faith and flow. I did not know until the end how it would all turn out, much like the birthing of my first child.
I found the sweetest fruit of our labors when the subtitles were added. I was stunned to see how the dialogue, prayers and ceremonies flowed together perfectly. I was struck by how the film’s original vision, production and fulfillment were all parts of an orchestrated movement. In retrospect, the film asked me to learn to operate in faith, navigate inter-cultural and inter-dimensional terrain, balance receptivity and undergo initiation to record and convey the tradition’s ancient way of life– a cosmology rooted in humanity’s original, unified state of consciousness, and ayni (unconditional right relationship).
This legacy project has orchestration and directors far beyond me. I am grateful for their collaboration, guidance, encouragement and unconditional support. I am deeply appreciative for my family, friends, colleagues and all of the individuals and organizations who helped bring this film to life. I also give deep thanks to the Apus and Ancestors whose ancient wisdom and foresight set this all in motion so long ago.