“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 tradition. Recorded on location in the Peruvian highlands, the film's non-narrated format offers an unmediated experience of the maestro’s unconditional relationship with the Force of Life; Creation. Viewers experience wholeness, an animistic consciousness and way of life based on equanimity, equality, reciprocity, sustainability and the sanctity of daily activity. The Living Peace.
The Andean-Inkan tradition offers an experience of sacred lifeways and knowledge when many people find themselves needing balance and meaning, connection and renewal. Wisdomkeepers, Paqo Andino conveys a heartfelt experience to help awaken consciousness. The film offers universal ways to help people of all ages find their place and responsibility within the greater whole.
MAESTROS OF THE LIVING ENERGY
The Andean-Inkan tradition is a lineage of ancestral wisdom keepers that extends back before the planetary deluge of the Younger Dryas period. Traditional practitioners are referred to as Paqos. Their life-work is dedicated to supporting the balance of terrestrial life and celestial relations. Paqos are consulted for their wholistic knowledge, communal guidance, medical-emotional remedy, therapy and consciousness-based solutions.
The Andean-Inkan tradition has thirteen levels of initiation and responsibility. Practitioners of levels one through six are known as Pampamisayoqs. They tend to the wellbeing of the land, water, elements, animals and people.
At level seven, male and female practitioners are called Altomisayoqs. They tend to the ways of the earth, life energy, consciousness and creation.
In 1532, the Andean-Inkan tradition was attacked by conquest and inquisition forces due to their knowledge, animistic connection and unified cosmology. Paqos and their families fled to remote high-altitude locations to safeguard their lives and wisdom. They continued to develop and maintain their cosmology for the next four hundred and twenty-five years.
In the 1950's, anthropologists discovered Paqos tending to needs of the hacienda workers in the Peruvian highlands. Over time, and with ideological safety. Paqos grew more interactive and moved into other Quechua-speaking communities. In the 1980’s, Paqos began sharing their wisdom and ceremonies with westerners who sought them out. For the past forty years, Paqos have trained western practitioners who sought out the living wisdom.
Since the early 2000’s, inter-cultural teachings, conferences and retreats have been organized to share ceremonies, prayers, knowledge and cosmological wisdom. Currently, there are only a handful of celestial-level practitioners. This is due to the disruptions of modern life, confusion, die-off and few initiates willing to walk the path.
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. On the spot, he offered philanthropic funding to complete the project. Humbled, I started gathering my 'hats' and opening to what was wanting to come through. I would learn throughout the project that letting go of a preconceived western approach to recording was required. There were several times during production where I laughed with myself when my producer side got in the way thinking I could direct the flow of the Eternal.
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 Huamancheq 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.