This is how we describe our programs with a content focused on the historical past of the Peruvian Andes, where the last culture to emerge before the arrival of the Spanish developed: the Incas. We approach these programs from a religious point of view, seeing religious belief as an important component in decision making, interpersonal relations and the concept of the investiture of the Inca sovereign himself. The high priest or “Willac Uma” is the intermediary for the relationship between man, the environment and the cosmos.

This approach is also reflected in the interpretation of the archaeological remains that were once population centres, temples, palaces, public buildings. We base our interpretations on the work of leading archaeologists and anthropologists. This history still lives in the language of local people, their rituals, and even the attitudes of Andean culture - the behaviour of those who are the jealous guardians of a culture little altered by time and 500 years of European influence.

The visitor who has assimilated the information imparted by the specialist guide, who respects and identifies himself with the cultural value of Andean religion, is then ready to participate in an esoteric ceremony.

These ceremonies have suffered some changes during the long process of cultural development, having been to some degree assimilated into Christian prayer in their original Quechua, but they nevertheless retain a genuine Andean mysticism and are made with great devotion in the belief that they will propitiate good health, love and success in business if the gods look favourably upon the rituals. Faith can, after all, move mountains.

Cusco, that sacred city, is a bio-energetic centre of great magnetic power, of which Doctor Cecilia Paz Schieffer, a research psychologist who for many years has studied the region’s para-psychological phenomena says: “The bio-energy of this place not only comes from Mother Earth, but also from the Macro Cosmos”.

Scholars of quantum physics, theories of electromagnetic fields and transpersonal psychology have expressed their agreement with such statements, and their adherence to the beliefs expressed in such rituals.

 

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