February 15, 2012 - Iva and Jack Peele "Road to Q'ero"

On this episode of Conscious Living with talk to Iva and Jack Peele, a NY family who was invited by the Q'ero, descendents of the Incas, to do something unprecedented: enter their village in the Peruvian Andes and film their sacred ceremonies in order to bring back an urgent message to the industrialized world. We hear their story of that remarkable journey. Iva and her son Jack tell how the making of this movie was a life-changing experience and an awakening to a new level of conscious living. Picaflor Productions Presents The Road to Q'ero: a Journey Home. A preview of their journey can be found on Youtube. 

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 Jack Peele, a photographer and filmmaker living in New York City journeyed In 2010 with his mother Iva, girlfriend Julie, friend Katherine, and were invited to accompany Lorenzo, a high Andean priest (or paqo), back to his homeland of Qeros in a remote part of the Peruvian Andes. This was something unprecedented, something that has never before been offered to anyone  to enter with cameras and film the sacred initiation ceremonies, or karpays, of these famously reclusive people.

The Qero are a culture that lives with deep connections to the workings of Mama Pacha (Mother Earth), and Pacha Mama, who is the Cosmic Mother; their traditions are thousands of years old. In the 1500s, when the Spanish invaded, the Qero returned to their homeland in a high, isolated part of Peru to escape and they remained there, maintaining their traditions. With no connection to the outside world, time basically stood still for the Qero.

On this uncharted adventure taken through the Sacred Valley of the Incas and culminating in a journey on foot and horseback to Qeros, we were introduced to the Apus the spirits of the sacred mountains of Peru, considered to be the most powerful of all nature spirits. Most importantly, we were invited into the Qeros ancient rituals of the Karpays, a series of ceremonies that are a bestowal of power of the ancient lineage.  As they experienced these often rigorous ceremonies, they were reconnecting to the ancestors and the elements: the stars, wind, water, lake, moon, the sun, and the Incas.

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About Wendy Garrett:

Communicator, intuitive, artist, mystic, and host of "Conscious Living" on Empower Radio.

My world was transformed in 1997 when I awakened to an entirely new awareness of reality through a metaphysical shift. The spirit energy that collaborated with me to reveal new dimensions of being and spirit worlds with which we cohabit and co-create our reality is still with me. And that is what I bring to the table now - in each and every life experience: multidimensional awareness and metaphysical presence.

As a radio broadcaster, my experience runs the spectrum of formats including news, talk, and music. Reporter, jock, news anchor, talk host and co-host, announcer, voice talent, I back-burnered and downplayed my metaphysical life while I learned the trade, acquired new information and new skills, gained entry into the world of interviewing and met some amazing people.

Radio back-burnered when I detoured from news to finally allow my paranormal world to have center stage. Totally immersed through a dramatic series of events that triggered an entire redirect of my life, I wrote about the initial encounter in Talking to Nightlights. Truly, a new beginning, the rewards upgraded as I have continued my lessons and learning on that journey.

Writing shifted to blogging and a renewed interest in interviewing with a dedicated focus on metaphysical and spiritual topics that included spiritual awakening and shamanism, because that is my reality, and there were no radio broadcasters who talked or lived this lifestyle. I hear, see, feel, sense, smell energy beings, ghosts, angels and spirit guides and I learn more with each encounter. As a conscious co-creator, I go where I am called. One can ask better questions when they walk the talk. (To that end, I work with a paranormal group who investigates hauntings.)

We are the creators here. We are the change we seek and we are in the company of others in spirit form who add the element of wonder to the playing field. That is where magic lives. Join me for Conscious Living on Empower Radio. I feature others who may or may not add a metaphysical element but are bringing light, joy, wonder and awareness to the world in whatever creative endeavor they have chosen to pursue.

Open your mind to some extraordinary views.  Blessings and Light wherever your path calls you!

Wendy