Reading List

Top of my list: Masters of the Living Energy by Joan Parisi Wilcox

Well, I have to tell you: Hawk was not finished with me yesterday.

But alas, I cannot tell you that story tonight because there’s been a snafu. I was supposed to pick someone up at the airport this evening – at 10:20 p.m., to be exact. And – funny story (not) – because I almost always run late, I made a point of getting to the airport at 10:00 p.m. I also, completely contrary to the fiber of my being, took the book I’m reading out of my bag and deliberately left it at home. I consciously decided that I would not have enough time to either read or write in my journal – so why carry them? Especially if it’s supposed to rain, sleet, and snow later?

So I didn’t. I figured I could ‘read my phone’ for the short wait.

10:20 arrived. And left.

10:30 arrived. And left.

10:40 arrived. And left.

I texted my charge: “Land yet?”

She responded: “OMG we had to go back to Detroit!!! We have to change planes.”

The Road to Hell

Clearly this was my fault. Every time I’m either early or on time – and especially if I have not brought a book or my journal – something like this happens. It is uncanny.

So…tick tock. I had to make a decision. I could see now that I would never get back to the house in time to write my post if I waited for the second flight attempt to arrive.

Consequently, I am home. Good thing, too. The plane is in the air now (I believe), so I need to make this quick, hit ‘publish,’ and drive back to the airport.

So I’m going to cheat. Well, not really. But it is convenient that a few of you inquired about the reading list I prepared for the class I spoke to yesterday. Here you go:

Recommended books:

Masters of the Living Energy– The Mystical World of the Q’ero of Peru– by Joan Parisi Wilcox
Andean Awakening– An Inca Guide to Mystical Peru– by Jorge Luis Delgado
The Hold Life Has– Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community– by Catherine J. Allen
The Andean Codex– Adventures and Initiations Among the Peruvian Shamans– by J.E. Williams
Initiation– A Woman’s Spiritual Adventure in the Heart of the Andes– by Elizabeth B. Jenkins
Secrets of the Ancient Incas– A Modern Approach to Ancient Ritual and Practice– by Michael Peter Langevin
The Andean Cosmovision– A Path for Exploring Profound Aspects of Ourselves, Nature, and the Cosmos– by Oakley E. Gordon
Peruvian Shamanism– the Pachakuti Mesa– by Matthew Magee
Eduardo El Curandero– The Words of a Peruvian Healer– by Eduardo Calderon, Richard Cowan, Douglas Sharon and F. Kaye Sharon
Rituals of Respect– The Secret of Survival in the High Peruvian Andes– by Inge Bolin

I need to skedaddle. And I need to drive carefully (meaning not like a bat out of hell). Because of course, as I drove home from the airport earlier, the ‘winter weather advisory’ weather had begun in earnest.