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