An international renown kamasqa curandero, altomisayoq adept, and earth-honoring ritualist from Peru, don Oscar Miro-Quesada Solevo is the visionary founder of The Heart Of The Healer (THOTH) Shamanic Mystery School, the originator of Pachakuti Mesa Tradition cross-cultural shamanism, author of Shamanism: Personal Quests of Communion with Nature and Creation (https://amzn.to/3LO9mLN), Healing Light (amazon.com/dp/B015JCZGCK), and co-author with Bonnie Glass-Coffin, Ph.D. of Lessons in Courage: Peruvian Shamanic Wisdom for Everyday Life (amazon.com/dp/193790718X). Aside from his extensive personal involvement and scholarly contributions related to the practice of cross-cultural shamanism, don Oscar is a Fellow in Ethnopsychology with the Organization of American States, Invited N.G.O. Observer to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Founding Counselor of the Inter-Spiritual Dialogue Committee, Acting Member of the Source of Synergy Evolutionary Leaders Circle, and together with Jean Houston, Jack Canfield, Neale Donald Walsch, Ervin Laszlo, Lynne Twist, Michael Bernard Beckwith, Ashok K. Gangadean, Dot Maver, Lynne McTaggart, Rinaldo Brutoco, and James O'Dea, one of twelve luminaries the late futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard convened to form her singular Birth 2012 Welcoming Committee.
Some of his more mainstream accomplishments include an A.S. degree in Life Sciences/Microbiology from Mitchell College, a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Comparative Religion from Duke University, an M.A. in Humanistic/Transpersonal Clinical Psychology from West Georgia State University, and a two-year post-masters specialization degree in Ethnopsychology granted by Organization of American States (O.A.S.) fulfilled through the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. His research in interdisciplinary studies while at Emory, combined with two years of fieldwork in medical anthropology among Peru's northern coastal and southeastern highland rural populations, led to the creation of indigenous community-based mental health and substance abuse treatment programs in partnership with native folk healers that became integrated into Peru's public health care delivery system at a national level. He has likewise held distinguished appointments in academia, clinical psychology, and healthcare that are far too numerous to mention for this profile page.
Famed for his ritual mastery in Peruvian kamasqa and altomisayoq shamanic lineages, don Oscar's apprenticeship in northern coastal wachuma curanderismo and initiation into the southeastern Andean paqokuna shaman/priesthood formally took place between the years 1969 and 1986. His first immersion into the living soul and mythic reality of Peruvian shamanism was realized under the stern tutelage of the famed wachumero don Celso Rojas Palomino from Salas, a then small agricultural community near the city of Chiclayo. don Oscar accomplished his apprenticeship in northern coastal curanderismo fulfilling the dual role of auxilio de mesada ("medicine lodge"/"healing altar auxiliary" or "ritual assistant") and rastrero ("clairvoyant diagnostician"/" diviner"), eventually becoming don Celso's segundo de mando en banco ("second in command for curing sessions"). This intensely demanding apprenticeship process transpired during the winter months (June, July, and August in the Southern Hemisphere) each year until don Celso's untimely passing in July of 1982.
Less than a month after this sorrowful event, don Oscar found himself serendipitously involved in a considerably less formal, more sporadic four-year apprenticeship within the southeastern Andean Paqo tradition of shamanism with famed kuraq akulleq don Benito Corihuaman Vargas from the village of Wasao, a farming community one hour south of Cusco. In recognition of his expeditious grasp of traditional Q'eswaruna cosmovision, witnessed through the skilled performance of traditional propitiatory earth-honoring ceremonies, don Oscar received his musqochiwarqa qallariy transmission as altomisayoq from don Benito in November of 1985, barely seven months before this deeply revered elder also made his passing in June of 1986.
He is a popular faculty member at The Shift Network and educational centers in the U.S.A. and abroad, dedicating his life to revitalizing aboriginal wisdom traditions to restore sacred trust between humankind and the natural world. Oscar has been facilitating experiential workshops and apprenticeship series that integrate millennial and contemporary healing practices and Earth-honoring ceremonial traditions with a focus on creating heartfelt sacred communities around the world since 1979. He has been leading exemplary cross-cultural shamanic apprenticeship expeditions to sacred sites of the world since 1986. His widely acclaimed ethnospiritual pilgrimages to ancestral lands are masterfully orchestrated to inspire a life of reverence and eco-restorative
relationship with our beloved Pachamama ("Earth Mother") as a destined part of our human identity as an Earth-honoring global family.
Aside from his currently established regional apprenticeship series in the U.S.A. and Europe, he has also been a popular teacher at prestigious international centers of leading-edge education such as Naropa, Shambhala Mountain Center, Interface, New York Open Center, Rowe, Frankfurter-Ring, Omega, and Esalen, to name a few. A seasoned navigator of non-ordinary states of consciousness, don Oscar is well prepared to help people from all walks of life access realms of Being through which multidimensional powers and forces are available for healing self, others, and our planetary ecosystem. His ceremonial work and shamanic apprenticeship programs have been featured on Sounds True, CNN, Univision, A&E, Discovery Channel, and The History Channel's Ancient Aliens.
More important than all the credentials is the fact that don Oscar is a genuinely warm, loving human being who deeply cares about people and our planet and has an infectious belly laugh. He is a master at creating community using the magic of joy, love, and compassion as the strands that gently weave us together as a planetary family. His deep caring for each student is expressed in his keen attention to life-transforming ceremonial detail and group healing dynamics within each sacred hoop he's called to serve. In essence, don Oscar's life is best described as "transforming the world through sacred living," as he lovingly carries forth a pragmatic vision of global human spiritual awakening based on the co-creation of sustainable earth-honoring sacred communities worldwide.
Learn more at: www.theheartofthehealer.org
"When we surrender the need to figure it all out and cultivate the ability to let it all in, our earth walk becomes a sacred dance of healing service on the planet. More than the world needs saving; it needs loving." —don Oscar
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