San Pedro Ceremony
About the ceremony of San Pedro, we will write one of the many ways to express something very personal and only an own experience can finally tell the truth in each one
We will refer to San Pedro as a protective masculine spirit related to the GRANDFATHER who normally teaches us his grandchildren with a lot of love and patience
He is currently known by the Christian name San Pedro, who is represented holding keys that are from the entrance of the heaven gate, we only approach that peace, a divinity that we feel being able to return When the Spaniards arrived in Peru, they refer to this cactus also known in its original name as WACHUMA, which means drunk, where long before the Inca Empire it was used and known for its healing and divinatory powers.
In addition to the psychotropic effects that it produces when ingesting mescaline, the work of SHAMAN should be taken into account since it induces us into a trance through relaxation and the nature of the place, it is very important to carry out this type of ceremonies in nature, since our senses are sharpened being more beneficial for relaxation
Through the paraphernalia or shamanic table, these energies are present that invokes the spirit of Saint Peter to perform the healing and at the same time the joy of the meeting and enjoy the present moment
Shamanic Techniques in the San Pedro Ceremony
It is necessary to discharge to the earth during a ceremony of San Pedro or Wachuma, this means that there is always an energetic exchange in every ceremony, and the ideal is that all energy expressed is fused to the Earth or Pachamama through psychomagic acts. In this case, the Shaman carries with him a paraphernalia what is called the table where we find the Shamanic stones or KHUYAS, which carry the energy of the many places and rituals, many times these stones are inherited. The table works as a center for energy concentration, a channel that unifies the energy of the spirits with us, giving us total confidence and ease for a pleasant and very comfortable trip for anyone.
The last Shamans of Cusco considered the descendants of the Incas still carry and perform their ceremonies according to the Agricultural calendar, following the movement of the stars, in solstice and equinox. They are natural laws that were summarized by native peoples around the world, in Cusco they express it through alchemy (representation of the cosmos)
Cusco as the center of the Inca Empire, even the Shamans maintain this knowledge, and only want to share with everyone who feels the call, San Pedro Wachuma, Ayahuasca, and many other Sacred plants guide us and will always give us vitality in the spirit, a very soft and recommendable rebirth
Shaman in Cusco Perú
Cusco was the religious and administrative center of the INCAS empire, a place of Divine expression through its constructions, in places of rocky outcrops, they came to concentrate the energy of Mother Earth or Pachamama to seek harmony and generate a reciprocal relationship between nature and human beings
The Inca shamans recreated the connection of the Andean worlds or dimensions, like all cultures around the world, the main thing was the Duality expressed in Nature, the masculine with the feminine (the water fertilizes the earth), also the sky and the earth, connection portals that energetically nourish the human being
Inca healing describes the process of integration of our being by participating in the union of these supernatural beings through Inca ceremonies to improve our quality of life, Ancestral ceremonies, in the case of Cusco Peru we have the shamanic ceremony of San Pedro or Wachuma with shamanic instruments such as the zampoña, Andean offerings to the Pachamama
In this plane, where the human being is a bridge between the world above and below, alchemy happens when the shamans of Cusco represent through elements of the three mineral, animal and vegetable kingdoms.
