Peru & Andes
The mountains of Peru are not simply beautiful. That would be the simplest description — and the most incomplete. In the Andean tradition, certain places are alive. They have consciousness, a frequency, a task.
And they wait. That sounds unusual. But whoever has once been there understands what is meant. ## What a Place of Power Is Places of power — called portals or Apus in the Andean tradition — are places where the energy of the earth is especially dense and conscious. Not a myth, not a fantasy.
In Andean medicine these places have been used for generations, because they make possible things that elsewhere take much longer or are not possible at all. Every portal has a specific frequency. That distinguishes the Andean tradition from a general visit to sacred sites. We do not go somewhere and hope for something.
We go to a specific place, because this place carries a specific healing. One of the places heals the feminine energy — women and men equally, in different ways. Another place has the capacity to release foreign energies, bonds, occupations. Yet another activates what we call in the tradition the inner temples — the original form of what the West calls chakras.
These differences are not known from books. They are known through the tradition, through oral transmission, through the direct communication with the place. ## How One Enters a Place of Power Not the way tourists do. The difference is not respect — tourists are respectful too. The difference is the language.
These places are protected. The energies there respond to what one brings. Whoever comes without ceremony, without asking permission, without knowing the language the place understands — much remains closed to him. There is rain, altitude sickness, resistance.
That is no coincidence. When a portal is open — through the right offerings, the right ceremony, the direct communication with the spirit of the place — the climate changes, the energy of the group, the depth of what becomes possible. In a rainy season we once had continuous sun. In winter the same.
The weather follows the process. I do not say this to make it sound mystical. It is simply what happens. ## The Places We Visit The Moon Temple is the first. A natural temple — not a built structure — with a small waterfall whose water has a quality one can feel immediately in the body.
It is dedicated to the consciousness of the Ñustas, the priestesses of the Inca. There our journeys begin. There the first cleansing begins. Then there are places at 4,000, 5,000 meters.
Places most tourists will never see — not because the path is too long, but because one does not know where. These places we know from the tradition. We know which ceremony they need, which offerings, which language. There we have seen condors that appear when the cleansing goes deep.
Three rainbows in a row after a ceremony, several times. And once — I will not forget it — a tornado that moved directly toward our huts, and just before, turned away. Went in the other direction. Everyone had seen it. ## What Happens at Such Places Processes condense.
Things that take months or years at home happen in days. Not because one strains — on the contrary. Because the energy of the place actively works with you. Things come up that one has brought along — sadness, heaviness, patterns.
That is not a crisis. That is the place drawing to the light what is ready. And then, in the ceremony, it can be released. Some cry.
Not from sadness. From relief. From the contact with something greater than daily life. The places of power of the Andes are not a holiday destination.
They are a path — for people who sense that they have something to find there that they otherwise cannot. Whoever knows this call will find all the information about the next journey on the Peru journey page.