Pulling a donkey (instead of an emergency horse) through the mountains of Lares trek heading to Machu Picchu, I mentally teleported myself back to my childhood when I used to go with my brother and cousins to explore nature, looking for insects and fishing, to a valley behind my house in Cusco, it was at that moment when I discovered that tourism would be my job and my witness was the donkey that the tourist called followus, not knowing that more experiences were coming like rain..
It was a unique feeling to feel that I already knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life and that decision took my immaturity to roads, mountains and to meet people I would never have known, the most surprising thing is to have met people who contributed to my formation, to my desire to know more to form me into the person I am now, with flaws and virtues that encourage me to fulfill my mission in this life.
A day of good weather, descending from 4600 meters above sea level. In a place where you notice a natural border between the puna (proper name of the Andes, sparse vegetation) and subtropical forests, for a change on the road there is a kind of cover and passing gives you a fascinating landscape, in that place Runima of Brazil was staring at the landscape without words but had something else that only moved me to approach her, I looked at her and then the landscape.
She broke the silence and talked to me about past life regressions (a kind of hypnosis that takes you to past lives), she told me that in her sessions she had seen a place like that and in the river there were gold stones (many years later the book La brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias confirmed that the river had gold stones and it was not the only one), curiosity led me to investigate so much that I did 2 sessions that questioned my parameters of what I knew about life.
I also remember Nicolas, he was in my expedition group to Machucpicchu and on the first day after building trust in the group he approached me while we were walking and told me that he had been 1 year with Tibetan monks learning Tai Chi and that he had come to Peru only because his master had told him that he had learned everything and that he should go to Peru and do Ayahuasca ceremony (I had already heard of Ayahuasca and it was not the last time, so much so that most of my overcoming is based on Ayahuasca).
At that time the information was not new or important as I was immature about the mysteries of life and was more focused on the comfort that life offers, but he still invited me to do Tai Chi at the camp, at the foot of 2 glaciers on the first night of the Salkantay trek. While we were doing the movements of Tai Chi I was there out of commitment and my mind was on what I should be doing at that moment (fun), when we finished he asked me how it went and I said normal nothing out of the ordinary, Nick said tomorrow we can do it and out of politeness I said ok.
In the second camp after dinner Nick took the candle from the table, he got up and said let’s go, until that moment I didn’t know that he had invited the whole group, we went to a remote part, and he put the candle on the floor, we made a circle, just like the first day my mind was in the fun that I should be having with friends, but that time I remember clearly that he said; make a kind of spoon with your hand, as if you were picking something up, bring it closer to your body as if you were absorbing it and when we moved our hands away from the body he said release it.
The sensations that happened in my body were inexplicable and once again I had no way to explain, I only went through my mind Goku is true (Dragon ball Z, cartoons) because I felt a kind of fire in my hand every time I did like a spoon to pick something up.
There is also Caro from Chile, we did the Inka trail but I didn’t know if she was going to stay and live in Cusco, one day we met very close to the main square of Cusco, she told me she was teaching yoga and invited me to participate and I accepted. For work reasons I got a call for about 2/3 of the session but it was totally worth it and I always describe my first yoga experience with Spiderman: when Peter Parker discovers his powers and starts running like crazy over the buildings, that’s exactly how I felt, I didn’t jump over buildings but I ran very fast and light because I had to get to work.
I also met Hayley living in Cusco (we did the route of Salkantay to Machupicchu) and between the conversation she mentioned that she did an Ayahuasca ceremony and just that morning I was with one of those hangovers that makes you take the decision of a definitive never again, because there were many times that I ended up in that situation and that morning I said to myself:
What if I do Ayahuasca? since people talk so much even tourists come just for that and if it’s so good that it helps me because the method of happiness that the world offered had a negative side that increased every time (hangover), I got tired of being up (fun) and down (hangovers, consequences), I just wanted to be up.
And when I heard that from Hayley it was like the universe conspired for that moment, I asked where did you do it? I wrote down the place, a few streets ahead thinking about the mysterious that life brought to me, I said to myself it must be a coincidence and suddenly I met Caro again, excited I told her that I am going to do Ayahuasca, she said: good I did it, it was great, where did you do it? I asked her and she answered with the same place as Hayley. Imagine everything that went through my mind, there was no doubt so I did it.
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It was fantastic. Over time I met more people who did Ayahuasca ceremonies, after several ceremonies I arrived at the ancient Inka University where I prepared myself for many years in ancient oracles, from the first time I did the ceremony until the last one I can only say that all the benefits that people talk about who participated in Ayahuasca ceremonies do not honour it and humanity did not develop, in fact we are suffering a setback.
All the knowledge I acquired made me feel proud of my roots, of my work and committed to the world. I met people from all over the world who felt admiration for so much knowledge, which is no longer about informative knowledge but rather about living well, maintaining happiness.
I came to the conclusion that tourism is not only about getting to know new places, meeting people, experiences or social media, but rather an escape from reality, no matter if the disease of the future (stress) is advanced or not, the only thing people is seeking is to be happy, therefore I felt that the universe had formed me to work in tourism to share the knowledge that humanity had lost. Clients and tourists I met along the way taught me things I didn’t know, like science and they themselves supported the information I shared with them with science which inspired me to investigate science.
I realised that it was easier to understand ancient stories and their ways of life if explained from the intellectual perception of the west, it was also inspiring to hear similar stories from other parts of the world or totally different stories but that had the same message. I can say that 90% of the enthusiastic listeners, in the last days did not want to know more or hear more information, it was simply too much information for limited minds in the comfort of social engineering.
The other 10% was not only encouraging but something of an object of study and sustenance because many of them practiced naturally or learned by themselves the knowledge I shared with them, but even so, it was not enough to avoid frustration and discomfort the work that made me feel in the environment of my childhood and the solution was to segment the market, to give service to those who value and need to recover their lives.
All the lived, fantastic, difficult and in many cases foolish (by unconsciousness) moments promoted the opening of Inti travel Org therapeutic tourism, to Re-learn about life with the Inka method based simply on history, science and simplicity, our proposal is not to solve your life but rather to show you the solution of your life and humanity for a greater cause, to save life on this planet, it only depends on you to put it into practice.
