Advanced Shaman Training – the Lightning Path

34 week’s training each year in weekly 2-hour classes via Zoom for 6 years.

These will provide practical shamanic work to be done between classes. Each training module will combine work to strengthen your shamanic abilities, with learning practical techniques you can use as a working shaman.

3 Traditional Quechuan Initiations 

One every two years. These are the Lightning Initiations, as taught by Q’ero P’aqo (Peruvian Shaman), Don Sebastian Succlle Apaza, to Dr Owen Roberts, PhD, over an eight year period in the early 2000’s. It incorporates training in other techniques taught to us by P’aqos in the villages of Inca Patiti and the Ausangate Region of the Peruvian Andes.

The three Lightning Initiations are:

1. The Initiation of Compassion, known in Quechuan as the “Munay Karpay.” This connects you to the earth and opens the heart chakra.
2. The Initiation of Power, the “Yanqay Karpay.” This brings immense shamanic power.
3. The Initiation of Wisdom, the “Yachay Karpay”. The Yachay Karpay opens channels of wisdom and communication to the Great Beings of the Cosmos.

The Lightning Path consists of two training years beween initiations.

Munay – The Path of Compassion

Year One: The Rainbow Path

Advanced chakra work. Building additional relationships through the 7 chakras.

1. Working with Kyuchi (the Rainbow) and her 7 Nustas.
2. Advanced Nawikhuna (chakra being) Work. Discover the unique healing powers of each chakra being. Gain additional connections.

These incorporate specialised healing techniques unique to the traditions of the village of Inka Patiti.

Year Two: The Dragon Path.

Building relationship, including initiations, with the 15 dragons of the 3 Worlds. Constructing a Dragon Mesa.

1. The Five Dragons of the Lower World
2. The Five Dragons of the Middle World
3. The Five Dragons of the Upper World

The Munay Karpay – Compassion Initiation

Yanqay – the Path of Power

Year Three: Standing in the World

Public ceremonial. Training in delivering public events as a shaman.

1. Public Rites: Design and delivery of weddings and other rites of passage.
2. Despacho: Traditional despacho formats from Don Sebastian.
3. Ceremonies and rites for seasonal events (eg: Beltain, Samhain, Pachamama Day, etc)

Year Four: Being A Modern Shaman

Standing tall as a modern professional shaman in the modern professional world. Talking to people in their language.

1. Modern Professional Shamanism. Many therapeutic techniques and psychological theories are arising which use shamanic principles, such as Ecotherapy and Earth Attachment Theory. This year teaches these, enabling you to engage with professionals such as psychotherapists in a professional way. If you are actively working as a psychotherapist, this will give you the ability to discuss your shamanic work in the language of science, and backed by empirical research. This course will incorporate the latest advances in science.
2. Religion and Philosophy. A shaman in the world should be able to engage professionally with a priest from other religions. They should understand the religious background of their clients. This course provides an overview of the world’s main religions through lectures, reading holy scriptures, spiritual exercises, and shamanic exploration. It will also explore philosophies and moralities within the Quechuan shamanic traditions, and what they offer to the modern world.

The Initiation of Power, the “Yanqay Karpay.”

Yachay – the Path of Wisdom

Year Five: Working with the Cosmos.

1. Guardian of Cosmic Harmony. The Climate Crisis and how your path fits in. This is shamanic, not an intellectual or political course. It involves shamanic work with Mother Earth and her non-human children, It will also explore the ways in which shamanism can give birth to mainstream climate action through new political developments, such as the legal concept of natural beings. Working with the Great Galactic Beings. Planetary ceremonies. The 7 Teste Apu (universal powers). Includes the Taitanchis Initiation into the Seed of Creation.
2. Being the Gateway. Learning to giving initiations – kawak, nawikhuna, bands of power, mesaoq initiations, rualkhuna initiations.

Year Six: Being Your Self

The contents of this final year will be custom designed by Dr Owen in consultation with you. It will bring your shamanic training into full harmonious integration with your life in the modern world. They will include direct mentoring in your practice, and a training regime tailored to your unique needs on your own unique shamanic path. This includes the option of living and training with indigenous shaman in Mongolia, Peru or Australia. Professionals may take up the option of formal research and publication projects. Media professionals will have access to videography oportunities for projects such as documentaries and travelogs.

The Initiation of Wisdom, the “Yachay Karpay.”

“This initiation is not for everyone, only if you feel ready and are going to use them to grow and to heal others.” – Don Sebastian, 3^rd Dec, 2006.

Timing

Don Sebastian taught that there should be a minimum period of at least two years between initiations, in order to allow each to work its full transformation on you.

The Initiation

Your P’aqo will create a set of despachos. Each one has a special function during the initiation. You are taken to a fire outside. After your P’aqo has used each of the despachos on you, you are left alone. During this time, the various spirits of Lightning and certain other Cosmic Powers will visit you and initiate you. Afterwards the P’aqo will return and use some of the other despachos to help your energy system absorb the massive inflow of Karpay energy you have received.

Initiations cannot be given via Zoom. They must be given in person by the P’aqo. There will be a special opportunity for this every two years in our home country of Ireland. Alternatively, groups will be gathered in places where students can all meet and the initiation given there. Each location will be arranged closer to the time in a manner which suits the students.