Peru Inca citadel Machu Picchu: Hitching Post of the Sun, Sun God continue… September 22, 2008
Posted by dodo in : Central America, Cuzco, Encyclopedia, Geographic, Map, Round The World, Science, Tour, Trip , trackbackThe Torreon’s southeast window may also have had astronomical significance, for it aligned to the rising of the stars in the tail of Scorpius which were called collca, the Storehouse, by the Andeans. Anthropologist Gary Urton has found that the Andean Indians today also use that name for the Pleiades, so there may have been some conceptual, mythological link between the two groups of stars.
There are probably energy and consciousness aspects to Machu Picchu, too. David Zink writes that the site is located on a geological fault. Often what are sometimes extreme magnetic anomalies are found in such locations. My own research has shown a connection between magnetic anomalies and the sensitivity of psychics.’
The masonry at Machu Picchu is superb, with massive stones intricately worked and shaped, and locked together so finely that cement was not needed. Moreover, this remarkable drystone technique allowed for some movement thus enabling structures to withstand the frequent earth tremors of the area. In such a seismically sensitive place, one would expect earth light phemonena to occur. Of course, the circumstances at the site today do not encourage much opportunity for comprehensive night-time observation, when such lights are most clearly noticed. Nevertheless, one account is known to this author. American psychologist Alberto Villoldo was with a group of Americans and Europeans being led by the famed Peruvian shaman Don Eduardo Calderon. They camped overnight by the ruins of the Doorway of the Sun close to and within sight of Machu Picchu. Villoldo states that the whole group saw ‘an eerie light shaped like a person, with a large, rounded head’ by some bushes only 20 feet (16m) away. He admits that ‘the apparition sent shivers through everyone in the group’. The lightform hovered in the bushes, approaching then receding, before finally slipping back into the undergrowth. To Don Eduardo, it was the elemental guardian of Machu Picchu. Such anthropomorphic shapes have been noted in a number of earth lights sightings around the world and over the years. This may be due to witnesses involuntarily imbuing an amorphous lightform with such characteristics, in the way people see figures in clouds or faces in the embers of a fire, but it could also be, detailed in Earth Lights Revelation, that the lights may have exotic properties, such as some form of rudimentary intelligence of a reflexive ability with regard to the minds of witnesses. These may be `far out’ ideas from the point of view of most mainstream scientists, but the evidence is there, and virtually none of those scientists have examined or checked it.
There is another potential energy factor at the site — it is built from and on granite, a radioactive rock. It was noted that granite sites were often of an enclosed nature with a naturally enhanced gamma radiation count inside, and that the Dragon Project had inadvertently found that some people exposed to high natural radiation zones could be spontaneously precipitated into transient but vivid altered states of consciousness (most of which, curiously, had the semblance of what can only be described as some kind of time-slip). If the energetic nature of granite rocks can be used as a geophysical adjunct to the creation of mind- change states, how would this have been effected at Machu Picchu? Obviously the enclosed temple sites could have created geophysically conducive atmospheres for supporting ritual, hallucinogenic and other mind-change activities, but throughout the site there are also individual rocks and boulders which were Inca huacas or sacred spots.” Now, in its study of the British stone circle Long Meg and her Daughters, the Dragon Project found that certain of the granite stones in the ring were exceptionally energetic, with small patches on them emitting constant streams of gamma radiation. In considering how such a feature might have been used, if indeed it was, the present author wondered if head or body contact with the stones had ever formed part of the ritual activity at such places. Interestingly, such an idea is supported by Don Eduardo Calderon at Machu Picchu. Villoldo reports:
The shamanic legends say that when one touches one’s forehead to the stone, the Intihuatana opens one’s vision into the spirit world .
Calderon had his charges visit another sacred rock at the site, the Pachamama stone, and press their backs against it. The 20-feet (6m) long, 10- foot (3m) high rock represented Mother Earth, according to Calderon. Villoldo recalls that some years earlier Calderon had taken him to the remains of the Great Temple at Machu Picchu, and made him lie on the stone ‘bed’ in its southwest corner. Villoldo experienced `great peace and relaxation’. He got up after 10 minutes and walked away from the stone. He looked back and was shocked to see his physical body still on the stone bed. In other words, he had undergone an out-of-the-body experience, which is what is involved in the classic ‘magical flight’ of shamanic ecstasy. This `ecsomatic’ state of mind is currently the subject of serious research by university-based parapsychologists and dream researchers, after many years of being treated with disdain because of its associations with spiritualistic ‘astral projection’.
The Peruvian shaman also claimed that there were tunnels and labyrinths in Huayna Picchu, the peak which towers a thousand feet (300m) above the sacred city, which were known to the local shamans. The legends tell of an old medicine woman who lives within the mountains, to whom the shamans go for their highest initiations. One cannot help but ponder if this is a folk memory of the important woman, whose rich grave was found overlooking the site. The flying bird motive forming the handle of her knife is a universal symbol in shamanic cultures for ‘magical flight’.
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