From the Earliest of Our Ancestors Regarding the truth about spiritual/sacred dance, from the Oral Tradition, as told by Water Mirror to staff Young Teoyotzin loves the Sun, loves to watch it rise and set, loves its colors and loves the life it gives Earth. This love is so deep, Teoyotzin, whom we’ll call Teo … Continue reading The Sun Dance and the Quetzal
Who’s Dreaming Who? The question made me jump when I read it. Our work here deals quite a bit with dreams and plants, each with their own separate shelf, but we really hadn’t thought about that question, at least not exactly in that way. When one ingests a plant in any way, it is easy … Continue reading Do Plants Dream?
What Does Making Art Have To Do With Genocide? The act of being tlamatinime comes from the corpus of philosophy and spiritual practice known as nahualismo - a gift from our Toltec forefathers, a tradition, like other great traditions: not only ancient, but robust and in full evolution. When the Spanish and the Church came, circa … Continue reading Tlamatinime
UNDERWORLD: BOY MEETS GIRL by Michael Parra Callas “No Gods come here, only the ones who run Underworld,” says Dart, a Monitor, speaking to a soul on her knees praying as if she was in a church - the Our Father, of all things. Not the right act for a soul that wants to move … Continue reading DART AND NEST
Alive and Well We initiated our altar over thirty years ago, and we work it, still. It moves. Nobody told us to do it, and for certain no one authorized it. In this movement, the Moon and the Jaguar play major roles. Every new family needs a spiritual center, don’t they? Within indigenous cultures, … Continue reading The Moon and the Jaguar
Frustrating Believers to No End The wrong attachment to results can turn a spell upside down. Your words can be right, but if your feelings are too far from what you want, then so are your results. It's better to feel nothing than feel the wrong thing, better than burning energy up doubting or fretting. … Continue reading What Makes Magic Go Wrong
As told to the editors of michaelparracallas.com by Maximiliano Plata From the Chronicles of the Hummingbird Group: Sheepdog Files. Mr. Ernest Red House, full-blood Navajo, ex, and always, a United States Marine; “black sheep” Medicine Man and co-founder of Grupo Colibri. “Demons on Two Wheels,” from Night Ride 7. “When you ride two wheels, at night, … Continue reading Demons on Two Wheels
You have everything you need. It was a few hours after he died that Leonard shows up in my garage where I’m mourning him like I’d never mourned before. He appears as when I first met him, a Peyote ceremony at his home where we both find ourselves looking at the valley south of the … Continue reading Ancestral Healing and the Sacred Hoop
Boost the Roost All Experience is Valid, and In that Experience, we all Crash Crash into seemingly omnipotent structures over which we have no power. But on the contrary... In the struggle flows the Force of change. MAKE ART
Sorcerer of the Hummingbird Group: Myth We’ve been documenting the work of Grupo Colibri and Maximiliano Plata for thirteen years now, and it’s taken that long for them to allow us to publish all that we‘ve witnessed. If we weren’t distant relatives of the Platas, Max reminds us, he’d never have allowed us to “ride … Continue reading An Interview with Max Plata
