“ Ecological disasters
and human dramas have the same cause:
man has lost touch with the heart of nature which is also his own heart”
Who is Don Marcelino
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Don
Marcelino is a traditional Amerindian doctor, from the
region of Nazca in Peru. He has been entrusted by his ancestors
with the traditions of this great Amerindian civilisation.
Nazca is
located on the Pacific coast south of Lima on a desert
plain. The Nazca civilisation developed during a period of
about one thousand years, between 300 BC and 700 AD. This
great civilisation mastered the techniques of pottery making
and weaving. But it is best known for the vast geometrical
shapes and gigantic drawings (of the condor, humming bird,
spider, monkey..) traced twelve centimetres deep into the
arid soil and only visible from the air.
According to the Amerindian tradition, where Knowledge is
transmitted orally from father to child and has been for
several thousand years, these drawings represent cosmic
calendars and also landing runways used by their
ancestors, great travellers of the cosmos.
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Don
Marcelino has written four books: -Le
voyage sacré amérindien (L’Originel Charles Antoni) 2000
-La
mémoire cosmique amérindienne (Louise Courteau – Quebec)
2004
-La
danse du condor amérindien (Louise Courteau – Quebec)
2006
- Les quatre arbres généalogiques (Editeur: Louise
Courteau - Québec) - 2009
These three books are an
excellent introduction to the Amerindian medicine that
Don Marcelino practises, not to be confused with
shamanism which belongs to another tradition.
“The
words “shaman” and “shamanism” are totally foreign to
the Amerindian tradition. Originally, the shaman was a
Siberian healer and shamanism was a healing practice
only known in Siberia. There is a vast difference
between how a healing session is carried out by a
Siberian shaman and one by an Amerindian doctor.”
“The
shaman is an actor; he wears a mask and costume and goes
into a trance accompanied by the beating of his drum. He
embodies a healing power and the patient remains
passive.”
“With the Amerindian medicine, there is no performance.
A dialogue takes place between the traditional
Amerindian doctor and the patient is the main actor in
the healing process.”
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Marcelino is a Man of Knowledge, that is, an Amerindian
wise man, one who can awaken the cosmic memory, which is
man’s heritage, and he acts as an intermediary between
our daily physical world and the other reality from
where we come and where we’ll return after our death.
“Men
of Knowledge do not judge….
They are only here to love and to serve,
And to transmit the memory of our Ancestors”
“ Men of Knowledge
Do not have disciples.
Our Temple is Nature
And our Master is Life itself.”
A Man of Knowledge is also the
caretaker of Mother Earth (Pachamama):
“Men of Knowledge take as example our
Sacred Earth
Which gives ceaselessly, renews constantly,
Gives birth and never retains anything
for herself”
“The
earth does not belong to man
It is man who belongs to the earth”
Mother
earth is the most sacred thing we have and it is our
duty to honour and protect her from all the aggressions
that she has increasingly become the victim of.
“Marvel at a bird’s
beauty with its multicoloured plumage,
Or a flower’s perfume, the sigh of the wind, the
splendour of dawn…
Nature’s wonders are offered by the Great Spirit for the
well-being of it’s children.”
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Don Marcelino chose to work in Europe as a
mission of forgiveness: to forgive on behalf of his Ancestors
for the suffering that the Indians were subjected to when the
Conquistadors invaded Peru.
“I
share with my brother Amerindians the tragic history of
our people. But I have hope concerning the future of the
Earth.
The oppressors and the oppressed will meet one day
To understand that Life is but a very fine breath
And our generous Earth is a wonderful Mother.”
The
first meeting between Europeans and Amerindians about
500 years ago was a failure. The time has now come for
the reuniting of the wisdom from the Amerindian
tradition with that from the European tradition - in
Peace, Love and Harmony.
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Don
Marcelino invites us and helps us to rediscover within
ourselves the memory of our ancestors and awakens in us
our own self-healing powers.
There is in fact a strong similarity
between the Amerindian tradition, still very alive in
the Indian communities in America and the Celtic
tradition which was at the origin of the European
tradition and which unfortunately has long been
forgotten.
The Rainbow prophecy announced the transformation of
humanity into a rainbow, a mixture of all colours and
races, a synthesis of all the Knowledge of humanity:
-
the naturalness and
joie de vivre of Africa
-
the wisdom of Asia
-
the love of the earth and
identification with Nature of the Amerindians
But for the puzzle of the Cosmic Memory to be complete,
all the ancient traditions are waiting for the
reawakening of the West to
- the knowledge of its
Druids and the techniques of its Alchemists