A middle-aged woman living in Los Angeles, saddled with a stressful job, a long-term relationship rapidly unraveling, coping with a drug-addicted daughter facing criminal charges and now facing raising 4 grandchildren, all under the age of 6 years, alone, takes a leap of faith. She sells her California home and heads to Austin, Texas. No family, no friends, no job, no medical insurance. Within days of arriving in Austin, a group of women at a drumming session encourage her to join them on a trip to Peru. What she believes to be an impromptu and much-needed vacation morphs into a spiritual journey of discovery, one that literally transforms her life and directly affects her life and that of the family she left behind.—Anonymous
A middle-aged woman living in Los Angeles, saddled with a stressful job, a long-term relationship rapidly unraveling, coping with a drug-addicted daughter facing criminal charges and now facing raising four grandchildren, all under the age of six years, alone, takes a leap of faith. She sells her California home and heads to Austin, Texas. No family, no friends, no job, no medical insurance. Within days of arriving in Austin, a group of women at a drumming session encourage Pamela to join them on a trip to Peru. What she believes to be an impromptu and much-needed vacation morphs into a spiritual journey of discovery, one that literally transforms her life and directly affects her life and that of the family she left behind.
Upon arriving in Peru, Pamela sustains a leg injury and is suddenly thrown into a world of Shamans and Medicine men. From the top of the glacier in Peru to Machu Picchu and other sacred sites in Peru, Bolivia, and Mexico, medicine men and women reveal ancestral knowledge that is surprisingly relevant to todays modern world, with the admonition that we need to wake up, as individuals and as occupiers of Planet Earth; that as women, we have the power to change our lives and that of our family and community. After ten days in South America, Pamela returns home as the magic continues ending with a dramatic miracle affecting Pamela's daughter and grandchildren. The story begins with the individual and ends with the need for collective consciousness in a spiritual quest for enlightenment.
Through rarely seen footage in Bolivia, Peru and Mexico, and a series of interviews with the shamans themselves, other herbalists, as well as traditional medical doctors, we experience the world of holistic medicine. We learn that in the end, every one of us can become a shaman --- with proper instruction. We learn to heal ourselves --- as well as our loved ones. Indigenous healers share their work and their ancestral interpretation of the prophecies, especially as they relate to global warming and the comparison of what religious leaders describe as The Apocalypse, to the indigenous belief behind the approaching end of the Mayan Calendar, which is set to expire on December 21, 2012. And in doing so, they provide us with a true road map to the future. The goal is to save Mother Earth by raising our spiritual consciousness --- and in the process --- making it possible to save ourselves.
At a time when women feel frustrated, trying to hold their families together alone, burdened with financial and spiritual chaos, feeling like victims in an uncontrolled environment, we will learn about the rise of the feminine energy on the planet and how this energy is now impacting each of our lives, both male and female, and learn from our ancestors messages that are not only relevant to our lives today, but necessary for every woman to embrace and tap into. These messages are for these times, and the time of their revelation is now.
