--- product_id: 43390632 title: "The Andean Cosmovision: A Path for Exploring Profound Aspects of Ourselves, Nature, and the Cosmos" price: "₹ 3382" currency: INR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.in/products/43390632-the-andean-cosmovision-a-path-for-exploring-profound-aspects-ourselves store_origin: IN region: India --- # The Andean Cosmovision: A Path for Exploring Profound Aspects of Ourselves, Nature, and the Cosmos **Price:** ₹ 3382 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Andean Cosmovision: A Path for Exploring Profound Aspects of Ourselves, Nature, and the Cosmos - **How much does it cost?** ₹ 3382 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.in](https://www.desertcart.in/products/43390632-the-andean-cosmovision-a-path-for-exploring-profound-aspects-ourselves) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Andean Cosmovision is a way of perceiving and interacting with reality that has its roots in the traditional, indigenous culture of the high Andes. It is fundamentally different than the Western worldview. This Cosmovision is not a set of concepts or beliefs. It cannot be described or encompassed by words. It can, however, be experienced and it can be explored. This is a guidebook for exploring the Andean Cosmovision. The Cosmovision provides a path for discovering profound aspects of ourselves and the Cosmos. It is a path with a heart. It nourishes a more loving and mutually supportive relationship between ourselves and nature and the Cosmos. In addition to being personally significant, this relationship may be exactly what our species needs to start heading toward a future of greater beauty and greater health for the planet. For this path you don't need a guru. You need the Pachamama (the great being who is the mother earth); you need the Apus (the great beings who are the majestic mountain peaks); you need the stars, the wind, the trees, the rivers, the sun. This book will open the door to new territory and give you a map and some advice. It will then be up to you to determine whether what you find touches you deeply. Review: A Precious Guidebook - This is a precious book on a number of levels. First, it is written by a Western man, a dedicated seeker on the Andean path through the teachings of Don Américo Yábar, who has consistently held intent to integrate his learnings back into life at home…and share what he’s discovered over more than twenty years. He touches on some of his struggles to do so coming from a Western intellectual perspective. This honesty is important. It shows possibility toward core understanding beyond the mind and a way of incorporating it into daily living, an evolutionary process. I can state these things with confidence having known Oakley Gordon over a very long time, witnessing his process as much as being a fellow traveler on the path. I know his heart. We were introduced to the Andean way through the same spiritual teacher, literally at the same time and place. The book is a primer on Andean worldview. If you want more beyond the introduction, Oakley provides endnotes and anthropological resources. In this book though he writes to you as a friend would, not as an academic. It’s easy to take in and comprehend. But ultimately it’s a guidebook, a how-to. It’s a compilation of meditations gleaned directly from Don Américo and exposure to other paq’os⎯a general Quechua term for healer, shaman or mystic⎯or created by the author from what he’s learned while in Peru. I don’t think another such book exists. This is important. From my own spiritual travel programs, people periodically express the fear of not being able to recreate the same state of being upon their return home. I share and show them how to do so. But The Andean Cosmovision provides it in print with many different examples to explore with step-by-step instruction. Oakley states that, although much of the book is taken from the teachings of one specific teacher, he believes any paq’o would validate them. I’ll take it one step further. The tenets covered in this book are found at the core of all Indigenous traditions I’ve worked within: Maya, Hopi and Andean, as well as others where I’ve had exposure. Highly recommend. Review: Great Book On Peruvian Wisdom - Anyone interested in understanding Peruvian philosophy and wisdom, a precursor to curanderismo, should read this book. don Americo Yabar came to lead a workshop on Salka at my school and he was very kind and full of life. This is a great book with lots of information with short and easy to read chapters explaining how the people of the Andes see reality, much different than some of the major religions today and Western society. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #434,834 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #5,341 in Spiritual Self-Help (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 87 Reviews | ## Images ![The Andean Cosmovision: A Path for Exploring Profound Aspects of Ourselves, Nature, and the Cosmos - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71ESiMZc0pL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Precious Guidebook *by C***Y on May 14, 2016* This is a precious book on a number of levels. First, it is written by a Western man, a dedicated seeker on the Andean path through the teachings of Don Américo Yábar, who has consistently held intent to integrate his learnings back into life at home…and share what he’s discovered over more than twenty years. He touches on some of his struggles to do so coming from a Western intellectual perspective. This honesty is important. It shows possibility toward core understanding beyond the mind and a way of incorporating it into daily living, an evolutionary process. I can state these things with confidence having known Oakley Gordon over a very long time, witnessing his process as much as being a fellow traveler on the path. I know his heart. We were introduced to the Andean way through the same spiritual teacher, literally at the same time and place. The book is a primer on Andean worldview. If you want more beyond the introduction, Oakley provides endnotes and anthropological resources. In this book though he writes to you as a friend would, not as an academic. It’s easy to take in and comprehend. But ultimately it’s a guidebook, a how-to. It’s a compilation of meditations gleaned directly from Don Américo and exposure to other paq’os⎯a general Quechua term for healer, shaman or mystic⎯or created by the author from what he’s learned while in Peru. I don’t think another such book exists. This is important. From my own spiritual travel programs, people periodically express the fear of not being able to recreate the same state of being upon their return home. I share and show them how to do so. But The Andean Cosmovision provides it in print with many different examples to explore with step-by-step instruction. Oakley states that, although much of the book is taken from the teachings of one specific teacher, he believes any paq’o would validate them. I’ll take it one step further. The tenets covered in this book are found at the core of all Indigenous traditions I’ve worked within: Maya, Hopi and Andean, as well as others where I’ve had exposure. Highly recommend. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Book On Peruvian Wisdom *by J***. on January 25, 2016* Anyone interested in understanding Peruvian philosophy and wisdom, a precursor to curanderismo, should read this book. don Americo Yabar came to lead a workshop on Salka at my school and he was very kind and full of life. This is a great book with lots of information with short and easy to read chapters explaining how the people of the Andes see reality, much different than some of the major religions today and Western society. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Practice not theory *by J***Y on August 11, 2023* The first of 68 highlighted Kindle passages explains the gist of the title. "The Andean Cosmovision" is not intellectual in nature. It is not a set of ideas or beliefs. It simply cannot be defined, described, or encompassed with word or thought. It can, however, be experienced and it can be explored. Eventually you come to understand the Cosmovision, but this understanding is not intellectual, it is an understanding that develops at a deeper level of your Being." Luckily, for I feared outbursts of enraptured NewAge platitudes, amidst the expected tone, Dr Gordon employs his academic scrutiny as well as his own mystical or ineffable encounters. That shows my bias rather than his or that of the audience for this short introduction. But I was happy to see "confirmed" my own previous hunch, that the Dao mirrors the indigenous understanding of the eternal energies of the Universe and its creations. Helpfully, he adds that this assisted his own wish to make applicable and even practical (if in at least a way to focus attention on these forces from the cues within "nature" and within ourselves) the revelation of the Dao, and that one not need to be in the Andes to benefit. Like the Buddha, he gently encourages meditations, in physical expression, that simply enable a practitioner to try out approaches. 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