Medicine Journeys

A far traveler begins and then knows spirit of place. In other words, a far traveler is a spiritual pilgrim ever seeking the mysterium tremendum, the awe-inspiring mystery of the unknown. The blood-pulsing passion of life is found at the edge of the unknown.

For centuries, pilgrims have left the comfort and safety of home and familiar surroundings and ventured out into the unknown in search of knowledge, power and ultimate enlightenment. This journey of soul allows the pilgrim the opportunity to breath, eat and sleep a spiritual adventure of discovery, love and wonderment. This fulfills a longing— sometimes hidden—in the depths of our heart to quest as the hero and return to the mother to experience a rebirth of self. Far traveling is a pilgrimage toward rebirth and magical transformation, enmeshing our soul in a reverence of place while recognizing the sacredness of the Earth.

Curandero don Eduardo Calderon Palomino, the famous healer, once said that most people live in a cultural trance. I agree, and far traveling is one way to awaken from that trance, an adventure that puts us into partnership with nature and culture. Like a chameleon, we become one with the land and its people and catch the thread of knowledge in our wandering. It is not about selfies or an arrogance of entitlement. Wandering as a stranger in a strange land beckons us to become one with the unknown, and with the love that unites us all.

When we never leave our place of birth or home country, we insulate ourselves from other lands, cultures, and the variety of peoples who inhabit the greater part of our still beautiful Earth. We become rigid and unyielding in our thinking about those different from ourselves. This worldview and mindset are the greatest barriers to peace on Earth, and only result in walls, figuratively, and sometimes literally. Far travelers build bridges, not walls, and discover the world as it really is. A world not only of beauty, but of poverty, social injustice, and inequality.

When far traveling, discovering the real world may alter the course of your life and transform your life’s mission and destiny

Future Earth Medicine Journeys: 2026: Sacred Path Of Quetzalcóatl and Nezahualcóyotl (Fasting or Hungry Wolf and Arm of the Lion) who was a scholar, philosopher (tlamatini) with a deep love for nature, warrior, architect, poet and ruler (tlatoani) of the city-state of Texcoco, known as “the Athens of the Western World.”

As the issue of climate-change is so prevalent today, Nezahualcóyotl was the first pre-Hispanic ruler to legally enforce the preservation of forests in the Valley of Mexico. The philosopher-king was “concerned by the growing scarcity of trees and restricted the areas where people could cut wood.”

1988, Dr. Husfelt meditating with his hands forming the Cosmic Mudra on the “Intihuatana,” meaning “hitching post of the sun,” a carved stone pillar found at Machu Picchu whose four corners are oriented toward the four cardinal points.