MesaWorks Website

Don Oscar Miro-Quesada Solevo is the originator of the Pachakuti Mesa tradition of cross-cultural shamanism and visionary founder of The Heart of the Healer (THOTH) Foundation. A respected kamasqa curandero and altomisayoq adept from Peru, don Oscar's apprenticeship in northern coastal huachuma curanderismo and initiation into the southeastern Andean paqokuna shaman/priesthood, formally took place between the years 1969 and 1986. His first immersion into the living soul and mythic reality of Peruvian shamanism was under the uncompromising tutelage of the famed huachumero don Celso Rojas Palomino from Salas, a then small agricultural community near the city of Chiclayo. Don Oscar accomplished his apprenticeship in northern coastal curanderismo fulfilling the dual role of auxilio de mesada (“healing altar auxiliary” or ”ceremonial assistant”) and rastrero (“clairvoyant diagnostician”/”diviner”), eventually becoming don Celso’s segundo de mando en banco (“second in command for curing sessions”), throughout the winter months (June, July and August in the Southern Hemisphere) of each yearuntil don Celso's untimely passing in July of 1982. For more information about Oscar, see Mesa Works

The Heart of the Healer Foundation

Guided by a shared experience of reverence for our entire planetary ecosystem, The Heart of the Healer (THOTH) is a global community of visionary women, men and children dedicated to the emergence of a sustainable sacred partnership between humankind and our Mother Earth. As members of The Heart of the Healer global community, we are deeply committed to establishing cooperative alliances and kinship with other individuals and organizations that share our earth-honoring vision of what is possible for our beloved Pachamama ("Mother Earth") and humanity as a whole. In sacred partnership with others who share similar values and missions, we create a powerful synergy to help each other manifest our common dreams. In this process, we honor both the diversity and the similarities of our calls to service, allowing our individual and organizational destinies to unfold more effortlessly as we work together toward a rebalancing of ecological and spiritual awareness on our planet. For more information about The Heart of the Healer Foundation see THOTH

Shamans Market

Shamans Market was established in 1999 to bring to the shamanic community and the world community at large, the supplies, tools and Andean arts that enhance ones spiritual practice and bring beauty to life. Over the years Shamans Market has assisted artisans in various communities helping them maintain a connection to their ancestral arts by providing a marketplace for their artistic works. We support Fair Trade, value earth honoring ways and work to bring balance back to mother earth through sustainable living and trade. For more information about ceremonial supplies, see Shaman's Market

Camino Verde

Camino Verde is a not-for profit organization dedicated to:
1. Protecting and understanding biodiversity in the southern Peruvian Amazon.
2. Protecting indigenous rights, autonomy, and wisdom.
3. Encouraging sustainability of development in the Amazon and beyond.

Camino Verde is committed to upholding the strictest standards of sustainability, integrity, and simplicity in the course of realizing our goals. It is our perspective that the most powerful solutions are often among the most simple and over-looked. We believe that all change must begin from the foundation of the present, what is already here before us.

Camino Verde is in the process of becoming a 501(c)3 charitable organization in the United States. Our board of directors convenes annually in Massachusetts, and our founder lives year ‘round in Madre de Dios, Perú.

Sacred Succulents

Sacred Succulents was founded in 1997, borne from our love of plants and a calling to their conservation through propagation, dissemination and education. The opportunity to share our lives with plants has gifted us with many blessings. Though we are involved with the conservation of a diversity of plants from many terrains at our biosanctuary here in northen California, the main focus of our offerings is on xerophytes such as cacti and other succulents. We have created a catalog that is fully illustrated and loaded with ethnobotanical and horticultural information including general succulent care and detailed seed germination and propagation techniques. Many of the plants listed in the catalog are seriously endangered in their natural habitats. We offer them to you in the hopes of the preservation of these species. Widespread dispersal of plants along with propagation on an individual level is one of the most viable means of helping protect wild populations while assuring the evolutionary expansion of these botanical wonders. We do not sell wild collected plants, all of our offerings are grown from seed or cuttings. We offer various Ariocarpus species including A. bravoanus, A. fissuratus, and A. retusus varieties...Aztekium species...Pachycereus species... Pelecyphora species... Strombocactus disciformis... dozens of Trichocereus species including new hybrids, heirloom strains, and cristate and monstrose San Pedros... endangered Turbinicarpus species...Aloes... rare Baobabs... several aromatic Bursera species used as sources for the wondrous Copal incense... Commiphora species... obscure Delosperma species... caudiciform Dioscorea... Hoodia gordonii; a popular and effective appetite supressant... Rooibos and Honeybush seed... Rhodiola species... several Sceletium species, including S. tortuosum, source of an esteemed South African medicinal inebrient... a selection of unusual edibles and medicinals... and much more!