Sombras nada más

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This novel is placed alongside La Fiesta del Chivo as one of the best novels portraying the political and social events of Latin America in the last decades of the 20th century. Accused of participating in criminal actions of the Somoza regime, Alirio Martinica is tried and judged by the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and is forced to defend his case. Meticulously researched, it is an artistic masterpiece.

Description in Spanish: Nicaragua, 1979. Ante la inminente caída de la dictadura somocista, Alirio Martinica trata de huir por mar. Es aprehendido por jóvenes combatientes del Frente Sandinista y llevado a juicio popular, acusado de participar en acciones criminales del régimen de Somoza, de quien llegó a ser secretario privado. Ante sus jueces, todo un pueblo reunido en asamblea al aire libre, Alirio expondrá las razones por las que debe perdonársele.

Las minucias, errores, abusos, injusticias, se entierran en el olvido cuando hay acontecimientos tan variados y vertiginosos como los que ocurren en una revolución, y muchos actos heroicos corren la misma suerte, aunque hayan servido de palanca al salto de la historia. En esta novela, Sergio Ramírez coloca al lector ante ese salto y le da elementos para juzgarlo.

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Original y genial.......2003-01-28

En el proceso de contar la historia de la vida y muerte del protagonista de esta novela, Alirio Martinica, secretario privado del último Presidente Somoza, Sergio Ramírez nos deslumbra con su estilo narrativo tan original. Su habilidad para capturar los eventos, el lenguaje, y la idiosincracia del nicaraguense es incomparable. Igualmente, la destreza con que Ramírez combina el trasfondo histórico y la ficción es algo que vale la pena ver. Conocimiento de la historia nicaraguense reciente es útil, pero no es necesario para apreciar la patética y clásica historia de la subida y caída del poder de Martinica.

Un aviso de precaución: leer esta novela requiere un módico de paciencia, ya que la manera cómo el autor mezcla los diálogos de los varios personajes, así como la forma en que juega con la dimensión temporal a veces causa un poco de confusión y hay que regresar al principio del párrafo. En eso recuerda un poco a Mario Vargas Llosa en "Pantaleón y las Visitadoras". Pero como en ese caso, el lector persistente verá su esfuerzo premiado.

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Title: "Los fantasmas de una revolución siempre regresan": sombras nada más, de Sergio Ramírez. (La Cultura en México).(Entrevista)
Author: Héctor González Jordán
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: January 22, 2003
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 49 Issue: 2588 Page: 66(2)

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Sergio Ramirez. Sombras nada mas.(Book Review): An article from: World Literature Today
Edward Waters Hood
Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma
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Title: Sergio Ramirez. Sombras nada mas.(Book Review)
Author: Edward Waters Hood
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Date: October 1, 2003
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Volume: 77 Issue: 3-4 Page: 142(1)

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Sombras NADA Mas
Rafael Bielsa
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Sombras nada más.(TT: Oil industry in Mexico.): An article from: Proceso

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Sombras nada más.(TT: Oil industry in Mexico.): An article from: Proceso
Alberto Barranco Chavarría
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Title: Sombras nada más.(TT: Oil industry in Mexico.)
Author: Alberto Barranco Chavarría
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Date: January 28, 2001
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Sombras nada más...(economía, México)(TT: Shadows, nothing else...)(TA: economy, Mexico): An article from: Proceso

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Sombras nada más...(economía, México)(TT: Shadows, nothing else...)(TA: economy, Mexico): An article from: Proceso
Alberto Barranco Chavarría
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Title: Sombras nada más...(economía, México)(TT: Shadows, nothing else...)(TA: economy, Mexico)
Author: Alberto Barranco Chavarría
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
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Sombras, Nada Mas/Shadows, Nothing More
Antonio Di Benedetto
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Sombras NADA Mas
Alexandra LoMonaco
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The boy of Kaname's dreams, a former upperclassman, makes a sudden appearance, and Kaname is convinced he will ask her out. But are his intentions honorable? Sosuke will attempt to find out, as this all-too-familiar high school love story suddenly takes a turn. By going undercover, sporting a Bonta-kun costume, he ends up saving the day, or at least Kaname. Aside from the high school dreamboat, Kaname still has her eye on Sosuke, and she is finally ready to come clean... but why is Tessa stepping out of Sosuke's shower?! Full Metal Panic! picks up more momentum, and more action, knife-wielding terrorists, a handful of hostages, and just one man to save the day!

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FUMOFFU ASSAULT.......2005-09-14

Sosuke, while not admitting any romantic feelings for Chidori, finds himself disconcerted when Kawa, an old flame of hers from junior high shows up on the scene. Sosuke decides to follow them on a date to an entertainment park to see if Kawa is on the level or just an enemy terrorist trying to get close to Chidori. Things get more dramatic when Capt. Tessa appears at Sosuke's apartment with a prisoner in tow, on the run from A-21, a terrorist organization that has acquired an Arm Slave and needs the prisoner because he can activate the "Lambda Driver". Did I also mention that the prisoner is slightly psychotic due to mind-altering drugs administered during his training?

This volume of Full Metal Panic was a complete success because it melded comedy and action together effortlessly. The scenes where Sosuke fights some yakuza harrassing Chidori is especially funny as he takes them on wearing a giant hamster costume to hide his identity! There was also a little more romance instead of the usual hitting Sosuke over the head bits. The art is great. Just don't expect any profound character development here.

Check out the original Full Metal Panic anime and its sequel Fumoffu for more adventures and comedy.

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Sousuke has finally lost his mind, and it's up to Kaname to keep him in line! So what's new? Plenty! Check out this laugh-out-loud sequel to one of ADV's best-loved manga series. Featuring more bombs, more laughs and more Panic than ever before!

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In these highly acclaimed and immensely popular 1970s novels, Charnas explores the Holdfast, where women are Fems enslaved to men, and the land of the Riding Women, where men are known only as a shadowy threat on the other side of the hills, a horror story told around the campfires.

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There are other choices.......2006-09-08

Sometimes targeted fiction goes totally awry -- as in this case. Charnas' book is ostensively feminist science fiction but the most peculiar thing happens... you end up hoping to read about the guys. The book starts out detailing the interaction of gay male dominants and female slaves ("fems") and breeding farms. (i.e. the guys think sex with women is a chore.) The male society is vivid, well structured and well told. Men are wicked wicked wicked in this world, they only have a heart for each other and are brutal exploiters of women's breeding abilities. The best subplot, "femspeak", where women speak in soft, slurred tones that the brutal wicked men won't understand, is barely developed.

Except as a historical journey back to 1971 feminism, I'd skip these books, the writing is hostile, fuzzy, and reveals weird preferences on the part of the author. I mean... if you hate the dang guys so much, how come they are so much more interesting than this society of women that you are writing about? Sheesh.

I'd recommend The Gate to Women's Country if you are longing for a livable, feminist utopia or dystopia (depending on where you are coming from).

End phallocracy, sisters. Just not with this book.

Flawed at First, Then Engaging.......2004-03-25

These books are considered by many to be classics in feminist science fiction, but are so different from each other that I will review them separately. I suppose I'm in an odd minority in that I disliked one and liked the other.

"Walk to the End of the World" fails for a variety of reasons, the most important of which can be traced to its radical feminist ideology. While the anger inherent in this ideology is understandable considering the abuses to which women have been subjected throughout human history, by itself it makes for poor literature, as is true with most radical ideologies.

Most of "Walk to the End of the World" is told from a male perspective, but because it is first and foremost a misandryist ideological tract, Charnas forces her male characters into simplistic clichés of what radical feminism believes men to be: violent, hierarchical, and dysfunctional. The ecological disaster of the "Wasting", which sets up Charnas' nightmarish future, was solely the fault of men (specifically white men, of course), as is pretty much every other bad thing that happens in the book. Men fail at everything in the Holdfast, even homosexual love, and most of the time they blame women for these failures. This unrealistic view of men cripples "Walk to the End of the World" by making the male characters one-dimensional and uninteresting. They exist only to oppress the "fems", and the book seems to take an almost perverse pleasure in bringing some new and pointless male atrocity to light in almost every chapter. Instead of exploring the fascinating potential it has for father-son conflict or male friendship with other males, "Walk to the End of the World" dwells obsessively on showing men to be cruel, superstitious, and stupid. In addition, the book presents women solely as eternal victims of men, smarter and more moral because of the oppression they suffer. The only character who is at all interesting is Alldera, whose perspective we only see near the end of the book.

The result is a book which cannot be taken seriously, and which brings to mind John Norman's controversial Gor novels (though from a purely technical standpoint Charnas is a far better writer than Norman), only here the failing is misandry where for Norman it is misogyny. In both cases the extreme oversimplification of gender roles and relations cripples the stories' efforts, and we learn nothing from them; at best we might be entertained. If you want a book that seethes with unproductive rage, "Walk to the End of the World" is just the thing; if you want a terrifying look at misogyny run amuck, I'd suggest Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" instead.

In "Motherlines", however, Charnas shows us that despite the failings of the first Holdfast book, she is quite capable of writing interesting, engaging fiction. Because there are no male characters in "Motherlines", the main failings of "Walk to the End of the World" are for the most part avoided; even the misandry in "Motherlines" works because we are in the point of view of women who have either been mistreated by men or who simply have no experience with them. The tension and conflict between the "free fems" and the "Motherline tribes" is nicely handled, and nowhere in the book do we sense an ideological underpinning. Unlike the men of "Walk to the End of the World", the women of "Motherlines" are richly diverse in their behavior and display a full range of human emotions, good and bad. The description of life in a nomadic, horse-based society flows with realism (provided one gets past the rather icky mating process used by the Motherline tribes) and shows a deep familiarity with its subject matter.

Best of all, "Motherlines" is a character based book, which is unusual in science fiction. We get to know these women as they each grow as people, and unlike most science fiction writers, Charnas does not bury us in unnecessary detail by explaining exactly why things in her world work the way they do. Instead we get a story of people; they happen to be women, but that's not so important. What's important is that they are interesting. It is to Charnas' credit that her female-only world is not presented as a paradise, which given the hostility to men in "Walk to the End of the World" would have been the politically correct thing for a radical feminist to do (and here I was pleasantly surprised to find my expectations in this regard to be wrong). Instead we get a story that presents women as fully-fleshed characters, which is a rarity in science fiction.

In sum, one star for "Walk to the End of the World" and four stars for "Motherlines".

A future world, plausible, very 70's feminism.......2001-02-24

This is another of those seredipitous finds in the unsavory neighborhood's secondhand bookshops. Charnas, the writer, goes into meticulous detail on the characters, daily life, food, clothing, and problems of an earth after the great "Wasting", when the Ancients destroyed and polluted our planet, save in certain small strongholds, such as Holdfast. In the environs of Holdfast, girls and boys are raised separately, as kits and cubs. The cubs are brought up in the Boyhouse, not knowing mother or father, since the threat to the older men is that the younger men will rise up and try to cease power from their fathers. The girls are bred in kitpits, fighting for the measly portions of seaweed-derived food, and prepared to be slaves to the men. They speak their own "femspeech", soft and slurred and always deferring to the men, with such phrases as "please-you-master" thrown in at the end of all sentences and strict avoidance of the word "I". Our heroine Alldera manages to escape to the forbidden wild hinterlands, and stumbles about pregnant through uninhabited valleys and forests, until discovered by a band of women called the Riders, who live from their horses and grains. There she is rescued, gives birth to a girl, and becomes a rider herself, until conflicts arise in her loyalties. She ventures off to find the 'Free Fems", those slaves who escaped and who live banded together elsewhere in the hinterlands. She finds herself ill at ease there, too, and not accepted for her detached discomfort.

More I will not tell, but for a reader like me, who at heart knows we are all lonely souls passing through the universe, there is something addictively seductive in a story of a loner who flees from one trap of slavery to the next, thinking and analyzing as she goes, trying to decide what she really wants. Many good scifi books are in this vein of an explorer of strange civilizations not understanding how to find his/her own "happiness", how to fit in.

What makes it all more pertinent to us now in 2001 is that the book was written 25 years ago, at the height of the women's movement in the USA, and reeks of an antipathy towards men because of their power over women. Since another generation has been born since then without that chip on their shoulder (theoreti8cally!!!), it's almost historic to read this now. You can think later, how far have women come, really? Are things different than then? I think so, but that's another subject.

Excellent story, with only one caveat - odd names and many of them make the plot sometimes hard to follow. The author also has the traditional mindset to let the reader know if a woman is "goodlooking" or not, regardless if it's relevant to the story.

Amazing how the beauty question will never be laid to rest. Women will always have it tough in this regard, as aging Michael Douglas can lure young actresses to bed, wed them and breed 'em.

An unflinching examination of gender, power and violence.......2000-11-27

This volume is a reprint of the first two novels of Charnas's Holdfast series, *Walk to the End of the World* and *Motherlines*. Together, these two novels were awarded a Retrospective Tiptree Award in 1996 and at last they are back in print.

Charnas writes in a spare, calm style that sets off the strangeness of the plot and setting to great effect. All of the Holdfast books (the series is now complete after four volumes) take place in an indeterminately distant future after the world ecosystem has collapsed and nearly all humans have died, along with most large species of animals. The residents of the Holdfast are descendants of the lucky few who were able to hide out underground in secret government shelters and who emerged after "the Wasting" to found a new society. The men of the Holdfast think they know what caused the collapse of civilization: the influence of women. Now known as 'fems', women are drudges and breeders and are beaten or killed for the flimsiest of reasons or no reason at all.

The first book recounts the journey of three men and a fem to find the father of one of the men. The plot twists are completely unpredictable and harrowing. It left me shaken, but giddy with all that the author had attempted and succeeded at. The second book follows the fem out into the wilderness beyond the Holdfast, where she discovers an undreamt of society of women who breed horses and reproduce without need of men. She also discovers a group of escaped fems like herself. And all is not sweetness and light. These are wonderful books that address power relationships with a psychological realism and depth of thought that I haven't often seen. And they are founding texts of feminist sf.

A very interesting look at the future of gender.......1999-09-13

From page one I found this book fascinating. The idea of a future where men and women have absolutely no use for one another...unless to subjugate and procreate. Very thought provoking.

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If you want to help the Qero, don't buy this book

An unfortunate case of not doing ones homework

Keepers of the Ancient (Mystical) Knowledge

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Keepers of the Ancient Knowledge: The Mystical World of the Q'ero Indians of Peru
Joan Parisi Wilcox
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".a mature and sensitive portrait of a mystical system as seen through the eyes of its practitioners.Written with heart and respect.a gateway for serious seekers to discover the world of living energy and.how to live in harmony with each other."--Deepak Chopra.

Walk along the sacred path of ancient wisdom, and learn directly from the Andean shamans who guard and treasure their traditional ways. This groundbreaking and comprehensive look at Peruvian mysticism--written by a woman who immersed herself in the religion and became a high-level "priest"--will bring you to a rare world of living energy. In interviews, Q'ero mystics lay out their life-affirming, empowering cosmology and speak to our place in the great web of being. Their words are like a gift, designed to help us evolve spiritually--and simple exercises will help you begin this journey.

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Get the latest edition - Masters Of The Living Energy.......2005-01-14

This work is a serious research into the Q'ero mystical tradition of Peru. There are a few folks out there who claim that everything we read in English on the Q'ero is just wrong. They decry even mixed bloods (mestizo) who are the current leaders of getting the Q'ero ways out into the world. Problem is, most of the complainers are not explicit in what is 'wrong' with the material presented and do nothing themselves to promote understanding. It's easy to complain, not so easy to communicate mystical or spiritual truth. And in today's world pure-bloods are disappearing and so too would all their spiritual traditions if not for works like this.

What the author has done is to document her experiences in talking directly with the Q'ero who represented a genuine lineage behind an ancient tradition which probably reaches back to the Inka. This book is a combination of interviews and reliable information on Q'ero worldviews. The challenge here is that to really step into a living tradition such as that of the paqo/shaman, you need something more than a book, you need some face time, not necessarily in Peru, and not necessarily speaking Quecha, but time with someone who knows their stuff. The author presents information in this book that she knows hers.

If you want to help the Qero, don't buy this book.......2004-10-25

I couldn't agree with the previous reviewer more. Although I've never been to Peru, I've been exploring Native healing practices for over 10 years, in several other countries. I've cooresponded by email with the author, and stopped when she accused me of taking a position I never took about healing practices, and refused to provide evidence that I had done so. This book romanticizes the Qero, and her role in telling their story. Conversations I've had with a Peruvian curandero who has studied with the Qero confirm that she has made errors in her book. Given her lack of both Spanish and Quechua, and all the above, she is clearly not interested in accuracy.

An unfortunate case of not doing ones homework.......2004-07-30

I was disturbed but unsurprised to see the average customer review at 5 stars. My review is not meant to put down the author or the book in question, rather, to express my deep interest in a factual portrayal of friends of mine, their lifestyle and spiritual traditions. I have lived in Cusco, Peru for over two years and have become close friends with a dozen or so paqos-- shaman-mystics-- from Qeros. I speak Spanish and Quechua. I am the godfather of a six month old boy from Qeros. My house has become the place of lodging for five Qero shamans when they are visiting Cusco. I share these statements as a reality check.

The author --apparently-- speaks neither Spanish nor Quechua, and has as her primary source of information, translation, and spiritual guidance two shamans who are decidedly Non-Qeros, these being Ñunez del Prado and Yabar. Rather than state my bias towards these two purveyors of Andean shamanism-mysticism, I would simply use this space to state the obvious-- that the author presents an unresearched and uninformed portrait of the Qero through the eyes of her mestizo teachers. It should come as no surprise, then, that when interviewing her Qero informants, she often realizes that they have no idea what she is talking about. Her statement of the westernized so-called Andean traditions lacks true Andean character. See, for one shocking example, the supposed Quechua names for the chakras-- these are Inventions of Ñunez del Prado!!

There are parts that save face for both the author and her westernized teachers, like the biographical interviews she conducts. Even so, I was generally saddened to find yet another book written from the point of view of a relatively ignorant foreigner who has decided to share an idiosyncratic, romanticized and westernized image of the Andean spiritual universe. In my experience, when we strip the Qero tradition and other autoctonous traditions of comparative mysticism, or of our western cosmovision, we do ourselves a tremendous favor.

If you want to learn about the Qero or Andean mysticism, come to Peru. If you want to learn about one North American woman and her (mis)conceptions about these people, read this book.

Keepers of the Ancient (Mystical) Knowledge.......2003-02-23

I have been a student on the path of mystical knowledge for over 20 years. This is one of the most detailed and enlightening books I have read. The knowledge for true seekers is what this world needs and Joan has not only done a remarkable job at reseaching the subject, her clear and detailed explanations are right on.
This is one book that any true seeker will gain from. The exercises included, when performed, bring lasting and enlightening results.
Any seeker on the path of truth will tell you there is a lot of "shallow" materal on the market today. This book is anything but shallow. Joan's depth takes you places few have journeyed and I HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend it. Make sure you "DO THE EXERSICES". Do not just read them, and I am certain you will be recomending this book to others too. Great job Joan.

A True Voice Speaks Out.......2002-04-10

Joan Wilcox has done an exceptional job not in capturing the essence of the Q'ero (it is something that cannot be held prisoner) but at taking down the curtain between their tradition and ours. In a time when many profess to be in possession of a sacred knowledge that flows from them, Wilcox has managed to truthfully allow it to flow through her, acting as a conduit and empowering that ancient wisdom to make its own twists and mysterious turns as it will, and as it has for eons. Keepers of the Ancient Knowledge accurately chronicles the inner story of the Q'ero in all that can be spoken, and at the same time allows for all that cannot be told outside of personal experience to begin to shine its light as well. These are words and experiences from the mouths of the Elders, healers and masters themselves, and I deeply admire the objectivity with which she and her cohorts have chronicled the Q'ero's energetic journey.

Reading the book was like uncovering an overgrown ruin, where on the outside the crumbling walls do not meet your lofty expectations, but on the inside the simple truth emerges as something one could have never quite imagined.

There is an immense amount to be said for the starkness and grace with which she has presented such valuable knowledge at such a dire time of need. Any who take the time to read Keepers of the Ancient Knowledge will only be moved positively on their path of understanding, energy work, and enlightenment, and will be aided with extraordinary tools gifted from the Elders, made manifest by catching a privileged glimpse into an ancient tradition, for which Wilcox has provided here an incredibly clear window.

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This is superb!

Keepers of the Ancient Knowledge: The Mystical World of the Q'ero Indians of Peru
Joan Parisi Wilcox
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This is superb!.......2003-01-20

This book truly brings to us, the readers, the word of the
Q'ero. After a fair amount of personal preparation, including
previous trips to the sacred lands of the Andes, the author,
along with carefully chosen teachers, guides, and translators,
embarked upon another journey for the purpose of recording the
stories, accounts, and answers to many questions that the
Q'ero paqos (trained spiritual leaders) gathered to share .
It was clear that there was respect, love and friendship between

the visitors from the west and the Andean medicine men and women.
And I use the word "medicine" in the spirit of anything which
assists in giving wholeness, connection, insight and healing,
of body, mind, and spirit.
The book clearly explains various terms and methods within this
cultural system of spiritual connection, growth, and healing.
We are carefully guided into a vision of how another culture
feels, thinks, and acts. Let us not allow this knowledge to
disappear.
Reading this beautifully written book, interspersed with stories,
a bit of historical background, lovely photos, and , above all,
insightful dialogue, I felt that I , too was present and aware
during the heartwarming several days during which the "word of
the Q'ero " was gathered. It is clear that Joan Parisi Wilcox
is a gifted writer, and a person of great integrity, and she
shows us the gifts and integrity of her teachers, companions,
and the Q'ero people, as well. I feel there is great spiritual
energy present in this book. Several months later, I have been
drawn to read it a second time! And for me, it is all the more
insightful and inspiring. I am inspired to be grateful for the
world of spirit available within the world; within all of us!
I am also inspired to visit one day, not for anything lacking
within myself, but to experience and pay homage to this part of
the earth, and to perhaps gain insight and strength for my own
work within the world - for peace, understanding, and healing.
I would recommend this work to anyone curious about any of the
content described above- Peru, the Q'ero, spirituality, energy
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Keepers of the Ancient Knowledge: The Mystical World of the Q'ero Indians of Peru
Joan Parisi Wilcox
Manufacturer: Element Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K1AHDY

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