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THE END OF TIME

Machu Picchu was built by Pachacutek, the ninth Inka King, who ruled an empire the size of the United States. His name means “renewer of the world” and embodies the essence of the Inka prophecies that herald the period of renewal at the end of time, or pachacuti. The word pacha in the language of the Inka means “earth” or “time.” Cuti means “to turn upside-down.” Pachacuti therefore refers to a time of great upheaval on the Earth. The last pachacuti happened with the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors, when the Indian world was turned upside-down and order was replaced with chaos. Kings and chiefs were put to death, medicine people were enslaved, and Indians were worked ruthlessly in plantations and mines. The next pachacuti, according to the Inka shamans, has already begun, and the upheaval and chaos characteristic of this period will last until the year 2012. During this time the world will be turned right side up again. The paradigm of looting and pillaging the Earth brought by European civilizations will end, and the ways of the Earth peoples will make a comeback. The conquistador will perish by his own blade. The Earth will return to balance.

For the Inka this pachacuti means the end of the world as we know it. Although prophecies mention the possibility of annihilation, they actually promise the dawn of a millennium of peace, beginning after this period of turmoil. Even more important for the shamans, the prophecies speak about a tear in the fabric of time itself, a window into the future through which a new human species will emerge. Don Antonio used to say that Homo sapiens have perished, and that a new human, Homo luminus, is being born this very instant on our planet. Interestingly, my mentor believed that evolution happens within generations - not in between generations, as biology believes. This means that we are that new human. We are the ones that we’ve been waiting for. Our question no longer is, can we make a quantum leap into who we are becoming, but rather, dare we do so.

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