LET FLY THE CRY OF YOUR HEART

by Patt O’Neill
from www.becoming-galactic.org

Its civilization in ruins and looted of its treasure, its sacred shrines buried under Catholic
churches, its people decimated by slavery and smallpox, ground under the boots of the Con-
quistadores, treated like and disrespected as no better than savages, the Inca Empire died.
One of its sons wrote a manuscript which he entitled “The First New Chronicle and Good
Government,” which he sent to the King of Spain as a plea for respectful treatment of the in-
digenous population by Spanish soldiers and priests. He wrote in detail of the Inca's culture
and spiritual beliefs to show the king that Inca culture was worthy of respect. In 1616, Felipe
Guaman Poma de Ayala let fly his cry of the heart.

This colorized page from Poma's manuscript is from

www.unc.edu/~edelvall/poemas.htm .

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 It did not have the desired effect. Spain’s tyranny continued unabated. So,
you might ask, “Then why bother?”
The point is what happens energetically, outside of space and time, when
you utter a crie de coeur (French for “cry of the heart”). This is a function of
your quantum consciousness [www.becoming-galactic.org/presupp1.html], by
the way.
The result, to date, of Guaman Poma’s 400-year old crie de coeur is at the
end of this essay, which I dedicate to everyone who has published their own cry
of the heart.

Hucha

In Quechua, Guaman Poma’s native language, there is a word for heavy,

dense, dark energy, the kind that hangs like a cloud over the heads of people
at times when they feel really down emotionally. (Trust me, I’m an expert on
this. I could walk into a room and put everybody on a bummer without saying a
word. Dealing with my clinical depression without using psychiatric drugs has
taken me deep into a study of subtle energy [see NOTES below for definition],
and much consequent relief from depressive symptoms.)
Hucha, the Quechua word for dense energy, is what many erroneously call
“negative energy.” There is no negative or positive subtle energy. That thinking
will not lead to control of the energy, merely to futile attempts to suppress it or
grasp at what we consider “positive.” If instead you think of subtle energy qual-
ity as a grey scale, then you open the door to control and utilization.
These are your emotions, after all. Suppressing misery and grasping at hap-
piness is for children. Quantum consciousness is for the mature, awakened
soul.
In my studies of Peruvian shamanism, I came across this word hucha early
on. (Thank you, Alberto Villoldo!) When I began to compile a glossary
[www.incaglossary.org] of terminology of the study of Andean shamanism, intui-
tion told me there was more to it. Then one day I came across the following in
the definition of hucha: “business (or affair) or plea…. * ”
We are now going to digress, at least geographically, and go to Tibet for a
concept that will fold right in to this line of thought that dense energy is an emo-
tional plea:

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Karmic Seeds

"The Sanskrit word Karma … literally means action. In Buddhism

however, karma mainly refers to one's intention or motivation
[energy] while doing an action." **
If we plant a seed today, it will sprout tomorrow. When emotion arises, it of-
ten energizes motivation and thought. Our motivation is the energetic invest-
ment in this seed. If this energy is not neutralized, then a karmic seed results.
(There are energetic techniques for achieving this which I will not go into here.)
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche writes,
"Any reaction to any situation … that is rooted in grasping or aver-
sion, leaves a trace in the mind. As karma dictates reactions, the
reactions sow further karmic seeds, which further dictate reactions,
and so on." ***
Most of us think of karma as a bad thing because we have conditioned our-
selves to misunderstand karma in a Judeo-Christian context of sin and retribu-
tion. We ignorantly behave and think in ways that plant seeds for all future
events. This IS how we create our future and why we are absolutely responsi-
ble for our experience.
But, what if you use this space/time mechanism deliberately, to create a de-
sired future? The spiritual technique has been around for a very long time.

Poison Into Medicine

A Buddhist concept from the study of lo jong that I love very much is turning
poison into medicine. This means you take the hucha and convert it into its
lighter counterpart on the gray scale: sami.
In Quechua, sami means refined energy. (Sami is only refined relative to
hucha, and vice versa. An elightened person’s hucha would be sami to another
less mature soul.) As hucha is formed by our resistance to the energy that flows
through us continually, sami reflects a relative lack of resistance. Hucha only
becomes a problem when there is too much of it. If it is released, it becomes
food for the Earth and the lower organisms. It can even be turned into fuel for
one’s pleas for the future!
How we respond to life's inevitable sufferings is the key. Negative, painful
experiences are often necessary to motivate us. One Buddhist scripture de-
scribes illness as awakening the desire to seek the truth. Likewise, people have
been inspired to a lifetime commitment to peace and justice by their experience
of war and injustice.

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 The process of changing poison into medicine begins when we approach
difficult experiences as an opportunity to reflect on ourselves and to strengthen
and develop our courage and compassion. The more we are able to do this,
the more we are able to grow in vitality and wisdom and realize a truly expan-
sive state of life.
Suffering can thus serve as a springboard for a deeper experience of happi-
ness. From the perspective of Buddhism, inherent in all negative experiences is
this profound positive potential. However, if we are defeated by suffering or re-
spond to challenging circumstances in negative and destructive ways, the origi-
nal "poison" is not transformed but remains poison
[www.sgi.org/changingpoison.html].

The Result of Guaman Poma’s Plea

Although the Spanish continued their conquest despite Poma’s book, that
was not the end of it. The King of Spain gave the book to the King of Denmark,
who put it into his vast library, where it remained for a few hundred years. In the
20th Century, it was rediscovered by scholars, scanned onto the internet, the
pictures colorized, the text translated into several languages, and published
properly into printed books. [An English translation has recently become avail-
able. Because of what Poma wrote, we can learn much today of the culture that
the Spanish and the Catholic Church did their utmost to obliterate. In part be-
cause of Poma’s crie de coeur, a resurgence of native Incan spiritual beliefs is
flourishing, the original teachings are being rediscovered for the many people
who appreciate their power and connection to the Earth.
So let fly your own cry of the heart. Do it with love and faith in the Living Uni-
verse. Polish it, make it something to be proud of and to persuade. Energize it
with pleading from your heart. It may not have the effect you are grasping at
now, but the Universe will make sure it will be appreciated in its proper context.
You will be planting a seed for the future. If enough of us do this consciously,
we can create a future free of war and poverty, where selfishness and hatred
and violence are not tolerated as means to an end. An Andean peasant who
died 400 years ago has shown us the way.

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Notes

“Subtle energy is difficult to define within the current scientific paradigm. Ancient
and modern wisdom traditions describe human bioenergies referred to by many
names (chi, ki, prana, etheric energy, fohat, orgone, odic force, mana, homeo-
pathic resonance, e.g.) that is believed to move throughout the light energy
body and thus is difficult to measure using conventional instrumentation. In ad-
dition, many of the complementary and alternative therapies that are becoming
increasingly popular appear to involve the flow of these subtle energies through
the dense physical body. In addition, it is traditionally accepted that expansions
of consciousness often are related to changes in subtle energies that cannot be
quantified. These latter "energies", which are said to be associated with interac-
tions and with transcendence, may not actually be involved with known physical
fields.”
-- The International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine.
[www.issseem.org]

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* William Sullivan. The Secret of the Incas: Myth, Astronomy, and the War Against Time.
Crown Publishers (New York), 1996.

** www.viewonbuddhism.org/karma.html

*** Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep. Snow Lion Publica-
tions (Ithaca, NY), 1998.

The writings contained in this essay are the intellectual property of Patt O'Neill
and copyrighted © 2008. ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED.

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