The Story of the Stone -
A Mystical Journey to Peru
Part One -
by Margo Carrera

One morning I attended a group gathering of Women called the Grandmothers.  These were women of all ages, races, and walks of life called to this meeting by the Great Council of the Grandmothers, a spirit group of the divine feminine who had come to assist in the Great Shift in consciousness here on the planet.  The Grandmothers had come to restore the feminine principle back to the planet.  They had come to infuse the planet with the Feminine energy (yin) which had become depleted in a Masculine (yang) society.  Evidence of this imbalance can be seen throughout the planet by the disregard of the physical, (our bodies, nature, the animal realm, the oceans, streams, and river…), by excessive greed, and war.  There message is not one of blame for either the masculine or the feminine.  It is a call to rebalance the energies of yin and yang and to restore peace to the planet.  It is also a call to the feminine, which is the reservoir for this energy to restore this energy within her and to move into her calling to assist in this historical time called the Great Shift in consciousness.

The meeting was led by Sharon McErlane, Author of the book, ‘A Call to Power, the Grandmothers Speak’.  At this meeting were gathered all of the women throughout the world who were bringing forth the message of the Grandmothers.  This is where my story begins.  Sharon led the group in a guided meditation to help us to connect with Mother Earth.  It is what the shamans call journeying.  I had never connected with the earth in this way so I wasn’t sure how it would turn out but I had great faith in Sharon’s ability to lead and great faith in the grandmothers so I participated.  She wanted us to connect with our animal guides who reside in the earth plane she called the middle world.  She instructed us to visualize ourselves entering the earth, either by following the route of a tree deep into the earth or entering an opening in the ground that would appear for us.  For me, a hole appeared and I followed it in while listening to the beat of the drum that Sharon was playing.  I kept questioning if I was doing it correctly because my journey did not seem like the one Sharon had described to us before we started.  She said we would descend straight down but my travels went this way and that way until I ended up in a place that looked like the chamber of a heart.  When I arrived, I could see a dark dense energy similar to the energy that I clear in my clients.  So instinctively, I went to grab this energy and start to remove it when the drum started beating faster.  It was a sign that the journey was to come to an end and we were to return to the room.  What happened is that it pulled me back into my body so quickly that the density came with me and lodged in my heart. 

Everyone returned to their normal state of consciousness and began to tell their stories of what they experienced on their journeys.  Many talked about connecting with their animal spirit guide and what the animal taught them while they were with it.  As they were talking my heart was aching more and more.  I felt like I was going to have a heart attach.  I even contemplated death, and calm came over me, an acceptance of death now, in this room surrounded by such beautiful woman.  As soon as that acceptance came, a friend noticed me and I asked her for help.  I motioned to her that I was having heart pain.  She stopped the group and let them know.  Fortunately for me, I was in a room full of healers and they encircled me and all started to work on me.  Sharon was using the sound of the drum to move the energy, some were doing Reiki, others prayer, etc.  Quickly, the energy that was stuck in my heart was released and I began to speak about the heart of Mother Earth.

What came through me to speak was that it had been so very long since so many women had come to visit Mother Earth like this.  That this used to be a daily practice of the women of the world but little by little it had fallen away.  She had deeply missed her connection with the women and we, the women, had deeply missed our connection with the Mother Earth.  The pain that I felt in my heart was pain of this lost connection. 

 After this event, we all took a much needed break to integrate what had just happened.  As I was walking out of the room a beautiful Grandmother came up to me and handed me a stone.  I recognized the stone right away.  It was a Peruvian healing stone.  She told me that two years ago someone had given her this stone and she has been meditating with it and carrying it with her ever since.  She said that this person told her that someday she would come across a person who was to receive this stone and she would know who that person was.  She was told to give that person the stone.  She then told me that I was this person.  I was so touched and graciously received the stone. 

As I studied the stone, I noticed the markings on it. I had been taught about these stones during one of my previous journeys to Peru.  These stones are used to clear chakras.  The stone have Apus (Mountain Spirits) carved onto them.  This one had four Apus, indicating that this was for healing the Fourth Chakra.  The Peruvians count from the top down so the fourth chakra was the heart chakra.  Neither of us had noticed this until I started to teach her about the stone.  I began to use it to restore my heart energy and the stone began to clear energy right away.  We were both amazed.

While I sat quietly recovering from the event, I studied the stone further.  It had unusual markings that I had not noticed on other healing stones.  It had what looked like a map on it.  The Apus was a land mark and lines seemed to be showing me something but what, I was not clear about.  Also on the back was a symbol that I was not clear about as well.  So I began to meditate with the stone to see if information would come through. As I did this, I began to have what seemed to be flash backs to an earlier time where I seemed to be a Priestess in Peru.  It showed a tortures time which included rape and imprisonment and ultimately death.  As I worked with the stone many of my fears in this lifetime would become apparent and then clear from my body permanently.  Somewhere stored in my DNA was this lifetime asking to be remembered and healed. 

I also took this stone to my friend Mirabai Devi who is a mystic and a seer as well.  She held the stone and told me that it told her a story of a time in Peru when the Spaniards came and there was so much violence and destruction over the land that the Earth fractured.  The stone was a messenger asking for the fracture to be healed so that Mother Earth could go through her transition.  She told me that there was also a vortex that had been closed which needed to be reopened and that the stone had a map to show me where these areas were. 

This stone took me on the most exciting journey to Peru in 2007.  In my next article, I will tell you of the Journey to Peru and how I was initiated by the Q’ero Shaman from the high Andes Mountains, and how we found the sites to do the earth work as well as the results.   Also check out our upcoming Journey to Peru with Mirabai Devi and Myself.