Oscar Miro-Quesada Solevo is a respected kamasqa curandero and altomisayoq adept from Peru, visionary founder of The Heart of the Healer (THOTH), originator of Pachakuti Mesa Tradition cross-cultural shamanism, and co-author of Lessons in Courage: Peruvian Shamanic Wisdom for Everyday Life. An internationally acclaimed shamanic teacher, healer and earth honoring ritualist, don Oscar is also an OAS Fellow in Ethnopsychology, UN Invited Observer to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. He has been guiding ethnospiritual apprenticeship expeditions to sacred sites of the world since 1986, with special emphasis on Peru and Bolivia. Oscar believes that human nature has divinity as its birth right, to have the sacred as its foundation and to have love as its essence. He encourages us not to forget our true nature and not to allow our self interests to take precedence over the unity of humankind and mother earth. Anything that brings us closer to our mother earth, pacha mama, will strengthen the divine spark within us.