Initiation: A Woman's Journey into the Heart of the Andes

I started reading "Initiation" on my way to Cusco, and was immediately hooked on it. I just couldn't stop reading. Elizabeth Jenkins' accounts of her experience with the Apus and Pachamama are so vivid that you feel you are actually living them through her words. I am Peruvian and have been for some time researching on Andean mysticism. I was not fully aware of the path that would open before me when I started my research, and just like Elizabeth, I heard Pachamama's call loud and clear. So I can fully relate to her story. The smooth and personal style in which the book is written makes it easy to read - but this is not just another nice story. This book takes you by the hand into the realm of Pachamama, and it actually complies with its mission of bringing Pachamama's word to the world. The description of the Hatun Karpay (initiation) is very vivid and compelling, and it truly opens your eyes so you can learn to distinguish between the real Andean mysteries from what is merely (to put it some way) a description of Andean folklore. I fully recommend this book to anybody who is seriously interested in embracing Pachamama's ways. After all, it did change my life!

Hi there! I found this book by accident, read it on one go and booked a trip to Peru for the following summer. I had fantastic time practising the old inka/q'ero indian energy excercises at the Inka temples and power places. I would warmly recommend this book (and the trip) to anyone spiritually inclined - and the practises really work!!!

I just thought that this book is wonderful for anyone who is at all questioning what is going on with their spirituality. I fell in love with it. "When the spirit is willing, the teacher will be known."

This book was a personal door to my roots. Originally I am a Kechwa native American. But I am adopted to Dutch parents when I was young. Since a copple of years I have 'strange' experiments. By this book I now know what that means. Every word is true, a real reflection of the other level of life wich western cultures have forgot. I hope this book will be a door to the real world of Kay Pacha. Mark Lucana Champi-van Deursen

I was already into shamanism even before I read this book, but it helped me see and understand why I feel the way I do about Incas, shamanism, healing and energies. This was like coming home for me... it touched my heart and soul. Before I read this book I had no wish to visit Peru and the Andes... now I do... I long for it! Someday maybe I will...