Go Deep to Go Far
Chartres Academy and
Pyramid Academy Pilgrimage to Teotihuacán
A five-day scientific exploration of time from a non-linear perspective
Format
In Person
Course
Dates
June
16 - 22, 2024
Location
San Sebastian,
Mexico
Faculty
HeatherAsh Amara, Jim Garrison, Calen Rayne, Banafsheh Sayyad, Alberto Hernandez Romero, Emily K. Grieves etc
Credit
Masters – 4 credits Doctoral – 4 credits
Available to the public
or for Academic Credit
Arithmetica: Sacred Number and Mysteries of the Pyramids
Due to the 2024 Olympics being held in France around the time we usually have our Chartrian pilgrimages, we have decided to move our 2024 pilgrimage to Mexico at the pyramid complex of Teotihuacán. We will be exploring the Fourth Liberal Art of Arithmetica, which focuses on the deepest insights of Pythagoras, that number is what connects the entire cosmos. Number in time is sound. Number in space is geometry. Number in abstraction is mathematics. The entire cosmos, all of life, and all of every galaxy and everything that moves and breathes is composed of numbers. Nowhere on Earth is the magic and mystery of numbers more evident than in pyramids, and thus we will journey to the pyramid complex of Teotihuacán. In this, the Chartres Academy is honored to be partnering with the Pyramid Academy at Teotihuacán, co-founded by the late Will Taegel, Former Dean of the Wisdom School of Ubiquity University, and HeatherAsh Amara, who will be our lead faculty.
Overview
For those new to Teotihuacán, this pilgrimage will be a powerful initiation. For those who have experienced Toltec initiation rites at the pyramids before, it will be an opportunity to deepen their connection with the mysteries of this ancient site.
HeatherAsh Amara will be our guide and lead us into the pyramid fields. Local healers and teachers will share their embodied wisdom and lead us into the latest discoveries at Quetzalcoatl. We will explore the magic of numbers and do sacred practice to align ourselves with the power of the pyramids. Mexica/Aztec dancers will enchant us with their ceremonial dances.
Our Intention
Our intent is to create a learning eco-field with you in collaboration with the Toltec ancestors, the pyramids, and current teachers. This learning eco-field can propel us on a journey to return humans to the circle of life. On the journey, we will practice ancient skills and create new ones and invite the keepers of the circle of life to accept us back after a 5,200 year absence. We will make our entry as humble human participants rather than as dominants. We will enter through the portal of the mysteries of the pyramids and their master builders and teachers. Along the way, we will cease to be consumers of consciousness and become skilled practitioners of an integration of Toltec wisdom and newer sciences.
Our Consciousness Expanding Learning Community:
A Map
As we co-create our eco-field of learning and leadership, we draw on many possibilities. It is important for our learning pilgrims to note that this pilgrimage emphasizes experience first and foremost, and then reflection. We begin with the heart and then move to the head. Each day, we will have sacred movement practice and dreamwork. After a breakfast prepared by the beautiful Dreaming House staff, we will wrestle with and experiment with substantive cosmic maps.
Then, around 11:30 am, we will walk to the pyramids in meditation. (Transportation is available if you need it). Once at the pyramids, we will move through the ancient Toltec consciousness path, one that requires us to delve deeply into ourselves and the eco-field. Our main meal each day is around 3 pm in keeping with Mexican tradition.
At 6 pm we will deepen the teachings and build coherence and intimacy with dialogue and reflection on the day. At 9 pm we have a nourishing snack and interact with key resource people from the larger community and village. We will have indigenous dancers or musicians on one or more evenings. It is important to note that an emerging emphasis will be on indigenous, shamanic figures, both of Toltec and other tribal groups in the area.
The Pyramid Academy is an experiment in developing new forms of leadership and community. We work with the hypothesis that our week together can embody a field-based leadership. The ignition switch of this field-based leadership is the coherence and, thus, intimacy that unfolds in our time together. Our aim is for participants to carry home with them an experience and unfolding map for leadership and community. In such a model, the role of the leaders is to read the field for what is arising. As our knowing-field develops throughout the week, various competencies naturally arise in different individuals and groups. Some scientists and mystical investigators of Teotihuacán have called the pyramid complex a Cosmic University. Recently, dozens of carved conch shells from many different tribes throughout Mexico were found together under the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl, showing that this was a ceremonial pilgrimage site for many different peoples.
Your Speakers, experts and facilitators
HeatherAsh Amara
our main ceremonial guide
Jim Garrison, PhD
President of Ubiquity University,
Co-Director of the Chartres Academy
Calen Rayne
MFA, DMin
Director of Organizational Architecture and Energetics for Ubiquity
Banafsheh Sayyad
MFA,MA
sacred dancer, choreographer, and Co-director of the Ubiquity Chartres Academy
Alberto Hernandez Romero
Alberto knows the sacred grounds of the pyramids intimately
Emily K. Grieves
BFA degree in art from the University of Montana
Sergio Gómez
Chávez
director of the Proyecto Tlalocan of the Zona de Monumentos Arqueológicos de Teotihuacán
Miktlan Kouatl
a transcriber of the Toltekatl writing system
Our journey will include:
- Sacred movement practice with Banafsheh Sayyad
- Morning Dreaming circles
- Teachings with Jim Garrison, Calen Rayne, and special guests
- Daily teachings and ceremony in the pyramids with HeatherAsh Amara
- Break out workshops with local experts and healers
- Special guided tour of the tunnel and cave under the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl with archeologist Sergio Gómez Chávez
- A Solstice Firewalk Ceremony (*optional)
The Pyramid Academy at Teotihuacán
An initiatory pathway into Toltec skills of descending and ascending spheres of consciousness through the pyramids.
The Pyramid Academy seeks to give modern form to perhaps one of the most comprehensive learning systems for consciousness known to the ancient world. The Toltecs—likely builders of the pyramid complex at Teotihuacán in Mexico—gifted the planet with architectural forms and artistry embedded in a landscape of mountains, lakes, and clear water. These Toltec masters were scientists, artists, and shamans collapsed into one system; they emerged from the evolutionary mists so advanced as to cause us to question our usual paradigms. They were and are teachers of perception, expanded awareness, and profound compassion largely lost to the arrogance of Western Civilization.
As scientists, they gave us the zero as a working mathematical concept centuries before it was used in India. They knew the radius of Earth millennia before Europe struggled to know our planet rotated around the Sun. They formed the pyramid complex as a massive planetarium with solar system precision, capable of tuning us into the cosmos under skillful and aware conditions. They aligned the pyramids at Teotihuacán with the pyramids in Egypt. Some historians suggest that the Sun pyramid at Teo and the Great pyramid at Giza are the two main power generators for the planet. Both pyramids are aligned with the constellation Orion.
As artists, their works still adorn archeological walls that transform us as we encounter them. As shamans and teachers of perceptual awareness, they were without equal. In recent times their teachings have emerged in don Juan with Carlos Castaneda, don Miguel Ruiz and others.
Most importantly, the pyramids themselves form an eco-field, along with the landscape, that sprouted the Toltec path of planetary transformation—personal, environmental, and social.
Tentative Schedule
Day 1- June 16th:
Arrive 4 pm or earlier into Mexico City airport
5:30 pm Last shuttle from Mexico City Airport to Dreaming House
7 pm Dinner at Dreaming House
8 to 9:30 Opening session
Day 2 - June 17th:
7 - 8 am Sacred Movement
8 - 8:30 am Dreaming Circles
8 - 9:30 am Desayuno (Breakfast) at the Dreaming House
9:30 to 11:30 am Morning Teaching Session
11:30 am to 2 pm Ceremony at the Pyramids - Quetzalcoatl
3 pm Comida (Lunch) Dreaming House
6 - 9 pm Evening Teaching / Integration Session
9 pm Cena (evening snack)
Day 3- June 18th:
7 - 8 am Sacred Movement
8 - 8:30 am Dreaming Circles
8 - 9:30 am Desayuno (Breakfast) at the Dreaming House
9:30 to 11:30 am Morning Teaching Session
11:30 am to 2 pm Ceremony at the Pyramids - Avenue of the Dead
3 pm Comida (Lunch) Dreaming House
6 - 9 pm Evening Teaching / Movement / Integration Sessions
9 pm Cena (evening snack)
Day 4 - June 19th:
7 - 8 am Sacred Movement
8 - 8:30 am Dreaming Circles
8 - 9:30 am Desayuno (Breakfast) at the Dreaming House
9:30 to 11:30 am Morning Teaching Session
11:30 am to 2 pm Ceremony at the Pyramids - Pyramid of the Moon
3 pm Comida (Lunch) Dreaming House
6 - 9 pm Evening Teaching / Movement / Integration Sessions
9 pm Cena (evening snack)
Day 5 - June 20th - Solstice
7 - 8 am Sacred Movement
8 - 8:30 am Dreaming Circles
8 - 9:30 am Desayuno (Breakfast) at the Dreaming House
9:30 to 11:30 am Morning Teaching Session
11:30 am to 2 pm Ceremony at the Pyramids - Pyramid of the Sun
3 pm Comida (Lunch) Dreaming House
6 - 9 pm Evening Teaching / Movement / Integration Sessions
9 pm Solstice Firewalk Ceremony
10 pm Cena (evening snack)
Day 6 - June 21st:
7 - 8 am Sacred Movement
8 - 8:30 am Dreaming Circles
8 - 9:30 am Desayuno (Breakfast) at the Dreaming House
9:30 to 11:30 am Morning Teaching Session
11:30 am to 2 pm Ceremony at the Pyramids - Integration
3 pm Comida (Lunch) Dreaming House
6 - 9 pm Evening Sharing Circle / Dreamwork Session
9 pm Cena and celebration
Day 7 - June 22nd:
7 - 8 am Sacred Movement
8 - 8:30 am Dreaming Circles
8 - 9:30 am Desayuno (Breakfast) at the Dreaming House
9:30 to 11:30 am Morning Closing Teaching and Ceremony
1 pm Shuttle to Airport
Our journey will include:
Sacred movement practice with Banafsheh Sayyad
Morning Dreaming circles
Teachings with Jim Garrison, Calen Rayne, and special guests
Daily teachings and ceremony in the pyramids with HeatherAsh Amara
Break out workshops with local experts and healers
Special guided tour of the tunnel and cave under the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl with archeologist Sergio Gómez Chávez
A Solstice Firewalk Ceremony (walking optional!)
Chartres Academy and Pyramid Academy Pilgrimage to Teotihuacán
1,997 US Dollars
Including accommodation, meals, transportation, excursion etc*
This special Pilgrimage to Teotihuacán is limited to 70 participants
Price Includes*
– Six nights accommodations, double or triple-occupancy**
– Three meals a day featuring delicious, healthy, and traditional Mexican food (can accommodate special diets)
– Ground transportation to and from Mexico City Airport (within range on first and last days; if you choose to come early or stay late the private taxi cost is between $60 to $75 one way to or from the airport / Mexico City)
– Daily entrance into the pyramid complex
– Special excursion with anthropologist to the newly discovered tunnel and cave under the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl ** $500 upgrade cost for single room (very limited availability)
Location and Lodging
Lodging will be in one of our three beautiful retreat centers in the small village of San Sebastian: The Dreaming House, Villas Campanas, and Suenos de Quetzalcoatl. Each venue is owned by our hosts, the Hernandez family, and are within walking distance of each other and the pyramids.This area of Mexico is very safe and you will feel well cared for and nourished the moment you are picked up from the Mexico City airport. If you are traveling with a friend or family member and are interested in sharing a room with them please let us know after registration via the survey sent out in our Welcome Packet.
Not include in price:
Travel to Mexico City airport
Group tip for Dreaming House staff – we recommend at least $50 – which we will collect in pesos or dollars at the end of the journey.
