I knew I was in for an adventure when I signed on a for a ten-day Inca initiation in Peru. I anticipated taking myself beyond sight-seeing, deep into an indigenous spirituality different from my own. My early childhood religion, full of dogma, rules, and rigidity stood in sharp contrast to the non-dogmatic Inca way, in which there is only one rule: the "Law of Ayni." This law is simple and two-fold: 1) We each have the right and the responsibility to give, and 2) we each have the right and the responsibility to receive.

These Inca beliefs and practices were hidden after the Spanish conquest. They were re-discovered a few years ago in the remote Q'uero region of Peru by the former curator of Macchu Picchu and the father of my teacher, anthropologist Juan Nunez del Prado.

The beautiful and elegant ways this Law of Ayni can be practiced in daily life will be the focus of a workshop at AAP's March Eastern Regional Conference in Stratford, Connecticut. Participants in this workshop will practice giving and receiving as they learn to recognize, take in, and pass on both heavy and light energy. Participants will appreciate, as I have, the many correspondences between the principles of psychosynthesis and these Inca ideas and practices which were developed centuries ago.