The spiritual journey of medium George Hunt Williamson in search of Paititi
At the beginning of 1957, the American medium and anthropologist of Serbian origin George Hunt Williamson (1926-1986) was in Lima, where he met the esotericist Daniel Ruzo (1900-1991), a great student of Marcahuasi, the plateau located at 4000 meters above sea level recognized as the magnetic and gravitational center of the planet.
Who really was G. H. Williamson?
Although his main interest was the activity of extra-sensory contact with “higher intelligences”, he also distinguished himself as an anthropologist, explorer and founder of paleo-astronautics, or the discipline that analyzes the possibility that there may have been in the past visits of aliens on our planet.
In my opinion, G. H. Williamson can be considered a medium, also taking into account his ascetic and spiritual activity in some monasteries located in the Andes during the last twenty years of his life.
The two scholars understood each other immediately, surely there was a background perception that united them, or else, the awareness that before the universal flood (10,000 BC) a great megalithic civilization had developed throughout the planet.
This world civilization had its centers of knowledge, in South America, in the megalithic cities of Tiwanaku, Sacsayhuamán and Marcahuasi.
During the trip to Marcahuasi, G. H. Williamson was struck by the fantastic anthropomorphic statues and felt the characteristic background sound, definable as a hum, which is also felt in other magnetic places in South America, such as in the enigmatic Sierra del Roncador (visited, on a spiritual pilgrimage, in the early years of the 21st century, by Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon).
G. H. Williamson continued his journey of discovery and study by traveling to Cusco, the ancient capital of the Incas. His goal was to shed light on the possibility that pre-Inca cultures may have used writing.
During the 50s of the last century it was thought that the Incas and their predecessors did not know writing. Indeed, in the last years of the 20th century, it was shown that this is not entirely true: in the Andean region a type of pictographic writing called quellca had spread (only in restricted circles of priestly elites), which was found in some objects of enormous archaeological value such as the Fuente Magna, the Pokotia monolith and the Oruro stone.
G. H. Williamson learned from some Quechua spiritual leaders that in the jungle of Madre de Dios there was an immense rock with strange petroglyphs that, according to some, represented an archaic form of writing. These were the beautiful petroglyphs of Pusharo, which Father Vicente de Cenitagoya made known to the world in 1921. The petroglyphs, described again by the researcher Jorge Althaus from Cusco in 1953 and studied in depth by Harmut Winkler in 1957 have not still been completely deciphered.
Although many adventurers recognized them as a possible map that would guide “the pure-hearted man” towards Paititi, in my opinion they are the symbolic representation of a kind of “territorial demarcation” that Arawak ancestors carved, around the sixth millennium before Christ, on his way to the Andean plateau.
G. H. Williamson traveled to the current small town of Shintuya with his friend Miguel Acosta de Ayaviri.
On July 10, 1957, the two travelers arrived in Pusharo, along with two Matsiguenka guides. We do not know what G. H. Williamson's conclusions were about the enigmatic petroglyphs of Pusharo, but the truth is that he felt something special in those remote valleys.
The Matsiguenkas guides warned the American medium that it was very dangerous to enter the narrow valley beyond the petroglyphs, since, according to them, it was inhabited by the warlike Kuga-Pacoris, very strong natives about two meters tall, known as “the guardians of Paititi.”
G. H. Williamson was a sensible person and decided not to continue, probably because he realized that a mystery as wonderful as the Paititi would be revealed naturally and without being forced, only in his own time.
On the other hand, other explorers, such as the American Robert Nichols and the French Serge Debru and George Puel, who decided to advance beyond Pusharo without the help of Matsiguenka guides in 1970, were in fact killed by the Kuga Pacoris, precisely because they violated, without authorization, a sacred, ancestral and magical territory.
G. H. Williamson proposed to return to search for Paititi in the course of his existence, perhaps not physically, or, without intending to travel there with his body, but rather trying to perceive its essence with his mind.
Indeed, G. H. Williamson's personal journey in search of Paititi did not end with his return to Cusco.
In reality, for the American esotericist, that date, July 10, 1957, was only the beginning of a long spiritual journey that led him to search for himself and the true nature of the human being.
G. H. Williamson's esoteric and archaeological search continued in Europe the following year. In 1958 he met the Italian scholar Costantino Cattoi, who had thoroughly documented the ancient Etruscan city of Capena; the archaic Cosa, in Ansedonia and the site of Lilibeo (modern Marsala, in Sicily).
The two scholars agreed on the fact that the ancientante diluvian megalithic civilization had developed throughout the planet and, particularly, from the Middle East to the Andean highlands. The observation and study of the ancient Tyrrhenian, Sardinian and Pelasgic cities, compared with the Andean megalithic cities already mentioned, and the confirmation that in these archaeological sites a high magnetic activity is perceived (even with scientific instruments) just as in Marcahuasi, led the two researchers to the conclusion that the Tyrrhenian-Pelasgic-Sardinian civilization had to have been related to the American megalithic civilization that developed after the flood.
Below is how G. H. Williamson explains the discoveries of Costantino Cattoi in his book Road in the Sky:
I recently received some letters from Rome that are of immense importance in relation to the Marcahuasi discoveries. Professor Costantino Cattoi and his wife, María Mataloni Cattoi, both researchers, scientists and archaeologists, say they have discovered in some areas a strange underground concentration of electro-magnetic energy. Furthermore, they discovered that, where such energy exists, gigantic figures similar to those of Marcahuasi are found. He studied and photographed hundreds of such figures for more than 40 years and discovered lions, dragons and even cyclops. Once again we remember Marcahuasi and the race of ancestors south of Lake Titicaca.
Returning to the United States G. H. Williamson began one of the most intense periods of his life in terms of archaeological and spiritual research.
He had contact with H. L. Cayce, the son of Edgar Cayce, from whom he received some confidential documents from the great medium that referred to the hidden past of the first peoples of South America and their relations with other peoples of the Earth. He then traveled to Japan, where he thoroughly studied the Jomon culture, and to the Yucatan, where he studied the Mayan culture and documented underground ceremonial enclosures at the site of Loltun (the so-called stone flower cave). In 1962 G. H. Williamson and Professor Vicente Vásquez discovered the Kukikan Cavern, where evidence of contacts between the ancestors of the Mayans and the indigenous peoples of the Southeast of the present-day United States was found.
It was then that G. H. Williamson changed his name to Michael D'Obrenovic Obilic Von Lazar (the name of his family of origin, one of the Serbian royal lineages of the 19th century) and began to frequent a monastery located in a remote valley in the Andes, at north of Lake Titicaca.
He returned several times to the United States and continued his activity as a researcher, student of ancient antediluvian cultures and contactist. There has been much speculation about the last years of G. H. Williamson's life and the reasons that led him to isolate himself in the Andean mountains, adopting an almost ascetic lifestyle, in which he dedicated himself to contact with “higher intelligences” through "vocal channeling of a telepathic nature” (from his book Secret of Andes).
Probably, his trip to the Pusharo petroglyphs had greatly impacted him. G. H. Williamson was convinced that some of these “superior intelligences” with whom he had had telepathic contacts, called in Spanish “the white brotherhood”, had taken refuge in Paititi, both to transmit ancient traditions and to defend it from possible attacks of intruders.
For G. H. Williamson, Paititi was much more than a physical place. Furthermore, he was aware of the fact that only when the times have ripened and are right, will man be able to fully know each of his most hidden secrets.
G. H. Williamson was, furthermore, fully convinced that our current civilization had developed very poorly and that only after innumerable tragedies and unspeakable suffering can we return to that golden age, where balance will reign between human beings and other living beings present on planet Earth.
YURI LEVERATTO
