Robert M
@rascalranger.bsky.social
Retired archaeologist, erstwhile author, avocational anthropologist
We leave for Saraguro today to meet with a community and present our project. It is an exciting time to be an anthropologist.
The community is about one third indigenous.Traditional agriculture is the primary occupation. The spiritual beliefs and traditions remain strong.
The community is about one third indigenous.Traditional agriculture is the primary occupation. The spiritual beliefs and traditions remain strong.
November 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
We leave for Saraguro today to meet with a community and present our project. It is an exciting time to be an anthropologist.
The community is about one third indigenous.Traditional agriculture is the primary occupation. The spiritual beliefs and traditions remain strong.
The community is about one third indigenous.Traditional agriculture is the primary occupation. The spiritual beliefs and traditions remain strong.
The bait: American Dream
The switch: you can never get there, but thank you for playing!
The switch: you can never get there, but thank you for playing!
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The bait: American Dream
The switch: you can never get there, but thank you for playing!
The switch: you can never get there, but thank you for playing!
National Socialism: all institutions, public and private, serve the interest of the (Nation) State.
November 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
National Socialism: all institutions, public and private, serve the interest of the (Nation) State.
100 thousand marched against the gold mining project in Kimsakocha. The permit had been revoked. The water will flow untouched and uncontaminated.
October 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
100 thousand marched against the gold mining project in Kimsakocha. The permit had been revoked. The water will flow untouched and uncontaminated.
Ancestral Wisdom
As darkness overtakes us from the east, we kindle a fire. Our fire doesn't banish the dark; it preserves the light. Around it we gather. We hold one another in respect. This is how we overcome the darkness: one circle of light, then another. And in time, the daylight returns.
As darkness overtakes us from the east, we kindle a fire. Our fire doesn't banish the dark; it preserves the light. Around it we gather. We hold one another in respect. This is how we overcome the darkness: one circle of light, then another. And in time, the daylight returns.
September 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Ancestral Wisdom
As darkness overtakes us from the east, we kindle a fire. Our fire doesn't banish the dark; it preserves the light. Around it we gather. We hold one another in respect. This is how we overcome the darkness: one circle of light, then another. And in time, the daylight returns.
As darkness overtakes us from the east, we kindle a fire. Our fire doesn't banish the dark; it preserves the light. Around it we gather. We hold one another in respect. This is how we overcome the darkness: one circle of light, then another. And in time, the daylight returns.
We are Us and Them
August 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
We are Us and Them
Power of Threefold
Life, like an instrument, needs to be kept in tune. When we emit with care, we don’t just shape ourselves, we shape the resonance of the world around us.
And when it comes back threefold, it’s the environment reminding us how powerful every gesture truly is.
#ForumMetaKosmos
Life, like an instrument, needs to be kept in tune. When we emit with care, we don’t just shape ourselves, we shape the resonance of the world around us.
And when it comes back threefold, it’s the environment reminding us how powerful every gesture truly is.
#ForumMetaKosmos
August 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Power of Threefold
Life, like an instrument, needs to be kept in tune. When we emit with care, we don’t just shape ourselves, we shape the resonance of the world around us.
And when it comes back threefold, it’s the environment reminding us how powerful every gesture truly is.
#ForumMetaKosmos
Life, like an instrument, needs to be kept in tune. When we emit with care, we don’t just shape ourselves, we shape the resonance of the world around us.
And when it comes back threefold, it’s the environment reminding us how powerful every gesture truly is.
#ForumMetaKosmos
Why Ayni?
At this late stage of my life, I feel called to live in reciprocity:
to seed harmony where discord has reigned.
My hope is simple:
that my friends, near and far,
might feel a resonance in their own lives.
Each circle becomes a muyu,
each gesture a seed of Ayllu Pacha—
a world community.
At this late stage of my life, I feel called to live in reciprocity:
to seed harmony where discord has reigned.
My hope is simple:
that my friends, near and far,
might feel a resonance in their own lives.
Each circle becomes a muyu,
each gesture a seed of Ayllu Pacha—
a world community.
August 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Why Ayni?
At this late stage of my life, I feel called to live in reciprocity:
to seed harmony where discord has reigned.
My hope is simple:
that my friends, near and far,
might feel a resonance in their own lives.
Each circle becomes a muyu,
each gesture a seed of Ayllu Pacha—
a world community.
At this late stage of my life, I feel called to live in reciprocity:
to seed harmony where discord has reigned.
My hope is simple:
that my friends, near and far,
might feel a resonance in their own lives.
Each circle becomes a muyu,
each gesture a seed of Ayllu Pacha—
a world community.
yachaymuyu.com/ayllu-pacha.... is live. Our first initiative is Ayllu Pacha: Global Community, recognizing restoration of reciprocity to community.
August 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
yachaymuyu.com/ayllu-pacha.... is live. Our first initiative is Ayllu Pacha: Global Community, recognizing restoration of reciprocity to community.
• The shamanic practices I’ve witnessed aren’t theatrical or symbolic
They’re methods of temporal alignment
All of it works to tune the mind, the body; the field of the self to a deeper current
A shaman doesn’t float through space...he listens across time
#ForumMetaKosmos
They’re methods of temporal alignment
All of it works to tune the mind, the body; the field of the self to a deeper current
A shaman doesn’t float through space...he listens across time
#ForumMetaKosmos
August 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
• The shamanic practices I’ve witnessed aren’t theatrical or symbolic
They’re methods of temporal alignment
All of it works to tune the mind, the body; the field of the self to a deeper current
A shaman doesn’t float through space...he listens across time
#ForumMetaKosmos
They’re methods of temporal alignment
All of it works to tune the mind, the body; the field of the self to a deeper current
A shaman doesn’t float through space...he listens across time
#ForumMetaKosmos
• I used to think spiritual practice was about seeking some higher state. But I’ve come to see it differently. It’s not about reaching up. It’s about tuning in. The practice is clearing interference, making space, honoring the moment I’m in, honoring the place I stand—and letting that be enough.
August 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
• I used to think spiritual practice was about seeking some higher state. But I’ve come to see it differently. It’s not about reaching up. It’s about tuning in. The practice is clearing interference, making space, honoring the moment I’m in, honoring the place I stand—and letting that be enough.
MetaKosmos is a transcendental paradigm—an open, integrative framework that defines the conditions for knowing reality. It affirms the value of science and mathematics while recognizing the limits of empiricism, uniting measurable phenomena within a continuous, coherent universe.
#ForumMetakosmos
#ForumMetakosmos
August 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
MetaKosmos is a transcendental paradigm—an open, integrative framework that defines the conditions for knowing reality. It affirms the value of science and mathematics while recognizing the limits of empiricism, uniting measurable phenomena within a continuous, coherent universe.
#ForumMetakosmos
#ForumMetakosmos
There is no better place than here.
This is the focus.
Here is anywhere you are.
This is the focus.
Here is anywhere you are.
August 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
There is no better place than here.
This is the focus.
Here is anywhere you are.
This is the focus.
Here is anywhere you are.
New Classes: Cuenca, Sundays Aug. 10, 17. 2-4 pm.
For those of us living in the Andes Mountains, these are things we all should know. Wisdom of the Kichwa Andinos.
Course Title: Pachakuti: Renewal through MetaKosmos. Contact me for details
Robert Marcom, Anthropologist, Author
For those of us living in the Andes Mountains, these are things we all should know. Wisdom of the Kichwa Andinos.
Course Title: Pachakuti: Renewal through MetaKosmos. Contact me for details
Robert Marcom, Anthropologist, Author
August 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
New Classes: Cuenca, Sundays Aug. 10, 17. 2-4 pm.
For those of us living in the Andes Mountains, these are things we all should know. Wisdom of the Kichwa Andinos.
Course Title: Pachakuti: Renewal through MetaKosmos. Contact me for details
Robert Marcom, Anthropologist, Author
For those of us living in the Andes Mountains, these are things we all should know. Wisdom of the Kichwa Andinos.
Course Title: Pachakuti: Renewal through MetaKosmos. Contact me for details
Robert Marcom, Anthropologist, Author
Happy birthday Sweetheart
July 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Happy birthday Sweetheart
I just signed a contract with Inner Traditions/Bear & Co. publishers for my book, Ikiam: Personal Encounters with the Physics of Spirit.
The deal is done.
The deal is done.
July 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I just signed a contract with Inner Traditions/Bear & Co. publishers for my book, Ikiam: Personal Encounters with the Physics of Spirit.
The deal is done.
The deal is done.