Pacha = time and space

I'm a student of the Incan cosmovision and Quechua, an indigenous language family spoken primarily in regions of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia.

This devotion is not something I've spoken about a lot here, but that's changing. My studies in these realms have so deeply informed my life, relationships, creativity, my being as a whole. I pray that somehow I'm able to reciprocate the gift of this wisdom back to the land and its people.

To wet your whistle, here are a 3 nuggets to chew on:

🔸 In Quechua, there is no word for "end" or "ending." 

🔸 "Pacha" means space and time—an inseparable unit. 

🔸 "Pachamama" is used colloquially as a nickname for Mother Earth, but in fact means "mother of all space and time."

When you think about this last tidbit, it makes sense.

Everything we Earthlings know about both space and time are taught in the university of planet earth. She is the way we directly experience space and time. So the nickname makes sense, though is inaccurate without the larger context.

What we have here are 3 linguistic wormholes.

Simple at first glance.

Bewilderingly profound upon further investigation.

What are the implications of not having a linguistic method for indicating an ending?

How are space and time not only connected, but the same thing?

What exactly is planet earth teaching us about time?

Are you seeing what I see?

Are you seeing why I geek out so hard on this?

One final question:

If the language you use as a human being literally constructs your reality regarding time and space, what reality are you experiencing nowinside of your native tongue?

There's so much more to say and explore.

Let's do it together.

I'm teaching Time is Your Ally—a free 1-hour class where we'll turn over stones as we seek innovative solutions for the confinements of our modern-day time scarcity conundrum.