My Story
From Bogotá to India and Thailand, and from the awakening to the Descent
IN SHORT
More than sixty thousand hours of meditation. Almost two decades living and studying in Asia: twelve and a half years in India and eight in Thailand. Initiation in Kriya Yoga, shaktipat, Vedic meditation and the Kalachakra. An awakening to the Self, I Am That, that has not reversed in nearly thirty years.
And then, much later, the descent: Consciousness entering the body as fire, then as cool fire, settling in the root. The Flame Codex was born inside that descent.
A life of practice
This work did not begin as a book. It began as a life. I grew up in Bogotá in a hard home, and the void it left in my heart became the beginning of a spiritual path: I needed to find something, though I did not know what. For most of my life the central question was not academic. It was a wound and a fire.
My way into Asia opened at twenty-three, through a meditation course that Bob Fickes was teaching in Thailand. There I spent a year learning ancient meditation techniques, meditating sixteen to twenty hours a day. In India I lived twelve and a half years and studied Ayurvedic medicine, graduating as a Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Science (B.A.M.S.) and receiving the title of Vachaspati, known in the West as MD in Ayurveda. In Thailand, all together, I lived eight years. Almost two decades in Asia.
I have sat in meditation for more than sixty thousand hours. I have initiated more than twelve thousand people into different systems of meditation, and I have spent more than twenty years in healing rooms, seeing the same pattern again and again: what feels like reality itself turns out to be a cage, and beneath the cage something alive remains.
THE PATH, YEAR BY YEAR
A timeline
- 1971Born in Bogotá, Colombia.
- 1991I travel to England, where I study Celtic magic with RJ Stuart.
- Age 23A meditation course that Bob Fickes was teaching in Thailand opens the door to Asia.
- 1996Bali, Indonesia: I train as a teacher of bija mantra meditation.
- 1998Mahayana Buddhism with the monk and master Kruba Wom. The Atharva Veda in New Delhi. In India I practise yoga and meditation and study Ayurvedic medicine.
- 2000I study beside Dr. Reddy Kumar, today a friend and a respected Ayurvedic physician in India.
- 2001Pilgrimage to the Kumbh Mela.
- 2004–2010Thailand: I live in San Kamphaeng, very close to Me Pat, a channel of the Medicine Buddha since she was eighteen, who teaches healing through the devas and the angelic presences. I learn and work beside her until 2010.
- 2006I receive the Kalachakra empowerment from His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
- 2013Doctorate in Natural Medicine and Doctorate in Humanitarian Services, World Organization of Natural Medicine.
- 2014PhD in Quantum Medicine, a doctorate the university prepared especially for me. Since then, my clinic in Weston, Florida: today Spiritual Balance.
- 2022Health Sciences Awards, Santander, Spain: Leader in Research and Health Sciences for the Benefit of Mankind.
- 2025Dhanwantari Award, AAPNA. The first journey to Thailand with a group.
- 2025–2026From 29 March 2025 to 26 January 2026, the year of the Incarnate Flame. From the Descent, the Flame Codex is born.
The masters and the streams
- Ramana Maharshi and Papaji: the direct nondual path. Turn inward and discover what you truly are. Not as belief. As recognition.
- Kriya Yoga: through Lahiri Mahasaya, Sri Yukteswar, Paramahansa Yogananda and Paramahamsa Hariharananda, who initiated me and with whom I meditated for more than a year in his house in Kendall, Florida. «Meditate, meditate, meditate and become aware of God.»
- Vedic meditation: through Bob Fickes, a teacher who became a brother and a friend.
- Shaktipat: through the living stream of Shri Dhyanyogi Madhusudandas: awakening as transmission, current and inner fire.
- Buddhism: with master Chen Yen Lu; Mahayana with the monk Kruba Wom; a long friendship with the monk Kruba Tuang; and the Kalachakra empowerment of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
- Healing with the devas: beside Me Pat, a channel of the Medicine Buddha, in Thailand.
- The Western streams: Celtic magic with RJ Stuart in England, and the teachings of Elizabeth Prophet and Luis de la Lama.
- Embodied awakening: Saniel Bonder, Phil Servedio and Nick Arjuna Ardagh, in whose presence I awakened.
- Sunburst: Norman Paulsen, through the Sun Meditation, who refined my Kriya practice.
I name these streams with gratitude, not as a claim of endorsement. They prepared the vessel. Life tested the vessel.
The awakening
It opened in stages. On a night of meditation on the central stone of the Great Pyramid the kundalini rose along my spine, and a blue pearl in my chest kept asking «Who am I?», and something within answered, every time, «You are.» Eight months later, in the most ordinary moment: the mind has no being of its own.
Then I saw that my tireless search had built a new identity, the seeker, and I gave it up. I put away the books, took down the altars, went to work as an engineer and let everything rest. On my birthday, in a simple exercise at Arjuna’s seminar, my heart opened into I Am That, and I laughed: «It can’t be that easy.» One with everything, without separation.
Illumination: the nondual teaching
The vessel must be transformed
The vessel was transformed through life: years in Asia, years of practice and healing work, and years of real trial, seasons that were neither peaceful nor luminous. Those years taught me that discernment is not optional, that spiritual power without humility is dangerous, and that the deepest service is not to make people believe in you, but to return them to their own light.
The Descent of the Flame
For twenty-eight years I lived from the recognition of nondual consciousness. Over the years I understood that this awakening still had a depth to reveal. I call that movement the Descent of the Flame. It came by Grace, after many years of practice, devotion and integration, without my being able to program it: a presence asking for room within my humanity, in the mind, in the heart, in vitality and, in an especially deep way, in the root.
MY WORK
Healing, teaching and accompanying
I am the originator of Quantum Transformation, the system I created to guide the soul to purify itself, unblock its energy and reconnect with the Spirit. I direct Spiritual Balance, my clinic in Weston, Florida, where I integrate Ayurvedic, natural and quantum medicine with biofeedback, bio-resonance and GDV technology, and where people arrive from many parts of the world.
I developed Archangelical Touch, an energy system that helps people channel the energy of the five elements and the different rays of the spectrum. My doctoral thesis was on the transformation of negative archetypes into positive archetypes, and it is used in therapy. For many years I have worked in the cleansing of cellular memory.
I am board-certified in biofeedback and certified by the board of natural medicine of North America. I am also a reverend.
Some years ago, one of my patients shared their testimony of life on a well-known national program in the United States, telling how their health had been transformed. That story touched many people.
During the long lockdown of the pandemic I offered emotional support through social media to the people who were affected, reminding them that connecting with themselves helps us pass through depression and anxiety.
What I do not claim
I am not special. I am not chosen. I am a finite form through which the Divine is coming to know itself. What I share is not for making anyone a master; it is for returning each person to the light they never lost.
The root is the throne. The heart is the love. The crown is the knowing.