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(12 Aug - 01 Sept, 2008)
Aug 12, 2008: After Experimenting for Millenia
After experimenting for millennia with situations that alter our ways
of perceiving the world, the sorcerers from ancient Mexico discovered
a portentous fact: We are not forced to live in a single reality, because
the universe is constructed according to very fluid principles which can
accommodate almost infinite forms, producing countless ranges of perception.
"Starting from this verification, they deduced that what human beings
actually receive from outside is the ability to fix our attention in one
of those ranges, in order to explore and recognize it. We mould ourselves
to it and learn how to perceive it as something unique. This is how the
idea that we live in an exclusive world arose, and the feeling of being
an individual self was generated in consequence.
ENCOUNTERS WITH THE NAGUAL: Conversations with Carlos Castaneda
Aug 13, 2008: Articulated Spiritual Beliefs
I am less interested in people's articulated spiritual beliefs or
political philosophies and more interested in whether or not they are
true to themselves even when it costs them something, whether or not they
can be kind when it is easier to be indifferent, whether or not they can
remember that to be human is to be flawed and spectacular and deeply compassionate.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Aug 14, 2008: Attention
Because we are multidimensional living beings, we can perceive thousands
of things at the same time. Yet, one of the magical parts of being human
is that we have the ability to discriminate. We can screen out all the
perception that we do not choose to notice and focus on the perception
that we want to study. This power to choose one perception among millions
of possible stimuli and to focus upon it is what we call “attention”.
Victor Sanchez "The Toltec Path of Recapitulation: Healing Your
Past to free Your Soul"
Aug 18, 2008: The Subject Tonight
The subject tonight is Love
And for tomorrow night as well.
As a matter of fact I know of no better topic
For us to discuss
Until we all
Die!
Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky
Aug 19, 2008: Time Is a Sort of River
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current;
no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another
takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius
Aug 25, 2008: You Cannot Tell
You cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us..how we can take it, what we do with it..and that is what really counts in the end.
Joseph Fort Newton
Aug 26, 2008: Shamanism and the Source
During the storm though, a testing has taken place. Some lineages were outwardly broken, old ways were lost, forms were rigidified, some teachings degenerated. When one of my grandmothers, a keeper of the Light for her Northern Plains people and a guardian of the sacred lodge, died, she buried her medicine bundle. Rather than passing these objects-- symbols of her acquired powers--on to someone else, she let them die with her. No one of her tribe was prepared to carry on.
This same circumstance is recurring in many cases across the land. The loss of the old knowledge grieves me, and yet as I meditate more deeply upon it, it seems to be part of the testing that Mother--Father--Source is giving us right now.
The power that Grandmother held in her medicine bundle had come from the great Source in the first place. In this day and time, that Source is still available. The question is whether the new shamans are connected enough to It to bring back the Light once more. If we are not sufficiently connected, it is just as well that the bundle is not passed on. But if we are deeply in touch with the Source, we have broken through form into Spirit.
Brooke Medicine Eagle "Lineage of the Sun" in Shamanism
Aug 27, 2008: Few People
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which
differ from the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein
Aug 28, 2008: Perception
People tell us from the time we are born that the world is such and such and so and so, and naturally we have no choice but to accept that the world is the way people have been telling us it is.
Carlos Castaneda "Journey to Ixtlan"
Sept 01, 2008: Liking
An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked
himself. A warrior likes, that's all. He likes whatever or whomever he
wants, for the hell of it.
Carlos Castenada: "A Separate Reality"
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