I’ve come to a crossroads in my spiritual practice after
reading Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now and
A New Earth. These readings have had such an impact on me
that I need to re-evaluate what I have learned thus far on the Toltec
path. What Tolle is trying to impart is
the foundation for all spiritual teachings including Toltecism. Only when you can be truly present and fully
aware can you grasp and use the techniques of the Toltecs. Most of what Don Juan was trying to impart
has its roots in this simple teaching.
The various exercises, techniques, situations, and practices that Carlos
experienced were all means to this end – accessing the power of now. Other ways of saying the same thing in Toltec
terms are: Stopping the World, Seeing, Intent,
Will, Losing Self-importance, erasing personal history, quieting your inner
thoughts, listening to the Spirit, tracking, gazing, using Death as an advisor,
living the life of a warrior, being impeccable, being in the second attention,
burning with the fire from within, the Totality of the Self, the loss of the
form, manipulation of the energy body/ assemblage point, and perhaps even
more. ALL of these ideas, concepts, and
practices are the same thing or at least they are so deeply entrenched within
total presence or ‘the power of now’ that they merge and become simply facets
of Being.
So, in light of this discovery I have decided to put this
meetup on hold for now. Once I have a
better grasp or have more fully accepted/ integrated this new truth, I will
assess my place within the Toltec path and determine whether I can still assist
others on this path. If you are
interested in taking over as group organizer, please email me.
Thank you for your time and participation in this group. May you find your own truths that open the
door to total freedom!
Tolle is for lightweights and beginners. Read some Henry Corbin. Read the Plotkin book I shared with you. Tolle isn't the source or basis, he is the dumb down for the masses. You are right about groups, though, they will never do you any good. Not unless Intent brings them to you, not the internet. The internet is just full of confused people. Piling them in a room does no one any good.
ReplyDeleteRemember too, that Castaneda founded a pretty nasty cult, and people killed themselves over it. Some of their bones were only recently found, out in the desert... Carlos did not die well. Every book, every teacher and every system is a trap. Be a smart rat and get the cheese and leave, so you keep both your head and the cheese.
ReplyDeleteI believe Spirit or Intent did just that with Tolle for me. You describe Tolle much like I described Miguel Ruiz and now I have a better grasp of how my ego was making me feel as if I’m “too good” for a particular person’s version of their truth. It is not whether the person is main stream or “dumbed down,” what matters is the essence of their teaching. Different things are needed to reach different people. I will no longer “diss” anybody’s “truth.” What matters is that these ideas are getting out there to the people - these ideas are being infused into the collective conscience. That is a beautiful thing, not something to judge or inflate the ego over.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree that it is never good to get “stuck in a rut” and that too much of anything is bad for you. I just feel blessed that I was given this gift and like all gifts of the Spirit, I hope to use it as it is intended.
Thank you for your input.
oh, in addition, groups can be very helpful. It is quite beneficial to be around others who vibrate at a similar frequency - or share your same ideas. Some of these teachings can be quite radical for our modern society, so it's nice to be around others who don't think you’re crazy or should be locked up. :)
DeleteRuiz is flat out idiocy, deliberately created and marketed to be appealing to people who did't like the taint of drugs about CC. Deliberately dumbed down and engineered for 80's New Age and not 70's counter culture. And sell Ruiz has SOLD... "The Sorcerer is alone with Intent" : Don Juan did not go about getting groups through ads. If you aren't discriminating about what you study accept, you waste your energy in inaction and the mindless-ness of the New Age abyss. "Dis" you MUST! Critical thinking is vital, essential and healthy. I "dis" everything, even if only to test its current worth to myself. Turn your beliefs inside out, autopsy them! "Doubt, doubt then doubt even doubt! This is part of the "ruthlessness" of Nagualism. We don't and should not be fluffy little bunnies always encouraging people even when they are being foolish.
ReplyDeleteRemember how valuable "petty tyrants" are to Don Juan?
To be a philosopher is to take to the road, never settling down in some place of satisfaction with a theory of the world, not even a place of reformation, nor of some illusory transformation of the conditions of this world. It aims for self-transformation, for the inner metamorphosis, which is implied by the notion of a new or spiritual rebirth. The adventure of the mystical philosopher is essentially seen as a voyage which progresses towards the Light. - The Theme of the Voyage and the Messenger, 140
The Post-Larval Must Be Very Cautious in Communicating with Larval Humans
ReplyDeleteExo-psychology holds that the human larval exists in a reality defined by the four survival imprints. Although the brain receives 100 million impulses a second, mundane consciousness is limited to signals which have been conditioned to one of the four imprinted game-boards. Unconditioned sensations, the raw swirl of an unfiltered reality, exist as background noise.
In communicating with larvals the following points must, therefore, be remembered:
The larval has no interest in you, you do not exist, unless you can hook into Hir limited reality-island, transmit on Hir narrow mind-band, unless your behavior offers meaning in terms of possible benefit or threat to Hir:
cellular well being
emotional-hierarchical status
artifact manipulation game
socio-sexual security; domestic reassurance
All larval interactions are instrumental to one of the four survival attitudes. Larvals are comfortably adapted to this limited four-channel communication, scan automatically for the survival meaning of each stimulus and scuttle by each other like ants, each intent on Hir own "reality" - reacting automatically to relevant cues from others.
Larval communication occurs in terms of four systems, some of which are comprehensible to the entire species, some of which are limited to members of the same cultural-imprint group.
Larvals do not like to receive information unless the facts fit into their 3rd Circuit reality net and immediately reward their emotional status. Democrats were delighted to hear the facts about Nixon, but Republicans were irritated and resistant.
Larvals submit themselves to learn new symbols only under special motivational circumstances where the new connections build on and confirm established systems or give promise of future emotional rewards of which the teacher is model.
Larvals fervently resist new symbols which require a change in their network of associations. This resistance to learning is not psychological; it is neurological and biochemical. New ideas require a change in the wiring of associations and literally cause a "headache."
Communicating with a larval involves building onto the net of associations. You must literally wire each new idea to an existing neural connection. Larvals learn almost no new symbol systems after childhood. They simply add on or translate into symbols closely connected to the imprint. This accounts for the fact that it takes at least one generation for a new idea to be understood.
It is especially important in communicating with larvals to remember that few symbols now exist for post-larval processes.
You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars.
Circuit 4 language involves domestic-moral and social values. Here we discover that there are great cultural differences. The basic sperm-egg invitations to orgasm are, of course, global, but the semantics of displacement, inhibition and sublimation become subtle. Indeed, the individuality, intimacy, specificity, inconsistency and volatility of value symbols requires the greatest caution on the part of post-larvals communicating with yokels.
Most larvals live in terror of being seen as sinful or "bad." Constant reassurance is required to maintain the feeling of being socially approved.
In communicating with larvals about sexual, philosophic, or ethical matters, one enters very dangerous terrain. It is almost impossible to discuss philosophy with yokels. Hypocrisy, unconscious motivation, irrational paradox, need for approval and fear-of-shame dominate every discussion of philosophy-religion.
Larvals may be bored by and may tune-out Circuit 3 symbols which do not fit their imprints and conditioned networks. But Circuit 4 moral symbols or behaviors which are sensed as different trigger off responses of passion and even violence. Because of this philosophic sensitivity, yokel humans tend to avoid philosophic discussions.
Larvals may be bored by and may tune-out Circuit 3 symbols which do not fit their imprints and conditioned networks. But Circuit 4 moral symbols or behaviors which are sensed as different trigger off responses of passion and even violence. Because of this philosophic sensitivity, yokel humans tend to avoid philosophic discussions.
ReplyDeleteThis phobia can cause painful reactions when a post-larval attempts to discuss exo-psychology with a mundane.
The reasons for this philosophic phobia:
1. Yokels are ignorant about where life came from, where it is going and why. They are thus terrified by their mortality. Each larval has accepted a flimsy philosophy of life-and-death which SHe does not really believe. Thus the irritation and panic when this basic hypocrisy is threatened by a scientific discussion about life-origin and life destination.
"The Lutheran church has always been based on the Bible," explains Phil Beck, Production Manager of a local paint company and the superintendent of the Church's Sunday School. "If you start questioning it, where do you stop? If I have to have that much education to sit down and understand Genesis, then why did God let Luther put it in the people's language? At what point do I throw the whole mad mess out the door?" Time magazine
2. Yokels are robot-slaves to DNA. They blindly labor to perpetuate the species, to breed, to establish domestic arrangements for rearing young and to transmit cultural survival patterns. Any discussion which threatens to expose or question this robothood is extremely painful. The larval cannot tolerate the insight into uneasy areas of uncertainty.
3. Expression and inhibition of sexual behavior is charged with terror, because orgasm and sperm-egg transfer must be domesticated to provide for stable child rearing.
In communicating with larvals one must realize that discussions about life, death, philosophic ultimates, child-rearing, sexuality - are highly individualistic. Reactions to these topics are unpredictable, depending on the intimacy and safety of the situation.
Hypocrisy and violent defensiveness is endemic.
Post-terrestrials, of course, think of little else except what happens after larval imprints are retracted. They are fascinated by communications with their body, their brain, their DNA.
ReplyDeletePost-larvals emit vibrations which sometimes disturb yokels and other times seduce them into a temporary abandonment of philosophic repressions.
Post-terrestrials are usually funny, erotic, relativistic and philosophically provocative. Yokels can unconsciously sense the difference in a post-terrestrial. It is therefore advisable to be accurate and sensitive when interacting with larvals.
One must be careful not to seduce the yokel into betraying too much truth.
During a philosophic discussion with post-terrestrials, larvals will often get carried away in temporary enthusiasm, confess doubt about their cosmologies, admit ethical relativities and even accept post-larval strivings to leave the planet and escape death.
The post-terrestrial is urged to act with delicacy to avoid any overt or implied criticism of yokel values. It must be remembered that, to the larval, astronomy and genetics involve 4th Circuit ethical issues, which threaten loss of moral approval.
Discussing exo-psychology with a yokel is like discussing sexual experiences with a pre-adolescent. SHe just can't understand the new reality because Hir neural circuits have not been turned-on. And SHe may turn you in for philosophic child-molesting.
Sooner or later the larval is going to realize that, after the exciting flight conversation, SHe is going to remain grounded. At this point the yokel can become passionately moralistic, attacking the post-terrestrial for being elitist, callous to human suffering, anti-human, escapist, or even diabolical.
Immortals must be careful not to wound the sensibilities of mortals.
In particular, one must be diplomatic in discussing the future evolution of the human species. Larval humans naturally believe that evolution has already reached its highest stage with homo sapiens!
Circuit 7 discussions which suggest that evolution is just half-completed, that the human species is fetal and not yet born, that many new superior species will evolve from the present gene pool - are especially wounding to yokel hubris.
Science fiction writers and astronomers have often speculated on the problem of communication between human and interstellar entities. This problem is no longer academic. It is happening. This book is an example.
Post-terrestrials Must Also Be Cautious In Communicating with Premature Post-larvals
"The Hippy" and the "Yogi-Body Engineer" represent the first two of twelve post-terrestrial stages, transitional stages of "wingless butterflies," evolved beyond terrestrial attachments, no longer hooked to mundane symbols. The one-G earth and its survival routines are no longer "real." The Hippie-Zen adept is no longer reflexively reactive to emotional status cues, is unmotivated for dexterous success and unmoved by the virtue-shame systems by which society domesticates its workers; but has not yet evolved to the mastery of the newly activated circuits. The true post-terrestrial is shame-less.
The word "Hippy" is a generic term for the first post-larval stages describing those who genetically (Zodiac type) , neurologically (imprint) or historically (hedonic/sub-cultures) get trapped in passive-receptive hedonic life styles. Transcendental masturbation.
The first post-Hiroshima generation has produced millions of Zen "Hippies" who have evolved from the mundane but do not realize that they are extra-terrestrial.
The problem is, in part, one of historical linguistics. The only languages, the only symbols provided by primitive psychology for extramundane experiences were "larval religious." The new reality of the Hippy is symbolized by vague, mystical terms.
A communication vacuum develops. On the one hand, The Hippy, Yogi and Tantric relaizes that SHe has evolved somehow. On the other hand, the five-brained person, detached from larval symbols, lurches around grasping at any transcendental straw - magic, occultism, chanting, witchcraft, telepathy, guru-ism, mystical Christianity, Hassidism, experimental evangelism, the endless varieties of oriental charlatanism.
ReplyDeleteThe trap of body-consciousness and sensory consumerism has been well summarized by Federico Fellini:
"People are losing faith in the future. Our [larval] education, unfortunately, molded us for a life that was always tensed towards a series of achievements - school, military service, a career and, as a grand finale, the encounter with the heavenly father. But now that our tomorrows no longer appear in that optimistic perspective, we are left with a feeling of impotence and fear. People who can no longer believe in a "better tomorrow" logically tend to behave with a desperate egotism. They are preoccupied with protecting, brutally if necessary, those little personal gains, one's little body, one's little sensual appetites. To me this is the most dangerous feature of the '70's"
Five-brained persons flopping around sporadically detached from mundane imprints, lacking a vocabulary and a methedology for extra-terrestrial movement, fall back on larval concepts of transcendence. Caterpillar fantasies about what post-larval life will be like.
A warning is in order. Many five-brained Hippies and Yogis are the most vehement opponents of extra-terrestrial evolution. They use three bland sets of criteria to resist practical plans for interstellar migration:
Look within. Astral travel, passive changing of consciousness will transport us to the promised land.
Return to nature. Back to the paleolithic! Simplify, avoid technology, stalk the wild asparagus, rely on body wisdom, organic purity, sensory pleasure.
All is one. The cosmos is a homogenous mist of flavorless cotton-candy. Exo-psychology and neurogenetics are attacked as unnatural, elitist attempts to differentiate the vanilla-pudding unity of simplistic Hinduism, Buddhism, u.s.w.
Underlying all three of these occult postures is a revulsion against science, technology, evolution and intellectual competence. Implicit in the occultist theory is the assumption that there is nothing left to learn except to rote-memorize some Hindu chants, to rote-recite some glib theosophical dogmas, to quiet the restless inquiring mind.
The three stages of the neurosomatic circuit - 13. Hippy, 14. Yogi, 15. Tantric - are body-oriented and involve a deliberate symbol-stupidity. It is understandable that the five-brained person reacts against the insectoid-cyborg materialism of larval technology, the scientism that produces plastic consumerism, military-industrialism, assembly-line anonomie, and polluted over-population. But the rejection of scientific inquiry becomes a know-nothing smugness. Occultists become long-haired rednecks.
The evidence from astronomy, bio-chemistry, genetics, nuclear-physics, defines the true frontier of philosophy and religion. Scientific American is more "far-out" than any occult magazine, the Periodic Table of Elements more prophetic than the Tarot deck. The nucleus of the atom is a realm more mysterious and omnicient than any theological fantasy. The cosmology of an expanding-universe-riddled-with-Black-Holes more bizarre than the eschatologies of Dante, Homer and Ramayana.
A communication vacuum develops. On the one hand, The Hippy, Yogi and Tantric relaizes that SHe has evolved somehow. On the other hand, the five-brained person, detached from larval symbols, lurches around grasping at any transcendental straw - magic, occultism, chanting, witchcraft, telepathy, guru-ism, mystical Christianity, Hassidism, experimental evangelism, the endless varieties of oriental charlatanism.
A warning is in order. Many five-brained Hippies and Yogis are the most vehement opponents of extra-terrestrial evolution. They use three bland sets of criteria to resist practical plans for interstellar migration:
ReplyDeleteLook within. Astral travel, passive changing of consciousness will transport us to the promised land.
Return to nature. Back to the paleolithic! Simplify, avoid technology, stalk the wild asparagus, rely on body wisdom, organic purity, sensory pleasure.
All is one. The cosmos is a homogenous mist of flavorless cotton-candy. Exo-psychology and neurogenetics are attacked as unnatural, elitist attempts to differentiate the vanilla-pudding unity of simplistic Hinduism, Buddhism, u.s.w.
Underlying all three of these occult postures is a revulsion against science, technology, evolution and intellectual competence. Implicit in the occultist theory is the assumption that there is nothing left to learn except to rote-memorize some Hindu chants, to rote-recite some glib theosophical dogmas, to quiet the restless inquiring mind.
The three stages of the neurosomatic circuit - 13. Hippy, 14. Yogi, 15. Tantric - are body-oriented and involve a deliberate symbol-stupidity. It is understandable that the five-brained person reacts against the insectoid-cyborg materialism of larval technology, the scientism that produces plastic consumerism, military-industrialism, assembly-line anonomie, and polluted over-population. But the rejection of scientific inquiry becomes a know-nothing smugness. Occultists become long-haired rednecks.
The evidence from astronomy, bio-chemistry, genetics, nuclear-physics, defines the true frontier of philosophy and religion. Scientific American is more "far-out" than any occult magazine, the Periodic Table of Elements more prophetic than the Tarot deck. The nucleus of the atom is a realm more mysterious and omnicient than any theological fantasy. The cosmology of an expanding-universe-riddled-with-Black-Holes more bizarre than the eschatologies of Dante, Homer and Ramayana.
Despite this noble rejection of the artificial, the Hippie-Yogi-Tantric establishment is an entrenched, self-indulgent block to evolution - a transitional stage preparatory to planetary migration.
We see the limitations of neurosomatic contelligence most clearly in the teachings of don Juan. Castaneda's warrior-sorcerers are admirable in their dignified, humorous, disciplined attempts to retract social imprints. Don Juan has worked out an accurate, metaphorical neurologic. He precisely defines the larval-imprint reality-island (tonal) and the direct experience of the nagual.
But don Juan's philosophy is pessimistic: "There are no survivors on this earth." It fails to evolve to Stage 15 neurosomatic linkage: "And then I was alone," is the bleak conclusion.
The first post-Hiroshima generation was truly a lost generation. Liberated from yokel imprints but with no place to go beyond body geography. The cynicism and malaise of the 1970's is the result of this disillusion.
For these reasons the exo-psychologist must speak with caution in communicating with the members of the "Woodstock" generation. They have imprinted their bodies but are too old and set in their ways (at age 25-35) [when this was written] to receive the neurophysical signals for extra-terrestrial migration.
. . .
This transmission flashes a different signal for the seven percent who we assume are DNA-designed to attain biological immortality, leave the womb-planet, become galactic citizens and fuse with superior interstellar entities.
This manual is not designed for conventional author-reader games.
It is a signal for mutation.
A test of intelligence.
A scan for personal power.
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DeleteYet for those who have not fully developed their Intent or are just starting out along this path, being in a group can be inspiring, informative, and supportive. And technology has provided a most efficient way of putting the masses in touch = the internet. We are all on different spots along our perspective paths and sometimes the fluffy stuff is just what some (not all or even many) people need as a beginning step, a ‘baby step’ one might say. These baby steps open up the beginnings for further research, more advanced authors, teachings, more analytical thought, branching out, and yes - reservation. Without these tools that you are condemning, I would not have been introduced to you, the vast knowledge that you have to offer, or the recommendations you have given me. A drowning man should not let the canoe, which is here now, pass him by in hope of the yacht which may or may not come in the future.
ReplyDeleteI do not claim to be a philosopher. I only wish to share with others in the fullness of Life and Being.
I appreciate your passion and thank you for sharing your opinions and insight in these matters. Perhaps one day our paths will cross in the physical plane. I believe it would be an instructive experience.