07-30-2010, 12:00 AM
dreamways wrote:LatinRonin wrote:
As a side note, I should add that one could hold a great number of good spirit lineages.
I don't think that statement makes any sense at all. The whole point of a lineage is that it is your true path, so there is just one. Lineages are not like Pokemon cards that you collect and trade. You don't "hold" a lineage, it holds you. Next thing you know, people will be trying to sell lineages on the internet, maybe a framed certificate of acceptance that you can get for $10 each....you can then hold them all.It goes both ways. One is part of a lineage and one holds a lineage. A nagual is the living line. The nagual is the lineage. Without a nagual, the line ends. CC was the end of his particular nagual lineage, though Don Juan Matus is still around in the subtle.
You can have a main spirit lineage but explore (and be part of) others as well. This is beyond tonal ambition and spiritual materialism. It's about learning and growing, for those who want it.
People already sells lineages, from times inmemorial. That's what I personally regard as being a spiritual whore, for the "nagual/guru/teacher" is selling something that it's not his to sell.
A nagual is an instrument of Power, not the other way around.
As a side note, I should add that one could hold a great number of good spirit lineages.
I don't think that statement makes any sense at all. The whole point of a lineage is that it is your true path, so there is just one. Lineages are not like Pokemon cards that you collect and trade. You don't "hold" a lineage, it holds you. Next thing you know, people will be trying to sell lineages on the internet, maybe a framed certificate of acceptance that you can get for $10 each....you can then hold them all.It goes both ways. One is part of a lineage and one holds a lineage. A nagual is the living line. The nagual is the lineage. Without a nagual, the line ends. CC was the end of his particular nagual lineage, though Don Juan Matus is still around in the subtle.
You can have a main spirit lineage but explore (and be part of) others as well. This is beyond tonal ambition and spiritual materialism. It's about learning and growing, for those who want it.
People already sells lineages, from times inmemorial. That's what I personally regard as being a spiritual whore, for the "nagual/guru/teacher" is selling something that it's not his to sell.
A nagual is an instrument of Power, not the other way around.