06-19-2012, 12:10 AM
Letter from Bob
Dear Tensegrity Practitioners,
What a strange paradox! Every warrior on the path of knowledge thinks, at one time or another, that he's learning sorcery, but all he's doing is allowing himself to be convinced of the power hidden in his being, and that he can reach it.
Carlos Castaneda
My name is Robert Savery and I have been practicing Tensegrity since 1994. For most of those years I have been a representative of Cleargreen and an instructor of Magical Passes. It is from my heart and with immeasurable gratitude and affection that I disagree with the path that Cleargreen has chosen to take. In my view Cleargreen Inc. today no longer serves the mass of practitioners, so I am resigning from representing it.
I did not want to be the one to write this letter, or to give up my cherished position as a Cleargreen instructor. I could easily sit by and let things take their course, but in the silence I hear a clear purpose and the intent of the Nagual.
Many of my cohorts agree that in the last few years there has been a struggle for control and power that is so far from where we all want to be, from where we all have been dreaming to be. Laugan productions and Cleargreen Inc. have been hiring lawyers and copywriting under their name all the workshop materials from the last 13 years that have been co-created amongst many of us. Inside Cleargreen we have become a hierarchy with a corporate view of money and power that is ready to bring a lawsuit on anyone who stands in the way. I can promise you that Carlos Castaneda would have closed Cleargeen offices years ago.
I am very thankful that Cleargreen has served the amazing purpose of co-guiding the teachings of the students of Don Juan and helping to create a mass of loving, sober and very awake practitioners all around the world. Carlos Castaneda left behind the dream of a mass of practitioners, in a structure of Tensegrity, which by definition is a system that functions through interdependence and not hierarchy. In my view, Cleargreen has lost sight of the power and inherent wisdom of the mass of practitioners to co-create how the teachings of the Nagual are navigated. In this parting of the ways, there is in fact deep disagreement of this relationship of Cleargreen and practitioners, where Cleargreen views practitioners more as corporate clients rather than equal members of the Tensegrity structure.
There is a naturally growing movement among the practitioners of the world to self organize low cost events where they can invite any instructor they wish. It is very likely, judging from previous events like One Earth, that Cleargreen will not support this natural organic organization of practitioners, and that one way they will combat it is through offering some practitioner organizers positions in the hierarchy in order to gain their support of Cleargreen, as it is now being set-up. I see the current approach of Cleargreen to be one of power concentrated in two or three people who believe that they alone have the final word on how the teachings of the Nagual and this path of knowledge should be shared. In spite of this, it is my hope and trust that the power and intent of the current vibrating force in the Tensegrity community will hold strong as it takes this next step into becoming its own nature; that each of us in this powerful mass of practitioners will not give up this dream and will claim what is ours.
Carlos Castaneda said many times that we do not have a Don Juan Matus to move our assemblage point, but we have the mass of practitioners, and that IS the Nagual. He said many times that he did not want us to follow a leader but to follow Intent. He also said that the mass of practitioners creates an "energetic platform" of heightened awareness. "There are no advanced practitioners - only action." We are ready and the time is now! No one holds the key to our salvation.
It was my hope that the maneuvers of Cleargreen Inc. and Laugan Productions to shift the internal structure of Cleargreen, including cutting themselves off from Miles and Aerin, was not from self-interest, and that my beloved cohorts would see their folly. My understanding of their current view is that the teachings of the Nagual, and all of the tracking and gathering of knowledge for the last 13 years is theirs to copyright and have control over its future course. Even the direct apprentices of Carlos Castaneda are being threatened by lawsuits if they try to teach what they were given. Are you kidding me?! I can only speak for myself, but I know that this concern is shared by other direct apprentices, previous Tensegrity instructors, and many long time practitioners. We are volunteers that have given our hearts and creativity to this path that belongs to all of us.
A year ago I moved back from Los Angeles to Hawaii, and it is here that I have had a chance to step back in this land of Aloha and get a new view; one that you are reading here. My heart is with you all and I feel that we will soon gather together as a vibrating mass of awareness. As the Nagual reminded us over and over, "We are beings that are going to die" and as such we can each trust the voice of the seer within to guide us as individuals, and as an energetic structure bound together by the immense affection we have for each other.
Onward,
Robert Savery
09.04.2010
Dear Tensegrity Practitioners,
What a strange paradox! Every warrior on the path of knowledge thinks, at one time or another, that he's learning sorcery, but all he's doing is allowing himself to be convinced of the power hidden in his being, and that he can reach it.
Carlos Castaneda
My name is Robert Savery and I have been practicing Tensegrity since 1994. For most of those years I have been a representative of Cleargreen and an instructor of Magical Passes. It is from my heart and with immeasurable gratitude and affection that I disagree with the path that Cleargreen has chosen to take. In my view Cleargreen Inc. today no longer serves the mass of practitioners, so I am resigning from representing it.
I did not want to be the one to write this letter, or to give up my cherished position as a Cleargreen instructor. I could easily sit by and let things take their course, but in the silence I hear a clear purpose and the intent of the Nagual.
Many of my cohorts agree that in the last few years there has been a struggle for control and power that is so far from where we all want to be, from where we all have been dreaming to be. Laugan productions and Cleargreen Inc. have been hiring lawyers and copywriting under their name all the workshop materials from the last 13 years that have been co-created amongst many of us. Inside Cleargreen we have become a hierarchy with a corporate view of money and power that is ready to bring a lawsuit on anyone who stands in the way. I can promise you that Carlos Castaneda would have closed Cleargeen offices years ago.
I am very thankful that Cleargreen has served the amazing purpose of co-guiding the teachings of the students of Don Juan and helping to create a mass of loving, sober and very awake practitioners all around the world. Carlos Castaneda left behind the dream of a mass of practitioners, in a structure of Tensegrity, which by definition is a system that functions through interdependence and not hierarchy. In my view, Cleargreen has lost sight of the power and inherent wisdom of the mass of practitioners to co-create how the teachings of the Nagual are navigated. In this parting of the ways, there is in fact deep disagreement of this relationship of Cleargreen and practitioners, where Cleargreen views practitioners more as corporate clients rather than equal members of the Tensegrity structure.
There is a naturally growing movement among the practitioners of the world to self organize low cost events where they can invite any instructor they wish. It is very likely, judging from previous events like One Earth, that Cleargreen will not support this natural organic organization of practitioners, and that one way they will combat it is through offering some practitioner organizers positions in the hierarchy in order to gain their support of Cleargreen, as it is now being set-up. I see the current approach of Cleargreen to be one of power concentrated in two or three people who believe that they alone have the final word on how the teachings of the Nagual and this path of knowledge should be shared. In spite of this, it is my hope and trust that the power and intent of the current vibrating force in the Tensegrity community will hold strong as it takes this next step into becoming its own nature; that each of us in this powerful mass of practitioners will not give up this dream and will claim what is ours.
Carlos Castaneda said many times that we do not have a Don Juan Matus to move our assemblage point, but we have the mass of practitioners, and that IS the Nagual. He said many times that he did not want us to follow a leader but to follow Intent. He also said that the mass of practitioners creates an "energetic platform" of heightened awareness. "There are no advanced practitioners - only action." We are ready and the time is now! No one holds the key to our salvation.
It was my hope that the maneuvers of Cleargreen Inc. and Laugan Productions to shift the internal structure of Cleargreen, including cutting themselves off from Miles and Aerin, was not from self-interest, and that my beloved cohorts would see their folly. My understanding of their current view is that the teachings of the Nagual, and all of the tracking and gathering of knowledge for the last 13 years is theirs to copyright and have control over its future course. Even the direct apprentices of Carlos Castaneda are being threatened by lawsuits if they try to teach what they were given. Are you kidding me?! I can only speak for myself, but I know that this concern is shared by other direct apprentices, previous Tensegrity instructors, and many long time practitioners. We are volunteers that have given our hearts and creativity to this path that belongs to all of us.
A year ago I moved back from Los Angeles to Hawaii, and it is here that I have had a chance to step back in this land of Aloha and get a new view; one that you are reading here. My heart is with you all and I feel that we will soon gather together as a vibrating mass of awareness. As the Nagual reminded us over and over, "We are beings that are going to die" and as such we can each trust the voice of the seer within to guide us as individuals, and as an energetic structure bound together by the immense affection we have for each other.
Onward,
Robert Savery
09.04.2010