07-11-2012, 12:00 AM
DoktorGreen wrote:The following are exerpts from the teachings of the Toltec Path of Freedom. I post this to help folks understand that they cannot add the wisdom and power of the teaching to their current life... it must replace their life completely. Such is the sacrifice for power..
Dok
Most of the Truths of Awareness are based upon the act of perception and the way in which this takes place. The whole mystery of perception can be summarized in the following nine precepts:
1-The universe consists of an infinite number of energy fields resembling threads of light.
2-These threadlike energy fields radiate from a source of unimaginable dimensions metaphorically called the Eagle. As such these energy fields are known as the Eagle's Emanations.
3-Human beings are likewise composed of the same infinite number of these threadlike energy fields which manifest in the shape of a large luminous egg. The height of this egg is equal to the length of a man's body with his arms fully extended above his head on the vertical axis, and its width is that of a man with his arms extended outwards from the centre of his body along the horizontal axis. This egg is known as the cocoon of man.
4-Only a small group of the energy fields inside the cocoon are lit up at any one time by a brilliant point of light located on the surface of the cocoon.
5-Perception takes place when the energy fields which are illuminated by the point of light extend their light to illuminate corresponding energy fields outside the cocoon. This point of light is termed the point where perception is assembled, normally abbreviated to the assemblage point.
6-It is possible to shift the assemblage point to any other position on the surface of the cocoon, or even into its interior. Because the assemblage point illuminates any energy fields with which it comes into contact, the new energy fields it illuminates as a result of such shifting constitute therefore a new perception. It is this new level of perception that is known as seeing.
7-When the assemblage point shifts sufficiently far a totally new world is perceived, which is as real as the one man normally perceives.
8-There is a mysterious force known as intent which exists throughout the entire universe. It is this force which brings about perception, for it is intent which, firstly, aligns the energy fields, and secondly, causes awareness of that alignment.
9-The goal of warriors is to experience all possible perceptions available to man. This constitutes what is known as Total Awareness, inherent within which is an alternate way of dying.
Most people simply cannot conceive that they will ever have enough personal power to enable them to perceive alternative worlds, much less to access those worlds. In spite of the fact that it is the birthright of man to have power, there is no easy or miraculous way in which to acquire it. Superstition may have led many to believe in the existence of so-called supernatural power, and the use of ritual and hallucinogenic drugs may, at times, afford the person a brief glimpse of alternative states of reality, but at the end of the day there is only one true power, which, far from being supernatural, is as natural as anything else in nature. Being completely natural, the power does not suddenly materialize like lightning, but has to be painstakingly cultivated and harnessed like any other product of nature. Although there are seers who have so much power that they can work miracles, that power was not gained through any so-called supernatural process, but is instead the product of a great deal of hard work over an untold number of lifetimes. Anyone who desires it can have power, provided he or she is prepared to work for it, and to pay the price for having it - a price which very few people ever consider carefully...
The price for true power is one's life. Depending upon how we view our lives, that cost can be seen as terribly high. Yet for those who have come to the conclusion that their present life holds no more value, the cost is not nearly as high as for those who are unwilling to sacrifice their present life. It is primarily for this reason that 'only those who come to the Warrior's Path prepared to die can hope for success'. To wield the power requires a total transformation, a transformation that demands the death of the old and the total restructuring of the tonal.
Yet it is exactly because the Path of Freedom requires the death of the old that most people find the price too high, even if their old way of life is completely miserable. It is only when a person is forced to choose freedom as an act of survival, that he or she will be willing to relinquish the only life he or she has ever known. Consequently it is hardly surprising that even to this day there should be so few individuals who can wield power effectively. Therefore, the seeker of knowledge should think long before committing to the Path of the warrior.... there is no turning back.
Dok
Most of the Truths of Awareness are based upon the act of perception and the way in which this takes place. The whole mystery of perception can be summarized in the following nine precepts:
1-The universe consists of an infinite number of energy fields resembling threads of light.
2-These threadlike energy fields radiate from a source of unimaginable dimensions metaphorically called the Eagle. As such these energy fields are known as the Eagle's Emanations.
3-Human beings are likewise composed of the same infinite number of these threadlike energy fields which manifest in the shape of a large luminous egg. The height of this egg is equal to the length of a man's body with his arms fully extended above his head on the vertical axis, and its width is that of a man with his arms extended outwards from the centre of his body along the horizontal axis. This egg is known as the cocoon of man.
4-Only a small group of the energy fields inside the cocoon are lit up at any one time by a brilliant point of light located on the surface of the cocoon.
5-Perception takes place when the energy fields which are illuminated by the point of light extend their light to illuminate corresponding energy fields outside the cocoon. This point of light is termed the point where perception is assembled, normally abbreviated to the assemblage point.
6-It is possible to shift the assemblage point to any other position on the surface of the cocoon, or even into its interior. Because the assemblage point illuminates any energy fields with which it comes into contact, the new energy fields it illuminates as a result of such shifting constitute therefore a new perception. It is this new level of perception that is known as seeing.
7-When the assemblage point shifts sufficiently far a totally new world is perceived, which is as real as the one man normally perceives.
8-There is a mysterious force known as intent which exists throughout the entire universe. It is this force which brings about perception, for it is intent which, firstly, aligns the energy fields, and secondly, causes awareness of that alignment.
9-The goal of warriors is to experience all possible perceptions available to man. This constitutes what is known as Total Awareness, inherent within which is an alternate way of dying.
Most people simply cannot conceive that they will ever have enough personal power to enable them to perceive alternative worlds, much less to access those worlds. In spite of the fact that it is the birthright of man to have power, there is no easy or miraculous way in which to acquire it. Superstition may have led many to believe in the existence of so-called supernatural power, and the use of ritual and hallucinogenic drugs may, at times, afford the person a brief glimpse of alternative states of reality, but at the end of the day there is only one true power, which, far from being supernatural, is as natural as anything else in nature. Being completely natural, the power does not suddenly materialize like lightning, but has to be painstakingly cultivated and harnessed like any other product of nature. Although there are seers who have so much power that they can work miracles, that power was not gained through any so-called supernatural process, but is instead the product of a great deal of hard work over an untold number of lifetimes. Anyone who desires it can have power, provided he or she is prepared to work for it, and to pay the price for having it - a price which very few people ever consider carefully...
The price for true power is one's life. Depending upon how we view our lives, that cost can be seen as terribly high. Yet for those who have come to the conclusion that their present life holds no more value, the cost is not nearly as high as for those who are unwilling to sacrifice their present life. It is primarily for this reason that 'only those who come to the Warrior's Path prepared to die can hope for success'. To wield the power requires a total transformation, a transformation that demands the death of the old and the total restructuring of the tonal.
Yet it is exactly because the Path of Freedom requires the death of the old that most people find the price too high, even if their old way of life is completely miserable. It is only when a person is forced to choose freedom as an act of survival, that he or she will be willing to relinquish the only life he or she has ever known. Consequently it is hardly surprising that even to this day there should be so few individuals who can wield power effectively. Therefore, the seeker of knowledge should think long before committing to the Path of the warrior.... there is no turning back.