Accepting the Nahual

[DoktorGreen]

'Accepting the Nahual'. What does this mean? To 'accept the Nahual' is to loosen the hold of the mind and the emotions on the sense of "I". It means allowing the Nahual to enter into your personal space and illuminate you as a 'being of wholeness'. Thereafter, you become a non-personal person. That means that your existence is free of the limitations of a personal ego, and will be instead a center for the Nahual to flow out into this world. You become like a magnifying glass focusing the rays of the sun. Like the magnifying glass, you of yourself do nothing. But as a vessel for the Nahual, you will concentrate the spiritual forces through your individuality, which becomes the creative center for manifesting the 'Intent of the Source'.
Some called this 'accepting the Nahual' surrender. But I will tell you what is not. This surrender is not giving up the ego in its normal function. It is not becoming a medium for spirits. Nor is it becoming a conduit for a rag tag crew of dreamworld derelicts to use for mischievous purposes! It is also not passivity to one's own welfare or the welfare of others. You do not surrender common sense and responsibility by 'accepting that Nahual'. You only surrender that which is holding you back from your own wholeness.
'Accepting the Nahual' leads to detachment from the results of your actions, and thus gives you true freedom and the ability to wield both love and power. It is the highest action a warrior can take, and it is the primary lesson of physical incarnation. How does it happen? Eliminate personal history. Stop the world. Cultivate the attitude of trust and relaxation in the Nahual.
I would also like to comment on the self critical attitude. This attitude is not humility. It is ego. It is exaggerated attention upon one's self. Overblown expectations and constant critical evaluation. If you do not establish a good foundation, you will be vulnerable to the energetic flows of the Web. You will be too easily inflated by success and to easily crushed by defeat. The Fox provides for itself, but the Web provides for the Lion. The Fox is full of his own cleverness and does not need the Web. So, are you a Fox or a Lion?

[Nagual LoneWolf]

In truth there are times to be a fox and times to be a lion, but facing the nagual I am a vessel.

[DoktorGreen]

True LW, we are based in the Tonal and are accustomed to using the tools we have here. They serve us well most of the time.
I am inclined to share what I learn. A Warrior is never right, never wrong. We do not seek to be flawless or to achieve a Tonal standard of success. We only seek to express a higher and higher portion of the whole, the Nahual.
Perfection is not the ideal. This creates tension. A Warrior cannot survive without a relaxed and ready will. A relaxed Warrior is more alert , because he is free to respond to whatever power reveals! In contrast, a tense person is generally trapped. Tension stops motion. It wastes energy. It blocks the will. Tension stems from the lack of acceptance of the Nahual. When someone feels that he falls short of some ideal, or has less ability than another person,... self doubt blocks the will. Constipated energy creates internal pressure. In feminine-polarized people, this results in passivity, illness, and other self-destructive tendencies. In male-oriented people, the same blockages result in anger and destructiveness directed at others. In either case, perfectionism wastes power and potential.

[seeitall]

if one tries to be perfect in the eyes of others,
that is the sure road to hell.
"The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to himself. ... humbleness entails being impeccable in one's actions and feelings."
-- Juan Matus

[Bob May]

Hi Doctor Green,
What you just layed out there is pretty much a life time of realisations. It can take a person that long to come to that awareness. But when he/she does, there is freedom.
I could take a few words and replace them with a few others and the meaning would be the same but it could be easily used a a sermon about the Law vs. Grace.
A person who is "under the Law", is that person who demands perfection from himself and others. He always turns into a hypocrite, seeing the faults in others,but not in himself.
A person who is "under Grace", is one who has realised; "he is free to respond to whatever power reveals!", as you put it. In fact, that is the definition of Grace; A Gift,..Influence or influx from God or the Spirit.
What you have layed out there is the Old and New Covenants of Scripture in a nut-shell.
To come to this realisation is to open the way to higher realms and powers.
To touch those powers without this realisation will stop you in your tracks.
Great post!

[Mornings Son]

A very complete post on this matter doc.
Thanks
It inspires to walk that path.
To do the battles with the Ego, thought, feelings and beliefs.
How do you know you have accepted the Nagual?
MS

[DoktorGreen]

Mornings Son,
"How do you know you have accepted the Nagual?"
It is a bold and complete thrust into wholeness. The awareness of self disappears for a time. One becomes the Nahual for a short time; and it gets longer and stronger each time. The Nahual begins to saturate the lower layers of one's awareness, REQUIRING complete discipline and harmony of action. In other words, one cannot act contrary to the edicts of power (harmoniously) without being STOPPED. All is part of the Nahual; part of the Power. One cannot act against the Nahual/Power, as it cuts one's self. The idea that "a rising tide lifts all boats" applies. One becomes the tide.

[Nagual LoneWolf]

The Tide is the drift that makes us shift into a different ap.

[ARNWAY]

The act of a warrior is to have there AP shift when the time calls for it .


When one can not then you are trapped and subdued by forces that puts our life in slavery.

[Nagual LoneWolf]

Very true when one has gone beyond mere exploring and have made contact with the "forces". Even though there is risk, I would seek past the guards
for the treasure of the shift.

[Guest]