“An apprentice is someone who is striving to clear and
revive his connecting link with the spirit.”
“The entire truth is that spirit reveals itself to everyone
with the same intensity and consistency.”
‘Manifestations of Spirit’
“The story says that once upon a time there was a man, an
average man without any special attributes.
He was, like everyone else, a conduit for the spirit. And by virtue of that, like everyone else, he
was part of the spirit, part of the abstract.
But he didn’t know it. The world
kept him so busy that he had neither the time nor the inclination to really
examine the matter.
“The spirit tried, uselessly, to reveal their
connection. Using an inner voice, the
spirit disclosed its secrets, but the man was incapable of understanding the
revelations. Naturally, he heard the
inner voice, but he believed it to be his own feeling he was feeling and his own
thoughts he was thinking.”
“The spirit, in order to shake him out of his slumber, gave
him three signs, three successive manifestations. The spirit physically crossed the man’s path
in the most obvious manner. But the man
was oblivious to anything but his self-concern.”
The basic energetic
theory here is that we all have an inner-self/soul and a higher-self/spirit. With the mind/mental field that exists in
between them. The mental field is where
the inner-critic resides, the part who wants to prevent - any kind of change.
When the mind is quiet
and in a receptive, attentive alpha state, it allows for communication
between the inner and the higher, aspects of self. Allowing for a connection and flow energies
that are unavailable to us when we're engaged with the inner-critic, in any
manner.
-The Ram
(Excerpts from The Power of Silence by Carlos Castaneda in quotations)
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