Omega Institute - May 1995
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(Personal note: I don't know how much of this stuff is important or relevant,
but they said it to us, so......, you decide)
Taisha Abelar's lecture Sat Nite (or, the nite the I.B. buzzed in).
Taisha told another story about walking down the Grand Canyon. She had always
wanted to go, and the Blue Scout (I think?) arranged a trip for her. The
persona she was using at the time was Ann Ricard, and a friend of hers, from
her job, was accompanying them. Therefore she could not reveal herself as
Taisha Abelar. To make a long story short, she ended up using sorcery
techniques to get her back up from the bottom (it's a 5000' climb, dodging
donkey droppings along the way). Some of the techniques she employed were:
she sent her energy body up and down the trail several times the nite before
to leave reservoirs of energy; she put her "fatigue" in rocks, she used
plants along the trail, sniffing them (her energy body knew which plants to
sniff); she used the energy of the mules (this she did by being the first
person to walk directly in the path the mule walked in before her, as it was
passing her going in the opposite direction - she was going up, it was going
down). "Under extreme physical stress the energy body takes over". Getting
rid of self concern:
1. By becoming abstract, and getting rid of self-concern
Petty tyrants curtail self importance by bringing to the surface the things
that make you angry. (She told a story of a former new member of their group
- even though they're not a group! - anyway, his name was Clifford and one day
CC happened upon him walking down the middle of the street with his head shaved,
bare-chested, with a string of garlic cloves around his neck. When CC asked
him what he was doing, he replied that he was curtailing his self-importance!
Curtailing self-importance is a private, secret act. No one should be aware of
what you are doing.) (She the started talking about gazing.) Gazing: the
not-doing of looking (between looking and "seeing".) Things to gaze at:
Gravel, Sand, Grass, Leaves.
Do not do in a bad mood (at least not trees since she has an affinity for
them after living in one for over a year and doesn't want us putting any bad
energy in them). Gazing at trees: take short, quick glances, gaze at the
leaves - look at one leaf, QUICKLY, at a time. Eventually the "energy" will
come to the foreground, and be supreimposed on the physicality of the leaves.
Inner Silence: a matter of accruing more & more time to "collapse" the world.
Carol Tiggs (pronounced Teegs) - 23 minutes
(I'm not sure if that means it takes that much time for them to collapse the
world, or, if that's how long they can sustain the collapse!?)
Compulsive behavior can be used to stop internal dialogue. (Told story of one
person (can't remember who) who used a stick about 2-3 feet long. Sat down and
stood the stick up on the ground between his legs, leaned over and placed the
other end of the stick at the position of his third eye, and remained in that
position. He also placed some sort of pad on the end so he wouldn't scar his
forehead. She thought his method was a little extreme.)
One method she suggested was gazing at a match tip burning, from one end to
the other, cooling your fingertips in water in order to grab the end that
already burned and flipping it over 'til it burns all the way. Discipline
and Impeccable Actions: Impeccability - when you give to each of your endeavors
"everything" leaving nothing for self-reflection. (therefore there is nothing
left to re-capitulate!) - It is the ONLY thing that will keep the flyers
(voladores) away! Flyers have NO LIGHT. She then told a story about a
shaman's grandson that CC met once in Mexico. CC met and talked with him for
2 days, at the end of which the man told CC that his path and CC's could not
merge (she used a different word) because they were moving at two different
speeds. CC thought the man was being a little self-important, but shrugged it
off.. 2 Years later CC was driving back to San Diego when he got caught in a
dust storm so terrible he could hardly see thru the windshield of his VW bug.
He was worried about his safety when suddenly a large truck pulled up along
side. The driver (somehow) signaled to CC the drive behind the truck and let
it block the wind, to keep CC's car from blowing off the road. CC followed him
for quite some time, when suddenly he realized he was no longer on a paved
road, but a gravel one. He thought he was lost and pulling along side the
truck, frantically motioned for the driver to pull over. When they stopped
and the driver got out, CC realized it was the young man from 2 years earlier.
He said he wanted to thank CC for what he had done before when they were
together for @ days and this was his way of "paying him back". He said, "we
are now in the second attention." And they were. He left, and CC found his
way back to San Diego.
Stalking your dreams: fixing your awareness at a certain point.
- you must have a fixation of some sort when you do 'dreaming'
Taisha gave an example: she went to a "dreaming mall" with Florinda. She was
at a shop and immediately began to look through everything at the shop -
opening pockets, looking into purses, constantly paying attention to the
intricacies of that specific dream until it acquired cohesiveness. She says
to do this when we are dreaming. Wherever we go, stalk the environment of
the dream (I'm paraphrasing).
When Nelida tried to move her AP Taisha freaked out (The Sorcerer's crossing)
and that was when she was suspended from a tree. She described her 4 major
roles in the "Theater of the Real", as Julian called it. I believe these were:
1: A tree dweller (for over a year - fist time she ever felt any "real"
affection for anything).
2: an engenue (spelling!!) - a visitor from Phoenix
staying with her 2 aunts, Nelida & Florinda, in order to find a husband. It
ended (after a year) when she "fell in love" with the town wacko (an ex-priest
who did something to ostracize himself from the community), and then tried to
"cure" his madness (he spent his day riding buses and visiting churches) by
hoisting him up in her tree, where he went "really" nuts. DJ had to intervene.
She received "many" marriage proposals at this time. The change was also
extremely difficult as she had to learn to be a prim and proper, educated, etc.
young lady. This is after living in a tree for a year.
3: A beggar.
(Alphonsina) DJ hired a real beggar woman to be Taish'a mom and teach her how
to beg properly. This was difficult, as the transition from high society to
beggar was again extreme. She wanted to quit, but DJ said she would have to
quit the sorcerer's world. It was under the pressure of this life (beggar)
that she experienced love - she really loved the beggar woman as her mother.
when she left she hoped to one day go back and save her. (she was almost in
tears as she told this story - very emotional. her entire lecture was softely
charged with emotion - affection).
4: Ricky - a young American man who was
in love with life. Questioning everything. He never took life for granted.
It was her favorite role. and, as opposed to the beggar role (which she
couldn't wait to end) she never wanted this role to end. Everything we do
in life is a role. Another form of affection: when you no longer have an
ego, it is nothing to enter a parallel universe.
I.B.'s world: a world that is pourous. You sense and hear it. The dreaming
emissary "whispers". It is a FEMALE voice. All emissary's voices are female
(CC's too). One correlation to slow speed (I.B's world) is slower breathing.
Two I.B.'s have taken her on many journeys in their world (the two living in
her attic). I.B.'s can feel affection. I.B.'s do not want to harm us.
They only want to share affection. They live billions of years. (or something
like that. At this point I thought she was going to suggest living in their
world as an alternative. She was very emotional. But she surprised me.)
The universe is permeated by affection - there is a giant wave of affection
in the universe. In that wave of affection are included ALL affections for
EVERYTHING. Using THAT affection allows us to "fly off".
P.S. At one point Taisha showed us the slide of the voladore in Mexico.
When the picture went up on the screen, we noticed a large-winged bug next to
it. It almost looked as if it was part of the picture. Since I was sitting quite
close (second row) I knew it was not. Still it was startling, and funny. On
the next enlargement, it came back, right next to where the voladore was
projected on the screen. Even Taisha laughed/commented. I was looking at it,
and it moved, and then was gone. I thought it was funny that I didn't see it
fly off the screen, but I figured it must have flown straight up, or
something (in retrospect, there was no logical explanation, but it was only a
bug - right?) The next night Florinda asked us if anyone noticed that the bug
disappeared. She said it was Lobus and Phoebus.
George
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Rather than reiterate George Korey's careful and succinct notes, I will just
fill in with my notes on Taisha's lecture.
The world is composed of units of interpretation. Sorcerers believe we have
been so socialized that we can do nothing but interpret. The goal of sorcery
is to see energy directly.
The energy body is a core of filaments of energy. Sorcerers try to bring back
the energy body from whereever it has been since it was knocked off at birth.
Sorcerers are able, through discipline and dreaming, to transform the energy
body into an exact double of the physical body. This double body is called
the dreaming body. Also the reverse is true; sorcerers can change the
physical body into pure energy.
The nine ways to move the AP: Taisha said that dreaming and stalking are put
last in the list, because by the time we get to them, we will have to have
built up enough awareness to get above the ankles.
The energy of the stars: In the tensegrity movements, the foot pass [number 1
of the second series] mixes impersonal energy of the stars with the area of
self-reflection in the foot.
Another one of the star groups they had to know was the belt in the
constellation of Orion.
Recapitulation: you can do it in public using an inner breath. You don't have
to turn your head.
Globus [?] and Phoebus: Taisha sleeps with them every night that she sleeps
in her attic, and cuddles up with them. She says they are becoming more and
more real as she matches her speed with theirs.
Rjuna
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