Munich - May 1998
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Notes on Munich workshop, 23-24 May 1998
Saturday morning 05-23
Gavin took the stage and gave a lecture. He introduced himself as part of a
team called "the elements", a group of men who are trained by C.C.
Then, he said, there is a team of women called "The Energy Trackers" who
are trained, each of them, by one of the three witches. Gavin is also part
of a team called "Awareness through the harmony" with Darien Donner (ex
Darien Alexander). Working in a couple allows them to have much more
energy that they would have if working alone. He announced that the purpose
of the seminar was : to move the wheel of time. Time, for shamans, is not
abstact; it's something that can be touched and mived. Instead of looking
at the past, one can look at the future as it advances.
He said that the universe is composed by an infinite number of threadlike
energyfields . Although they spring in every direction each one is
separated by the others.
He added that a pratictioner can learn many movements very quickly at a
seminar, because of the mass. But how long will the pratictioner remember
those movements after the seminar? It depends on his/her intent. If the
interest was superficial, he/she will forget them very soon.
He also said that anyone is responsible for his-her relationship with
infinity-your journey towards infinity is just your business.
Saturday Afternoon - Darien Donner
She talked about recapitulation. It's important, at the end of the day, to
look back at what you did, what you said. The recapitulation at the end of
the day will help you with the main recapitulation.
It's easy to be impeccable when you are by yourself, doing tensegrity with
the help of the book, or recapitulating on your own. The most important
thing is to be impeccable when you are interacting with other people. You
have to apply impeccability to your daily life.
How to recapitulate: first you recall the event, the scene, the feelings,
then you inhale. With the recapitulation you will find out that there is
something that you repeat over and over: you want to be loved, to be liked.
Carol told Darien that she used to complain with don Juan: "Nobody loves me!" And
Don Juan once asked her: "But, Carol, are you in love with somebody?" She
retorted:"This is not the point!" Instead, Carol told Darien, this is the point.
Darien said that she herself used to worry a lot because nobody loved her. This is
what makes us incapable of feeling love. Darien said that, before the seminar, she
was worrying about what to say at the seminar. She asked the witches's help, but
they didn't really helped her. Finally, one of the witches (Taisha?) gave her
some advice, by telling her that each word that a shaman pronounce is a promise
to infinity. Sorcerers read the wall of infinity, this is not a metaphor. There
are no metaphor in the sorcerer's world. Then Darien said that human beings are
luminous balls with the a.p. at an arm lenght behind. (She actually extended her
arm behind her, as Florinda did many times). She said that they repeat this
concept over and over because, until and unless our body understand it, we will
not be able to take back our energy through the magical passes. At the end of her
lecture Darien performed a few passes from "The heat series" while explaining:
you grab the energy as it flows in the universe and you bring it back to your
vital centers. She ended up her lecture saying that the only way we have to pay
back our debt to those who made available those magical passes to us is to
perform them with delight. (It seemed to me that she was moved at this point)
Saturday evening
Lecture by Zaia Alexander on "The essence of not doings"
When Zaia and Miles perform the code together they are called Zaio and
Maila Trapezio. IF their concentration fails, they are lost.
They feel a true affection for each other.
Until not much time ago the 4 apprentices of Don Juan used to believe that
not doings were the weird and funny things they did. For example, Carlos
used to wear the left shoe on his right foot and the right shoe on his left
foot and walk in the streets like that. Carlos remembers going around
Mexico with Don Juan dressed in the most funny way; and the astounding
thing is that nobody noticed that! But recently they realized that not
doings is something else. We can enjoy ourselves performing such funny
behaviours, but the essence of not doings is interrupting the flow of (?)
And this is an effect of the magical passes for the not-doings.
The passes will give us the energy to change our behavioural patterns.
At a point, during the lecture, Zaia took the plastic bottle on her right
side and placed it on her left side, adding: "this was a not doing"
The day after the seminar, I talked to a friend of mine who was at the
lecture and he told me that he was very impressed by her gesture. In fact,
a few minutes before she did it, he had this thought: "Move that fucking
bottle, shit!" (because the bottle was covering Zaia's face, from my
friend's point of view)
Sunday 5-24
Zaia mentioned that the new team of this morning (the four of them
together) was very powerful. It enabled us not only to cross the abyss
between man and woman, but also between persons of the same gender. She
said that we reached the goal of this seminar: we indeed moved the wheel of
time. She said that the mass of this seminar was so generous with affection
that they decided to change the schedule and teach us a new pass: the pass
of affection.
Then Darien Donner took the stage for a short lecture. She said that a
warrior gives a blank check of affection to the other person, who can write
down the desired amount (of money). That's the sorcerer's affection.
Then she called on the stage Reni Murez, who was in the staff. She said
that it was Reni who taught this pass to the Energy Trackers, so she wanted
that Reni showed it to us. They performed it twice together, then Darien
and Zaia showed it to us, together with Miles and Gavin.
It was funny and moving at the same time.
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