Mountain View - June 1998
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Mountain View - Saturday June 6, 1998
The workshop was held at Foothills College in one of the gymnasiums. The
college is located in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains in the Southern
San Francisco Bay area on hilly and wooded terrain.
The gym was used for basketball, with three courts available when the
bleachers were tucked against the wall and one when they were extended. The
bleachers were tucked in and there was one raised square platform in the
middle of the room covered with black indoor/outdoor carpeting and a black
skirting.
Grant came out and made some general announcements about bathroom locations, food
service and parking permits. He then mentioned that the Wheel of Time was
available at the bookstore and that we were the first Americans to be able to
read it. Grant also mentioned the availability of the Tensegrity videos, warning
that the passes on them were different than those included in Magical Passes. He
then said that there were plans to make a "training video" for all the series
shown in the book and that several more videos were planned.
After a few minutes pause, Reni came out on stage to give her talk. She
introduced herself by saying "I am Rennatta Murez and that name is my link to
infinity". She then said "I belong to Carol Tiggs."
She talked about the origin of the Magical passes and about how when seers see a
person they see them as a luminous ball with a bright spot of luminosity behind
them at the level of the shoulder blades which is the assemblage point. She
explained that the assemblage point is the point of connection to the Sea of
Awareness. Reni said that for the ancient sorcerers time wasn't something
abstract, it was a real thing - an integral part of man and that those sorcerers
conceived of it as a circle containing an infinite number of furrows which they
called the Wheel of Time. She said that our self reflection forces us to stare
into only one furrow but that we can move into another one. We want to turn the
wheel and face time as it comes at us, not as it recedes.That is what the magical
passes enable us to do.
She said that the Intent series was originally called the Oakland Series
because it was first taught at two workshops in Oakland CA. The Nagual had
asked the participants at one of those workshops to practice it on their own for
a month after the workshop which they did, both alone and in groups and this
proved to the Nagual that there was a possibility for people to perform the
magical passes on their own and make use of them in their lives.
Reni then introduced Brandon Scott, Darian Donner, Erin Alexander, and Leroy
Johnson Wilby (formally Marcus) who were the instructors for the day. Each of the
instructors were on the one stage demonstrating the passes, but one of them would
lead the instruction. Brandon primarily led the instruction in the individual
passes of the Intent series and after a short break we returned and learned the
long form version of Intent.
After lunch Brandon came out to talk a bit about when he first got involved
with the Nagual and started working with the passes. He is a funny and engaging
speaker, embellishing his stories with movement and action to enhance what he is
telling. Listening and watching him tell this story was much funnier than I can
show here.
He used to work in law firm and was very busy all day. He worked late and
didn't even have time for TV or movies yet the Nagual wanted him to saturate
himself with the passes, so Brandon did them whenever he could during the day,
usually in the bathroom at work. He didn't want anyone he worked with seeing him
practice so if someone walked in on him while he had his arms extended, he would
quickly move his hands to his tie as if he was fixing it. After awhile he had to
develop other things to pretend to be doing because how often could one fix their
tie? Finally, he decided to use a stall so no one would walk in and see him but
this was even worse because if someone came in they would hear him breathing
heavy and grunting and then see him bound out of the stall all energetic and
refreshed. People began to wonder about him.
One day he went for walk with the Nagual and saw him doing funny things with his
feet. Brandon displayed some of the Nagual's unusual walking. He showed us how
Carlos would walk down the street and do movements like "Stepping Over a Barrier
of Energy" and "Kicking a Lateral Gate". When they got to the theater and Brandon
was buying the tickets, Carlos was standing there "Cracking a Nugget of Energy"
and "Scraping Off the Mud of Energy". Finally Brandon couldn't contain his
curiosity and being as respectful as possible he said "Excuse me Nagual, is there
something wrong with your shoes?" Carlos laughed and said no, he was just doing
the passes. Brandon said that we can do them where ever we are - we should work
them into our lives.
Brandon said Intent is not a thought or an idea, it is action. It is doing the
passes. By doing the passes we are excercising Intent.
Erin then led the Not Doing series formerly known as Unbending Purpose. They
seemed to have changed the name of this series to Unbending Intent because that
is how it was referred to all afternoon. We first learned it sitting up on our
mats and then performed it lying down.
Reni returned to the stage and discussed the Not Doings. She said that the
energy inside our luminous balls flows in one direction but that we can break
that flow wether it be momentarily or for a lifetime by doing the Not Doing
passes. These passes were our opportunity to turn the wheel of time and face time
as it came to us and not as it recedes. Reni said the Not Doings are very
powerful, especially when done laying down and we should practice them sparingly.
She told a story about herself when she first started out. At first she
pretended that the story was about someone else, then towards the end of the
story she playfully admitted it was her after all. She said she was a compulsive
person and wanted to make as much progress on the path as quickly as possible.
She was told that she should try and beckon intent, so Reni quite literally went
home and went into her bathroom and began screaming "INTENT!", "INTENT!",
"INTENT!" as loud as she could. The neighbors apparently became alarmed and
called the police who came and went door to door asking if everyone was all
right. Reni told them she hadn't heard anyone screaming. The next night Reni went
back into the bathroom and again repeatedly screamed "INTENT!" This time the
police sent out the swat team with helicoptors and all. Again Reni denied
hearing anything. She mentioned that Nyei was in the bedroom sleeping through it
all and didn't hear either her screaming or the police.
She said she did this because she was ambitious and wanted to make as much
progress as possible as soon as she could, but she is no longer the same
person. She then mentioned that its not how loud you call Intent, but how
forcefully you do it that is important.
The point Reni was making is that If you are a compulsive practitioner like she
was and just can't help practicing the Not Doings all the time then you should
just practice the sitting up version on a regular basis and do the lying down
version sparingly.
She then talked briefly about the new mood of precision and affection
that started in last workshop. She said that they were showing a new pass
because of this new mood and talked about the blank check of affection that we
should write to others, expecting nothing in return. We were asked to find a
partner of the same sex and then Darian led us in the instruction of this new
pass called the Pass of Affection. We performed it several times before the
workshop ended to enthusiastic clapping and stomping of feet.
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