Maya Path to Freedom: Q and A

In this blog post, you can read relevant questions and answers about the Maya Lineage and their teachings presented on this Blog.
Most questions come from a fellow seer that will remain anonymous. She is kind and respectful, and I am grateful to have met her.

And, I feel it is necessary to state that my Maya Nagual cares not at all about this Blog or my sharing. It is just my tendency to share, that's all (withholding 97% of the insights)...

Here we go:


Q:
How did you come to be interested in this subject (sorcery, shamanism, Castaneda)? Is there something specific you are working on and looking for?

A:
Yes, I am into Nagualism, have been for decades.
I am currently working on a website to share some of my experiences with the Maya Lineage of Seers.

Here are some details:
Maya Lineage I belong to differs considerably from the Don Juan/Castaneda Lineage.
It is a long story but in short, there is little focus (none actually!) on the low astral inorganic beings and their energy (which is quite important in their Lineage, we can see that from the Castaneda books).

Stages of learning dreaming are also different, shape-shifting takes the main place, Maya 'god forms'
are integrated into the development of awareness, organic energy is also very important, there is no trace of depending on the energy of astral beings, death defiers have no saying in Maya Lineage at all, etc...
It is different, no doubt there. In my opinion.

The aim is the same: freedom. Not immortality by itself, only freedom.
Black death defiers are also immortal, but not free at all as they dwell only at the lower astral level of awareness.


Q:
Do you also do dreaming practice? Where have you met your Nagual, a Maya seer? In person?
Maya god-form?

A:
Yes, I do dreaming practice.
Mostly I do the dreaming awake (especially after "the form" has left) and W.I.LD., of course.

I also work with inorganic spirits, but not in the Carlos Castaneda (CC) style. Never did like his approach, too much indulgence for my taste. And the state he ended up in (a black death defier), well, not really my goal. I work with lower astral beings (the ones Castaneda wrote about), higher astral beings (known also as "demons"), and also with angles and various god-forms.

Maya God-form I know and work with is Kukulkan, the Feathered Serpent,
integration of "spiritual" awareness and organic reality (Underground as Maya call it).

No, I've never met my Maya Nagual in physical form, only in dreaming and meditation.
The teachings are real, very real, and can be validated even physically.

This Lineage (there are other Maya Lineages, to be sure) is under the wing of Maya "god-form" Kukulkan, the Feathered Serpent, and the main Temple is at Chichen Itza, the Kukulkan Temple.

If you will, go visit the Temple in your dreaming and see if you can get in, so to speak.

Or, connect with a jaguar in your dreaming, that's your best bet. Jaguars (ordinary and the black ones) in dreaming are Maya dreamers, for the most part. Just be sure to check and recheck, lest you get screwed by some low-level astral inorganic being.

There are three inner levels one can access in the Kukulkan Temple, leading to total Maya worlds where a dreamer can learn all there is to learn about Maya Path to Freedom. See posts on the Blog.


Q:
Is there a formal group of sorcerers involved in the Maya Lineage? Can you tell me more about Maya as you experience them?

A:
Yes, there is a group, an extended family even, that works together. Maya have figured it all out eons ago and they periodically manifest their culture on this planet (and on other planets throughout the multiverse), always seeking the right environment (lots of water underground).

They are true Seers, magicians, sorcerers, healers, shape-shifters, men and women of wisdom and knowledge. And they are peaceful...until they are provoked.

Maya are immortal, truly free, and self-sufficient...
...they need nothing from anyone or anything as they are Free.

The hallmark of Maya tradition is the integration of pure spiritual consciousness and organic energy. This can be seen in their focus on the Underworld, or in modern terms, the dense, dark, and powerful aspects of the overall consciousness (which most of us would rather not face and integrate; in modern times Karl Jung has explored that part of the human psyche...).

And they are way beyond the low-level astral beings ('friendly' inorganic beings Castaneda loved so much) and beyond other astral beings as well (black death defiers, flyers/parasites, 'demons', etc...).

Q:
Two things I'd like to ask you, if I may.
- How is organic energy linked to God-forms? Aren't gods also inorganic?
- Can you tell me more about the place where the Giant Trees are?

A:
Organic or material is not linked to the transpersonal/spiritual/god-forms, at first glance.
God-forms are spiritual, material is, well, material.

When one enters certain paths (i.e. Maya path, Tantric path, etc...) which integrate the material into the spiritual, it turns out that material or organic is only an aspect of spiritual...

...and after experiences manifest, the integration of organic energy into spiritual awareness makes things more real, down-to-earth, more powerful and progress quicker and more thorough.

Maya excel at that integration. Their rituals all revolve around the integration of light and darkness, as it were.

Of course, god-forms are inorganic (not material), too. But only certain paths integrate organic/material/"underground" even into spiritual development.
Kukulkan is both, spiritual and material, light and dark, underground and divine.
Way beyond low astral level inorganic beings the Don Juan and Castaneda lineages depend upon.

Looking at the Castaneda lineage, inorganic energy is what they rely on. It is a tricky business as any given inorganic being is not spiritual (perfect, free, omnipresent) by default. And
in the case of Castaneda lineage, inorganic beings are in fact low astral spirits, rather far away from any kind of real spiritual (perfect, enlightened, free, omnipresent) awareness.

Integrating darkness into light is the fastest path, in my experience.
And one can really appreciate stars only when it is dark.

The Giant Trees realm is a place that exists in a specific position of AP. There Don Juan and some of his party dwell, amongst others. It is a safe place from black death defiers, flyers, demons, etc...

One can transform his/her dreaming body into a tree there, thus stabilizing awareness without any astral level beings intrusion.
It is a very safe place.

Ask your ally to take you there in dreaming. It worked for me, and it is easy.

Q:
If someone starts to worship an inorganic being form is that spiritual? 

If you want to call worshiping low astral level being (akin to any soul of a dead human) spiritual, that's just fine.

To me, true spiritual beings are not manipulative, conditioned, or limited in any way.
An inorganic being in this context is any being that has currently got no physical body. And not having a physical body doesn't mean that being is spiritual or self-realized or perfected.
Spiritual here translates to completely free awareness, omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence, unconditional compassion and love, respect and caring.

It is obvious that most beings or spirits dreamers come in contact with are not really like that. Most beings a dreamer encounters in dreaming just want to screw him/her for some energy.

That is not spiritual, as I perceive it. That is just commerce.


Q:
Why is there a difference in worshiping a Maya god form vs an inorganic being (IB) form of another kind? (as far as this organic integration is concerned)

A:
If you want to come into contact with, say, Kukulkan, you will have to open up a whole lot more. IB Castaneda introduced are just low-level astral spirits, not at all liberated or perfected as god-forms are.

If you want to integrate organic energy into your awareness, you will have to open up to your own dark side and embrace everything, your human form, too...
...and all that comes with it: desires, low emotions, distress, illnesses, body fluids, etc... AND integrate all of that onto your spiritual path.

And that's exactly what the Maya were doing. Just look into their ball games...


Q:
Is Christianity then doing the same thing? Integrating organic energy?

A:
No, not even by far. They are still stuck in the denial. It is obvious that their priests do not handle their bodies or sexual energy (just run a search for Christianity sex abuses). Even more, their leader, the current pope, publicly proclaimed that Satan is to blame for all the sex offenses around the world. Clearly, they have not integrated any of the organic sides of energy onto their path. They would have to assume responsibility for all their abuses, which will not happen, of course.

No, while Jesus was indeed a genuine spiritual master, the church is a joke, in my opinion.

Q:
Thank you for your answers. I understand there is a difference between the Maya god-forms and the Castaneda inorganic beings. But I do not understand how an inorganic - deity/god - links to integrating organic energy.

Is it then because of what you describe here how working with those god-forms forces us to look at the most organic aspects of ourselves? (desire, illnesses, etc).
What is this system's approach to illnesses?

A:
Yes, working with certain god-forms opens up a whole new area of exploration.

Human consciousness has so much to offer and ignoring, avoiding, or suppressing the dark side of ourselves tends to limit the reach of our awareness, especially in dreaming.

If this happens (not dealing with our own dark side), things tend to go strange. Castaneda is an example of that, isn't he?
The Blue scout incident is a glaring example of how things can go wrong.

Opening up to our dark side is not just the Maya system, lots of other systems embrace the same approach, say Tantra, Vajrayana, authentic Kabbalah, etc...
None of these systems deny ego, desires, passions, body fluids, etc...

The dark side or as Maya say, the Underground, in this context translates to death, ego, negative emotions, attachments, aversions, illusions, ignorance, indulgence, aggression, pride, etc...
Lots of energy is stored in the dark places of our awareness!

Working with "darker" god-forms tends to bring up these darker components of ourselves. When you deal with the dark, the dark gets into you, as it were...
...and when you come out of the dark on the other side, well, you are free and have so much energy at your disposal.
Yes?

Denying or ignoring these dark things in ourselves only brings troubles, in the long run.
Illness always has a cause and bringing illnesses and their causes on our path are important, yes.


Q:
Christianity... of course I am not going to waste time thinking about idiots. But some Christians are sorcerers they just approach things from a different angle. 
Angels, for example, are also inorganic beings. So I was wondering where this would fit into the system you speak of.

A:
Yes, angels are also inorganic beings (by the way, how come Castaneda did not work with them?) and much higher on the evolution ladder than mere dead humans or Castaneda's inorganic or any other low astral level beings.

Working with angels (Gabriel, Seraphiel, Metatron, etc...) can bring so much into the awareness of a dreamer, no doubts there.

I am certain that many aspirants in Christianity are really advanced, yes.

In short, as you so eloquently put it, "...working with those god-forms forces us to look at the most organic aspects of ourselves...", yes.
There is so much energy stored in there, in these dark organic aspects of our overall existence. So much.

One can advance without ever really looking into these darker things, of course, but it takes so much longer and it isn't really thorough, is it?

And Maya were and still are masters of being thorough.

Black death defiers: how to deal with them

W.I.L.D. dreaming

It was one of those easy W.I.L.D. dreaming sessions. I retained awareness upon falling asleep and felt great and joyful, fully aware. I started to jump up and down happily and after a while, I entered some unfamiliar house. There were a few people milling around and I flew to the upper floor.

There were some statues there, carved out of lifeless stone. I sensed that someone is behind me, trying to make a contact. I turned around and saw a human being. I started with my usual drill (I did not want to use energy for 'seeing', I rarely do that in dreaming):
- are you an inorganic being? Yes.
(Inorganic being in this context meant the non-human being)

Oh, ok, I thought to myself, not overly interested in exchange with the spirit. I did not enter this particular dream with a specific intention to contact these spirits, so just to be sure, I continued to question the spirit:

- are you a demon/jinn? No.
- are you a black death defier? Yes.

Its answer surprised me and my inner reaction was quite emotional and after a few moments I just woke up in my bed. I was not ready to deal with my reactions to the presence of such a spirit. I did not enter the dreaming again that night...


Dreaming awake in the dark castle

(if you will, see the three Dreaming Awake blog posts, here >>)

In the afternoon that day, however, I took some time and decided to enter the dreaming state awake and to check out what the spirit wanted. Having already severed all (known) attachments to my inner disharmonies regarding these dark spirits, I felt confident and a bit curious.

I entered the dreaming awake (see the blogs on the subject of Dreaming Awake >>, II. >> and III. >>) with the intention to visit the realm where these spirits, the black death defiers, dwell.

Employing the Maya Words of Power I soon began to see 'the Eye' in front of me...
...and I intended to travel to the place I knew about only from what I have heard.

The initial vision changed and I soon found myself on a dry stony area a few miles from some building that I interpreted as a castle. There was no water, no trees or flowers in sight. Only a stony plane as far as the eyes could see. Almost nothing to focus my dreaming attention on...
The feeling I had looking at that building was gloomy and sinister. It was a dark castle of the back death defiers.

I sighed deeply and thought to myself, what a drama. I was fully aware that I was at the lower astral level of existence (and barely aware of my physical body), and I knew there would be a lot of dark glamour and illusion present there.

On the wings of intention, I flew over to the highest tower and entered through the dark stony walls into the room. Intuition served me well, for right there in that spacious room there was one spirit sitting on a slightly elevated seat. I instantly knew it was the spirit that came into my dreaming. I sensed it knew I was coming.

The room was round, some 15 meters in diameter, with two narrow windows on the left and right sides of the seat and that, was it. No flowers, no furniture, nothing. Just cold stone.
(reflecting now on these events, I understand that in the initial dream up there in that house, there were only dead cold stone statues - an indication that a black death defier was there.)

As I approached the spirit, I knew that it would pound on me with its low astral dark energy. Feeling completely confident, I moved closer.

The sight was not pretty: a dark green-brownish disfigured human appearance with insect wings and face. "How can you be content with such a form", I thought to myself. "What a miserable existence you must endure keeping such a form! Oh well...".

Its black eyes focused on me and after a while, I heard: "I contacted you in your dreaming because I want you to be aware of something."

Its gaze was intended to be powerful, I sensed, but I have encountered way more powerful beings in the past and found its gaze energetically interesting at best.

"We are following your practice from a distance since our last energy exchange and you have been busy since."
(It was referring to the situation a few months ago where I finally freed myself from my inner delusions (and from the influence of the lineage of the sorcerers of antiquity, the Castaneda lineage, to be more exact) and consequently from their energy control as well. I made it clear that their ways do not interest me at all (anymore) and got them to agree to leave me be.)

I understood that it must have been something important (to them) to violate our agreement and to contact me like that.

"OK, what do you want?", I asked out loud.

"We want you!" it screamed and started to hover a few feet over the ground with the annoying sound

coming from its wings.

I felt the surge of dark astral (emotional) energy coming towards me and in the past, I always reacted softly; now, however, I just focused on the awareness itself, opened up more, and let the energy pass through.

It floated there, all dark and menacing, trying to play on my weaknesses in my awareness (fear, attachment, aversion, greed, etc.).
I could understand its limited state of awareness, its own fear, anger, greed for power, and addiction to the energy from others. I actually felt compassion for it. I clearly saw how completely and utterly different we are. In a way, that situation at that moment alone was worth the trip: it became very clear to me that the astral level of existence was left behind for good, thanks to my Maya Nagual and empowerments into the Maya practices.

Outloud I just said, calmly: "So, what was it that you contact me in dreaming? Do you mind getting to the point, please?"
I learned from the Goetia practices that kindness goes a long way with dark spirits; it might contribute to this situation as well, I figured.

My reaction and calm composure took it by surprise, it seemed. It sat back down to its seat (was it a throne?) and said sharply:
"I want you to stop broadcasting your experiences about us!"

I took some time and said nothing.
It continued: "If you continue to share your knowledge about us, we will make you suffer!"

Oh, here we go again, I thought to myself.
"You have so limited awareness that you can't even ask nicely", ran through my mind.

Outloud I said: "Clearly there must be some misunderstanding.
First, my experiences with you and your kind are subjective and whatever I share is also only my subjective truth. 

Other people and other spirits have free will to do whatever they please with the information I share.

 
So, basically, it is up to them how they react and how they perceive you and your kind. You can't possibly think you can control all of us? Or do you?"

I sensed a trace of despair in its presence.

I continued: "My intention is not to harm you and your kind. I respect your freedom of choice, and what you do with your awareness and your energy is your choice.

But since you are quite dissatisfied it seems, and always angry and after the energy of others, maybe you ought to look into YOURSELF and see whether YOU are really content with what YOU are doing?

Every action brings reaction, at least at this level here, surely you can realize that. So maybe you could start by thinking about those poor souls you have traped down in the dungeons? Or do you want to keep searching for solutions for your own inner energy problems on the outside?"

I knew it was a long shot but had to express myself. These low-level astral beings have a lot of energy (from others) and very limited self-awareness. I knew most of my words would just bounce.

The spirit said nothing for a while, most likely passively absorbing my awareness energy and then it said:
"I know what I want and I want you to stop sharing your experiences and knowledge about us!"

I actually felt compassion for the spirit, as I understood that there's a long way for it to come out of this level (low astral) of existence.

"If you come with me now, I will do as you ask. If not, well, you can't do anything about it, anyway.", I said.

I focused on awareness and in a few moments, "I" perceived me, it, the castle, their realm, and everything else as empty. Empty of independence, self-existence.

I also saw the black death defier sitting on its throne with the energy signature of bewilderment in its eyes, as it could not see the dreamer anymore.

* * *

That was the last time the black death defiers interfered with my practice.

 
They are there, at their low astral level realm, contributing to the grander scheme of things, traping anyone with no experiences and information about them and with a similar mentality and energy configuration.

It is not that they are evil. No. They just lack the needed self-awareness and self-compassion to raise above the low-level astral realm. And if we want to get rid of their influence, we have to raise our own awareness above theirs. It is as simple as that.


Dealing with the black death defiers

0. Do. Not. Believe. What. Black Death Defiers Tell You. 

EVER!
We all have free will, and these low-astral level beings behave as though we do not. It is their dream, their illusion to be trapped in their miserable condition, and once you start believing their lies, their illusion becomes yours.

1. What's on the inside is what matters, not how these spirits present themselves.
So, let us deal with our own inner disharmonies instead of focusing on them and, what we perceive as, their schemes and manipulative strategies.

2. Facing our own fears, attachments, the quest for immortality (read: fear of death), anger, delusions and the lack of self-awareness is most important.

3. Black death defiers can do nothing if we assume a higher state of consciousness above the low astral level.

4. Work on our self-awareness (the Maya tradition, amongst others, offers a path to Freedom), not merely on building up life energy (the Castaneda style, only a quest for power). Self-compassion and compassion for others are the keys here.

5. Let us cultivate openness, self-love, self-confidence, compassion for other sentient beings, and, above all, self-compassion. These values are almost non-existent in the lives of the black death defiers.

6. Be happy and enjoy our lives, above reason.
:)

What do you think?

Silence Within

silence of emptiness

There is one thing, one very important skill, which is of crucial importance on the Path to Freedom, in my opinion.

Without it, things just get foggy, unclear and progress in dreaming and in real life as well is limited.

"We talk to ourselves incessantly about our world. In fact we maintain our world with our internal talk. And whenever we finish talking to ourselves about ourselves and our world, the world is always as it should be. We renew it, we rekindle it with life, we uphold it with our internal talk. 

Not only that, but we also choose our paths as we talk to ourselves.

Thus we repeat the same choices over and over until the day we die, because we keep on repeating the same internal talk over and over until the day we die.

A warrior is aware of this and strives to stop his internal talk."

- Don Juan

It is not just about stopping the flow of thoughts. That's the first step, yes, maybe. But that's not enough. 

What really does the trick and yields a profound change in the state of consciousness is de-identification from those abstract and innermost notions that are so integrated into our awareness that we don't even notice.

It is not enough to just stop the inner flow of subtle perception based on the dichotomy between awareness and content of awareness either, as this can be done on many levels.

And here we are way beyond the reach of any kind of energy (low astral energy, dark energy from djinn/demons, elemental energy or any other energy). One can have tons of energy and can learn to manipulate the perception in every which way, and still be a prisoner of these innermost identifications.
That's what happened to some of the old sorcerers from the Don Juan Lineage, didn't it. They were masters of energy manipulation and yet unable to progress beyond mere low astral level realms. Obviously, something went seriously wrong in their practice.

Enormous amounts of life energy and awareness energy are being spent just to uphold the self-designated meaning to the content of our own awareness. 

We can call that self-importance, self-pity, victim-mentality, indulgence, a quest for power and immortality, complacency, ignorance, attachments or aversion.

The thing is that whatever we do with the content of our awareness and however we manipulate energy, all of this and everything any human or any other being can ever think of or experience, is, has been and forever will be, empty.

No need to raise stormy waves in perfectly calm weather on a completely placid lake of our awareness.

And the Silence Within does just that: liberates perception into simple, natural and unlimited space-like awareness which is far beyond all types of energy and all thoughts.