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CONTROLLED FOLLY - A TOLTEC ART - A POWERFUL TECHNIQUE
by Kris Raphael
"When a man learns to see, he realizes that he can no longer think about the things he looks at, and if he cannot think about what he looks at everything becomes unimportant. Everything is equal and therefore unimportant . . . Once a man learns to see he finds himself alone in the world with nothing but folly. Your acts, as well as the acts of your fellow men in general, appear to be important to you because you have learned to think they are important." A Separate Reality
"By the time we come to sorcery, our personality is already formed and all we can do is practice controlled folly and laugh at ourselves." The Power of Silence
Personality is of the world. It is from the (borrowing the words of don Miguel Ruiz) 'dream of the planet'. It is something we acquire after birth. We are born with certain karmatic patterns that are part of our genetic make up. These patterns interact with the domestication we receive growing up from our parents and society forming our personality. Our personality is not who we are, although we are taught it is who we are. Because of this we place our identity in our personality and give the personality its importance. Personality is where the ego plants its roots, particularly in the mental body aspect of the personality.
What is ego? It is the body of pretension, pretending to be something it is not. Ego is unique to the human species. Ego gives us our self-importance. We place our identity in our personality. We believe we are something we are not (personality) and give importance to it.
When beginning to 'see', one of the first things you realize is that you are not your personality. You 'see' the folly in taking yourself (personality) so seriously.
Stalking is a core technique in Toltec warriorship as through stalking we begin to know our habitual personality patterns. We begin by taking a personal inventory of ourselves. We observe our actions, emotions and thoughts. We notice our habits. We inventory our beliefs. This is all part of the Mastery of Awareness. The next step is to begin to change our beliefs, break our habits, our routine ways of thinking and feeling. Not-doing and the recapitulation are great tools here. All through this we continue to hone our stalking skills. We observe the habitual way we relate to ourselves, to others and to the world. This is all part of the Mastery of Stalking, sometimes called the Mastery of Transformation.
We see that we are not our personality. We see how it is no more important or unimportant than anybody else's personality.
But what is missing here?
If we are not our personality, then who are we? A bigger question yet is what are we? If we can no longer place our identity in our personality then where do we place it?
We will never know the full answer to these questions. They are part of the mystery of man. But not knowing the answer does not prevent us from holding part of our awareness on who we are. And, unless we do this we will inevitably fall back to sleep and habitually put our identity back into our personality. As long as we have our identity in our personality we cannot help but to have self importance. We live our lives wasting our vital force by believing we are something that is acquired, not really who we are.
So, how do we hold at least a part of our awareness on who we are? Ask yourself when stalking, who is it that is observing my personality? For those of you who have glimpses of 'seeing', focus on who it is that is 'seeing'.
Who or what is it that is intending? Where does my will come from? Follow your will back to its source as far as you can. By doing this as often as you can you will begin to get the sensation of Self.
When you have the sensation of Self hold this sensation as long and as often as you can as you go about your day. When you are able to hold this this sensation in your awareness as you live your life and in your daily activities some pretty amazing things begin to happen. First, you are truly able to stalk yourself and others. Since your identity is no longer in your personality you have nothing vested in it. You are free of it and controlled folly begins.
Second, you begin to actually practice controlled folly. You do this not as a personality trick but as something that comes somewhat naturally. Many on this path fool themselves into thinking they are practicing controlled folly. What they are actually doing is placing their will in one aspect of their personality that convinces another aspect of their personality that nothing bothers them and that they are just acting. But it is really just more personality games. When pushed too far they inevitably crack and explode and all their control of folly goes flying out the door. By taking your identity out of your personality and putting it onto a higher frequency of Self through holding awareness of the sensation of Self you begin to free yourself from your personality. You no longer take it seriously.
Third, your capacity for 'seeing' will open. Seeing is a knowingness of things. When you have a question about life you 'see' the answer. Carrying out what you 'see' is another matter. Just because you 'see' it doesn't mean it is any easier to take the actions you need to take for correction if correction is necessary. This is where you need to develop strong will and align with intent.
Fourth, by continually holding the awareness of Self you strengthen your connection with your Dreamer. We are but an aspect of our Dreamer. We are the dreamed. Our world is the dream. The Dreamer holds our essence and purpose. It embodies the intent of our lives. By connecting with your Dreamer you open the doors of intent to flow through you and out into your life. You will begin to 'see' your life begin to change in alignment with the intent of your Dreamer. You truly embark on your Path of Destiny. You no longer have to manifest your life. It is manifested through you by your Dreamer. This is a scary proposition for those who still have their identity in their personality. Oh no! What if my Dreamer manifests something I don't like! What about free will! What about what I want! What about me! me me me.
By holding your awareness on the essence of Self you are tuning into a higher frequency and holding it. This loosens your assemblage point. Dreaming becomes more profound. Your personality is much more dense than Self. The denser it is the harder it is to move. We want to raise our habitual platform of frequency. The higher our platform the freer we are. This is why this path is called the Path of Freedom.
So what is missing? Self.
Love and Light,
Kris
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Kristopher and Kalyn Raphael's Toltec Mystery School of Light. Follow the path of the great sorcerers such as don Juan and Carlos Castanadas. Master your assemblage point and stalking your personality/ego to its ends. This newsletter, the courses the Raphael's offer, the audio and books available, all will assist you on your own path toward mastery/oneness/sorcery of self. Please visit their website for more information on the Toltec Way.
WORDS FROM 'TWEEN
Kris 'brings it home' in this article, and it is such a timely reminder for the times we are currently experiencing as we head toward our calendrical inevitablity of 2012 enlightenment. |
