Цитаты из книги «Тело шамана», страница 2
окружающий нас мир сновидит и имеет собственный разум.
Our African shamans said that their power to heal is intimately connected to the needs and powers of the people and the environment in which they live. (...) Thus the power of the shaman's body is not only the shaman's, but is connected to the environment, the children, and the needs of everyone. (...) some modern students of shamanism think that they can develop shamanic ability simply through effort, interest and study. But power belongs to the people and the world around us.
The average person, your own naive unconsciousness, leads you to believe that medicine will heal your body, that psychology will make you more reasonable, and that being nice will help you in your relationship problems. Prayer should reduce the impact of fate, and technology will tame the universe. Whatever happens, you cling to the belief that you will either be saved from the unknown or discover new solutions to your problems. You believe that you are the center of a world that belongs to you.Only your momentary terror and insecurity betray your impotence. The wiser oart of you, your sorcerer, realizes that life is ultimately something beyond your mind and changing body. No one theory can completely explain anything, and the origins of even your simplest impulses seem to be connected with the universe itself.
In a shaman's view of the city, the spirit is everywhere, waiting to dance. The shaman would advise you not to feel badly if the people around you at work seem boring or impossible; like wild animals, they are the spirits that provoke you to reach your own totality.
Shamans heal by reminding you of the dreamingbody. they model awareness and the dance of the spirit. Archaic systems of ecstasy, the community's living centre, give a village its life. the tradition of community healing, the idea that one person's suffering is part of the whole community, creates human warmth and contact. Without such trance dancers, a group of people becomes an abstract and meaningless entity, a city whose members are obligated to fulfill empty duties. No one can lead a meaningless life for long or tolerate cities with no purpose.
(...) the master's teachings are always somehow incongruent. They speak about living the nagual in everyday life, yet they always seem to take place mainly in an ashram or a wilderness. Most masters do not work in town. Most will not run for political office. (...)Why do great teachers live only in our dreams or in seclusion? Why does their path of heart take them into mountains or into an ashram? Is it because they do not value ordinary life? Or is it that some teachings do not deal with relationships, everyday life, and today's world? Perhaps we must become the new teachers, who sit in the midst of a fist-fight or a race riot and claim that this is the right hunting ground. Teachers who say that fights are bad, that people should not riot, and that the city is somehow wrong may simply mean that, like us, they do not know how to deal with the world as it is.
(...) find the Tao, you know you are on track, because, whether you are working hard or not, you feel like you are not using any energy. Everything happens on its own accord, and you seem to be riding a wave on the path of least resistance. Though you may be in the midst of a whirlwind, still it is the path of least action, the path sometimes referred to in Taoism as "not doing" or "wu wei".
There is a crucial difference between Western and Eastern teachings, between what you might call modern European and aboriginal or spiritual thinking.
(...) Systems based upon the development of ego consciousness stress stability and individuation. Self-knowledge is the core. Indigenous systems stress becoming everything or worshipping nature and finding a path with heart.Each system has a part of the truth. The right tradition is the one you believe in at any given moment. When you interested in the future of the world, however, you find yourself searching for paths with heart. They make you keep a watchful eye on your own sustainable and available energy and upon relationships to others. indigenous heartful systems include community and environment. The ego systems informs you more about the nature of specific parts of yourself. When you need answers about your individual nature, you find yourself with therapists (...). When you have questions about life as a whole, the environment and path of heart are the teachers.To find the path of heart--to follow the stream of nature--you need more disciplined awareness than self-knowledge.
The less connected you are to yourself, the more you make teachers and gurus out of people who are connected to themselves.
Worship not the object, but the spirit that animates it; not the content, but the creative element in the background.Anything you see, hear, feel, or relate to is real, whether or not it can be repeated. If you suddenly fantasize something, then its pattern is there; it is trying to happen. It is your life energy--your greatest, perhaps you only, possession.
