MerlinofEngland

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Seer-ship.

Man has two types of awareness: the right side is normal awareness, necessary for everyday life; the left side is a mysterious side, a state of awareness needed to function as a sorcerer and seer. Teaching for both sides are necessary. The final teaching is to leap from a mountaintop into an abyss while in normal awareness. The teachings for the left side are to master three aspects of an ancient knowledge: Awareness, stalking and intent. The old seers were sorcerers; the new seers are warriors who [see]. The teacher Don Juan was a seer and a nagaul. [Seeing] can be understood to be the capacity of human beings to enlarge their perceptual field until they are capable of assessing not only outer appearances, but also the essence of everything. Seers [see] men and women as a field of energy, which looks like a luminous egg, the front part is a shield and stronger than the rear, there is a depression the size of a fist just above the navel. The majority of people have their energy fields divided into two parts; A few men/women four or sometimes three parts, these people are more resilient than the average man. They can become nagauls after learning to [see]. To be a nagaul entails being a leader, a teacher and a guide.

As a nagaul, Don Juan was the leader of a group of seers, known as the nagauls party, which comprised of eight female seers, three male seers and four couriers or messengers. In addition to this party, Don Juan also taught and guided a group of apprentice seers, known as the new nagauls party, consisting of five young men and six women, the nominal leaders of this group were 1 male and 1 female. To gain teaching for the left side, it is necessary for people to enter into a unique state of perceptual clarity, known as heightened awareness. To enter this state, a blow is delivered, (only by a nagaul), with the palm of his or her hand onto the upper back. When in this state, apprentices can behave almost as naturally as in every day life but they can bring their minds to focus on anything with uncommon force and clarity. Yet, an inherent quality of this state is that it is not susceptible to normal recall. What transpires in such a state becomes part of the apprentices' everyday awareness, only through a staggering effort of recovery. When entering into this state, it feels as if a veil has been lifted from your eyes. The freedom, the shear joy that possesses you is an incomparable experience, Yet at the same time there is a frightening feeling of sadness and longing that goes hand in hand with that freedom and joy.

It has been said that there is no completeness without sadness and longing, for without them there is no sobriety, no kindness. Wisdom without kindness and knowledge without sobriety are useless.

In heightened awareness one is minimally conscious of the surrounding, because one's total concentration is taken by the details of the action at hand. The action at hand now, is the elucidation of the mastery of awareness. The mastery of awareness is the modern day version of the tradition of the ancient Toltec seers. (Toltec. means: man of knowledge).

The essential character of the new cycle of seers is that they are not caught by death, like the rest of mortal man, but choose the moment and the way of their departure from this world. At that moment they are consumed by a fire from within and vanish from the face of the Earth, free, as if they had never existed

The New Seers

The Eagle's Emanations.