Wizards Mexicanos (Paulo Coelho)
The vast majority of spiritual traditions present in the Americas before arrival of Columbus has managed - miracle of miracles! - to preserve its roots. In other words, they were stronger than the civilizations in its territory, soon succumbed their conquerors. Among them, Mexican shamanism, still practiced by many local tribes, is one of the most studied, various anthropologists have carried out serious studies about the way in which the sorcerers understood God's presence and the spiritual quest. Here, I detail some aspects of this understanding of the universe, obtained from various sources:
1. The absence of personal history. magical rites to pass from generation to generation, the sorcerer, or shaman, you must forget all he learned before his initiation into magic. According to tradition, a man or a woman prisoner of his past ends up leaving rule by thinking of their parents or society in which they live. So, all initiated choose a new name and seek from their memories, good or bad.
2. The process of forgetting. order to abandon the story he lived, the sorcerer spends months on remembering in detail each of the events of his life. Some traditions require him to spend hours counting out loud with a full glass of water all that happened in every encounter with every person, so the experience is removed from memory and enters the water, which is then thrown into a river. Thus, the head is empty and can begin to be filled with new things.
3. Inner silence. Once free of his old thoughts, the sorcerer is concentrated in the inner silence and hoped that the spirits begin to tell the true story of the universe. This silence, coupled with the absence of memories past, gives the sorcerer the feeling of total freedom you need to understand a new world.
4. Fabric. When you begin to understand the new universe, he enters a trance and `see 'everything around us is a giant web of luminous fibers, all connected-that is, that everything is one thing alone and is part of the same energy. Sometimes these luminous filaments condense in the form of eggs, which means that there is the soul of man (Carlos Castaneda explains While this view in his book A Separate Reality).
5. The encounter with the power. Contemplating her own egg 'light', the magician notices a point, which must join with the luminous fibers capable of conducting energy from power. This energy, although it can be used by the sorcerer can not be manipulated, he must know gently lead it to their learning. Approaching this assemblage point is the toughest job in the initiation and requires silence, meditation and perseverance.
6. The negative energy. Some of these threads of light conduct destructive fluid issued by other magicians, who seek knowledge, but the control of the souls of others.
7. The 'usher'. There is always an event in our lives that is responsible for that we ceased progress at some point. A trauma, an especially bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, we end up doing cowardly attitude and to go on. The shaman, in the process of forgetting his personal story, you need to get rid of this condition in the first place. Mexican medicine men (and, interestingly, also to some Buddhist), death enters the region near the navel. At this point, the egg 'light' falls apart and the fibers which were there blend with the energy of the universe, to regroup again in a different way.
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