Saturday, December 11, 2010

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Our Lady of Guadalupe

 Patron Saint of the Americas

                                        All glory to our Lord Jesus Christ





Mystical Guadalupans



From the shamanic practices of ancient Aztec Sorcerers and Sorceresses.

Central figures with highly developed dignity, elegance and distinction.

Work for justice. Spoke in diphrasisms, thoughts with double meanings. Master storytellers, including the Story of the Virgin.



Deep contemplation of War and Peace, what areas of my life are at war?

Which at peace? Living peace or stagnant shell of passive learned behavior

slowly killing me day by day? Virgin peacefully empowers you to surgically

remove every trace of fear for directed, creative and mature life-action rather than floundering in reaction. She helps stop you from fighting endless battles in other people’s wars. You’re a special, intelligence agent to clean out disharmony from its roots until its completely gone.



    Modern institutionalized religions have totally ignored the feminine dimension of God. Many women , looking for something real find it in the Virgin of Guadalupe. Unlike an abstract, distant and hard-to-find male God, the Great Mother is always, in every moment of every day right here with us.



She asks,

“Am I not the foundation of your being, your sustenance, your happiness, peace and effortlessness?”



   A conscious, living being is the basis of life and the substance of everything in our world. Deep contemplation of the question could lead to struggle completely vanished from your life.



She asks,

“Are you not in the folds of my garment?”



    And why pray to Mary? Because they say she is a better listener. She’s a woman. She can understand. She listens and knows as only a woman can. The academic, institutionalized commercial-religious stuff is completely outside of the reality of who she is. You may come to know that the Mother is the opposite of the expression of ultimate judgment. She is the expression of ultimate freedom to be exactly who you are.





   Many say she is as big as the universe, and, at the same time, is a laser beam that blasts through anything in their lives that is not true.





    The history of the Spanish Conquest, in 1520… annihilation. For Mexicans, its in our blood. It affects your deep biological memory and psychology. Aware or not, history affects us. Brought to light, you will be empowered to free yourself from its negative effects, to fully enjoy the positive gems of your rich cultural inheritance.



  The apparition of Guadalupe was a revolution that swept the countryside for a people left with little hope. It was quite an event for the Catholic church to handle. Many who believed were known as the “apparitionists” while those who did not believe were the “anti-apparitionists”.



   The story goes the Virgin appeared to indigenous Juan Diego to have the bishop Zamarraga build a temple in her honor. By finally bringing his cape full of exotic flowers, out of season in the middle of winter and the image of the Virgin on the cape, the temple was built.





   The people of Mexico are still suffering from a social caste system imposed on them by the Catholics during the Conquest. Shame is the glue that keeps modern Mexican society intact. Skin, hair and eye colors are passports to freedom or slavery. Politically, anything labeled as indigenous is branded revolutionary. Anything that smacks of revolution is dealt with swiftly under the table and around the law. Ritual is therefore done in secret.







The Story of the Virgin- simple, on the surface, but with tools- attain a deeper meaning.


    The Virgin’s description- she is standing on a serpent, riding the snake. To Aztecs serpents are evolution, wisdom and spiritual power. She’s standing in the middle of a crescent Moon, standing in the heart of desire, accepting, harnessing and applying that energy in service. The Virgin is clothed in the night , she comes in dreams. She radiates the birth of a new Sun. The Angelito below her represents a wave of special children bearing incredible knowledge and wisdom. They will usher in the Sixth Sun.







   Aztec spirituality is inclusive. They can incorporate other belief systems into their religion. They always have. Christianity is another system that adds greater depth and dimension to their understanding.





    Nahuatl is the native language of the Aztecs. Written in codices, read picture books, murals and signs. It is a tapestry of symbols. It is poetic, highly technical, meticulously developed over thousands of years, a language that bridges different states of awareness. It is used in the discernment of dreams, many of which are dismissed or forgotten until the one dream that nearly alarms us.



    Ometeotl- An Aztec supreme creative being beyond our ability to encapsulate and describe. It also includes a place where all things come together, where contrasts compare themselves and confront each other to produce cosmic movement. They heal us of our tendencies to arrogantly assume we’re correct before we contemplate deeply. They are puzzles for your subconscious mind to work on over the years until you reach a revelation of understanding.



   There have been a number of Suns or Solar Ages in the past. We’ve been living in the Fifth Sun, the Sun of Movement, which indicates that motion, movement and change have been central to our world. We are now in the Sixth Sun, that of developing relationships.



   The “nipple tree” where the souls of children who died young and the souls of those who never found their dreams, and, some say, the souls of those aborted are returned for recycling.



   Making real the stuff of our dreams. Doing the right thing means learning to distinguish and define, moment by moment, that subtle edge between mobilizing your spiritual will and sliding into death by going passive. A part of you dies each time you go passive in a situation you know isn’t right. Once you start dying in one place it becomes easier to die in others. If the process continues, death can become a pattern, and even a habit.



   Its all too easy to become one of the walking dead. It can happen slowly over time or suddenly as the result of a catastrophic trauma (rape). Once you become one of the walking dead it can be very difficult to pull yourself out again. To break free you need to break the chain of passivity you’ve created. It often means facing physical, emotional and mental pain. It means confronting your desire for death and determining whether you have any desire for life left in you.



   In maturing and opening we all need to go in retreat, a place where we close ourselves in. It’s dialogue with your heart.



    Relationships. Will the interaction of the relationship raise or lower your vibration? Lowered, you’ll usually feel drugged and drained, you’ll keep going back though you really don’t want to. Quickened vibe, you’ll feel full and feel like giving spontaneously. You want to protect and cherish the relationship. You tap into inexhaustible reserves of interest and goodwill. You want to go back again and again for no particular reason.



   Young men, do not throw yourselves at women. Wait until you are mature, take your time to get to know them.





   Spiritual alchemy. Mystical Guadalupism comprises special practices to build and refine your personal energies. We’ll need the basic energy to perform our destinies or to fully manifest our true desires. Without, people float through life aimlessly falling for random passions without examining anything or taking themselves seriously. So scattered they can not pull themselves from the mindless tide of popular culture.



    Your greatest gift? The development of your natural self. First because we are so out of it we don’t know ourselves. And second, when we discover ourselves we are fragile until we learn to fully embody the freshly exposed parts of ourselves. Birthing yourself means careful incubation with self-compassion. Along the way you’ll accumulate a wealth of spiritual riches, unique abilities and powers, tools to manifest your purpose in coming here.



Try to become honest in your relationships.



    Practice brings the confidence, experience and spiritual maturity to let yourself shine. You will discover your heart, become sincere and extrovert yourself, giving yourself over to life and your destiny without any trace of fear.



   When practiced correctly, you become increasingly favored. You come into a deeper harmony with the world around you.



   When energy is built, watch you don’t become a target and a magnet for all sorts of interesting characters. Classical literature describes it as a danger on the path. If you become tired or sick for no apparent reason, you may have company. Don’t become an inter-dimensional energy cow for ghoulies living on other planes. It happens.



Be patient with people that you do not readily click with, they may have worlds of interest to share.



   Often when we develop or otherwise attain special powers, we think we will become the awe and fascination of those around us. This is rarely the case in the real world. Even something as a fresh insight in the wrong company can lead to a rampant merry-go-round of alienation. If you’ve had this experience, you know what it is.



   We practice for a state of purity, transparency and innocence, so different from personal power, an exercise in manipulation and control. Power techniques come from a war model, based on scarcity and performance. If power is developed first you will go farther off-track, faster, creating more damage until you crash and burn.



   The Aztecs, too, had a system to balance out impersonal qualities of massive urbanization. They believe its essential to remain in long-term contact with a close-knit group of people. We have to have personal connection with a community we can grow with over time. The group fosters companionship, gets feedback, pools information and shares resources.



   Many people say they’re unhappy because of the things they see the people around them choosing. Choose your community wisely.



   The Four Directions associated with the four directions of the compass. Descriptions of primal energetic forces that interact and blend in everyday activities of life. They develop a sense of guidance, meaning and purpose as we experience events in the world around and within us. They help us read signs that less observant people pass off as random.



   Practice yields a rich inner life and a profound sense of inner guidance. Until you become very discerning, the guidance you receive will usually conform to whatever your desire is. In other words, you will believe what you want to believe.



Seven steps of Magical Discernment.

1) Am I really this fortunate that I deserve to hear this?


The Great Mother, Coatlique, creates our world through sound and vibration.

    Our universe and all it contains is a magical, mystical adventure. It’s a place of wonder and fun. MG’s practices largely based in staying on the cutting edge of your true
desires. The desires are constantly refined, improved, evolved and fulfilled to cultivate a
sense of well-being, self –worth and thankfulness.



   God burst into flower/bloom/ flame. Based on the experience the indigeneous Juan Diego had when meeting the Virgin in 1531. Birds were singing in a dynamic display. An experience of enlightenment, an awakening based on the sounds of life where you seem to be “plugged” into life.



  Does it sound good? If yes, enjoy it. If no, why not? We usually have the choice to pull out of a situation and heal ourselves, or stay in and let the experience itself heal us.







2) Am I dreaming?



   Tremendous value in dreaming. Society says dreams are not real. Some led to believe
dreams are bad. Under all circumstances, dreams are not to be believed. Yet in this world of dreams, they teach us the same thing about this reality. Children are taught not to dream in school. Daydreaming, our non-linear problem-solving, solution creating capacity gets punished until it atrophies and falls off. We’re taught to worship those who have had dreams and visions, but we’re punished if we begin to do it ourselves. We look up to the Great Builders of history, yet we obstruct the path to become our own dreams. A ‘dreamer’ is an insult in the modern world. Many are driven to kill off their ability to dream. Dried up is an oasis of creativity where we perceive and think in only one way.



   Its dreams and our ability to dream that give us hope. Dreams are the vehicle to create Heaven and Earth. To know yourself, get lost in your dream worlds for different times.
Some dreams are just you. They’re fantasy. Illusion. But they’re real in the sense that they’re psychological mirrors of who you are. You can use them to learn about yourself.



  Dreams can be in many shapes or another million other things no one knows or understands. Until we become keen discerning different levels of waking and sleeping states, its challenging distinguishing dream activity from actual visits to the infinity of other worlds just as real as this one.



    Dream Altar, subconscious way to manage and organize input and output to and from the dream worlds. Though you can use your imagination to rearrange it, careful not to control your Dream Altar too much. The more you impose your will on it, the less receptive and effective it will be. Its your inter-dimensional email. Treat it accordingly and have fun with it.



3) Am I imagining all of this? This step of discernment is designed to keep you clear from false dreaming, unintentionally imagining things when you’re awake.



   Careful of a delusional mindset that projects magical causes and fantastical expectations into the world around us. It’s a complicated lie we tell ourselves while the true magic of this world passes us by. To tap into this magic, stay connected with the moment. The magic of the moment is subtle and everchanging. Discernment can help pop the bubble of illusion to keep our living relationship between fantasy and reality healthy and accurate.



                                                                      The need for change.



  You may find you can have almost anything in this world, but what if what you want stops something more wonderful from coming your way? That’s why it makes sense to remain open, aware, sensitive and free to change your course of action at any moment.





4) I must awaken from this dream!



   Many of the great spiritual masters have used this sentiment to develop themselves. With this idea forces are set into motion to help you do just that. The different parts of you will begin to align with this intention, you will really begin to wake up from this dream.



5) Where am I?



  The question orients you in space and time. It wakes you up and brings you into the present moment wherever you are. Valuable key to open clarity in the dream worlds.



6) Is this the place our great-grandfathers spoke of, the Land of Flowers, the Flowers Earth place, the Land of Sustenance?



   Sixth question relates to the Sixth Sun- developing relationships. It’s a sacred place where initiations are taken to bring spiritual visions into form. It’s a place where our bodies get nourishment, where we receive profound physical nourishment, as a mother nourishes her children. A physical transmutation
is evoked of the sustenance of our being, which assists and empowers us to bring our divine purpose to Earth. A place where we can be truly reborn.





7) Is this the Place where Heaven comes to Earth, the Heaven Earth place?



   Literally, the place of Sky and Earth. MG’s goal is the full flowering of the Sixth Sun. It’s the same question asked of healing- a torrent of life energy is released. Earth wants to birth the Sixth Sun. Magic happens when we become willing helpers in this process. Ask yourself is this Heaven on Earth, if yes, enjoy the ride. If no, sense a plan of action or non-action to help bring the situation here.



The Aztec Virgin, John Mini



                                                        Anonymous observances of Our Lady





   The Love of our Mother will be the breath that kindles into a living flame the embers of virtue that are hidden under the ashes of your indifference.



    Mary’s cult appeals strongly to the oppressed because she gives dignity to downtrodden people and thus renews their energy to resist assimilation into the dominant culture. And further liberates us from a restrictive idea of God. Seen as a mother, a maternal presence, consoling, nurturing, offering unconditional love and comforting qualities. The power of knowing that the way things are is not the way things are meant to be, and with her help we are encouraged and given hope. She gives not the will to suffer under injustice, but the will to continue the struggle.





   La gente chicana tiene tres madres. Guadalupe, the virgin mother who has not abandoned us; la Malinche, the raped mother whom we have abandoned; and la LLorona, the mother who seeks her lost children and is a combination of the other two.





   The Chicano’s unabashed use of Guadalupe’s image is, in fact, a new epiphany that deals with self-empowerment. It is about a people, downtrodden, mostly brown-skinned, who seek to reconstruct the deity’s presence, and in doing so, manage to define her usefulness to their causes.





   The Virgin was certainly not aware of the way her powerful image as the “Mother of all Mexicans” was being used by zealots. She didn’t know, and still doesn’t know that, in her name, many people in Mexico have been forced into social submission, political passivity, and fear: fear of religious and cultural difference, fear of sex and “sin,” fear of eternal punishment, fear of contradicting the majority, fear of being an inadequate Mexican. And ultimately, fear of metaphysical orphanhood, of not belonging to the great and harmonious Mexican family.



But, still, la Guadalupe is an untouchable icon.





   Mary most holy, Mother of God, passes unnoticed, just as one more among the women of her town. Learn from her how to live with “naturalness.”











                                                          “Cuix amo nican nica nimo Nantzin?’



                                                               “Your mother…is right here.”





Synopsis by Steve Pena

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