Question:

Théun, is it true that the Fandango dance is about courting, and that it is the most common dance of the Spaniards? And what exactly does all the stamping mean?

Théun’s Answer:

What you know about the Fandango is the face value. The Fandango, like ALL flamenco dances, originates from the Spanish Gypsies. The Spaniards as such, do NOT dance flamenco - they dance what are known as the Regional dances, of which there are a great many. Only the gypsies do what you have termed “stamping.” LOL! Stamping is actually called zapadeado, pronounced thapadeado, and meaning FOOT-WORK. The rhythmic clapping of hands and snapping of fingers is called palmas, and the exquisite wrist, hand and arm movements are termed brazos, pronounced brathos.

Why I point all this out is because to the Spanish Gypsies dancing is a SACRED EXPRESSION of their inner search for the Divine Rhythm of the One Life, and they spend their LIFETIMES perfecting their zapadeado, palmas and brazos as an INDIVIDUAL EXPRESSION of the inner Self, and therefore to simply refer to this as so much stamping and clapping is the height of IGNORANCE demonstrating a CONTEMPT for that which is not grasped! Likewise is the Fandango an expression of the eternal STRUGGLE at achieving the ULTIMATE intelligent co-operation between MALE and FEMALE as a REFLECTION of the prime DUALITY of the One Life termed the nagal-tonal. Therefore it is far from accurate to say that the Fandango is merely a courting dance!

Furthermore, such is the nature of the Spanish Gypsies that they NEVER have SET dances. The steps are SET, but only in terms of the RHYTHM being utilised. Therefore EVERY time a dance is being performed it is PURE IMPROVISATION, and the dancers BASE their improvisation upon WHAT they are experiencing in the moment, not only between themselves, but even more importantly, what they experience OF themselves in RELATION to the inner Self and how this is reflected within their outer relationships. So, if a couple engage in, let us say the Fandango, they give EXPRESSION to what is going on for THEM at THAT moment in time by making the dance REFLECT this. So if they are experiencing a closeness between them, they will show this in their dance. If they feel DISTANT from one another their dance will show this. If one of them feels close and the other feels like pushing away, again their dance will reflect this. If the relationship between them is being REAL the dance will show this. If the relationship is light and frivolous and superficial, the dance will show this too!

Every wrist movement, every brazos, are to the Gypsies like the Dream symbols are to us. And every rhythm performed with their feet is an expression of their INTENT! Sometimes their zapadeado is soft, almost inaudible, reflecting a deep soul searching, fragile, vulnerable, uncertain; at other times it simply explodes with the exuberant fire of an all-consuming passion and the sheer joy in being alive; at other times it is haunting, repetitive, trying to break free from a recurring pattern, frustrated, filled with a poignant sadness bordering onto despair; but NEVER is the SAME dance repeated ever again; the power lies IN the MOMENT! You will never see the SAME Fandango twice!

Quite something, no? This is why I mentioned the transcendental nature of dance to Z. A gypsy couple can express FAR MORE in dancing together in just ONE dance, than we can ever express in a THOUSAND words!

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Question:

I am observing the situation I find myself in as well as all my thoughts and emotions surrounding it, but without buying into my thoughts and emotions. Am I on the right track?

Théun’s Answer:

Yes! You are on the right track.

You have a great opportunity right now to learn one of the most difficult Not-Doings the apprentice to the Warrior’s Path ever has to learn, namely, believing without believing! It appears to be so simple and so easy to accomplish, and yet in practice it is fiendishly difficult to do. Why? Because until you gain proficiency in ACTING AS IF you believe, when your mind is screaming at you that you are CRAZY, you will find yourself swinging violently between the polarities - sometimes very clear that you DO believe, whilst at other times doubting even your sanity, telling yourself that you are deluded, and wanting nothing more than to run away from the challenge!

But once mastered you will find a freedom within this Not-Doing that will enable you to tackle challenges that most people find incomprehensible and too frightening! Put quite simply, you will then have the freedom to ACT upon what your FEELINGS are telling you WITHOUT succumbing to FEAR! You will have learned to TRUST your heart and therefore to act even though you have NO proof and NO guarantees! THAT, my friend, is a freedom most people can only ever achieve TEMPORARILY in MOMENTS of DIRE crisis and REACTION!

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Question:

Théun, can you please help me with fear? I have a reached a point where I feel fear in most of my interactions with the world around me. I don’t know what is wrong with me, for when I am not fearful I am angry. But then I become fearful again because of having expressed my anger. All of this seems to have become worse ever since X and I came to consult with you in South Africa. My feeling is that this has got to do with fear of power and authority. Am I on the right track, Théun?

Théun’s Answer:

You have a HUGE heart filled with a great deal of warmth - a warmth you long to SHARE, but you are too frightened to be VULNERABLE, and so you choose instead to live a LONELY existence, even though it brings you no joy. So, yes, you find yourself swinging between the polarities of FEAR and ANGER. The fear comes up when you WANT to OPEN UP - it comes up because you fear REJECTION, fear being HURT, fear making a fool of yourself.

But then the anger kicks in, an anger at YOURSELF, but which you then PROJECT onto the other person. But remember that anger is ALWAYS the desire to fight for CLARITY, to find the KNOWLEDGE which is lacking, to find the way forward. But when that anger is directed AT, whether this is at yourself or at someone else, it goes nowhere other than to CONFIRM to you that you have been wronged, misunderstood or whatever. This is why I have so often teased you about surrounding yourself with fierce women, for you so NEEDED these fierce mirrors to help you gain an insight into your shortcoming, Bigotry. What I am saying, Y, is that if you look deeply enough you will find that it is easier for you to hold onto the bigot’s view of the world than to allow yourself to be fully open and vulnerable so that you CAN express your love and your warmth.

So what happened for you in South Africa? You and X came to me because you both so WANTED to support me in the work I am doing. I shared with you both that I do NOT have the time to DO what you both proposed, but that if you REALLY want to help me, and support me, then you must STRIVE with EVERY fibre of your being to be the BEST Y and X you can possibly be. I even went on to say that I love you both and BELIEVE in you to BE the BEST, but you must please DO it FOR yourselves and BY yourselves, meaning, please do NOT do it for ME, but for YOU, because it is YOU that the world NEEDS!

I tried so hard to get the message through to you that although I would truly LOVE all the support you were offering me it is not PRACTICAL, quite besides which, the only REAL support you CAN give me is to JOIN me on the battle field of life and to fight for all you are worth to HELP create the world we wish to live in. But you can only DO this if you do it FOR yourselves and BY yourselves out there, using your OWN personal power and your OWN belief in SELF! I even got Z to assist me in this by asking her to give you the female, or more precisely, the NEGATIVE input! B-:) But you and X were furiously hanging onto the Bigot and the Romantic respectively, and so you felt attacked, annihilated, belittled, unappreciated, disillusioned and whatever else you felt at the time. LOL! I point this out, NOT as an accusation, but in an effort to bring you the clarity you are seeking.

Later, upon your return to the UK, you wrote to me again, making offers with respect to possibly organising for Z to run workshops in the UK, but you came at me from the angle of money! LOL! It was then that I whacked you senseless for offering me MONEY instead of your HEART, your WARMTH, your LOVE! But still you chose to retreat in fear, and then later in anger! You may have suppressed the anger, I am not sure, but I could see the anger in you, much as I can see it in L now. Right now I am not on L’s Christmas Card list! LOL!

Y, if you are hungry, you can always find a way to eat; if you need money you can always find a way in which to make money. But what of the millions of lost souls out there that live in a COLD and HOSTILE world? As I said to M at this past retreat, “Where will these people find the love, the understanding, the support, they so long for?” Food may be scarce, and money too may be scarce, but not anywhere NEAR as scarce as TRUE under-standing and TRUE support! The world out there, my friend, needs your HEART, your WARMTH, and not your money as such, or what you can do FOR them!

So is it REALLY power you fear? Is it really authority you fear? No, my friend. What you fear the most is OPENING your HEART to the world around you, because what happens if you get it wrong, if you screw-up, if you get rejected and hurt? So is it really ME you fear, my friend? No! What you fear IN me is my UNBENDING intent to go out there and to give it my ALL! This is the MIRROR you fear!

Take the retreats as an example. What is it about them that REALLY disturbs you? Have you noticed that it is not REALLY the clarity people get at the retreats that makes a DIFFERENCE in their lives? Have you noticed that it is not REALLY having the teachings made CLEAR and PRACTICAL for them that makes the difference? Have you noticed that what truly TOUCHES and therefore makes the REAL difference is being LISTENED to with love, with warmth, with under-standing and with support! Within this last sentence, Y, lies ALL of the ESSENCE of the TRUE teachings that can NEVER be verbalised, for they can only be WITNESSED.

I trust this will guide you in the right direction.

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Question:

Théun, I am feeling incredibly miserable as of late. Can you help me see why?

Théun’s Answer:

LOL! You are feeling so miserable because you can’t think STRAIGHT! Your DISTORTED perception is enough to make ANYONE miserable! I see the lights burning, but……………?

My friend, the ONLY cause of misery is the INABILITY to grasp the INTERRELATIONSHIP of Life! By the time the MIND has stuffed everything into nice NEAT little boxes and LABELED the boxes, you have so MANY boxes, EACH with their OWN label, that you can no longer see the wood for the trees!

So no bloody wonder you are feeling so goddamned miserable, you old fool!

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Question:

I have had bad eyesight for a number of years, and I also get terrible migraine headaches. I know that I also have a tendency to become obsessed with finding clarity. Are these three related in some way?

Théun’s Guidance:

Your bad eyesight, as well as your tendency to get migraine headaches is the result of your mental obsession which comes from fear. What are you so afraid of? What is it that you do NOT want to look at? And why is it therefore so important for you to become mentally obsessed about anything and everything?

Also, your lack of clarity likewise comes from your mental obsession. When one is obsessed one MUST become selective in one’s perception, for it is not possible to be OBJECTIVE and obsessed simultaneously!

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Question:

Théun, my mother and I very much need your help and your guidance. Therefore if I may please ask?

My mother has become enormously tired and does not have the energy to do anything. I recently took her to see two independent healers, and they both confirmed that my mother is under a spell of black magic. The one healer confirmed that she could see the witch who is already dead, but hovering near my mother, draining her of her energy. This healer has started to heal my mother, and my mother is feeling stronger and healthier.

I too am feeling strange. I have this pressure squeezing my head all the time. In addition I recently met a young woman to whom I immediately felt attracted. The moment I am with her all I want to do is to kiss her. Yet she also frightens me, for I feel that she too could be a witch, and if not, at least possessed by some strange creatures making her behave like a seductress. She sometimes behaves in very strange ways! Also, I almost always feel seduced by her when I am in her company, although afterwards I always feel like I have again regained my sobriety.

Can you help us, please?

Théun’s Guidance:

I cannot help but feel that you are being rather superstitious and jumping to conclusions.

I have worked with many people who have sworn blind that they have been bewitched, or are under some kind of a curse or spell. But in all of these cases it turned out that the so-called curses existed only in their MINDS! By this I am not saying that sorcery and black magic do not exist, but from my own experience I know that sorcerers have better things to do than to attack an old woman for no rhyme or reason. Why on earth would some witch wish to kill your mother? Has your mother even met this witch? And what was the interaction between them? My feeling is that your mother is in victim mode BIG TIME, and is using black magic as an EXCUSE for not WANTING to face up to the real challenges in her life! It is always so much easier to blame someone else for the mess in our lives, and if it can be a witch, well that is even BETTER! Who can hold someone who is under a curse accountable for her own behaviour? What a lovely excuse!

What you feel around your head is a typical symptom of too much physical stress. You are probably not getting enough sleep and/or drinking too much alcohol. I can assure you that the symptom you describe is not black magic. But your SUPERSTITION will still GET you, if you do not stop indulging in such fantasies! I can assure you that the mind is far more powerful than any witch!

As for the girl that you mention. Are you sure she is not taking drugs? And it sounds to me that she could be EMOTIONALLY unstable. Although emotionally unstable people are OBSESSED, they are not POSSESSED by alien entities! If this woman is really possessed you would NOT want to kiss her, no matter how masculine you may be feeling! LOL! And if you were to meet a REAL sorceress you would most certainly not be entertaining any romantic notions about her! Instead you would be shaking in your boots, if not defecating in your pants!

You really are far too superstitious for your own good! And I would stop seeing this young woman, if I were you, for it sounds to me as if she is up to no good, even if she isn’t a witch, or possessed!

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Question:

I acknowledge that life is a serious matter. And I take it that this is why we have to act like responsible adults. Am I right?

Théun’s Answer:

NO! You have got it wrong AGAIN, you silly Scholar!

Life is NOT a serious matter! Life is FUN! Laughter is FUN! Tears are FUN! Battles are FUN! Winning and losing is FUN! You see, my Scholarly friend, life is meant to be EN-GAGED and EN-JOYED just for WHAT it is - Life!

Life only ever becomes a serious matter when you set about trying to FIX it with GRIM DETERMINATION! LOL! Learn instead to EN-JOY life, like a butterfly that loves to fly from flower to flower, for no other reason than that it CAN fly!

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Question:

Is the Tibetan for real? I ask this because there are many today who condemn the Tibetan for being a fraud and saying that Alice Bailey was nothing more than a blind follower of his. These people claim much the same thing about the Theosophical movement and Blavatsky, saying that the truth speaks for itself and in this they can find no truth in the words of either Blavatsky or Alice Bailey.

Théun’s Answer:

It is sad but true that both the Theosophical Society as well as the Arcane School on the whole are today both filled with people who are far too lazy to DO the required work, and hence their only claim to fame is their ASSUMED understanding of the works of Blavatsky and Bailey, and their most favourite pastime is to find reason to break down and discredit what they perceive as being the opposition! However, in the time that I personally spent with these two organizations I was also fortunate enough to meet a few of the genuine students of both Blavatsky as well as of Bailey, and in the likes of these there was only a very deep and profound respect for the TRUTH as elucidated by ALL whose fate it has been to bring to humanity aspects of its divine heritage!

I find it utterly laughable that the very people who claim that the truth speaks for itself should fail to see the truth unless it is presented to them in the FORM they believe to be the “real” one! Anyone who is a SERIOUS student of life cannot possibly fail to see the truth in whatever FORM it is presented, and in any case, who cares about the form except those that worship the Golden Calf!

Furthermore, in answer to your question I can assure you that the Tibetan is for real, and a Scholar to boot, just like you! Personally I do not LIKE the way in which the Tibetan presents the teachings, but this is purely a PERSONAL and a SUBJECTIVE opinion that does NOT in any way INVALIDATE the TRUTH of what the Tibetan teaches! Likewise, I find it hard to tolerate Bailey’s incessant pissing and moaning about how hard-done-by she was, but the fact that she suffered grossly from having had such an over-developed sense of being the ultimate victim and martyr also has NO BEARING on the TRUTH as expounded by the Tibetan! Bailey was, to put it bluntly, not exactly a SUPERB instrument as was Blavatsky, but she was the BEST the Tibetan could find at the time, she had a karmic link with Him, and at the end of the day she proved ADEQUATE for the job of playing “secretary!” Foster Bailey, Alice’s husband, was a right royal pain in the arse and her sister, Mary, who took over the running of the Arcane School after Alice died, was one of the most incorrigible, belligerent and short-sighted old women I have ever had the misfortune of meeting, but NONE of this has done ANY-thing to invalidate the Tibetan’s teachings!

Blavatsky, on the other hand, was not only a SUPERB instrument, and one of the FINEST seeresses that has ever walked this earth, but she, actually HE, as the Guardians refer to her, :), was also an Initiate of a very high order, unlike little old Ms. Misery, Alice Bailey! But so what? Neither Blavatsky nor Bailey ever tried to claim the knowledge revealed within the books that were channeled through them as being knowledge which they personally possessed, or even necessarily understood, so why should anyone in their right minds wish to discredit the one or the other? Surely it is the TRUTH which is important, and not the messenger? And this is precisely WHY the Tibetan instructed Bailey to place a disclaimer in the front of ALL the books which He channeled through her! You will note that this disclaimer does NOT appear in any of the books written by Bailey, but ONLY in the ones channeled by the Tibetan! In other words, the Tibetan did NOT want the readers of His books to make the same mistake as so MANY of the readers of the Secret Doctrine made, namely, to worship the DEAD LETTER simply because it is “the work of one of the Guardians!” LOL!

It is much the same as with the book written by the Master Rakoczi, entitled The Most Holy Trinosophia! The students of this fiendishly difficult book um and ah in utter reverence, and drool all over this book because it was written by the Master R., even though NONE of them have even the VAGUEST clue as to what He is writing about! The entire goddamned book is written in the LEFT-SIDE, but to listen to these intellectuals going on and on about their RIGHT-SIDE assumptions on the contents of this book is truly hilarious! LOL!

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Question:

I would like to ask why you don’t support the teachings of the Christ, and also why you never mention other paths like Reiki and Castaneda?

Théun’s Answer:

If you have read and understood my books you would know that Toltecs FULLY support the teachings of Christ, but NOT of the Christian Church. There is a HUGE big difference between what Christ taught and what the Church teaches!

Reiki is good in principle, but the force of Reiki has become contaminated, which is why many of the Reiki Masters have either abandoned Reiki, or else have started to become mentally unstable.

What PATH are you trying to follow in terms of what you read in the Castaneda books? Have you been trying to follow the TEACHINGS of Juan Matus, or all that CRAP written by Castaneda? Juan was a masterful nagal dedicated to FREEDOM. Castaneda got HOOKED to SORCERY and SHAMANISM!

What do you want, freedom or sorcery? Decide!

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Question:

Théun, I am beginning to see why I always end up being so aggressive. It is really my fear that I am going to fail because I do not deserve to win. Feeling that I don’t deserve to win just makes me grumpy and ill-tempered.

Théun’s Answer:

This is PRECISELY why you at times drive me crazy! You buckle down and work HARD to uplift yourself, and then just at the VERY POINT where you CAN begin to move forward in a REAL way, you suddenly decide that because all is beginning to go well you can now INDULGE in becoming COMPLACENT, and so up comes ALL the old behaviour and you promptly sabotage yourself and your opportunities! It is nothing but self-destruction, and in the process you become destructive to all around you!

Perhaps if you were to START from the angle of whatever you do to yourself you also do to all around you, you MAY begin to glimpse what true humility actually entails! So, yes, you CAN starve yourself! But in the process you also starve those around you! Yes, you CAN beat up on yourself! But so too will you then beat up those around you! And, yes, you CAN sabotage yourself and your opportunities, but so too do you sabotage others and their opportunities! Where is the humility in such behaviour?

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