*The Assemblage Point is known to those on the warriors path as the point within the energy fields of man where perception is assembled. For the purposes of this set of articles it is only necessary to understand that how one perceives the world is dependent upon the location of this point within a man/woman’s energy fields. When the assemblage point’s position changes, so does the persons perception of the world, much like a dial on a radio. The farther the shift, the greater the difference in perception.

Question:

Théun, I desperately need your guidance. I have been diagnosed as being psychotic, and unless I can control my behaviour I am going to get locked away in an institution. I feel frightened and lost. Can you please help me?

Théun’s Guidance:

I can help you, and I will, but first I will explain to you the diagnosis, and then if you still WANT my help I will explain wherein lies the cure. In doing this I am going to be totally ruthless and FRANK with you, for we do NOT have the time to play silly games here!

Z, technically speaking, what has happened is that your assemblage point has become destabilised. Fortunately for you, you CAN still manage to control the movement of the assemblage point sufficiently well to FORCE yourself back into your NORMAL awareness when you HAVE to. However, as you have discovered and been sharing with Y, your psychosis is accelerating, which is why I say we do not have the time to play silly games.

The first thing you need to know is that a DESTABILISED assemblage point is NOT the same thing as a FLUID assemblage point. A fluid assemblage point means that one can move and shift the assemblage point AT WILL and one can ASSEMBLE the new PERCEPTION also AT WILL. But this is not so when the assemblage point has become destabilised. A destabilised assemblage point means that the assemblage point, given a certain trigger, starts to move ERRATICALLY and WITHOUT the VOLITION of the person concerned. Moving erratically the assemblage point cannot be CONTROLLED and therefore FOCUSED on ASSEMBLING perception in a COHERENT manner, and it is the result of this RANDOM and unfocused perception that the psychologists and psychiatrists term psychosis. Once the psychosis reaches a CRITICAL level one of two things happens; either the person concerned develops a SPLIT personality, or even several personalities, called schizophrenia, or else the person slips into a state of PERMANENT psychosis. What I have learned in the time I have been observing you is that, in your case, unless we cure the psychosis you show every sign of slipping into permanent psychosis and, once again in YOUR case, for not all psychotics are the same, you become violent and hugely destructive when in this state. Not pretty, I agree, for if you WERE to INDULGE in this illness, rather than cure it, you could end up knifing someone! So, yes, my friend, it IS serious!

What is the CAUSE of your psychosis? I have already once before pointed out to you that you have become allergic to life. Why? Because you have experienced MUCH hurt in this lifetime, and what DRIVES your HUGE fear is the fear of REJECTION and ABANDONMENT. In order to COPE with this fear you have UNCONSCIOUSLY been FORCING yourself for your entire lifetime up until now to ESCAPE from life in whatever way you have been able to do so. What this has done, and no doubt the cannabis you used to smoke contributed in this respect, is to slowly but surely destabilise your assemblage point. As this started to happen you started to have “visions” and “other-worldly” experiences which, of course, became for you the much sought-after ESCAPE you were looking for and believed you needed. So without even knowing WHAT you were doing you were making yourself psychotic in an attempt to keep on escaping the hurt you couldn’t cope with, as well as your HUGE fear of rejection and abandonment.

By FAR the biggest PROBLEM in dealing with psychosis is that every now and then during psychosis the person concerned STUMBLES across a GRAIN or PEARL of genuine INSIGHT and TRUTH, just enough to placate the person into believing that he or she is okay after all, and not in fact going crazy! However, when then the “visions” during psychosis are just plain non-sensical rubbish the psychotic will DESPERATELY try to make sense out of this non-sensical alignment of perception by starting to FANTASISE about what has been perceived whilst in this state. The result of such fantasy based upon a non-reality is DELUSION, and all too often, DELUSIONS of GRANDEUR. It is exactly BECAUSE of this problem that I asked IF you still WANT me to help you!

What is the flip-switch for you? You already KNOW what this is, for in one of your emails recently you stated that the “love is becoming dangerous.” So we have a dilemma here, as you can see. On the one hand you feel SAFE here in the Group, and you also know that I ANCHOR you; but on the other hand, the OPENNESS within the Group terrifies you, especially the WARMTH and the FRIENDSHIP, for you have come to associate this with potential hurt, rejection and abandonment. Yet, in having pointed this out, should you WISH to be healed I believe the best place for you to be IS here within the Group. But, YOU, my friend, must decide for yourself! You yourself have degrees in medicine and in psychology, so you should also be quite CLEAR on the state of your mental health.

There is one more thing I should warn you about concerning psychosis. During states of psychosis it becomes relatively easy to IMAGINE in the TRUE sense of the word. By this I mean that you can start to MATERIALISE things simply by ACTING AS IF! In other words, my friend, you can USE the teachings to ENHANCE your psychosis, or to HEAL your psychosis. Also, I would STOP, if I were you, keeping IMAGINING that you are activating the kundulini fire. What you have shared with Y concerning the electricity in your hands, and the heat in your body is DANGEROUS beyond measure! You have already read enough on the effects of this to KNOW that you are in danger of spontaneous combustion! For heaven’s sake just STOP this, Z! The more you FOCUS on this heat and electricity, the more your INTENT is going to MATERIALISE it! So STOP focusing on it, for your OWN good!

Z, if you WANT me, I am here for you! I also want you to KNOW that I DO love you and that I will NOT reject or abandon you unless you FORCE me to do so! I can also HELP you to cure your illness, but YOU are going to have to DO the work! It is utterly IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to heal someone who does not want to be healed, for such a person has already set a NEGATIVE INTENT, and no healer, no matter HOW good, can work against a negative intent.

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Question:

I have been working on the challenge that I have around self-discipline related to dreaming and dream recall. I believe that I am facing Fear here. Dream recall is sporadic and difficult, though I have failed to stick with your suggestions to improve it over any considerable length of time. I have also never made it past the conditioned reflex part of the Active Dreaming exercise. I believe the fear that I am holding onto, that I have traced to two particular things from my past, to be the source of my challenges here, though I’ve had many other excuses and justifications along the way.
When I was younger, for a period between 10-12 years old, I used to have the same night terror repetitively. In case the definition varies, what I know as night terrors are repeating scary dreams that I would have that I couldn’t wake up from. I used to know when I would have this dream, because inevitably, in the evening of such a night, I would begin to feel a certain sensation in my body. This sensation was more likely to occur if I had a fever. This sensation was a strange feeling internally that was unique to this experience. The root sensation had a kind of numbing quality to it, but was also heavy with a foreign feel to it. When this sensation began, it was less intense, and then would build in intensity. This sensation would roll up through my body, starting in my feet, and reach my head. It had a pulsing wave type of feel in its repetitions. Any night that I felt this, I knew the dream would come. When the dream did come, I would end up yelling and screaming and sitting up in bed with my eyes open even, but I was not conscious. According to my Mom, it was always the same, and I would talk about “there was a skin that covered the world, and I had to remove it to save the world” and was very frustrated and scared. I would be stuck in this place talking and yelling and crying for 10-15 minutes before she could snap me out of it. I have a recollection of this image of the world as a big ball of flesh from these experiences, but that is all I’ve ever remembered, and I would snap out of it without any recollection of the time my mom had spent with me waiting for me to snap out of it. I have never been able to make any sense of what this was about. There has been the odd time in the last 6 years that I would have hints of that sensation occurring inside me, but it never lead to anything. I feel that these experiences have left a fear in me about dreaming in general. Can you offer any insight on these dreams, and is it necessary for me to work with these experiences now, or just the resistance I believe comes from my memory of them?

6 years ago, life threw circumstances at me that lead to great emotional upheaval and I reached a point where I was ready to die. Something I can’t explain happened at that moment, and I had a week of experiencing an altered state that I could alter further with my will, a weird ability to influence and affect other people, and a few supernatural experiences. I had many less than useful habits back then, which included pot use and the occasional use of psychedelics to create a false closeness with my ex wife. These and other habits, as well as fear and weakness on my part led to losing touch with this state, and I had another scary experience that felt like I had a black hole inside me sucking up everything that I was into a void. It felt at the time like a fight for my sanity, and my ability to stay alive. After getting through that, I had trouble going to sleep, because every-time I lay down and started to let my self drift off, that same feeling would return and scare the crap out of me. This lasted for a few weeks, and then went away. I still have a fear I realize, about approaching dreaming due to the way that this felt. I am determined to overcome this fear. Do you have any insight into what I experienced during this time that might assist me in processing these events so that I can rise above them?

Théun’s Guidance:

What you have described as your childhood nightmare is very powerful indeed. But you will be happy to hear that you are not about to die! and LOL! Your nightmare was guidance given to you about your fate in this lifetime. From this dream it is clear that you have a role to play in these highly troubled times the world finds itself in, and this means that you have the ABILITY and the WHERE-WITH-ALL to do what is required of you according to the script you wrote for yourself. So take heart, and take courage, my friend. The fact that your MIND interpreted it as a nightmare means that what is required of you in this lifetime will NOT be easy to accomplish, and therefore there is a very strong possibility that you will look upon the circumstances you will call forth as being nightmarish. But there is no need for such fear, for this is WHY you have been guided to the Warrior’s Path.

The circumstance surrounding any battle can only ever be a nightmare when our courage fails us. But if, as you say, you are determined to overcome your fear, then start by FACING your fear. The best way in which to do this is to set your INTENT on mastering the Dreaming Technique, no matter HOW much fear comes up. In this you will take courage from remembering that ALL fear is based within ILLUSION - in your case, the illusion that you are not strong enough and not well enough equipped to cope with your fate in this lifetime. The other thing you can do that will help you greatly, is to go to bed at night ACTIVELY enticing the fear so as to be able to face it! You will find that if you do this, no fear will come! LOL! Why? Simply because you would have set your INTENT to face it, but whenever we FACE fear it dissipates because it is nothing more than illusion of sorts.

The experience you had six years ago is an example of what I am referring to above. Your fate started to unfold, but because you were not living like a warrior your MIND crapped out, and you wanted to die! Yet, had you been less self-indulgent and more courageous, you WOULD have used the altered state of perception you were experiencing then to turn your life into the IMPECCABLE life of the warrior. What happened to you after that is your JUST reward for having been a complete arsehole to indulge in drugs. LOL! However, I have no doubt that now that you find yourself upon the Warrior’s Path your experience of six years ago will come round again, and when it does, you MUST find within yourself the HEART-FELT courage to FACE your fear and to fight an IMPECCABLE battle. If you DO, you will find me at your side, lending you my full support, my strength and my courage. B-:)

I trust this guidance will EN-COURAGE you.

With warm regards,
Théun

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An article by an apprentice to Théun Mares:

Sadly, abuse is such an enormous feature in the world nowadays, and one that affects everyone. What can we do about abuse? What needs to happen if we want to see it eradicated, rather than simply being lived with and tolerated? Why does it seem so difficult to eradicate abuse, of all sorts, from our lives?

One of the major problems we are faced with is that much of the focus is simply on the abusive behaviour, rather than trying to address the bottom line of what has actually led to the abuse in the first place. All too often, people simply clamour for the authorities to increase the police force, get convictions and put the offenders behind bars, for as long as possible. It is as though the old adage of “out of sight, out of mind”, still has us in its grasp, or, in other words, “Don’t bother me, this is someone else’s problem. I pay my taxes and am entitled to live in a society that is free from crime.”

Yet abuse, or crime in general, IS our problem, and each and every one of us bears some responsibility for it.

To put this another way, we are all a part of the problem. It is simply not possible to be a part of a community that is plagued by crime and to claim that we are just innocent bystanders without any responsibility. Some people may correctly stand up and say “Look, but I don’t rob people!” Yet some ways of stealing can be more subtle than others, and if we are totally honest, we can see that they still amount to stealing. These ways can range from taking stationery from work, doing personal business in your work time, to stealing time from your family, by keeping yourself busy with other outside activities, to stealing from your staff, by underpaying them. There are, in fact, countless ways in which we can steal. But if you are confronted by crime in your life, it IS there - you need only look for it, and you will find it. If you really cannot find it, then ask yourself in what ways are you supporting crime in your life? Almost every abuser or criminal has someone who is silently supporting them - a mother, father, brothers, sisters, other relatives, friends, anyone who knows what is going on, but who just doesn’t speak up.

Nevertheless, irrespective of whether we are discussing theft, or abuse, or any type of crime, the principles remain the same, and these are that there are no accidents in life, and there are no victims. We all have our part to play in whatever happens to us, and therefore we are always just as guilty as someone who has committed a wrong against us.

In The Toltec Teachings - Volume IV, Théun Mares expresses these points in the following way:

“If you choose to believe that you are a victim, then indeed you are a victim, and I fully agree with you that you are a victim. Therefore there is nothing further to discuss. If, on the other hand, you choose to be a warrior, rather than a victim, then realize that you are responsible for whatever happens in your life. If you walk across the road, and someone runs you down with his car, then you are just as guilty as the one who ran you down. First of all, you decided to cross the road at that particular moment. You could have crossed somewhere else, or you could have crossed later, or you could have crossed faster or slower. In short, you could have been more alert. Secondly, realize that although man-made law will essentially be on your side, these petty laws will not relieve you of the fact that you are guilty of having damaged that person’s car, and of the fact that he might even be found guilty of negligent driving.

Likewise, if you are raped, it is because you needed that experience. Perhaps it was to teach you humility. Perhaps it was to teach you what it is to be humiliated. Perhaps it was to teach you something about your behaviour. In other words, what could you have done to attract rape? If you are extremely sexy, or pretty, or like to advertise your sex appeal, then take responsibility for it. If on the other hand, your attitude towards others is so snooty that someone felt the need to humiliate you with rape, then you must likewise accept responsibility for this. Furthermore, accept the fact that if the rapist is caught and jailed, or perhaps even sentenced to death, you will be guilty of that man’s sentence, even though thousands will hail the justice of the courts, and will flock to your defence.

In the examples I have given, I can already hear the angry wails of the ‘victims’ of this world. However, remember that I have not said that a rapist has any justification for raping another being, neither have I claimed that a driver has any right to drive recklessly. But, by the same token, neither does someone have the right to make another person guilty of rape by calling forth a rape, or to make a driver guilty of negligent driving by calling forth a driver that is either half asleep or just plain reckless.”

To our normal, socially-conditioned view of life, these may appear to be challenging concepts to grasp and take on board. Yet, what are the implications of NOT working with them? Because crime and lawlessness show every sign of increasing, rather than abating, the possible consequences are dire, and will lead to two polarities of existence. On the one hand, a society in which the average individual feels ever more powerless, having no impact on life, constantly at the mercy of circumstances, forever blaming others, unable to take action, and therefore increasingly despairing and apathetic, (i.e. the victims of humanity), while on the other hand, we will see the arrogant, self-righteous, bigoted bullies, forever imposing their wills on other people, usually through some “good cause” or other, but by addressing the symptoms, rather than the causes, failing to bring about any real change, (i.e. the victimizers of humanity). These polarities must come into being as an inescapable result of the projection of victim-consciousness out into the world.

One example of a “good cause” failing to bring about any real change, can be seen in the USA, in which immediate steps were taken to set up special investigation and prosecution assistance units, when child abuse was first recognized as being rampant in the 1970’s. Yet today, in spite of a successful track record of prosecutions and convictions, child abuse is still absolutely rampant and has not been stemmed.

Where do we go from here? Towards a world that is falling apart from inertia and apathy, or towards a fragmented world of suspicion and terror, in which secret police are watching our every thought and movement, just in case we should commit a crime - a world of Big Brother?

There IS another way - a hope that is held out by the Toltec teachings, of a new world in which men and women are strong enough to take responsibility for what is happening in their lives - a world in which men and women are open enough to accept that they too have a part to play in whatever happens to them, to their families, their communities, their countries, knowing that they too have impact and that they too can make a difference - a world in which men and women are courageous enough to see what they don’t like out there, and to start changing it in themselves; or to see what behaviour they don’t like in themselves, and then to take the necessary action to change it, knowing that their actions will affect all of those around them.

One of the greatest obstacles towards creating this new world is the victim mentality, and this mentality is steadily growing in the public awareness, reinforced day in and day out, by the media, the insurance companies, the legal system, and the governments.

Yet, through the Toltec teachings, it is possible for us all, individually, and together, to learn to be bold and make the leap towards ending the myth of victimhood.

*This article is taken from the website www.toltec-legacy.com with the permission of the administrators. tag: theun mares

Question:

What must I do to feel fulfilled? My life now feels so empty and meaningless. Is there any guidance you can offer me with respect to this situation? Or am I just freaking out?

Théun’s Guidance:

Don’t be in such a hurry to FIX your present DIS-COMFORT! Unfortunately for us the HU-MAN being is an inherently lazy creature who will only MOVE when he is FORCED to move! So, you see, my young friend, to BE-COME UN-COMFORT-ABLE means that you are now ABLE to explore WHY you are no longer at ease within the OLD DISPENSATION of the world you KNOW! Is this not what you wanted when you set out on the Warrior’s Path?” LOL! So why the sudden worry? LOL! You must admit, we human beings ARE a funny species! We long for something, and then when we get it we all too often no longer want it! LOL!

When you have STOPPED freaking out, and when you have STOPPED fretting and have come to ACCEPT that maybe being a warrior is nothing more than a MYTH, you will also come to ACCEPT that since you can no longer go back to your old life, and since you are not likely going to become a warrior at THIS rate, you may just as well peel the potatoes as impeccably as you can, for whatever that may be worth, and that you may just as well, whilst you are about it, ACT AS IF you are a warrior! LOL! Once you CAN DO this you will be well on your way to learning the true meaning of HUMILITY, and with that humility there comes a QUIETNESS of LIFE, and a QUIET ACCEPTANCE of the PROCESS of life! B-:)

You will then know too the meaning of true PEACE, and within that PEACE, within that HUMILITY, you will one day realize that your life is UNFOLDING in the most marvelous of ways and that you are beginning to perform miracles you never dreamed you would be able to accomplish! It is then when you will realize that being a warrior is NOT a myth, but that being a warrior requires BE-COMING that myth! But you will then also come to UNDER-STAND, in the true sense of the word, that the Warrior’s Path truly goes NOWHERE at all, and that all of our many EFFORTS, no matter HOW strenuous and sincere they have been, amounted to so much FOLLY - the folly of believing that we CAN become warriors within the confines of our view of the world! Then too will you UNDER-STAND that the ONLY way in which we CAN become warriors is to EMBRACE our folly for what it is, to huff and to puff, to sweat blood and tears, until finally, FINALLY we have MASTERED, note this word with CARE, for it CANNOT be taken at face value, MASTERED our folly, and in that, BE-COME the myth! This is why ACTING AS IF is far more power-full than the average man or woman is ever willing to believe! B-:)

The myth, my friend, is that the little self can become a warrior! LOL! The REALITY, X, is that the true Self IS the warrior! But to the newly recruited apprentice the true Self is a myth, a myth which in time he or she begins to look upon as being unattainable! To the little self it IS unattainable! It is only when the little self falls quiet, let’s go of its attempts at CONTROL, and settles down to ACT AS IF that the true Self can gain FULL control of Its instrument upon the physical plane, the little self, and manifest within it the miraculous power of its INTENT! B-:)

This is the Law, X, but right now it is still for you merely a tale of power, for your MIND still believes what it believes! There is an extremely ancient injunction that comes to us from out of the dim distant past. Transcribed it reads: “Be still, and know that I am God.” The unwitting apprentice always sees God, the nagal, as being “out there” outside of himself, and SOME-THING with which he has to become AT-ONE! But BE STILL, my friend, and you will find that God, the nagal, is WITHIN!

*This article is taken from the website www.toltec-legacy.com with the permission of the administrators. tag: theun mares

Dear Members of the UK & NA Forums,

Looking at the most recent emails, but specifically those from the UK Forum, I feel it is important that I give some overall and general guidance.

The most vociferous one amongst you has been told by more than one member to shut up! LOL! But it is not so much a question of having to shut-up. It is instead a question of taking the time to REFLECT upon and then to ABSORB the guidance given. This is the only way in which we can really learn.

Yet this guidance is for ALL of you! Please take the time to READ properly, without defensiveness, and without always wanting to prove yourselves right, or prove whatever point it is you are wanting to make. As I have pointed out before, what difference does it make who is right and who is wrong? The ONLY important thing is to co-operate intelligently towards uncovering new knowledge, most importantly, about YOURSELVES! With respect to this, look at it like this:

If I know for a fact that I am right, meaning that I know from EXPERIENCE that my knowledge is correct, but someone decides to challenge me on my point of view, because of the fact that our two views stem from differences in knowledge, I would be a fool not to stand firm in my knowledge. But the question is, how to do this?

As a warrior I am ALWAYS willing to be open. Why? Simply because I want to LEARN; I want to gain more personal power. If I am only ever wanting to prove to everyone around me that my knowledge is superior to theirs I will learn nothing new about MYSELF!!! Therefore I LISTEN to the other person with every fibre of my being AND I look at that person in terms of being a MIRROR for me. I can afford to do this and not feel inadequate, or attacked, or defensive, or uncertain, BECAUSE I have enough BELIEF in myself and my knowledge not to be brought off-balance by what the other person is pointing out or saying to me. By doing this I not only listen to the face value of what the other person is trying to say, but I try with everything I’ve got to grasp what lies BEYOND the face value of the words. In this way I can and do hear CLEARLY.

This is not always easy to do, especially not when being criticised or receiving negative feedback. And yet if I am wanting to learn then I HAVE to remain open and defenseless. If, after having listened fully and without all that internal chatter that comes about because of wanting to be defensive, I find that there is value in what the other person has said to me, then I would be an utter fool not to take on board what has been said to me. But if, on the other hand, I find that the other person has nothing of value to offer me I have two options open to me. If that person is of no concern to me I will decide in the moment whether or not there is anything to be gained from pointing out to that person his/her folly. But in doing so there is no need for me to have to prove to that person that I AM right. I will simply state my case and leave it at that. In other words, such a battle is not worth my while to fight.

However, if I care about that person, I will attempt to guide that person towards achieving his/her OWN clarity on the issue at hand, but at the same time taking CARE to express to that person my genuine willingness to co-operate with him/her towards both of us gaining from the interaction. In this respect I will ONLY become firm, or fierce, for that matter, IF it is clear that the other person is NOT wanting to listen, and is only acting in defense of his/her view of the world. But if I am forced to become ruthless I do so only because I genuinely care enough about that person not to allow him/her to keep on indulging in folly that is clearly doing him/her no good. In other words, my ruthlessness is not because I am wanting to prove myself right. My ruthlessness is an attempt to help the other person break out of their view of the world, no matter what it takes. This is the true meaning of unconditional love.

With respect to all of the above, I am sure most of you know the old story of the nine men encountering an elephant in the dark. Each one of these men discover a different part of the elephant’s anatomy and each one describes to the others what it is he feels he has found. Needless to say, all nine of them believe they have found something completely different to what the others have found. Yet none of them realise that they are all merely describing a particular aspect of the ONE elephant. Also, BECAUSE they have felt only one part they never do realise that if all the parts are put together they have an elephant on their hands!!!

Finally, realise that there is absolutely no point in getting guidance but never doing anything with it.

Now I have to address our same friend again! Sorry, Friend, I am NOT singling you out! But you DO love to put yourself in the limelight, don’t you?! LMAO! Now about smoking dope. Yes, I am forever pointing out that the Warrior’s Path is not a path of denial, but by the same token it is a path of self-respect and self-discipline. Therefore if there is something that you enjoy and it does not interfere with your progress upon the Warrior’s Path, then you are free to enjoy it, but without indulging in it. Having a hangover in the morning is most definitely indulging!!! And X is right, inflicting the results of your indulgence upon others is not only being disrespectful to them, but also to yourself.

Nevertheless, if what you enjoy is detrimental to your progress upon the Warrior’s Path, then you must CHOOSE which is more important to you - becoming a warrior, or enjoying your whim? Dope does nothing to enhance clarity and is therefore most definitely not something the warrior uses.

With warm regards,
Théun

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Question:

Théun, at birth I suffered brain damage, with the result that I now have cerebral palsy. Can this be healed by using the teachings?

Théun’s Guidance:

Experiencing brain damage at birth is much in the same nature as being born with any other physical handicap, for example, a hunchback or a club foot! The important point to grasp is that it is a PHYSICAL handicap, meaning that in order to fulfill your fate in this lifetime you MUST also CONQUER certain handicaps upon the physical plane! These handicaps are NOT in the nature of PUNISHMENT, as many people suffering from the VICTIM mentality want to believe, but much more in the nature of our shortcomings! In other words, physical handicaps, like our shortcomings, are there to SUPPORT us in claiming power we would NOT have been able to claim WITHOUT the handicap! Physical handicaps are therefore, not a curse, but a gift!

In the past people KNEW this, which is why physically DEFORMED people, such as dwarfs, hunchbacks, men with club feet etc. were always sought out to serve as advisors to kings, to become court Bards, etc. From what I can see of you, you were born with this challenge to enable you to overcome your INTENSE FEAR of life, and therefore it does not surprise me that as a child you were often ridiculed for having this challenge!

Because physical handicaps are like our shortcomings, we cannot REALLY get rid of them, even though today with the marvels of medical science it has become possible through surgery to remove handicaps such as clubbed feet and hunchbacks! But, generally speaking, and definitely as in your case, there are still MANY physical abnormalities that CANNOT be healed in some way and therefore remain for life! Yet in many ways this is excellent, for by NOT being able to get rid of them you have to LEARN how to RISE ABOVE them, and thereby you claim much power!

In your case, what you NEED to DO is to concentrate on overcoming your intense FEAR of life, for the more you do this the greater will become your ABILITY to COMPENSATE for the effects of the palsy! I say “compensate,” for this is PRECISELY what you NEED to LEARN! To grasp this, think for a moment about blind people! In not having physical sight, blind people develop an uncanny ABILITY to SENSE life around them, a sensing that can be REFINED into what most people call a SIXTH SENSE, but which is in fact the EARLY developments leading ultimately to the so-called NATURAL seer or seeress! Therefore in not having PHYSICAL sight, blind people LEARN to COMPENSATE for this by starting to develop the INNER sight! Can you now begin to see why Toltecs look upon physical handicaps as gifts? Only the Do-Gooders of this world look upon physically handicapped people as being VICTIMS!

From what I have shared with so far you should be starting to see that it is NOT the palsy you need to worry about, but your FEAR of life! You NEED to LEARN to EMBRACE life, to OPEN UP to life, and to FACE life in WHATEVER way it comes AT you, and the more you can DO this the more you will begin to RISE ABOVE the palsy by SPONTANEOUSLY finding ways and means to OVERCOME the debilitating EFFECTS of the palsy! I cannot tell you HOW you will do this, for in this respect EVERY individual is different, but you WILL find ways even without thinking about it! I say this because, technically speaking, any PHYSICAL handicap is there to TEACH us the USE of INTENT! It is therefore NOT the OVERCOMING of the palsy that is the issue, but rather being FORCED because of the palsy, to LEARN to ACTIVATE your INTENT to the point where it enables you to ACT as if you have NO palsy! Perhaps by sharing with you my OWN example it will help you to grasp what I am saying!

I was not born with cerebral palsy, but when I started to speak I had the WORST imaginable stutter that you can imagine! Whenever I opened my mouth to try to speak people would first look at me in total disbelief and then pack up laughing hysterically! Cutting a LONG story short, my stuttering brought about in me such an overwhelming fear of life that I spent most of my early life not wanting to speak, and whenever I was forced to I would break out into a cold sweat whilst shaking with fear from head to toe! If you had met me in those days, you and I would have had a royal time shivering and shaking together in our boots! You and I could have competed AGAINST each other as to which of us can be MORE frightened!

But eventually I got to a point in my life where I simply REFUSED to keep running away from participating FULLY in life because of my fear! I cannot tell you WHAT I did, much less HOW I did it, but almost within the space of a few short months I taught myself to FACE my fear, and to conquer my stuttering! Today I speak normally and I can even walk out onto a stage and address a HUGE audience without a single stutter! And yet the stuttering is STILL there! When I become too tired, or too stressed, it starts to creep in to such an extent that in disciplining myself NOT to stutter I end up becoming dyslexic instead! LOL!

My friend, your palsy is a gift! Learn to look upon it as such and it will SERVE you beyond what you can now imagine! In this regard the Dreaming Practice will help you GREATLY, for although I never stress this point in teaching the Dreaming technique, this is EXACTLY what it is designed to do, that is, to put you IN TOUCH with INTENT!

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Question:

Théun, I am not too afraid to face my challenges, but sometimes I find my resolve to keep going on begins to wane and waver. Why is this so? Is it just a lack of courage?

Théun’s Guidance:

In treading the Path with a Heart our hearts often take us down dark tunnels that the little self would much rather avoid! But the darkness is only ever the RESULT of the LIMITED vision of the little self! It is invariably always at times like these when we need to remember that the only failure in life is the failure to fight! If in these moments one scrapes together one’s courage and one’s strength, and just takes the plunge in following one’s heart, it is never TOO long when from out of the darkness ahead one begins to see a glimmer of light at the other end of the tunnel. Sooner, or later the darkness of the tunnel suddenly yields to the brightness of a new journey that is ALWAYS far more breathtaking and marvelous than anything one could have IMAGINED! Herein for me lies the BEAUTY and the POIGNANCY in treading a Path with a Heart, and it is also herein that lies the MEANING of what it is to be a warrior!

What has often helped me in facing dark tunnels that have made me shiver and shake in my boots is to recall how very EASY, but unfulfilling it is to WALK the wide and paved boulevard that is so loved by most of humanity, but that it takes the MOOD and the SPIRIT of the warrior to DANCE the narrow razor-edged path and LIVE to tell the tale! Plodding along a boulevard is burdensome and boring! But to SURVIVE the narrow razor-edged path means having to be ALIVE every inch of the way! How then can I, or any warrior for that matter, exchange being ALIVE for being BORED? If we are to die in twenty years time, then why not next month, or next week, tomorrow, or in the next hour? I would rather LIVE now and die tomorrow, than to EXIST for the next twenty years!

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Question:

Life sometimes appears to be very unfair. Why is this so?

Théun’s Answer:

Although I agree with you that life at times does appear to be unfair, this is exactly the OPERATIVE word, namely, APPEARS to be! But realize that we always have a CHOICE in how we wish to view life! We can either succumb to feeling like a VICTIM, or we can look upon what is transpiring and say, “Even though I may not LIKE this challenge, yet I would never have called it forth were it not for the fact that firstly, I NEED it in order to learn, to grow and gain in strength; and secondly, I am EQUAL to this challenge!”

The first option, although sometimes tempting, is nevertheless at the end of the day SO very MISERABLE and, as a result, BORING! Why is it boring? Well because the moment we start to piss and moan about what a victim we are people have an incredible knack of either switching off and not listening, or else being able to remove their presence so that one is left alone with only one’s own rantings, ravings and sobs! How incredibly boring to have to listen to one’s own sob-story when there ain’t no goddamned audience! But the second option, whether one has an audience or not is just SO liberating and empowering! B-:)

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Question:

Théun, why do keep referring to me as being mad?

Théun’s Answer:

Because you can’t think straight!

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Question:

Théun, I am battling with the hurt I am experiencing as a result of my divorce. This hurt mostly comes from us starting to argue about how we should be splitting up our joint assets, and it is this that hurts me, mostly because I keep on wondering if our marriage meant nothing more than the acquisition of material things. How does one resolve hurt, Théun?

Théun’s Guidance:

My lovely Easterly friend, you are talking and thinking yourself round in circles! You are trying to RESOLVE the hurt instead of STAYING WITH the hurt, allowing it to guide you to a deeper understanding of yourself whereupon it will automatically DISSIPATE, having served its purpose! This is the TRUE meaning of the term “resolve,” that is, the intent to learn! But when it comes to intent, to resolving, the mind is a little less than useless!

The only REAL hurt there is, is when we are brought face to face with our INABILITY to MEET another unit of life with whom we have come very close in being able to truly meet! It is not the money, the houses, the furniture, the kitchens, the children, the dogs and parrots, but that indefinable some-thing else, loosely termed, love! In other words, whilst the mind occupies itself with material things such as houses, earnings, etc., it is the HEART that feels the wrench in the parting of ways, and the subsequent pain of loss - the deep sadness that comes from knowing that we were given a chance, but that somehow we screwed up! Sure it takes two to tango, and therefore it also takes two to screw up, but where there is a genuine openness of heart, or even just the BEGINNINGS of an opening of the heart, the sense of loss is always devastating in that one can always see one’s own role so clearly!

Within the heart there is no blame, no justifications, and if one knows that one has given that relationship one’s ALL, yet still failed, there are no regrets, no remorse, even though the pain of loss STILL cuts to the very core of one’s beingness! Why? Because deep down inside we all KNOW what the purpose of the spirit is, for it pulses through our beingness as surely as does our blood, the life essence! What is that purpose? At-one-ness, inclusiveness! And when we fail in doing OUR part in SUPPORTING that purpose, for whatever reason, our hearts cannot lie by pretending that all is fine, all is okay, but instead speaks the truth, and the truth is always sobering, and often hurts like all hell!

So, rather than getting yourself LOST in the petty world of an overactive and domineering mind, elevate your mind to its RIGHT-FULL place in helping you to think CLEARLY about how BEST you can play YOUR part in supporting the purpose of the spirit, for only in THIS way do you stand any chance at all in fighting your battles concerning relationships IMPECCABLY! These relationships include also your relationship with your business, with crystallized power, and above all, your relationship with THE male, namely, the spirit! Is it a battle we can ever win in the true sense of the word? Not really! The only thing that you and I CAN do is to fight an IMPECCABLE battle towards achieving at-one-ness, inclusiveness, you as a female, I as a male! And hopefully, by co-operating intelligently, we will BOTH gain a better under-standing of how to fight this battle, until one day we wake up from the madness of the dream, the madness being the ILLUSION of SEPARATIVENESS, to KNOW that we do not have to WIN the spirit’s love for us, for we ARE the spirit, irrespective of gender!

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