Inner alchemy: The most sacred art
Your own life is the greatest work of art you can create in all the present moments of your existence. It is the growth of your consciousness the only thing that is eternal and immortal.
The mastering and discovery of oneself together with the dissolution of the Ego leads to fully reach the knowing, potential and expression of the true being.
Since we are children they educate us and prepare us to become someone. We dedicate our lives to this competition in the outer world, accumulating knowledge along with degrees and diplomas, pursuing fame, position, possessions, and totally forgetting to develop ourselves in the inner world. Both worlds must grow in a harmonious and proportional way. The spirituality and growth of the being must be accompanied by the manifestation of that inner world in the external world.
Enlightened teachers throughout the ages have shared their vision and their own path to self-realization.
There are many paths to enlightenment, some discovered and some undiscovered. Some seek sudden enlightenment and others are very slow and scientific processes. Some have chosen the path of devotion and others that of meditation.
What does it mean to reach enlightenment?
Enlightenment is not an achievement to be achieved. It is to recognise and reach your most essential being. Beyond thoughts, information, memory, life experiences and emotions is the higher self, the inner shaman, the true self. Being able to experience the truth without the filters of the mind is an innate natural ability. The process towards enlightenment is a return to our most natural essence. The challenge lies in the fact that cultural conditioning, civilisation and the environment have taken us away from this natural state that we carry with us when we arrive in this world.
There has been a great misunderstanding in history when it comes to understanding the messages that the old enlightened masters conveyed.
The walk the path to enlightenment allows one to reach a state of absolute alertness in which it allows the individual to manifest their full potential in reality. All enlightened beings are totally different and unique, their degree of inner revolution is also different.
The great challenge when it comes to understand a path to enlightenment is the fact of being able to extract its essence and ignore the centuries in which other people have confused the path in simply imitating and trying to become a copy of the master who became enlightened.
Which path to enlightenment is the right one for me?
All right paths to enlightenment lead to the same destination, the original self, but not all are tailored to the individuality and uniqueness of each individual. In this way and knowing your gifts and faculties as well as trusting those that are yet to be discovered to be able to express the creativity of the being in its entirety, without barriers or limits. In ancient times, some of the Illuminate masters who were recognised as being very close to divinity. This comparison with the divine has created throughout the ages a halo of superstition around the concept of "enlightenment", distancing itself from the human nature to the divine and fantasy.Be aware that if you choose a path to enlightenment from the mind, from your Ego, you will be choosing a path that will apparently feed your ego instead of starving it until it dies totally.
To choose the right path is a very difficult matter and even more so when we still don't really know ourselves.
The path in which you can find a true master who is alive is the path that will allow you to drink from the real, from the present.
What does it mean for a path to be right?
The correct path is one that understands the nature of existence, that respects the individuality and uniqueness of every being in existence and simply helps people to return to their most natural essence. In this way, you can live an abundant life, full of joy, celebration, creativity, love and the development of the unique abilities that nature has given you.
The correct path is one that has no static form, no specific rituals, or limiting ideologies. The correct path is the one that adds absolutely nothing, on the contrary, it is the path that removes everything that is not essential so that each being can live from the truth. It is to return the being to a state of "clean slate". With developed senses and consciousness capable of making you feel life and live it in harmony and love.
A right path means that it can serve anyone, anywhere, at any time, in an easy, simple and natural way.
How to identify if a path is right?
1. ¿Does the path have dogmas and ideologies to believe in?
Avoid any doctrine or ideology. They will limit your perception of reality and take you away from your own truth.
2. Does it suppress human nature in any way?
Any path that stifles freedom of expression in any sense, human nature in any sense, including sex, is a path to darkness not light.
3. Does the path show some kind of duality in its vision?
A correct path is one that shows the way to transcend duality since they are all different states of the same rather than opposite polarities as is usually poorly taught.
4. Does the path suggest some kind of violence towards yourself or any other beings such as infidels, sinners, detractors?
Any path that does not include all existence in harmony is not a correct path. Hatred and fear are characteristics of the mind, Ego.
5. Does that path have some kind of leader or organisation to follow?,
Leadership is an ugly and unpleasant concept. Well, there should be no one above anyone and less on a spiritual path. If at any time you feel that you must follow someone out of your will, hesitate.
6. Is meditation a cornerstone of the path to walk?. The state of no mind is the only one in which you can channel being. Meditation should be an essential indicator of whether a path is correct or incorrect. Scientific and technological development has led us to a period when the hypothesis of God as an enlightenment method no longer works.
7. Do you feel that there is love and freedom in the path you want to choose?
If the path that you have before you is not loving, limit your freedom in any aspect, keep in mind that it is not a correct path. Find another.
Seeking to master yourself?
What is the Neo Shamanic path to enlightenment?
Besides ancestral paths, there are new paths born from the synthesis of the essences of the old ones to create a new way self realisation with more substance and without a form adapted to the current circumstances and environments.
The Neo Shamanic path to enlightenment is a path that is not a path. There is no static idealogy for perceiving and living life. It simply consists of returning to your natural state, totally identifying your mind and the information and mental patterns that the system and education have instilled in you. Is a path to live your life in a total and integrated way with the whole. Each Neo Shaman has been made by his or her own search and experience, since each individual being is unique and therefore, his path must also be. Neo Shamanism simply indicates a way to live so that you are aware of yourself and nature, nothing more. Nature is the very existence that exists in all things including yourself. After being realized, each Neo Shaman decides his own path, listening to life inside and outside. All Neo Shamans dedicate their lives to transmitting the message to other souls to awaken them. Each one decides his form and manner, because each one is a storyteller and the first story to tell and live is one's own.
Becoming a Neo Shaman means having reached such a point of connection with the inner being and existence that it is impossible to resist the call of love to share your being with all living creatures, in the same way that it is impossible to avoid the thirst to share the true to the rest of the world.
Final words:
Enlightenment of the being is the natural state of every human being. You are already an enlightened being, you have simply forgotten. They have taken you away from your natural state of enlightenment, of pure consciousness. All paths to enlightenment are actually methods to return to the natural state of enlightenment, therefore enlightenment is not something to achieve, it is a state to be recognised.
Many of the existing paths to enlightenment have been corrupted by institutions, ideologies, or misinterpretations. Some becoming direct ways to empower and feed the Ego instead of transcending it.
Each path uses different techniques and methods to return the disciple to this natural condition of being. Some of them using nails in the feet, rituals, positions, fasts and long etc.
The purpose of all the correct paths is to cleanse the being of all that is not real and unnecessary. Return to the innocence of being for the recognition of that pure essence and the connection with the whole.
Being able to achieve enlightenment in current conditions and environments is not an easy task as civilisation has grown exponentially in size and complexity. There are more sub-layers of reality such as the internet, audio visuals, and the imminent immersive worlds. However, some of the elements that have taken us away from our nature can indicate the way to return to it.
There is no better path than another, but there are more direct paths to the destination than others. Some paths are easier than others and require less time than others. Anyway, a path is a path, nothing more, you must be the one who ventures into it and walks it, because that is, an adventure into the unknown where challenges and endless opportunities await you to grow and join the joyous dance of existence.
The important thing is that you are a seeker, you are already here, at that point where you need to find your own truth. You have discovered that the promises of the system are false, materialism alone is empty, life also requires the inner being to be full and total. Comforts are simple bridges to make this expansion of being easier and more comfortable.
Seeker, keep looking and sooner or later, in this life or the next, you will find your way home.