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a programme of committed personal work undertaken under remote supervision. mimimum of nine months. undertaken as part of your daily life but requiring one weekend a month of dedicated work [can be split into days or half days]

Deepening into being.

This is a programme of work that will ideally begin with participants attending an introductory workshop.

The most impactful way to begin is through the toltec work-the jump into being or the burial of the warrior, or both.

The remote work which forms the heart of the programme is gentle and incremental, adding daily drops of awareness to fill a personal pool of energy that is unified in intent. It is this refined and informed intent that is then taken into the higher work-if the calling is there-the 100 days or any of the other modules availabe through fire horse

Beginning with an impact, a shock, shakes up the energy body and sheds flashes of insight into the various compounds that make up our being. Some will grow fruit and have positive effect immediately, other flashes will provide a framework for understanding our growth, our struggles, our difficulty in changing the ways that cause our unhappiness and disatisfaction.

It is a spiritual path, yet an ordinary one that has potential unimaginable. Whatever we might think now about our possible future, the path is always a mystery. Shedding our conceptual ideas is what opens us to our hghest potential.

Thus the introductory workshops invite us emphatically to let go conceptual thinking, leaving a strong impression that will provide the initial impetus for the individual work to continue. Sustained efforts lead to progress, giving us time and context in our daily lives to reflect upon what we are as we approach what we can be. Moving from personality into being. And then deepening that being , making use of stagnant energy that is released, so that we become more flexible, more fluid and less inclined towards bad reacion and negativity. So often release is temporary because there is insufficient context to make use of what has been discharged. Deepening into being provides the tools to release and to make use of what becomes available to us.

The first module of the work will be one workshop. Optionally, two can be taken. Details of the jump and the burial are detailed [elsewhere]. Thereafter, participants will receive a series of x written modules, roughly a month apart. These modules will require a few hours reading and study and perhaps a single day each month of individual work in the field, in nature, or as directed for home practice. The emphasis will be on practice and application, the study and reading provides only the clues and is not intedned to render the work concepetual or academic.

Written modules will comprise:

1. Meeting the river and empowering matter.

This module will introduce the individual study. During the month there will be some investigation work, working with nature and making preparations to encounter our insight, or our inner guide, what the toltecs have called silent knowledge. A talisman or object of power will be aquired. Details will be given on how an object of power can be found and empowered. There will also be some dietary guidance and requirements.

[walk, find river, understand how a power object is made, what it represents. How the choice of object should be offered rather than aquired. How thisis itself represents the way. That which is at first coarse can be refined. That which is refined is in itself not the transformation. It is with the refined that we begin to transform. Getting ready for the journey-ease, effort. ]

what will you do: encounter with a river.

What will you learn: how to listen [how hard it is to listen]

What tool will you gather: silence as a means to wisdom.

2. Refining space.

Space itself is the highest source of energy. Having found the river we now ask if this place is a suitable environment for our transforamtion. In this context we need to have anidea of what we are seeking to do-what is the practice, what is the purpose? These are not existential questions, they are aimed practically: if we are looking to use space to support body work practice, or to grow food, or to engage in ritual-each of these has different requirements.

In this module we look to find a space that suits one or more of the needs we have identified as being necessary to address as part of our growth.

A series of walks of intent open us to understand how we individually engage in the balance between self will and higher will. Undertaking a task in way apparently outside our experience invites us to begin to trust the unknown, to trust the silent knowledge, the hidden guide.

[continue dietary work. select a series of walks. Find a power spot. Offering and the value of ceremony.]

what will you do: find a space

What will you learn: how open and willing you are to be guided by the unknown

What tool will you gather: courage. [you already have it]

3. Opening to the unknown.

Overcoming fear of the unknown is among the best gifts we can accept. Rarely or ever is fear of the unknown released through intellect, reading or holding on to ideologies. It is only direct experience which can help us break down the habit patterns which make fear continually arise in us.

[spend time in the place]

what will you do: sit, watch and wait with awareness.

What will you learn: how much stillness there is, how much we look for activity.

What tool will you gather: patience in the face of the unknown.

4. The market place and the temple.

Sacred space is everywhere. If we can taste it in the city, in the market place, we taste an element of the truth.

[city space gazing-taking the sacred with you]

what will you do: spend time ina busy place

What will you learn: how to gather energy [in order to refine it]

What tool will you gather: solitude in the crowd.

5. Bringing in fire.

Fire is like all phenomena: it arises out of basic space dpeendant on certain conditions being present.

[mindfully prepare the ingredients for a fire, mindfully make one. Guided through the aspects-how this fire making process can provide us with a metaphor to help understand all phenomena. Everyhting arises out of basic space]

what will you do: make a sacred fire

What will you learn: how to make a sacred fire

What tool will you gather: the sacred fire

6. Planting a tree.

7. Offering service

8. Establsihing practice

9. Identfying what needs to be done individually.

10. Make a plan how to do it.

11. Do it.