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Fire of Life presents
Vision Sharing at Sintra's Teokalli 2013
Holy Man and Direct Connection
And it's important to identify the models because Life
is extremely simple. It has some models, not many,
and then these models happen in different ways,
with different participants, different dimensions, in different areas,
but there are only a few models.
And one of the models is the "Holy-Man", the special one.
We had that, for example, in the Churches. Every Church has a Holy-Man, they have a priest.
The special one, who is more connected with God than all others.
And when we want to know about God, instead of looking inwards,
we had to come outwards and ask the Holy-Man.
Sometimes we still see that model.
In what is called Shamanism (and this here is not Shamanism),
we see the Shaman, the special one.
That's not how it works. Here, in this thing called Red Road,
we don't keep the memory of the answers but of the tools used to get answers.
So, for example, if someone brings a question to someone who walks further ahead,
that someone who walks further ahead will not give you hints.
He will tell you: "You have a question ? Great !"
We will use the tool that I myself use when I have questions."
So he lights a Fire and says "Ask your questions directly to the Fire, connect yourself."
And the person follows his own connection to get the answers he seeks.
So, in the Red Road, we don't have Holy-Men - we have tools, we have a Fire, a Temascal,
we have Circles, we have drums.
So, someone has questions ? We gather here around a Fire (as we did before)
and, while people by themselves go journeying inside to seek answers,
someone else is supporting, we play a drum,
put some incenses, someone else guards the Fire. Sometimes, there is a team here of 3 or 4 people.
and those 3 or 4 people here are serving,
they're not in a vertical hierarchy saying "I'm on top, I'm in charge. I'll tell you what to do."
Vertical hierarchy, in the Red Road
means that someone is below you, saying "Go, I'm supporting you."
and when someone goes journeying, while one is drumming,
the other one is guarding the Fire and another puts the incenses, etc.
lots of people supporting so that each one can go inside seeking answers.
And then they share with the others.
because the answers they just received come aligned with their own way of seeing Life.
and we are in another. And we want to hear. "So, how was it ?"
"Share with us." And all the Circle and the Family becomes wealthier
when someone journeys inside himself.
In Temascal, for example, we can have the star figure of the Temascalero.
"I do everything and you pay your ticket at the entrance."
Then there is a different way of doing Temascal where we are all part of it.
Two prepare the canvas, two others guard the Fire.
Lots of us inside, together with the Temascalero and 2 more inside by the Fire
taking care of the stones, getting them out and keeping them hot.
It's the Family as a whole, you can't have a Temascal without the Family.
And you can't have a Temascal if we don't trust each other.
When we're inside, we have to know what the Fire-Man is doing.
We have to know that he will answer when we call.