Tenaga Dalam - Pukulan Cimande Pusaka

I recalled how that passage in The Pilgrimage
had affected me. It caused me to think about the
times I had applied such approaches in my life
fighting fire with fire but it had not occurred to me
that this was shapeshifting.
“I told you that we humans are in our fifth
creation.” Viejo Itza’s voice startled me it seemed
huskier than before. But when I peered up at him
I saw no change, nothing visible anyway. Onetime
we were destroyed by water. Like in the Bible.
Mayan legends have much in common with what
you Christians believe. But the shapeshifters
brought us through. In the Bible, Noah built a
floating island and saved one pair of every species
to ensure their survival. I reminded him that
science has confirmed the fact that humans
managed to survive a great flood of frozen water
during the Ice Age. Imagine if our ancestors had
tried to combat the ice! Attacked it with clubs
and stone axes. Or if Noah had built dikes instead
of an ark!
It occurred to me that the equivalent of
dubs, axes, and dikes would be the way modern
science responds to climate changes. I told him
so. Yes, he agreed, nodding his head sadly. Today
your leaders have lost touch with true power.
They think in terms of the physical world only. I
understood that he was referring to the realities
shamans describe as existing parallel to the
physical or material reality that is the focus of
science and commerce.
“The world is as you dream it,” I said,
quoting the title of my latest book. It is indeed.
“This is so because shapeshifting takes off from
the dream,” he said. It can transport you into a
whole new realm. I had a feeling he was offering
to take me beyond the teachings I had received in
the Andes and the Amazon. I asked him to be
more specific.
When you talk about the importance of the
dream, you are absolutely right. The dream is
everything the waking dream as well as the
sleeping dream, our visions of who we are, where
we want to go. It affects all aspects of our lives,
whether we admit it or not. Once you understand
this, then you’re in a position to start moving
energy around. That’s when shapeshifting begins
to happen. I knew what he meant about the
power of the dream influencing the various
aspects of our lives. health, career, prosperity,
relationships with others that had been the subject
of my book. But the shapeshifting part eluded me.
Viejo Itza, can shapeshifters actually change
physical form? “Of course.” Truly take on the
appearance of an animal or plant? ‘They do it all
the time.” He broke into a grin. “You yourself
have witnessed it.”
Of course, he was right. I had seen
Amazon hunters transform themselves into trees,
becoming invisible, melting into the forest. I had
watched Andean shamans disappear into cliffs,
only to reappear seconds later one hundred feet
below. I had sat across the fire from a Shuar elder
who stood up, walked into the shadows and,
suddenly taking on the form of a jaguar, bounded
into the forests. Yet I had always rationalized
these experiences. I had filed them away
alongside the accomplishments of Houdini,
regarding them as impressive tricks, magnificent
deceptions, feats of great discipline and skill,
perhaps utilizing hypnosis and sometimes
especially among the Shuar other consciousness
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