TRAINING FOR THE OSC (Ordinary State of Consciousness)

The moon has just passed first quarter.  Having to wait three days for the Crescent, in order to perform my ceremonies, makes the waxing moon an abbreviated phase.  Diana rules the waxing moon.  I am only just now learning to discern her vibes.  Hecate has been so powerful with me over the years –she is the only one to have had sex with me, for instance.  And she always helps me clean house.

It took me a few days to regain my energies after the Kooti Despacho, but today I’m feeling much more energy.  Jesus entered my RDSE sequence this morning, exclaiming in the rush of energies, “I DIE!”.  I’m not happy to have him back with me, but maybe there’s something I can learn from this phase of the experience.  New Moon is several weeks away, and I won’t be able to execute another Kooti Despacho until then.  I did make a start on a Mojo Box to hold his spirit, just this afternoon.

With Diana, I’m energized to make some gains in the outer world.  My experiences are so far out of line with anyone else’s, it’s hard to find a way to present them.  As the energies move and change, I seem to have discovered a point of entry, and a way to organize my material, so that I can “turn the heads” of my audience.  I really don’t present what they’re looking for.  The glut of Shamanic Practitioners and other new age healing modalities has warped the noosphere.  It should be interesting to observe the fallout from this twist.  New things are always bred from bad beginnings.

I inadvertently referred to Michael Harner’s phrase, the OSC, or Ordinary State of Consciousness, in another article.  It seems to me that this phrase is sufficiently ‘psyche-neutral’ to slip past the spell-check on the Ordinary State of Consciousness which holds my readers.

The Shamanic State of Consciousness (SSC) is so much vaster, and so much more in touch with Reality, and has so many ‘risky’ doorways, that it’s no wonder so few really venture into it.

The ‘paranormal’ craze has many people trapped in a sort of pseudo-Shamanic state –a state paralyzed by birth defects of the psyche.  Any time you see the words paranormal, or occult, run like crazy!  These are dead-ends of the psyche.

Harner hit on such a beautiful entryway into the SSC, with the simple drum-induced state of the Shamanic Journey!  I’ve always regretted that I was taken away from this mode, but the experience of psychic union with the Gods has been stupendous.  No one really wants to go through what I’ve had to go through, to get there, though!

It always amuses me that people with spend thousands of dollars to travel thousands of miles in a cramped airplane, being groped by TSA agents, to a jungle hut, a Shaman they don’t know, and twenty other strangers all puking and shitting in the jungle to get high on ayahuasca, when all they have to do is get a pendulum, a pair of divining rods, and do several years of work with crystals and vortexes, and they can take their own OSC into the realm of the Gods.  Where’s the glamour in that?

And they end up trapped in the awareness of the ayahuasca or peyote deva, instead of flying on the wings of their own consciousness, --their own Medicine Energies.

II

Just what is the OSC?  The Ordinary State of Consciousness; you could call it the Ego, but that would be misleading.  We are so far wrong in our bad attitude toward the ego!  More on that later….

The OSC is the monster-child of the Second Natural Enemy of the Spiritual Warrior –Sociology.  The OSC is a paraplegic amputee.  It can’t see upward, it can’t see downward, to the right or the left, and it’s nearsighted.  With such a limited focus, it’s a miracle we’ve achieved anything at all!  But very predictable that what we have achieved is on the verge of destroying our wonderful planet.

The OSC is the step-child of the Christian paradigm divorced from the pagan/indigenous universe and remarried to the Industrial Revolution.  The OSC is a prisoner locked in the skull.

The beauty of yoga is that it provides a way to form an energetic bridge between the mind-trapped-in-the-skull, and the energetic aspects of the physical human body.

The beauty of Shamanic Practice is that it provides a way to form an energetic bridge between the mind-trapped-in-the-body and the mindspace intelligence of the physical universe.

The beauty of observing the phases of the moon is that they form a bridge from “being (trapped) in the moment”, to an extension of visceral time as the energetic psyche transports itself through time and space in the physical/psychic body.  Linked with the phases of the moon through the time-space-psyche of the human body, the human awareness (OSC) becomes a multidimensional extension into the infinite doorways of infinity.

'MR. MOONSHINE' IN MY DREAMS

This New Moon seems to be a 'cutting' moon; I'm reminded of the scimitar, the sickle and the scythe.  My dreams showed me a young man made of moonlight.  He had the same glow as the Man in the Moon, whom I had met earlier.  But he was obviously a 'new' moon man.  He was very slender, very pale, but very male.  He was interacting with a moonlight woman, older than he, and was warned away.  He had a message for me.

Over the weekend, I met three young people, all new to Yakima, all in the startup phase of their businesses.  I was very much impressed with the beauty and quality of their light.  They were obviously people of spiritual gifts, reinforced with a practice of some sort.  It was the opening of a Tai Chi studio. I enjoyed chatting with them for a while, and then the energies began to grow.  I found myself picking up a small pyramid described as an 'orgone' tool.  As I turned it over, I noticed very active energies in the base.

I pointed the base of the pyramid at the heart center of one of the young women.  Her chest energies began to heave, with visible undulations, and she turned away from the energies, as I immediately turned the energies away from her.  I pointed it at her male companion, but he seemed unaffected.  I could see great energies in his hands.

I put the pyramid back where I found it, and we continued our conversation.  The young woman had told me, when we were introduced, that she was looking for a Shaman to teach her.  She had been told that she had been a shaman in a past life.  I could see that this was true.  Soon other people came in the door, so our conversation was interrupted.

When we were able to resume our discussion, my Shamanic persona took control of me.  I told them that I was going to present them with a display of my energies.  It doesn't take long for my Shamanic energies to have an effect on people, so I wanted to give them a demonstration while there was still time for my introduction to make sense to their OSC.

I just started telling them about how I became a Shaman.  I told them what I had to tell them, and said that they should just let it rest in them for some days, and think about how it had affected them.  I then said my goodbyes and began to leave.  As I left the office of the owner, I noticed that the young couple were curled up together on the floor, in the corner, apparently drained of energies.  They were no longer shining!

I wanted them to know in their energy bodies what it is like to enter the energies of the Shaman.

The work that I have to do with people when I work with them begins with getting them to understand that their energy bodies are not able to withstand my energies, regardless of their training and practice.  I am a Nagual Shaman.  (This does not refer to the 'nagual' as it manifests in the 'Toltec' cult of don Miguel Ruiz.)

My energy body was very much alive this morning, as the North Wind came along to begin the work of stripping the leaves from the trees.  When I speak of the 'moods' of the moon, this is what I'm talking about.  The energy body interacts with the weather,  as the weather interacts with the phase of the moon.  The energies of the trees and vortexes all resonate with the same energies.  It is a 'Medicine' concert.  As my energies opened in the early morning darkness,  I was able to open into the Voice of the Dream.

It is not so much a speaking voice, but an energetic telling of what was encoded in the dream.  As I entered into the New Moon energy field, I also opened the energy packet I had received from the young people in the Tai Chi studio.  The Moon Man was telling me that I should give them instruction in the "Expense Account".

All three are in the beginnings of their businesses, and new to Yakima.  But they have been here long enough to know how hard things can be here.

My task is to convince people that they need to 'tighten up' their life path, in order to save and protect their energies when they work with me, in particular, but also so that they can be assured of a safe journey in the years to come, by foregoing some of the carelessness that is inherent in the OSC (Ordinary State of Consciousness), and adopting the protocols of Shamanic Ritucharya and Shamanic Dinacharya, the seasonal and daily tasks required to bring the proper 'tightness' to the lifepath.

This is the first assignment for anyone wishing to study with me.  I ask that they bring the materials of their Expense Account to the first session.  It takes three moon cycles to begin this work, so get started today!

First, ask for and save the receipt for each and every penny you spend.  Keep the receipts in an envelope for each month.

List on a piece of paper, yes, paper! all these expenditures.  Everything.  Make vertical columns for the various types of expenditure.

Make a horizontal column for each day in the month.

Add up the totals for the month at the bottom of each column, for each and every type of expenditure.

Make a new Expense Account spread sheet for each month.

You will notice that things get out of hand somewhat, as the Holidays approach.  At the same time, Winter descends on us.  Each month is a new season, with new and different types of expenditures.  As in observing the lunar cycles, the Expense Account serves to extend and expand and deepen your attention span, and your attitude toward the Sacredness of Life increases and deepens.

If you are in a relationship, you will notice that most arguments stem from disagreements of one sort or another, with one common denominator being money.  If you have your money under control, it is much easier to control your attitudes and emotions.  This is one of the best entry points into the Yogic 'niyama' of Svadhyaya, or self knowledge.  Pennies are the cells of the self.  The Expense Account is the pranayama of the cash flow.  Mr. Moonshine wants you to know this, at this time.