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The Journey through Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan is a sacred site of the ancient Toltecs, located approximately 40 miles from Mexico City, Mexico.  At the height of the civilization the population was estimated to be over 200,000 people covering many square miles.  Today it exists as an archaeological site that is still under excavation and restoration.  The grounds include two large pyramids, with the Pyramid of the Sun over 200 feet high.  Its base dimensions are the same as the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. While the physical temples and structures are impressive, it is not the greatest creation of the Toltecs.  

 

The architects and leaders of Teotihuacan were Spiritual Masters, what today we term as Artists of the Spirit. Their Intent was to create Teotihuacan as a Mystery School for human transcendence from a dream of suffering to a dream of unconditional love. It is a University of Wisdom and Love. Teotihuacan was built with the intent to guide people in unraveling the mystery of what life really is, unconditional love.

 

The journey through the plazas of Teotihuacan map the journey of a Spiritual Warrior through their own personal dream to the place where they merge with Spirit, and recover the truth of their nature.  

In ancient times the warriors actually lived adjacent to the plazas that represented the level of their transformation.  They were in a community of their own kind, bonded by their common intent for personal freedom from the dream of hell.  This journey takes one through many levels of transformation and change, and can take many months or years.  It required the warrior to master patience along the way.  Of course, there is always the possibility for someone to transcend the world of time, and complete the journey in one moment.

 

The Journey

The Journey begins where we find ourselves in our lives when we to wake up to our life.  This call may come in many ways.  It could be a broken heart, burning out in career, or having successfully completed what you set out to do in your life, only to find that it has left you unfulfilled.  Whatever the mechanism, we feel something deep inside of ourselves calling out. A feeling speaking to us but not using words, something pulling on our emotions. It pushes us to seek something more than has been offered by the dream of society.

 

In the beginning we do not even know that this is what is being asked.  We only know that we have to do something.  We go looking in books, we try listening to tapes; we seek out a spiritual community or practice. We are on a quest, but what we are looking for we do not know. We do not know it because the thinking mind cannot conceptualize our own Emotional Integrity.  And yet it must take the journey.

 

Oddly, this feeling is not guiding us to look outside ourselves, where we have been conditioned to look for success, relationships, soul mates, peace, happiness, and love.  It is asking us to look inside, and put our attention deep within ourselves.  We look within ourselves with a searching, and a tenacity that we never knew existed before.  Then this feeling asks the unimaginable, it asks us to trust what we feel in our gut, and to go against all the logical rationalizations in the mind.  This unknown force asks us to take a journey inward, a journey to recover our, Integrity, our Authentic Self . The Path and Process of that Journey is given to us in Teotihuacan.

Plaza of Hell 

the Temple of Quetzalcoatl

We realize that we want to experience something more than what we have been offered.  We look around our world and find that what we have created and sought after in our life does not bring us happiness.  What we may discover is that much of our hard work to get what we thought would bring us happiness, has created the drama and suffering in our life.   

 

We accept that whether we are aware or not, we are completely responsible for our dream.  With awareness we see that we made decisions in our life without understanding the influences of fear or the consequences.   To take responsibility does not mean that we judge ourselves for the decisions we have made.  We can take responsibility, without being at fault or placing to blame.  We created our life the best we knew how.   People taught us the best they knew how. 

 

Taking responsibility for our own creation is a critical step. Without taking responsibility we remain trapped dreaming as a victim.  When we take responsibility for our lives and all the decisions we recover the power to change our life.  Without responsibility there is no power.   With the awareness that we are the creator of our dream, we decide to change it.

 

We declare war on our own personal dream of Hell. We declare that we will change what we believe; we will no longer live as a judge or as a victim.  We declare a war on the false beliefs and illusions in our mind that blind us from perceiving love and truth.   In this moment we become a Spiritual Warrior.  We are Warrior’s fighting for our own personal freedom.  Personal Freedom is the freedom from judgments, suffering, self-abuse, and drama. With this declaration, we go to face our beliefs, fears, and the self-importance that causes suffering in our lives. 

 

The Plaza of Earth  

the Place of Temptation

    

Making a declaration and becoming a warrior, does not mean that we will win the war.  The dream of the world is very seductive and very tempting.  It is in the place of temptation that we challenge and overcome our attachment to the physical elements of our life. This means that we inventory our fears and recognize that we only have a short time here in this body.  How much time we do not know.  The honest acceptance of death clarifies priorities.  When we accept death we appreciate and respect the moments of our life that we have left.  Our respect and appreciation for life grows to the point that we will not contaminate our moments of experience with fear.  In the Plaza of Earth, we surrender our attachments and fears to the Death.  However, like other things in the world they may not want to go willingly.

 

It is in the place of temptation that the dream challenges the warrior to fall.  It is in the temptation that we continue the battle and challenge our own habits, attachments and false beliefs that keep us in fear.  As a warrior in this part of the process, it is likely that we will fall many times.  How many times we fall is not important.  As a warrior it is only important that we get up each time and continue.

 

Continue: The Journey

 

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