I'm generally a 'live and let live' kinda guy who, though I have strong feelings, sentiments, and opinions, has pretty much kept my preaching to a minimum and usually only shared my thoughts with individuals or small groups of deep explorers or with my students. However, I find that I have some things to say, things worth saying and worthy of others taking the time to close their noise-holes for a bit and listen to - carefully. Sound a bit arrogant? Well then, if confidence & honesty intimidates you then you are free to take your leave.

Wanna explore some powerful pathways & knowledge and dive into some risky interactions & potentialities? Then linger awhile and open up your headbone, Strange, Earthly, and unlikely yet awesome interplays will shortly ensue...

How to gain Super Powers and a measure of Personal Grace - a Trixter guide to banishing Modern Feeble-minded Pretence:

1. Stop worrying about everything:
I mean it, just knock it off - no excuses. Gather yourself, your energies, and your meaningfull connections and relations - those things that feed you and don't drain you, and cut off the rest. Indecision comes from the luxury of having too many options.

2. Come to an understanding about the difference between Restraint and Coercion:
Restraint is, at core, when you yourself cultivate a degree of personal control over your life's energies and resources - and it is an important, nay CRUCIAL aspect of the whole maturity thing that most everyone is avoiding at this time, in this age, on this planet. Think of restraint as the quality and capacity of drawing a circle around yourself to focus and forge yourself and to protect yourself and your dear ones from harm. If you come to a deep understanding about restraint you will have revolution in your understanding about the meaning of freedom.

Coercion, by contrast, is manifest when you wish to exert control over external events, dynamics and organisms to the degree that their inherent potentialities and energies are forced into subordination to your will - and past the basic predatory need for survival and a languid natural existence this exertion & application of control becomes an expression of your extreme immaturity. And get this straight: passive aggressiveness is a manifestation of a desire to coerce others to get your way out of them through alterior means. It IS devicive and bespeaks of your inability to step up and stand on your own two feet. Own up to it already. Coercion is a puerile destructive & damaging activity and you need to put a stop to it right now and grow up.

3. Grow up:
Find a group of elders (ideally at least a generation older than you) of your same gender who have the qualities and intelligence and strength of character that you admire and wish to see in yourself and ask them to put you DOWN. (If you lack elders then find or manifest a group of age-mates) Have them come together as a group or work with you individually and to bring you - through stories, through conversation, through confessions, and through trusting impatient confrontation with you & your childish ways - to an intellectual and spiritual empasse, a place of no escape, whereby you must DIE. That immature, spoiled, selfish, self-centered, emotionally turbulent, impetuous kid gets itself finally and thoroughly killed-off so that the mature, centered, and powerful adult inside you can be born - the PC educated term for this is 'initiation' - but that word fails utterly to describe the extreme power of the transformation from one state of existence to another - a better term would by far be 'child-death'.

We live on a planet, in an age where there are so few actual adults out there that we are as a species drowning in our own immature bullshit. So do us, and your world, all a favor and get yourself wacked. A human child is only meant to have a lifespan of about 15 years before it is supposed to be put to ritual death (human sacrifice) by members of its family, community, or tribe so that the full human adult inside it can be born into the world. Its a risky business, but the payoff is amazing. If you find yourself to be 20 or 35 or 50 and this hasn't happened for you yet, don't fret, its not too late. Tremendous personal clarity and spiritual ease await you on the other side. But get busy bub, time's a wastin'!

And if you can't gather even one active mentor (not really surprising all things considered) to help birth you into full irrevocable adulthood, then the next best thing I can suggest would be to compose a 'magic' ritual for yourself and do the needed imagery, summon the ideals and qualities into your imagination, and when you've got it all together, and when you are just so completely sick of & pissed off at your own ridiculousness - then you take your first and second fingers of one hand, bring them together and form 'Gun Mudra' - place them in your mouth and pull the trigger. Its messy for all the ectoplasmic brain matter splattered all over the walls - but it can do the job nicely.

And interestingly enough, when an adult is born into the world it does not wail and cry like a child does, quite the opposite, it is eirily quiet and composed, a being whole for the first time. a rare beautiful powerful thing, like a unicorn, a yeti, or a sea monster.

4. Stop blaming others:
Putting the blame for pretty much anything onto anyone else (even Georgie Jr.) is making yourself out as a victim. It is one of the single most disempowering actions you can take. It destroys your personal energy and centeredness and makes you rigid, stubborn, and proud. But by contrast it also makes you meek and docile and easily led.

So this next bit is gonna sting (until you shoulder the burden): ITS ALL YOUR FAULT! If there is any blame at all, its all on you. If everyone around you is a child it makes no sense (and is completely ridiculous) to point fingers at them and get mad or frustrated, you just prove out your own childishness. Own it, all of it - take it on, sort it out, be the guide who shows the children how its done with this grown-up thing so they have a chance to figure it out for themselves one day.

5. Wake up.
Look, if you want to live in this civilization and not be straight up evil or stupid then stop resourcing material goods, food, and energies beyond your sight and touch. Its THAT EASY. If you can see what goes into your food & water then you are a hell of a lot more likely to chose food that has good qualities and nutrition and doesn't harm others. If your want to eat animals then stop buying that slaughtered ill-treated crap in the stores and arrange to get what you want from a local source - from animals you can go out and see and hear and pet. Best yet, take its life by your own hand & give thanks to it personally, looking the animal in the eye - this act alone will desolve enormous amounts of pretentiousness. If you want new shoes and clothes and gismos free from the awful karma of slavery, suffering, and damage to nature - you HAVE to do this. It may seem limiting to a pouty child, but its certainly not to an adult - its called ' RESTRAINT' and it is the only real way to make a difference in this world as it currently stands.

And if you can' t get ALL you want through direct interactive means and cannot exercise discretion with the gismos and such that you purchase, then - honest-to-gods - you should offer prayer and give thanks deeply.

Start immediately paying attention to the wake you leave in your passing - on all levels. Relationships, commitments, responsibilities, debts, obligations, conversations, purchases, etc'. (is it really necessary that that person know that you are right and they are wrong?) stop blowing your wad like a child and get over it - get over ALL OF IT - and start 'paying' attention - therein lies the roots of a great power.

6. I don't care who you are or what you think you know - if you don't know how to make fire from scratch, find potable natural water, build a simple and effective shelter outdoors, protect yourself, and scrounge up enough nutrition to keep you and your kin going out in nature - than all you know boils down to a domesticated pile of shit. You know the truth in this and you also know what it is inside you that wants to fight against this truth. Doesn't matter that you personally may never need these skills and knowledge, it matters that you have it - because to lack them is to live in the illusion of civilizations perminence & immutability. And your ancestors as far back as forever never suffered such a conceit. What's YOUR problem?

remember: Gun Mudra!

I may add more to this or expand on it sometime soon, but as your Sensei of the moment, I can assure you that the above is enough to get you started, and definitely enough to make you interesting and worthy of notice to other adults who can help you on your life journey, if you are so fortunate as to cross one's path.

A bow to you from within the dojo.

© Perere 2008