19/03/2026
After the parade and burning of the demons last night, it is now the Balinese new year called Nyepi.
It is a day of silence, all activities cease, it is a day of rest and contemplation, with an intent to reset everyone and clear them for the new year.
I have been contemplating resetting ourselves to be in harmony with the true intent of the body.
We are powerful spirit beings in essence and what we prioritise happens.
Many of you are great parents, excellent at your careers, doing your best, excelling at different facets of human existence.
So often though what we prioritise is not in alignment with the intent that brought each of us to earth.
This intent has been lost to amnesia.
If caught up, we do notice this dichotomy occasionally, yet with all of our energy used up in supporting our world we respond with a sigh, a shrug and then return to our habitual lives.
What intent brought you to earth?
Is it being fulfilled?
To answer that question we need to stop and pause, to give some time to assess where we are on our journey.
Retreat, pilgrimage, holidays and power plants have traditionally been used to reset the body towards its own priorities.
Yet, in our modern world even these have become doings and have largely lost their ability to return us to that detached space of connection.
The only answer is consciousness.
Carlos Castaneda, though he is famous for writing about power plants came to the realisation, that they mostly could only ever point you in the right direction.
His teacher also told him that the world was moving away from ritual and into a new time.
Carlos strategy was to be alert. He dispensed with his routines and this gave him energy.
He practiced not-doings, specific repeated movements that engendered the art of d**g new things or doing the same things in new ways.
Those that practice not-doings know how powerful they are in returning us to the body’s natural intents.
They also know the resistance there is from the mind in doing them.
To attempt not-doings we need energy. Carlos supplied a system of movement that directly returned energy to the body.
That energy can then be used for not-doings and self -investigation, which fosters shifts in our priorities.
Largely thanks to a BBC documentary and the sheeplike attitudes in believing that documentaries are accurate, his work has been sidelined.
Yet, he offers a cohesive, pragmatic system of strategies that is not only efficacious but mirrors the inner knowledge of many traditions.
Carlos Castaneda wrote a dozen books and his movements and postures, known as Magical Passes, are all over Youtube.
This summer, we will be at Sundara Festival, Rainbow Camp and other festivals teaching these practices.
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