Losing the Human Form
“You must lose your human form. . . A warrior must drop the human form in order to change, to really change. Otherwise there is only talk about change. One cannot change one iota as long as one holds on to the human form. . . Warriors, must be IMPECCABLE in their effort to change, in order to scare the human form and shake it away. After years of impeccability a moment will come when the form cannot stand it any longer and it leaves.” don Juan talking to Carlos.
To grow, evolve and ascend we know we must drop the human form. But what is the human form?
The human form is often misunderstood. Some misinterpret the human form as that which makes us human. This is far from the case. The human form actually prevents the Authentic Self, that which is our pure humanness as it comes from energy into form, from being actualized.
In simple terms, the human form is the body of pretension. It pretends to be WHO we are. It is the false personality. It is the false masks and faces we show people when we are actually feeling very different inside. In some Schools of Direct Knowledge, the human form is called the ego. The ego exists as an energy in all of humanity, and is thoroughly enmeshed in it. We see the human form, or ego in operation in government, in schools, in churches, in families, and of course in each of us individually. Whenever there is a lie, or a pretending that something does or does not exist, or a pretending that something is different than it is with the intent of deception or pretension, the human form or ego is in full force.
The human form begins to grab hold of us from a very young age. If we are a young child and are hungry and cry; and our mother or father tells us to be quiet, and we do in order to please them, we have just changed ourselves in an attempt to avoid, change or hide how we really feel, i.e. tummy hurts because we are hungry.
A young child is constantly changing self (pretension) in order to appease and please their primary caregivers, teachers, siblings, peers and so on. It isn’t long before the human form or ego has become the norm.
When our center is in the human form, we are disconnected from the Authentic Self – that part of us that is an extension of the Dreamer. The Dreamer cannot connect with the human form as it is not real. When we are under the spell of the human form (and 100% of humans are in this timeframe until they have done considerable spiritual work), we simply cannot experience the Nagual as it is. While in ego, we cannot connect and live from the Essential Self. Instead we live in a state of identification with the many ‘I’s of the false personality.
So how do we free ourselves from the human form? The answer to this is really quite simple, but it is not easy. Most spiritual truths are simple, however they are not easy. Don Juan gives Carlos a clue in the quote at the beginning of this dissertation. It has to do with impeccability.
What does impeccable mean? It literally means to be without sin. Or to be without transgressions, in this case transgression against the Essential Self, which embodies the Intent or our purpose for coming into body.
To live without transgression against the Essential Self requires us to think, feel, and act in complete alignment to it. If we are in ego or under the human form we are in falseness and cannot be aligned to the Self. We must be integral. Our thoughts, feelings and acts must be in alignment, i.e. one with the Self.
For most, until they have done sufficient work on the path, they are not consciously connected to the Self. They have not sufficiently increased the depth of their awareness. Between their awareness and the Essential Self lies the subconscious with all of its wounding and places we have hidden from self.
So what is the way out? The way out is through integrity. To be integral we must have integrity. In other words we must live in brutal honesty. The ego or human form cannot exist in the light of honesty as honesty breaks pretension. When one is honest, one cannot pretend to be something they are not, or to show they are feeling one way when in fact under the surface they are feeling entirely different.
When we are completely honest we allow for the possibility to progress in the first Toltec Mastery – The Mastery of Awareness. When we are aware of something in self, but do not like what we see and attempt to hide, avoid, or deny it, we have killed our awareness and instead fed the human form.
When, instead we have the courage to face our demons head on, to become aware of where we are at, not where we want to be, we have a chance to break free of the human form.
One of the favorite abodes of the human form is the mental body. Why? Because the mental body can justify anything. It is very easy for the mental body to pretend and lie. On the other hand, it is much more difficult for the emotional body to lie. It is much more difficult to hide how we feel than what we are thinking.
The human form convinces us that if we understand something, we have grown or evolved. This is one of its biggest lies. We can read a book and ‘understand’ how to drive a car, for example, but until we actually get in a car and drive it we will never come to ‘know’ how to drive a car.
Too many read this book or that. They are full of dead knowledge and inventory. The human form convinces them that if they can only learn a little more they will have grown and evolved. Just the opposite is true. Toltecs emphasize eliminating our inventory for a reason. Inventory only makes it easier for the human form to fool us into self-importance and believing we are some place we are not in our growth. This is further made worse by our society domestication. We are taught that the more knowledge we have the better and more intelligent we are.
Being brutally honest is simple, but difficult. The human form will try to trick you at every turn. However, if you are diligent, with impeccable Intent, you have the possibility to break free of the human form and experience what is Real in Self and a conscious connection with the Dreamer. Breaking free of the human form is the first step to true freedom.
Love and Light,
Kristopher
http://masteryofawareness.com