Same Capacities - Separate Power

(book excerpt)..... Today, thanks to studies about the brain, it has become possible to establish the frequencies in which the brain works. Various schools have developed methods, techniques and ways that allow anyone with even brief preparation to reach deep states of consciousness, keeping all his faculties clear. We also, for our part, have studied ourselves and developed techniques which allow us to reach higher states of consciousness that our masters taught us. But we will reach it much faster. In the past, and I'm talking about almost 5 decades ago, training in our Order could last almost 2 years. This was because masters and students had to develop the skills using the traditional exercises of the old masters, they simply followed the tradition. When a master talked to a student about the vibrations of sound, his process of understanding was very limited, even for our masters it was difficult to explain these concepts. When they tried to mobilize the energy within the body, the students' abilities altered tremendously, and the vast majority had to practice for weeks to get a tangible sense of the movement of internal energy.

Currently we have improved the technique and studied areas of the brain that are activated when performing certain activities, and we have been comparing and testing new ways to reach the same activation. In the process of learning and improvement we have discovered the Mental Swings; using the right keys you will be able to feel the movement of your internal energy and its physiological effect on the brain and body, a few seconds after starting the process. These effects are exactly the same that occurred with the practices that we used previously, and during these past years we have found that the final result is the same. We have been using these new techniques for several decades, as I told you, getting the same result with our apprentices. Many types of exercise have been improved and we have also increased many of the master keys, although many of them have not changed and continue in the pattern of the past, these keys simply can’t be changed and must not be changed either.

In modern times, due to the "openness of knowledge" that is occurring globally there are a variety of schools and students of various philosophies and techniques for educating the mind, such as: Transcendental Meditation, Dynamic Meditation, TaiChi, Chi Kung, Silva Method, Psychotronic, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Metaphysics, etc. Therefore there are many people who already have the ability to reach deep states of consciousness very efficiently.  So, we might wonder why they have failed to awaken the powers we are seeking now. The answer is very simple. When they get into these higher states of consciousness, they don't know how to use the keys that we are teaching you to use; indeed, what we should say is that in many cases even they don't know about them or merely suspect that these keys and powers exist. As a result, when they enter these states of higher consciousness, their goals, knowledge and development are different from ours. Therefore, it is important to consider the techniques we have learned in order to reach higher mental levels. In other words, we must understand how our mind learned to arrive at these frequencies and intentions with which it moved at each step, until it succeeds.

The majority of current teachings   seek to take you to states of high relaxation and awareness in a fast way or at least relatively fast, depending on the technique. Likewise, our teachings reach higher states of consciousness quickly, but at the same time activate mental and physical powers of various kinds. To give you an example, imagine you have two people who want to reach the top of a mountain:

Person A: Decides to take the vertical route. He gathers up ropes, nails, expansion plugs, connectors, anchors, and fills his backpack with food and enough water for the journey and starts climbing the mountain vertically. Along the way he realizes that it is better to secure his heels to climb horizontal or vertical slits. He discovers that if it gets dark before he reaches his goal, he can set up camp and deploy his hammock. And then he realizes that it is better to climb when the sun is on the other side of the mountain. He discovers that it is better to poke holes with a stick before putting his hand in them, so as not to be surprised by snakes. Also he realizes that square holes can give his hands more grip than oval ones; he realizes which of them helps him to step and push off better. Also he realizes that certain cords work better than others, that sometimes it is better to carry the bag hanging from a cord than on his back. He learns that he must avoid areas of loose rocks and climb with goggles as he’ll be safer than without them.

Person B: He begins to climb the mountain by spiraling up it. In his walk he finds that doesn't need to carry a backpack with food, because if he is hungry he can choose hearty fruits offered by the mountain. And he begins to discover that by looking under some plants he can find water. He realizes that certain fruits are delicious and not others, and those certain foods give him more resistance than others to face the road. Also he realizes it’s safer to sleep in a tree to avoid land animals, and that when standing in streams waiting for the sun to be at its strongest he can catch some animals that come to drink water, but of course runs the risk of encountering some very large ones. He realizes that by climbing in a zigzag he gets less tired than he would in a straight line and that it is better to rest at noon under a tree protected from sunlight, and continue the march at dusk or dawn.

After a while both men will be at the top, maybe one of them got there first and already there long before the other, but although both have already reached the top, and have reached the goal, the knowledge, skills, gear and techniques which each of them have acquired will be different from the other. Both are there, certainly, but by then each one has different skills and knowledge. Therefore, each of them will be able to see possibilities and impossibilities that the other does not see. With this in mind, we tell you, although you have prepared earlier in what you consider great techniques or schools, you don't know everything. You will have to retrace the other path to attain the wisdom of the other traveler. But you will retain a great advantage in that your physical strength and your mental attitude have already been tested once before. You know you can reach the top and surely you will be able to take lighter and safer steps in your progress. As the old and well known Taoist saying goes, "if you want to fill your cup, first empty it, because if you try to fill it when it is filled, everything is going to spill".

Travel by a different path to reach the same top with new skills, knowledge and with a new goal.