La Toabey Trail and Vision (Part 1 of 2)

Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.

The Grandparents or old masters of the Native Peoples used for their internal transformation the powerful energy and blessing that emanates from the celestial breath or due unique reception of the Medicine of Vision = Guay-Can-Guacán.

Consecrated and active medicine, in a particular reading and inner assimilation of the wonderful Personal Power, acquired by unraveling hidden messages among the Sacred Winds of Sacred Mountains.

They went to certain places, some of them, very distant, remote and lonely, among the high mountains, caves and deserts.

Places of power that could contain or be charged with ''Urakán Sacredness'' = power of the hurricane.

Immersed and fertile = dynamis within Power = Wakan not ordinary of lightning, thunder and magnificent lightning.

The Heyoka, for example, is "Thunder Dreamer."

The Indian Way is the hard way.

(Lame Deer and Erdoes, 1992:92)

Now, from there one can begin to seek the vision or possibly get emotionally closer to a certain divine inspiration.

Or perhaps they can be majestically touched by revelation, thus making possible and feasible the expected and difficult 'direct and personal communication' with the magnificence of the Great Spirit.

A journey into the silence of the Voice of the Spirit.

This personal and cultural transformation could be carried out in order to vigorously undertake a new and life-giving harmonious relationship with the Great Mystery = Wakan Tanka.

It is the Way of the Visionary.

And in the meantime, they were obliged to prepare in advance and often stimulated beforehand by small dreams and visions.

In order to be able to adequately undertake the hard task and task of proceeding to retreat to these special secluded places, special places where Power resides hidden.

This in a solitary way, because from these sacred places is where the complex restoration of their own spiritual vision begins.

A dangerous and incognito journey aimed directly and naturally towards the antipodes or, better, towards the interior of the mysterious spiritual world.

A constant search for his own soul, to grant and achieve lucid, transparent and fruitful direction of Friendly Spirits = [Kola].

Connect with wise spirit guides and power animals.

In a way, repeating in absolute silence in internal prayer and faithfully wise the words of St. John of the Cross:

"To go where you don't know, you have to go where you don't know."

An extraordinary and severe ritual purification with wide, variable and multidimensional physical-chemical, psychic and even corporal restrictions.

This chain of severe limitations and restrictions – either directly and objectively – should objectify and bring to the surface precious and valuable consequences of communion with the spiritual.

Some of them are significantly specific and directly concrete, others are truly practical and applicable in the effective development of spiritual maturity, and in the future trajectory and life of the initiate.

If this is not the case, somewhere the direction, the connection and the umbilical cord have been lost, Correct access to otherness.

Well, certainly, once touched... It is not possible to go back to the old.

Already in this tight physical context -extremely limiting by the way-, the pattern or formal structure of the vision begins to be elaborated and shaped.

A direct experience charged with "Mystery and Transformation", healthy fearful and humble expectation before the doors of the receptivity of the enigmatic Sacred Power.

The initiate is trained to receive the precious instruction and careful direction to continue those concrete traditional foundations.

He will be prepared for the meritorious and renewed reception of certain significant Sacred objects of Power.

Thus, for example, he will be able to begin to sing profound songs sent by the Spirit, and even have the very great possibility - not remote - of taking charge of certain spiritual missions. [Wovoka- Ghost Dance, January 1, 1889]

Some of them may well be related to the careful translation and correct interpretation of these messages and fused to the temporal and circumstantial power granted to the visionary.

The exclusive and particular thing about vision is that it must be interpreted and assimilated correctly within the context and form; Appropriately.

Frequently, the totality of experience and phenomenology of the process is translated with simplicity and meaning, into a new but old way of going through an 'old path'.

Apparently, it would be something like walking cautiously along an unknown Path.

Following with "caution and respect" certain patterns, all of them ancient.

In this way, they will cause him to pass from the ordinary everyday world into the transcendent and immanent substance of an enigmatic spiritual vision of wisdom.

The great dilemma of the visionary would be complete surrender and acceptance to the Sacred Will.

The one that will guide you safely and faithfully to maturity.

That assures him of being able to concretize, attain and internally incorporate his achievements of a glorious stage of spiritual development.

As we have seen, it is a Path full of difficulties, where harmony is achieved with your own heart and those gifts granted by the will of the Great Spirit are kindly shared.

But, in principle, we must surrender and open up, give ourselves totally to change.

Since the first firm step is to stand before the unknown.

From that moment on, the consequent courageous challenge of true transformation becomes the primary objective of the vision.

Let us remember the dazzling face of Moses, when he came down from Sinai.

Vision renews and revitalizes the most hidden fibers of the human spirit.

It gives us direction by gently healing all of our relationships.

Since then, and more than ever, this Vision must be realized with complete Devotion and Genuine and Pure Desire.

We must point out, without ever underestimating feminine power, that there is a great difference, qualitative and circumstantial, between the traditional forms of the warrior's vision and the feminine vision of medicine.

La Toabey Trail and Vision (Part 1 of 2)

Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.