Living your true nature requires for you to know real freedom. Real freedom is freedom from your masks, being completely free of your cultural programming.
To free yourself from your masks, you need to be able to release them, and to be able to release them, you need to know them. Learning to know and release your masks is the singular focus of Kay’s Level 2 Course of her Setting The World In Balance Healing Arts Series.
So many people in the spiritual world talk about life-altering experiences without ever experiencing being free of their masks. Without being free of your masks, any “life-altering” experience is just your masks making you feel like you had a “life-altering” experience. Nothing has fundamentally changed about how your masks control your life if you have not freed yourself from them. That’s not life-altering; that’s just your masks tricking you into accepting to live under another set of mask rules. It’s still living under mask tyranny. Not unlike the three-card monte, our political system plays with us.
It is impossible to know real freedom, to live real awakeness, to live awake and free as a human without going through the process of releasing our masks. Most have not even begun to understand the process or implications.
This is the focus of the Level 2 Course, Walking With Purpose - The Shamanic Way Of Life, to guide students to real freedom from their masks. The course starts with everyone sharing about what masks they have found controlling their lives.
Here is Kay’s opening talk to that course:
“Okay, we're going to go around through everybody, and one at a time, we're going to describe our masks.
When we're listening to everybody else's masks, listen, really carefully listen to their words, listen to their pictures, the imagery, the feeling quality of it all.
Don't judge. You might see yourself in a mask that's being described. That is extremely common to find out that there are a lot of other people that have some masks that are like yours.
Listen, listen to them. Listen to the stories and the descriptions. They may be describing something that happens in you that you're not aware of yet, so pay attention. Don't judge, don't jump to any conclusions, don't just automatically take on somebody else's garbage because you think that's what you're supposed to do.
No, we are just listening; we’re trying to learn; we’re trying to find every way we can to be able to see ourselves and see our own masks.
The masks are what are blocking us. They are the great big boulder in the highway to heaven, the highway to peace, the highway to knowledge, to knowingness, to awakeness, all that.
Don't judge others. Don't judge yourself. Don't let these things push you into the pit and wallow, and feel sorry for yourself. That's not what this is about. We're here to learn what masks are, and we all got them. We've all grown up in this culture. We've been trained this way. We've been taught this way since we were in the womb, we've learned some of this even in the womb.
So there's nobody to blame. It's just been going on for millennia, being passed down and shared. Humans like to share their garbage with other people so that they're not alone in the garbage pit.
It's just our nature, and we need to see what it is and how it works so we can get out of it and we can stop it and be able to live our true nature. We don't have to wait till we die to be living our true nature. You could do it right here and now.”
- Kay Cordell Whitaker
The opening talk of the Hailing Arts Series Level 2 - Walking With Purpose, The Shamanic Way Of Life!
If you are curious about these teachings, you can learn more by reading The Reluctant Shaman, Kay’s first book.
If you would like to learn how you can pursue the study of these ancient teachings, contact Lora Keddie @ www.lorakeddie.com or me @ www.katasee.com.
Song to Song,
Helmut
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