'The Dream of the Second Attention'

Toltec Shamanism

3-5 December

with Twobirds

Toltec knowledge arises from the same essential unity of truth as all the sacred esoteric traditions found around the world. While it does embrace Spirit, it is most accurately described as a way of life, distinguished by the ready accessibility of happiness and love.

As little children, we are completely authentic. We never pretend to be what we are not. Our natural tendency is to play and explore, to live in the moment, to enjoy life. Nobody teaches us, we are born that way.

When the human mind is mature enough to abstract concepts, we learn to qualify everything through the opinions of others – right or wrong, good or bad, beautiful or ugly. We use our attention to create a story about what we should be, we put our faith into the story, and the story becomes our truth. This is what the Toltec's call ‘dreaming’. We stop being authentic and assume a self image moulded by circumstance, which is not real. The result is inner conflict, judgement and self-rejection as we live out aspects of our lives that are simply false. It is the result of what we have learned.

Using the core-shamanic practices of the Ancient Ways, we will explore the wisdom of the Toltec teachings by ‘using our attention for the second time’ – changing the agreements we have made that are not authentic, into those that come from our own truth, from an empowering place of love.

The ‘Ancient Ways’ or equivalent is the pre-requisite for this workshop.

Cost £195, 16 Participants