According to Nagual Juan Matus:

“Nothing in this world is a gift.  Whatever has to be learned must be learned the hard way”.

The Lesson:

Modern American, British and European “seekers” live unhealthy and spiritually dead lives in a city or town.  Their only contact with Power seems to be from reading Castaneda books and socializing in some superficial Web-forum with other proud, self-enclosed, witty and ignorant superficial pretenders.  Naturally, all this bullshitting, coupled with a stale and corrupt lifestyle, turns them all into choosy consumers who shop on the Web for contacts or courses that are “on offer”.  But none of it has Power.

One of the things you have to learn the hard way is that Empowerment will not come at your convenience or through your computer.  You might have to spend some time outdoors doing strange things in strange places.  And even if you accept this to some degree, your occult greed and self-importance will still cause you to make some big mistakes that can easily waste years of your ignorant and foolish life of an all-too-normal human being or member of ordinary society.

Try to understand that your everyday self is filled from head-to-toe with blockages against Power that make the learning of the Way of Power virtually impossible.  The deck is stacked against you because you have allowed yourself to be programmed into a modern human robot.  Identifying the blockages against Power and removing them is itself a project that takes years of difficult trial-and-error.

Power is not just Unconscious Energy of the Universe.  Power is also a Superconscious Goddess Being the Hindu Siddhayogis or Men of Power call Shakti.  Hence Power decides who will join Her and how that joining will take place step by difficult step of hard learning, if it is to happen at all.

The Journey of Power therefore requires a certain peculiar mood or setting of one’s personal disposition. It is a Journey that few people really take for real.  Most drop out soon and settle for social or other mundane aims even when deceiving themselves that they seek Extraordinary Higher Development.  So they always look for cheap shortcuts because they are overwhelmed by their ordinary pressures and pursuits.  They rot themselves to death with postponements, self-deceptions and pretending they are already with Power.  That is how She, Power, rids Herself of modern seekers She does not like!

So, who does Power like?  Those who are truly willing to learn how to learn the Ways of Power through the only Way they can be learned.  The old Nagual was right, but even now, most modern would-be people of Power do not want to experience how right he was.  Or they deludedly imagine that joining Castaneda’s old Tensegrity Cult and paying fees for Magical Passes will bring them to Power without having to become a real Apprentice of a real Nagual.  Or, even worse, as I have said, they will content themselves with bullshitting socially on the Web about all this hoping to find someone to fuck who has similar “interests”.

Drugs or Power Plants are one of the cheap shortcuts even though Nagual Juan Matus himself gave them to Castaneda in the early days of his training.  An Apprentice may need certain drug experiences, but a do-it-yourself contemporary asshole will only burn out certain inner pathways of Power and turn them into more stupid blockages!  But, maybe this too will be a necessary learning the hard way!

What does your Inevitable Death advise you about the kind of Learning of Power you need the most right now at the present stage of your Powerless, weak and conceited life?