Shamanism for the Age of Science: Awakening the Energy Body - Kenneth Smith 2018
Self-Reflection
A World of Energy
Modern Toltecs focus on the unrelenting quest to awaken their entire energy bodies as a means to engage the third field, not to mention for the sheer adventure of doing so. But you don’t have to be a Toltec to embark on this voyage. Anyone can set his or her mind to it. The principal way to facilitate this journey is to manage self-reflection, the almost constant mental and emotional referencing of ourselves to ourselves, others, and our world. When management of self-reflection combines with stopping our thoughts, the flow of our mental energy, it delivers a one-two punch that knocks out the images of our preconceived world. All other perspectives and procedures fall secondary to this challenge.31
No matter what the scheme of things—flat earth, shamanism, bioenergetics, or otherwise—the world we perceive bubbles forth from a network of interlocking thoughts that form a grand composite. What we think the world is becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy where we verify our own thoughts and feelings day in and day out. The trick, then, is to stop thinking . . . at least long enough, and regularly enough, to break apart the composite—the cohesion—in order to allow new perceptions to enter into our conscious world, to allow new thoughts to form, and then to repeat this time and again. It therefore supplies a means of discovering what exists, not what we think exists.