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The Light: Where Science Meets Toltec
Wisdom
by Allan Hardman
In The Four Agreements, Miguel Ruiz begins by telling the story of "a human
just like you and me." This human is dreaming in a cave, and in his dream he
sees himself going out, looking up into the starry night sky, and discovering something
very wonderful.
In the middle of that night, he realizes that all that space between the stars is
not empty. It isn't dark, it isn't filled with some mysterious ether, but it is filled
with light! You look at the night sky and it looks dark, but when you put any object
out there you discover that light hits it from all sides. Our sun, which sends so
much light to the Earth, is sending light out in every direction -- at 186,000 miles
a second -- and it is going at that speed, without slowing down, forever, in all
directions. That is true of every single sun/star in the universe. That's a lot of
light. So any point in space is filled, absolutely filled, with all light from everywhere
passing through that one point.
When the human looked up and saw that phenomenon he said, "If I see mostly light
and some little pieces of matter spread around, then this universe is not made up
of matter, it is made of light. Light makes up the bulk of the universe." Looking
down at his hands in his dream, he saw that they, too, were made of points of light.
We call them atoms. They're little points of light and they have little "planets"
going around them, just like the sun. It's mostly space in between them, just like
in the sky. And he realized that the space in his body was filled with light, also,
and that it was the same light as "out there." He realized that if his
body is mostly light, and the universe is mostly light, then there is no boundary
where one light stops and some other light begins. That light is everywhere.
The human saw that light is the messenger of creation, the messenger of Life. The
light is alive, and is carrying the message of Life from the source, or the Creator,
which we also could call God. The Toltecs call this messenger of creation the "Nagual,"
and the manifestation of that message, or creation itself, the "Tonal."
Someone who frees himself from identification with the Tonal, and knows himself as
the light and Creator, is thus referred to as a "Nagual."
I'm talking about light in a very broad way here. I'm not talking about just visible
light, because as you probably know, there's a wide, wide band of what we think of
as light. Visible light -- what we see reflected -- is just a little, tiny part of
that band. If you move just a little bit into the infrared band, you won't see it
with your eyes. The light is only received by that which has receptors for the light.
We could say that radio waves are light. So you are sitting there, immersed in radio
waves. If you were able perceive all of the radio waves that are coming through you
as light, right through the space that you are right now, it would be absolute chaos.
Can you imagine? A rock 'n' roll station is playing in your head, right along with
three talk shows and a basketball game! So, even when we have a radio that receives
that light as radio frequencies, we use a system to tune up and down and choose one
frequency on the radio -- out of the hundreds that are passing through everything
all of the time. You can even do it in a building; the light comes right through
the walls. The wall is mostly space, filled with light.
When I say the universe is full of light, I am saying that all the information it
takes to run a universe is being communicated by the light in every place in the
universe, all of the time. Humans are designed as receivers of one particular band
of that light.
The light we receive comes mostly from the sun. It is reflected off that particular
tonal to us. Most of the light is actually reflected again off of some other part
of the tonal. As you learned in school, when you are looking at an object, what you
are seeing is not the object. What you are seeing is the light reflected off of the
object.
The light is the living messenger, carrying the message of creation/the tonal to
you. The light has memory and can travel across the universe for billions of years.
When it's received in a telescope it remembers and communicates exactly what was
going on when it started on its journey. If it leaves a star, and travels for 13
billion years to get to you, it remembers exactly the event that occurred 13 billion
years ago. It has perfect memory. That light is reflected off of the object, with
perfect memory of what the object is. It hits your organ of perception, your eye,
which is designed to perceive the light perfectly. This "message of light"
has to travel through channels inside of your mind to get to the place where you
actually perceive it in some neurological, conscious way.
The human in don Miguel's story discovered that those pathways in the mind are contaminated
by belief systems and fears and expectations -- they distort the light coming in
from creation. He saw the nature of the dream and the truth about the distortion
of his perceptions. He wanted to be sure he would remember what he had learned when
we woke up. So he called himself "The Smoky Mirror." He had learned he
was a perfect mirror for the Divine. Nobody could see that perfect mirror, though,
because of the "smoke" that comes from distorting the light. The stored
light of your perceptions distorts the truth of the message of the Divine in the
light...like smoke distorts an image in a mirror.
Allan Hardman is a Toltec Master in the Eagle Knight lineage
of the Nagual Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements. After
finishing an intensive apprenticeship, he now teaches with don
Miguel and other Toltec Masters throughout the West Coast. He
also leads Power Journeys to sacred sites around the world to
share his connection to the silent knowledge of the ancient mystery
schools. Don Allan supports apprentices throughout the world with
his Toltec Apprentice Community
OnLine (TACO) available through www.joydancer.com. You can speak
with don Allan directly by telephone at (707) 528-1271 or e-mail
him at donallan@joydancer.com.
Copyright (c) 2002 Allan Hardman
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