The Berlin seminar was, as they all are, beautiful. Even though the linear time that we were together was brief, we learned so many movements, had many insightful lectures, and acheived a powerful, silencing consensus of movement.

The Nagual held a place in his heart for Berlin because it was a place that had been split -- a place with a broken intent. And yet it has become unified. He said we can use this intent to unify ourselves, to bring our energy bodies to us.

Gavin talked about how we go through life feeling incomplete, with a nagging sensation that something is missing, and we search for things to make us feel whole. We think another person can do it, but this longing is really the longing for the energy body, which is pushed away at birth and gets further and further away as we age. Nyei later described us as having been litterally halved.

When Nyei talked about Tensegrity, she referred to tensegrity structures and said that if one small piece of the structure changes then the entire structure changes. She described how, on the accute level of our bodies, this is how the magical passes change us: by altering a small aspect or aspects of our structure, the entire organism is changed or re-calibrated. When we recapitulate we redeploy the dispersed energy, and we repair and change our energetic structure. And on the other level, as a mass of practitioners, when one person or a few people change energetically, the entire mass is effected.

She also talked about assuming responsibility for our actions, and how we have a tendency to think, "Oh, I´ve heard this. I understand this." She said assuming responsibility seems simple but its implications are vast and powerful.

We must assume responsibility for how we use the extra energy that the passes bring; sorcerers, she said, use this energy for dreaming. And we should assume responsibility for being part of the mass, for sharing this group dream. She encouraged interaction and communication between the practice groups. She said that an integral part of assuming responsibility for our actions is assuming responsibility for the consequences of our actions. But not only must we assume responsibility for our actions, we must assume responsibility for our own link with infinity.

Our link with intent, which it was said, is all that matters. And in this vein, they taught a short form of the Tiger of Intent. They said with this pass we can move through time and space, to move to the position of these magical tigers that would breathe with their entire being. The tigers' purpose was unwavering, nothing could stop them or change their course. This is the mood we intend to embody.

Nyei guided us lucidly through the purpose of the Navigators' Log. She emphasized the conciseness of the entries, because energy is concise. It is a chronicle of the perceptions of the energy body, and we use it as a tool of calibration, and to uphold awe in our daily life. We write for 10 minutes (or for however long we want, but being concise), and we set the clear intent to hear the seer within. Questions we can use are: Where is my attention?; What am I perceiving?; What do I want to say in front of infinity? With the log we become aware of, and trap in a corner, the aspects of ourselves we want to change.

The log is a map of our internal dialog and our tricks; it reveals how we put ourselves in the pit, or shanty town, or self-pity. And we see how, she reiterrated, we put ourselves in the pit. And we've been given the tools to get out of the pit. She said we write in the log the moments when something else comes in, realizations that aren't our normal thoughts, this is poetry, a new view. They want our next concise report before December 11th.

Miles said that the magical passes were discovered in dreaming, and in dreaming we are not bound by certain laws of the world of everyday life. For instance, we don't need to breathe in dreaming, and there is no gravity. Sorcerers who discovered the passes could have been floating upside down, and when they replicated the movements while awake, they had to calibrate them to this world and their organic bodies.

This concept of calibrating was much explored. They said we calibrate the passes according to our own body and to what it needs at the moment. Running Man was presented in five formats as examples of different intensities of calibration. It was presented as a most important unit. The old shamans were in a constant state of physical vigor. They could shift at a moments notice. Running Man replicates their perceptual fluidity. It is very important because it beckons and helps the fringe of awareness to grow. The fringe of awareness is our cloak of confidence; we bring our cloak up from our feet.

The five formats, or intensities, were: sitting, lying down, against a wall, standing, and dancing. While doing Running Man, Miles said we need to suspend the judgement that our bodies are composed of seperate units. We are, naturally, integrated -- foot connected to calf to hip to lower disc. He led us also through some preliminary passes to Running Man that affect our energetic connection to the earth.

He said we come from earlier beings, from amphibians who had a more conscious link with earth. We possess inside us their phyllum, and we can use the earth's boost to cross over. It was also said of Running Man that, even though it is the feet and legs that are moving, it stirs the energy of the entire luminous sphere.

Miles also talked about the recapitulation. He said if you're unable to unhook yourself from the pull or charge of certain emotions -- anger, desire, etc -- then leave those events or memories for now and come back to it later. He addressed getting stuck in things while recapping, where our attention gets caught. He told the story of an apprentice who was caught up in time and looking at his watch. He said the question is not just "Where is your attention?", but, as Taisha asked this apprentice, "Where is your spirit?" She advised this apprentice to go buy a beautiful golden watch. If your attention is caught, then you turn it into an art.

He told the story of a practioner who told the Nagual, "This is what I do: I follow Carlos Castaneda." And the Nagual said, "Great! But what else?" And the practitioner replied, "I do magical passes and recapitulate." The Nagual said, "Great! But what else do you do?" Miles explained that the Nagual urged them endlessly to engage in the doings of the world. He encouraged them to explore lines of action, threads of thought, paths of heart.

Miles said, "Each warrior has to follow his own path." He said, "'It' will manifest itself to each of us differently." Miles said we should use our skills of organization and precision we learned from daily world, and to apply this organization and precision to our perception. But whatever we perceive, we perceive with affection and without judgement, so that our energy fibers are warmed by this affection.

Nyei addressed the infamous rumor of Cleargreen ending the seminars. She asked us, "Are you going to listen to the doubters or to your energy bodies?" She said that the apprentices of Carlos Castaneda will never stop; this is their path; they are infected with the bug of freedom. But whether there are more seminars depends entirely on us, the mass. They announced another seminar in February in Anahiem, California. She reiterrated that the seminars are entirely up to us. She said, "But if you take them for granted. . ." and then she shrugged.

She said that just because the seminar is over we don't need to say goodbye because we will communicate through e-mail, for we are navigating together. And Miles closed with, "We will see you in your dreams."



Post Script: Another point of interest was Nyei's definition of impeccability: It is being functional; it is the wise use of energy. . . .But, my friends, I'm out of time. Outside my door is a dream called Berlin.