The embodying of these warrior qualities is an essential next step in the transformation of human consciousness and in the survival of the human species. Until our consciousness opens to a greater light of awareness, we will continue to foul our nest, to murder each other and entire species, to hate, to live lives of isolated desperation while engrossed in our own reflections.
Practicing the embodying of these qualities of the warrior of spirit expands one’s capacity and capability. As our capacity opens, more awareness comes. As more awareness comes, our capacity to receive expands. We become co-creators or partners with the lifeforce, with spirit in this endeavor.
A purpose of this book is to introduce these warrior qualities (you will find they are not strangers) so that you may sit with them, entertain them, try them on for size, and perhaps find that they become you.
Embodying Spirit: The Inner Work of the Warrior is partly a manual with recipes from the warrior community for consciousness transformation. We are the ingredients. This life we are living is both mixing bowl and oven. Our Source provides the right temperature for our baking.
The root of “manual” is manus or hand. In a manual, useful information is made handy, near at hand. The value of a manual is, exactly as the name implies, in its use. A manual sitting on a shelf is in a coma, awaiting someone handy to bring it into life. The person bringing a manual to life is simultaneously resurrected. Possibilities are unleashed.
Merging with a manual brings into play the focused intent of creation. Tab A is actually inserted into Slot A. The carburetor is actually adjusted. The recipe is followed. Eggs are broken and stirred. Something new is born.
Concepts are combined with direct bodily experience so that a depth of comprehension is attained. The person’s whole brain, the entire embodying being, begins to know. Centering, for example, is no longer an idea or image, a mental projection, an illusion, but a living action, a way of being in the world.
For those who are only reading this manual, you will get some ideas for intellectual banter in your mental foraging. Unless the qualities discussed are already part of your experience or unless you perform the experiments, you will not know what you read. If you want water rather than a mirage, you must embody the qualities.
