manjame vikenty sancho
Flaviano Bada
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Overall, the book covers a spiritual approach to personal improvement. It is written in a first-person narrator point-of-view as he travels Peru in search of specific manuscripts. These manuscripts have insights into life and how people can evolve into better versions of themselves. The narrator then learns the Insights, one by one, often experiencing the Insight before actually reading the text, while being pursued by forces of the Church and the Peruvian government.
The manuscript is divided into segments, or chapters, each devoted to a particular insight into life. The manuscript predicts that in this time period human beings will begin to grasp these insights sequentially, one then another, as we move from where we are now to a completely spiritual culture on earth.
The first insight occurs when we become conscious of the coincidences in our lives. These coincidences are happening more and more frequently and when they do, they strike us as beyond what would be expected by pure chance. They feel destined. The experience includes a feeling of mystery and excitement, and therefore, we feel more alive. These coincidences have been the perception behind many great attempts at philosophy, religion, and mythology.
At the close of the second millennium, now, we will be able to see the entire period of history as a whole, and we will identify a particular preoccupation that developed during the latter half of this millennium, in what has been called the Modern Age. Our awareness of the coincidences today represents a kind of awakening from this preoccupation.
Imagine that reality is beginning to break down. First, you notice certain improprieties on the part of the church. Suddenly you are in the midst of a religious rebellion. Martin Luther is calling for a complete break from papal Christianity and the rebellion succeeds. All the things you took for granted now need a new definition, especially the nature of God and your relationship to God. With that awareness, the Modern Age begins.
In summary, a thousand years ago we lived in a world where God and human spirituality were clearly defined by the church. Then we lost it, or better, we decided there was more to the story. Accordingly, we sent explorers out to discover the real truth and report back, and when they had taken too long we had become preoccupied with a new, secular purpose of settling into the world. We discovered metallic ores that could be melted down and fashioned into all kinds of gadgets. We invented sources of power, first steam then gas and electricity and fission. We systemized farming and mass production and now commanded huge stores of material goods and vast networks of distribution. The problem was that our focused, obsessive drive to conquer nature and make ourselves more comfortable had left the natural systems of the planet polluted and on the verge of collapse. We were reaching a climax in our cultural purpose. We created the means of material security and now we seemed ready to find out why we had done it.
The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty. When something strikes us as beautiful, it displays more presence and sharpness of shape and vividness of color. It stands out. It shines.
The fifth insight is a new understanding called mystical consciousness. This is a process where we receive energy from another source. Food is the first way of gaining energy. You must savor and appreciate the taste of the food. After eating, you become more sensitive to energy in all things. Everything around us has energy. You have to be open, to connect, to use your sense of appreciation. Allow love to enter you. When you get to the level where you feel love, then you can gain and give energy willingly.
The first insight occurs when we take the coincidences seriously. The second insight institutes our awareness of our place in history. The third insight beings a new view of life. The fourth exposes the human tendency to steal energy from others. The fifth shows us that the universe can provide all we need.
When something occurs beyond to chance to us, we feel as though we are attaining what destiny is leading us to become. We have become a new person, lifted higher by the energy of the coincidence. We fill up, grow, fill up, grow, and repeat. That is what this movement toward a worldwide spiritual consciousness is all about.
Before we can connect with the energy on a permanent basis we must face our particular way of controlling others. This is called a control drama. The first step is to bring our particular control drama into full consciousness. Nothing can proceed until we really look at ourselves and discover what we are doing to manipulate for energy. Each of us must go back into our past, back into our early family life, and see how this habit was formed. It is always in relation to our family members that we develop our particular dramas. Each person must interpret their family experience from an evolutionary point of view, from a spiritual point of view, and discover who he really is.
Humans are born into their historical situations and find something to stand for. They form a union with another human who also has found some purpose. The children born to this union then reconcile these two positions by pursuing a higher synthesis, guided by coincidences. Each time we fill up with energy and a coincidence occurs to lead us forward in our lives, we institute this level of energy in ourselves, and so we can exist at a higher vibration. Our children take our level of vibration and raise it higher. This is how humans evolve.
First, build sufficient energy, then remember your basic life question. Next, center yourself on your path by discovering the smaller questions that currently confront you in life. These questions always pertain to your larger question and define where you currently are in your lifelong question. You will then get some kind of intuition as to what to do and where to go. Once you get the questions right, the answers will come sooner or later.
The seventh insight talks about the way objects jump out at us through dreams. It says to compare the story of the dream to the story of your life. Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing. Thoughts and daydreams also guide us. To recognize the value of them, we must take an observer position. We must ask ourselves Why? All the answers that mysteriously come to us really come through other people. Not all the people you meet will have the clarity to reveal the message they have for you. You must help them by sending them energy. We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that somehow pertains to our questions. The challenge is to find the silver lining in every event.
As members of any group talk, only one will have the most powerful idea at any one point in time. If they are alert, the others in the group can feel who is about to speak, and then they can consciously focus on this person, helping to bring out his idea with the greatest clarity. If you concentrate on what is being said, you can feel when it is your turn. The idea will come up into your mind. Everyone should start consciously relating with each other instead of trying to overpower each other.
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The narrator arrives at a restaurant to have dinner with a woman he has not seen or heard from in six years, only to have her contact him that day. The woman, Charlene, is speaking to police officers as the narrator arrives because her briefcase has been stolen. Dismissing the incident, Charlene is excited to catch up with her old friend and to tell him her real reason for calling. While in Peru on business, Charlene hears of a manuscript that predicts a transformation in human society. Charlene tells the narrator that she meets a priest who tells her about the manuscript, which is divided into different insights. Charlene says that the First Insight is about how a large number of people at the turn of the century will suddenly become aware of meaningful coincidences and a larger purpose to life.
The narrator is fascinated by the idea behind this manuscript and decides to go to Peru to investigate. On the plane he meets another man, Dobson, who has also decided to go to Peru to investigate the manuscript. Dobson, who is in Peru a few weeks before and sees copies of the first two insights, explains the Second Insight to the narrator, which consists of a new awareness and perspective of history. Dobson and the narrator decide to do their investigation together, so they decide to meet at Dobson's hotel later; however, the narrator goes straight to his new acquaintance's hotel when he realizes he is being followed. The narrator arrives at Dobson's hotel just as gunfire rings out, and Dobson runs off through the streets. The narrator runs, also, unsure if Dobson is shot or arrested.
While fleeing the danger outside the hotel, the narrator meets a man named Wil, who wants to help him. Wil tells the narrator that he, too, is a follower of the manuscript, and that he knows the priest who introduced both Dobson and Charlene to the manuscript. At this very moment Wil is preparing to leave on an excursion to search for the Ninth Insight. Wil invites the narrator to accompany him, promising to help the narrator find a way home if that is what the narrator later wants to do. The narrator decides to join Wil on his search for the Ninth Insight.
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