Power, Intent and Evolution

In a wooden, A-framed hall bathed in light next to a misty, rolling field, we started each morning of PIE (Power, Intent and Evolution) waking up body and spirit. This coming back to nature is a perfect metaphor to a return to self and, deeper still, the infinite possibility for life that rests underneath and beyond personal identity. By shedding the layers and shackles of what we are still “working on”, engineers still tinkering away at old stories of who we think we are or have to be, we become free. And that freedom is hard-earned and sometimes fleeting, but it is there and available and through PIE, I sampled a delicious taste.

The components of Tensegrity and dialogue are the foundation for the energetic opening of PIE. The ancient Mexican shamanic movements of Tensegrity, revealed to the world by Carlos Castaneda, serve to release and nourish the energy-body, allowing it room to breathe, to grow and to be acknowledged as the true life force. Memories, outdated patterns and beliefs come bubbling to the surface and get dispersed. Through recapitulation, scars from the past are healed energetically. And real change pokes its head out from under the sand just long enough to remind us that evolution has something else in mind for us. That it is not done with us yet. This is not all there is.

The dialogue sessions drove home this concept through the distinction of the First and Second Attentions. The First Attention is bound in finite, limited time and space, defined and stuck in the Personal Story that we have made up for ourselves about who we are and have used to get us through life. The Second Attention in contrast is infinite, unlimited and unbound by time and space, and therefore free. Relationships, for example, that take place in the Second Attention have a holistic approach to loving and being loved, whereas the First Attention relationship is still keeping count of affections and compromise, altogether conditional. Most of life as we know it is lived from the First Attention and its principal movement is involution, a circle of energy directing ever smaller and tighter. Fears are stored and harvested here.

Through a conscious conversation in the PIE dialogue sessions, the invisible wall between these two ways of being is quietly shattered. Taboo subjects, secrets and embarrassment and topics to avoid are explored in one-on-one talks between participants as well as with the group as a whole. This simple and yet incredibly difficult act of defying the dusty and cramped social conventions unblocks precious life force that laid dormant under our own weight. And ownership must be stressed, for the power in Power, Intent and Evolution does not come from an exterior source. Evolution is the real mysticism of this work, as a part of that in our humanity we have access to the power that created the universe, as we contain in every cell of our bodies that potential for infinite evolution.

Another crucial base for the work is the gourmet, macrobiotic food offered up to participants, biologically supporting both dialogue and Tensegrity sessions. Clean, calming and revitalizing, this food is a foundation for transformation and supports PIE reaching its final destination as a course and an energetic opening.