What Does it Mean to Embody True Nature?
The profound immersion into the depths of consciousness and purpose of all life that happens in the Embody True Nature healing retreat at Paititi continues to inspire us. As we travel deeper along our own hero’s journeys of evolutionary healing, our shared hearts awaken to greater, previously unimaginable depths. But what does it mean to embody true nature? And why is this powerful process so effective at healing both our consciousness and our organisms?If you’re attending, considering attending or have already attended one of our retreats, these key points should help you understand or further integrate the hero’s journey into your life.
Purification & initiation
At the start of the retreat, it becomes clear that the journey of transformation requires a deep commitment to confront oneself. This is especially true during the initial acclimatization period. It takes courage to adjust to the structure and primary practices of transformation, as well as to the purification involved in the sacred plant initiation ceremonies.
The process involves more than just releasing physical toxins. It also includes purging energetic, emotional, and mental toxins—such as negative behavioral patterns, outdated concepts, and limiting belief systems accumulated over many years. Such purification is the necessary foundation for lasting transformation of one’s life.
It’s not always easy, and it demands a strong desire to uncover one’s own truth as a state of being. Without a higher purpose that surpasses personal interests, it becomes easy to be misled by the conditioned ego into giving up facing oneself. After all the conditioned ego longs to return to its comfort zone and cling to a false sense of control over our realities.
This is why terms like "Unbending Intent," "Strong Determination," and "Unwavering Commitment" are recognized as essential human qualities in Amazonian Indigenous traditions. They are also highlighted in Native American, Eastern and Western traditions, as well as in many ancient spiritual cultures around the world. These qualities are vital for facing the purifying nature of the initiation process.
Emergence of natural states
Indigenous After completing the purification stage in the Sacred Science of evolutionary healing, we start to gain insights and experience profound states of presence and peaceful blissful stillness. These feelings arise directly from the Indigenous practice of Remembrance, which is the foundation of all transformational work.
Ashuar nation Dreamwork and Yanomami based as well as Tibetan Dzogchen Bonpo based Breathworks are conscious practices that branch from the Remembrance tree. They help us embody the ancestral intention to understand and trust this process. The notion that all situations, circumstances, and relationships in our lives are not mere random occurrences can be inspiring on its own.
However, recognizing that our lives are skillfully crafted by a higher intelligence—an intricate chain of events created intentionally to help us realize the eternally radiant and indestructible essence of our true nature—is truly life-changing. This is the potential we begin to see as we cultivate these practices.
Shedding light on the shadows
We gradually develop more discerning wisdom as we recognize the essential humanity in the very core of our existence. From the very beginning, we are inseparable from the divine intelligence in the Mother’s womb. From here, we begin to embody universal qualities and base our life decisions on Love, rather than Fear.
As we re-experience all the difficult circumstances of our lives, habitual behavioral patterns, inhibitions, and traumas, we release suppressed unconscious contents from a place of active compassion. Compassion replaces the victim state responsible for the accumulation of emotional baggage in the first place.
Underneath all the difficult shadow memories, light is shed on the original memories of innocence, openness, receptivity, vulnerability, and inner peace. Our true nature comes increasingly closer to the surface of existential awareness.
Although these states of being have little place in our modern society, they are deeply valued in Andean/Amazonian and other ancient cultures that see them as being responsible for healing and connection to one’s highest potential. This is how we start to unravel the karmic knots of disturbing emotions and liberate ourselves from the domination cycles of craving, aversion, and ignorance, which are the poisons of the mind.
The simple innocent truth of being
The pure and innocent truth is often too simple for our complex minds to understand. The consciousness at the center of our hearts serves as our main source of healing. All the various practices and techniques we use are just tools to assist consciousness on its journey of self-realization.
It's not about being something or someone, or trying to go somewhere or achieve certain goals; it's simply about being present. After a lifetime of resisting or attempting to change what is, we eventually learn to let consciousness rest deeply in this eternal moment, without altering anything—much like the calm, still presence of the sky that is always behind the clouds.
When we act out of need, we limit ourselves. In contrast, simply being inspires our creative potential. In such a state, everything feels perfect, allowing for endless opportunities for growth and improvement.
Mirror-like nature
As things progress at the Embodying True Nature healing retreat, we gain vital insight into the mirror-like nature of our collective existence. All beings are striving towards embodying a state of happiness and, more often than not, they can only experience it temporarily; grasping at fleeting pleasant sensations and avoiding the persistent unpleasant ones.
As we recognize this collective ignorance inherent within ourselves, we start to unravel the most essential human qualities of Universal Love and Compassion and come into our cosmic shared heart. What we considered our own personal suffering is no longer our own. Rather, it’s an expression of the same collective ignorance we now have an opportunity to experience and transform through our own being.
We begin to see that the only way to liberate ourselves from suffering is to work towards the resolution of suffering in everyone through our own example. We start to share in the happiness of all beings and recognize the essential qualities of true nature within each other. This has been recognized in wisdom lineages for generations, originating phrases such as “hello me,” “half of you is half of me,” “we all share the same life force,” "love and compassion to all sentient beings" in their respective languages: “Hallpallay Qusunchis,” "Om mani pe me hung," “In Lakesh a la kin,” “Namaste,” "Mitakuye Oyasin" and the list goes on…
The highest view of greatest benefit to all beings
Coming out of the labyrinth of illusory mental projections, based on stories created from disturbing emotions, and entering into our shared heart, we gain insights into the collective stages of human evolutionary development. The invisible structural framework of universal archetypes—primordial symbols of sacred geometry—supports the growth and maturation of consciousness. It guides us through the rites of passage into the many developmental phases of returning to the original state of direct knowing and deepest joy.
We begin to see objective reality clearly as the fog of conditioning dissipates. The veils of duality and separation dissolve, allowing us to see each other and all sentient beings as one cosmic family. The pure realm and enlightened society of ancestors, from which it all began, has always been subtly present.
All sounds are icaros and mantras; all thoughts are wisdom emerging from the pure space of consciousness and returning to it. Every situation presents an opportunity to recognize our true indestructible nature. Highest truth leads to the highest joy, but not vice versa.
Integration after the retreat
The work and practice truly starts at the completion of the retreat when we take what we’ve learned and experienced into the world at large, integrating the insights and realizations into the specific circumstances of our individual lives.
✨ While the retreat’s tools and practices are profound, it’s the state of being those tools show us that are vital to bring into our lives. The inherent wisdom of the organism we’ve been cultivating is here to reflect greater states of peaceful well-being and deeper immersion into the here and now. 🌿💖 While there are many different techniques, practices, disciplines, and modalities out there, it’s essential to understand that they’re all just fingers pointing to the essence of being. 🌀👐 It’s up to each of us to continuously invoke this essence.
While it’s helpful to have a daily practice reminding us to maintain the higher level of resonance, it’s also important not to get lost in the technique and always gently bring ourselves back to the essence, both within us and in a like-hearted community. 🤝💫 It’s sometimes easy to forget ourselves in a world of appearances where we’re conditioned to entertain each other rather than to share our hearts. ❤️🕊️ The world at large is often distracting, so taking baby steps without getting too entangled in such temptations can be very helpful, especially in the tender beginnings after leaving the nurturing container of the retreat. 🌱💛 With the wings of perception more widely opened, we may notice certain unhealthy patterns and dynamics in our lives which have remained unnoticed until now. 👁️🌈
With that said, after the retreat, it’s also common to encounter these old patterns in a more amplified way. 😟 Since that nurturing container of higher resonance we’re all devoted to maintaining is not as apparent, we might feel a bit lost.
Another essential human trait that can be very useful in those situations is a sense of humor! 😄 Nothing beats a good laugh at oneself in the midst of a drama – stand-up comedy at its best!
Bringing the spacious and radiant presence of consciousness discovered within the living wisdom circle of the retreat into all the situations and circumstances of our lives is really what this is about. 🌿✨ It’s the childlike attitude of no wrong, where every step is an unceasing learning experience of greater insight and evolution.
We’re made of Mother Nature, and as we remember this more and more, we can be her conscious manifestations always and everywhere. 🌍💖 By continuously learning how to channel greater and greater levels of Universal Love through nurturing and discerning presence, we become the fusion of wisdom and compassion inseparable, thus embodying our true nature. 🌺🌟
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