Photos by Alice Popkorn

In the Toltec tradition the world is divided into knowable and unknowable, power and magic. The unknowable is unknowable so there is no reason to waste your time trying to understand it. I love that concept.

I remember when Don Miguel said he was going to teach a class about magic the following week. I was excited all week long, finally I was going to able to wave a magic wand and create what I wanted. Power and magic is also very simple and logical but an explanation that was not very satisfactory to my rational, linear fear-based mind. I remember when Don Miguel said he was going to teach a class about magic the following week. I was excited all week long, finally I was going to able to wave a magic wand and create what I wanted.

Power is unmanifested or potential energy. Magic is the result of our translating that limitless energy of creation and unconditional love into three-dimensional, physical reality. The world as we see it is all magic. Not exactly what I wanted to hear 20 odd years ago. I wanted a magic bullet that would change my life, instantly. We translate that energy through our filter system. Everything in our life is there by invitation, everything that isn’t in our life because we haven’t invited it yet.

We are all magicians. They key is beginning to translate that limitless energy consciously instead of habitually creating based on our old beliefs, agreements, assumptions and attitudes.

What I would have missed

I just finished making a short video for a retreat I am having in May. When I watched it I was struck by the fact that these were all amazing images of my life. When I was a student I felt so hopeless about my life ever changing I tried to kill myself. As I watched that video my thought was, “Wow, what an amazing life I would have missed.”

I keep talking to people about creating what they want and the endless possibilities life holds, what amazing magic and miracles your life will hold if you are just willing to change your thinking and make different choices. As I watched that video the magnitude of those words really struck me.

What are you missing?

When I studied with Don Miguel hundreds of people came and went. About 7 years after I finished my apprenticeship I went to a gathering Miguel was having for Easter. There were hundreds of people in attendance. He called myself and on other man to the front of the room. He said in all the years he had been teaching he and I were the only ones that had done what he said, “To go and teach in our own way.”

I thought about all the people who studied before and after me. The only difference I could see was I did all the exercises. I had taking action each day to retrain my mind. Even when what Miguel asked of me made no sense and challenged my beliefs, I did it. In hindsight that was the whole point. He helped me let go of my limiting beliefs.

You could start by embracing the belief that happiness, joy, abundance and living your bliss really are your birthright. When you have doubts just reaffirm that and watch the magic begin to happen.

I am about to open up a program that will help you do the same thing. I am only accepting a few people and if you aren’t wiling to spend at least 10 hours a week I ask that you don’t bother to apply. Change occurs when we are willing .

With love and aloha,
Susan

I will be opening the program up on January 25 and will be accepting only 4 people, so stay tuned.