Conversations with my teacher, Ken Eagle Feather
My teacher, Ken Eagle Feather (also known as Ken Smith), emphasised how cleaning and clearing our energy systems (chakras, etheric and astral body and energy fields that make up the energy body) is the only way we can significantly proceed deeper into the realms of the ‘second attention’, the Nagual and the unknown with smooth navigation and orientation.
Here is a conversation between him and I, many years ago:
Ken: Dealing with the unknown is at the heart of the Toltec craft. Since developing and becoming aware of one’s energy body is the means to go about and enter it.
Me: How does one enter the energy body or become aware of it?
Ken: Both the physical body and the energy body are energy, but the energy body is pure awareness. Our right side of awareness (the tonal) is narrow and limited when perceiving our worldview, whereas the left (the Nagual) is expansive, is a multiverse of possibilities and is infinite. Toltecs, as you know, master shifting from the right-side to the left-side with precision, discipline and personal power.
Me: How does this relate to the energy body?
Ken: Your energy body is what you are born with, it’s part of our anatomy and autonomy, we’ve just forgotten how to tap into it and have lost our awareness of it, as part of our all-encompassing being!
Me: How does it relate to moving perception from one field of awareness to the other?
Ken: By shifts of cohesion within the energy body. However, the everyday person who hasn’t dealt with their personal history or their life’s hang-ups will find this a difficult task! As for most, the location of awareness in the right side remains an un-conscious state, therefore life becomes a limited and narrow field of experience.
Me: So please can you explain why we need to clear and recalibrate the energy body? When we’ve cleared it once does it remain cleared?
Ken: Yes, all of the events you have intended to clear through your recapitulation practice, but as you go through life you will need to regularly clear your life events and experiences, otherwise your energy body doesn’t have enough available energy to expand and shift into the second field of expanded awareness.
Me: Is there anything else we can do as human beings to recalibrate and shift into the second field, the Nagual, and expand our energy body, Ken?
Ken: There are many things one can do apart from the recapitulation practice, but one has to be disciplined and intentional with one’s actions!
Me: What are these things we can do? Are they accessible to the average human?
Ken: Yes, of course. (Ken laughed as he answered, as he could tell I was feeling perplexed and unsure of what I had to do to gain clearer and more cohesive energy in my energy body!)
Ken: Don’t worry (he said, as if reading my thoughts), I am going to teach you a simple but powerful series of exercises that will not only enable you to acquire more energy, but will also enable you to become lucid in your dreams.
Me: (At this point I felt I’d entered a heightened state of awareness, like everything had shifted into a place of non-attachment and a place of non-verbal communication. I remained there for what seemed like hours, but in reality was probably no more than a few minutes. I felt Ken reading every atom of my being at that point!)
Ken: I’m going to take you through a practice called ‘The Acts of Non-Doing’. From here you will disorganise all your habits and routines to gain insights as to where you waste your power. You will be amazed as to how much energy we spend through meaningless intentions that drain us of our life force and starve the energy body of awareness and power…!
Ken: Once you have accrued enough energy through these ‘Acts of Non-Doing’, you will then direct your energy towards dreaming and dreaming awake - the first five gates of lucid dreaming awareness. From here, your life will change so unimaginably, you will without doubt, not waste an ounce of your life on meaningless tasks, habits and acts that take your power.
Me: (Ken and I walked into the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia, where I embarked on my first encounters of ‘Non-
Doing’).
My countless conversations and teachings with Ken spanned over thirteen years and have etched an indelible mark in my mind and my energy body. It is these very teachings that I will be imparting on my upcoming workshops…