Asia
_I: The Pyramid was chaos. Today we woke up to bad news because the people from Giza, the inspectors, were upset because some videos of us doing meditations had been uploaded, even though they are prohibited in the pyramid area. The inspector for today, who comes every weekend, is probably the only person I haven't been able to get along with, and he hates me. He doesn't let me stay inside for more than 5 minutes, even though it takes 5 minutes just to climb up. The guards were warned not to help me, and inside the pyramid, there were so many people shouting and afraid of the sarcophagus, as well as going down the stairs, that today seemed to be a disaster. I thought, "what a terrible day to connect with the Solar Plexus, precisely the chakra of the Self." I had to ask people not to accompany me today, so as not to disturb or attract attention. Inside, the atmosphere was one of fear, confusion, heaviness, anger, resentment, warning... And I thought to myself: I'll be here for 5 minutes and then leave, maybe today is one of those days when it will be impossible to connect with anything...
_AM: And then...
_I: ...I saw him. He passed through the east wall of the King's Chamber and headed towards the center of it, among the people walking erratically there. With both hands, he placed his staff in the center.
_AM: A high priest...
_I: Painted with a blue face and covered in dyed rags, serious. He glanced at me, and indicated that I should go to him. I did, and stood in front of him, very close. He made me take the staff, and we held it together with both hands. "The Axis is the Self," he said, "And the Self is trapped." Then he said three words: "Prohibit, Restrain, Inhibit." I felt exactly what was happening to us. We were being prohibited from fulfilling our task, we felt restrained from being who we are, while our will was being inhibited.
_AM: "Hibir" is a late formation of the Latin verb "habere," which means "to have, to hold." The prefixes "Pro-" (toward, forward, advance, remove from one place to another), "Co-" (with, together, union, all), and "In-" (in, into, within), give the character or intention of how something is taken, grasped, held. Prohibition is the action of preventing something from being done or had in this here and now. Restraint is the action of taking all things and squeezing them under one force, from oppression. And Inhibition is the action of holding within that which wants to be expressed, repressing it, under pressure. What do you have, what do you "habeas" in repression?
_I: The essence... The Self. In the instant he said these words, I saw myself standing on the highest peaks of the Karakoram, in its snowy peaks. I looked around, and all I saw was pressure, oppression, repression... Chaos, conflicts, war, incoherence, I saw the most sacred place in the world immersed in shadows. I saw the strength and power of the Self subjected to the prohibition of showing itself as it is, to being restrained by repressive forces, to being inhibited from showing what lies within. And I could see this pressure from the geography and from humanity... I was in the center of the Self of the Earth, on the roof of the World, and yet, I felt in the very depths of the Self.
_AM: Asia.
_I: The largest continent of all. A Continent is called like that precisely because it contains many things. If there is one, it is Asia.
_AM: The Asian continent was named by the Hellenic Europeans of Greece, who had as neighbors the Assuwa peoples of Anatolia, present-day Turkey. From this moment on, everything found east of the Aegean Islands would be called "Asia," a Hellenization of the name of their eastern neighbors. Over time, it would be discovered that this continent was too large, and the area of Turkey and the Middle East would come to be called Asia Minor. The truth is that Asia Minor is a set of small plates that arose from the pressure between Africa and Asia, ancient islands that joined together forming mountains and valleys. But Asia begins at the outer limits of Iran, bordering the Ural Mountains to the north from the Caspian Sea; encompassing the Great Stan, India, Southeast Asia up to Indonesia, China, Japan, the Philippines, and Siberia. Its center is the Taklamakan Desert, a power center surrounded by the Tibetan Plateau and the Altai Mountains.
_I: But India wasn't really Asia, I mean, it doesn't belong to its energy... Why now?
_AM: India is a plate connected to Australia, which comes from the southeast of Africa along with Madagascar, moving northward at great speed. Following Australia's movement, these two territories pushed the Indonesian mountain ranges, forming Sumatra and Java, with all their islands from Myanmar to Papua. But India, unlike Australia, didn't stop so easily. North of India was the ancient sacred sea of Tethys, and its speed enclosed it in the center of a continent in formation. The sea dried up, leaving a desert in the center of vast lands, and India began to sink beneath Great Asia. Its force lifted the floors of the sacred sea towards the skies, creating the Himalayas, and making the sea the highest point in the world: the Tibetan Plateau. Between the Taklamakan Desert and Tibet lie the highest peaks in the world, from Makalu, Lhotse, Everest, Cho Oyu, Kangchenjunga, Manaslu, K2, Broad Peak, Gasherbrum to Nanga Parbat. India became Asia, submerging itself in it, merging with its energy like a lover, and yet maintaining its own originality as a great island wandering in search of its Great Love. Between 3 tectonic plates, the benevolent dragon of Japan rose among volcanoes on its 4 islands, just as the southern dragons in the Philippines and the southern countries did. Sumatra became the gem that changed humanity. The eruption of the Toba volcano drove human evolution, separating the Australian and Pacific peoples, and driving great migrations eastward across the Pacific, to the Americas, escaping death and tragedy in which the continent was submerged thousands and thousands of years ago, a task continued by Krakatoa.
_I: Asia shaped the human we know today... It made it Being.
_AM: Asia was the continent that showed humanity its potential, that said to it: This is you and you can do everything that arises from you. It is the continent that reminded man and woman of their power.
_I: The first shamans, the fathers of shamanism in all the Americas, came from Asia...
_AM: Specifically from the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, and the Siberian territory of Lake Baikal. There, the Sacred Woman descended from the Rainbow and taught men and women how to become nature and thus be like gods. Woman was the mother of all shamanism, of all magic, for in her womb beats the memory of the Cosmic Mother. Asia reminds us of the philosophy of Being, of becoming the Earth, of seeking the Way, the Tao, the balance. The entire continent relates to the digestive system. To the Plexus. The great Stan, that is, the great Earth, incorporates the Liver countries: Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan. There, the unprocessable is processed, the pains, the conflicts, the anger, the anguish... China processes food as the Stomach, helping to digest information, to understand the importance of what is consumed in each of the physical, emotional, and mental bodies. While the Pancreas seeks the enlightenment of the Self, of the I Am, in Tibet and the countries of the Himalayas. India, the Large Intestine in its mountainous contours, and the small intestine in its interior, is the territory of the absorption of all nutrients and the disposal of what is not good. There, beings are processed, cleaning everything that is not useful, everything that covers appearances, to discover the essence. Japan regenerates blood as the Spleen, and Siberia the diaphragm that drives us to meditation...
_I: However... Today it's not like that...
_AM: Prohibition, Restraint, Inhibition. The Continent that must represent the I Am is the continent that prohibits the I Am, that represses it. Its origin has prepared the philosophical and religious foundations to do so. Taoism, Tai Chi, Bon, Kung Fu, Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism, Shamanism... At the same time, the great variety of religions and visions in India give rise to so many paths that essence begins to be lost in patterns that appear to be free. The stomach stopped processing Beings to process matter, prohibiting inner search, inhibiting those who look within, becoming a state of Popular Repression. And Tibet, subdued, silenced its celestial voice, could no longer smile at Buddha, could no longer follow Enlightenment.
_I: Asia is a reflection of what we do with the I Am in our lives. Consuming things from the external world, filling ourselves with food, ideas, emotions, relationships, without looking inward. Judging those who are free, criticizing the different, appealing to "normality," subjecting the different, repressing freedoms of expression, hiding who we are out of fear, enclosing our truth in search of acceptance from others and sometimes not so close. The I Am of the Earth is repressed...
_AM: Humanity represses the I Am because it fears being Free, fears what it can do with its power, and some fear the power they can lose if others gain it. But I'm not talking about states and countries, but about relationships, about relinquishing power, control over others, dependence, jealousy, possessions. Asia is connected to Europe, and if its heart says "I Want," Asia will seek to want, to please it, "a full belly, a happy heart." Humans have taken the potential of the I Am to create the philosophies that lead to being, but then they lost the axis, they stopped seeing their own being to look at the other, to conquer the other. They lost the axis in competition and in populism, and summed up the two worst evils in a single system: "communist capitalism." This led the cells of the plexus away from their Being, turning it into a pancreatic cancer.
_I: What to do?
_AM: Return to Being, to Essence, to not be afraid to say who you are, what you are, what you feel. To act according to your thoughts and emotions. To be coherent with your life, and in each of those acts remember that in your entire digestive system, in your plexus, the radiant Sun of Asia shines.
_I: Not to be afraid of Shiva, in the mountains of the Karakoram, on Mount Kailash, reminding us: "Sometimes to create, one must destroy." When I heard this, I felt pain, I thought... Why the need? But then I realized why the destruction. It's not necessary, what's necessary is the transformation of the Self, and if beings become rigid like a stick, there will be no choice but to bend them until they break to allow transformation. That's why destruction is an option, for rigid patterns that stagnate the being in its evolution.
_AM: Therefore Asia suffers because it has stiffened the Self, and the Self seeks its essence in self-transformation.
_I: I feel Asia in me, and I recognize its fractal awakening in me its transforming strength. Raising my deepest seas to the highest heavens, recognizing the paths it has created to discover my own being, the truth in me.
_AM: It is time to reclaim power. To transcend the prohibited, to overcome the restrained, to liberate the inhibited. There you will discover the strength of Asia in you, recovering the Self that you hide.
_I: I Am Asia.
_AM: I Am who I Am.