Awakening the Seer Within: Returning from the Desert…
Life is a game of mastery
And most people live mediocre lives because the path of mastery is difficult.
Pain is inevitable.
What would you rather choose?
The pain and challenge from exploring your greater potential, or from wallowing in your own stagnation and complacency?
If you’re uninspired and don’t know where to look, get around people that are passionate about things.
Get around people who are expanders. Get around better environments and let something hit you. Follow your curiosity and let the spark of creativity ignite something inside you.
Find what lights you up and follow that.
This is advice I gave to myself ten years ago. I was skimming through an old journal reflecting on my path, right before leaving for this recent pilgrimage to the Central Aus desert.
I’m back now, and the insights and vision continue to stream in with full power.
Tempering the desire to enact on everything too soon is a must, lest the flame burn out from being smothered in haste.
Pursuing The Vision
This is the thing:
If you have a vision, if you have a dream, goals, projects, purpose, mission, direction…
Most things worth having are simply a matter of discipline and time.
Stay the course.
A lot of people don't have the discipline and can't comprehend committing to something over the long term, sometimes for years on end, to inch closer toward that dream.
Time is going to pass anyway.
Clarify your vision. Implement the appropriate structure and systems on a daily basis. Be consistent. Be relentless about execution.
People silently complain about the results that they haven't got, when they haven’t even done half of the work to get there.
Most people don’t live exceptional lives, and the truth is, if you want an exceptional life, you must be willing to be the exception and do the things that most people are not willing to do.
You might have seen some of my social media posts on Instagram or TikTok lately. If you have, it might be apparent that the desert has really clarified and amplified insights around the path of mastery; the path of greatness; the path of an exceptional life.
Sharpening your sword against adversity is how the exceptional are forged.
The struggles, setbacks, discomforts, difficulties and discipline are necessary parts of the journey. You need to be willing to go against the grain and endure risks and challenges. You need to be willing to make sacrifices that not everyone is prepared to make.
True greatness demands perseverance through the unseen struggles and storms of life.
Expanded Consciousness in the Scorching Hot Desert
I mentioned that my Vision Quest and Desert Pilgrimage is bearing so much fruit it's like an explosion on the taste buds of consciousness.
For several days and nights I fasted in a small circle, in solitude, on top of red desert sand dunes.
Fierce winds whipped my tarp into a frenzy, the scorching sun was relentless, and the incessant attack of flies was next level. The days were unbearably long, and the nights ticked over slow as slow.
Gruelling; unyielding; merciless conditions.
Yet despite the harsh environment and the lack of sleep, the desert landscape is a canvas full of beauty beyond words.
Mystical encounters with wild desert spirits were had, and many insights, and deepening conversations, were on the cards.
I'm going to share the story of this personal pilgrimage and vision quest on the next episode of my podcast.
The challenge for hyper-creatives who can become highly-competent in much of what they do, is tempering the vast pursuit of creative options, and, trading breadth for depth.
Otherwise we risk spreading ourselves too thin and we negate the potential for greatness in more selective callings.
Sacrifice will always be a part of the equation.
It’s a good thing to be aware of this.
I’ll let you know when the episode is out, but you can always subscribe to “Birdsong with Caiyuda” on YouTube, on Spotify, or any other podcasting app.
Awakening The Seer Within
The remaining in-person programs for 2024 are now full.
This next iteration of The Pilgrimage in The Grampians will likely catalyse more wilderness trekking-based programs infused with the shamanic healing arts for awakening and higher consciousness, in the future.
And our Vision Quest in The Grampians in Oct-Nov will surely be supercharged, coming off the back of my own Quest out in the desert.
I’ve opened a Wait-List for this one, so if you’re feeling a strong pull that a Vision Fast is something you need, reply to this email and I’ll ensure you’re on.
There will be no other in-person programs until 2025.
What I am feeling to create is a cohort for mystics and seers in-training.
There’s a lot of superficial new-age fluff out there.
I want to offer up a solid foundation of esoteric yet grounded knowledge and practices to help elevate your energy work, explore higher perception, cultivate supernatural states of awareness, and mastery of consciousness.
If exploring and expanding into more of your mystical potential, extra sensory modes of perception, ritual magic and manifestation skills, shamanic states of awareness, and, deepening your capacity to see beyond the veil and actualize higher consciousness is your thing, this will likely be for you.
Click this link, fill out a few details, and I’ll keep you in the loop with more details as they arise.
That’s it for now.
Go well.
