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By Aluna Joy Yaxk’in When we are little children we learn many things. We learn that fire is HOT and ice is COLD, peanut butter and jelly tastes really good together and hugs from mom makes us feel safe. When we get hurt, we learn not to put ourselves in the position to get hurt again. When we do something that makes us feel good, we try to repeat that situation. In order to protect ourselves we learn by watching other people’s mistakes or victories. It is important to learn what we like and don’t like but with this comes a narrowing of our perceptions and ability to access spirit. Our habits close us off, choice by choice, from the ever changing and unlimited creative spirit and along with it, our connection to God. High in the Peruvian Andes, an Inca Spiritual Messenger named Willaru Huayta first taught me about the Inca perspectives on the law of mechanicity and how it hampers us from accessing spirit. Willaru said in a lecture given in Peru that "It takes much love to do the work of cleaning the inner temple, and to live in a conscious, spiritual way, not in a mechanical way." He told the legend of another race of people on the Moon a long time ago. As the legend goes, Mamanchakila is grandmother Moon. When she was living, she used to have people like us there. They became divorced from the Father/Mother, and while they were a very organized civilization, they were not civilized. It is very important to know that. They looked civilized. They were well organized with everything going according to a plan. The Ascended Masters called them mechanical creatures. They were living everyday, all day long but only in a mechanical, intellectual way. At the end, they could not support life because the mechanical life is very hard. What Willaru was saying was if we continue to live in a mechanical way we will limit our life, bit by bit, choice by choice until there is no life left; in essence, we limit our possibilities to grow and evolve. I learned a lot about limitation and living mechanically watching my mother in her last years. If she ate a food that did not agree with her, she never ate it again. If she got tired when she went out, she quit going out as much and then not at all. One negative experience led to another until she was a prisoner of her own programming and habits. She did not allow any new solutions to problems or issues other than those stamped with the seal of approval from her past experiences. Yet on the other hand she kept smoking in spite of the fact she had emphysema. Pot roast had a positive experience imprint on it so she kept eating red meat even though she suffered from a series of heart attacks. Perhaps she did not equate smoking with emphysema or red meat with heart disease. All I know is that she was resistant to breaking out of any mechanical habit she had in fear she might upset the status quo. So she lived her last years closed in a self imposed prison based on past experiences. This ultimately ended her life much sooner than need be.
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