上一本《力量的傳奇》做夢部分已經摘譯完,在時間序列上,唐望跟他同儕已經化為虹光身離世,不過雖然講到好像是 16 人一道全部結業,但在小佛琳達的書裡,大佛琳達並沒有一起走,可能她不需要 Nagual 的在場,自己可以隨時走人 。
接下來這本《巫士的傳承》是比較混亂的一本,講述唐望這一梯離開後,唐望幫卡氏組的八人團體,他要擔負起 Nagual 的責任。但每個成員都個別從直屬上師學到部分的教法(唐望傳承是一對一並交叉擁有上師和恩人兩位指導老師)。後來才發現卡氏能量體只有三區,不適合帶四的倍數的成員,因此八人小組以失敗告終。最後剩三人小組加上卡氏,但卡氏又先死了,所以連唐望傳承也斷了。
在這本書中,卡氏八人小組裡,雖然不少做夢主修的做夢者,但每人會的及訓練也不同。其中以拉葛達比較厲害,但最終她沒有在卡氏三人小組內。
以下內容講到拉葛達夢中看沒有手的時候怎麼處理的,意思是你太胖嗎?所以要禁食。你可以試試看。另外要維持住夢中景象不要變來變去,一則可以靠瞥視,也就是快速掃視,不要對著東西看,看久了會變形。另外一招是,唐望的做法都是要做夢者做夢時去找到設計護罩的樣子,然後在現實中去做一個綁在肚臍上。
因為 brace 也有類似護腕的意思,就是綁在腰上,可以護住肚臍。我自己個人的經驗是,兩手放在腹部上,壓著有點重量,對你做夢會有幫助,特別是女性,也就是在子宮的位置。
「唐望故事」做夢篇 REVIEW-21
「一個女戰士的一切都始於做夢。Nagual告訴我,就如同他告訴你的,首先要在我的夢中找自己的手。我根本找不到我的手。在我的夢中,我沒有手。我不斷試了好幾年去找手。每天晚上我都命令自己找手,但無濟於事。我從來沒有在夢中找到任何東西。Nagua對我很冷酷無情,他說我必須找到手,不然就去死。所以我騙他,說我在夢中找到手了。Nagual一言不發,但哲那羅拍拍我的頭,說我真是個了不起的戰士。他越是誇獎我,我就感覺越糟。我正準備要告訴Nagual真相時,瘋狂的哲那羅把他的屁股對準我,放了一個我聽過最響最長的屁。事實上他是用屁把我往後推。
「我跑到屋子裏躲起來。那時我很胖,吃得多又很多屁。所以我決定一段時間不吃東西。我連續二十三天什麼都沒吃,然後一天晚上,我在夢裡找到我的手了。我的雙手又老又醜又綠,但是我的手沒錯。所以那是一個開端,其他事情就容易了。」
「其他事情是什麼,葛達?」
「接下來Nagual要我做的,是試著在我的夢中找到房子或建築物,然後看著它們,盡量不要讓影像消散。他說做夢者的藝術在於維持住夢中的影像,因為那正是我們終其一生在做的事情。」
「他這是什麼意思?」
「身為普通人,我們的藝術是知道如何維持住我們看到的影像。Nagual說我們會這麼做,但是不知道如何做到的。我們只是這樣去做;也就是說,我們的身體在做。在做夢時,我們必須做到同樣的事情,只是在做夢時我們必須學習如何去做。我們必須努力不去凝視,而只要瞥視,同時維持住影像。
「Nagual告訴我,要我在夢中為我的肚臍找到一個護罩(brace)。我花了很長時間,因為我不明白他的意思。他說在做夢時,我們用肚臍來注意事物;因此肚臍必須受到保護。我們需要一點溫暖或感覺到有什麼東西按著肚臍,才能在夢中維持住影像。
《巫士的傳承》pp. 186-187,重譯
“Everything for a woman warrior starts in dream-ing. The Nagual told me, just as he told you, first to look for my hands in my dreams. I couldn’t find them at all. In my dreams I had no hands. I tried and tried for years to find them. Every night I used to give myself the command to find my hands but it was to no avail. I never found anything in my dreams. The Nagual was merciless with me. He said that I had to find them or perish. So I lied to him that I had found my hands in my dreams. The Nagual didn’t say a word but Genaro patted my head and said that I was really a great warrior. The more he praised me the worse I felt. I was about to tell the Nagual the truth when crazy Genaro aimed his behind at me and let out the loudest and longest fart I had ever heard. He actually pushed me backward with it.
“I ran to the house and hid there. I was very fat then. I used to eat a great deal and I had a lot of gas. So I decided not to eat for a while. Lidia and Josefina helped me. I didn’t eat any-thing for twenty-three days, and then one night I found my hands in my dreams. They were old and ugly and green, but they were mine. So that was the beginning. The rest was easy.”
“And what was the rest, Gorda?”
“The next thing the Nagual wanted me to do was to try to find houses or buildings in my dreams and look at them, try-ing not to dissolve the images. He said that the art of the dreamer is to hold the image of his dream. Because that’s what we do anyway during all our lives.”
“What did he mean by that?”
“Our art as ordinary people is that we know how to hold the image of what we are looking at. The Nagual said that we do that but we don’t know how. We just do it; that is, our bodies do it. In dreaming we have to do the same thing, except that in dreaming we have to learn how to do it. We have to struggle not to look but merely to glance and yet hold the image.
“The Nagual told me to find in my dreams a brace for my belly button. It took a long time because I didn’t understand what he meant. He said that in dreaming we pay attention with the belly button; therefore it has to be protected. We need a little warmth or a feeling that something is pressing the belly button in order to hold the images in our dreams.”
The Second Ring of Power