Photo by Barbara Simon
"Power is one of the first barriers the warrior must pass in becoming a Man of Knowledge. Power is intoxicating. Magic and Siddhi create a drunkenness that is very tricky to sidestep. What you wish for comes true, like Aladdin and the Genie."
Jeffrey Ellis, DreamingAwake
Jeffrey Ellis, from a strong Buddhist, Shaman background, is co-founder of the Toltec Mystery School in Boulder, Colorado and has been teaching in the Eagle Knight Lineage of don MiguelŐs for over six years. He has thirty years of Buddhist meditation practice under the guidance of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche. As a young man he was apprenticed as well with a Yurok medicine man, Harry Roberts, and His original Toltec teachers were dońa Victoria and don Luis Molinar. He is now a personal apprentice with don Miguel Ruiz.
In addition to teaching workshops and leading the Toltec Men's Lodge, using ceremonial sweat lodges, vision quests, dreaming and shamanic practices, Jeffrey also has an active long distance apprenticeship program, and a counseling practice. He has had a lifelong calling as an architectural designer, Feng Shui consultant, and builder, with the intent to create sacred space for homes, businesses, and spiritual centers. He is completing a book of teachings and tales called "DreamingAwake" of which the opening quote, above, discussing the intoxicating Power of the Shaman is from.
SEE:
BUDDHIST SHAMANS?
Toltec Mystery School
AWAKENED TEACHERS FORUM
OBEAH: SHAMAN-SORCERER
OCCULT, BLACK ARTS, OR IMPLEMENT OF GOOD?
WE DO NOT HAVE SHAMANS
The Case Against "Shamans" In the
North American Indigenous Cultures
SEE ALSO:
SHE SHAMAN: The Woman Shaman and Shamanism
GURU, SHAMAN AND THE CRAZY MAN
MEDITATION
ALONG
METEOR CRATER
RIM
THIS SITE LISTED ON
THE GATE KEEPER'S
LIST OF SPIRITUAL TEACHERS
The Toltec Mystery School is a center for teaching the path of freedom that received through the inspiration of the Nagual, don Miguel Ruiz. He brings a lineage of magical teaching of central Mexico.
The Toltec Mystery School is centered in Boulder, Colorado and is part of a growing web of teaching centers by Master Teachers authorized to this work throughout the U.S. under the guidance don Miguel.
TOLTEC MYSTERY SCHOOL
SHUNRYU SUZUKI, cir. 1968
PHOTO: Tim Buckley
Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, a Japanese Zen priest belonging to the Soto Lineage, came to San Francisco in 1959 at the age of fifty-four. Already a respected Zen master in Japan, he was impressed by the seriousness and quality of "beginner's mind" among Americans he met who were interested in Zen and decided to settle here. As more and more people of non-Japanese background joined him in meditation, Zen Center came into being and he was its first abbot. Under his tutelage, Zen Center grew into City Center, Green Gulch Farm and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. He was undoubtedly one of the most influential Zen teachers of his time. Some of his edited talks have been collected in the books Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind and Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai. Suzuki-roshi died in 1971. Not to be confused with D.T. Suzuki, another well known Zen author and advocate. Above Suzuki bio © 2000 San Francisco Zen Center
