Getsumei No Michi: The Moonlit Path

This is a Technique that is designed to highten the awareness of the Shadow Student so they may operate with more efficiency in their lives. This technique will work for you if you can trully allow your mind to work at its natural speed. However do not become frustrated if at first you cannot allow your mind to slip into this state. Note: This is NOT mediation, do not confuse it as such. During the Development of Man throughout the ages, it is believed by some cultures, that there has been a middle layer of conciousness between the sub and normal levels. This thin Membrane is believed to be what has allowed man to grow so much in a relatively short evolutionary time period. It acts on combinations of logic, intuition, and outside forces that I myself am not willing to try to explain, some things are simply beyond my ken. As man developed and efficiency began to rest more on logic and less on intuition (What some people call the taming of the world) this layer became less and less important and thus employed less and less. Getsumei No Michi is a technique for entering this state of conciousness. The trick to entering Getsumei No Michi is to cede control of your mind to your imagination. DO NOT attempt to focus your mind on any one thing. Let it go. The Ninja used to instruct their students to daydream in order to enter the moonlit path. Allow your mind to wander and pay attention to what it wander's to. Do not control its direction but DO pay attention. When you have accustomed yourself to this kind of observation you will notice things that previously you had no chance of noticing. Rather then controling the direction of your mind it jumps to every sound, every sight, every smell...Even your actions become more instinct then descion, as your mind unconciously sorts out the best and safest path's. Consider Getsumei No Michi your only true refuge...no matter where you are, this type of mindset can save your life in situations where it may seem impossible to get help or to save an endeavor.

Getsumei No Michi relies on the mind's ability to adapt, very fast. This is the equivalent of observation of what speed reading is to regular reading. The human mind is capable of translating around 1,000 words a minute, it can be trained to do more, but the average person only reads 255 words a minute. The concept for learning to read faster and entering the moonlit path is the same. The difference is that you only enter the path while you are reading and never in real life after you pull out of the book. In time once your mind is capable of processing all that is around you and you being aware of it, you will notice even more subtle things that previously you did not know you were capable of observing. Also in this state the sense of hesitation is GREATLY reduced. Memory in this state is hightened, you tend to remember everything you observe on the moonlit path. Once again, do not attempt to control the direction your mind goes in, just let it go and pay attention to where it goes. Ride the Day Dream home. I hope all of you can adapt this technique to every aspect of your life, it is a great tool. Peace, Honor, Eternity Shinobi