Lineage

www.lineage-toak.com Tai Chi Chuan and Ninjutsu are two of the oldest surviving martial arts, reaching back through countless centuries into legend. They are also two disciplines within which Robert Abelar has been fortunate enough to find three sets of both gifted and passionate teachers. LINEAGE cycles through various key, self-developmental topics - each being reconsidered from the individual viewpoint of Robert's unique instructors. These...
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Tai Chi Chuan and Ninjutsu are two of the oldest surviving martial arts, reaching back through countless centuries into legend. They are also two disciplines within which Robert Abelar has been fortunate enough to find three sets of both gifted and passionate teachers.

LINEAGE cycles through various key, self-developmental topics - each being reconsidered from the individual viewpoint of Robert's unique instructors. These recollections are intertwined by his growing relationship with a strange old lady - who he met quite unexpectedly - and who offers her own startling perspective on events.

Throughout their conversations, the old lady artfully references the infamous anthropologist of the 1960's - Carlos Castaneda - and his reported apprenticeship with a Native American Indian Shaman. Unabashedly dragging Castaneda's unconventional works into the everyday world of modern urban life, she reveals the key underpinnings of all self-improvement practices - helping Robert to reconsider the more remarkable experiences of his previous training. More disturbingly, she proceeds to claim personal links to Castaneda's teachings, and to an ancient way of knowledge.

What Robert took to be a chance encounter with a mysterious old woman led to an onslaught not only on his martial studies, but his entire outlook on life. LINEAGE is an account of how his innermost beliefs were brought to their knees, and how he became a beginner yet again.

It's the story of how Castaneda's legacy is not yet finished...