It can sometimes be an insurmountable temptation to take life too seriously. As I was reading the series of Carlos Castaneda’s lessons of the sorcerer shaman don Juan I was most impressed by don Juan’s friend called: don Genaro.
Don Genaro was a sorcerer who didn’t take himself or life very seriously, if he didn’t have to. He would give direct lessons of power to Castaneda through…clowning around. He was a sorcerer clown and he taught by doing silly things. I liked him immensely and always felt that if I were a sorcerer don Genaro was the type of sorcerer I would want to be.
In the Disney movie The Three Caballeros, before they embark on the Mexican segment, the sorcerer parrot Joe Carioca takes Donald Duck on a tour of Baia in South America. To me, Joe Carioca was a veritable don Genaro in cartoon form. I like him and want to be more like him; creating whatever I may need whenever I may need it from the sheer force of my imagination. Very cool indeed!
