Guru and the Ninja

Fifty years ago Carlos Casteneda brought us the wisdom he had gleaned from studies with a Yaqui medicine man. Now in the 21st century Three Initiates share some of the knowledge and understanding they have learned from training with Ninja Master Ashida Kim and his teacher the mysterious Guru. To be sure there were lessons in martial arts stealth and invisibility in meditation and Qi Gong. But the tales of courage and patriotism and adventure are what opened the portals of self-knowledge and brought them to the threshold of truth. When Ashida Kim appeared on the scene during the Ninja Boom of the eighties he was often challenged to produce some documentation of his Ninjitsu training. He always said he learned it in the Army and that the tradition was not to reveal your training having no name-no art. This is the de-classified story of the Guru his father brother teacher friend and mentor. It is hoped that this chronicle of a life well lived will be of some benefit to other Seekers on the Way.