It's a truly engaging interactivity where you create meaning, image and energy in your mind and body as you participate. You co-create each moment as it happens. A transmission of energy passes from teacher to student in an oral teaching. It's not a conceptual thing. You could read a hundred or a million books and still not get it.
Oral tradition transfers a subtle essence, like fire, from one person to another.
It creates a unique bond of living substance. The lessons in Day of Destiny were taught one on one. They were learned in funny, grueling and sometimes bizarre situations. They were sweated out dancing sacred dances barefoot for long hard hours on oil-soaked cement and dirt floors in the mountains of southern Mexico. They were absorbed in the vastness of nature.