- B.)
SORCERER'S WAY
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1.
RATIONAL FOR THE SORCERER'S WAY
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- HOW
DOES SORCERY TEACH US TO REACH THIS ULTIMATE GOAL?
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- Sorcerer's follow a series of guidelines called the
sorcerer's way or impeccability
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- WHAT
IS THE DEFINITION OF THE SORCERER'S WAY?
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- THE SORCERER'S WAY ARE CHOICES WE MAKE IN LIFE
THAT ARE DESIGNED TO CHANGE THE WAY WE LOOK AND ACT TOWARDS
THINGS.
- the sorcerer's way is a specific sequence of
actions. POS,158 ...a chain of behavioral choices for dealing with
the world, choices much more intelligent than those our
progenitors taught us. These sorcerers' choices are designed to
revamp our lives by altering our basic reactions about being
alive. TAOD, ? ...dusting the connecting link to intent, or
stalking oneself POS, 67
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- MOLDING OUR LIFE SITUATION SO THAT WE CAN GET
SOME ENERGY
- There are two ways of facing our being
alive...one is to surrender to it, either by acquiescing to its
demands or by fighting those demands. The other is by molding our
paticular life situation to fit our own configurations...one's
particular life situation can be molded to fit one's
specification...dreamer's do that. Through molding this awareness
of being alive (molding one's life situation) we can get enough
energy to reach and sustain the energy body and with it we can
certainly mold the total direction and consequences of our
lives.TAOD, 33,34
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- ENERGY CAN BE CULMATIVE
- ...(energy tends to be culumative... TAOD,138)
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- WHAT
ARE THE OTHER NAMES OF THE SORCERER'S WAY?
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- Sorcerer's way/warrior's way/impeccability
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- WHAT
IS IMPECCABILITY?
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- IMPECCABILITY IS SIMPLY THE BEST USE OF OUR
ENERGY LEVEL
- impeccability is simply the best use of our
energy level POS,232, FFW,30... The only thing that counts is
impeccability, that is, freed energy. FFW,119 ...the only thing
that stores energy for us is our impeccability. POS,232 ...that
action of rechanneling that energy is impeccability. FFW,31...it
leaves us to scrounge energy for ourselves, wherever we can find
it. TAOD, ? ....learning to save energy.. POS,8 .... ..think of
sorcery as learning to save energy. And this energy will enable
you to handle some of the energy fields which are inaccessible to
you now. POS,8 ....to be in an impeccable state of being is to be
free of rational assumptions and fears. FFW,279...
...impeccability is to do your best in whatever you're engaged in.
TOP,191..a life of impeccability by itself leads unavoidably to a
sense of sobriety, and this in turn leads to the movement of the
AP. FFW,195 Impeccability is indeed the only act which is free and
thus the true measure of a warrior's spirit. TOP,241 impeccability
the only thing that counts in the path of knowledge. FFW,33
.......Be impeccable and you'll have enough energy to reach the
place of silent knowledge. POS,267
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- THE RULE WAS ENDLESS AND COVERED EVERY FACET
OF A WARRIOR'S BEHAVIOR
- . The rule was endless and covered every facet
of a warrior's behavior. EG,178. How the seers saw this rule.
EG,178.
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- TWO TYPES OF INTERPRETATIONS OF THE RULE:
UNIVERSAL AND INDIVIDUAL
- two types of interpretations of the rule:
universal and individual. explanations of and examples.
EG,181.
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- WHAT
IS THE RATIONALITY BEHIND SORCERY/SORCERER'S WAY?
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- THAT IS PROVIDED BY THE SORCERER'S EXPLANATION
- sorcerer's explanation..DJ gives it to CC
start, TOP,224,225 You now know about the tonal and the nagual
which are the core of the sorcerer's explanation.
TOP,225.
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- WHAT
IS THE SORCERY'S EXPLANATION?
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- The sorcery's basic premise is that the universe is just
energy
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- WE MUST BELIEVE THAT THE UNIVERSE IS ENERGY OR
WE WILL NEVER PERCEIVE ENERGY DIRECTLY
- ..If we don't start out with the premise that
it is a world of energy, we'll never be able to perceive energy
directly. We'll always be stopped by the physical certainty of
what you've just pointed out: the hardness of objects. TAOD,4. The
social base of our perception should be the physical certainty
that energy is all there is. TAOD, 3
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- AND
THAT EVERYTHING AROUND US IS ONLY A PERCEPTION
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- PERCEPTION IS THE UNLTIMATE MYSTERY BECAUSE
IT'S TOTALLY UNEXPLAINABLE/ EVERYTHING IS PERCEPTION/EVERYTHING IS
AN UNFATHOMABLE MYSTERY
- Perception is the ultimate mystery because
it's totally unexplainable. Sorcerers as human beings are
perceiving creatures, but what they perceive is neither good nor
evil; everything is just perception. If human beings, through
discipline, can perceive more than is normally permitted, more
power to them. TSC,215. Your reason is willing to admit that the
world is not as the description portrays it, that there is much
more to it than meets the eye...TOP,265 The first precept of the
rule is that everything that surrounds us is an unfathomable
mystery. EG,279 I've told you time and time again that the world
is unfathomable..and so are we, and so is every being that exists
in this world. It is impossible, therefore, to reason out the
double. You've been allowed to witness it, though, and that should
be more than enough. TOP,49.The world around us is very
mysterious..it doesn't yield its secrets easily.
JTI,22.
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- THE
WORLD IS A MYSTERY
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- THE WORLD IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE. WE WON'T EVER
UNDERSTAND IT; WE WON'T EVER UNRAVEL ITS SECRETS. THUS WE MUST
TREAT IT AS IT IS, A SHEER MYSTERY.
- The world is all that is encased
here...life,death,people, the allies, and everything else that
surrounds us. The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever
understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must
treat it as it is, a sheer mystery. SR,219... The world is a
mystery..and it is not at all as you picture it.... Well, it is
also as you picture it, but that's not all there is to world;
there is much more to it. JTI,165.
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- A WARRIOR TREATS THE WORLD AS A MYSTERY/PEOPLE
AS THE FOLLY
- A warrior is aware of this confusion and
learns to treat things properly. the things that people do cannot
under any conditions be more important than the world. And thus a
warrior treats the world as an endless mystery and what people do
as an endless folly. SR,220.
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- THE MYSTERY OF US IS OUTSIDE US/WHAT MAKES US
PERCEIVE
- .....The mystery is outside us... inside us we
only have emanations trying to break the cocoon. And this fact
aberrates us, one way or the other, whether we are average men or
warriors.. Only the new seers get around this. They struggle to
see. And by means of the shifts of their AP, they get to realize
that the mystery is perceiving. Not so much what we perceive, but
what makes us perceive. FFW,143
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- THE WORLD IS WHATEVER WE PERCEIVE IN ANY
MANNER WE CHOOSE TO PERCEIVE
- He was very careful to establish that the
world was whatever we perceive, in any manner we may choose to
perceive. SR,147.
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- AND
THIS PERCEPTION CAN BE MANIPULATED
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- AWARENESS CAN BE
MANIPULATED/HANDLED
- Awareness can be manipulated. FFW,16. You'd be
surprised what men are capable of especially if they control
awareness... in the old seers excursion to the depths they found
marvels. It was routine for them to encounter allies. To say the
depths is a figure of speech. There are no depths there is only
handling of awareness. FFW,121
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- A SORCERER DOES NOT TRY TO EXPLAIN THESE
FORCES BUT USES THESE FORCES BY REDIRECTING HIMSELF AND ADAPTING
TO THEIR DIRECTION
- The sorcerer, on the other hand, does not
think of explaining or changing them; instead, he learns to use
such forces by redirecting himself and adapting to their
direction. That's his trick. SR,214.
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- THE USE OF AWARENESS AS AN ENERGETIC ELEMENT
OF OUR ENVIRONMENT/WE CAN GO PLACES WITH OUR AWARENESS
- Through the medium of awareness, scouts from
all over the universe come to us, and vice versa; via awareness,
sorcerers go to the ends of the universe...The sorcerers can hitch
their energy body to the (glow of awareness) and go with it. the
use of awareness as an energetic element of our environment is the
essence of sorcery. TAOD,185..awareness can also be used for
entering into the energy fields of inanimate matter or of living
beings. TAOD, 198.
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- PERCEPTION
IS CONTROLLED BY WHERE THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT IS FIXED SO
MANIPULATING THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT BECOMES THE MOST IMPORTANT GOAL
OF A SORCERER
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- THE MANIPULATION OF THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT IS
THE MOST IMPORTANT TOPIC OF THE SORCERER'S WORLD
- ..the most important topic of the sorcerers'
world..the position of the assemblage point... TAOD,73..the
mystery of the AP is everything in sorcery..or rather, everything
in sorcery rests on the manipulation of the assemblage point.
TAOD,172.. the position of the AP is everything and that the world
it makes us perceive is so real that it does not leave any room
for anything except its realness. FFW,235,
- All of them (sorcerers) pursued,
singleheartedly, the same goal: breaking the perceptual
dispositions and biases that imprison us within the boundaries of
the normal everyday world and prevent us from entering other
perceivable worlds. TSC,xi.
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- THE MASTERY OF AWARENESS IS WHAT GIVES THE AP
ITS INITIAL BOOST TO DISLODGE IT FROM ITS ORIGINAL
POSITION
- the mastery of awareness is what gives the AP
its initial boost to dislodge it from its original position...our
enemy and at the same time our friend is our internal dialogue,
our inventory. Be a warrior; shut off your internal dialogue; make
your inventory and then throw it away. The new seers make accurate
inventories and then laugh at them..... without the inventory the
AP becomes free.. FFW,277.
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- THE NEW SEERS SAY THAT SINCE THE EXACT
POSITION OF THE AP IS AN ARBITRARY POSITION CHOSEN FOR US BY OUR
ANCESTORS, IT CAN MOVE WITH A RELATIVELY SMALL EFFORT; ONCE IT
MOVES, IT FORCES NEW ALIGNMENTS OF EMANATIONS, THUS NEW
PERCEPTIONS.
- moving the AP is complex because it required a
tremendous discipline on everybody's part; it required that the
internal dialogue be stopped, that a state of HA be reached and
that someone walk away with one's AP. The explanation behind all
these complex procedures was very simple; the new seers say that
since the exact position of the AP is an arbitrary position chosen
for us by our ancestors, it can move with a relatively small
effort; once it moves, it forces new alignments of emanations,
thus new perceptions. FFW,152
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- WHAT
IS THE PURPOSE OF THE SECOND ATTENTION FOR NEW
SORCERERS?
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- THE SECOND ATTENTION IS THE TRAINING GROUND
FOR WARRIORS WANTING TO REACH THE THIRD ATTENTION
- the battlefield of warriors was the second
attention, which was something like a training ground for reaching
the third attention. EG,18.
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- WHY
DO SORCERER GO TO OTHER WORLDS?
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- SORCERERS GO INTO OTHER WORLDS TO GET ENERGY,
POWER, SOLUTIONS TO GENERAL AND PARTICULAR PROBLEMS, OR TO FACE
THE UNIMAGINABLE.
- ....Sorcerers go into other worlds to get
energy, power, solutions to general and particular problems, or to
face the unimaginable. POS,13
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- WHERE
DOES THE ENERGY COME FROM TO MOVE THE AP?
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- THE ENERGY NECESSARY TO MOVE THE ASSEMBLAGE
POINT COMES FROM THE REALM OF THE INORGANIC BEINGS
- ..the energy necessary to move the assemblage
points of sorcerers comes from the realm of the inorganic beings.
TAOD, 181.
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- THE SECOND ATTENTION IS NECESSARY TO PERCEIVE
OURSELVES AS LUMINOUS BODIES
- the SA is the awareness we need in order to
perceive our luminous cocoon and to act like luminous beings.
EG,18
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- YOU MUST EXERCISE YOUR SECOND ATENTION TO GET
YOUR DESIRED RESULTS
- The second attention served the function of a
beckoner, a caller of chances. The more it is exercised, the
greater the possibility of getting the desired result.
EG,139.
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- BUT
TO MANIPULATE THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT MEANS TO HAVE FREED INTERNAL
ENERGY
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- IN ORDER TO PERCEIVE THE SECOND ATTENTION WE
NEED INTERNAL ENERGY TO MOVE THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT
- He had maintained that in order to perceive
energy in such a fashion, we need freedom from our normal capacity
to perceive. TSC,viii.. In order to accomplish the feat of
heightening our perception, we need internal energy. Thus the
problem of making internal energy available to fulfill such a task
becomes the key issue for students of sorcery. TSC,viii The
difficulty is in breaking the retaining wall we all have in our
mind that holds us in place. To break it all we need is energy.
Once we have energy, seeing happens to us itself. The trick is in
abandoning our fort of self-complacency and false security. TAOD,
9. Don Juan explained to me that, for us to perceive those other
realms, not only do we have to covet them but we need to have
sufficient energy to sieze them. Their existence is constant and
independent of our awareness, he said, but their inaccessibility
is entirely a consequence of our energetic conditioning. In other
words, simply and solely because of that conditioning, we are
compelled to assume that the world of daily life is the one and
only possible world. TAOD, ii. ...the most difficult thing in the
warrior's path is to make the AP move. That movement is the
completion of the warrior's quest... in the warrior's way, the
shift of the AP is everything. FFW,214......Sorcerers maintain
that moving the AP is all that matters and that movement..depends
on increased energy and not instruction. POS,166. the only value
of experiences (in the warrior's path) was the movement of the AP
and not the content of the vision. FFW,227.. ...Sorcerers say that
in order to command the spirit, and by that they mean to command
the movement of the AP, one needs energy POS,232 ...the only thing
that matters is the movement of the AP...no procedure can cause
that. It's an effect that happens all by itself. POS,169 and such
AP movements were ruled by the amount of energy sorcerers had at
their command. POS,152.. Once one knows that world all one needs
to bring it about is to use that extra ring of power...
JTI,255.
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- YOU MUST HAVE ENERGY TO MAKE THE AP MOVE OR
THE FORCE OF ALIGNMENT WILL CRUSH YOU
- For the AP to shift, one needs energy. If one
doesn't have it, the naugal's blow is not the blow of freedom, but
the blow of death. Without enough energy.. the force of alignment
is crushing. FFW,164 You have to have energy to sustain the
pressure of alignments which never take place under ordinary
circumstances. FFW,164
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- SINCE
ALL OF OUR ENERGY IS WRAPPED UP IN DEALING WITH OURSELVES, THE
SORCERER'S NEEDED A CODE OR A WAY OF LIFE THAT FREES UP ENERGY AND
CAN HANDLE THE DANGERS OF THE SECOND ATTENTION
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- ONLY THE SORCERER'S WAY CAN RESTORE THE ENERGY
NEEDED TO REGAIN THE TOTALITY OF OURSELVES
- She reached inside the cave and touched the
left and right sides of my forehead. Awareness must shift from
here to here... as children, we can easily do this , but once the
seal of the body has been broken through wasteful excesses, only a
special manipulation of awareness, right living and celibacy can
restore the energy that has drained out, energy needed to make the
shift. TSC,42.
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- THE WARRIOR'S WAY AQUIRED THE INTERNAL
STRENGTH THEY NEEDED TO SHIFT THEIR ASSEMBLAGE POINT IN THEIR
DREAMS
- With the warrior's path, the new seers
fortified themselves and aquired the internal strength (sobriety)
they needed to guide the shift of the AP in dreams.
FFW,195.
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- HOW
DOES THE SORCERER'S WAY/IMPECCABILITY FREE OUR EXISTING ENERGY?
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- THE SORCERERS CUT DOWN ANYTHING THEY THINK IS
SUPERFLUOUS IN THEIR LIVES AND REDEPLOY THAT ENERGY IN A MORE
INTELLIGENT MANNER/LOSE OUR SELF-REFLECTION
- ....It was implicit that one could have been
capable of such an extraordinary effort only by being frugal with
any other activity that did not deal directly with such
predetermined actions. TDJ,193....the sorcerers' way is the best
means of energy redeployment ...TAOD,138 ...Sorcerers get that
energy by redeploying, in a more intelligent manner, the energy
they have and use for perceiving the daily world. TAOD,32. The
sorcerers redeployed their energy by cutting down anything they
consider superfluous in their lives. TAOD,?...sorcerers get extra
energy from eradicating unnecessary habits. FFW,97 Eradicating
self-will is the means by which we realize the supreme goal of the
spiritual life. This is what all the great mystics have done and
done completely, through years of strenuous effort. EE, M,173...
Of course you need to gather energy..but right now you must do it
by demolishing your indulgence in absurdities. There is plenty of
energy you can harness simply by not doing the things you are
accustomed to, like complaining, or feeling sorry for yourself or
worrying about things that can't be changed. Defusing these
concerns will give you a positive, nurturing energy that will help
to balance and heal you. TSC,95 Because the spirit had no
perceivable essence, sorcerers deal rather with the specific
instances and ways in which they are able to shatter the mirror of
self-reflection. POS,170 This crossing of the threshold (moving
the assemblage point) happens when the spirit cuts our chains of
self-reflection. POS,101 eradicating unecessary habits detaches
awareness from self-reflection and allows it (I think he means
either awareness or glow of awareness) the freedom to focus on
something else. FFW,97 ...the sorcerer's way ...makes the person
...aware that self-importance is the force which keeps the AP
fixed. For this reason, the thrust of the warriors' way is to
dethrone self-importance. And everything sorcerers do is toward is
toward accomplishing this goal.. POS,158, TAOD,37 much of my
endeavors with you has been geared to show you that without
self-importance we are invulnerable. FFW,28. ...I personally have
initiated you in all kinds of sorcery procedures, but only for
purposes of luring your first attention away from the power of
self-absorption, which keeps your AP rigidly fixed. FFW,138.
..self-importance figures as the activity that consumes the
greatest amount of energy, hence, their effort to eradicate it.
FFW,31. ...example of shattering self-importance. POS,171....the
only worthwhile course of action, whether for sorcerers or average
men, is to restrict our involvement with our self-image.
POS,165...feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. to
be a man of knowledge one needs to be light and fluid.
SR,8....War, for a warrior, is the total struggle against that
individual self that has deprived man of his power. POS,158..
..self-importance, lack of purpose, unchecked ambition, unexamined
sensuality, cowardice; and you must be relentless in your fight
against them... she said she had just been trying to illustrate to
me that our attitudes and feelings were our real enemy. TSC,153...
and that they were just as damaging and dangerous as any bandit
armed to the teeth that we that we might encounter on the road.
TSC,154.
- ...it calls for frugality, thoughtfulness,
simplicity, innocence and above all it calls for a lack of
self-reflection. POS,232, FFW,30... close the door of
self-reflection. POS,267 ...It doesn't matter what anybody says or
does... You must be an impeccable man yourself. The fight is right
here in this chest...if you are impeccable.. you wouldn't have
time for petty fights. it takes all the time and all the energy we
have to conquer the idiocy in us. And that's what matters. The
rest is of no importance. SRP,213. One must overcome
everything...by letting it turn into nothing. SR,169. It doesn't
matter whether you like or dislike the guardian. As long as you
have a feeling toward it, the guardian will remain the same
monstrous, beautiful or whatever. If you have no feeling toward
it... the guardian will become nothing and will still be there in
front of you. SR,170. You thought it was ugly (guardian). its size
was awesome. it was a monster. You know what all those things are.
So the guardian was always something you knew you did not see it.
I have told you already, the guardian had to become nothing and
yet it had to stand in front of you. it had to be there and it
had, at the same time, to be nothing. SR,170. The goal of
everything I was taught was the redistribution of my normal
energy, and the enhancement of it, so that it could be used for
the out-of-the-ordinary feats of perception demanded by sorcery
training. The idea behind the training is that as soon as the
compulsive patterns of old habits, thoughts, expectations and
feelings is broken by means of the recapitulation one is
indisputably in the position to accumulate enough energy to live
by the new rationales provided by the sorcery tradition-and to
substantiate those rationales by directly perceiving a different
reality. TSC,xiii
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- GOOD
SUMMERIZATIONS
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- POS,158-losing self-importance
- POS,167-why we need to lose
self-importance-essence of why everything Don Juan did what he
did.
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- HOW
DOES LOSING YOUR SELF-IMPORTANCE FREE OUR ENERGY?
- (The lose of self-importance can also be thought of the
lose of socialization.. simply to lessen the control that society
has over us)
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- WHEN SELF-IMPORTANCE IS CURTAILED, THE ENERGY
IT REQUIRES IS NO LONGER EXPENDED.
- .When self-importance is curtailed, the energy
it requires is no longer expended. POS,167
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- WHEN OUR WAREHOUSE IS EMPTY/INVENTORY IS
DISCARDED THEN ENERGY CAN FLOW THROUGH US/WHEN WE BECOME
NOTHING
- If our warhouse is empty, the body itself is
empty, and energy from infinity can flow through it. Clara
reiterated that in order to empty ourselves, we have to sink into
a state of profound recapitulation and let energy flow through us
impeded. Only in quiescence.. can we give the seer in us full
reign or can the impersonal energy of the universe turn into the
very personal force intent. When we have emptied ourselves
sufficiently of our obsolete and encumbering inventory... energy
comes to us and gathers itself naturally; when enough of it
coalesces, it turns into power. TSC,102
- Chinese sages of ancient times used to say
that in order to know your worth, you have to slip through the eye
of the dragon.. she said those sages were convinced that the
boundless unknown is guarded by an enormous dragon whose scales
shine with a dazzling light. They believed that the courageous
seekers who dare to approach the dragon are awed by its blinding
glare, by the power of its tail that with the minutest flicker
crushes anything in its way, and by its burning breath that turns
to ashes everything within its reach. But they also believed that
there is a way to slip by that unapproachable dragon. Clara said
that they were confident that by merging with the dragon's intent,
one can become invisible and go through the dragon's eye... it
means that through recapitulation, we can become empty of thought
and desire, which for those ancient seers meant to become one with
the dragon's intent, therefore invisible. TSC,65.
- Warriors prepare themselves to be aware, and
full awareness comes to them only when there is no more
self-importance left in them. Only when they are nothing do they
become everything. FFW,147.
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- WHAT
HAPPENS WHEN WE FREE OUR ENERGY?
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- IT AUTOMATICALLY MOVES THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT
AND THIS SERVES AS THE BASIS FOR A CLEAR CONNECTING LINK WITH THE
NAGUAL
- That increased energy then serves as the
springboard that launches the assemblage point, automatically and
without premeditation, into an inconceivable journey. Once the
assemblage point has moved, the movement itself entails moving
from self-reflection, and this in turn, assures a clear connecting
link with the spirit. POS,167 By seperating the social part of
perception, you'll perceive the essence of everything. TAOD, 3 If
you want to find your life, you have to lose it.
(Jesus)...
- I have the greatest ambition imaginable. I
want to make myself zero. (Gandhi)..... EE,M,173...
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- ANY MOVEMENT OF THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT AWAY FROM
ITS HABITUAL SPOT MEANS A MOVEMENT FROM
SELF-REFLECTION/SELF-IMPORTANCE
- He explained that sorcerers had discovered
that any movement of the AP means movement away from the excessive
concern with that individual self which was the mark of modern
man.... It was therefore safe to say that any movement of the AP
away from its customary position resulted in a movement away from
man's self-reflection and its concomitant: self-importance. ....
sorcerers knew by means of their practical actions, that as soon
as their assemblage points move, their self-importance crumbles.
Without the customary position of their AP, their self image can
no longer be sustained. And without the heavy focus on that
self-image, they lose their self-compassion, and with it their
self-importance... POS,159 It was therefore safe to say that any
movement of the AP away from its customary position resulted in a
movement away from man's self-reflection and its concomitant:
self-importance. POS,158, TAOD,37
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- A WARRIOR ACTS FOR HIMSELF BUT HIS CONTACT
WITH THE SPIRIT HELPS HIS SELF BECOME ABSTRACT AND
IMPERSONAL
- In a way, a warrior is all for himself for a
warrior everything begins and ends with himself. However, his
contact with the abstract causes him to overcome his feeling of
self-importance. Then the self becomes abstract and impersonal.
POS, 47
- ..the internal dialogue is what grounds us..
the world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to
ourselves about its being such and such or so and so.
TOP,19.
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- THE MOVEMENT OF THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT INCREASES
THE PERCEPTION OF THE WARRIOR
- The sorcerer's increased energy, derived from
the curtailment of their self-reflection, allows their senses a
greater range of perception. POS,165. The greater your energy..
the greater your capacity to perceive extraordinary things...
TSC,215 this is sorcery! You can perceive it now, because you've
freed enough energy to expand your perception. Anyone can perceive
it, provided he has enough energy. The tragedy is that most of our
energy is trapped in nonsensical concerns. The recapitulation is
the key. it releases that trapped energy and voila! You see
infinity right in front of your eyes. TSC,248
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- OUR NEW COMMAND OF THE AP BECOMES THE EAGLE'S
NEW COMMAND
- The new seers say that realization is the
technique... first of all, one must become aware that the world we
perceive is the result of our AP's being located on a specific
spot on the cocoon. Once that is understood, the AP can move
almost at will, as a consequence of new habits. FFW,137. The AP of
man appears around a definite area of the cocoon, because the
Eagle commands it.. But the precise spot is determined by habit,
by repetitious acts. First we learn that it can be placed there
and then we ourselves command it to be there. Our command becomes
the Eagle's command.FFW,137. ..once the glow of awareness focuses
on man's band of emanations and selects some for emphasis, it
enters into a vicious circle. The more it emphasizes certain
emanations, the more stable the AP gets to be. This is the
equivalent of saying that our command becomes the Eagle's command.
It goes without saying that when our awareness develops into first
attention the command is so strong that to break that circle and
make the AP shift is a genuine triumph. FFW,141,142.. First you
must stop your internal dialogue, then you must bring up the image
of the person that you want to see; any thought that one holds in
mind in a state of silence is properly a command, since there are
no other thoughts to compete with it. TOP,34.
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- WHEN
SORCERERS MOVE THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT ENOUGH, SORCERERS LEARN TO
"SEE"
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- WHAT
DOES IT MEAN TO "SEE"?
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- SEEING IS THE CAPACITY TO PERCEIVE ENERGY
DIRECTLY
- Seeing... the capacity to perceive the
energetic essence of things... to perceive energy directly.(fields
of energy. FFW,10).. TAOD, 3,50
-
- SEEING IS THE ACT OF DEALING DIRECTLY WITH THE
NAGUAL
- seeing was the act of dealing directly with
the nagual, an act that was an unavoidable end result of the
teachings but an unattainable task as a task per se. TOP,232.
Seeing is not a force, but rather getting through things. SR,148.
Seeing must be direct, for a warrior can't use his time to unravel
what he himself is seeing. Seeing is seeing because it cuts
through all that nonsense TOP,151
-
- SEEING IS A FEELING/DIRECT KNOWING/BODILY
KNOWLEDGE
- ..seeing is a peculiar feeling of knowing
something without a shadow of a doubt. FFW,18..the logical
conclusion for my intellect would be to say that seeing is a
bodily knowledge. EG,37.Seeing is like that. Statements are made
with great certainity, and one doesn't know how it happened.
TOP,134. Clara said that this moment of direct knowing was called
the seer by the people who first formulated the recapitulation,
because it allows us to directly see into things with unclouded
eyes. TSC,99
-
- HOW
DOES SEEING COME ABOUT?
-
- SEEING IS A RESULT OF MOVING THE AP, USING NEW
ALIGNMENTS
- . ..seeing is a euphemism for moving the AP,
FFW,242..... seeing is not a matter of the eyes.. seeing is
alignment.. the alignment of emanations used routinely is the
perception of the day-to-day world, but the alignment of
emanations that are never used ordinarily is seeing. when such an
alignment occurs one sees. Seeing, therefore being produced by
alignment out of the ordinary cannot be something one could merely
look at.. FFW,71,72
-
- SEEING HAPPENS BETWEEN THE WORLDS OF ORDINARY
PEOPLE AND THE WORLD OF SORCERERS
- Perhaps you know now that seeing happens only
when one sneaks between the worlds, the world of ordinary people
and the world of sorcerers....one who sees knows that to believe
that is to be pinned down in the realm of sorcerers. By the same
token, not to believe that coyotes talk is to be pinned down in
the realm of ordinary men. They are real worlds. They could act
upon you. JTI,254.
-
- SEEING HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH
SORCERY
- He spoke about seeing as a process independent
of the allies and the techniques of sorcery.SR,167. A sorcerer was
a person who command an ally and thus manipulate an ally's power
to his advantage, but the fact that he commanded an ally did not
mean that he could see. I reminded him that he had told me before
that it was impossible to see unless one had an ally. Don Juan
very calmly replied that he had come to the conclusion it was
possible to see and yet not command an ally. He felt there was nor
reason why not, since seeing had nothing to do with manipulatory
techniques of sorcery, which served only to act upon our fellow
men. The techniques of seeing..had no effect on men.
SR,167.....Seeing is not sorcery. yet one may easily confuse them,
because a man who sees can learn, in no time at all, to manipulate
an ally and may become a sorcerer. On the other hand, a man may
learn certain techniques in order to command an ally and thus
become a sorcerer, and yet he may never learn to see.
SR,168
-
- WHAT
IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LOOKING AND SEEING?
-
- SEEING IS NOT USING THE EYES ALONE
- I never said that seeing is a matter of the
eyes alone. SR,252
-
- LOOKING CONSISTED IN VIEWING THE TONAL WHICH
IS IN EVERYTHING AND SEEING , ON THE OTHER HAND, CONSISTED IN
VIEWING THE NAUGAL WHICH ALSO IS IN EVERYTHING
- She added that we could stumble upon the most
outlandish sights of the tonal and be scared of them, or awed by
them, or be indifferent to them, because all of us could view
those sights. A sight of the naugal... needed the specialized
senses of a sorcerer in order to be seen at all. And yet, both the
tonal and naugal were present in everything at all times. It was
appropriate,therefore, for a sorcerer to say that looking
consisted in viewing the tonal which is in everything and seeing ,
on the other hand, consisted in viewing the naugal which also is
in everything.. Accordingly, if a warrior viewed observed the
world as a human being, he was looking, but if he observed it as a
sorcerer, he was seeing, and what he was seeing was properly
called the nagual. SRP,199.
-
- SWITCHING BETWEEN LOOKING AND SEEING/FUNCTION
OF THE EYES
- you must do it yourself (seeing) once you
learn, you can see every single thing in the world in a different
way...I see both ways. When I want to look at the world I see it
the way you do. Then when I want to see it I look at it the way I
know and I perceive it in a different way.... SR,37..He said that
the eyes of man could perform both functions (seeing and looking)
but neither of them was better than the other; however, to train
the eyes to look was, in his opinion, an unnecessary loss... we
need to look with our eyes to laugh because only when we look at
things can we catch the funny edge of the world. On the other
hand, when our eyes see, everything is so equal that nothing is
funny... our eyes may look so we may laugh, or cry, or rejoice, or
be happy. SR,83
- In order to see one must learn to look at the
world in some other fashion, and the only other fashion I know is
the way of a sorcerer. JTI,256.
-
- DO
THINGS CHANGE WHEN YOU SEE?
-
- THINGS DON'T CHANGE WHEN YOU SEE, YOU JUST
CHANGE YOUR WAY OF LOOKING AT THEM
- things don't change. You change your way of
looking, that's all. SR,37.
-
- WHEN YOU LEARN TO SEE..A THING IS NEVER THE
SAME EVERY TIME YOU SEE IT, AND YET IT IS THE SAME
- When you learn to see..a thing is never the
same every time you see it, and yet it is the same. I told you,
for instance, that a man is like an egg. Every time I see the same
man I see an egg, yet it is not the same egg....you can tell
things apart. You can see them for what they really are.
SR,37.
-
- ULTIMATE
REALITY
-
- SEEING THE ULTIMATE NATURE OF
THINGS
- ....seeing as a special capacity that one
could develop and which would allow one to apprehand the ultimate
nature of things. TOP,27...to lay bare the core of everything, to
witness the unknown and to glimpse into the unknowable..
FFW,70..the capacity of human beings to enlarge their perceptual
field until they are capable of assessing not only the outer
appearances but the essence of everything. FFW,10..seeing entailed
a very complex process by virtue of which a man of knowledge
allegedly perceives the essence of the things of the world. SR,8.
the old seers actually saw the indescribable force which is the
source of all sentient beings. FFW,54,55
-
- EVERYTHING
UNIMPORTANT
-
- WHEN YOU LEARN TO SEE, EVERYTHING BECOMES
UNIMPORTANT/EQUAL
- Besides seeing is contrary to sorcery. Seeing
makes one realize the importance of it all... the unimportance of
everything. SR,168. When a man learns to see, not a single thing
he knows prevails. Not a single thing. If the Tibetans could see
they could tell right away that not a single thing is no longer
the same. Once we see, nothing is known; nothing remains as we
used to know it when we didn't see. When one learns to see, not a
single thing is the same.. perhaps the Tibetans really see.. in
which case they must have realized that what they see makes no
sense at all and they wrote that bunch of crap because it doesn't
make any difference to them; in which case what they wrote isn't
crap at all. SR,194. But then when a man learns to see, he
realizes that he can no longer think about the things he looks at,
and if he cannot think about what he looks at everything becomes
unimportant. SR,81. Once a man learns to see he finds himself
alone in the world with nothing but folly.. your acts as well as
the acts of your fellow men in general appear to be important to
you because you have learned to think they are important. SR,81.
you believe that (nothing matters is bad) because you're
thinking..you're thinking about life..you're not seeing.
SR,80
-
- AFTER SEEING/ UPON LEARNING TO SEE A MAN
BECOMES EVERYTHING BY BECOMING NOTHING. HE SO TO SPEAK VANISHES
AND YET HE'S THERE/DEALING WITH PEOPLE
- Upon learning to see a man becomes everything
by becoming nothing. He so to speak vanishes and yet he's there. I
would say that this is the time when a man can be or can get
anything he desires. but he desires nothing, and instead of
playing with his fellow men like they were toys, he meets them in
the midst of their folly. the only difference between them is that
a man who sees controls his folly, while his fellow men can't. A
man who sees has no longer an active interest in his fellow men.
Seeing has already detached him from absolutely everything he knew
before. The thing that should give you chills is not to have
anything to look forward to but a lifetime of doing that which you
have always done. Seeing is very difficult and is not a matter of
talk. SR,105.
-
- OUR
NEW ENERGY THEN BECOMES POWER
-
- PERSONAL POWER
-
- PERSONAL POWER IS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS
IN THE DOINGS AND NOT-DOINGS OF WARRIORS
- As is always the in the doings and not doings
of warriors, personal power is the only thing that matters.
TOP,106. Everything a man does hinges on his personal power..
therefore, for one who doesn't have any, the deeds of a powerful
man are incredible. JTI,164. If.. your impeccability and personal
power are such that you are capable of fulfilling your tasks, you
will then achieve the promise of power. And what's that
promise?...it is a promise that power makes to men as luminous
beings. Each warrior has a different fate, so there is no way of
telling what that promise will be for either of you.
TOP,277.
-
- WHAT IS
POWER?
-
- POWER IS A VERY PECULIAR AFFAIR..IT IS
IMPOSSIBLE TO PIN IT DOWN AND SAY WHAT IT IS REALLY IS
- power is a very peculiar affair..it is
impossible to pin it down and say what it is really is. JTI,122
Then power becomes a serious matter; one may not have it, or one
may not even fully realize that it exists, yet one knows that
something is there, something which was not noticeable before.
Next power is manifested as something uncontrollable that comes to
oneself. It is not possible for me to say how it comes to oneself.
it is not possible for me to say how it comes or what it really
is. It is nothing and yet it makes marvels appear before your very
eyes. And finally power is something in oneself, something that
controls one's acts and yet obeys one's command. JTI,97. power is
like that. it commands you and yet it obeys you.
JTI,122..........power.. it commands you and yet it is at your
command.... JTI,134.
-
- POWER CAN BE ANYTHING
- I just saw power. It may have been anything.
Power for you, this time, was a bridge. I don't know why a bridge.
We are most mysterious creatures. JTI,134.
-
- IT TAKES POWER TO EVEN CONCEIVE WHAT POWER
IS
- It takes power to even conceive what power
is.... but I know you don't understand, not because you don't want
to but because you have very little personal power. JTI,164. Power
is a very weird affair. In order to have it and command it one
must have power to begin with. JTI,135.
-
- IT IS A FEELING THAT ONE HAS ABOUT CERTAIN
THINGS.
- It is a feeling that one has about certain
things. JTI,122 Personal power is a feeling..something like being
lucky. Or one may call it a mood. JTI,157.
-
- POWER DOES NOT BELONG TO ANYONE.
- Power does not belong to anyone. JTI,164.
-
- POWER IS PERSONAL. IT BELONGS TO ONESELF
ALONE.
- Power is personal. it belongs to oneself
alone....JTI,122
-
- POWER PROVIDES ACCORDING TO YOUR
IMPECCABILTIY
- ...power provides according to your
impeccabiltiy..if you had seriously used those four techniques,
you would've stored enough personal power to find a benefactor.
You would've been impeccable and power would have opened all the
necessary avenues. That is the rule. TOP,236.
-
- PERSONAL POWER IS SOMETHING THAT ONE ACQUIRES
REGARDLESS OF ONE'S ORIGIN.
- Personal power is something that one acquires
regardless of one's origin. I already have told you that a warrior
is a hunter of power, and that I am teaching you how to hunt and
store it. the difficulty with you, which is the difficulty with
all of us, is to be convinced. You need to believe that personal
power can be used and that it is possible to store it, but you
haven't been convinced so far. JTI,157.
-
- POWER IS WHEN ENERGY GATHERS, EITHER BY ITSELF
OR UNDER SOMEONE'S COMMAND.
- ....Power is when energy gathers, either by
itself or under someone's command. TSC,106
-
- SOME OF US MAY GATHER IT AND THEN IT COULD BE
GIVEN DIRECTLY TO SOMEONE ELSE.
- Some of us may gather it and then it could be
given directly to someone else. JTI,164.
-
- THE KEY TO STORED POWER IS THAT IT CAN BE USED
ONLY TO HELP SOMEONE ELSE STORE POWER.
- You see, the key to stored power is that it
can be used only to help someone else store power. ...DJ said he
could use his personal power however he pleased, in anything he
himself wanted, but when it came to giving it directly to another
person, it was useless unless that person utilized it for his own
search of personal power. JTI,164.
-
- WITH SUFFICIENT STORED PERSONAL POWER YOU CAN
USE YOUR WILL AS A FUNCTIONING UNIT
- that you have stored sufficient personal power
to enable you to turn your will into a functioning unit.
TOP,82.
-
- WE NEED PERSONAL POWER TO BOOST THE
TONAL
- Because of its inherent weakness the tonal is
easily destroyed, and thus one of the balancing arts of the
warrior is to make the nagual emerge in order to prop up the
tonal. I say its an art, because sorcerers know that only by
boosting the tonal can the nagual emerge....that boosting is
called personal power. TOP,158.
-
- A HUNTER OF POWER WATCHES EVERYTHING... AND
EVERYTHING TELLS HIM A SECRET
- A hunter of power watches everything... and
everything tells him a secret. JTI,132
-
- WITH
THAT POWER, A SORCERER CAN ACCOMPLISH THEIR GOAL OF REGAINING THE
TOTALITY OF OURSELVES
-
- TO COMPLETE THE ABSTRACT FLIGHT/SORCERER'S
CROSSING (MAKING THE TONAL AWARE OF THE DOUBLE)/ REGAINING THE
TOTALITY OF OURSELVES / EVERY PROCEDURE WAS A STEP TOWARD
FULFILLING THE GOAL OF THE ABSTRACT FLIGHT
- every procedure she was going to teach me, or
every task she might ask me to perform, no matter how ordinary it
might seem to me, was a step toward fulfilling the ultimate goal
of the art of freedom; the abstract flight. TSC,43 But remember
this... regardless of whether you are learning martial arts or the
discipline I have been teaching you, the goal of your training is
to perfect your inner being so that it can transcend its outer
form in order to accomplish the abstract flight. TSC,121 For
sorcerers to break such perceptual dispositions enables one to
cross a barrier and leap into the unimaginable. they call such a
leap the sorcerers crossing. Sometimes they refer to it as the
abstract flight. for it entails soaring from the side of the
concrete to the physical, to the side of expanded perception and
impersonal abstract forms. TSC,xi,xii. The apex of the special art
I want to teach you..is called the abstract flight, and the means
to achieve it we call the recapitulation. TSC,42. she explained
that this unimaginable flight was symbolized by moving from the
right side of the forhead to the left, but what it really meant
was bringing of the ethereal part of us, the double, into our
daily awareness. TSC,6 the abstract flight takes place when we
bring our double to bear on our daily lives. In other words, the
moment our physical body becomes totally conscious of its
energetic ethereal counterpart, we have crossed over into the
abstract, a completely different realm of awareness. TSC,62. as
you continue to recapitulate, the entrance of the realm where
humanness doesn't count will appear to you... that will be your
invitation for you to go through the dragon's eye. This is what we
call the abstract flight. it actually entails crossing a vast
chasm into a realm that cannot be described because man isn't a
measure of it. TSC,66 You were supposed to cross the chasm gently
and harmoniously and wake up with your double to full awareness in
the left hallway. TSC,224. The sorcerer's crossing consists of
shifting the awareness of daily life, which the double possesses,
to the double... the awareness of daily life is what we want to
shift from the body to the double. TSC,224. To draw the double
gently and harmoniously and shift to it our awareness of daily
life is something without parallel. TSC,225.
-
- WINGS
OF PERCEPTION/JUMPING INTO THE ABYSS
-
- DESCRIPTION OF THE EXPERIENCE
- description of experience.
TOP,259,260,261...the mystery or the secret of the sorcerers
explanation is that it deals with unfolding the wings of
perception. TOP,248. wings of perception...first time that he
saw???TOP,223....the day before they jump into the abyss...last
night your bubble of perception opened and its wings unfolded.
Theres nothing else to say about it. It is impossible to explain
what happened to you, so I'm not going to attempt to and you
shouldn't try either. It should be enough to say that the wings of
your perception were made to touch your totality. last night you
went back and forth from the nagual to the tonal time and time
again...your perception unfolded its wings when something in you
realized your true nature. TOP,263
-
- Last night was the first time you flew on the
wings of your perception. ..you ventured only on the band of human
perception..a sorcerer can use those wings to touch other
sensibilities, a crows...a coyote's, a cricket's or the order of
other worlds in that infinite space...other planets..the wings of
perception can take us to the most recondite confines of the
nagual or to inconceivable worlds of the tonal...(a sorcerer can
go to the moon..he couldn't bring back a bag of rocks
though)..TOP,268.
-
- JUMP INTO
THE ABYSS
-
- jumping into the abyss, I was going to become
pure perception and move back and forth between the two inherent
realms of all creation, the tonal and the naugal. In my jump my
perception went through seventeen elastic bounces between the
tonal and the naugal. In my moves into the naugal I perceived my
body disintegrating. i could not think or feel in the coherent,
unifying sense that i ordinarily do, but I somehow thought and
felt. In my moves into the tonal I burst into unity. I was whole.
My perception had coherence. i had vision of order. Their
compelling force was so intense, their vividness so real and their
complexity so vast that i have not been capable of explaining them
to my satisfaction. To say that they were visions, vivid dreams or
even hallucinations does not say anything to clarify their nature.
SRP,7.
- You will enter into the nagual and the tonal
by the force of your personal power alone. TOP,273.
- ..few warriors survive the encounter with the
unknown that you are about to have; not so much because it is
hard, but because the nagual is enticing beyond any statement, and
warriors who are journeying into it find that to return to the
tonal or to the world of order and noise and pain, is a most
appealing affair. The decision to stay or return is done by
something in us which is neither our reason nor our desire, but
our will, so there is no way of knowing the outcome of it
beforehand. TOP,273,274..
-
- OVERALL
SORCERER'S EXPLANATION FOR THE ABSTRACT FLIGHT
(REVIEW)
-
- WE ARE A CLUSTER OF FEELINGS, ETC THAT ARE
BINDED BY LIFE
- You are a cluster. This is the sorcerers
explanation. The nagual is the unspeakable. All the possible
feelings and beings and selves float in it like barges, peaceful,
unaltered, forever. Then the glue of life binds some of them
togetherTOP,263
-
- THE CLUSTER IS CALLED THE BUBBLE OF
PERCEPTION
- I have called that cluster the bubble of
perception. TOP,264
-
- AFTER WE ARE BINDED WE LOSE THE SENSE OF OUR
TRUE NATURE AND ARE BLINDED BY THE TONAL
- ...when the glue of life binds those feelings
together a being is created, a being that loses the sense of its
true nature and becomes blinded by the glare and clamour of the
area where beings hover, the tonal. The tonal is where all the
unified organization exists. A being pops into the tonal once the
force of life has bound all the needed feelings together. I said
to you once that the tonal begins at birth and ends at death.
TOP,263
-
- THE BUBBLE OF PERCEPTION IS USUALLY SEALED AND
CLOSED AND DOES NOT OPEN UNTIL THE MOMENT OF OUR DEATH
- I have also said that it is sealed, closed
tightly and that it never opens until the moment of our death.
TOP,264
-
- AT DEATH ALL OF THOSE SINGLE AWARENESSES
DISINTEGRATE AND GO BACK AGAIN TO THE NAGUAL
- I said that because I know that as soon as the
force of life leaves the body all those single awarenesses
disintegrate and go back again to where they came from, the
nagual. TOP,263 ....At death however, they sink deeply and move
independently as if they had never been a
unit.......TOP,264
-
- SORCERER'S HAVE LEARNED HOW TO OPEN THAT
BUBBLE
- Yet it could be made to open. Sorcerer's have
obviously learned that secret, and although not all of them arrive
at the totality of themselves, they know about the possibility of
it. TOP,264
-
- THE ABSTRACT FLIGHT MEANS TO SHIFT YOUR
AWARENESS BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN YOUR BODY AND YOUR DOUBLE WHICH
WOULD RESULT IN ERASING ALL THE NATURAL BARRIERS DEVELOPED THROUGH
LIFE, BARRIERS THAT SEPERATE THE PHYSICAL BODY AND THE DOUBLE
- under Nelida's direction I was supposed to
shift my awareness back and forth between my body and my double.
this shifting was to have erased all the natural barriers
developed through life, barriers that seperate the physical body
from the double. The sorcerer's plan..was to allow me to get
acquainted with all of them in person, since my double already
knew them.TSC,224.
-
- WHEN THE BUBBLE IS OPENED WE PLUNGE INTO THE
NAGUAL
- They know that the bubble opens only when one
plunges into the nagual.. Yesterday I gave you a recapitulation of
all the steps that you have followed to arrive at that point.
TOP,264.
-
- WHEN A WARRIOR GOES INTO THE NAGUAL, HIS
CLUSTER DOES NOT DISINTEGRATE BUT EXPAND A BIT WITHOUT LOSING
THEIR TOGETHERNESS
- What a warrior does in journeying into the
unknown is very much like dying, except that his cluster of single
feelings do not disintegrate but expand a bit without losing their
togetherness. TOP,263
-
- THE FORCE AND BINDING OF LIFE MAKES ALL THAT
SHUFFLING POSSIBLE
- The force of life is what makes all that
shuffling possible. TOP,264
-
- ONCE THE FORCE OF LIFE IS EXHAUSTED THE
CLUSTER CANNOT BE REASSEMBLED
- Once the force of life is exhausted there is
no way to reassemble that cluster.TOP,264
-
- THE WILL ALLOWS A WARRIOR TO GO INTO THE
NAGUAL AND BE REARRANGED
- There is no way to refer to the unknown..one
can only witness it. The sorcerers explanation says that each of
us has a center from which the nagual can be witnessed, the will.
Thus, a warrior can venture into the nagual and let his cluster
arrange and rearrange itself in any way possible. TOP,264 Your
reason cannot fight the physical knowledge that you are a nameless
cluster of feelings. Your reason at this point might even admit
that there is another center of assemblage, the will, through
which it is possible to judge or assess and use the extraordinary
effects of the nagual. It has finally dawned on your reason that
one can reflect the nagual through the will, although one can
never explain it. TOP,266.
-
- IT'S UP TO THE WARRIOR TO DIRECT HOW THE
CLUSTER WILL BE ARRANGED
- I've said to you that the expression of the
nagual is a personal matter. I meant that it is up to the
individual warrior himself to direct the arrangement and
rearrangement of that cluster. The human form of human feeling is
the original one, perhaps the sweetest form of them all to us;
TOP,264
-
- THERE ARE AN ENDLESS NUMBER OF FORMS THAT THE
CLUSTER MAY ADOPT
- there are..an endless number of alternative
forms which the cluster may adopt. A sorcerer who is in the
possession of the totality of himself can direct the parts of his
cluster to join in any conceivable way. TOP,264
-
- THE CLUSTER OF FEELINGS CAN BE MADE TO
ASSEMBLE INSTANTLY ANYWHERE
- ..The secret of the double is in the bubble of
perception which in your case that night was at the top of the
cliff and at the bottom of the gorge at the same time...the
cluster of feelings can be made to assemble instantly anywhere. In
other words, one can perceive the here and the there at once.
TOP,265.
-
- WHAT
ELSE DOES THE SORCERER'S WAY ACCOMPLISH?
-
- TO TRAIN OUR RATIONAL SIDE TO NOT GO CRAZY
WHEN THE IRRATIONAL SIDE BEGINS TO AWAKEN... AND IRRATIONAL THINGS
BEGIN TO HAPPEN.
- The goal of a warrior's training then is not
to teach him to hex or to charm, but to prepare his tonal not to
crap out. A most difficult accomplishment. A warrior must be
taught to be impeccable and thoroughly empty before he could even
conceive witnessing the nagual. TOP,171 One of the aims of the
warrior's training was to cut the bewilderment of the tonal until
the warrior was so fluid that he could admit everything without
admitting anything. TOP,176. I have endeavored to show you those
forces as a sorcerer perceives them, because only under their
terrifying impact can one become a warrior. To see without first
being a warrior would make you weak; it would give you a false
meekness, a desire to retreat; your body would decay because you
would become indifferent. it is my personal commitment to make you
a warrior so you won't crumble. SR,214,215 he said the effects of
those two techniques were ultimately devastating if they were
exercised in their totality...erasing personal history and
dreaming should only be help..what a apprentice needs to buffer
him is temperance and strength. That is why a teacher introduces
the warrior's way, or living like a warrior. This is the glue that
joins together everything in sorcerer's world...bit by bit a
teacher must forge and develop it..without the sturdiness and
level-headedness of the warrior's way there is no possibility of
withstanding the path of knowledge TOP,233
-
- TO TRAIN THE DOUBLE TO BE OF SOME PRACTICALITY
IN THE ORDINARY WORLD.
- by the time a warrior had conquered dreaming
and seeing and he had developed a double, he must have also
succeeded in erasing personal history, self-importance, and
routines. He said that all the techniques which he had taught me
and which I had considered empty talk were, in essence, means for
removing the impracticality of having a double in the ordinary
world, by making the self and world fluid, and by placing them
outside the bounds of prediction. TOP,49.
-
- TO BE UNBIASED WITNESSES TO WHAT THEY
EXPERIENCE WHICH ALLOWS THE SORCERER TO FIND OUT WHAT WE REALLY
ARE.
- warriors are in the world to train themselves
to be unbiased witnesses, so as to understand the mystery of
ourselves and relish the exultation of finding what we really are.
This is the highest of the new seers' goals. And not every warrior
attains it. FFW,167
- In order to be unbiased witnesses.. we begin
by understanding that the fixation of the movement of the AP is
all there is to us and the world we witness, whatever that world
might be. FFW,167 seers aim to be free, to be unbiased witnesses
incapable of passing judgement; otherwise they would have to
assume the responsibility for bringing about a more adjusted
cycle. No one can do that. The new cycle, if it is to come, must
come of itself. FFW,79
-
- GOAL OF THE TEACHINGS WAS TO SHOW HOW TO
BECOME A MAN OF KNOWLEDGE
- The goal of his teachings was to show how to
become a man of knowledge. TDJ,190.
-
- FLAWS
IN THE WARRIOR'S WAY
-
- THERE IS NO FLAW IN THE WARRIOR'S
WAY
- There is no flaw in the warrior's way. Follow
it and your acts cannot be criticized by anyone...Take yesterday
for example, the warrior's way would have been, first, to ask
questions without fear and without suspicion and then let Genaro
show you the mystery of the dreamer, without fighting him, or
draining yourself. Today, the warrior's way would assemble what
you've learned, without presumptuousness and without piousness. Do
that and no one can flaws in it. TOP,77.
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- NO
FINAL STEP TO THE SORCERER'S EXPLANATION
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- NO FINAL STEP TO ANYTHING
- In my opinion there is no final crossroad, no
final step to anything. And since there is no final step to
anything, there shouldn't be any secrecy about any part of our lot
as luminous beings..so the matter of secrecy about the sorcerer's
explanation boils down to a routine, perhaps a routine as empty as
any other routine. TOP,225.
CONTINUE TO #2 AND #3
TEACHING AND TEACHERS OF THE SORCERER'S WAY