10. GETTING TO THE DOUBLE
 
WHAT DO WE NEED TO GET TO THE DOUBLE?
 
IT TAKES ALOT OF ENERGY TO GET TO THE DOUBLE
The double is something that takes alot of power to come out. SRP,197.
 
KEEP THE PHYSICAL BODY AND ENERGY BODY SEPERATE BECAUSE ONLY WHEN THEY ARE UNDENIABLE SEPERATE CAN AWARENESS FLOW FROM ONE TO THE OTHER
he explained that the error many people make when trying to seek the double is to apply to it the rules of the physical body, training it, for example, as if it were made of muscle and bone. He assured me that there is no way to condition the double through physical exercises. the easiest way to resolve this problem is to seperate the two... only when they are undeniably seperate can awareness flow from one to the other. That is what sorcerers do. So they can dispense with the nonsense of rituals, incantations and elaborate breathing techniques that are supposed to unify them.. TSC,236. She (Clara) taught you only things (sorcery passes and breaths).. that would help you seperate your body and your double. Therefore they are all useful for that purpose.. TSC,236.
 
HOW DOES A WARRIOR GET TO THE DOUBLE?
 
GENERAL
 
WE LEARN TO BE AWARE OF IT, THAT'S ALL
A warrior learns to be aware of it, that's all. there are seemingly insurmountable barriers protecting that arriving at that awareness such a unique challenge.. EG,23
 
YOU CAN ONLY LEARN ABOUT THE DOUBLE THROUGH DOING
You can only learn about the double by doing. TSC,234.
 
SOMETIMES ACCIDENTLY, BUT MORE OFTEN DUE TO TRAINING, AWARENESS CAN SHIFT TO THE ENERGY THAT CIRCULATES IN THE LEFT SIDE OF THE DOUBLE, WHICH RESULTS IN BEHAVIOR NOT SO CONDUCIVE TO INTELLECTUAL PURSUITS OR DEALING WITH PEOPLE.
Sometimes accidently, but more often due to training, awareness can shift to the energy that circulates in the left side of the double, which results in behavior not so conducive to intellectual pursuits or dealing with people. TSC,236 (what should we do?).. to know what to do isn't important because there's very little we can do.. we can either remain seated with our eyes shut or we can get up and move about. the important point is to know that we are limited because our physical body controls our awareness. But if we can turn it around so that our double controls our awareness, we can do practically anything we can imagine. TSC,233
 
THE STEPS ARRIVING AT THE DOUBLE ARE THE SAME, ESPECIALLY THE BEGINNING STEPS, WHICH ARE MUDDLED AND UNCERTAIN
each one of us is different and thus the details of our struggles is different..the steps we follow to arrive at the double are the same, though. Especially the beginning steps, which are muddled and uncertain. TOP,64.
 
THE PROCEDURE TO GET TO GET TO THE DREAMING BODY IS IMPECCABILITY IN OUR DAILY LIFE.
The procedure to get to get to the dreaming body is impeccability in our daily life. FFW,200
 
TO JOIN THE TWO BODIES WE MUST DISSOLVE THE BARRIER THAT SEPERATES THE TWO (THE BARRIER IS LOSING SELF-IMPORTANCE)
He said that our physical body is inseperably linked with its ethereal counterpart, but that link has been clouded over by our thoughts and feelings, which are focused exclusively on our physical body. In order to shift our awareness from our hard appearance to its fluid counterpart, we must first dissolve the barrier that seperates the two aspects of our being. TSC,133.
 
AND THAT IT TAKES GREAT DISCIPLINE AND DETERMINATION TO BREAK THAT SEAL (THE MEMBRANE THAT SEPERATES THEIR TWO SIDES) AND GO FROM ONE SIDE TO THE OTHER.
and that it takes great discipline and determination to break that seal (the membrane that seperates their two sides. EG,230) and go from one side to the other. EG,228.
 
WE BECOME AWARE OF THE DOUBLE BY ALLOWING INTENT TO SHIFT BACK TO IT
We become aware of our ethereal side by allowing our intent to shift back to it. TSC,133.
 
WHEN WE FULLY UNDERSTAND THAT OUR WORLD IS ONLY A VIEW
one can arrive at the totality of oneself when one fully understands that the world is merely a view, regardless of whether that view belongs to an ordinary man or a sorcerer TOP,238
 
WHEN AWARENESS IS TURNED STEADILY TO THE LEFT SIDE OF THE DOUBLE..THE DOUBLE IS FLUSHED OUT AND EMERGES....
When awareness is turned steadily to the left side of the double..the double is flushed out and emerges... TSC,237.
 
THE GATES OF OUR BODY
 
WHEN THEY ARE CLOSED, OUR INNER ENERGY REMAINS LOCKED WITHIN THE PHYSICAL BODY.
When they are closed, our inner energy remains locked within the physical body. TSC,159. In order to activate the soft body, you have to first open certain body centers that function like gates. When all the gates are open, your double can emerge from its protective covering. Otherwise, it will forever remain encased within its outer shell. TSC,141..
 
HOW DO WE OPEN THE GATES OF OUR BODY?
 
THROUGH RECAPITULATION AND BREATHING
However, if one is going to release it, the gates must be opened and this is done through the recapitulation and the breathing exercises Clara showed you. TSC,159. recapitulating your life, especially your sex life, has loosened some of your gates even more. TSC,233
 
A PREREQUISITE TO OPENING THE GATES AND RELEASING THE DOUBLE IS THAT ONE REMAINS CELIBATE
A prerequisite, however, is that one remains celibate. TSC,160.
 
WHAT ARE SOME CONSEQUENCES OF OPENING YOUR GATES?
 
THE GATES CAN BE DANGEROUS
To tamper haphazardly with the power behind the gates is foolish and dangerous.. TSC,160
 
IF OUR FIRST OR SECOND CENTERS ARE OPEN, WE TRANSMIT A CERTAIN KIND OF FORCE THAT PEOPLE MAY FIND INTOLERABLE
If our first or second centers are open, we transmit a certain kind of force that people may find intolerable... TSC,232,233 You have had the gates in your feet and calves partially open all your life. TSC,233.
 
ANIMALS WON'T LIKE YOU IF YOUR GATES ARE OPEN
Animals don't like you.. because some of your body gates have never been completely closed and your double is struggling to come out. Be prepared. For now that you're deliberately intending it, they're going to fling open. One of these days your double is going to awake all at once and you might find yourself across the patio without having walked over. TSC,219.
 
WHY DO ANIMALS NOT LIKE IT IF SOME OF OUR GATES ARE OPEN?
 
ANIMALS AND INFANTS SENSE THINGS BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE EQUIPMENT TO SENSE IT: THEIR OPEN GATES
he rebuffed me, saying that what animals and infants sense has nothing to do with knowing, but with the fact that they have the equipment to sense it: their open gates. TSC,220
 
HE ADDED THAT THOSE GATES ARE PERMANENTLY RECEPTIVE IN ANIMALS, BUT THAT HUMAN BEINGS CLOSE THEIRS AS SOON AS THEY BEGIN TO TALK AND THINK AND THEIR RATIONAL SIDE TAKES OVER.
He added that those gates are permanently receptive in animals, but that human beings close theirs as soon as they begin to talk and think and their rational side takes over. TSC,220.
 
ANOTHER CONSEQUENCE OF THOSE LOWER CENTERS BEING OPEN IS THAT YOU HAVE TROUBLE WALKING.
Another consequence of those lower centers being open is that you have trouble walking. TSC,233.
 
IF THE THIRD AND FOURTH GATES ARE NOT AS CLOSED AS THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE WE TRANSMIT A CERTAIN FORCE THAT PEOPLE WILL FIND MOST APPEALING.
if the third and fourth gates are not as closed as they are supposed to be we transmit a certain force that people will find most appealing. TSC,232,233.
 
EXPERIENCING WHEN THE DOUBLE COMES OUT
 
HOW SHOULD THE DOUBLE BE RELEASED?
 
THE DOUBLE MUST BE RELEASED GRADUALLY, HARMONIOUSLY
The double must be released gradually, harmoniously. TSC,160
 
WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU WHEN YOUR DOUBLE BECOMES FREE?
 
THE SEPARATION OF THE DOUBLE FROM THE PHYSICAL BODY
 
SHOOTING OFF THE DREAMING BODY IT POPS OFF LIKE A SLOW BULLET; IT ACTUALLY GLUES AND UNGLUES ITSELF FROM THE PHYSICAL BODY WITH A LOUD CRACK.
shooting off the dreaming body it pops off like a slow bullet; it actually glues and unglues itself from the physical body with a loud crack. EG,145.
 
POPPING SOUND/CRACK BEHIND THE NECK IS THE SOUND ONE MAKES AT THE MOMENT OF CHANGING SPEED
The peculiar sound at the base of my neck was something I had become keenly aware of. Don Juan had described it as the sound one makes at the moment of changing speed. I realized then that the sound had created a special sensation of heat on the roof of my mouth and inside my ears. The force and dryness of the sound made me think of the peal of a large, cracked bell. SRP,77.I felt a hollow popping sound. My thoughts returned to me all at once, tumbling down on me like a mountain of debris, and with them came the awareness of the hardness of the ground.. don't talk or move until you're solid again. TSC,214. I heard then, or perhaps I felt, a snapping sound at the base of my neck, right behind my windpipe.... SRP,55
 
WHAT CAUSES THE CRACKING SOUND?
 
THE CRACKING SOUND IS CAUSED BY ENERGY RISING TO THE NECK CREATED BY THE GAP IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR BODY WHEN THE DOUBLE SEPERATES FROM THE PHYSICAL BODY
The cracking sound you hear behind your neck is the movement when your right and left sides have seperated. this leaves a gap directly in the middle of your body where the energy rises to the neck, the place where the sound is heard. To hear that pop means that your double is about to become aware. TSC,233
 
SOUND OF A BELL AND A FEELING IN YOUR THROAT JUST BEFORE YOU CHANGE SPEED
I forgot that the world existed... I felt a blow inside of me. behind my throat, and the sound of a bell in my ears. The feeling in my throat came just before one was ready to change speed, and that the sound of the bell was the vehicle that one could accomplish anything that one needed...I was so light.. Something stirred my insides and I disintegrated like dry sand. It was peaceful and perfect where I was. I somehow knew that I was there and yet I wasn't. I was nothing. SRP,187.
 
THE NAGUAL TAUGHT ALL OF US HOW TO GET THE FEELING ON TOP OF THE HEAD.. THE SOUND BEHIND THE THROAT IS EVEN MORE DIFFICULT.
The Nagual taught all of us how to get the feeling on top of the head.. the sound behind the throat is even more difficult. (dry sound of a wooden pipe being broken at the base of the neck). SRP,209
 
SINUSES OPENING
The force beyond my explosion had been first a physical sensation that my sinuses were opening. EG,85.
 
DESCRIPTION OF BEING TOUCHED BY THE DOUBLE
Don Genaro patted me on the back two or three times...It was a light tapping...I suddenly felt that he had put the weight of a boulder on my back. i had the sensation that he had increased the weight of his hand, which was resting on my right shoulder, until it made me sag all the way down and I hit my head on the ground. SR,250.
 
DESCRIPTION OF FEELING OF BEING COOPED UPAND DOUBLE COMING OUT
I was certain that if I had been prepared for the storm, I would have relaxed, and if my fear and my thoughts about it hadn't interferred, some force inside me would have come completely out of my body and perhaps might have even stood up, moved around or come down from the tree. What frightened me most was the sensation of being cooped up, trapped inside my body. .. when we enter into absolute darkness, where there are no distractions.. the double takes over. It streches its ethereal limbs, opens its luminous eye and looks around. Sometimes experiencing it can be even more frightening than what you felt last night. TSC,218. I experienced a surge of energy that began as small circles in my stomach. At first I thought it was a fear, but my body didn't feel frightened. It was as if an impersonal force, void of desires or sentiment was stirring inside me, moving from the inside out. As it ascended my upper back jerked involuntarily. TSC,129. The recapitulation helps us to dissolve our preconceptions... but it takes skill and concentration to reach the double. Right now you are using your ethereal part to some extent. You are half asleep but some part of you is awake and alert. It can hear me and sense my presence. TSC,133. Your double took over... and you lost control of your everyday self. TSC,159. Seriously, Taisha, all you did was to cast your luminous net as far as you were able to. You learned how to rest on that invisible hammock that is actually a part of you. Someday, as you become more adept, you may begin to use its lines to move and alter things. TSC,159. I saw him as a blob of fire that was above the ground... not rooted as DJ was. FFW,292... It was not as if something came out from the top of my head; something actually did come out from the top of my head. SRP,100.... I saw how your double came out from the top of your head. it wriggled out like a worm. I saw a shiver that began in your feet and went through your body and then your double came out. (this description may not refer to the double but to the Naugal) SRP,149
 
WHAT ARE THE DANGERS OF RELEASING YOUR DOUBLE?
 
WHEN RELEASING THE DOUBLE IT CAN BE INJURED
He warned me that there is considerable danger involved in releasing the energy that is locked within us, because the double is vulnerable and can easily become injured in the process of shifting our awareness to it. TSC,133 He explained that at that moment my double was extremely unstable due to being bombarded by thunder and lightning, but especially due to the events of five days ago, when Nelida pushed me into the left hallway so I could begin the sorcerer's crossing. TSC,222.
 
YOU CAN INADVERTENTLY CREATE AN OPENING IN THE ETHEREAL NET AND LOSE VAST AMOUNTS OF ENERGY
You can inadvertently create an opening in the ethereal net and lose vast amounts of energy... precious energy that is necessary to maintain a certain level of clarity and control in your life. TSC,133.
 
THE PHYSICAL BODY BECOMES FRIGHTENED WHEN ITS GATES ARE OPEN AND NEW PERCEPTIONS ARE FLOWING IN
You are reacting like that because your double is perceiving my double... Your physical body is frightened because its gates are opening and new perceptions are flowing in. If you think you feel bad now, imagine how much worse it'll be when all your gates are open. TSC,219.
 
THE DOUBLE BECOMES FRIGHTENED WHEN ITS ABOUT TO BECOME AWARE OF THE WORLD
Your double is about to become aware, so under conditions of stress, like last night, it becomes partially aware but also totally frightened. It's not used to perceiving the world. Your body and your mind are accustomed to it, but your double isn't. TSC,218.
 
WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE DOUBLE ONCE ITS COME OUT?
 
WHEN IT IS RELEASED, THE DOUBLE ATTACHES ITSELF TO ANYTHING/IT SOAKES UP EVERYTHING THAT IT CAN FIND
...The dreaming body gets involved and attaches itself to anything. It doesn't have sense. he told me that men are weaker than women because a man's dreaming body is more possessive. EG,23 the energy body is like a child who's imprisoned all its life. The moment it is free, it soaks up everything it can find...every minute detail absorbs the energy body. TAOD,142.
 
THE DOUBLE NEEDS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF ATTENTION
The double needs a tremendous amount of attention. SRP,149.
 
CONTROLLING THE DOUBLE
 
THE DOUBLE IS CONTROLLED NOT BY OUR INTELLECT BUT BY OUR INTENT. THERE IS NO WAY TO THINK ABOUT IT OR TO UNDERSTAND IT RATIONALLY. IT HAS TO BE FELT
and the double is controlled not by our intellect but by our intent. There is no way to think about it or to understand it rationally. It has to be felt, TSC,138.
 
IN ORDER TO COMMAND IT (DOUBLE), THE PART OF IT THAT IS OUTSIDE FLOATING FREELY HAS TO BE LINKED TO THE ENERGY THAT IS HOUSED INSIDE THE PHYSICAL BODY. THE EXTERNAL FORCE IS BECKONED AND HELD BY AN UNWAVERING CONCENTRATION, WHILE THE INTERNAL ENERGY IS RELEASED BY OPENING SOME MYSTERIOUS GATES IN AND AROUND THE BODY. WHEN THE TWO SIDES MERGE, THE FORCES THAT IS PRODUCED ALLOWS ONE TO PERFORM INCONCEIVABLE FEATS.
in order to command it, the part of it that is outside floating freely has to be linked to the energy that is housed inside the physical body. the external force is beckoned and held by an unwavering concentration, while the internal energy is released by opening some mysterious gates in and around the body. When the two sides merge, the forces that is produced allows one to perform inconceivable feats. TSC, 159.
 
KUNG FU EXPERTS CAN CONTROL THEIR SOFT BODY/THEY STRIKE AT SOFT PARTS
The difference between the average person and an expert in kung fu is that the latter has learned to control his soft body... what they probably meant was that when an expert practitioner attacks, he strikes the vulnerable points of his enemy's soft body... it's not the power of the physical body that is destructive but the opening he makes in his enemy's ethereal body. He can hurl into that opening a force that rips through the ethereal net to cause major damage. A person may receive what seems at the time only a gentle hit, but hours or perhaps days later, the person may die from that blow. TSC,137.... don't be fooled by the outward movements or by what you see. It's what you don't see that counts. TSC,137.
true martial artists... are interested in mastering the control of their soft body... TSC,138.
 
BECOMING A TREE/PROJECTING THE DOUBLE/MERGING THE DOUBLE
(trying to project out your double).. he told me to close my eyes and concentrate on my breathing. As I relaxed, I was to intend a force to flow upward until I could touch the top branches with a feeling that came out of the gate in the crown of my head. he said that this was going to be fairly easy for me because I was going to use my friend the tree for support. The tree's energy.. would form a matrix for my awareness to expand. After a time of concentrating on my breath. I felt a vibrating energy rising up my back, trying to push out of the top of my head. Then something opened inside me. Everytime I inhaled, a line eleongated to the top of the tree; when I exhaled, the line was pulled down into my body again. The feeling of reaching the top of the tree became stronger with my every breath until I truly believed that my body expanded, becoming as tall and voluminous as the tree.. at one point a profound affection and empathy for the tree enveloped me; it was at that same moment that something surged up my back and out my head and I found myself viewing the world from the top branches. The sensation lasted only an instant... I felt something like a waterfall. an effervescence flowing downward, entering the top of my head and filling my body with a familiar warmth. TSC,234.
He pointed out that aided by an outside force, in this case uniting my awareness with the tree, one can easily make the double expand. However, because it's easy, we run the risk of staying merged with the tree too long, in which case we might sap the tree of the vital energy it needs to maintain itself in a strong and healthy state. or we might leave some of our own energy behind by becoming emotionally attached to the tree. TSC,235.
 
ONE CAN MERGE WITH ANYTHING
One can merge with anything.. TSC,235.
 
WHAT IS MERGING?
 
IT IS SEEING, AFTER STOPPING THE WORLD, SOMETHING WITHIN US MERGES INTO ANYTHING WITHIN OUR FIELD OF AWARENESS
....merging is something that the body felt or did when put into observational contact with other bodies. he then clarified the issue by saying that in the past he had called that process seeing, and that it consisted of a lull of true silence within, followed by an outward elongation of something in the self, an elongation that met and merged with the other body, or with anything within one's field of awareness. TOP,135.
 
IF YOU MERGE WITH SOMETHING STRONG, THEN YOUR ENERGY IS ENHANCED, AND VISA VERSA
if whatever or whomever you merge with is strong, your energy will be enhanced as it was whenever you merged with the magician, Manfred. But if it is sick or weak, stay away... you must do the exercise sparingly... TSC,235.
 
OUTSIDE ENERGY IS ALWAYS DIFFERENT FROM OUR OWN, OFTEN ANTAGONISTIC TO IT.
like everything else, it is a double-edged sword. Outside energy is always different from our own, often antagonistic to it. TSC,235.
 
CASTING ENERGY LINES
 
SENDING ENERGY TO THE DOUBLE( CASTING YOUR ENERGY LINES)
It's a matter of energy (casting your energy lines); the more of it you call back through recapitulating, the easier it is for that recovered energy to nourish your double. To send energy to the double is what we call casting your energy lines. TSC,215.
 
TECHNIQUE FOR MOVING YOUR AWARENESS OUTSIDE YOUR BODY/CASTING ENERGY LINES
I lay down and began moving my awareness from my feet upward to my ankles, calves, knees, thighs, abdomen and back. Then I relaxed my arms, shoulders, neck and head. As I moved my awareness to the various parts of my body, I felt myself become more and more drowsy and heavy. Then the caretaker ordered me to make small counterclockwise circles with my eyes allowing them to roll back and up into my head. I continued relaxing until my breathing became slow and rhythmic, expanding and contracting by itself. I was concentrating on the lulling waves of my breathing, when he whispered that I should move my awareness out of my forehead to a place as far above me as I could and there make a small opening. TSC,212... a hole into the nothingness your net is suspended on... if you can move your awareness outside your body, you'll realize that there is blackness all around you. Try to pierce that blackness; make a hole in it. TSC,213.... after I had made the opening, i should roll my body up like a scroll and allow myself to be catapulted along a line extending from the crown of my head into the blackness... the blackness is all around us..even if we are standing on our heads, it is still there.. he ordered me to place my concentration on the hole I had just made and to let my thoughts and feelings flow through that opening. Again my muscles tightened because I hadn't made any hole. The caretaker urged me to relax, to let go and act and feel as if I had made that hole... throw out everything that's inside you.. allow your thoughts, feelings and memories to flow out.. as I relaxed and released the tension from my body, I felt a surge of energy push was being turned inside out; everything was being pulled out from the top of my head, rushing along a line like an inverted cascading waterfall. At the end of that line, I sensed an opening.. let yourself go even deeper..he whispered.. offer your whole being to nothingness... I did my best to follow his suggestions. Whatever thoughts arose in my mind instantly joined the cascade at the top of my head. I vaguely heard the caretaker say that if I wanted to move, I only needed to give myself the directive and the line would pull me wherever I wanted to go. Before I could give myself the command, I felt a gentle but persistent tugging on my left side. I relaxed and allowed this sensation to continue. At first, only my head seemed to be pulled to the left, then the rest of my body slowly rolled to the left. TSC,213... I felt as if I were falling sideways, yet I sensed that my body had not moved at all. I heard a dull sound behind my neck, and saw the opening grow larger. I wanted to crawl inside, to squeeze through it and disappear. I experienced a deep stirring inside me; my awareness began moving along the line at the crown of my head and slipped through the opening. TSC,214. You opened a crack in the blackness and your double slid to the left and then went through. TSC,214.. I definitely felt a force pulling me... and I saw an intense light.. TSC,214.
That force was your double coming out...and the light was the eye of the double. Since you've been recapitulaing for over a year, you've also been, at the same time, casting your energy lines and now they're beginning to move by themselves. But because you're still involved in talking and thinking, those energy lines don't move as easily and completely as they are going to someday. TSC,214.
 
SEEING ENERGY LINES
 
SOMEONE WHO SEES ENERGY WILL SEE IT AS LINES COMING OUT OF THE PHYSICAL BODY
Someone who sees energy will see it as lines coming out of the physical body. TSC,215.
 
HOW COULD YOU FEEL THESE ENERGY LINES?
 
THE EXERCISE OF NOT-DOING WOULD HELP FEEL LINES
the exercise of not-doing (see JTI,192) would help anyone to feel a line that came out from the moving hand, a line that one could place or cast wherever one wanted to. JTI,193.
 
A MAN OF KNOWLEDGE USES OTHER PARTS OF HIS BODY TO PRODUCE DURABLE LINES..THE MOST DURABLE LINES THAT A MAN OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCES COME FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE BODY..BUT HE CAN MAKE THEM WITH HIS EYES
A man of knowledge uses other parts of his body to produce durable lines..the most durable lines that a man of knowledge produces come from the middle of the body..but he can make them with his eyes... JTI,193
 
YOU CAN FEEL THEM... WHEN ONE IS NOT-DOING, ONE IS FEELING THE WORLD, AND ONE FEELS THE WORLD THROUGH ITS LINES.
(they are real lines)..you can feel them... when one is not-doing, one is feeling the world, and one feels the world through its lines. (see not-doing) JTI,193
 
DESCRIPTION OF USING THESE LINES TO FLY
Description of LaGorda using the lines to fly. SRP,124.. More description of using the lines. SRP,142,143.
 
HOW DO YOU HANDLE A DOUBLE THATS VIOLENT?
 
DESC OF HOW TO HANDLE A VIOLENT DOUBLE
Description of how DJ had to soothe CC's double when he was angry. TDJ,136. (When the double is white it indicates violence.) SRP,123
 
MOVING IN THE SECOND ATTENTION WITH YOUR DOUBLE
 
MOVING WITH YOUR WILL
Suddenly I had a great urge to get up (will?) SR,156
 
DESCRIPTION OF WHAT TO DO IN THE CRACK BETWEEN THE WORLDS
The man then must walk in any direction. It will be a short or a long journey, depending on his willpower. A stong-willed man journeys shortly. An undecided, weak man journeys long and precariously. dead men go through it (the seal) without a noise, but we have to break it with an outcry. The wind gathers strength, the same unruly wind that blows on the plateau. When the wind has gathered enough force, the man has to yell and the wind will push him through. Here his will has to be inflexible..so that he can fight the wind. All he needs is a gentle shove; he does not need to be blown to the ends of the other world. Once on the other side, the man will have to wander around. His good fortune would be to find a helper nearby-not to far from the entrance. The man has to ask him for help...he has to ask the helper to teach him and make him a diablero. When the helper agrees, he kills the man on the spot, and while he is dead he teaches him. ...most of the time, though, one encounters lesser brujos who have very little to teach. But neither you nor they have the power to refuse. The best instance is to find a male helper lest one become the prey of a diablera, who will make one suffer in an unbelievable manner. but that depends on luck alone, unless one's benefactor is a great diablero himself, in which event he will have many helpers in the other world, and can direct one to see a particular helper. after you return you will not be the same man. you are committed to come back to see your helper often. And you are committed to wander farther and farther from the entrance, until finally one day you will go too far and will not be able to return. TDJ,183 Sometimes a diablero may catch a soul and push it through the entrance and leave it in the custody of his helper until he robs the person of all his willpower. ..or if the soul belongs to a strong willed person.. the diablero may keep it inside his pouch, because it is too hard to carry otherwise. TDJ,185.
 
WHAT ARE SOME TECHNIQUES TO GET TO THE DOUBLE?
 
SOUND
 
USING SOUND TO ATTRACT THE DOUBLE
It really doesn't take much to communicate or reach the ethereal body... besides using the womb and movement, sound is a powerful way of attracting its attention. TSC,185
She explained that by systematically directing words to our source of awareness-the double-one can receive a manifestation of that source... provided of course that we have enough energy... if we do, it may take only a few selected words or a sustained sound to open something unthinkable in front of us. TSC,186.
 
SORCERY PASSES
 
REACHING THE DOUBLE THROUGH MOVEMENT/SORCERY PASSES
Another way of reaching the double, also called the other, besides using the energy of the womb, is through movement.. this is the reason why Clara taught you the sorcery passes. TSC,184.
 
USING THE WOMB IS AN EXTREMELY POWERFUL AND DIRECT METHOD OF REACHING THE DOUBLE
She emphasized that using the womb is an extremely powerful and direct method of reaching the double. She reminded me of the sorcery pass I had learned in which one breathes directly with the opening of the vagina. TSC,184. The womb is the way female animals sense things and regulate their bodies.... through the womb, women can generate and store power in their doubles to build or destroy or to become one with everything around them. TSC,184.
 
USES OF THE WOMB TO REACH THE DOUBLE: IT'S MOST IMPORTANT FUNCTION IS TO SERVE AS A GUIDING UNIT FOR THE DOUBLE
You can accomplish wonders by contolling and circulating the energy from the womb... Nelida explained that the womb's primary function is reproduction in order to perpetuate our species. But unbeknownst to women, the womb also has subtle and sophisticated secondary functions. And it was these... that she and I were interested in developing..the most important function of the womb is to serve as a guiding unit for the double. Whereas males have to rely on a mixture of reason and intent to guide their doubles, females have at their disposal their womb, a powerful source of energy with an abundance of mysterious attributes and functions all designed to protect and nurture the double. TSC,184. All this is possible, of course, if you have rid yourself of all the encumbering energy men have left inside you.. A thorough recapitulation of all your sexual activity will take care of that. TSC,184.
 
TECHNIQUE FOR SHIFTING AWARENESS FROM MY PHYSICAL BODY TO THE ETHEREAL NET THAT SURROUNDS IT
..he was going to show me a simple method for shifting awareness from my physical body to the ethereal net that surrounds it. TSC,141. Lie down and close your eyes, but don't fall asleep.. imagine lines extending out from the sides of your body, beginning at your feet... use all your strength to intend the lines into existence. TSC,141. he elaborated that it was not really imagining those lines that was involved, but rather a mysterious act of pulling them out from the side of the body, beginning at the toes and continuing all the way up to the top of the head. He said I should also feel lines emanating from the soles of my feet going downward and wrapping around the length of my body to the back of my head.; and also other lines that radiated from my forehead upward and downward, along the front of my body to my feet, thus forming a net or a cocoon of luminous energy.. TSC,141,142 Practice this until you can let go of your physical body and can place your attention at will on your luminous net... eventually, you'll be able to cast and sustain that net with a simple thought. TSC,142. I found his voice soothing, It had a mesmerizing quality; at times it seemed to come from very close and at other times from far away. TSC.142. He cautioned me that if there was a place in my body where the net felt tight or where it was difficult to strectch the lines out or where the lines recoiled, that was the place where my body was weak or injured... You can heal those parts by allowing the double to spread out the ethereal net. TSC.142. I couldn't even conceive how to intend with my intent... Mr Abelar said that I shouldn't have too much difficulty casting my net, because for the past few months, unknowingly, I had been projecting such ethereal lines during my recapitulation, he suggested that I begin by concentrating on my breathing. After what seemed to be hours during which time I must have dozed off once or twice, I could eventually feel an intense tingling heat in my feet and head. The heat expanded to form a ring encircling my body lengthwise. TSC,142. Mr. Abelar reminded me that I should focus my attention on the heat outside my body and try to stretch it out by pushing it out from within and allowing it to expand. I focused on my breathing until all the tension in me vanished. As I relaxed even more, I let the tingling heat find its own course; it didn't move outward or expand; it contracted instead, until I felt I was lying on a gigantic ballon, floating in spaces. TSC,142. I experienced a moment of panic; my breathing stopped and for an instant I was suffocating. Then something outside of myself took over and began to breath for me. Waves of lulling energy surrounded me, expanding and contracting until everyhting went black and I could no longer focus my awareness on anything. TSC,143.
 
11. SORCERER'S RECOLLECTION
 
WHAT IS IT?
 
WHEN A SORCERER BRINGS BACK THE TOTAL EVENT BY SHIFTING THEIR ASSEMBLGE POINT TO A PARTICULAR POINT
sorcerer's recollection is when a sorcerer brings back the total event by means of shifting the AP so that they will have total recall. POS,134
 
REGAINING THE TOTALITY OF ONESELF: TO RETRACE THE JOURNEY THAT THEIR AP TOOK UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE NAUGAL
The grand test that the new seers developed for their warrior-apprentices is to retrace the journey that their AP took under the influence of the naugal. This retracing, when it is completed, is called regaining the totality of oneself. FFW,141
 
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REMEMBERING AND RECOLLECTING?
 
REMEMBERING IS A DAY-TO-DAY TYPE ACTIVITY WHILE RECOLLECTING IS DICTATED BY THE MOVEMENT OF THE AP.
..remembering is a day-to-day type activity while recollecting is dictated by the movement of the AP. POS,134,
 
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE FOR THE SORCERER'S RECOLLECTION?
 
THIS SORCERERS RECOLLECTION IS THE WAY TO GET BACK ALL THE INFORMATION STORED IN THE MOVEMENT OF THE AP
This sorcerers recollection is the way to get back all the information stored in the movement of the AP. POS,245,246.
....not only do sorcerers have total and absolute recall but they also relive every experience they had in the second attention by this act of returning their assemblage point to each of these specific positions. TAOD, 17... (purpose of sorcerer's recollection EG,274) every time you have seen me your body has learned certain things, even against your desire. JTI,180.
 
FOR THE DOUBLE TO REVEAL ITSELF IN TERMS OF MEMORIES
the systematic interaction warriors go through is only a device to entice the other self to reveal itself in terms of memories. This act of remembering is..within the realm of every human being; everyone of us can go directly to the memories of our luminosity with unfathomable results. EG,312.
 
WE RELIVE THE EXPERIENCE WHEN WE MOVE OUR ASSEMBLAGE POINT TO WHERE THE AP WAS DURING THE EXPERIENCE
later when a sorcerer moves his AP to the exact spot where it was, he relives the total experience.POS,245,246
 
HOW DO WE RECOLLECT?
 
WE CAN RECOLLECT RECONSTRUCTING CONVERSATIONS WITH VOICES/TALK
reconstructing conversations with voices.... EG,166........talk was only used to lead one to recollecting.. POS,143
 
WE CAN RECOLLECT BY WALKING AROUND
the best way to ensure a complete recollection was to walk around. POS,143
 
WE CAN RECOLLECT BY INTENDING A PARTICULAR SHINE OF OUR EYES TO SOME SPOT
.....in order to recall those isolated islands of perception sorcerers need only to intend the particular shine of their eyes associated with whatever spot they want to return to. POS,246
 
HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO RECOLLECT?
 
ONLY AFTER YEARS OF STRUGGLE AND DISCIPLINE CAN WARRIORS RECOLLECT THEIR INSTRUCTION
...only after years of struggle and discipline can warriors recollect their instruction. By then the concepts and the procedures that were taught to them have been internalized and thus acquired the force the new seers meant them to have. FFW,25. It took us almost two years of prodigious effort and concentration to arrive at a modicum of understanding of what had happened to us. EG,163.
 
DESCRIPTION OF RECOLLECTING...
 
I felt the popping in the middle of my body, right below my navel, more acutely than in my ears. Right after the popping everything became clearer; sounds, sights, odours. then I felt an intense buzzing, which oddly enough did not interfere with my hearing capacity; the buzzing was loud but did not drown out any other sounds. It was as if I were hearing the buzzing with some other part of me other than my ears. a hot flash went through my body. And then I suddenly recalled something I had never seen. it was as if an alien memory had taken possession of me. SRP,238.
 
12. LOSING THE HUMAN FORM
 
WHAT IS THE HUMAN FORM?
 
IT IS THE FORCE PRODUCED BY THE FIXED SPOT ON WHICH THE AP IS FOUND
... the human form is the compelling force of alignment of the emanations lit by the glow of awareness on the precise spot on which normally man's AP is fixated. FFW,242.
 
IT IS THE FORCE THAT MAKES US INTO PERSONS
It is the force that makes us into persons. Thus, to be a person is to be compelled to affiliate with that force of alignment and consequently to be affiliated with the precise spot where it originates. FFW,242. The human form is a force. SRP,138... Something sticky, a sticky force that makes us the people that we are. SRP,140
 
THE HUMAN FORM HAS NO FORM AND DOESN'T LEAVE US UNTIL WE DIE
The human form has no form.. it's anything, but in spite of not having form, it possesses us during our lives and doesn't leaves us until we die. I've never seen the human form but I have felt it in my body. SRP,140.
 
THE HUMAN FORM FEEDS ON CERTAIN FEELINGS
The human form feeds on those feelings. (sadness) SRP,206
 
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH THE HUMAN FORM?
 
PEOPLE WHO HAVE FORM STILL GET CAUGHT UP IN EVERY SNAG OF THE UP AND DOWN WORLD
The nagual taught us to be dispassionate... you still have form and are empty, so you get caught in every snag..the world of people go up and down and people go up and down with their world; as sorcerers we have no business following them in their ups and downs. SRP,216.
 
EVERYTHING WE EXPERIENCE HAS TO BE SIFTED THROUGH THE HUMAN FORM
Everything has to be sifted through our human form.SRP,142. Everything we say.. is a reflection of the world of people. You will find out before your visit is over that you talk and act the way you do because your clinging to your human form. SRP,153.
 
AS LONG AS ONE CLINGS TO THE HUMAN FORM, ONE CAN ONLY REFLECT THAT FORM
As long as one clings to the human form, one can only reflect that form.. SRP,137. (I think this is the best explanation for seeing allies,mold of man,etc, as something other than energy fields.)
 
SEEING ALLIES AS MONSTERS IS BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T LOST YOUR HUMAN FORM YET.
Seeing allies as monsters or people is because you haven't lost your human form yet. SRP,136.
 
WHAT IS LOSING THE HUMAN FORM?
 
LOSING THE HUMAN FORM IS LOSING OUR SHIELDS
..I was finally losing my shields, and that what I was experiencing was the loss of my human form and the entrance into a new state of seperation from human affairs. EG,29.
 
BECAUSE OF THEIR ACTIVITIES, A WARRIORS ASSEMBLAGE POINT MAY DRIFT PERMANENTLY TO THE LEFT WHICH RESULTS IN THE LOSE OF THE THAT FORCE OF THE HUMAN FORM
By reason of their activities, at a given moment the AP of warriors drift toward the left. It is a permanent move, which results in an uncommon sense of aloofness, or control, or even abandon. FFW,242. That drift of the AP entails a new alignment of emanations. FFW,242
 
DO WARRIORS HAVE TO LOSE THEIR FORM?
 
LOSING OUR HUMAN FORM IS AN OBLIGATORY STAGE IN THE LIFE OF A WARRIOR
a moment...without any shields, uninterruptedly at the mercy of the tumbler..an obligatory stage in the life of a warrior. FFW,241
 
TO GAIN TOTALITY OF OURSELVES WE MUST LOSE THE HUMAN FORM
Losing the human form was the essential requirement for unifying the two attentions. SRP,256.
 
WHEN DO WARRIORS LOSE THEIR HUMAN FORM?
 
FROM THE MOMENT A WARRIOR UNDERSTANDS THE NATURE OF AWARENESS THEY CEASE TO BE PERSONS AND THE HUMAN CONDITION IS NO LONGER PART OF THEIR VIEW
.....warriors have no life of their own. From the moment they understand the nature of awareness, they cease to be persons and the human condition is no longer part of their view. I had my duty as a warrior and nothing else was important.. EG,306.
 
THE SHELL OF THE OUR LUMINOSITY MUST BE BROKEN AT THE RIGHT TIME TO LIBERATE US
..The shell must be broken in order to liberate that being. It must be broken from the inside at the right time... if they fail to do so, they suffocate and die... there is no way for a warrior to break the shell of his luminosity until the time is right. EG,220
 
WHAT HAPPENS TO US WHEN WE LOSE OUR HUMAN FORM?
 
ONCE THE HUMAN FORM IS LOST, WE ARE NO LONGER BOUND BY THE CONCERNS OF THE DAILY WORLD
Once the chains are cut..we are no longer bound by the concerns of the daily world. We are still in the daily world, but we don't belong there anymore. In order to belong we must share the concerns of people and without chains we can't. POS,102...(these concerns of people are like a metaphorical dagger in which we cut ourselves. and we act like we are bleeding together in one big humanity. But we are not sharing anything..all we are doing is toying with our manageable, unreal, man-made reflections.)..sorcerers are no longer in the world of daily affairs because they are no longer prey to their self reflection. POS,102
 
DESCRIPTION OF LOSING THE HUMAN FORM
the disintegration of her human form began in her womb, with a severe pain and an inordinate pressure that shifted slowly in two directions, down her legs and up to her throat. She also said that the effects are felt immediately. EG,29... she described a very complex series of sensations that she had had over a period of years that culminated in a serious illness, the climax of which was a bodily state that reminded me of descriptions I had read of a massive heart attack. She said that the human form, as the force that it is, left her body after a serious internal battle that manifested itself as illness. I became so weak that for days I couldn't even get out of my bed. SRP,140. I woke up in the early morning hours with an unbearable pressure in my head. it was not a headache; it was rather a vary intense weight in my ears. I felt it also on my eyelids and the roof of my mouth. I knew I was feverish, but the heat was only in my head... After awhile the pressure in my head began to disminish but it also began to shift to my throat. I gasped for air, gagging and coughing for some time; then the pressure moved slowly to my chest, then to my stomach, to my groin, to my legs, and to my feet before it finally left my body. Whatever had happened to me had taken about two hours to unfold...during the course of those two grueling hours it was a s if something inside my body was actually moving downward, moving out of me.... the feeling was of something being rolled up, it became heavier, thus more painful, as it went down. The two areas where the pain became excruciating were my knees and my feet, especially my right foot, which remained hot for thirty-five minutes after all the pain and pressure had vanished. EG,112. I found myself in a most unfaniliar state. I felt detached, unbiased. What I felt was mot a willed indifference, or negligence to act; neither was it alienation or even the desire to be alone. It was rather an alien feeling of aloofness, a capability of immersing myself in the moment and having no thoughts whatever about anything else. People's actions no longer affected me, for I had no more expectations of any kind. A strange peace had become the ruling force in my life. I felt I had somehow adopted one of the concepts of a warrior's life detachment. EG,113. He simply did not have any more human feelings. To him everything was equal. He had accepted his fate. SRP,206.
 
HOW TO CALL THE SECOND ATTENTION WHEN YOU ARE FORMLESS: A MOTION OF OPENING THE DOOR
When the second attention has to be called upon to assemble itself, all that is needed is the motion of opening the door. That's the secret of the Toltec dreamers once they are formless. SRP,261.
 
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR WARRIORS TO LOSE THEIR FORM?
 
NEW POSITION OF THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT
 
THE NEW POSITION OF THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT IS THE BEGINNING OF A SERIES OF GREATER SHIFTS
It is the beginning of a series of greater shifts. Seers very aptly called this initial shift losing the human form, because it marks an inexorable movement of the AP away from its original setting, resulting in the irreversible loss of our affiliation to the force that makes us persons. FFW,242
 
GETTING TO THE TOTALITY OF YOURSELF
 
LOSING OUR HUMAN FORM BRINGS THE FREEDOM TO REMEMBER YOUR DOUBLE
losing the human form brings freedom... the freedom to remember yourself... The Naugal said that losing the human form is like a spiral. it gives you freedom to remember and this in turn makes you even freer. EG,60. ...losing the human form was the only means of breaking that shell, the only means of liberating that haunting luminous core, the core of awareness which is the Eagle's food. To break the shell means remembering the other self, and arriving at the totality of oneself. EG,220.
 
DETACHMENT FROM THE CONCERNS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
 
WE NEED DETACHMENT TO RISE ABOVE THE MUNDANE NEEDS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
gone was his feeling of detachment, which was what had given him the power to love. Without that detachment, he had only mundane needs, desperation, and hopelessness: the distinctive features of the world of everyday life....he had failed because his life did not have an abstract purpose.. POS,193,194
 
FREEDOM FOR HUMAN BEINGS. IF OUR WAREHOUSES ARE GOING TO REMAIN FILLED WITH CAPACITY WITH THE DESIRES, FEELINGS ,IDEAS AND OBJECTS OF OUR HUMAN INVENTORY, WHERE IS OUR FREEDOM THEN?
We believe in a nonhuman inventory is the only possible freedom for human beings. if our warehouses are going to remain filled with capacity with the desires, feelings ,ideas and objects of our human inventory, where is our freedom then? TSC,85,86.
 
A WARRIOR BECOMES IMPERSONAL AND DETACHED
 
THE WARRIOR HAS NO COMPASSION FOR ANYONE
.. a warrior had no compassion for anyone. SRP,271
 
WHY ARE WARRIORS INCAPABLE OF FEELING COMPASSION?
 
BECAUSE WARRIORS NO LONGER FEEL SORRY FOR THEMSELVES
Warriors are incapable of feeling compassion because they no longer feel sorry for themselves. Without the driving force of self-pity, compassion is meaningless..POS,47
 
TO HAVE COMPASSION MEANT THAT YOU WISHED THE OTHER PERSON TO BE JUST LIKE YOU
For him, to have compassion meant that you wished the other person to be like you, to be in your shoes and you just lent a hand for that purpose.For him, to have compassion meant that you wished the other person to be like you, to be in your shoes and you just lent a hand for that purpose. The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be. The impeccability of a warrior is to let them be and to support them in what they are... not say a word..only a sorcerer who sees and is formless can afford to help anyone. SRP,271. I could not help my fellow beings in any way. In fact, to his understanding, every effort to help on our part was an arbitrary act guided by our own self-interest alone. SRP,272. (story of the snail and moving it) SRP,272.
 
THE HARDEST THING IN THE WORLD IS FOR A WARRIOR TO LET OTHERS BE.
The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be. The impeccability of a warrior is to let them be and to support them in what they are... not say a word..SRP,271.
 
WE HELP PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS REALLY AN ARBITRARY ACT GUIDED BY OUR OWN SELF-INTEREST ALONE
I could not help my fellow beings in any way. In fact, to his understanding, every effort to help on our part was an arbitrary act guided by our own self-interest alone. SRP,272. (story of the snail and moving it) SRP,272.
 
WHO CAN HELP PEOPLE?
 
ONLY A SORCERER WHO SEES AND IS FORMLESS CAN AFFORD TO HELP ANYONE
only a sorcerer who sees and is formless can afford to help anyone. SRP,271.
 
COLDNESS IS NOT CRUELTY OR HEARTLESSNESS BUT AN UNBENDING ATTACHMENT
I remember what Clara had told me, that coldness is not cruelty or heartlessness but an unbending detachment. At last I knew what it meant to be without pity. TSC,182.
 
FREEDOM WAS BEING FREE FROM HUMAN COMPASSION..BEING FREE FROM HUMANNESS DOESN'T MEAN SUCH AN IDIOTIC THING AS NOT POSSESSING WARMTH OR COMPASSION
freedom was being free from human compassion..being free from humanness doesn't mean such an idiotic thing as not possessing warmth or compassion... although my mind cannot conceive of it either, believe me it exists (freedom)...TSC,66
I've told you that for us freedom is to be free from humanness. And that includes God, good and evil, the saints, the Virgin and the Holy Ghost. TSC,85,86. Freedom to us is being free from humanness. The Chinese immortals were caught in their myths of immortality, of being wise, of having liberated themselves, of coming back to earth to guide others along the way. They were scholars, musicians, possessors of supernatural powers. They were righteous and whimsical, very much like the classical Greek gods. Even nirvana is a human state, in which bliss is being free from the flesh. TSC,65,66.
 
THE LIFE OF A WARRIOR CANNOT POSSIBLY BE COLD AND LONELY AND WITHOUT FEELINGS..BECAUSE IT IS BASED ON HIS AFFECTION, HIS DEVOTION, DEDICATION TO HIS BELOVED.
The life of a warrior cannot possibly be cold and lonely and without feelings..because it is based on his affection, his devotion, dedication to his beloved. TOP,280.
 
THE WARRIOR WHO APPEARS COLD AND UNCOMPASSIONATE BECAUSE THEY REFLECT THE ABSTRACT WHICH IS IMPERSONAL
another thing the ancient Chinese seekers believed in was that invisiblity is the corallary of having attained a calm indifference... they (the eyes of a fighting cock) reflect an indescribable indifference, something also found in the eyes of beings who have made the great crossing. For instead of looking outwardly at the world, they have turned inwardly to gaze at that which is not yet present.. The eye that gazes inwardly is immovable.. It reflects not human concerns or fears, but the vastness. Seers who have gazed at the boundless have attested that the boundless stares back with a cold, unyielding indifference. TSC,67.
 
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR A WARRIOR TO BE DETACHED?
 
TO BE SUCCESSFUL WITH OTHER PEOPLE
 
WE BELIEVE IN A NONHUMAN INVENTORY IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE
ANY WARRIOR CAN BE SUCCESSFUL WITH PEOPLE.. PROVIDED HE MOVES HIS AP TO A POSITION WHERE IT IS IMMATERIAL WHETHER PEOPLE LIKE HIM, DISLIKE HIM, OR IGNORE HIM
...Any warrior can be successful with people.. provided he moves his AP to a position where it is immaterial whether people like him, dislike him, or ignore him. FFW,207.
 
NOT WASTE THEIR ENERGY
 
SINCE SORCERERS ARE NO LONGER CONCERNED WITH THE WORLD, ALL THE AVAILABLE ENERGY OF SORCERER'S IS POURED INTO NEW PATHS
The involvements of men and women are no longer our concern.. That means we are not interested in man's mortality, immortality or even amorality. All our energy is poured into exploring new paths. TSC,139. And more than anything else, the art of sorcerers is never to waste their power. SRP,216.
 
CAN ASSESS A SITUATION
 
BEING FORMLESS GIVES YOU A FEW MOMENTS TO ASSESS A SITUATION
DJ said that detachment did not automatically mean wisdom, but that it was, nonetheless, an advantage because it allowed the warrior to pause momentarily to reassess situations, to reconsider positions. EG,113. In order to use that extra moment consistently and correctly... a warrior had to struggle unyieldingly for a lifetime. EG,113. The advantage of being formless is that it allows us a moment's pause, providing that we have the self-discipline and courage to utilize it. EG,125.
 
SEE EVERYTHING AS IT IS
 
WHEN WE HAVE NO FORM, THEN NOTHING HAS FORM
When we have no more form, then nothing has form and yet everything is present. SRP,142.
 
HOW DO WARRIORS LOSE THEIR HUMAN FORM?
 
IMPECCABILITY ALSO IS THE ONLY WAY TO LOSE THE HUMAN FORM
..impeccability was not only freedom but it was the only way to scare away the human form. SRP,247 TOP,191
 
WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES FROM LOSING YOUR HUMAN FORM?
 
A WARRIOR WITHOUT FORM BEGINS TO SEE AN EYE WHICH IS USED FOR DREAMING
a warrior without form begins to see an eye. I saw an eye in front of me every time I closed my eyes. The formless warrior uses that eye to start dreaming. If you don't have a form, you don't have to go to sleep to do dreaming. The eye pulls you every time you want to go. SRP,141. The eye pulls me in and I enter another world. Most of the time I just wander around it. SRP,145....sometimes the eye is very small and sometimes it is enormous..when it is small your dreaming is precise. If it's big your dreaming is like flying over the mountains and not seeing much. One day when I become truly formless I won't see the eye anymore; the eye will become just like me, nothing, and yet it'll be there like the allies. SRP,142. For them the eye was not even an eye; they said it was an orange light, like the sun. SRP,149. Description of using the eye to pull you somewhere. SRP,149.
 
DANGERS OF LOSING FORM
 
FORMLESSNESS IS, IF ANYTHING, A DETRIMENT TO SOBRIETY AND LEVELHEADEDNESS. THERE IS NO AUTOMATIC EMOTIONAL STRENGTH INVOLVED IN IT. AN ASPECT OF BEING DETACHED, THE CAPACITY TO BECOME IMMERSED IN WHATEVER ONE IS DOING, NATURALLY EXTENDS TO EVERYTHING ONE DOES, INCLUDING BEING INCONSISTENT, AND OUTRIGHT PETTY.
formlessness is, if anything, a detriment to sobriety and levelheadedness. There is no automatic emotional strength involved in it. An aspect of being detached, the capacity to become immersed in whatever one is doing, naturally extends to everything one does, including being inconsistent, and outright petty. EG,125. She had been formless for years without the self-discipline and courage to utilize it. EG,125. thus she had been at the mercy of drastic shifts of mood, and incredible discrepancies between her actions and her purposes. EG,126...
 
13. SEEING
 
WHY SHOULD WE GET TO THE DOUBLE?
 
WHEN THE ENERGY BODY IS COMPLETE, SORCERERS CAN ALWAYS SEE ENERGY.
When the energy body is complete sorcerers see energy every time they gaze at an item in the daily world. TAOD,164
 
HOW DO WE LEARN TO SEE?
 
STOPPING THE WORLD IS THE FIRST STEP TO SEEING
His contention was that he was teaching me how to see as opposed to merely looking and that stopping the world was the first step to seeing. JTI,ix... seeing happens only when the warrior is capable of stopping the internal dialogue. TOP,31. Seeing of course is the final accomplishment of a man of knowledge and seeing is attained only when one has stopped the world through the technique of not-doing. JTI,194. Genaro kept you busy turning over rocks in order to distract your thoughts and allow your body to see. JTI,255. Clara stressed that for us to fix our attention on any abstract manifestation, we have to merge the known with the unknown in a spontaneous amalgamation. in this way, we can engage our reason yet at the same time be indifferent to it... TSC,88 An opening in the energy field around us is an abstract manifestation... but don't expect to feel it or see it in the same manner you feel and see the concrete world. Something else takes place... TSC,88
 
SEEING IS FOR IMPECCABLE MEN
Seeing is for impeccable men. Temper your spirit now, become a warrior, learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds for our vision. SR,154.
 
SEEING HAS TO BE LEARNED
Seeing is not a matter of looking and keeping quiet,..seeing is a technique one has to learn. Or maybe it is a technique some of us already know. SR,164,165 Seeing is learned by seeing. SR,170. ...Sorcerers perceive the energetic elements for the same reason (as average people are able to perceive only the physical elements) because they were taught to do so. TAOD,185.
 
USE DREAMING WITH SEEING
warriors should never attempt seeing unless they are aided by dreaming..with practice, seers learn to be asleep and yet behave as if nothing is happening to them. FFW,238.
 
LIVE GUIDED BY YOUR SEEING/DON'T HAVE TO BE A WARRIOR
I understand the world and live guided by my seeing. If a man sees he doesn't have to live like a warrior, or anything else, for he can see things as they really are and direct his life accordingly. SR,149 Upon learning to see he no longer needs to live like a warrior, nor be a sorcerer. Seeing is very difficult and is not a matter of talk. SR,105. Old sorcerers learned everything by themselves through seeing. FFW,23...
 
DESCRIPTION OF HOW TO SEE THE COCOON OF MAN
one has to gaze at people from behind, as they walk away. FFW,238...he told me then to relax my muscles, shut off my internal dialogue, and let my AP drift away under the spell of inner silence. He urged me to smack myself gently but firmly on my right side, between my hipbone and my ribcage. I did that three times and I was sound asleep. My body was dormant but I was perfectly aware of everything that was taking place. FFW,238.
DANGERS ON THE SORCERER'S PATH
 
FOCUSING ON THE LEFT SIDE STEADILY CAN BE A TRAP - HOOKED INTO THE OLD SORCERER'S WORLD
He emphasized that the urge to turn awareness steadily to the left is a trap infinitely more deadly than the attractions of the world of everyday life because of the mystery and power inherent in it. TSC,237. what makes the warrior's path so dangerous is that it is the opposite of the life situation of modern man... to be given a chance to go back again to the mystery of the world.. is sometimes too much for warriors and they succumb, they forget the quest for freedom; they forget to be unbiased witnesses. They sink into the unknown and love it. FFW.167.
 
THE SECOND ATTENTION CAN BE FIXED ON THINGS ON THIS WORLD FOR THEIR OWN GAIN OR IT CAN BE FIXED ON ITEMS NOT ON THIS WORLD.
the fixation of the SA has two faces. The first and easiest face is the evil one. It happens when dreamers use their dreaming to focus their SA on the items of the world, like money and power over people. the other face is the most difficult to reach and it happens when dreamers focus their SA on items that are not in or from this world, such as the journey into the unknown. Warriors need endless impeccability in order to reach this face. EG,20.
 
14. DANGERS IN THE SECOND ATTENTION
 
DANGERS ON THE SORCERER'S PATH
 
FOCUSING ON THE LEFT SIDE STEADILY CAN BE A TRAP - HOOKED INTO THE OLD SORCERER'S WORLD
He emphasized that the urge to turn awareness steadily to the left is a trap infinitely more deadly than the attractions of the world of everyday life because of the mystery and power inherent in it. TSC,237. what makes the warrior's path so dangerous is that it is the opposite of the life situation of modern man... to be given a chance to go back again to the mystery of the world.. is sometimes too much for warriors and they succumb, they forget the quest for freedom; they forget to be unbiased witnesses. They sink into the unknown and love it. FFW.167.
 
THE SECOND ATTENTION CAN BE FIXED ON THINGS ON THIS WORLD FOR THEIR OWN GAIN OR IT CAN BE FIXED ON ITEMS NOT ON THIS WORLD.
the fixation of the SA has two faces. The first and easiest face is the evil one. It happens when dreamers use their dreaming to focus their SA on the items of the world, like money and power over people. the other face is the most difficult to reach and it happens when dreamers focus their SA on items that are not in or from this world, such as the journey into the unknown. Warriors need endless impeccability in order to reach this face. EG,20.
 

DANGERS IN THE SECOND ATTENTION

THE ACTIONS OF THE NAGUAL ARE DEADLY.

the actions of the nagual are deadly... if you don't have enough power to parry the nagual's onslaught, you're dead, regardless of my help or Genaro's concern. TOP,186.
 
YOU MAY DIE IF YOU COME INTO DIRECT PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH THE NAGUAL
You must be concerned with the nagual only at certain moments..the rest of the time you and I are alike like all the other people on this earth..you have to exert the most demanding vigil to be sure when a man is a nagual and when a man is simply a man. You may die if you come into direct physical contact with the nagual. TOP,182.
 
IS HUNTING POWER SAFE?
 
POWER WAS A DEVASTATING FORCE THAT COULD EASILY LEAD TO ONE'S DEATH AND HAD TO BE TREATED WITH GREAT CARE.
Power was a devastating force that could easily lead to one's death and had to be treated with great care.JTI,104.
 
TO VENTURE INTO THE UNKNOWN WITHOUT POWER IS STUPID, YOU MUST BE CAREFUL WHEN ONE IS DEALING WITH POWER
Death is always waiting, and when the warrior's power wanes death simply taps him. Thus, to venture into the unknown without any power is stupid. One will only find death. JTI,135.You must be infinitely careful. When one is dealing with power, one has to be perfect. mistakes are deadly here. JTI,147.
 
BECOMING AVAILABLE TO POWER HAD TO BE DONE SYSTEMATICALLY, BUT ALWAYS WITH GREAT CAUTION.
Becoming available to power had to be done systematically, but always with great caution...JTI,104.
 
WHAT CAN HAPPEN WHEN SOMEONE HAS POWER?
 
MAN'S THIRD NATURAL ENEMY IS POWER: IT CAN TURN SOMEONE INTO A CRUEL, CAPRICIOUS MAN
His third enemy. Power! Power is the strongest of all enemies. And naturally the easiest thing to do is to give in; after all, the man is truly invincible. He commands; he begins by taking calculated risks, and ends in making rules, because he is master. A man at this stage hardly notices his third enemy closing in on him. And suddenly, without knowing, he will certainly have lost the battle. His enemy will have turned him into a cruel, capricious man. TDJ,86.. he will never lose his clarity or power. A man who is defeated by power dies without really knowing how to handle it. Power is only a burden upon his fate. Such a man has no command over himself, and cannot tell when or how to use his power....TDJ,86.
 
HOW TO DEFEAT POWER: HE HAS TO DEFY IT, DELIBERATELY AND REALIZE THE POWER WAS NEVER REALLY HIS
To defeat the third enemy... he has to defy it, deliberately. He has to come to realize the power he has seemingly conquered is in reality never his. He must keep himself in line at all times, handling carefully and faithfully all that he has learned. If he can see that clarity and power, without his control over himself, are worse than mistakes, he will reach a point where everything is held in check. He will know then when and how to use his power. And thus he will have defeated his third enemy. TDJ,87.
 
WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE IN DANGER IN THE SECOND ATTENTION
 
NEVER TURN TO ONE'S LEFT WHEN FACING THE NAGUAL
one should never turn to one's left when facing the nagual. He said that the nagual was deadly and there was no need to make the risks more dangerous than they already were. TOP,168
 
THE ONLY WAY TO FEND OFF THE NAGUAL WAS TO REMAIN UNALTERED.
the only way to fend off the nagual was to remain unaltered. TOP,185.
 
LOOK AT THE NAGUAL AS IF IT WERE AN EVERYDAY AFFAIR
...the only way to look at the nagual is as if it were a common affair. TOP,169
 
NEVER LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE NAGUAL
...when one is dealing with the nagual, one should never look into it directly TOP,169
 
MOVE YOUR EYES IN A CLOCKWISE DIRECTION IF BEING ENVELOPED BY AN UNUSUAL FORCE
DJ told me that I should move my eyes in a clockwise direction if I felt that I was being enveloped by an unusual force.. FFW,112, 113.
 
BLINK TO BREAK THE FIXATION OF THE NAGUAL
One must blink in order to break the fixation. TOP,169
 
OR SHIFT YOUR EYES TO BREAK THE FIXATION
Another thing one should do when facing the nagual is to shift the line of the eyes from time to time, in order to break the spell of the nagual. Changing the position of the eyes always eases the burden of the tonal. this shifting should only be done as a relief, though, not as another way of palisading yourself to safeguard the order of the tonal. My bet would be that you would strive to use this technique to hide the rationality of your tonal behind it, and thus believe you're saving it from extinction. the flaw of your reasoning is that nobody wants or seeks the extinction of the tonal's rationality. That fear is ill founded. TOP,170.
 
DEFENSIVE POSITION
 
WHAT IS THE DEFENSIVE POSITION?
 
THE FIGHTING FORM WAS PART OF A DEFENSE TECHNIQUE USED IN CASES OF EXTREME DISTRESS AND DANGER
The fighting form was part of a defense technique used in cases of extreme distress and danger. SR,161.
Then he gave me precise instructions about a fighting form, a specific bodily position to be maintained while I remained on my beneficial. I had to maintain this posture he called a form. TDJ,175.... and it (the fighting form) had to be used if I was attacked. TDJ,176. He warned me that the form had to be adopted only in moments of extreme crisis, but so long as there was no danger in sight I should simply sit cross-legged on my spot. TDJ,176
 
HOW DO YOU DO THE DEFENSIVE POSITION?
 
DESCRIPTION OF TECHNIQUE
The young changed positions and sat with their left legs tucked under their seats.... this was posture that a sorcerer used when things were uncertain JTI,205. I was sitting with my knees against my chest. He corrected my position and told me to sit with my left leg tucked under my seat and my right one bent, with the knee in an upward position. My right arm had to be by my side with my fist resting on the ground, while my left arm was crossed over my chest. He told me to face him and stay there, relaxed but not abandoned. SR,160. If something came at me in a very menacing way I had to adopt a fighting form that he had taught me years before, which consisted of dancing, beating the ground with the tip of the left foot, while I slapped my right thigh vigorously. SR,161. sitting in vigil.. tuck my right leg under my left thigh and keep my left leg in a squat position. SR,202.It consisted of clapping the calf and thigh of my right leg and stomping my left foot in a kind of dance I had to do while facing the attacker. TDJ,176.
 
WHY IS THE LEG TUCKED?
 
THE TUCKED LEG WAS USED AS A SPRING IN ORDER TO STAND UP WITH GREAT SPEED IF NECESSARY
he explained that the tucked leg was used as a spring in order to stand up with great speed, if it were necessary. SR,202.
 
REALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION
 
HURLING AN OBJECT AT THE ENEMY WITH A WAR CRY
Under circumstances of extreme danger... he said I could resort to one last means of defence-hurling an object at the enemy. He told me that ordinarily one hurls a power object, but since I did not possess any I was forced to use any small rock that would fit into the palm of my right hand, a rock I could hold by pressing it against my palm with my thumb. He said that such a technique should be used only if one was indisputably in danger of losing one's life. The hurling of the object had to be accompanied by a war cry, a yell that had the property of directing the object to its mark. he emphatically recommended careful and deliberate about the outcry and not use it at random, but only under severe conditions of seriousness. TDJ,176
 
WAR CRY/YELLING
 
THE YELL OF A WARRIOR WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES OF SORCERY,
the yell of a warrior was one of the most important issues of sorcery, and that don Genaro was capable of focusing on his yell, using it as a vehicle. TOP,176.
 
DESCRIPTION OF THE WAR CRY
He said that the outcry or war cry was something that remained with a man for the duration of his life; thus it had to be good from the very beginning. And the only way to start it correctly was by holding back one's natural fear and haste until one was absolutely filled with power, and then the yell would burst out with direction and power. He said these were the conditions of seriousness needed to launch the yell. TDJ,176.
I asked him to explain about the power that was supposed to fill one before the outcry. he said that was something that ran through the body coming from the ground where one stood; it was a kind power that emanated from the beneficial spot, to be exact. It was a force that pushed the yell out. If such a force was properly managed, the battle cry would be perfect. TDJ,176.
yelling was necessary to make our presence known, because I had to make myself accesible to the power of that specific water hole. JTI,95
 
NAME CALLING
 
the calling of a name was a serious matter, especially if one was learning to tame an ally power...names were reserved to be used only when one was calling for help, in moments of great stress and need, and he assured me that such moments happen sooner or later in the life of whoever seeks knowledge. TDJ,58.
 
SHIELDS
 
WHY DO WE NEED SHIELDS?
 
WHENEVER A SORCERER HAS AN ENCOUNTER WITH ANY OF THOSE INEXPLICABLE AND UNBENDING FORCES..HIS GAP OPENS, MAKING HIM MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO HIS DEATH THAN HE ORDINARILY IS
Whenever a sorcerer has an encounter with any of those inexplicable and unbending forces..his gap opens, making him more susceptible to his death than he ordinarily is; SR,216,217
 
IF ONE IS A WARRIOR THEN THEY HAVE THEIR WILL TO FILL THAT GAP
I've told you that we die through that gap, therefore if it is open one should have his will ready to fill it; that is, if one is a warrior. SR,216,217
 
IF ONE IS NOT A WARRIOR YET, THEN WE MUST USE ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIFE TO TAKE ONE'S MIND AWAY FROM THE FRIGHT OF THE ENCOUNTER AND THUS ALLOW ONE'S GAP TO CLOSE.
if one is not a warrior, like yourself, then one has no other recourse but to use the activities of daily life to take one's mind away from the fright of the encounter and thus allow one's gap to close. SR,216,217.
 
A WARRIOR MUST USE EVERYTHING TO CLOSE HIS MORTAL GAP ONCE IT IS OPEN
A warrior must use everything available to him to close his mortal gap once it opens. TOP,76.
 
A WARRIOR DELIBERATELY SELECTS THE ITEMS THAT MAKE HIS WORLD FOR EVERY ITEM HE CHOOSES IS A SHIELD THAT PROTECTS HIM FROM THE DANGERS OF THE SECOND ATTENTION
a warrior selects the items that make his world. He selects deliberately, for every item he chooses is a shield that protects him from the onslaughts of the forces he is striving to use. A warrior would use his shields to protect himself from his ally, for instance. SR,216,217. You cannot surround yourself with things helter-skelter any longer. SR,217.
 
AN APPRENTICE MUST BE ALWAYS READY FOR AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE SECOND ATTENTION WHICH COULD OPEN OUR GAP AND KILL US
a warrior encounters those inexplicable and unbending forces because he deliberately seeking them, thus he is always prepared for the encounter. You.. are never prepared for it. in fact, if those forces come to you they will take you by surprise; the fright will open your gap and your life will irresistibly escape through it. The first thing you must do, then, is be prepared. Think that the ally is going to pop in front in front of your eyes any minute and you must be ready for him. To meet an ally is no party.. and the warrior takes the responsibility of protecting his life. Then if any of those forces tap you and open your gap, you must deliberately strive to close it by yourself. For that purpose you must have a selected number of things that give you great peace and pleasure, things which you can deliberately use to take your thoughts from your fright and close your gap and you solid. SR,217.
 
ENERGY SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON THE SPIRIT, NOT ON SHIELDS
the recommendation for warriors is not to have any material things on which to focus their power, but to focus it on the spirit, on the true flight into the unknown, not on trivial shields. EG,21.