B.) SORCERER'S WAY
 

1. RATIONAL FOR THE SORCERER'S WAY

 
HOW DOES SORCERY TEACH US TO REACH THIS ULTIMATE GOAL?
 
Sorcerer's follow a series of guidelines called the sorcerer's way or impeccability
 
WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF THE SORCERER'S WAY?
 
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
 
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
 
ENERGY CAN BE CULMATIVE
...(energy tends to be culumative... TAOD,138)
 
WHAT ARE THE OTHER NAMES OF THE SORCERER'S WAY?
 
Sorcerer's way/warrior's way/impeccability
 
WHAT IS IMPECCABILITY?
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
WHAT IS THE RATIONALITY BEHIND SORCERY/SORCERER'S WAY?
 
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.
 
WHAT IS THE SORCERY'S EXPLANATION?
 
The sorcery's basic premise is that the universe is just energy
 
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
 
AND THAT EVERYTHING AROUND US IS ONLY A PERCEPTION
 
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.
 
THE WORLD IS A MYSTERY
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
AND THIS PERCEPTION CAN BE MANIPULATED
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
PERCEPTION IS CONTROLLED BY WHERE THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT IS FIXED SO MANIPULATING THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT BECOMES THE MOST IMPORTANT GOAL OF A SORCERER
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE SECOND ATTENTION FOR NEW SORCERERS?
 
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.
 
WHY DO SORCERER GO TO OTHER WORLDS?
 
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
 
WHERE DOES THE ENERGY COME FROM TO MOVE THE AP?
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
BUT TO MANIPULATE THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT MEANS TO HAVE FREED INTERNAL ENERGY
 
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.
 
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
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
HOW DOES THE SORCERER'S WAY/IMPECCABILITY FREE OUR EXISTING ENERGY?
 
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
 
GOOD SUMMERIZATIONS
 
POS,158-losing self-importance
POS,167-why we need to lose self-importance-essence of why everything Don Juan did what he did.
 
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)
 
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
 
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.
 
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE FREE OUR ENERGY?
 
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...
 
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
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
WHEN SORCERERS MOVE THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT ENOUGH, SORCERERS LEARN TO "SEE"
 
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO "SEE"?
 
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.
 
NO FINAL STEP TO THE SORCERER'S EXPLANATION
 
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