- A.)
INTUITION
THE
NAGUAL EXISTS BELOW THE SURFACE BUT WE ARE INTUITIVELY AWARE OF
IT
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- WE ARE DEEPER THAN WE LOOK AND HAVE NO
KNOWLEDGE OF IT
- ...that the human psyche is infinitely more
complex than our mundane or academic reasoning had led us to
believe. TAOD, iii..People have no idea of the strange power we
carry within ourselves.. at this moment you have the means to
reach infinity. POS,84 ..human beings have a very deep sense of
magic..we are part of the mysterious....rationality is only a
veneer with us. If we scratch that surface, we find a sorcerer
underneath. POS,174..
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- HE SAID THAT THE FEELING EVERYONE KNOWS AS
INTUITION IS THE ACTIVATION OF OUR LINK WITH INTENT
- He said that the feeling everyone knows as
intuition is the activation of our link with intent. POS,31 and
inside every human being was a gigantic, dark lake of silent
knowledge which each of us could intuit. POS,152,155
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- THE PRESENCE OF THE DOUBLE INSIDE US IS SO
SUBTLE THAT WE CAN THROUGH OUR ENTIRE LIVES WITHOUT EVER KNOWING
THAT IT IS THERE
- The presence of the double inside us is so
subtle that we can through our entire lives without ever knowing
that it is there.TSC,159.
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- SOME PEOPLE CAN CONTROL THEIR DOUBLE BUT MOST
OF US DO NOT EVEN KNOW IT EXISTS
- Some persons are masters of the double.. they
cannot only focus their awareness on it but also spur it into
action. The majority of us, however, are scarcely aware that our
ethereal side exists. TSC,136.
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- B.)THE
ASSEMBLAGE POINT'S HABITUAL POSITION HAS
CHANGED
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- HAS
THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT ALWAYS BEEN IN ITS CURRENT HABITUAL
POSITION?
A LONG TIME AGO, OUR ASSEMBLAGE POINT WAS NOT
ON THE POSITION IT IS TODAY BUT RATHER ON THE PLACE OF SILENT
KNOWLEDGE. SILENT KNOWLEDGE HAD BEEN THE NORMAL POSITION OF MAN
AGES AGO
- ....it was a general position on the AP that
ages ago it had been man's normal position...POS,204.. ..there had
been one time when mankind had been on the third point. POS,243..
when silent knowledge was the first point POS,243 ...the whole of
humanity has moved away from the abstract, although at one time we
must have been close to it. It must have been our sustaining
force. And then something happened and pulled us away from the
abstract. Now we can't get back to it POS,52
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- THE NORMAL POSITION OF MAN HAS CHANGED TO THE
POSITION OF REASON FOR UNKNOWN REASONS
- but for reasons which would be impossible to
determine, man's AP moved and adopted a new one called reason.
POS,204..
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- WHAT
PROBABLY MOVED THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT TO ITS CURRENT HABITUAL
POSITION?
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- THE TRUE LEADERS OF MANKIND ARE THOSE PEOPLE
WHOSE ASSEMBLAGE POINT IS SQUARELY ON THE POSITION OF REASON OR
SILENT KNOWLEDGE
- ...not every human being's AP was squarely on
that position either.. This meant that the true leaders of mankind
had always been the few human beings whose AP happened to be
either on the exact point of reason or of silent knowledge. The
rest of humanity was merely the audience. In our day, they were
the lovers of reason. In the past, they had been lovers of silent
knowledge. They were the ones who had admired and sung odes to the
heroes of either position. POS,243 ..those who were on the spot
itself were the true leaders of mankind. Most of the time they
were unknown people whose genius was the exercising of their
reason. POS.242
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- TO SEE THE POSITION OF REASON YOU HAD TO BE
FIXED ON THE POSITION OF SILENT KNOWLEDGE
- ..only those who were squarely in either
position could see the other position clearly and that that had
been the way the age of reason came into being. The position of
reason was clearly seen from the position of silent knowledge...
POS, 243, 244
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- THE ONE WAY BRIDGE FROM SILENT KNOWLEDGE TO
REASON IS CALLED CONCERN
- the one way bridge from silent knowledge to
reason was called concern. That is, the concern that true men of
silent knowledge had about the source of what they knew. POS, 243,
244
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- THE ASSEMBLAGE POSITION THE PLACE OF CONCERN
WAS THE FORERUNNER OF REASON
- the AP position the place of concern was the
forerunner of reason... POS,204
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- SO AS SOON AS THE OLD LEADERS BECAME
CONCERNED THEY BEGAN TO THINK ABOUT
THEMSELVES
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- WHEN MAN BECAME AWARE THAT HE KNEW HE LOST
SIGHT OF WHAT HE KNEW BECAUSE HE WANTED TO KNOW IT LIKE HE KNOWS
EVERYDAY LIFE
- Sorcerers believe that when man became aware
that he knew, he lost sight of what he knew. Man's error was to
want to know it directly, the way he knew everyday life. The more
he wanted, the more ephemereal it became... man gave up silent
knowledge for the world of reason..the more he clings to the world
of reason, the more ephemereal intent becomes..
POS,155
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- ANCIENT MAN KNEW IN A DIRECT FASHION WHAT TO
DO BUT THIS DEVELOPED A SENSE OF SELFISHNESS WHICH DEVELOPED THE
'SELF'
- ...ancient man knew, in the most direct
fashion, what to do, and how best to do it. But, because he
performed so well, he started to develop a sense of selfness,
which gave him the feeling he could predict and plan the actions
he used to performing. And thus the idea of individual 'self'
appeared; an individual self which began to dictate the nature and
scope of man's actions...POS,167
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- HAVING A SENSE OF SELF DISCONNECTED MAN FROM
SILENT KNOWLEDGE
- ...it was self-reflection that had
disconnected man from the spirit in the first place. POS,167....As
the feeling of the individual self became stronger, man lost his
natural connection to silent knowledge.. POS,158
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- SINCE MAN COULDN'T RETURN TO SILENT KNOWLEDGE
HE SOUGHT SOLACE IN HIS SELFISHNESS AND THIS FIXED HIS ASSEMBLAGE
POINT INTO PLACE
- ...Having lost hope of ever returning to the
source of everything, man sought solace in his selfness. And in
doing so, he succeeded in fixing his AP in the exact position to
perpetuate his self-image. POS,158.....
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- DO
WE EVER WANT TO RETURN TO THE POSITION OF SILENT
KNOWLEDGE?
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- WE LONG FOR THE POSITION OF SILENT KNOWLEDGE
BECAUSE MANKIND HAD SPENT A LONGER PART OF ITS HISTORY
THERE
- The naugal stated that mankind had spent the
longer part of its history in the position of silent knowledge,
and that this explained our great longing for it.
POS,243
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- GARDEN OF EDEN IS PROBABLY AN ALLEGORY FOR OUR
LOSING OUR KNOWLEDGE OF INTENT
- ..... and that the Christian idea of being
cast out from the Garden of Eden.. was probably an allegory for
losing our silent knowledge, our knowledge of intent. POS,114
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- WHAT
HAS HAPPENED TO HUMANS SINCE THEY CANNOT GET BACK TO THE PLACE OF
SILENT KNOWLEDGE?
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- TO EXPRESS HIS DESPAIR FROM BEING AWAY FROM
SILENT KNOWLEDGE HE DOES CYNICAL OR VIOLENT ACTS WITH NO HOPE OF
PEACE OR SATISFACTION
- Modern man, being heir to that development,
therefore finds himself so hopelessly removed from the source of
everything that all he can do is express his despair in violent
and cynical acts of self-destruction. Don Juan asserted that the
reason for man's cynicism and despair is the bit of silent
knowledge left in him, which does two things: one, it gives man an
inkling of his ancient connection to the source of everything, and
two, it makes man feel that without this connection, he has no
hope of peace, of satisfaction, of attainment. POS,158
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- MODERN MAN IS NOW IN THE WORLD OF THE
FUNCTIONAL AND BORING
- ....modern man has left the realm of the
unknown and mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the
functional. He has turned his back to the world of foreboding and
the exulting and has welcomed the world of boredom.
FFW,167
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- IT HAS MADE US BECOME DIVIDED AND WE NOW WE
THINK IN OPPOSITES/PAIRS
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- WHY
DO HUMANS THINK WE ARE DIVIDED INTO OPPOSITES?
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- BEING DIVIDED IS OUR HUMAN
CONDITION
- Being divided is our human condition.. TSC,43
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- WHY
DO HUMANS ALWAYS MAKE PAIRS?
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- AS SOON AS WE BECOME TONAL WE BEGIN MAKING
PAIRS BECAUSE WE SENSE THE LOSS OF THE NAGUAL
- From the moment we become tonal we begin
making pairs. We sense our two sides, but we always represent them
with items of the tonal. We say that the two parts of us are the
soul and the body. Our mind and matter. Or good and evil. God and
Satan. We never realize, however, that we are merely pairing
things on the island....TOP,126.
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- HOW
DO HUMANS THINK WE ARE DIVIDED?
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- WE THINK THAT THE DUALISM IN US IS BETWEEN THE
MIND AND BODY
- Clara explained that we are convinced that a
dualism exists in us; the mind is the insubstantial part of
ourselves, and the body is the concrete part. TSC,43
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- HOW
DOES THIS BELIEF OF BEING DIVIDED HURT US?
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- THIS FALSE BELIEF OF OUR MIND/BODY DUALISM
KEEPS OUR ENERGY FROM JOINING TOGETHER
- This division keeps our energy in a state of
chaotic separation and prevents it from coalescing.
TSC,43
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- HOW
ARE HUMANS REALLY DIVIDED?
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- Humans are divided into the only true
opposites: the tonal and the nagual
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- WHY
ARE THE TONAL AND NAGUAL REALLY THE TRUE
OPPOSITES?
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- ALL OF THE LABELS HUMANS USE FOR THEIR
DIVISIONS ARE FOUND IN THE REALM OF THE TONAL..
- (CC's arguement that the Transcendental Ego is
the Nagual and the Empirical ego is the tonal.) TOP,138.
...everything else you may care to say are only items on the
island of the tonal. TOP,138(using the name nagual doesn't that
place it on the tonal?) ...I have named the tonal and the nagual
as a true pair. That is all I have done. TOP,127.
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C.)
SELF-IMPORTANCE AND THE INTERNAL DIALOGUE
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- WHY
DO WE ONLY PERCEIVE IN THE FIRST ATTENTION?
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- THE FIRST ATTENTION EMPHASIZES ONLY CERTAIN
EMANATIONS
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- TO BRING OUR WORLD IN FOCUS CERTAIN EMANATIONS
MUST BE EMPHASIZED
- ...in order for our first attention to bring
into focus the world that we perceive, it has to emphasize certain
emanations selected from the narrow band of emanations where man's
awareness is located. The discarded emanations are still within
our reach but remain dormant, unknown to us for the duration of
our lives. FFW,127.
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- WE CAN'T PERCEIVE THE NAGUAL BECAUSE OUR
ASSEMBLAGE POINT CLUSTERS EMANATIONS FOR THE FIRST ATTENTION ONLY
AND NEVER CLUSTERS EMANATIONS FOR THE SECOND ATTENTION
- the AP is responsible for making the first
attention perceive in terms of clusters. FFW,142 An example of a
cluster of emanations that receive emphasis together is the human
body as we perceive it. Another part of our total being, our
luminous cocoon, never receives emphasis and is relegated to
oblivion; FFW,142
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- WE SELECT THOSE EMANATIONS BECAUSE WE WERE
TAUGHT THAT THOSE EMANATIONS ARE PERCEIVABLE AND BECAUSE OUR
ASSEMBLAGE POINT SELECT AND PREPARE THOSE EMANATIONS FOR BEING
USED
- Human beings repeatedly chose the same
emanations for perceiving because of two reasons. First, and most
important, because we have been taught that those emanations are
perceivable and second because our AP select and prepare those
emanations for being used. FFW,136
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- WHAT
DETERMINES WHAT PRECISE EMANATIONS WILL BE USED?
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- OUR LIMITED ENERGY IS SYSTEMATICALLY DEPLOYED
IN ORDER THAT IT MAY BE USED MOST ADVANTAGEOUSLY BY THE MODALITY
OF TIME
- an energy that is systematically deployed,
beginning at the moment of birth, in order that it may be used
most advantageously by the modality of time... POS,8
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- WHAT
IS THE MODALITY OF TIME? (TONAL OF THE TIMES)
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- TIME DECIDES WHICH MODE OUR REALITY IS IN OR
WHAT PRECISE BUNDLE OF ENERGY FIELD WE ARE USING
- the modality of time is the precise bundle of
energy fields being perceived..I believe man's perception has
changed through the ages. The actual time decides the mode; the
time decides which precise bundle of energy fields, out of an
incalcuable number are to be used...And handling the modality of
time- those few, selected energy fields- takes all our available
energy, leaving us nothing that would help us use any of the other
energy fields. POS,8
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- TO
KEEP A CONTINUITY OF PERCEPTION THESE ALIGNMENTS ARE CONSTANTLY
RENEWED WHICH REINFORCES WHAT ALIGNMENT WE HABITUATE
ON
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- ALIGNMENT IS CEASELESSLY RENEWED IN ORDER TO
GIVE PERCEPTION CONTINUITY
- the new seers examined how the perception of
the world of everyday life takes place and saw the effects of
will. They saw that alignment is ceaselessly renewed in order to
imbue perception with continuity. FFW,190.
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- TO KEEP THE PERCEPTION OF OUR WORLD FRESH, THE
BURSTS OF ENERGY FROM OUR HABITUAL ALIGNMENTS IS REROUTED TO
REINFORCE OUR CHOICE ALIGNMENTS
- To renew alignment every time with the
freshness that it needs to make up a living world, the bursts of
energy that comes out of those very alignments is automatically
rerouted to reinforce some choice alignments. FFW,190.
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- THE HABITUAL POSITION OF MAN'S ASSEMBLAGE
POINT IS BROUGHT ABOUT BY HABITUATION/CERTAIN EMANATIONS WERE
ROUTINELY ALIGNED
- ..the assemblage point's habitual location is
not innate but brought about by habituation. (old sorcerers saw
children's AP constantly fluttering).TAOD,75, 76, 77....Certain
emanations are routinely aligned because of the fixation of the AP
on one specific spot; that is all there is to our world. FFW,303
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- WHAT
ARE THE RESULTS BROUGHT ABOUT BY US BEING ON THE HABITUAL
POSITION?
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- WE
BECOME VERY SELF-REFLECTIVE
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- ALL LIVING BEINGS HAVE SOME DEGREE OF
SELF-REFLECTION IN ORDER FOR THEM TO INTERACT BUT NONE HAS MAN'S
HIGH DEGREE OF SELF-ABSORPTION
- ..the awareness of all living beings has a
degree of self-reflection in order for them to interact. But none
except man's first attention has such a high degree of
self-absorption. FFW,93
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- THE FIRST ATTENTION TAKES AN INVENTORY OF THE
EAGLE'S EMANATIONS INSIDE THEIR COCOONS/ IT NOTES EVERYTHING ABOUT
ITSELF/WE ONLY QUIET OUR EMANATIONS TO REFLECT ON
OURSELVES
- instead, their first attention takes an
inventory of the Eagle's emanations inside their cocoons. FFW,92
inventory.. human beings take notice of the emanations they have
inside their cocoons.. No other creatures do that. the moment the
pressure from the emanations at large fixates the emanations
inside, the first attention begins to watch itself. It notes
everything about itself, or at least it tries to, in whatever
aberrant ways it can. FFW,92...seers see the emanations inside the
cocoon of man are not quieted down for purposes of matching them
with those outside... human beings quiet down their emanations and
then reflect on them. The emanations focus on themselves. FFW,92
the new seers realized that all organic beings, except man, quiet
down their agitated trapped emanations so that those emanations
can align themselves with their matching ones outside. Human
beings do not do that; FFW,92 seers see the emanations inside the
cocoon of man are not quieted down for purposes of matching them
with those outside... FFW,92
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- WHAT IS
AN INVENTORY?
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- THE INVENTORY IS THE MIND
- The inventory is the mind. POS,173.
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- KNOWING AN INVENTORY IS WHAT MAKES A MAN OR
SCHOLAR AN EXPERT IN HIS FIELD
- Inventory..human beings are creatures of
inventory. Knowing the ins and outs of a particular inventory is
what makes a man a scholar or an expert in his field...POS,173.
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- WE MUST TAKE AN INVENTORY IT IS THE EAGLE'S
COMMAND
- to take an inventory is the Eagle's command.
FFW,93
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- EXAMPLES
OF OUR INVENTORYS..
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- LITERAL-MINDEDNESS
- literal-mindedness is a major item of our
inventory, and that we have to be aware of it to bypass it.
TSC,85.
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- WHAT
HAPPENS WHEN WE TAKE THE INVENTORY TOO FAR?
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- TWO THINGS MAY HAPPEN: HUMANS MAY IGNORE THE
IMPULSES OF THE EMANATIONS AT LARGE (REASON) OR THEY MAY USE THEM
IN A SPECIALIZED WAY (SELF-ABSORPTION)
- .... Human beings carry the command of taking
an inventory to its logical extreme and disregard everything else.
Once they are deeply involved in the inventory, two things may
happen. They may ignore the impulses of the emanations at large,
or they may use them in a very specialized way....FFW,92 The end
result of ignoring those impulses after taking an inventory is a
unique state called reason. FFW,92 The result of using every
impulse in a specialized way is known as self-absorption.
FFW,92.... Contrary to men of reason, who ignore the impulse of
the emanations at large, the self-absorbed individuals use every
impulse and turn them all into a force to stir the trapped
emanations inside their cocoons. FFW,93
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- REASON
-
- REASON IS A BY-PRODUCT OF THE HABITUAL
POSITION OF THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT
- Reason is only a by-product of the habitual
position of the assemblage point TAOD,73.
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- OUR PERSPECTIVE IS FROM THE CENTER OF REASON
ONLY REGARDLESS OF WHO WE ARE OR WHERE WE COME FROM
- We function at the center of reason
exclusively, regardless of who we are or where we come
from.TOP,237.
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- HUMAN REASON IS A DULL GLOW THAT MAKES THE
EGGLIKE SHELL TOUGHER MORE BRITTLE
- Human reason appears to a seer as an unusually
homogenous dull glow that rarely if ever responds to the constant
pressure from the emanations at large - a glow that makes the
egglike shell become tougher, but more brittle... reason in the
human being should be bountiful, but that in actuality it is very
rare. FFW,93
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- MOST PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE THEIR ASSEMBLAGE POINT
SQUARELY ON THE LOCATION OF REASON
- the majority of people do not have their AP
squarely on the location of reason, but in its immediate
vicinity.. POS,204.
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- MEN OF TRUE REASON LIVE LONGER THAN
SELF-ABSORBED HUMANS
- The new seers saw that men of reason are bound
to live longer, because by disregarding the impulse of the
emanations at large, they quiet down the natural agitation inside
their cocoons. FFW,93
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- SELF-ABSORBED/SELF-IMPORTANCE
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- SELF-IMPORTANCE IS THE FORCE GENERATED BY
MAN'S SELF-IMAGE, IT KEEPS THE ASSEMBLAGE FIXED
- DJ described self-importance as the force
generated by man's self-image... it is that force which keeps the
AP fixed where it is at the present. POS,158......
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- SELF-ABSORPTION AS SEEN ON THE ASSEMBLAGE
POINT ARE INTERMITTENT BURSTS OF WHITE LIGHT FOLLOWED BY LONG
PAUSES OF DULLNESS
- the majority of human beings turn to
self-absorption. Seers see this as intermittent bursts of white
light, followed by long pauses of dullness. FFW,93
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- SELF-ABSORBED INDIVIDUALS USE THE IMPULSE OF
THE EMANATIONS AT LARGE TO CREATE MORE AGITATION SHORTEN THEIR
LIVES
- The self absorbed individuals... use the
impulse of the emanations at large to create more agitation,
shorten their lives. FFW,93
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- WHY
CAN'T WE BREAK FROM OUR ASSEMBLAGE POINT'S HABITUAL
POSITION?
-
- THE FIRST ATTENTION CAN NEVER BE COMPLETELY
OVERCOME, IT CAN ONLY BE TURNED OFF FOR A MOMENT AND REPLACED WITH
THE SECOND ATTENTION
- The first attention, the attention that makes
the world, can never be completely overcome; it can only be turned
off for a moment and replaced with the second attention, providing
the body has stored enough of it. EG,141.
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- WE
ARE BORN WITH A LIMITED AMOUNT OF ENERGY
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- HUMAN BEINGS ARE BORN WITH A FINITE AMOUNT OF
ENERGY
- ..Human beings are born with a finite amount
of energy.. POS,8
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- THE RIGHT SIDE CONSUMES TOO MUCH
ENERGY
- On the right side too much energy and time is
consumed in the actions and interactions of our daily life.
EG,165.
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- SORCERY OR THE MYSTERY OF THE WORLD IS BEYOND
THE AVERAGE MAN BECAUSE HE LACKS THE ENERGY TO DEAL WITH
IT
- From where the average man stands..sorcery is
nonsense or an ominous mystery beyond his reach. and he is right
not because this is an absolute fact, but because the average man
lacks the energy to deal with sorcery. POS,8 ...you cannot witness
fields of energy... not as an average man, that is..
FFW,53....moving the AP or breaking one's continuity is not the
real difficulty. The real difficulty is having energy.
POS,232....
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- WHAT
TAKES UP ALL OF OUR ENERGY?
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- ALL OF OUR AVAILABLE ENERGY GOES TO UPHOLDING
OUR WORLD/OUR IMPORTANCE/ FIRST ATTENTION CONSUMES ALL OUR
AVAILABLE ENERGY/ALL THE GLOW OF AWARENESS
- he added that we all have a determined
quantity of basic energy. That quantity is all the energy we have,
and we use all of it for perceiving and dealing with our engulfing
world. He repeated various times, to emphasize it, that there is
no more energy for us anywhere and since our available energy is
already engaged, there is not a single bit left in us for any
extraordinary perception, such as dreaming....(TAOD, )....the new
seers saw that the first attention consumes all the glow of
awareness that human beings have, and not one iota of energy is
left free...FFW,97...The problem is that all the energy available
is consumed by the first attention. FFW,100 ..most of our energy
goes into upholding our importance. TAOD,37
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- SELF-IMPORTANCE IS THE SOURCE OF ALL OUR
TROUBLES/ OUR PERSONAL HISTORY
- Those habitual feelings and thoughts are the
source of all troubles..I'm referring to your barrage of habitual
feelings and thoughts, your personal history, Everything that
makes you into what you think you are, a unique and special
person. TSC,38. You are not used to this kind of life; therefore
the indications (omens) bypass you. Yet you are a serious person,
but your seriousness is attached to what you do, not to what goes
on outside you. You dwell upon yourself too much. That's the
trouble. And that produces a terrible fatigue. TDJ,51. Seek and
see the marvels all around you. You will get tired of looking at
yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to
everything else. TDJ,52. You are vulnerable because you feel
important.. all that shame was caused by your misguided sense of
personal worth. TSC,97. We do confuse ourselves deliberately..all
of us are aware of our doings. Our puny reason deliberately makes
itself into the monster it fancies itself to be. It's too little
for such a big mould,though. TOP,57 the trouble with us is that we
take ourselves seriously.. whatever our category our self-image
falls into only matters because of our self-importance. If we
weren't self-important, it wouldn't matter at all which category
we fell into. POS,250. We learn to think about everything.. and we
train our eyes to look as we think about the things we look at. We
look at ourselves already thinking that we are important. And
therefore we've got to feel important. SR,81.You take yourself too
seriously.... you are too damn important in your own mind. That
must be changed. You are so goddamn important that you feel
justified to be annoyed with everything. You're so damn important
that you can afford to leave if things don't go your way. I
suppose you think that shows you have character. That's nonsense.
You're weak and conceited. Self-importance is another thing that
must be dropped, just like personal history... JTI,21.
...self-importance is our greatest enemy. what weakens us is
feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our
self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended
by someone. FFW,27 the idea of personal self has no value
whatsoever. POS,223...self-importance is not simple and naive.. on
the one hand, it is the core of everything that is good in us and
on the other hand it is the core of everything that is rotten.
FFW,29....for the rational man to hold steadfastly to his
self-image insured his abysmal ignorance. He ignored..the fact
that sorcery was not incanations and hocus-pocus, but the freedom
to perceive not only the world taken for granted, but everything
else that was humanly possible. POS,224. He had said that my
reason was the demon that kept me chained, and that I had to
vanquish it if I wanted to achieve the realization of his
teachings. the issue, therefore had been how to vanquish my
reason. SRP,239. sorcerers believed it was the position of the AP
which made modern man a homicidal egotist, a being totally
involved with his self image.POS,158 The position of
self-reflection...forces the AP to assemble a world of sham
compassion, but of very real cruelty and self-centeredness. In
that world the only real feelings are those convienent for the one
who feels them. POS,158
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- MESSY LIFE
- You always feel compelled to explain your
acts, as if you were the only man on earth who's wrong...it's your
old feeling of importance. You have too much of it; you also have
too much personal history...you don't assume responsibility for
your acts; your not using death as an adviser, and above all, you
are too accessible. In other words, your life is as messy as it
was before I met you. JTI,80... For you the world is weird because
if you're not bored with it you're at odds with it. For me the
world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious,
unfathomable, my interest has been to convince you that must
assume responsibility for being here...JTI,81
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- SELF-PITY
- self-pity doesn't jibe with power..the mood of
a warrior calls for control over himself and at the same time
calls for abandoning himself. JTI,111. Don't you dare give in to
self-pity in this house. If you do, this house will reject you;
it'll spit you out... TSC,65. There's no
way to feel sorry for poor Manfred. No matter what form he's in,
he's a warrior. Self-pity... is inside you and expresses itself in
different ways..Right now you're calling it "feeling sorry for
Manfred" TSC,153.
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- SELF-IMPORTANCE AND SELF-PITY ARE THE SAME
THING
- ...sorcerers had unmasked
self-importance and found that it is self-pity masquerading as
something else.... Self-pity is the real enemy and the source of
man's misery. ....Without a degree of pity for himself, man could
not afford to be as self important as he is. However, once the
force of self-importance is engaged, it develops its own momentum.
And it is this seemingly independent nature of self-importance
which gives it its fake sense of worth. POS,158
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- THIS
SELF-ABSORPTION IS REINFORCED BY THE INTERNAL
DIALOGUE
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- THE HABITUAL POSITION OF MAN'S ASSEMBLAGE
POINT IS MAINTAINED BY THE INTERNAL DIALOGUE
- The position of the AP on man's cocoon is
maintained by the internal dialogue, and because of that, it is a
flimsy position at best. That's why men and women lose their minds
so easily, especially those whose internal dialogue is
repetitious, boring, and without any depth. FFW,173
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- WE MAINTAIN OUR WORLD WITH OUR INTERNAL TALK
WE REPEAT THE SAME CHOICES OVER AND OVER UNTIL THE DAY WE DIE
BECAUSE WE KEEP ON REPEATING THE SAME INTERNAL TALK OVER AND OVER
UNTIL THE DAY WE DIE.
- You talk to yourself too much. you're not
unique at that. Everyone of us do that. We carry on an internal
talk... we talk about our world. In fact we maintain our world
with our internal talk. Whenever we finish talking to ourselves
the world is always as it should be. We renew it, we kindle it
with life, we uphold it with our internal talk. Not only that, but
we also choose our paths as we talk to ourselves. thus we repeat
the same choices over and over until the day we die because we
keep on repeating the same internal talk over and over until the
day we die. SR,218.
-
- AS LONG AS YOU REMAIN SELF-IMPORTANT YOU
CANNOT APPRECIATE THE WORLD AROUND YOU, ALL YOU SEE IS YOURSELF
APART FROM EVERYTHING ELSE
- As long as you feel that you are the most
important thing in the world you cannot really appreciate the
world around you. You are like a horse with blinders, all you see
is yourself apart from everything else. JTI,23
-
- HOW
DOES OUR INTERNAL DIALOGUE AND SELF-ABSORPTION
DEVELOP?
-
- AT
BIRTH WE ARE ALL NAGUAL AND OUR ASSEMBLAGE POINT IS NOT
FIXED
-
- BEFORE BIRTH THE DUALITY BETWEEN THE TONAL AND
NAGUAL DOESN'T EXIST
- She said that before birth, man's imposed
duality doesn't exist, TSC,43
-
- BUT AT THE MOMENT OF BIRTH, THE TONAL AND
NAGUAL BECOME OPERATIVE
- every human being had two sides, two seperate
entities, two counterparts which became operative at the moment of
birth; one was called the tonal and the other the nagual. TOP,119.
-
- AT BIRTH THE TWO SIDES ARE SEPERATED BY THE
PULL OF MANKIND'S INTENT: ONE PART TURNS OUTWARD AND BECOMES THE
PHYSICAL BODY AND THE OTHER INWARD AND BECOMES THE
DOUBLE
- but that from birth on, the two parts are
seperated by the pull of mankind's intent. One part turns outward
and becomes the physical body; the other, inward and becomes the
double. TSC,43
-
- AT BIRTH WE ARE ALL NAGUAL AND FOR A SHORT
TIME AFTER
- At the time of birth, and for awhile after, we
are all nagual. TOP,126.
-
- AT FIRST INFANTS HAVE NO FIXED ASSEMBLAGE
POINT AND IT MOVES THROUGHOUT MAN'S BAND
- The seers see that infants have no fixed AP at
first. Their encased emanations are in a state of great turmoil,
and their AP shift everywhere in the band of man, giving children
a great capacity to focus on emanations that later will be
throughly disregarded.FFW,151 The fact of the matter is that many
children can see. FFW,151
-
- BUT
AFTER A SHORT TIME AFTER BIRTH, THE TONAL BEGINS TO DEVELOP AND
BEGINS TO OVERTAKE THE NAGUAL
-
- WE SENSE, THEN, THAT IN ORDER TO FUNCTION WE
NEED A COUNTER PART TO WHAT WE HAVE. THE TONAL IS MISSING AND THAT
GIVES US, FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, A FEELING OF
INCOMPLETENESS
- We sense, then, that in order to function we
need a counter part to what we have. The tonal is missing and that
gives us, from the very beginning, a feeling of incompleteness.
TOP,126.
-
- BUT FROM BIRTH THE TONAL BEGINS TO DEVELOP..
- We begin to groom it at the moment of birth.
The moment we take the first gasp of air we also breathe in power
for the tonal. So, it is proper to say that the tonal of a human
being is intimately tied to his birth. TOP,122
-
- WHEN THE TONAL DOES DEVELOP, IT BEGINS TO
OUTSHINE THE NAGUAL
- Then the tonal starts to develop and it
becomes utterly important to our functioning, so important that it
opaques the shine of the nagual, it overwhelms it. From the moment
we become all tonal we do nothing else but to increment that old
feeling of incompleteness which accompanies us from the moment of
our birth, and which tells us constantly that there is another
part to give us completeness. TOP,126. Our first ring of power is
engaged very early in our lives and that we live under the
impression that that is all there is to us. SRP,242
-
- WHY
DOES THE TONAL START TO DEVELOP?
-
- PEOPLE
START TO TEACH US HOW AND WHAT TO PERCEIVE
-
- FROM OUR TEACHERS, WE LEARN WHAT TO
PERCEIVE
- we perceive this is a hard fact. But what we
perceive is not a fact of the same kind, because we learn what to
perceive... FFW,53
-
- THE ISLAND OF THE TONAL IS MADE BY OUR
PERCEPTION WHICH HAS BEEN TRAINED TO FOCUS ON CERTAIN
ELEMENTS
- I have called that view the island of the
tonal. I've said that everything we are is on that island. The
sorcerer's explanation says that the island of the tonal is made
by our perception, which has been trained to focus on certain
elements and all of them together form our view of the world.
TOP,245
-
- WE LEARN MOODS LIKE SOLACE, HAVEN AND
FEAR
- Solace, haven, fear, all of them are moods
that you have learned without ever questioning their value.
TOP,26.
-
- EVERYONE A CHILD WHO COMES INTO CONTACT WITH
IS A TEACHER
- He pointed out that everyone who comes into
contact with a child is a teacher who incessantly describes the
world to him, JTI,ix.
-
- WE
START TO DEVELOP AN INTERNALIZED DIALOGUE WITHIN OURSELVES WHICH
BEGINS TO TAKE UP ALL OUR ENERGY AND FIXES THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT
INTO PLACE
-
- AS INFANTS WE ARE TAUGHT TO REPEAT AN ENDLESS
DIALOGUE ABOUT THEMSELVES AND THIS ENDLESS DIALOGUE BECOMES
INTERNALIZED AND THAT FORCE ALONE KEEPS THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT
FIXED
- Human beings when they are infants..are taught
by everyone around them to repeat an endless dialogue about
themselves. The dialogue becomes internalized and that force alone
keeps the AP fixed..infants have hundreds of teachers who teach
them exactly where to place their AP. FFW,151 The internal
dialogue is a process that constantly strengthens the position of
the AP, because that position is an arbitrary one and needs steady
reinforcement. FFW,151 ....the new seers say that when we were
taught to talk to ourselves, we were taught the means to dull
ourselves in order to keep the AP fixed on one spot.
FFW,168.
-
- THERE COMES A MOMENT WHEN THE CHILD PERCEIVES
THE WORLD AS DESCRIBED AND BEGINS AN ENDLESS FLOW OF PERCEPTUAL
INTERPRETATIONS (CALLED THE INTERNAL DIALOGUE) WHICH IS RARELY
OPEN TO QUESTION
- until the moment when the child is capable of
perceiving the world as it is described....we have no memory of
that portentous moment, simply because none of us could possibly
have had anything else. From that moment on, however, the child is
a member. He knows the description of the world; and his
membership becomes full-fledged, I suppose, when he is capable of
making all the proper perceptual interpretations which, by
confirming to that description, validate it. the reality of our
day-to-day life consists of an endless flow of perceptual
interpretations which we, the individuals who share a specific
membership, have learned to make in common... The idea that the
perceptual interpretations that make up the world have a flow is
congruous with the fact that they run uninterruptedly and are
rarely, if ever, open to question. In fact, the reality of the
world we know is so taken for granted that the basic premise of
sorcery, that our reality is merely one of many descriptions,
could hardly be taken as a serious proposition. JTI,ix. We are all
born that light and bouncy, but we become earth bound and fixed.
We make ourselves that way. TOP,39.
-
- WE
BEGIN TO THINK VERY QUICKLY THAT WHAT WAS TAUGHT TO US AND WHAT WE
CAN SEE IS OUR ONE AND ONLY REALITY AND OUR PERCEPTION CLOSES.
-
- THE SELF-REFLECTED VIEW IS AT FIRST A
DESCRIPTION BUT IT KEEPS BEING GIVEN TO US UNTIL ALL OF OUR
ATTENTION IS CAUGHT BY IT AND IT BECOMES A VIEW
- That view is first a description, which is
given to us from the moment of our birth until all of our
attention is caught by it and the description becomes a
view.TOP,244. For a sorcerer, reality, or the world we all know,
is only a description ...what I held in my mind was merely a
description of the world; a description that had been pounded into
me from the moment I was born. JTI,ix. We are perceivers.The world
we perceive though is an illusion. it was created by a description
that was told to us since the moment we were born.FFW,74. We the
luminous beings are born with two rings of power, but we use only
one to create the world. That ring, which is hooked very soon
after we are born, is reason, and its companion is talking.
between the two they concoct and maintain the world. So, in
essence, the world that your reason wants to sustain is the world
created by a description and its dogmatic and inviolable rules,
which the reason learns to accept and defend. The secret of the
luminous beings is that they have another ring of power which is
never used, the will. The trick of the sorcerer is the same trick
of the average man. Both have a description; the average man
upholds his with reason; the, other upholds it with his will. Both
descriptions have their rules and the rules are perceivable, but
the advantage of the sorcerer is that will is more engulfing than
reason. FFW,74.
-
- WE LIVE IN A BUBBLE OF PERCEPTION WHICH CLOSES
SOMETIME AFTER BIRTH AND WE WITNESS OUR OWN SELF-REFLECTION ON ITS
WALLS
- Sorcerers say that we are inside a bubble. it
is a bubble into which we are placed at the moment of our birth.
At first the bubble is open, but then it begins to close until it
has sealed us in. That bubble is perception. We live in that
bubble all our lives. And what we witness on its round walls is
our own reflection.TOP,244.. If what we witness on the walls is
our own reflection then the thing thats being reflected must be
the real thing.The thing reflected is our view of the world.
TOP,244.The bubble is opened in order to allow the luminous being
a view of his totality. ..Naturally, this business of calling it a
bubble is only a way of talking, but in this case it is an
accurate way...TOP,245
-
- WE
THINK THAT THE WORLD IS SOLID AND FILLED WITH OBJECTS AND FORGET
IT IS JUST A DESCRIPTION POUNDED INTO US EVERYDAY SINCE
BIRTH
-
- WE BEGIN TO THINK OF THE WORLD AS A PLACE OF
OBJECTS AND SOLIDITY
- The world of objects and solidity is a way of
making our passage on earth convenient. It is only a description
that was created for us. We, or rather our reason, forget that the
description is only a description and thus we entrap the totality
of ourselves in a vicious circle from which we rarely emerge in
our lifetime. TOP,97. there was no world at large but only a
description of the world which we had learned to visualize and
take for granted. TOP,122....we think it is a world of objects and
its not... the world is not as solid and as real as our perception
has been led to believe, but it isn't a mirage either.. FFW,52..
.To believe that the world is only as you think it is, is stupid.
JTI,64. ...human beings employ the Eagle's emanations and
interpret them as reality. But what man senses is such a small
portion of the Eagle's emanations that its ridiculous to put much
stock in our perceptions and yet it isn't possible for us to
disregard our perceptions. FFW,60. the basic premise of
sorcery...that for a sorcerer, the world of everyday life is not
real, or out there, as we believe it is. JTI,ix. ...Sorcerers call
it the secret of the luminous beings and it is the fact that we
are perceivers. We men and all the other luminous beings on earth
are perceivers. That is our bubble, the bubble of perception. Our
mistake is to believe that the only perception worthy of
acknowledgement is what goes through our reason. Sorcerers believe
that reason is only one center and it shouldn't take so much for
granted. TOP,246 the conviction that there is a real you is a
result of the fact that you have rallied everything you've got
around your reason.TOP,267
-
- WE REGARD THE VISUAL AS THE ONLY REALITY
BECAUSE WE RELY ON LANGUAGE AND REASON
- Because we rely on language and reason.. it is
the level of the visible that we regard as reality. it appears to
have an order, and is stable and predictable. Yet in actuality, it
is elusive, temporary and ever changing. What we judge as
permanent reality is only the surface appearance of an
unfathomable force. TSC,187.
-
- THERE IS ONLY PERCEPTION AND THE NAGUAL AND
THINGS LIKE EVIL, THE DEVIL, WITCHCRAFT COMES FROM OUR
REASON
- ...Turn everything into what it really is: the
abstract, the spirit, the nagual. There is no witchcraft, no evil,
no devil. There is only perception. POS,216
-
- EVIL IS A CONCATENATION OF THE MIND BECAUSE OF
THE FIXATION OF THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT ON ITS HABITUAL POSITION
- evil is merely a concatenation of the human
mind, overwhelmed by the fixation of the assemblage point on its
habitual position. TAOD,239
-
- AND
WHAT HAS BEEN TAUGHT TO US IS BASED UPON WHATEVER SOCIETY WE ARE
IN AT THE TIME
-
- THE PARAMETERS OF OUR NORMAL PERCEPTION HAS
BEEN IMPOSED ON US AS PART OF OUR SOCIALIZATION
- It is a sorcerer's idea that the parameters of
our normal perception have been imposed upon us as part of our
socialization, not quite arbitrarily but laid down mandatorily
nonetheless. TSC,viii
-
- WE ARE FIXED FOREVER IN OUR THOUGHTS AND
ACTIONS TO FOLLOW THE PATH THAT HABITUAL MAN HAS LINED UP FOR
US.
- Our fellow men are black magicians. And since
you are with them, you too are a black magician. think for a
moment. Can you deviate from the path that they've lined up for
you? No. Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their
terms. That is slavery..TOP,26. He said I was pimping for someone
else. That I was not fighting my own battle, but the battles of
some unknown people..and that in his world of precise acts and
feelings and decisions was infinitely more effective than the
blundering idiocy I called my life. JTI,58. ...our thoughts think
us, our feelings feel; we do not have much say in the matter...the
Buddha explains, "All that we are is the result of what we have
thought." EE,M,10,11
-
- OUR
REALITY IS CONTINUALLY UPHELD BECAUSE WE HAVE ALL BEEN TAUGHT THE
SAME TO AGREE ON WHAT IS REAL
-
- FOR THINGS TO BE REAL IN OUR WORLD WE HAVE TO
AGREE UPON THEM
- Things are real only after one has learned to
agree on their realness. What took place this evening... cannot
possibly be real to you, because no one could agree with you about
it. TOP,25. let's say that when every one of us is born we bring
with us a little ring of power. That little ring is almost
immediately put to use. So every one of us is already hooked from
birth and our rings of power are joined to everyone else's. In
other words, our rings of power are hooked to the doing of the
world in order to make the world.... for instance, our rings of
power, yours and mine, are hooked right now to the doing in this
room. We are making this room. Our rings of power are spinning
this room into being at this very moment. JTI,211...every one of
us knows the doing of rooms because, in one way or another, we
have spent much of our lives in rooms. JTI,212 All I did was to
hook my ring of power to your own doing... you yourself did the
rest and so did the others... we all have been taught to agree
about doing..you don't have any idea of the power that that
agreement brings it....but, fortunately, not-doing is equally
miraculous, and powerful. JTI,212.
-
- OUR
REALITY IS FURTHER ENHANCED BECAUSE HUMANS CAN SKIM THEIR
PERCEPTIONS
-
- SKIMMING MAKES OUR PERCEPTION EVEN MORE REAL
THAN OTHER CREATURES
- The skimmings of men are more real than what
other creatures perceive. FFW,158
-
- THE PROBLEM WITH SKIMMING IS THAT IS MAKES
THINGS SO REAL WE FORGET WE HAVE CONSTRUCTED THEM BY COMMANDING
OUR ASSEMBLAGE POINT TO APPEAR WHERE THEY DO
- that is our pitfall. they are so real to us
that we forget we have constructed them by commanding our AP to
appear where they do. We forget they are real to us only because
it is our command to perceive them as real. We have the power to
skim the top off the alignments, but we don't have the power to
protect ourselves from our own commands. That has to be learned.
FFW,158.
-
- D.)
INVENTORY AND SHIELDS
-
- AND
BY THE TIME WE OUR TEENAGERS, SOCIETY HAS FILLED US UP WITH ITS
INVENTORY LIKE AN ENORMOUS WAREHOUSE WITH NO SAY FROM US AND IT
USUALLY NEVER CHANGES
-
- WE ARE LIKE A GIANT WAREHOUSE THAT STORES OUR
FEELINGS, IDEAS, BEHAVIOR PATTERNS ETC.,
- try to imagine yourself as a giant warehouse..
in that wherehouse, someone other than yourself has stored
feelings, ideas, mental dialogues and behavior patterns. Since it
is your wherehouse, you can go in there and rummage around any
time you want and use whatever you find there.TSC,74.
-
- OUR PROBLEM IS THAT WE HAVE NO SAY OVER OUR
INVENTORY AND USUALLY OUR INVENTORY NEVER CHANGES
- the problem is that you have absolutely no say
over the inventory, for it was already established before you came
into possession of the wherehouse. Thus you are drastically linked
in your selection of items... she added that our lives seem to be
an uninterrupted time line because in our wherehouses the
inventory never changes. TSC,74.
-
- AND OUR ENERGY FIELD IS CONSTANTLY LESSENED
AND MADE MORE RIGID AS WE GET OLDER AND IT BECOMES HARDER TO
CHANGE
-
- THE WEB GETS PORTIONS OF ITSELF LOST OR
ENTWINED IN OTHER PEOPLE'S BANDS OF ENERGY AND GETS TORN TO
SHREDS
- This web of energy gets torn to shreds during
daily living. Huge portions of it become lost or entwined in other
people's bands of energy. If a person loses too much vital force,
he becomes ill or dies. TSC,134...
-
- MAN'S INVENTORY ALSO TOUGHENS THE COCOON TO
THE POINT OF MAKING IT INFLEXIBLE
- Man's inventory not only takes it all, but it
also toughens the cocoon to the point of making it inflexible.
FFW,100
-
- AND
SO FINALLY, WE DEVELOP OUR CONTINUITY FOR ALL OF OUR
LIVES
-
- WHAT IS
CONTINUITY?
-
- CONTINUITY IS THE IDEA THAT WE ARE A SOLID
BLOCK AND OUR WORLD IS NOT CHANGEABLE
- continuity..the idea that we are a solid
block.. in our minds, what sustains our world is the certainty
that we are unchangeable... we may accept that our behavior or our
reactions and opinions can be modified, but the idea that we can
change appearances, to the point of being someone else.. is not
part of our underlying order of our self-reflection....
POS,172
-
- ONE ASPECT OF THESE MANDATORY PERCEPTION
PARAMETERS IS AN INTERPRETATION CENTER
- One aspect of these obligatory parameters is
an interpretation system, TSC,viii
-
- WHAT
IS AN INTERPRETATION SYSTEM?
-
- AN INTERPRETATION SYSTEM PROCESSES SENSORY
DATA INTO MEANINGFUL UNITS AND USES THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE AS A WAY
TO INTERPRET THESE UNITS
- which processes sensory data into meaningful
units and renders the social structure as a structure of
interpretation. TSC,viii
-
- OUR INTERPRETATION REQUIRES FAITHFUL AND BLIND
ADHERENCE TO ALL ITS CONCEPTS/ NONE OF WHICH CALLS FOR THE
POSSIBILITY OF DIRECTLY PERCEIVING ENERGY
- Our normal functioning within the social order
requires a blind and faithful adherence to all its precepts, none
of which calls for the possibility of directly perceiving energy.
For example, DJ maintained that it is possible to perceive human
beings as fields of energy, like huge, oblong, whitish luminous
eggs. TSC,viii
-
- WE STIFLE OUR POTENTIAL TO SEE AND THAT
EVENTUALLY THE SEER IS FILLED WITH BITTERNESS AND HATRED AND
FINALLY DESTROYS US
- Yet in spite of the clarity and accuracy of
the seer's assessment's, we never pay attention to it or give the
seer a chance to make itself heard. Through a continual
suppression, we stifle its growth and prevent it from developing
its full potential. TSC,99. In the end, the seer inside us is
filled with bitterness and hatred.. the ancient men of wisdom who
invented the recapitulation believed that since we never stop
subduing the seer, it finally destroys us.TSC,99.
-
- WHAT
PROTECTS US AND KEEPS US FROM EXPERIENCING THE
NAGUAL?
-
- THE TONAL PROTECTS US
- The tonal is rightfully so, a protector, a
guardian - a guardian that most of the time turns into a guard.
TOP,120
-
- HOW
DOES THE TONAL HELP PROTECT US FROM THE NAGUAL?
-
- THE TONAL SUPRESSES THE NAGUAL
- The tonal's great art is to supress any
manifestations of the nagual in such a manner that even if its
presence should be the most obvious thing in the world, it is
unnoticeable. TOP,131
-
- THE FIRST ATTENTION BLOCKS OUT THE UNKNOWN SO
WELL THAT IT DOESN'T EXIST FOR US/WE NEVER BELIEVE WHAT IS
HAPPENING TO US
- The first attention works very well with the
unknown. It blocks it; denies it so fiercely that in the end, the
unknown doesn't exist for the first attention. FFW,94..the world
kept him so busy that he had neither the time nor the inclination
really to examine the matter.. the spirit tried, uselessly, to
reveal their connection. Using an inner voice, the spirit
disclosed its secrets, but the man was incapable of understanding
the revelations. Naturally he heard the inner voice, but he
believed it to be his own feelings he was feeling and his own
thoughts he was thinking. POS, 23, reason doesn't deal with man as
energy. FFW, 130....we are not aware of being linked to everything
else..POS,114 ....being too rational is a handicap. POS,174 Our
great enemy is the fact that we never believe what is happening to
us. SRP,55... It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything
that did not form with our self-reflective expectations...as
average men, we were blind to the most crucial piece of knowledge
available to a human being: the existence of the AP and the fact
that it could move.POS,224. Mr. Abelar promised that he himself
would guide me to deliberately open the first gate after I had
successfully accomplished the abstract flight. he emphasized that
in order to open the gates, a complete change of attitude is
necessary because our preconceived notion that we are solid is
what keeps the double imprisoned, rather than any physical
structure of the body itself. TSC,160.
-
- ONE OF THE SELF'S STRONGEST LINES OF DEFENSE
IS INDEED OUR RATIONALITY
- One of the self's strongest lines of defense
is indeed our rationality.. TAOD,83
-
- WE ARE BARRED FROM SILENT KNOWLEDGE BY NATURAL
BARRIERS, SPECIFIC TO EACH INDIVIDUAL
- Don Juan remarked that each of us was barred
from silent knowledge by natural barriers, specific to each
individual; and that the most impregnable of CC barriers was the
drive to disguise my complacency as independence. POS, 62.. (Like
things he didn't want to do were disguised as things he chose not
to do.. but really he was too lazy to do them.)
-
- THE
TONAL USES SHIELDS TO PROTECT US
-
- SHIELDS ENGAGE ALL OF OUR AWARENESS AND THIS
KEEPS US FROM SEEING THE ROLLING FORCE
- We have consuming interests that engage all of
our awareness. We are permantely worried about our station, our
possessions. These shields, however do not keep the tumbler away,
they keep us from seeing it directly, protecting us in this way
from getting hurt from seeing the balls of fire hitting us.
FFW,241
-
- THE ROLLING FORCE IS LETHAL WHEN WE CAN SEE
IT, BUT OTHERWISE WE ARE OBLIVIOUS TO IT BECAUSE WE HAVE
PROTECTIVE SHIELDS
- ...It's lethal when seen, but otherwise we are
oblivious to it, in our ordinary lives, because we have protective
shields. FFW,241
-
- AVERAGE PEOPLE HAVE SPECIAL SHIELDS TO PROTECT
THEMSELVES.. PEOPLE ARE BUSY DOING WHAT PEOPLE DO
- An average man is equally surrounded by those
inexplicable forces is oblivious to them because he has other
kinds of special shields to protect himself.... People are busy
doing that which people do. Those are their shields.
SR,216,217.
-
- WHAT
ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF A SHIELD?
-
- TAKING AN INVENTORY MAKES US INVULNERABLE
WHICH IS WHY THE INVENTORY CAME INTO EXISTENCE IN THE FIRST
PLACE
- taking an inventory makes us invulnerable.
That is why the inventory came into existence in the first place.
FFW,94
-
- WRITING
- writing was the best protective shield that I
had. TOP,31.I was indulging in being broad minded and good...a
warrior never lets his guard down..be yourself...it is not a
matter whether you like it or not. What matters is, what can you
use as a shield?TOP,76.
-
- DOES
THE TONAL ALWAYS PROTECT US?
-
- AS A RULE THE TONAL MUST DEFEND ITSELF AT ANY
COST, EVERYTIME IT IS THREATENED
- ...as a rule the tonal must defend itself, at
any cost, every time it is threatened; so it is of no real
consequence how the tonal reacts in order to accomplish its
defence. TOP,173.
-
- WHAT
WOULD HAPPEN TO US IF OUR TONAL DID NOT PROTECT
US?
-
- THE NAGUAL COULD DESTROY THE TONAL WHEN IT
COMES OUT
- The nagual once it learns to surface, may
cause a great damage to the tonal by coming out without any
control. TOP,157.
-
- A THREAT TO THE TONAL ALWAYS RESULTS IN
DEATH
- The tonal must be protected at any cost. The
crown has to be taken away from it, but it must remain as the
protected overseer. Any threat to the tonal always results in its
death. And if the tonal dies, so does the whole man. TOP,157. (SEE
HUMAN SHIELDS)
-
- WHAT
ARE THE DRAWBACKS TO BEING PROTECTED BY THE TONAL?
-
- THE TONAL'S ORIGINAL FUNCTION IS TO PROTECT
OUR BEING (MAKING SENSE OUT OF THINNGS) BUT IT EVENTUALLY BECOMES
A GUARD BECAUSE IT LIMITS OUR PERCEPTION
- I would say then that the tonal is a guardian
that protects something priceless, our very being. Therefore, an
inherent quality of the tonal is to be cagey and jealous of its
doings. And since its doings are by far the most important part of
our lives, it is no wonder that it eventually changes, in every
one of us, from a guardian into a guard. TOP,120,121. A guardian
is broad-minded and understanding.. a guard is a vigilante,
narrow-minded and most of the time despotic. I say,then, that the
tonal in all of us has been made into a petty and despotic guard
when it should be a broad-minded guardian. TOP,121.
-
- so don juan's references to the guardian
was not the guardian itself but to the tonal in which it must be
overcome before we can enter into the other side
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-
- SHIELDS ARE A GREAT HELP AND A HINDERANCE,
THEY GIVE US A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY
- Shields are great help and a great hinderance
to us. They pacify us and at the same time fool us. They give us a
false sense of security. FFW,241
-
- WHY
DON'T PEOPLE BREAK THEIR SELF-REFLECTION?
-
- THE THINGS PEOPLE DO ARE SHIELDS AGAINST THE
FORCES THAT SURROUND US; WHAT WE DO AS PEOPLE GIVES US COMFORT AND
MAKES US FEEL SAFE
- Your problem is that you confuse the world
with what people do. Again you're not unique at that. Every one of
us does that. The things people do are shields against the forces
that surround us; what we do as people gives us comfort and makes
us feel safe; what people do is rightfully important, but only as
a shield. We never learn that the things we do as people are only
shields and we let them dominate, and topple our lives. In fact I
could say that for mankind, what people do is greater and more
important than the world itself. SR,219. Our flaw is to insist on
remaining on our monotonous, tiring, but convenient island. the
tonal is the villain and it shouldn't be. TOP,155.
-
- PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF FREEDOM OF PERCEPTION
BECAUSE IT DISRUPTS OUR COMFORTABLE SPOTS OF SELF-REFLECTION AND
IT REQUIRED A HUGE AMOUNT OF STRENGTH TO DO IT
- People might not appreciate that, and that's
because they don't want to be free. freedom is frightening.
FFW,290. Cutting our chains (ego) is marvelous but also very
undesirable for nobody wants to be free....the chains imprison us,
but by keeping us pinned down on our comfortable spots of
self-reflection, they defend us from the onslaughts of the
unknown. POS,101...the average man trembles at the possibility of
freedom. POS,224...the strangest part of this mystery (moving the
AP) is that it is so easy to accomplish.. but what is not easy is
to convince ourselves that it is possible. There, right there, is
our safety catch. We have to be convinced. And none of us wants to
be. FFW,237. it took enormity of strength to let go of the intent
of everyday life....EG,308.
-
- DOES
THE TONAL EVER NOTICE THE NAGUAL?
-
- SOMETIMES THE TONAL NOTICES THE NAGUAL AND THE
TOTALITY OF OURSELVES ARISES
- ..on certain occasions, however, or under
certain special circumstances, something in the tonal itself
becomes aware that there is more to us. It is like the voice that
comes from the depths, the voice of the nagual. You see the
totality of ourselves is a natural condition which the tonal
cannot obliterate altogether, and there are moments, especially in
the life of a warrior, when the totality becomes apparent. At
those moments one can surmise and assess what we really are.
TOP,131.
-
- THE TONAL IS ALWAYS USED BUT SOMETIMES THE
NAGUAL ACTS OUT AND TERRIFIES THE TONAL
- ..the tonal rules and yet it is very
vulnerable. the nagual..never, or almost never, acts out; but when
it does, it terrifies the tonal. TOP,157.
-
- IS
IT EASY TO EXPERIENCE THE NAGUAL ?
-
- FOR AVERAGE PEOPLE IT IS A ONE-SHOT AFFAIR
THAT IS THE RESULT OF A RANDOM MOVEMENT OF THE ASSEMBLAGE
POINT
- He called the mystical experience a chance
seeing, a one-shot affair that has no significance whatsoever
because it is the result of a random movement of the AP. FFW,282.
. Sometimes if we have enough personal power we can catch a
glimpse of the mould even though we are not sorcerers; when that
happens we say that we have seen God. SRP,139..
-
- PROBABLY EVERY PERSON HAS HAD A CHANCE TO MOVE
THEIR ASSEMBLAGE POINT
- possibly every human being under normal living
conditions had had at one time or another the opportunity to break
away from the bindings of convention...not social convention..but
the conventions binding our perception. A moment of elation would
suffice to move our AP and break our conventions. (see moving the
AP) So, too, a moment of fright, ill, health, anger, or grief.
POS,215,232,242.
-
- MYSTICS
- all the mystics and spiritual teacher's had
moved their assemblage points, either through discipline or
accident, to a certain point and then they returned to normalcy
carrying a memory that lasted them a lifetime. POS,215
-
- WHAT
DO WE DO WHEN THE TONAL EXPERIENCES THE NAGUAL?
-
- WHEN AN INVENTORY FAILS OR WE ENCOUNTER
PHENOMENOM THAT WE CANNOT EXPLAIN, THE PERSON EITHER ENLARGES HIS
INVENTORY OR HIS WHOLE WORLD OF SELF-REFLECTION COLLAPSES
(STOPPING THE WORLD)
- when an average person's inventory fails, the
person either enlarges his inventory or his whole world of
self-reflection collapses. POS,173. Interpretation system..(when
we encounter phenomenom that is beyond our sytem of interpretation
we have two options)...Sometimes as a fluke, an average person
ends up performing it (moving the assemblage point and fixating
it) and entering into another world. But this is immediately
explained away as insanity or hallucination. TAOD,190
-
- 1.
REVAMP OUR INTERPRETATION SYSTEM
-
- 1. REVAMP OUR INTERPRETATION SYSTEM; THIS
MEANS TO ENLARGE WHAT WE EXPERIENCE AS REALITY WHICH DOES NOT
ENDANGER OUR INTEGRETY OF REALITY.
- Revamp our interpretation system...to enlarge
its capabilities..reality becomes fluid and the scope of what can
be real is enhanced without endangering the integrity of reality.
TAOD.97
-
- CREATE
SOMETHING OUR MIND CAN HANDLE
-
- WE CAN TRANSFORM A FIELD OF ENERGY INTO
ANYTHING WE WANT, THE RANGE IS SO BROAD ESTABLISHING UNITS ARE
USELESS BUT WE USUALLY TRANSFORM IT INTO SOMETHING FAMILIAR LIKE
THE IMAGE OF A PHYSICAL BODY
- the second attention is unavoidaby drawn to
focus on our total being as a field of energy, and transforms that
energy as anything suitable. The easiest thing is of course the
image of the physical body, with which we are already thoroughly
familiar from our daily lives and the use of our first attention.
What channels the energy of our total being to produce anything
that might be within the boundaries were, except that at the level
of luminous beings the range is so broad that it is futile to try
and establish limits- thus, the energy of a luminous being can be
transformed through will into anything. EG,23. since I was a
Catholic (Taisha)... my own way of adapting my inventory would be
to turn the spirit into a sort of a guardian angel; a kind,
protective male that watches over me. TSC,85 ...Social part...
since we can't directly perceive energy, we process our perception
to fit a mold. This mold is the social part of perception. .. it
deliberately reduces the scope of what can be percieved and makes
us believe that the mold into which we fit our perception is all
that exists.... TAOD, 3.
-
- WE CONFORM THE WORLD/UNKNOWN THINGS TO OUR
THOUGHTS
- Your knowledge of the world told you that in
the bushes one can find only animals prowling or men hiding behind
the foliage. You held that thought, and naturally you had to find
ways to make the world conform to that thought. let's not call it
thinking then. It is rather the habit of having the world conform
to our thoughts. When it doesn't, we simply make it conform.
TOP,27.
-
- WHAT MADE THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT MOVE LATERALLY
IN MAN'S BAND WAS A HUGE DESIRE TO RENDER THE INCOMPREHENSIBLE
INTO WHAT IS MOST FAMILIAR TO US: THAT IS WHY WE SEE THE MOLD OF
MAN AS A MAN AND THE BARRIER OF PERCEPTION AS A WALL OF
FOG
- I asked him why it was that I always saw the
mold of man as a male. he said that it was because my AP did not
have the stability then to remain completely glued to its new
position and shifted laterally in man's band. It was the same case
as seeing the barrier of perception as a wall of fog. What made
the AP move laterally was a nearly unavoidable desire, or
necessity, to render the incomprehensible in terms of what is most
familiar to us: a barrier is a wall and the mold of man cannot be
anything else but a man. he thought that if I were a women I would
see the mold as a woman. FFW,287.
-
- THE AVERAGE MAN CALLS UNUSUAL PERCEPTIONS
WITCHCRAFT
- the average man, incapable of finding the
energy to perceive beyond his daily limits, called the realm of
extraordinary perception sorcery, witchcraft, or the work of the
devil, and shied away from it without examining it further.
POS,216...
-
- WE EXPLAIN SHIFTS AS FANTASIES IF IT IS
MINIMAL AND HALLUCINATIONS IF THE SHIFT IS
CONSIDERABLE
- If the shift is minimal, the results are
explained as fantasies of the mind. If the shift is considerable,
the results are called hallucinations. FFW,?? (missed one, anyone
know?)
-
- THE AVERAGE MAN BELIEVES THAT THE INEXPLICABLE
FORCES WILL EVENTUALLY BE EXPLAINED
- The world is indeed full of frightening things
and we are helpless creatures surrounded by forces that are
inexplicable and unbending. The average man, in ignorance, belives
that those forces can be explained or changed; he doesn't really
know how to do that, but he expects that the actions of mankind
will explain them or change them sooner or later.
SR,214.
-
- FOR AN AVERAGE MAN, WHEN THE AP SHIFTS, THEY
THINK THEY ARE LOSING THEIR MIND
- when a person's AP loses its rigidity (shifts)
then if they're not warriors, they think they're losing their
minds.. if they're warriors, they know they've gone crazy, but
they patiently wait. To be healthy and sane means that the AP is
immovable. When it shifts, it literally means that one is
deranged. FFW,138
-
- COINCIDENCE
-
- WE TAKE IT FOR GRANTED THAT ATTENTION CAN
BECKON AN EVENT AND WE TALK ABOUT IT IN TERMS OF
COINCIDENCE
- But that was also the function of attention in
general (the more it is exercised the better chance of getting the
desired results,) a function so taken for granted in our daily
life that it has become unnoticeable; if we encounter a fortuitous
occurrence, we talk about it in terms of accident or coincidence,
rather in terms of our attention having beckoned the event.
EG,139...
-
- REPAIRING
THE CONTINUITY
-
- IF CONTINUITY BREAKS IT'S ALWAYS INSTANTLY
REPAIRED
- ..continuity is so important in our lives that
if it breaks it's always instantly repaired. POS, 176
-
- WHENEVER THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT SHIFTS WE
COMPENSATE FOR IT SO WE ARE CONSTANTLY REBALANCING OURSELVES AND
GO AS IF NOTHING HAS HAPPENED TO US
- since the AP normally shifts during
dreams...whenever we undergo an induced shift we are all experts
at immedietely compensating for it. We rebalance ourselves
constantly and activity goes on as if nothing has happened to us.
FFW,285. the event was so farfetched for me that I could not even
begin to understand it in any logical way. As usual when things of
that nature confronted me, I would lump them into an amorphous
category of "perceptions under conditions of severe stress". I
argued that in cases of severe stress, perception could be greatly
distorted by the senses. My explanation did not explain anything
but seemed to keep my reason pacified. EG,140.
-
- WHEN OUR ASSEMBLAGE POINT DOES MOVE ACCIDENTLY
OUR SOCIAL BACKGROUNDS RETURN IT TO ITS HABITUAL SPOT
- But ordinarily, whenever we had a chance to
move our AP we become frightened. Our religious, academic,social
backgrounds would come into play. They would assure our safe
return to the flock; the return of our AP to the prescribed
position of normal living. POS,215,232,242.
-
- EVERYTHING WE DO IS REALLY A
DISGUISE
- everything we do is in some way merely a
disguise. Everything we do.. is a matter of doing. A man of
knowledge could hook himself to everyone's doing and come up with
weird things. But they are not weird, not really. They are weird
only to those who are trapped in doing... JTI,211
-
- WHEN HUMANS TRY TO FIGURE IT ALL OUT ALL YOU
ARE DOING IS TRYING TO MAKE THE WORLD MORE FAMILIAR
- So when you're trying to figure it out, all
you're doing is trying to make the world more familiar. You and I
are right here, in the world that you call real, simply because we
both know it. You don't the world of power, therefore you cannot
make it into a familiar scene. JTI,137
WHAT
HAPPENS WHEN WE REVAMP OUR INTERPRETATION SYSTEM?
- PROBLEMS THAT SOME SEERS CAUSE WITH THEIR
INTERPRETATIONS OF WHAT THEY EXPERIENCE/ THE MISINTERPRETATION OF
THE EAGLE
- More important than seeing itself is what
seers do with what they see... look at what some seers have done
to us. We are stuck with their vision of an Eagle that rules us
and devours us at the moment of our death...DJ thought it would be
accurate to say that there is a force that attracts our
consciousness much as a magnet attracts iron shavings.FFW,58.. our
flaws remain with us even after we become seers... so when you see
the that force (Eagle), you may very well agree with the lax seers
who called it the Eagle.. on the other hand, you may resist the
temptation to acsribe human attributes to what is
incomprehensible, and actually improvise a new name for it, a more
accurate one. FFW,59...
-
- WHY
DO PEOPLE THINK THE MOLD OF MAN IS GOD?
-
- WE THINK THE MOLD IS GOD BECAUSE WE ARE WHAT
IT STAMPS US WITH
- The mold is our God because we are what it
stamps us with and not because it has created us from nothing and
made us in its image and likeness...FFW,281
-
- WHY
ARE MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE SEEN THE MOLD OF MAN ARE WRONG ABOUT WHAT
HOW THEY INTERPRET IT?
-
- THEY BELIEVE IT IS AN OMNIPOTENT
CREATURE/PROTECTOR OF MAN
- Mystics and old seers have seen the mold of
man but could not understand what it is. Mystics, throughout the
centuries, have given us moving accounts of their experiences. But
these accounts, however beautiful, are flawed by the gross and
despairing mistake of believing the mold of man to be an
omnipotent, omniscient creature; and so is the interpretation of
the old seers, who called the mold of man a friendly spirit, a
protector of man. FFW,281
- Anyone who sees the mold of man automatically
assumes that it is God. FFW,282 He said that if we call it God it
is the truth. The mould is God. SRP,139..
-
- ALL PEOPLE'S BELIEF IN GOD IS BASED ON FAITH
AND IS A SECOND HAND CONVICTION
- ..he said my belief was based on faith and as
such, was a secondhand conviction that did not amount to anything;
my belief in the existence of God was, like everyone else's, based
on hearsay and not on the act of seeing. FFW,282.
-
- IT IS ARROGANT AND SELF CENTERED TO PRAY TO
THE MOLD OF MAN
- in DJ's opinion to fall on our knees in the
prescence of the mold of man reeks of arrogance and human self
centeredness. FFW,281.
-
- WE REGARD THAT THE IDEA OF OUR GOD
UNCHALLENGABLE
- one of the most sturdy aspects of our
inventory... like a powerful glue that bound the AP to its
original position. FFW,277
-
- E.)
THE TRICKERY OF LANGUAGE
-
- WHEN
THE NAGUAL IS EXPERIENCED, WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN AND
DESCRIBE?
-
- THE TONAL IS CONVINCED BY REASON/THE NAGUAL
WITH ACTIONS YOU CANNOT EXPLAIN THE NAGUAL WITH THE
TONAL
- Your tonal has to be convinced with reasons,
your nagual with actions, until one props the other.TOP,157.
Whenever you are in the world of the nagual, you should be
impeccable; no time for rational crap. SRP,198. The tonal and
nagual are two different worlds. in one you talk, in the other you
act. SRP,235. I've never put a ban on talking..we can talk about
the nagual to your heart's content, as long as you don't try to
explain it. ...I said that the nagual is only for witnessing..so
we can talk about what we witnessed and about how we witnessed it.
You want to take on the explanation of how all that is possible,
though and that is an abomination. You want to explain the nagual
with the tonal. TOP,186 You know very well that we make sense in
talking only because we stay within certain boundries, and those
boundaries are not applicable to the nagual. TOP,187.
-
- REASONING STOPS IN THE SECOND
ATTENTION
- my reasoning faculties ceased to function.
Literally, I felt as though a dark blanket had covered me and
obscured my thoughts. And I let go of my reason with the abandon
of one who doesn't have a worry in the world. I was convinced that
if I wanted to dispel the obscuring blanket, all I had to do was
feel myself breaking through it. In that state, I felt I was being
propelled, set in motion. Something was making me move physically
from one place to the other. I did not experience any fatigue. The
speed and ease with which I could move elated me. POS,216...
Reason craps out in an instant when it is out of its safe narrow
bounds. (?) (missed this one, anyone know?)
-
- WE HAVE NO WAY TO TALK ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE
BECAUSE WE HAVE NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE EXPERIENCE (THE WORDS ARE
NOT PART OF OUR INTERPRETATION SYSTEM)
- My difficulty in grasping his concepts and
methods stemmed from the fact that the units of his description
were alien and incompatible with those of my own. JTI,ix Sure I
can explain anything, he said, laughing, But could you understand
it? JTI,190. Don't take that leap in the sense that you understand
a leap...once again, this is only a way of speaking. As long as
you think that you are a solid body you cannot conceive what I am
talking about. TOP,95. Of course you cannot understand it.. you
are trying to think about it and what I said does not fit with
your thoughts. SR,82 What I perceived in those states of altered
consciousness was incomprehensible and impossible to interpret by
means of our everyday mode of understanding the world. In other
words, the condition of inapplicability entailed the cessation of
the pertinence of my world view. SR,9. Our difficulty in
understanding (DJ's teachings) it stems, no doubt, from the alien
units of meaning with which it deals. SR,10. I instantly realized
that I had entered again into a state in which I could think
coherently, but I could not talk. don Juan told me not to worry.
He said our speech faculty is extremely flimsy and attacks of
muteness are common among sorcerers who venture beyond the limits
of normal perception. ..he warned me that it was not possible to
rely on my rationality to understand my experience, not because my
rationality was in any way impaired but because what had taken
place was a phenomenon outside the parameters of reason.
TAOD,72,73 I became incapable of rendering intelligently what I
saw . My sensation was that I had reached states of perception for
which I had no lexicon. TAOD,198 emanations cannot be rendered at
all in a language of comparisons. FFW,62 The journey (entering the
unconscious fully aware) cannot be adequately described. EE. M,10.
he said that if he attempted to explain the perceptual bias of the
second attention in terms of the perceptual bias of the first
attention, he would only trap himself hopelessly in words. EG,265.
Freedom...cannot be an investment...an adventure with no end, in
which we risk our lives and much more for a few moments of
something beyond words, beyond thoughts or feelings. TAOD,81 One
could come into it by changing levels of awareness, therefore HA
was an entrance..but even the entrance could not be explained. One
could only make use of it. POS,97 Dreaming can only be
experienced. TAOD, ii,iii.
- To explain what we are and what we do is the
most trying thing in the world. I wish I could make it clearer,
but I can't. So, it's pointless to keep insisting on explanations
when there are none. TSC,175 .....beware of the frustrating desire
to explain the sorcery experience in cogent, well-reasoned terms.
the sorcerers experience is so outlandish.. that sorcerers
consider it an intellectual experience, and use it to stalk
themselves with. Their trump card as stalkers, though, is that
they remain keenly aware that we are perceivers, and that
perception has more possibilities than the mind can conceive of..
in order to protect themselves from that immensity..sorcerers
learn to maintain a perfect blend of ruthlessness, cunning,
patience and sweetness. POS, 246,247 For the nagual there is no
land, or air, or water..so the nagual glides, or flies. or does
whatever it may do, in naguals time and that has nothing to do
with tonal's time. The two things don't jibe. TOP,189. The view of
the nagual must prevail if one is going to use the nagual the way
sorcerers do. TOP,262 there is nothing of that sort in the nagual.
(order in our perception) . TOP,263
- I can't describe it..not because it is a
personal matter, but because there is no way to describe it.
TOP,174.... not because I don't want to, but simply because I
can't. My tonal stops there....TOP,175. the reason why I never
wanted to discuss your encounters with power plants, or let you
talk obsessively about them; there was no point in elaborating
about the unspeakable. Those were true excursions into the nagual,
the unknown. TOP,238.
- Whenever the nagual prevails, even if it is
only for an instant, there is no way of describing the feeling
that the body experiences. TOP,228. In the case of
seeing..thinking is not the issue at all, so I cannot tell you
what it is like to see. SR,86. Seeing is very difficult and is not
a matter of talk. SR,105. There is really no way to talk about
it.(seeing) SR,170. ...For awhile you were all nagual and could
not talk. TOP,154....The affairs of the nagual can be witnesses
only with the body, and not the reason. TOP,155
-
- WORDS ONLY CONFUSE,TRICK,FAIL US WHEN
DESCRIBING THE NAGUAL
- ..in the sorcerer's world there are only
contradictions of terms.. in practice there are no contradictions.
POS,166...the problem with words was that any attempt to clarify
the sorcerers description only made them more confusing. POS,225
We always get tricked by words... TAOD, ii,iii That's the flaw
with words. They always force us to feel enlightened, but when we
turn around to face the world they always fail us and we end up
facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment. TOP,29
(See sorcerers way: action) Definitions change as knowledge
increases.. POS,7 The danger of definitions is that they simplify
matters to make them understandable; in this case, in defining
attention, one runs the risk of transforming a magical, miraculous
accomplishment into something commonplace. FFW,82
-
- WE USE MANY WORDS TO EXPLAIN ONE KIND OF
EXPERIENCE
- ...nagualism, knowledge, witchcraft,
mastery of intent, the search for total
freedom..POS,7
-
- EVERY EXPERIENCE CAN BE DIFFERENT FOR EVERY
PERSON
- It is impossible to explain that
knowing..because it is different for every man. SR,68.
-
- KNOWLEDGE
AND LANGUAGE CAN EXIST INDEPENDENT OF EACH OTHER
-
- KNOWLEDGE AND LANGUAGE CAN EXIST INDEPENDENT
OF EACH OTHER
- Knowledge and language can exist independent
of each other, they are seperate..... there is no way to talk
about the spirit because the spirit can only be experienced....
POS, 52 ....we begin tosee ..and then we begin to know without
having to use words.. POS,9 ...and. above all, I understood that
that knowledge could not be turned into words. That knowledge was
there for everyone. It (silent knowledge) was there to be felt, to
be used, but not to be explained. POS,97
-
- WE HAVE DIFFICULTY ACCEPTING THE NAGUAL
BECAUSE WE THINK THAT WE COULD NEVER KNOW THINGS WITHOUT WORDS OR
THOUGHTS
- that is to know that ... knowledge and
language can exist independent of each other...the crux of our
difficulty to going back to the abstract was our refusal to accept
that we could know without words or even without thoughts.
POS,52
-
- USING FEELINGS AS THOUGHTS
- My reactions to his comments were not thoughts
proper but rather complete units of feeling, which had all the
innuendos of meaning that I usually associate with thinking.
TOP,209.
-
- WHY
DO PEOPLE USE METAPHORS TO EXPLAIN THE NAGUAL?
-
- SOMETIMES A SORCERER HAS TO CHANGE A
DESCRIPTION INTO SOMETHING KNOWN TO HELP NOVICES UNDERSTAND AN
UNKNOWN CONCEPT/USING SYMBOLIC TERMS
- .... he was of course tailoring his
description to fit my mentality..... TAOD, ii,iii. Those are ways
of talking about mysteries for which there are no words. TOP,85.
Everything one sees is so unique that there is no way to talk
about it except by comparing it to something known to us.....
TAOD,7
- ...we are so visual, so ruled by our
predator's perception, that everything we must see must be
rendered in terms of what the predator's eyes normally sees. TAOD,
7
- Don Juan explained that the events unleashed
by sorcerers as a result of silent knowledge were so simple and
yet so abstract that sorcerers had decided long ago to speak of
those events only in symbolic terms. POS, 61
- I said that we talked, but that wasn't so. To
say that we had a conversation is only a way of arranging it so I
can talk about it. The deer and I did something, but at the time
it was taking place I needed to make the world conform to my
ideas... I had been talking all my life.. therefore my habits
prevailed and were extended to the deer. When the deer came to me
and did whatever it did, I was forced to understand it as talking.
The world..had to conform to its description; that is, the
description reflected itself. ..another point..was that we had
learned to relate our selfs to our description of the world in
terms of what he called habits. the way to overcome them is to
persist in acting like a warrior. the rest comes of itself and by
itself. TOP,28.
-
- WHY
WILL WE PROBABLY NEVER BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN THE
NAGUAL?
-
- FOR ANY ATTEMPT AT EXPLAINING THE MOVEMENT OF
THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT, THE PERSON WOULD HAVE TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO
GO FROM THE PLACE OF REASON AND THE PLACE OF SILENT KNOWLEDGE AT
WILL.
- for a movement of my AP to make sense, I would
need to have energy to fluctuate from the place of reason to the
place of silent knowledge.. POS,220..in other words, the
experiences from moving the AP can be described, to at least
yourself, only when the position of the AP has become part of your
new continuity. This occurs only when the person has enough energy
to move the AP to that position at will. Before that the
experience is only thought of as a hallucination or a something
that doesn't fit in with your rationality so it can't be thought
of as something that makes sense.
- Paradoxically, I found what he was saying
incomprehensible, yet also familiar and believable. ... that was
so because he was directly addressing a part of me that was not
quite rational and had the ability to grasp things directly,
especially if a sorcerer spoke to it directly... something in the
intensity of his eyes forced me to listen and follow his
explanations. TSC,138.
-
- WHICH
PEOPLE ARE THE CLOSEST PEOPLE FOR EXPLAINING THE
NAGUAL?
-
- POETS AND POEMS ARE THE CLOSEST PEOPLE WHO CAN
EXPLAIN THE NAGUAL
- Don Juan said that poets were keenly aware of
our connecting link with the spirit, but that they were aware of
it intuitively, not in the deliberate, pragmatic way of sorcerers.
Poets have no first hand knowledge of the spirit..that is why
their poems cannot really hit the center of true gestures of the
spirit. they hit pretty close to it ,though.... poets can explain
what can hardly be explained. POS, 63,121
-
- 2.
OUR INTERPRETATION SYSTEM COLLAPSES (STOPPING THE WORLD) AND WE
PERCEIVE THINGS WITHOUT INTERPRETATION.
-
- 2. DISREGARD OUR INTERPRETATION SYSTEM
(STOPPING THE WORLD) TO PERCEIVE THINGS WITHOUT INTERPRETATION:
OUR REALITY AS WE KNOW IT IS SHATTERED
- Disregard our interpretation system..the scope
of what can be perceived without interpretation grows
inordinately. the expansion of our perception is so gigantic that
we are left with very few tools for sensory interpretation and
thus, a sense of an infinite realness that is unreal or an
infinite unrealness that could very well be real but is not.
TAOD,97
-
- IF THE NEW ITEMS OF THE INVENTORY CONTRADICT
THE INVENTORY'S UNDERLINING ORDER, THE PERSON MIND COLLAPSES
(STOPPING THE WORLD)
- The average person is willing to incorporate
new items into his inventory if they don't contradict the
inventory's underlying order. But if the items contradict that
order, the person's mind collapses.POS,173. Sorcerers count on
this when they attempt to break the mirror of self-reflection.
POS,173.
-
- IT IMPOSSIBLE TO RESTORE A SHATTERED
CONTINUITY
- ...it is impossible to restore a shattered
continuity.... it is impossible of using the continuity dictated
by the new position of their AP...the new continuity does not
offer the assuredness they need to function as if they were in the
world of everyday life. The sorcerers don't resolve this problem
with continuity, the spirit resolves it...that is why
impeccability is all that counts.... and that seems to beckon a
solution... POS,231.
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