- B.) SORCERER'S
WAY
-
2.
TEACHING THE SORCERER'S WAY
-
- HOW
IS SORCERY TAUGHT?
-
- SORCERY
IS TAUGHT ON TWO DIFFERENT LEVELS
-
- 1. ONE WAS THE INSTRUCTION FOR THE
EVERYDAY-LIFE STATE OF AWARENESS, IN WHICH THE CLEANING PROCESS
WAS PRESENTED IN A DISGUISED FASHION.
- Don Juan stressed that this cleaning procedure
(connecting link with intent) was extremely difficult to
understand, or to learn to perform. Sorcerers, therefore, divided
their instruction into two categories.
- One was the instruction for the everyday-life
state of awareness, in which the cleaning process was presented in
a disguised fashion. POS,10
-
- 2. THE OTHER WAS INSTRUCTION FOR THE STATES OF
HEIGHTENED AWARENESS.. IN WHICH SORCERERS OBTAINED KNOWLEDGE
DIRECTLY FROM INTENT, WITHOUT THE DISTRACTING INTERVENTION OF
SPOKEN LANGUAGE.
- The other was instruction for the states of
heightened awareness.. in which sorcerers obtained knowledge
directly from intent, without the distracting intervention of
spoken language. POS,10
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- THE
21 ABSTRACT CORES IN SORCERY ARE TAUGHT USING STORIES AND IN
DIFFERENT SHADES OF REALIZATIONS
- There are twenty-one abstract cores in
sorcery..and then, based on those abstract cores, there are scores
of sorcery stories about the naugals of our lineage battling to
understand the spirit. POS,20 the abstract cores taught in sorcery
are shades of realization, degrees of our being aware of intent.
POS,106
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- SORCERY
IS TAUGHT USING CONCRETENESS
-
- WHAT IS
CONCRETENESS?
-
- CONCRETENESS ARE THE PRACTICES AND TECHNIQUES
OF SORCERY
- Concreteness...the practical part of
sorcery...The obsessive fixation of the mind on practices and
techniques, the unwarrented influence over people. TAOD
2.......
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- DO
THESE CONCRETE PRACTICES OF SORCERY HAVE ANY REAL
VALUE?
-
- SORCERY PRACTICES HAVE NO INTRINSIC VALUE AND
ARE ONLY USED FOR FIXING ATTENTION TO MAKE THE AP
SHIFT
- The old sorcerer's intricate devices, as
bizarre as they were, had no other value than being the means to
break the fixation of their AP and make them move. FFW,137 Sorcery
practices have no intrinsic value. FFW,137. Their worth is
indirect, for their real function is to make the AP shift by
making the first attention release its control on that point.
FFW,137 Yet rituals and incantations are indeed necessary at one
time in every warrior's life. 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. The real challenge for
sorcerers was to find a system of behavior that was neither petty
nor caprious, but that combined the morality and the sense of
beauty which differentiates sorcerer seers from plain witches.
POS,94
-
- PSEUDO TASKS TO DRAW AWAY ATTENTION FROM THE
REAL TASKS
- also using seeing as a pseudo task to take
away attention from real task: erasing personal history and
dreaming (remember he says that seeing will happen as a result of
accomplishing these things and seeing cannot be accomplished as a
task only)..he also had outlined the direct encounter with the
nagual without mentioning it.. (this is probably why he used
metaphors and things familiar with CC to describe the nagual)...
TOP,232..
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- THE
WARRIORS PATH
- It seems that to start on the path one must
first become an apprentice, then a warrior, then a man of
knowledge and then they learn to see... or to put it as DJ
di..first you must dust off the link, then clean it, then command
it.... and there really are no steps per se only interpreting
omens which determines what your next step is.
-
- ARE
PEOPLE EVER BORN AS A WARRIOR?
-
- NOBODY IS BORN A WARRIOR, YOU MUST MAKE
YOURSELF A WARRIOR AND IT IS AN ENDLESS STRUGGLE THAT WILL GO ON
TO THE VERY LAST MOMENT OF OUR LIVES
- A warrior is always ready. To be a warrior is
not a simple matter of wishing to be one. it is rather an endless
struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives.
nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is
born a reasonable being. We make ourselves into one or the other.
TOP,62.
-
- DO
WE NEED HELP ON THE WARRIOR'S PATH?
-
- ANOTHER SORCERER IS NEEDED TO GUIDE A NOVICE
IN THE NAGUAL
- We cannot be on our own while being in the
left side awareness and have to be cushioned by warriors who have
gained totality of themselves and know how to handle themselves in
that state. EG,299.
-
- THE SORCERER'S JOB IS ONLY TO TELL THE WARRIOR
WHAT TO DO ONLY, IT'S UP TO THE WARRIOR TO SEE IF HE/SHE HAS
ENOUGH POWER TO ACT.
- When the sorcerer is dealing with the nagual,
he must give the instruction, which is to show the mystery to the
warrior. And that's all he has to do. the warrior who receives the
mysteries must claim knowledge as power, by doing what he has been
shown. SRP,235
-
- WHEN ONE MEETS THE NAGUAL FACE TO FACE ONE
ALWAYS HAS TO BE ALONE
- when one meets the nagual face to face, one
always has to be alone. TOP,175.
-
- WHY
DO WE HAVE TO FACE THE NAGUAL ALONE?
-
- SORCERERS MUST VALIDATE EVERYTHING TAUGHT TO
THEM: THE REASON WHY CC AND TA NEVER MET
- (the reason why CC and TA never met) we had no
desire to use our energy to review any previous agreements. All of
our available time and energy were employed in validating for
ourselves what DJ had painstakingly taught us. TSC,vii
-
- WHAT
ARE THE STEPS ON THE WARRIOR'S PATH?
-
- THERE ARE NO STEPS TO ANYTHING A WARRIOR DOES
ONLY PERSONAL POWER AND PERSONAL POWER DEPENDS ON
IMPECCABILITY
- There are no steps to anything a warrior does
only personal power. EG,128... everything in a warrior's world
depends on personal power and personal power depends on
impeccability. SRP,153. ... there are no procedures, methods or
steps in sorcery.. POS,169.
-
- FIRST:
BECOMING AN APPRENTICE.
-
- HOW
DOES SOMEONE BECOME AN APPRENTICE?
-
- BECOMING AN APPRENTICE WAS NOT A PERSONAL
CHOICE, BUT A DESIGN OF POWER
- neither is it a matter of personal choice who
is selected to learn the sorcerer's knowledge that leads to that
awareness. The decision of picking you was a design of power; no
one can discern the designs of power. TOP,58.
-
- THE SPIRIT SOMETIMES HAS TO TRICK A PERSON
INTO BECOMING AN APPRENTICE
- ..only a crackpot would undertake the task of
becoming a man of knowledge of his own accord. A sober headed man
has to be tricked into it. SR,28 ...because of man's unwillingness
to understand, the spirit was forced to use trickery. And trickery
became the essence of the sorcerer's path. POS, 23 Sorcerer's are
convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops..we can never
relinquish control voluntarily (of our tonal) thus we have to be
tricked...you were convinced that that trickery was directed at
fooling your reason...for me, tricking meant to distract your
attention, or to trap it as the case required. TOP,
232
-
- USING THE NAGUAL'S MARK/TRACKING A POTENTIAL
APPRENTICE
- Nobody is born with the nagual's mark.. the
nagual's energy is lodged behind your left shoulder blade.. I had
been aware that one of my left shoulder blades protruded more than
the other, causing my neck and shoulders to be tense. TSC,167. His
words and mood unleashed a wealth of feelings. For as long as I
can remember, I had been always searching, looking out of windows,
peering down streets as if something or someone was around the
corner waiting for me. I've always had premonitions, dreams of
escaping, although i didn't know from what. It was this feeling
that had compelled me to follow Clara to an unknown destination.
TSC,168.
-
- WHAT
IS A NAGUAL'S MARK?
-
- AN ENERGY LINE TO SOMEONE'S ETHEREAL BODY FROM
A NAGUAL
- I tied an energy line to your ethereal body
the night I burst in on you... since the double is composed of
pure energy it isn't that difficult to mark it.
TSC,166.
-
- WHEN
DO APPRENTICES USUALLY DROP OUT?
-
- WHEN THEIR CONTINUITY HAS BEEN
SHATTERED
- after the apprentice's internal dialogue has
been stopped by the effect of power plants, an unavoidable impasse
develops. The apprentice begins to have second thoughts about his
whole apprenticeship..power plants shake the tonal and threaten
the solidity of the whole island..it is at this time that the
apprentice retreats and wisely so; he wants to get out of the
whole mess. TOP,238,239.
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- DO
APPRENTICES EVER GO BACK TO THE WARRIOR'S WAY?
-
- IT TAKES YEARS FOR AN APPRENTICE TO GO BACK TO
THE ABSTRACT
- ...it takes years for an apprentice to go back
to the abstract, POS,52..
-
- HOW
DOES AN APPRENTICE KNOW THEY ARE FINISHED WITH THEIR
APPRENTICESHIP?
-
- A NEW CONTINUITY HAD DEVELOPED IN A CONVINCING
AND AUTHENTIC MANNER
- The termination of the apprenticeship meant
that I had learned a new description of the world in a convincing
and authentic manner and thus I had become capable of eliciting a
new perception of the world, which matched its new description. In
other words, I had gained membership. JTI.xiii
-
- HOW
LONG DOES IT TAKE FOR AN APPRENTICE TO FINISH THEIR
APPRENTICESHIP?
-
- MOMENTS TO AS LONG AS YEARS
- ..Ordinarily, from the moment the spirit
knocks, it is years before an apprentice reaches that
threshold...sometimes it is reached almost immediately.
POS,100...
-
- SECOND:
BECOMING A WARRIOR
-
- WHY
DOES ONE BECOME A WARRIOR?
-
- WHEN A PERSON KNOWS WHAT THE WORLD IS REALLY
LIKE AND THE ORDINARY WORLD NO LONGER BUFFERS HIM THEN HE MUST
ADOPT A NEW LIFE TO SURVIVE, HE MUST BECOME A WARRIOR
- My benefactor said that when a man embarks on
the paths of sorcery he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that
ordinary life has been forever left behind; that knowledge is
indeed a frightening affair; that the means of the ordinary world
are no longer a buffer for him; and that he must adopt a new way
of life if he is going to survive. SR,149. The first thing he
ought to do at that point is to want to become a warrior, a very
important step and decision. The frightening nature of knowledge
leaves one no alternative but to become a warrior.
SR,150.
-
- HOW
ARE WARRIOR'S ORGANIZED?
-
- SORCERER'S ARE DIVIDED INTO DREAMERS AND
STALKERS DEPENDING ON THEIR BASIC TEMPERMENTS
- In DJ's world, sorcerers depending on their
basic temperments, were divided into two complementary factions:
dreamers and stalkers. (dreaming and stalking cannot exist without
the other.) TAOD,77 Entering into the second attention as stalkers
do. (poor description of how) EG,293 Stalkers are inherently
different than dreamers in the way they use the world around
them.. EG,294
-
- WHAT IS A
DREAMER?
-
- DREAMERS ENTER INTO STATES OF HEIGHTENED
AWARENESS BY CONTROLLING THEIR DREAMS
- Dreamers are those sorcerers who have the
inherent facility to enter into states of heightened awareness by
controlling their dreams. This facility is developed through
training into an art: the art of dreaming. TSC,viii
-
- WHAT IS A
STALKER?
-
- STALKERS ENTER STATES OF HEIGHTENED AWARENESS
BY CONTROLLING THEIR OWN BEHAVIOR
- Stalkers, on the other hand, are those
sorcerers who have the innate facility to deal with facts and are
capable of entering states of heightened awareness by manipulating
and controlling their own behavior. Through sorcery training, this
natural capacity is turned into the art of stalking.
TSC,vii
-
- HOW
DOES ONE BECOME A WARRIOR?
-
- A WARRIOR GOES THROUGH FOUR STAGES
- in terms of the warrior's connection with
intent, a warrior goes through four stages. POS,10
-
- THE FIRST IS WHEN HE HAS A RUSTY,UNTRUSTWORTHY
LINK WITH INTENT.
- The first is when he has a rusty,untrustworthy
link with intent.POS,10
-
- THE SECOND IS WHEN HE SUCCEEDS IN CLEANING IT.
- The second is when he succeeds in cleaning it.
POS,10 Sorcerer's.. were concerned with discussing, understanding
and employing the connecting link of intent. They were especially
concerned with cleaning it of the numbing effects bought about by
the ordinary concerns of their everyday lives. Sorcery at this
level could be defined as the procedure of cleaning one's
connecting link to intent. POS,10
-
- THE THIRD IS WHEN HE LEARNS TO MANIPULATE IT.
- The third is when he learns to manipulate it.
POS,10 Before anything could be attempted on the warrior's path,
warriors must learn to stalk, next they must learn to intend and
only then could they move their assemblage point at will.
POS,92.
-
- THE FOURTH IS WHEN HE LEARNS TO ACCEPT THE
DESIGNS OF THE ABSTRACT.
- And the fourth is when he learns to accept the
designs of the abstract. POS,230....
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- DURING
THESE FOUR STAGES THE WARRIOR WILL LOSE THEIR HUMAN
FORM
-
- SORCERERS GO THROUGH TWO CYCLE: THE FIRST IS
WHEN THEY HAVE A HUMAN FORM AND THE SECOND IS WHEN THEY LOSE THE
HUMAN FORM
- Sorcerers like the Nagual and Genaro have two
cycles.. the first is when they're human...each of us had been
given a task and that task is making us leave the human form...
The second cycle is when a sorcerer is not human anymore. SRP,231.
There are two basic rounds...first is called formality and
rigidity and the second fluidity. TAOD,150 From now on, you have
to lead a life in which awareness has priority... you must avoid
anything that is weakening and harmful to your body or your mind.
Also, it is essential, for the time being, to break all physical
and emotional ties with the world.... because before anything you
have to acquire unity. TSC,42. (Last part means to me that before
we can be successful in what we do we must first have control of
the totality of ourselves.. this is why only a self actualized
Buddhist can survive in New York.)
-
- WHAT
WILL A PERSON BECOME AFTER FINISHING THESE FOUR
STAGES?
-
- 5
ATTRIBUTES OF WARRIORSHIP
-
- THERE ARE 5 ATTRIBUTES OF
WARRIORSHIP
- ...the most effective strategy for this
consists of six elements that interplay with one another. Five of
them are called the attributes of warriorship:
-
- 1. CONTROL: TO TUNE THE SPIRIT WHILE SOMEONE
IS TRAMPLING ON YOU IS CALLED CONTROL
- control, (my control made me fulfill the petty
tyrants most asine demands. What usually exhausts us in a
situation like that is the wear and tear on our self-importance.
Any man who has an iota of pride is ripped apart by being made to
feel worthless.. to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on
you is called control. FFW,42)
-
- 2. DISCIPLINE: TO GATHER UP INFORMATION WHILE
SOMEONE IS TRAMPLING ON YOU
- discipline, (to gather up all this information
while they are beating you up is called discipline.. FFW,42)
-
- 3. FOREBEARANCE: TO WAIT PATIENTLY, NO RUSH, A
SIMPLE HOLDING BACK OF WHAT IS DUE
- forebearance, (to wait patiently-no rush, no
anxiety- a simple,joyful holding back of what is due..FFW,43..
holding back with the spirit something that the warrior knows is
rightfully due...It doesn't mean that a warrior goes around
plotting to do anybody mischief, or planning to settle past
scores. it is something independent.. As long as the warrior has
control, discipline and timing, forebearance assures giving
whatever is due to whoever deserves it..FFW,45 )
-
- 4. TIMING: THE QUALITY THAT GOVERNS THE
RELEASE OF ALL THAT IS HELD BACK
- timing (the quality that governs the release
of all that is held back FFW,44) (these four attributes belong to
the known are all that is needed to deal with petty tyrants
FFW,34)
-
- 5. WILL: PERTAINS TO THE FIGHT AGAINST
SELF-IMPORTANCE
- will. (will belongs to the unknown FFW,34)
They pertain to the world of the warrior who is fighting to lose
self-importance.
-
- THE PETTY TYRANT IN WHICH THE FIVE ATTRIBUTES
ARE ENGAGED ON.
- The sixth element, which is perhaps the most
important of all, pertains to the outside world and is called the
petty tyrant. FFW,31.
-
- GENERAL
DESCRIPTION OF A WARRIOR
- A warrior is not a fool. A warrior is an
immaculate hunter who hunts power; he's not drunk, or crazed, and
he has neither the time nor the disposition to bluff, or to lie to
himself, or to make a wrong move. The stakes are much too high for
that. The stakes are his trimmed orderly life which he has taken
so long to tighten and perfect. He is not going to throw that away
by making some stupid miscalculation, by taking something for
being something else JTI,91,92....A warrior was on permanent guard
against the roughness of human behavior. A warrior was magical and
ruthless, a maverick with the most refined taste and manners,
whose wordly task was to sharpen, yet disguise, his cutting edges
so that no one would be able to suspect his ruthlessness.
POS,117..To be an impeccable warrior..will give you vigour and
youth and power. SRP,213. Only as a warrior can one survive the
path of knowledge.. because the art of a warrior is to balance the
terror of being a man with the wonder of being a man. JTI,267. any
warrior could become a man of knowledge...a warrior is an
impeccable hunter that hunts power. JTI,107
- I hunt in order to live. I can live off the
land anywhere....to be a hunter means that one knows a great
deal...it means that one can see the world in different ways.
JTI,53....you don't have to care to hunt or like it...I think the
best hunters never like hunting, they do it well, that's all.
JTI,54....Hunters must be exceptionally tight individuals..a
hunter leaves very little to chance. JTI,55.....a warrior..is a
hunter..he calculates everything. That's control. But once his
calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A
warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push
him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his
better judgement. A warrior is tuned to survive and he survives in
the best of all possible fashions. a warrior could be injured, but
not offended..for a warrior there is nothing offensive about the
acts of his fellow man as long as he himself is acting within the
proper mood. CC.JTI,120. The only advantage sorcerers may have
over average men is that they have stored their energy which means
a more precise, clearer connecting link with intent. POS,133,228
Second: they become warriors (capable of utmost discipline and
control over themselves.)(this is an inner state..a warrior is
self-oriented, not in a selfish way, but in the sense of a total
and continous examination of the self.). SR,149
-
- WHO
MAKES BETTER WARRIORS? MEN OR WOMEN?
-
- MEN
-
- A MALE SORCERER IS VERY DIFFICULT TO TRAIN
BECAUSE HIS ATTENTION IS ALWAYS CLOSED, FOCUSED ON
SOMETHING.
- A male apprentice.. is extremely difficult.
SRP,42 a male sorcerer is very difficult to train because his
attention is always closed, focused on something.
SRP,216
-
- WOMEN
-
- EASIER TO TRAIN THAN MEN BECAUSE WOMEN HAVE
THE CRACK BETWEEN THE WORLDS IN FRONT OF THEM (BECAUSE THEY
MENSTRUATE) AND MEN HAVE TO MAKE THEIR OWN CRACK
- A woman... is much more supple than a man. A
woman changes very easily with the power of a sorcerer. He
believed that woman are unequalled, tops. SRP,42..The reason the
Naugal believes woman are better sorcerers than men is because
they always have the crack in front of them, while a man has to
make it. SRP,145 women are definitely more bizarre than men. The
fact that they have an extra opening between their legs makes them
fall prey to strange influences. Strange powerful forces possess
them through that opening. FFW,174 Women can be warriors..and they
are even better equipped for the path of knowledge than men. But
the men are a bit more resilient. I would say however, that, all
in all, women have a slight advantage. TOP,142. (DJ uses the
masculine gender to describe a warrior only because CC is a man.)
that's all. the rest is the same. TOP,142. Men have sobriety and
purpose, but very little talent; that is the reason why a nagual
must have eight women seers in his party. Women give the impulse
to cross the immeasurable vastness of the unknown. Together with
that natural capacity, or as a consequence of it, women have a
most fierce intensity. FFW,156
-
- WOMEN HAVE A HARD TIME AT THE BEGINNING TO
LEARN HOW TO SHUT OFF THEIR INTERNAL DIALOGUE
- I never toil, not ever. Women are like that.
The most difficult part for a woman is to learn how to begin; it
took me a couple of years to stop my internal dialogue by
concentrating my attention on my womb. Perhaps that's why a woman
always need someone else to prod her. EG,136.... Example of how DJ
got El Gorda to concentrate on her womb. EG,137. All of use were
brought up to live in a sort of limbo where nothing counts except
petty immediate gratifications... an women are the masters of that
state. Not until we recapitulate can we overcome our upbringing.
TSC,50.
-
- WOMEN HAVE AN INHERENT BALANCE MORE THAN
MEN
- The reason the Eagle demanded twice as many
female warriors as males was precisely because females have an
inherent balance which is lacking in males. At the crucial moment,
it is the men who get hysterical and commit suicide if they judge
that everything is lost. A woman may kill herself due to lack of
direction and purpose, but not because of the failure of a system
to which she belongs. EG,222.
-
- MEN NEED SERIOUS REASONS TO GO INTO THE
UNKNOWN SAFELY, WOMEN DON'T
- Male warriors must be given serious reasons
before they safely venture into the unknown. Female warriors are
not subject to this and can go without any hesitiation, providing
that they have total confidence in whoever is leading them.
EG,247.
-
- WOMEN ARE MORE PROFICIENT AT DREAMING AND
STALKING
- for women it took different configurations of
the luminous body to master one or the other.(dreaming and
stalking) Men.. could do both with a degree of ease, yet they
could never get to the proficiency that the woman attained in each
art. EG,288.
-
- FEMALES CAN GO TO THE LEFT SIDE EASILY
- Female warriors in particular fall prey to the
lure of the left side.. they are so nimble that they can go into
the left side with no effort, often too soon for their own good.
FFW,65
-
- IS
IT DIFFICULT IN BECOMING A WARRIOR?
-
- IT WAS A TASK THAT TOOK ALL WE HAD
- To free ourselves and dircetly perceive energy
was a task that took all we had. TSC,viii The road to knowledge
and power is very difficult and very long. JTI,177.
-
- FREEDOM IS EXPENSIVE BUT THE PRICE IS NOT
IMPOSSIBLE
- I brought you freedom. freedom is expensive,
but the price is not impossible. TOP,26. And freedom has the most
devestating implications. Among them is the implacation that
warriors must purposely seek change. FFW,132
-
- FREEDOM IS LIKE A CONTAGIOUS DISEASE, THE
CARRIER IS THE NAGUAL
- ...freedom is like a contagious disease.. it
is transmitted; its carrier is an impeccable naugal.
FFW,290.
-
- WE HAVE TO SEIZE OUR CHANCE FOR
FREEDOM
- We all have a chance for freedom.. but it's up
to each one of us to seize it and turn it into an actuality.
TSC,111
-
- LENGTH
OF TIME TO BECOME A WARRIOR
-
- IT TAKES YEARS TO BECOME AN IMPECCABLE
WARRIOR
- It takes years to become an impeccable
warrior. FFW,232.
-
- THE ABSTRACT CORES REVEAL THEMSELVES EXTREMELY
SLOWLY, ERRATICALLY ADVANCING AND RETREATING.
- ....these cores reveal themselves extremely
slowly, erratically advancing and retreating. POS,251.
-
- THIRD:
BECOMING MEN OF KNOWLDEGE
-
- WHEN
DOES A MAN BECOME A MAN OF KNOWLEDGE?
-
- WHEN A WARRIOR HAS SO MUCH PERSONAL POWER HE
BECOMES A MAN OF KNOWLEDGE
- personal power grows and you may have the case
of a warrior who has so much personal power that he becomes a man
of knowledge... JTI,122
-
- THEY ACQUIRE FOREBEARANCE AND
TIMING
- Third: they aquire forebearance and timing
(are not quite an inner state.) and become men of knowledge..
FFW,39
-
- WHAT
IS A MAN OF KNOWLEDGE?
-
- GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF A MAN OF
KNOWLEDGE
-
- to become a man of knowledge was a matter of
learning, having unbending intent, have clarity of mind, it was a
matter of strenous labor, being a warrior, an unceasing process,
and to have an ally. TDJ,190. Learning was a process of unending
quest, and the power that made the original decision, or a similar
power, was expected to make similar decisions on the issue of
whether an escogido (the one who was chosen) could continue
learning or whether he had been defeated. Those decisions were
mainfested through omens that occurred at any point of the
teachings. TDJ,192,193 Men of knowledg have both knowledge and
power. And yet, none of them could tell how they got to have them,
except that they had kept acting like warriors and at a given
moment everything changed. TOP,29. a man of knowledge is one who
has followed truthfully the hardships of learning..a man who has,
without rushing or faltering, gone as far as he can in unraveling
the secrets of personal power. JTI,158
- In order to become a man of knowledge one had
to meet with the ally as many times as possible; one had to become
familiar with it. SR,6,7. A man of knowledge is one who has
followed truthfully the hardships of learning.. a man who has,
without rushing or without faltering, gone as far as he can in
unraveling the secrets of power and knowledge. Not anyone (can be
a man of knowledge) (then what must a man do to become a man of
knowledge) He must challenge and defeat his four natural enemies.
A man can call himself a man of knowledge only if he is capable of
defeating all four of them. TDJ,82. Anybody who defeats them
becomes a man of knowledge. Anyone can try to become a man of
knowledge; very few men actually succeed, but that is only
natural. The enemies a man encounters on the path of learning to
become a man of knowledge are truly formidable; most men succumb
to them. TDJ,83. the result of the struggle could not be foreseen
by any means, because becoming a man of knowledge was a temporary
thing... to be a man of knowledge has no permanence. one is never
a man of knowledge, not really. Rather, one becomes a man of
knowledge for a very brief instant, after defeating the four
natural enemies. TDJ,83. the predilection of a man of knowledge is
something he does in order to know...one can say that Sacateca
dances with all he has. SR,11. A sorcerer may have a very strong
will and yet he may not see; which means that only a man of
knowledge perceives the world with his senses and with his will
and also with his seeing. SR,148.the tonal and nagual are in the
exclusive realm of men of knowledge. TOP,120. A man of
knowledge,..develops another ring of power. I would call it the
ring of not-doing, because it is hooked to not-doing. With that
ring, therefore, he can spin another world. JTI,212.
-
- FOURTH:
BECOMING A SEER
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- THEY LEARN TO SEE
- Fourth: they learn to see. FFW,39
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TEACHERS FOR THE SORCERER'S WAY
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- WHY
DO WE NEED TEACHERS?
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- A TEACHER KEEPS US GOING
- The only reason we need a teacher is to spur
us on mercilessly. Otherwise our natural reaction is to stop to
congratulate ourselves for having covered so much ground.
POS,252
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- A TEACHER IS ONLY THERE TO CONVINCE US WE CAN
DO IT
- What we need is a teacher to convince us that
there is incalculable power at our fingertips. ..to convince us of
the power hidden in his being and that he can reach it. POS,8,9
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- A TEACHER GIVES US A MINIMAL
CHANCE
- intermediaries, besides providing a minimal
chance - the awareness of intent- help shatter people's mirrors of
self-reflection. POS,166 The naugal provides a minimal chance of
being made aware of a sequence of actions (in which to move your
assemblage point) but it is not instruction...the minimal chance
is being made aware of the spirit.. POS,166.
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- SOME
PEOPLE DON'T NEED A TEACHER
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- THESE PEOPLE GET THEIR HARMONY DIRECTLY FROM
THE SPIRIT
- But their are examples of people, sorcerers or
average men, who need no one. They get peace, harmony, laughter,
knowledge, directly from the spirit. They need no intermediaries
POS,166
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- WE DON'T NEED ANYONE TO TEACH US SORCERY
BECAUSE THERE IS REALLY NOTHING TO LEARN
- Everything I put you through.. each of the
things I've shown you was only a device to convince you that's
there more to us than meets the eye. We don't need anyone to teach
us sorcery, because there is really nothing to learn. POS,8,9
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- IF WE NEED HELP, IT IS NOT IN METHODS BUT IN
EMPHASIS
- If we need help, it is not in methods, but in
emphasis. If someone makes us aware that we need to curtail our
self-importance, that help is real. POS,167.
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- ANY HUMAN BEING WHO WOULD FOLLOW A SPECIFIC
AND SIMPLE SEQUENCE OF ACTIONS CAN LEARN TO MOVE HIS ASSEMBLAGE
POINT
- ...any human being who would follow a specific
and simple sequence of actions can learn to move his assemblage
point. POS,166
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- IMPECCABLE MEN NEED NO ONE TO GUIDE
THEM
- .. impeccable men need no one to guide them,
that by themselves, through saving their energy, they can do
everything that seers do.....FFW,195,196
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- ALL THAT IS REQUIRED IS IMPECCABILITY, ENERGY,
AND THAT BEGINS WITH A SINGLE ACT THAT HAS TO BE DELIBERATE,
PRECISE, AND SUSTAINED. IF THAT ACT IS REPEATED LONG ENOUGH, ONE
REQUIRES A SENSE OF UNBENDING INTENT, WHICH CAN BE APPLIED TO
ANYTHING ELSE. IF THAT IS ACCOMPLISHED THE ROAD IS CLEAR. ONE
THING WILL LEAD TO ANOTHER UNTIL THE WARRIOR REALIZES HIS FULL
POTENTIAL
- All that is required is impeccability, energy,
and that begins with a single act that has to be deliberate,
precise, and sustained. If that act is repeated long enough, one
requires a sense of unbending intent, which can be applied to
anything else. If that is accomplished the road is clear. One
thing will lead to another until the warrior realizes his full
potential...FFW,195,196
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- WHY
DO PEOPLE HAVE A HARD TIME WITHOUT A TEACHER?
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- MOST OF US ARE UNWILLING TO ACCEPT THAT WE
NEED SO LITTLE TO GET ON WITH IT
- ..our difficulty with this simple sequence of
actions is that most of us are unwilling to accept that we need so
little to get on with it. We are geared to expect instruction,
teaching, guides, masters. And when we are told that we need no
one, we don't believe it. We become nervous, then distrustful and
finally angry and disappointed. POS,167.
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- SOME
THINGS THAT A TEACHER DOES
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- A TEACHER SETS UP THEIR ACTS
CAREFULLY
- Don Juan explained that he had carefully
chosen the props for his act (get CC to AP on ruthlessness) to
break my continuity (see inventory) POS,173 All a teacher can do
then is set up various situations in which the student's mindset
of the world breaks down. ..after the apprentice had made his
decision to join the world of sorcerers, the teacher gave him a
pragmatic chore, a task that he had to fulfill in his day-to-day
life. He explained that the task, which is designed to fit the
apprentice's personality, is usually a sort of farfetched life
situation which the apprentice is supposed to get into as a means
of permanently affecting his view of the world.
TOP,241.
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- THE TEACHER INTRODUCES THE IDEA THAT THE WORLD
IS ONLY A VIEW AND THAT EVERY EFFORT IS GEARED TO PROVE THIS POINT
BUT STILL THE APPRENTICE WILL HAVE DIFFICULTY ACCEPTING THIS
IDEA
- The first act of a teacher is to introduce the
idea that the world we think we see is only a view, a description
of the world. Every effort of a teacher is geared to prove this
point to his apprentice.TOP,229 But accepting it seems to be one
of the hardest things one can do; we are complacently caught in
our particular view of the world, which compels us to feel and act
as if we knew everything about the world. A teacher, from the very
first act he performs, aims at stopping that view.
TOP,229
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- HOW
DOES A TEACHER DECIDE ON AN APPRENTICE?
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- A TEACHER NEVER SEEKS APPRENTICES AND NO ONE
CAN SOLICIT THE TEACHINGS..IT'S ALWAYS AN OMEN WHICH POINTS OUT AN
APPRENTICE.
- A teacher never seeks apprentices and no one
can solicit the teachings..it's always an omen which points out an
apprentice. TOP,227....the decision as to who can be a warrior and
who can only be a hunter is not up to us. That decision is in the
realm of the powers that guide men. JTI,91 and it is not possible
for the naugal to choose his own apprentices according to his own
volition..... POS,10,11
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- WHEN AN ORDINARY MAN IS READY, POWER PROVIDES
HIM WITH A TEACHER, AND HE BECOMES AN APPRENTICE. WHEN THE
APPRENTICE IS READY, POWER PROVIDES HIM WITH A BENEFACTOR, AND HE
BECOMES A SORCERER
- when an ordinary man is ready, power provides
him with a teacher, and he becomes an apprentice. When the
apprentice is ready, power provides him with a benefactor, and he
becomes a sorcerer. TOP,172.
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- THE
NAGUAL AS IT REFERS TO THE PERSON
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- WHAT IS A
NAGUAL?
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- LEADER OF A PARTY OF SORCERERS
- ....leader of a party of sorcerers. TAOD,
10
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- SOMEONE WHO HAS A DOUBLE LUMINOUS
BALL
- refers to any person, male or female, who
possesses a specific kind of energy configuration, (four
compartments instead of two) which to a seer appears as a double
luminous ball... TAOD, 10 ...unlike the average human being, who
has two sides only, a left and a right, the naugal has a left side
divided into two long sections, and a right side equally divided
into two. EG,174....that extra load of energy is turned into a
measure of strength and the capacity for leadership TAOD, 10. A
nagual, to begin with, is a person with extraordinary energy.
TSC,148.
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- SOMETIMES VERY RARELY A NAGUAL CAN HAVE THREE
COMPARTMENTS IN THEIR LUMINOUS BALL
- He explained that difference in terms of an
energy configuration seen only by sorcerers: instead of having
four compartments of energy, as he himself had, I had only three.
TAOD iii.
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- DON JUAN WAS CALLED THE NAGUAL BECAUSE OF A
MENACING SHAPE THAT CAME OUT OF HIM TWICE AS BIG
- The reason we called Don Juan the Nagual.. is
because he was split in two. In other words, any time he needed
to, he could get into another track that we don't have ourselves;
something would come out of him, something that was not a double
but a horrendous, menacing shape that looked like him but was
twice his size. We call that shape the naugal and anybody who has
it is, of course, the Nagual. SRP,175.
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- THE NAGUAL COMES IN PAIRS, MALE AND
FEMALE
- The Naugal comes in pairs, male and female. A
double man and a double woman become the Naugal only after the
rule has been told to each of them, and each of them has
understood it and accepted it in full. EG,174.
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- A NAGUAL HAS NO SELF-IMPORTANCE
- is someone flexible enough to be anything...
it means to have no points to defend.. it means that, among other
things, that a naugal has no obsessions.. FFW,55,56... Naguals
have no self-importance whatsoever... and it is precisely for this
reason that we can adore them. TSC,147.
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- SOMEONE TO WHOM THE RULE HAS BEEN
REVEALED
- a double being to whom the rule has been
revealed. (Eagle's purpose..EG,173). But it is not until he is
taught the rule of the naguals that he actually becomes a nagual
himself.TSC,148.
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- THE NAGUAL SEEKS THE HIDDEN
PASSAGEWAY
- Whether it be in the form of a human being, an
animal, a plant, or anything else that lives, the naugal by virtue
of ite doubleness is drawn to seek the hidden passageway.
EG,173,174.
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- A NAGUAL IS A CONDUIT FOR THE
SPIRIT
- ...the naugal, is a naugal because he can
reflect the abstract, the spirit, better than others. But that's
all. Our link is with the spirit itself and only incidentally with
the man who brings us its message... TAOD, 11... a naugal can only
be a conduit for the spirit POS,10,11. has sobriety, endurance,
stability.. their energy allows them to channel peace, harmony,
laughter and knowledge directly from the source, from intent and
transmit them to their companions. POS,10,11 ....the naugal taps
intent ...formulates, then guides the consequences that that force
can have on his disciples... without the naugal's molding intent
there would be no awe.. and the apprentices would be learning only
a trade: healer, sorcerer, diviner, charlatan, or whatever. POS,
28 being around a naugal the apprentice automatically experiences
a shift in his awareness because the naugal is a conduit for the
spirit and the spirit is what makes the AP move. POS,129,170 the
naugal entices the AP into moving by helping to destroy the mirror
of self-reflection. But that is all the naugal can do. The actual
mover is the spirit, the abstract, ..the naugal, being the conduit
of the abstract, is allowed to express it through his actions.
POS,170. All a nagual can do is fulfill the spirit's bidding, or
fail miserably. TSC,148.
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- A NAGUAL GUIDES PEOPLE TO THE
NAGUAL
- First he guided us to take the rule as a map;
then he guided us to the understanding that one can attain a
paramount awareness, because there is such a thing; and finally he
guided us to an actual passageway into that other concealed world
of awareness. EG,179,.. for a little more explanation..
EG,179,180
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- A NAGUAL TRIES TO BREAK THE APPRENTICE'S
SELF-IMPORTANCE
- ..what the naugal aims at with his apprentices
is the shattering of their mirror of self-reflection. POS,165
...Don Juan says to CC ... "the only concrete help you ever get
from me is that I attack your self-reflection. If it weren't for
that, you would be wasting your time. This is the only real help
you've gotten from me....I've taught you all kinds of things in
order to trap your attention.. You'll swear, though, that that
teaching has been the important part. It hasn't There is very
little value in instruction." POS,166....
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- A NAGUAL CAN DEVIATE THE APPRENTICE'S
ATTENTION
- the art of a teacher was to deviate the
apprentice's attention from the main issue. TOP,231.
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- A NAGUAL NEVER MAKES A MISTAKE
- ... a nagual never makes such a careless
mistake because he is always aware of what he does.
TSC,164.
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- HOW
DOES ONE BECOME A NAGUAL?
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- THEY ARE CHOOSEN BY THE SPIRIT
- They certainly inherit their post; but not
like kings... A nagual has to be singled out by the spirit. For
unless the spirit chooses him, he cannot set himself up as a
leader. TSC,148.
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- ADVANTAGES/DISADVANTAGES
OF A NAGUAL
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- EASY MOVEMENT BETWEEN RIGHT SIDE
COMPARTMENTS
- ..A double being has a great advantage: the
condition of being double permits relatively easy movement between
compartments on the right side. EG,228
THEY ARE SEDENTARY, CONSERVATIVE AND AFRAID OF
CHANGE
The disadvantage of double beings is that by
virtue of having two compartments they are sedentary, conservative,
afraid of change. EG,228....
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