The double is something that takes alot of
power to come out. SRP,197.
KEEP THE PHYSICAL BODY AND ENERGY BODY
SEPERATE BECAUSE ONLY WHEN THEY ARE UNDENIABLE SEPERATE CAN
AWARENESS FLOW FROM ONE TO THE OTHER
he explained that the error many people make
when trying to seek the double is to apply to it the rules of the
physical body, training it, for example, as if it were made of
muscle and bone. He assured me that there is no way to condition
the double through physical exercises. the easiest way to resolve
this problem is to seperate the two... only when they are
undeniably seperate can awareness flow from one to the other. That
is what sorcerers do. So they can dispense with the nonsense of
rituals, incantations and elaborate breathing techniques that are
supposed to unify them.. TSC,236. She (Clara) taught you only
things (sorcery passes and breaths).. that would help you seperate
your body and your double. Therefore they are all useful for that
purpose.. TSC,236.
HOW
DOES A WARRIOR GET TO THE DOUBLE?
GENERAL
WE LEARN TO BE AWARE OF IT, THAT'S
ALL
A warrior learns to be aware of it, that's
all. there are seemingly insurmountable barriers protecting that
arriving at that awareness such a unique challenge..
EG,23
YOU CAN ONLY LEARN ABOUT THE DOUBLE THROUGH
DOING
You can only learn about the double by doing.
TSC,234.
SOMETIMES ACCIDENTLY, BUT MORE OFTEN DUE TO
TRAINING, AWARENESS CAN SHIFT TO THE ENERGY THAT CIRCULATES IN THE
LEFT SIDE OF THE DOUBLE, WHICH RESULTS IN BEHAVIOR NOT SO
CONDUCIVE TO INTELLECTUAL PURSUITS OR DEALING WITH PEOPLE.
Sometimes accidently, but more often due to
training, awareness can shift to the energy that circulates in the
left side of the double, which results in behavior not so
conducive to intellectual pursuits or dealing with people. TSC,236
(what should we do?).. to know what to do isn't important because
there's very little we can do.. we can either remain seated with
our eyes shut or we can get up and move about. the important point
is to know that we are limited because our physical body controls
our awareness. But if we can turn it around so that our double
controls our awareness, we can do practically anything we can
imagine. TSC,233
THE STEPS ARRIVING AT THE DOUBLE ARE THE SAME,
ESPECIALLY THE BEGINNING STEPS, WHICH ARE MUDDLED AND
UNCERTAIN
each one of us is different and thus the
details of our struggles is different..the steps we follow to
arrive at the double are the same, though. Especially the
beginning steps, which are muddled and uncertain.
TOP,64.
THE PROCEDURE TO GET TO GET TO THE DREAMING
BODY IS IMPECCABILITY IN OUR DAILY LIFE.
The procedure to get to get to the dreaming
body is impeccability in our daily life. FFW,200
TO JOIN THE TWO BODIES WE MUST DISSOLVE THE
BARRIER THAT SEPERATES THE TWO (THE BARRIER IS LOSING
SELF-IMPORTANCE)
He said that our physical body is inseperably
linked with its ethereal counterpart, but that link has been
clouded over by our thoughts and feelings, which are focused
exclusively on our physical body. In order to shift our awareness
from our hard appearance to its fluid counterpart, we must first
dissolve the barrier that seperates the two aspects of our being.
TSC,133.
AND THAT IT TAKES GREAT DISCIPLINE AND
DETERMINATION TO BREAK THAT SEAL (THE MEMBRANE THAT SEPERATES
THEIR TWO SIDES) AND GO FROM ONE SIDE TO THE OTHER.
and that it takes great discipline and
determination to break that seal (the membrane that seperates
their two sides. EG,230) and go from one side to the other.
EG,228.
WE BECOME AWARE OF THE DOUBLE BY ALLOWING
INTENT TO SHIFT BACK TO IT
We become aware of our ethereal side by
allowing our intent to shift back to it. TSC,133.
WHEN WE FULLY UNDERSTAND THAT OUR WORLD IS
ONLY A VIEW
one can arrive at the totality of oneself when
one fully understands that the world is merely a view, regardless
of whether that view belongs to an ordinary man or a sorcerer
TOP,238
WHEN AWARENESS IS TURNED STEADILY TO THE LEFT
SIDE OF THE DOUBLE..THE DOUBLE IS FLUSHED OUT AND EMERGES....
When awareness is turned steadily to the left
side of the double..the double is flushed out and emerges...
TSC,237.
THE
GATES OF OUR BODY
WHEN THEY ARE CLOSED, OUR INNER ENERGY REMAINS
LOCKED WITHIN THE PHYSICAL BODY.
When they are closed, our inner energy remains
locked within the physical body. TSC,159. In order to activate the
soft body, you have to first open certain body centers that
function like gates. When all the gates are open, your double can
emerge from its protective covering. Otherwise, it will forever
remain encased within its outer shell. TSC,141..
HOW
DO WE OPEN THE GATES OF OUR BODY?
THROUGH RECAPITULATION AND
BREATHING
However, if one is going to release it, the
gates must be opened and this is done through the recapitulation
and the breathing exercises Clara showed you. TSC,159.
recapitulating your life, especially your sex life, has loosened
some of your gates even more. TSC,233
A PREREQUISITE TO OPENING THE GATES AND
RELEASING THE DOUBLE IS THAT ONE REMAINS CELIBATE
A prerequisite, however, is that one remains
celibate. TSC,160.
WHAT
ARE SOME CONSEQUENCES OF OPENING YOUR GATES?
THE GATES CAN BE DANGEROUS
To tamper haphazardly with the power behind
the gates is foolish and dangerous.. TSC,160
IF OUR FIRST OR SECOND CENTERS ARE OPEN, WE
TRANSMIT A CERTAIN KIND OF FORCE THAT PEOPLE MAY FIND INTOLERABLE
If our first or second centers are open, we
transmit a certain kind of force that people may find
intolerable... TSC,232,233 You have had the gates in your feet and
calves partially open all your life. TSC,233.
ANIMALS WON'T LIKE YOU IF YOUR GATES ARE
OPEN
Animals don't like you.. because some of your
body gates have never been completely closed and your double is
struggling to come out. Be prepared. For now that you're
deliberately intending it, they're going to fling open. One of
these days your double is going to awake all at once and you might
find yourself across the patio without having walked over.
TSC,219.
WHY
DO ANIMALS NOT LIKE IT IF SOME OF OUR GATES ARE
OPEN?
ANIMALS AND INFANTS SENSE THINGS BECAUSE THEY
HAVE THE EQUIPMENT TO SENSE IT: THEIR OPEN GATES
he rebuffed me, saying that what animals and
infants sense has nothing to do with knowing, but with the fact
that they have the equipment to sense it: their open gates.
TSC,220
HE ADDED THAT THOSE GATES ARE PERMANENTLY
RECEPTIVE IN ANIMALS, BUT THAT HUMAN BEINGS CLOSE THEIRS AS SOON
AS THEY BEGIN TO TALK AND THINK AND THEIR RATIONAL SIDE TAKES
OVER.
He added that those gates are permanently
receptive in animals, but that human beings close theirs as soon
as they begin to talk and think and their rational side takes
over. TSC,220.
ANOTHER CONSEQUENCE OF THOSE LOWER CENTERS
BEING OPEN IS THAT YOU HAVE TROUBLE WALKING.
Another consequence of those lower centers
being open is that you have trouble walking. TSC,233.
IF THE THIRD AND FOURTH GATES ARE NOT AS
CLOSED AS THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE WE TRANSMIT A CERTAIN FORCE THAT
PEOPLE WILL FIND MOST APPEALING.
if the third and fourth gates are not as
closed as they are supposed to be we transmit a certain force that
people will find most appealing. TSC,232,233.
EXPERIENCING
WHEN THE DOUBLE COMES OUT
HOW
SHOULD THE DOUBLE BE RELEASED?
THE DOUBLE MUST BE RELEASED GRADUALLY,
HARMONIOUSLY
The double must be released gradually,
harmoniously. TSC,160
WHAT
HAPPENS TO YOU WHEN YOUR DOUBLE BECOMES FREE?
THE
SEPARATION OF THE DOUBLE FROM THE PHYSICAL BODY
SHOOTING OFF THE DREAMING BODY IT POPS OFF
LIKE A SLOW BULLET; IT ACTUALLY GLUES AND UNGLUES ITSELF FROM THE
PHYSICAL BODY WITH A LOUD CRACK.
shooting off the dreaming body it pops off
like a slow bullet; it actually glues and unglues itself from the
physical body with a loud crack. EG,145.
POPPING SOUND/CRACK BEHIND THE NECK IS THE
SOUND ONE MAKES AT THE MOMENT OF CHANGING SPEED
The peculiar sound at the base of my neck was
something I had become keenly aware of. Don Juan had described it
as the sound one makes at the moment of changing speed. I realized
then that the sound had created a special sensation of heat on the
roof of my mouth and inside my ears. The force and dryness of the
sound made me think of the peal of a large, cracked bell. SRP,77.I
felt a hollow popping sound. My thoughts returned to me all at
once, tumbling down on me like a mountain of debris, and with them
came the awareness of the hardness of the ground.. don't talk or
move until you're solid again. TSC,214. I heard then, or perhaps I
felt, a snapping sound at the base of my neck, right behind my
windpipe.... SRP,55
WHAT
CAUSES THE CRACKING SOUND?
THE CRACKING SOUND IS CAUSED BY ENERGY RISING
TO THE NECK CREATED BY THE GAP IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR BODY WHEN THE
DOUBLE SEPERATES FROM THE PHYSICAL BODY
The cracking sound you hear behind your neck
is the movement when your right and left sides have seperated.
this leaves a gap directly in the middle of your body where the
energy rises to the neck, the place where the sound is heard. To
hear that pop means that your double is about to become aware.
TSC,233
SOUND OF A BELL AND A FEELING IN YOUR THROAT
JUST BEFORE YOU CHANGE SPEED
I forgot that the world existed... I felt a
blow inside of me. behind my throat, and the sound of a bell in my
ears. The feeling in my throat came just before one was ready to
change speed, and that the sound of the bell was the vehicle that
one could accomplish anything that one needed...I was so light..
Something stirred my insides and I disintegrated like dry sand. It
was peaceful and perfect where I was. I somehow knew that I was
there and yet I wasn't. I was nothing. SRP,187.
THE NAGUAL TAUGHT ALL OF US HOW TO GET THE
FEELING ON TOP OF THE HEAD.. THE SOUND BEHIND THE THROAT IS EVEN
MORE DIFFICULT.
The Nagual taught all of us how to get the
feeling on top of the head.. the sound behind the throat is even
more difficult. (dry sound of a wooden pipe being broken at the
base of the neck). SRP,209
SINUSES OPENING
The force beyond my explosion had been first a
physical sensation that my sinuses were opening.
EG,85.
DESCRIPTION OF BEING TOUCHED BY THE
DOUBLE
Don Genaro patted me on the back two or three
times...It was a light tapping...I suddenly felt that he had put
the weight of a boulder on my back. i had the sensation that he
had increased the weight of his hand, which was resting on my
right shoulder, until it made me sag all the way down and I hit my
head on the ground. SR,250.
DESCRIPTION OF FEELING OF BEING COOPED UPAND
DOUBLE COMING OUT
I was certain that if I had been prepared for
the storm, I would have relaxed, and if my fear and my thoughts
about it hadn't interferred, some force inside me would have come
completely out of my body and perhaps might have even stood up,
moved around or come down from the tree. What frightened me most
was the sensation of being cooped up, trapped inside my body. ..
when we enter into absolute darkness, where there are no
distractions.. the double takes over. It streches its ethereal
limbs, opens its luminous eye and looks around. Sometimes
experiencing it can be even more frightening than what you felt
last night. TSC,218. I experienced a surge of energy that began as
small circles in my stomach. At first I thought it was a fear, but
my body didn't feel frightened. It was as if an impersonal force,
void of desires or sentiment was stirring inside me, moving from
the inside out. As it ascended my upper back jerked involuntarily.
TSC,129. The recapitulation helps us to dissolve our
preconceptions... but it takes skill and concentration to reach
the double. Right now you are using your ethereal part to some
extent. You are half asleep but some part of you is awake and
alert. It can hear me and sense my presence. TSC,133. Your double
took over... and you lost control of your everyday self. TSC,159.
Seriously, Taisha, all you did was to cast your luminous net as
far as you were able to. You learned how to rest on that invisible
hammock that is actually a part of you. Someday, as you become
more adept, you may begin to use its lines to move and alter
things. TSC,159. I saw him as a blob of fire that was above the
ground... not rooted as DJ was. FFW,292... It was not as if
something came out from the top of my head; something actually did
come out from the top of my head. SRP,100.... I saw how your
double came out from the top of your head. it wriggled out like a
worm. I saw a shiver that began in your feet and went through your
body and then your double came out. (this description may not
refer to the double but to the Naugal) SRP,149
WHAT
ARE THE DANGERS OF RELEASING YOUR DOUBLE?
WHEN RELEASING THE DOUBLE IT CAN BE
INJURED
He warned me that there is considerable danger
involved in releasing the energy that is locked within us, because
the double is vulnerable and can easily become injured in the
process of shifting our awareness to it. TSC,133 He explained that
at that moment my double was extremely unstable due to being
bombarded by thunder and lightning, but especially due to the
events of five days ago, when Nelida pushed me into the left
hallway so I could begin the sorcerer's crossing. TSC,222.
YOU CAN INADVERTENTLY CREATE AN OPENING IN THE
ETHEREAL NET AND LOSE VAST AMOUNTS OF ENERGY
You can inadvertently create an opening in the
ethereal net and lose vast amounts of energy... precious energy
that is necessary to maintain a certain level of clarity and
control in your life. TSC,133.
THE PHYSICAL BODY BECOMES FRIGHTENED WHEN ITS
GATES ARE OPEN AND NEW PERCEPTIONS ARE FLOWING IN
You are reacting like that because your double
is perceiving my double... Your physical body is frightened
because its gates are opening and new perceptions are flowing in.
If you think you feel bad now, imagine how much worse it'll be
when all your gates are open. TSC,219.
THE DOUBLE BECOMES FRIGHTENED WHEN ITS ABOUT
TO BECOME AWARE OF THE WORLD
Your double is about to become aware, so under
conditions of stress, like last night, it becomes partially aware
but also totally frightened. It's not used to perceiving the
world. Your body and your mind are accustomed to it, but your
double isn't. TSC,218.
WHAT
DO WE DO WITH THE DOUBLE ONCE ITS COME OUT?
WHEN IT IS RELEASED, THE DOUBLE ATTACHES
ITSELF TO ANYTHING/IT SOAKES UP EVERYTHING THAT IT CAN
FIND
...The dreaming body gets involved and
attaches itself to anything. It doesn't have sense. he told me
that men are weaker than women because a man's dreaming body is
more possessive. EG,23 the energy body is like a child who's
imprisoned all its life. The moment it is free, it soaks up
everything it can find...every minute detail absorbs the energy
body. TAOD,142.
THE DOUBLE NEEDS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF
ATTENTION
The double needs a tremendous amount of
attention. SRP,149.
CONTROLLING
THE DOUBLE
THE DOUBLE IS CONTROLLED NOT BY OUR INTELLECT
BUT BY OUR INTENT. THERE IS NO WAY TO THINK ABOUT IT OR TO
UNDERSTAND IT RATIONALLY. IT HAS TO BE FELT
and the double is controlled not by our
intellect but by our intent. There is no way to think about it or
to understand it rationally. It has to be felt, TSC,138.
IN ORDER TO COMMAND IT (DOUBLE), THE PART OF
IT THAT IS OUTSIDE FLOATING FREELY HAS TO BE LINKED TO THE ENERGY
THAT IS HOUSED INSIDE THE PHYSICAL BODY. THE EXTERNAL FORCE IS
BECKONED AND HELD BY AN UNWAVERING CONCENTRATION, WHILE THE
INTERNAL ENERGY IS RELEASED BY OPENING SOME MYSTERIOUS GATES IN
AND AROUND THE BODY. WHEN THE TWO SIDES MERGE, THE FORCES THAT IS
PRODUCED ALLOWS ONE TO PERFORM INCONCEIVABLE FEATS.
in order to command it, the part of it that is
outside floating freely has to be linked to the energy that is
housed inside the physical body. the external force is beckoned
and held by an unwavering concentration, while the internal energy
is released by opening some mysterious gates in and around the
body. When the two sides merge, the forces that is produced allows
one to perform inconceivable feats. TSC, 159.
KUNG FU EXPERTS CAN CONTROL THEIR SOFT
BODY/THEY STRIKE AT SOFT PARTS
The difference between the average person and
an expert in kung fu is that the latter has learned to control his
soft body... what they probably meant was that when an expert
practitioner attacks, he strikes the vulnerable points of his
enemy's soft body... it's not the power of the physical body that
is destructive but the opening he makes in his enemy's ethereal
body. He can hurl into that opening a force that rips through the
ethereal net to cause major damage. A person may receive what
seems at the time only a gentle hit, but hours or perhaps days
later, the person may die from that blow. TSC,137.... don't be
fooled by the outward movements or by what you see. It's what you
don't see that counts. TSC,137.
true martial artists... are interested in
mastering the control of their soft body... TSC,138.
BECOMING A TREE/PROJECTING THE DOUBLE/MERGING
THE DOUBLE
(trying to project out your double).. he told
me to close my eyes and concentrate on my breathing. As I relaxed,
I was to intend a force to flow upward until I could touch the top
branches with a feeling that came out of the gate in the crown of
my head. he said that this was going to be fairly easy for me
because I was going to use my friend the tree for support. The
tree's energy.. would form a matrix for my awareness to expand.
After a time of concentrating on my breath. I felt a vibrating
energy rising up my back, trying to push out of the top of my
head. Then something opened inside me. Everytime I inhaled, a line
eleongated to the top of the tree; when I exhaled, the line was
pulled down into my body again. The feeling of reaching the top of
the tree became stronger with my every breath until I truly
believed that my body expanded, becoming as tall and voluminous as
the tree.. at one point a profound affection and empathy for the
tree enveloped me; it was at that same moment that something
surged up my back and out my head and I found myself viewing the
world from the top branches. The sensation lasted only an
instant... I felt something like a waterfall. an effervescence
flowing downward, entering the top of my head and filling my body
with a familiar warmth. TSC,234.
He pointed out that aided by an outside force,
in this case uniting my awareness with the tree, one can easily
make the double expand. However, because it's easy, we run the
risk of staying merged with the tree too long, in which case we
might sap the tree of the vital energy it needs to maintain itself
in a strong and healthy state. or we might leave some of our own
energy behind by becoming emotionally attached to the tree.
TSC,235.
ONE CAN MERGE WITH ANYTHING
One can merge with anything..
TSC,235.
WHAT IS
MERGING?
IT IS SEEING, AFTER STOPPING THE WORLD,
SOMETHING WITHIN US MERGES INTO ANYTHING WITHIN OUR FIELD OF
AWARENESS
....merging is something that the body felt or
did when put into observational contact with other bodies. he then
clarified the issue by saying that in the past he had called that
process seeing, and that it consisted of a lull of true silence
within, followed by an outward elongation of something in the
self, an elongation that met and merged with the other body, or
with anything within one's field of awareness.
TOP,135.
IF YOU MERGE WITH SOMETHING STRONG, THEN YOUR
ENERGY IS ENHANCED, AND VISA VERSA
if whatever or whomever you merge with is
strong, your energy will be enhanced as it was whenever you merged
with the magician, Manfred. But if it is sick or weak, stay
away... you must do the exercise sparingly... TSC,235.
OUTSIDE ENERGY IS ALWAYS DIFFERENT FROM OUR
OWN, OFTEN ANTAGONISTIC TO IT.
like everything else, it is a double-edged
sword. Outside energy is always different from our own, often
antagonistic to it. TSC,235.
CASTING
ENERGY LINES
SENDING ENERGY TO THE DOUBLE( CASTING YOUR
ENERGY LINES)
It's a matter of energy (casting your energy
lines); the more of it you call back through recapitulating, the
easier it is for that recovered energy to nourish your double. To
send energy to the double is what we call casting your energy
lines. TSC,215.
TECHNIQUE FOR MOVING YOUR AWARENESS OUTSIDE
YOUR BODY/CASTING ENERGY LINES
I lay down and began moving my awareness from
my feet upward to my ankles, calves, knees, thighs, abdomen and
back. Then I relaxed my arms, shoulders, neck and head. As I moved
my awareness to the various parts of my body, I felt myself become
more and more drowsy and heavy. Then the caretaker ordered me to
make small counterclockwise circles with my eyes allowing them to
roll back and up into my head. I continued relaxing until my
breathing became slow and rhythmic, expanding and contracting by
itself. I was concentrating on the lulling waves of my breathing,
when he whispered that I should move my awareness out of my
forehead to a place as far above me as I could and there make a
small opening. TSC,212... a hole into the nothingness your net is
suspended on... if you can move your awareness outside your body,
you'll realize that there is blackness all around you. Try to
pierce that blackness; make a hole in it. TSC,213.... after I had
made the opening, i should roll my body up like a scroll and allow
myself to be catapulted along a line extending from the crown of
my head into the blackness... the blackness is all around us..even
if we are standing on our heads, it is still there.. he ordered me
to place my concentration on the hole I had just made and to let
my thoughts and feelings flow through that opening. Again my
muscles tightened because I hadn't made any hole. The caretaker
urged me to relax, to let go and act and feel as if I had made
that hole... throw out everything that's inside you.. allow your
thoughts, feelings and memories to flow out.. as I relaxed and
released the tension from my body, I felt a surge of energy push
was being turned inside out; everything was being pulled out from
the top of my head, rushing along a line like an inverted
cascading waterfall. At the end of that line, I sensed an
opening.. let yourself go even deeper..he whispered.. offer your
whole being to nothingness... I did my best to follow his
suggestions. Whatever thoughts arose in my mind instantly joined
the cascade at the top of my head. I vaguely heard the caretaker
say that if I wanted to move, I only needed to give myself the
directive and the line would pull me wherever I wanted to go.
Before I could give myself the command, I felt a gentle but
persistent tugging on my left side. I relaxed and allowed this
sensation to continue. At first, only my head seemed to be pulled
to the left, then the rest of my body slowly rolled to the left.
TSC,213... I felt as if I were falling sideways, yet I sensed that
my body had not moved at all. I heard a dull sound behind my neck,
and saw the opening grow larger. I wanted to crawl inside, to
squeeze through it and disappear. I experienced a deep stirring
inside me; my awareness began moving along the line at the crown
of my head and slipped through the opening. TSC,214. You opened a
crack in the blackness and your double slid to the left and then
went through. TSC,214.. I definitely felt a force pulling me...
and I saw an intense light.. TSC,214.
That force was your double coming out...and
the light was the eye of the double. Since you've been
recapitulaing for over a year, you've also been, at the same time,
casting your energy lines and now they're beginning to move by
themselves. But because you're still involved in talking and
thinking, those energy lines don't move as easily and completely
as they are going to someday. TSC,214.
SEEING
ENERGY LINES
SOMEONE WHO SEES ENERGY WILL SEE IT AS LINES
COMING OUT OF THE PHYSICAL BODY
Someone who sees energy will see it as lines
coming out of the physical body. TSC,215.
HOW
COULD YOU FEEL THESE ENERGY LINES?
THE EXERCISE OF NOT-DOING WOULD HELP FEEL
LINES
the exercise of not-doing (see JTI,192) would
help anyone to feel a line that came out from the moving hand, a
line that one could place or cast wherever one wanted to. JTI,193.
A MAN OF KNOWLEDGE USES OTHER PARTS OF HIS
BODY TO PRODUCE DURABLE LINES..THE MOST DURABLE LINES THAT A MAN
OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCES COME FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE BODY..BUT HE CAN
MAKE THEM WITH HIS EYES
A man of knowledge uses other parts of his
body to produce durable lines..the most durable lines that a man
of knowledge produces come from the middle of the body..but he can
make them with his eyes... JTI,193
YOU CAN FEEL THEM... WHEN ONE IS NOT-DOING,
ONE IS FEELING THE WORLD, AND ONE FEELS THE WORLD THROUGH ITS
LINES.
(they are real lines)..you can feel them...
when one is not-doing, one is feeling the world, and one feels the
world through its lines. (see not-doing) JTI,193
DESCRIPTION OF USING THESE LINES TO
FLY
Description of LaGorda using the lines to fly.
SRP,124.. More description of using the lines.
SRP,142,143.
HOW
DO YOU HANDLE A DOUBLE THATS VIOLENT?
DESC OF HOW TO HANDLE A VIOLENT
DOUBLE
Description of how DJ had to soothe CC's
double when he was angry. TDJ,136. (When the double is white it
indicates violence.) SRP,123
MOVING
IN THE SECOND ATTENTION WITH YOUR DOUBLE
MOVING WITH YOUR WILL
Suddenly I had a great urge to get up (will?)
SR,156
DESCRIPTION OF WHAT TO DO IN THE CRACK BETWEEN
THE WORLDS
The man then must walk in any direction. It
will be a short or a long journey, depending on his willpower. A
stong-willed man journeys shortly. An undecided, weak man journeys
long and precariously. dead men go through it (the seal) without a
noise, but we have to break it with an outcry. The wind gathers
strength, the same unruly wind that blows on the plateau. When the
wind has gathered enough force, the man has to yell and the wind
will push him through. Here his will has to be inflexible..so that
he can fight the wind. All he needs is a gentle shove; he does not
need to be blown to the ends of the other world. Once on the other
side, the man will have to wander around. His good fortune would
be to find a helper nearby-not to far from the entrance. The man
has to ask him for help...he has to ask the helper to teach him
and make him a diablero. When the helper agrees, he kills the man
on the spot, and while he is dead he teaches him. ...most of the
time, though, one encounters lesser brujos who have very little to
teach. But neither you nor they have the power to refuse. The best
instance is to find a male helper lest one become the prey of a
diablera, who will make one suffer in an unbelievable manner. but
that depends on luck alone, unless one's benefactor is a great
diablero himself, in which event he will have many helpers in the
other world, and can direct one to see a particular helper. after
you return you will not be the same man. you are committed to come
back to see your helper often. And you are committed to wander
farther and farther from the entrance, until finally one day you
will go too far and will not be able to return. TDJ,183 Sometimes
a diablero may catch a soul and push it through the entrance and
leave it in the custody of his helper until he robs the person of
all his willpower. ..or if the soul belongs to a strong willed
person.. the diablero may keep it inside his pouch, because it is
too hard to carry otherwise. TDJ,185.
WHAT
ARE SOME TECHNIQUES TO GET TO THE DOUBLE?
SOUND
USING SOUND TO ATTRACT THE DOUBLE
It really doesn't take much to communicate or
reach the ethereal body... besides using the womb and movement,
sound is a powerful way of attracting its attention. TSC,185
She explained that by systematically directing
words to our source of awareness-the double-one can receive a
manifestation of that source... provided of course that we have
enough energy... if we do, it may take only a few selected words
or a sustained sound to open something unthinkable in front of us.
TSC,186.
SORCERY
PASSES
REACHING THE DOUBLE THROUGH MOVEMENT/SORCERY
PASSES
Another way of reaching the double, also
called the other, besides using the energy of the womb, is through
movement.. this is the reason why Clara taught you the sorcery
passes. TSC,184.
USING THE WOMB IS AN EXTREMELY POWERFUL AND
DIRECT METHOD OF REACHING THE DOUBLE
She emphasized that using the womb is an
extremely powerful and direct method of reaching the double. She
reminded me of the sorcery pass I had learned in which one
breathes directly with the opening of the vagina. TSC,184. The
womb is the way female animals sense things and regulate their
bodies.... through the womb, women can generate and store power in
their doubles to build or destroy or to become one with everything
around them. TSC,184.
USES OF THE WOMB TO REACH THE DOUBLE: IT'S
MOST IMPORTANT FUNCTION IS TO SERVE AS A GUIDING UNIT FOR THE
DOUBLE
You can accomplish wonders by contolling and
circulating the energy from the womb... Nelida explained that the
womb's primary function is reproduction in order to perpetuate our
species. But unbeknownst to women, the womb also has subtle and
sophisticated secondary functions. And it was these... that she
and I were interested in developing..the most important function
of the womb is to serve as a guiding unit for the double. Whereas
males have to rely on a mixture of reason and intent to guide
their doubles, females have at their disposal their womb, a
powerful source of energy with an abundance of mysterious
attributes and functions all designed to protect and nurture the
double. TSC,184. All this is possible, of course, if you have rid
yourself of all the encumbering energy men have left inside you..
A thorough recapitulation of all your sexual activity will take
care of that. TSC,184.
TECHNIQUE FOR SHIFTING AWARENESS FROM MY
PHYSICAL BODY TO THE ETHEREAL NET THAT SURROUNDS IT
..he was going to show me a simple method for
shifting awareness from my physical body to the ethereal net that
surrounds it. TSC,141. Lie down and close your eyes, but don't
fall asleep.. imagine lines extending out from the sides of your
body, beginning at your feet... use all your strength to intend
the lines into existence. TSC,141. he elaborated that it was not
really imagining those lines that was involved, but rather a
mysterious act of pulling them out from the side of the body,
beginning at the toes and continuing all the way up to the top of
the head. He said I should also feel lines emanating from the
soles of my feet going downward and wrapping around the length of
my body to the back of my head.; and also other lines that
radiated from my forehead upward and downward, along the front of
my body to my feet, thus forming a net or a cocoon of luminous
energy.. TSC,141,142 Practice this until you can let go of your
physical body and can place your attention at will on your
luminous net... eventually, you'll be able to cast and sustain
that net with a simple thought. TSC,142. I found his voice
soothing, It had a mesmerizing quality; at times it seemed to come
from very close and at other times from far away. TSC.142. He
cautioned me that if there was a place in my body where the net
felt tight or where it was difficult to strectch the lines out or
where the lines recoiled, that was the place where my body was
weak or injured... You can heal those parts by allowing the double
to spread out the ethereal net. TSC.142. I couldn't even conceive
how to intend with my intent... Mr Abelar said that I shouldn't
have too much difficulty casting my net, because for the past few
months, unknowingly, I had been projecting such ethereal lines
during my recapitulation, he suggested that I begin by
concentrating on my breathing. After what seemed to be hours
during which time I must have dozed off once or twice, I could
eventually feel an intense tingling heat in my feet and head. The
heat expanded to form a ring encircling my body lengthwise.
TSC,142. Mr. Abelar reminded me that I should focus my attention
on the heat outside my body and try to stretch it out by pushing
it out from within and allowing it to expand. I focused on my
breathing until all the tension in me vanished. As I relaxed even
more, I let the tingling heat find its own course; it didn't move
outward or expand; it contracted instead, until I felt I was lying
on a gigantic ballon, floating in spaces. TSC,142. I experienced a
moment of panic; my breathing stopped and for an instant I was
suffocating. Then something outside of myself took over and began
to breath for me. Waves of lulling energy surrounded me, expanding
and contracting until everyhting went black and I could no longer
focus my awareness on anything. TSC,143.
11.
SORCERER'S RECOLLECTION
WHAT IS
IT?
WHEN A SORCERER BRINGS BACK THE TOTAL EVENT BY
SHIFTING THEIR ASSEMBLGE POINT TO A PARTICULAR POINT
sorcerer's recollection is when a sorcerer
brings back the total event by means of shifting the AP so that
they will have total recall. POS,134
REGAINING THE TOTALITY OF ONESELF: TO RETRACE
THE JOURNEY THAT THEIR AP TOOK UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE
NAUGAL
The grand test that the new seers developed
for their warrior-apprentices is to retrace the journey that their
AP took under the influence of the naugal. This retracing, when it
is completed, is called regaining the totality of oneself.
FFW,141
WHAT
IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REMEMBERING AND
RECOLLECTING?
REMEMBERING IS A DAY-TO-DAY TYPE ACTIVITY
WHILE RECOLLECTING IS DICTATED BY THE MOVEMENT OF THE
AP.
..remembering is a day-to-day type activity
while recollecting is dictated by the movement of the AP. POS,134,
WHAT
IS THE PURPOSE FOR THE SORCERER'S RECOLLECTION?
THIS SORCERERS RECOLLECTION IS THE WAY TO GET
BACK ALL THE INFORMATION STORED IN THE MOVEMENT OF THE
AP
This sorcerers recollection is the way to get
back all the information stored in the movement of the AP.
POS,245,246.
....not only do sorcerers have total and
absolute recall but they also relive every experience they had in
the second attention by this act of returning their assemblage
point to each of these specific positions. TAOD, 17... (purpose of
sorcerer's recollection EG,274) every time you have seen me your
body has learned certain things, even against your desire.
JTI,180.
FOR THE DOUBLE TO REVEAL ITSELF IN TERMS OF
MEMORIES
the systematic interaction warriors go through
is only a device to entice the other self to reveal itself in
terms of memories. This act of remembering is..within the realm of
every human being; everyone of us can go directly to the memories
of our luminosity with unfathomable results. EG,312.
WE RELIVE THE EXPERIENCE WHEN WE MOVE OUR
ASSEMBLAGE POINT TO WHERE THE AP WAS DURING THE
EXPERIENCE
later when a sorcerer moves his AP to the
exact spot where it was, he relives the total
experience.POS,245,246
HOW DO
WE RECOLLECT?
WE CAN RECOLLECT RECONSTRUCTING CONVERSATIONS
WITH VOICES/TALK
reconstructing conversations with voices....
EG,166........talk was only used to lead one to recollecting..
POS,143
WE CAN RECOLLECT BY WALKING AROUND
the best way to ensure a complete recollection
was to walk around. POS,143
WE CAN RECOLLECT BY INTENDING A PARTICULAR
SHINE OF OUR EYES TO SOME SPOT
.....in order to recall those isolated islands
of perception sorcerers need only to intend the particular shine
of their eyes associated with whatever spot they want to return
to. POS,246
HOW
LONG DOES IT TAKE TO RECOLLECT?
ONLY AFTER YEARS OF STRUGGLE AND DISCIPLINE
CAN WARRIORS RECOLLECT THEIR INSTRUCTION
...only after years of struggle and discipline
can warriors recollect their instruction. By then the concepts and
the procedures that were taught to them have been internalized and
thus acquired the force the new seers meant them to have. FFW,25.
It took us almost two years of prodigious effort and concentration
to arrive at a modicum of understanding of what had happened to
us. EG,163.
DESCRIPTION OF RECOLLECTING...
I felt the popping in the middle of my body,
right below my navel, more acutely than in my ears. Right after
the popping everything became clearer; sounds, sights, odours.
then I felt an intense buzzing, which oddly enough did not
interfere with my hearing capacity; the buzzing was loud but did
not drown out any other sounds. It was as if I were hearing the
buzzing with some other part of me other than my ears. a hot flash
went through my body. And then I suddenly recalled something I had
never seen. it was as if an alien memory had taken possession of
me. SRP,238.
12.
LOSING THE HUMAN FORM
WHAT
IS THE HUMAN FORM?
IT IS THE FORCE PRODUCED BY THE FIXED SPOT ON
WHICH THE AP IS FOUND
... the human form is the compelling force of
alignment of the emanations lit by the glow of awareness on the
precise spot on which normally man's AP is fixated.
FFW,242.
IT IS THE FORCE THAT MAKES US INTO
PERSONS
It is the force that makes us into persons.
Thus, to be a person is to be compelled to affiliate with that
force of alignment and consequently to be affiliated with the
precise spot where it originates. FFW,242. The human form is a
force. SRP,138... Something sticky, a sticky force that makes us
the people that we are. SRP,140
THE HUMAN FORM HAS NO FORM AND DOESN'T LEAVE
US UNTIL WE DIE
The human form has no form.. it's anything,
but in spite of not having form, it possesses us during our lives
and doesn't leaves us until we die. I've never seen the human form
but I have felt it in my body. SRP,140.
THE HUMAN FORM FEEDS ON CERTAIN
FEELINGS
The human form feeds on those feelings.
(sadness) SRP,206
WHAT
IS THE PROBLEM WITH THE HUMAN FORM?
PEOPLE WHO HAVE FORM STILL GET CAUGHT UP IN
EVERY SNAG OF THE UP AND DOWN WORLD
The nagual taught us to be dispassionate...
you still have form and are empty, so you get caught in every
snag..the world of people go up and down and people go up and down
with their world; as sorcerers we have no business following them
in their ups and downs. SRP,216.
EVERYTHING WE EXPERIENCE HAS TO BE SIFTED
THROUGH THE HUMAN FORM
Everything has to be sifted through our human
form.SRP,142. Everything we say.. is a reflection of the world of
people. You will find out before your visit is over that you talk
and act the way you do because your clinging to your human form.
SRP,153.
AS LONG AS ONE CLINGS TO THE HUMAN FORM, ONE
CAN ONLY REFLECT THAT FORM
As long as one clings to the human form, one
can only reflect that form.. SRP,137. (I think this is the best
explanation for seeing allies,mold of man,etc, as something other
than energy fields.)
SEEING ALLIES AS MONSTERS IS BECAUSE YOU
HAVEN'T LOST YOUR HUMAN FORM YET.
Seeing allies as monsters or people is because
you haven't lost your human form yet. SRP,136.
WHAT
IS LOSING THE HUMAN FORM?
LOSING THE HUMAN FORM IS LOSING OUR
SHIELDS
..I was finally losing my shields, and that
what I was experiencing was the loss of my human form and the
entrance into a new state of seperation from human affairs. EG,29.
BECAUSE OF THEIR ACTIVITIES, A WARRIORS
ASSEMBLAGE POINT MAY DRIFT PERMANENTLY TO THE LEFT WHICH RESULTS
IN THE LOSE OF THE THAT FORCE OF THE HUMAN FORM
By reason of their activities, at a given
moment the AP of warriors drift toward the left. It is a permanent
move, which results in an uncommon sense of aloofness, or control,
or even abandon. FFW,242. That drift of the AP entails a new
alignment of emanations. FFW,242
DO
WARRIORS HAVE TO LOSE THEIR FORM?
LOSING OUR HUMAN FORM IS AN OBLIGATORY STAGE
IN THE LIFE OF A WARRIOR
a moment...without any shields,
uninterruptedly at the mercy of the tumbler..an obligatory stage
in the life of a warrior. FFW,241
TO GAIN TOTALITY OF OURSELVES WE MUST LOSE THE
HUMAN FORM
Losing the human form was the essential
requirement for unifying the two attentions. SRP,256.
WHEN
DO WARRIORS LOSE THEIR HUMAN FORM?
FROM THE MOMENT A WARRIOR UNDERSTANDS THE
NATURE OF AWARENESS THEY CEASE TO BE PERSONS AND THE HUMAN
CONDITION IS NO LONGER PART OF THEIR VIEW
.....warriors have no life of their own. From
the moment they understand the nature of awareness, they cease to
be persons and the human condition is no longer part of their
view. I had my duty as a warrior and nothing else was important..
EG,306.
THE SHELL OF THE OUR LUMINOSITY MUST BE BROKEN
AT THE RIGHT TIME TO LIBERATE US
..The shell must be broken in order to
liberate that being. It must be broken from the inside at the
right time... if they fail to do so, they suffocate and die...
there is no way for a warrior to break the shell of his luminosity
until the time is right. EG,220
WHAT
HAPPENS TO US WHEN WE LOSE OUR HUMAN FORM?
ONCE THE HUMAN FORM IS LOST, WE ARE NO LONGER
BOUND BY THE CONCERNS OF THE DAILY WORLD
Once the chains are cut..we are no longer
bound by the concerns of the daily world. We are still in the
daily world, but we don't belong there anymore. In order to belong
we must share the concerns of people and without chains we can't.
POS,102...(these concerns of people are like a metaphorical dagger
in which we cut ourselves. and we act like we are bleeding
together in one big humanity. But we are not sharing anything..all
we are doing is toying with our manageable, unreal, man-made
reflections.)..sorcerers are no longer in the world of daily
affairs because they are no longer prey to their self reflection.
POS,102
DESCRIPTION OF LOSING THE HUMAN
FORM
the disintegration of her human form began in
her womb, with a severe pain and an inordinate pressure that
shifted slowly in two directions, down her legs and up to her
throat. She also said that the effects are felt immediately.
EG,29... she described a very complex series of sensations that
she had had over a period of years that culminated in a serious
illness, the climax of which was a bodily state that reminded me
of descriptions I had read of a massive heart attack. She said
that the human form, as the force that it is, left her body after
a serious internal battle that manifested itself as illness. I
became so weak that for days I couldn't even get out of my bed.
SRP,140. I woke up in the early morning
hours with an unbearable pressure in my head. it was not a
headache; it was rather a vary intense weight in my ears. I felt
it also on my eyelids and the roof of my mouth. I knew I was
feverish, but the heat was only in my head... After awhile the
pressure in my head began to disminish but it also began to shift
to my throat. I gasped for air, gagging and coughing for some
time; then the pressure moved slowly to my chest, then to my
stomach, to my groin, to my legs, and to my feet before it finally
left my body. Whatever had happened to me had taken about two
hours to unfold...during the course of those two grueling hours it
was a s if something inside my body was actually moving downward,
moving out of me.... the feeling was of something being rolled up,
it became heavier, thus more painful, as it went down. The two
areas where the pain became excruciating were my knees and my
feet, especially my right foot, which remained hot for thirty-five
minutes after all the pain and pressure had vanished. EG,112. I
found myself in a most unfaniliar state. I felt detached,
unbiased. What I felt was mot a willed indifference, or negligence
to act; neither was it alienation or even the desire to be alone.
It was rather an alien feeling of aloofness, a capability of
immersing myself in the moment and having no thoughts whatever
about anything else. People's actions no longer affected me, for I
had no more expectations of any kind. A strange peace had become
the ruling force in my life. I felt I had somehow adopted one of
the concepts of a warrior's life detachment. EG,113.
He simply did not have any more human feelings. To
him everything was equal. He had accepted his fate.
SRP,206.
HOW TO CALL THE SECOND ATTENTION WHEN YOU ARE
FORMLESS: A MOTION OF OPENING THE DOOR
When the second attention has to be called
upon to assemble itself, all that is needed is the motion of
opening the door. That's the secret of the Toltec dreamers once
they are formless. SRP,261.
WHY
IS IT IMPORTANT FOR WARRIORS TO LOSE THEIR FORM?
NEW
POSITION OF THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT
THE NEW POSITION OF THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT IS
THE BEGINNING OF A SERIES OF GREATER SHIFTS
It is the beginning of a series of greater
shifts. Seers very aptly called this initial shift losing the
human form, because it marks an inexorable movement of the AP away
from its original setting, resulting in the irreversible loss of
our affiliation to the force that makes us persons.
FFW,242
GETTING
TO THE TOTALITY OF YOURSELF
LOSING OUR HUMAN FORM BRINGS THE FREEDOM TO
REMEMBER YOUR DOUBLE
losing the human form brings freedom... the
freedom to remember yourself... The Naugal said that losing the
human form is like a spiral. it gives you freedom to remember and
this in turn makes you even freer. EG,60. ...losing the human form
was the only means of breaking that shell, the only means of
liberating that haunting luminous core, the core of awareness
which is the Eagle's food. To break the shell means remembering
the other self, and arriving at the totality of oneself. EG,220.
DETACHMENT
FROM THE CONCERNS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
WE NEED DETACHMENT TO RISE ABOVE THE MUNDANE
NEEDS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
gone was his feeling of detachment, which was
what had given him the power to love. Without that detachment, he
had only mundane needs, desperation, and hopelessness: the
distinctive features of the world of everyday life....he had
failed because his life did not have an abstract purpose..
POS,193,194
FREEDOM FOR HUMAN BEINGS. IF OUR WAREHOUSES
ARE GOING TO REMAIN FILLED WITH CAPACITY WITH THE DESIRES,
FEELINGS ,IDEAS AND OBJECTS OF OUR HUMAN INVENTORY, WHERE IS OUR
FREEDOM THEN?
We believe in a nonhuman inventory is the only
possible freedom for human beings. if our warehouses are going to
remain filled with capacity with the desires, feelings ,ideas and
objects of our human inventory, where is our freedom then?
TSC,85,86.
A
WARRIOR BECOMES IMPERSONAL AND DETACHED
THE WARRIOR HAS NO COMPASSION FOR
ANYONE
.. a warrior had no compassion for anyone.
SRP,271
WHY
ARE WARRIORS INCAPABLE OF FEELING COMPASSION?
BECAUSE WARRIORS NO LONGER FEEL SORRY FOR
THEMSELVES
Warriors are incapable of feeling compassion
because they no longer feel sorry for themselves. Without the
driving force of self-pity, compassion is
meaningless..POS,47
TO HAVE COMPASSION MEANT THAT YOU WISHED THE
OTHER PERSON TO BE JUST LIKE YOU
For him, to have compassion meant that you
wished the other person to be like you, to be in your shoes and
you just lent a hand for that purpose.For him, to have compassion
meant that you wished the other person to be like you, to be in
your shoes and you just lent a hand for that purpose. The hardest
thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be. The
impeccability of a warrior is to let them be and to support them
in what they are... not say a word..only a sorcerer who sees and
is formless can afford to help anyone. SRP,271. I could not help
my fellow beings in any way. In fact, to his understanding, every
effort to help on our part was an arbitrary act guided by our own
self-interest alone. SRP,272. (story of the snail and moving it)
SRP,272.
THE HARDEST THING IN THE WORLD IS FOR A
WARRIOR TO LET OTHERS BE.
The hardest thing in the world is for a
warrior to let others be. The impeccability of a warrior is to let
them be and to support them in what they are... not say a
word..SRP,271.
WE HELP PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS REALLY AN
ARBITRARY ACT GUIDED BY OUR OWN SELF-INTEREST ALONE
I could not help my fellow beings in any way.
In fact, to his understanding, every effort to help on our part
was an arbitrary act guided by our own self-interest alone.
SRP,272. (story of the snail and moving it) SRP,272.
WHO CAN
HELP PEOPLE?
ONLY A SORCERER WHO SEES AND IS FORMLESS CAN
AFFORD TO HELP ANYONE
only a sorcerer who sees and is formless can
afford to help anyone. SRP,271.
COLDNESS IS NOT CRUELTY OR HEARTLESSNESS BUT
AN UNBENDING ATTACHMENT
I remember what Clara had told me, that
coldness is not cruelty or heartlessness but an unbending
detachment. At last I knew what it meant to be without pity.
TSC,182.
FREEDOM WAS BEING FREE FROM HUMAN
COMPASSION..BEING FREE FROM HUMANNESS DOESN'T MEAN SUCH AN IDIOTIC
THING AS NOT POSSESSING WARMTH OR COMPASSION
freedom was being free from human
compassion..being free from humanness doesn't mean such an idiotic
thing as not possessing warmth or compassion... although my mind
cannot conceive of it either, believe me it exists
(freedom)...TSC,66
I've told you that for us freedom is to be
free from humanness. And that includes God, good and evil, the
saints, the Virgin and the Holy Ghost. TSC,85,86. Freedom to us is
being free from humanness. The Chinese immortals were caught in
their myths of immortality, of being wise, of having liberated
themselves, of coming back to earth to guide others along the way.
They were scholars, musicians, possessors of supernatural powers.
They were righteous and whimsical, very much like the classical
Greek gods. Even nirvana is a human state, in which bliss is being
free from the flesh. TSC,65,66.
THE LIFE OF A WARRIOR CANNOT POSSIBLY BE COLD
AND LONELY AND WITHOUT FEELINGS..BECAUSE IT IS BASED ON HIS
AFFECTION, HIS DEVOTION, DEDICATION TO HIS BELOVED.
The life of a warrior cannot possibly be cold
and lonely and without feelings..because it is based on his
affection, his devotion, dedication to his beloved.
TOP,280.
THE WARRIOR WHO APPEARS COLD AND
UNCOMPASSIONATE BECAUSE THEY REFLECT THE ABSTRACT WHICH IS
IMPERSONAL
another thing the ancient Chinese seekers
believed in was that invisiblity is the corallary of having
attained a calm indifference... they (the eyes of a fighting cock)
reflect an indescribable indifference, something also found in the
eyes of beings who have made the great crossing. For instead of
looking outwardly at the world, they have turned inwardly to gaze
at that which is not yet present.. The eye that gazes inwardly is
immovable.. It reflects not human concerns or fears, but the
vastness. Seers who have gazed at the boundless have attested that
the boundless stares back with a cold, unyielding indifference.
TSC,67.
WHY
IS IT IMPORTANT FOR A WARRIOR TO BE DETACHED?
TO
BE SUCCESSFUL WITH OTHER PEOPLE
WE BELIEVE IN A NONHUMAN INVENTORY IS THE ONLY
POSSIBLE
ANY WARRIOR CAN BE SUCCESSFUL WITH PEOPLE..
PROVIDED HE MOVES HIS AP TO A POSITION WHERE IT IS IMMATERIAL
WHETHER PEOPLE LIKE HIM, DISLIKE HIM, OR IGNORE HIM
...Any warrior can be successful with people..
provided he moves his AP to a position where it is immaterial
whether people like him, dislike him, or ignore him.
FFW,207.
NOT
WASTE THEIR ENERGY
SINCE SORCERERS ARE NO LONGER CONCERNED WITH
THE WORLD, ALL THE AVAILABLE ENERGY OF SORCERER'S IS POURED INTO
NEW PATHS
The involvements of men and women are no
longer our concern.. That means we are not interested in man's
mortality, immortality or even amorality. All our energy is poured
into exploring new paths. TSC,139. And more than anything else,
the art of sorcerers is never to waste their power.
SRP,216.
CAN
ASSESS A SITUATION
BEING FORMLESS GIVES YOU A FEW MOMENTS TO
ASSESS A SITUATION
DJ said that detachment did not automatically
mean wisdom, but that it was, nonetheless, an advantage because it
allowed the warrior to pause momentarily to reassess situations,
to reconsider positions. EG,113. In order to use that extra moment
consistently and correctly... a warrior had to struggle
unyieldingly for a lifetime. EG,113. The advantage of being
formless is that it allows us a moment's pause, providing that we
have the self-discipline and courage to utilize it.
EG,125.
SEE
EVERYTHING AS IT IS
WHEN WE HAVE NO FORM, THEN NOTHING HAS
FORM
When we have no more form, then nothing has
form and yet everything is present. SRP,142.
HOW
DO WARRIORS LOSE THEIR HUMAN FORM?
IMPECCABILITY ALSO IS THE ONLY WAY TO LOSE THE
HUMAN FORM
..impeccability was not only freedom but it
was the only way to scare away the human form. SRP,247
TOP,191
WHAT
ARE THE CONSEQUENCES FROM LOSING YOUR HUMAN FORM?
A WARRIOR WITHOUT FORM BEGINS TO SEE AN EYE
WHICH IS USED FOR DREAMING
a warrior without form begins to see an eye. I
saw an eye in front of me every time I closed my eyes. The
formless warrior uses that eye to start dreaming. If you don't
have a form, you don't have to go to sleep to do dreaming. The eye
pulls you every time you want to go. SRP,141. The eye pulls me in
and I enter another world. Most of the time I just wander around
it. SRP,145....sometimes the eye is very small and sometimes it is
enormous..when it is small your dreaming is precise. If it's big
your dreaming is like flying over the mountains and not seeing
much. One day when I become truly formless I won't see the eye
anymore; the eye will become just like me, nothing, and yet it'll
be there like the allies. SRP,142. For them the eye was not even
an eye; they said it was an orange light, like the sun. SRP,149.
Description of using the eye to pull you somewhere.
SRP,149.
DANGERS
OF LOSING FORM
FORMLESSNESS IS, IF ANYTHING, A DETRIMENT TO
SOBRIETY AND LEVELHEADEDNESS. THERE IS NO AUTOMATIC EMOTIONAL
STRENGTH INVOLVED IN IT. AN ASPECT OF BEING DETACHED, THE CAPACITY
TO BECOME IMMERSED IN WHATEVER ONE IS DOING, NATURALLY EXTENDS TO
EVERYTHING ONE DOES, INCLUDING BEING INCONSISTENT, AND OUTRIGHT
PETTY.
formlessness is, if anything, a detriment to
sobriety and levelheadedness. There is no automatic emotional
strength involved in it. An aspect of being detached, the capacity
to become immersed in whatever one is doing, naturally extends to
everything one does, including being inconsistent, and outright
petty. EG,125. She had been formless for years without the
self-discipline and courage to utilize it. EG,125. thus she had
been at the mercy of drastic shifts of mood, and incredible
discrepancies between her actions and her purposes.
EG,126...
13.
SEEING
WHY
SHOULD WE GET TO THE DOUBLE?
WHEN THE ENERGY BODY IS COMPLETE, SORCERERS
CAN ALWAYS SEE ENERGY.
When the energy body is complete sorcerers see
energy every time they gaze at an item in the daily world.
TAOD,164
HOW
DO WE LEARN TO SEE?
STOPPING THE WORLD IS THE FIRST STEP TO
SEEING
His contention was that he was teaching me how
to see as opposed to merely looking and that stopping the world
was the first step to seeing. JTI,ix... seeing happens only when
the warrior is capable of stopping the internal dialogue. TOP,31.
Seeing of course is the final accomplishment of a man of knowledge
and seeing is attained only when one has stopped the world through
the technique of not-doing. JTI,194. Genaro kept you busy turning
over rocks in order to distract your thoughts and allow your body
to see. JTI,255. Clara stressed that for us to fix our attention
on any abstract manifestation, we have to merge the known with the
unknown in a spontaneous amalgamation. in this way, we can engage
our reason yet at the same time be indifferent to it... TSC,88 An
opening in the energy field around us is an abstract
manifestation... but don't expect to feel it or see it in the same
manner you feel and see the concrete world. Something else takes
place... TSC,88
SEEING IS FOR IMPECCABLE MEN
Seeing is for impeccable men. Temper your
spirit now, become a warrior, learn to see, and then you'll know
that there is no end to the new worlds for our vision.
SR,154.
SEEING HAS TO BE LEARNED
Seeing is not a matter of looking and keeping
quiet,..seeing is a technique one has to learn. Or maybe it is a
technique some of us already know. SR,164,165 Seeing is learned by
seeing. SR,170. ...Sorcerers perceive the energetic elements for
the same reason (as average people are able to perceive only the
physical elements) because they were taught to do so.
TAOD,185.
USE DREAMING WITH SEEING
warriors should never attempt seeing unless
they are aided by dreaming..with practice, seers learn to be
asleep and yet behave as if nothing is happening to them. FFW,238.
LIVE GUIDED BY YOUR SEEING/DON'T HAVE TO BE A
WARRIOR
I understand the world and live guided by my
seeing. If a man sees he doesn't have to live like a warrior, or
anything else, for he can see things as they really are and direct
his life accordingly. SR,149 Upon learning to see he no longer
needs to live like a warrior, nor be a sorcerer. Seeing is very
difficult and is not a matter of talk. SR,105. Old sorcerers
learned everything by themselves through seeing.
FFW,23...
DESCRIPTION OF HOW TO SEE THE COCOON OF
MAN
one has to gaze at people from behind, as they
walk away. FFW,238...he told me then to relax my muscles, shut off
my internal dialogue, and let my AP drift away under the spell of
inner silence. He urged me to smack myself gently but firmly on my
right side, between my hipbone and my ribcage. I did that three
times and I was sound asleep. My body was dormant but I was
perfectly aware of everything that was taking place.
FFW,238.
DANGERS ON THE SORCERER'S PATH
FOCUSING ON THE LEFT SIDE STEADILY CAN BE A
TRAP - HOOKED INTO THE OLD SORCERER'S WORLD
He emphasized that the urge to turn awareness
steadily to the left is a trap infinitely more deadly than the
attractions of the world of everyday life because of the mystery
and power inherent in it. TSC,237. what makes the warrior's path
so dangerous is that it is the opposite of the life situation of
modern man... to be given a chance to go back again to the mystery
of the world.. is sometimes too much for warriors and they
succumb, they forget the quest for freedom; they forget to be
unbiased witnesses. They sink into the unknown and love it.
FFW.167.
THE SECOND ATTENTION CAN BE FIXED ON THINGS ON
THIS WORLD FOR THEIR OWN GAIN OR IT CAN BE FIXED ON ITEMS NOT ON
THIS WORLD.
the fixation of the SA has two faces. The
first and easiest face is the evil one. It happens when dreamers
use their dreaming to focus their SA on the items of the world,
like money and power over people. the other face is the most
difficult to reach and it happens when dreamers focus their SA on
items that are not in or from this world, such as the journey into
the unknown. Warriors need endless impeccability in order to reach
this face. EG,20.
14.
DANGERS IN THE SECOND ATTENTION
DANGERS
ON THE SORCERER'S PATH
FOCUSING ON THE LEFT SIDE STEADILY CAN BE A
TRAP - HOOKED INTO THE OLD SORCERER'S WORLD
He emphasized that the urge to turn awareness
steadily to the left is a trap infinitely more deadly than the
attractions of the world of everyday life because of the mystery
and power inherent in it. TSC,237. what makes the warrior's path
so dangerous is that it is the opposite of the life situation of
modern man... to be given a chance to go back again to the mystery
of the world.. is sometimes too much for warriors and they
succumb, they forget the quest for freedom; they forget to be
unbiased witnesses. They sink into the unknown and love it.
FFW.167.
THE SECOND ATTENTION CAN BE FIXED ON THINGS ON
THIS WORLD FOR THEIR OWN GAIN OR IT CAN BE FIXED ON ITEMS NOT ON
THIS WORLD.
the fixation of the SA has two faces. The
first and easiest face is the evil one. It happens when dreamers
use their dreaming to focus their SA on the items of the world,
like money and power over people. the other face is the most
difficult to reach and it happens when dreamers focus their SA on
items that are not in or from this world, such as the journey into
the unknown. Warriors need endless impeccability in order to reach
this face. EG,20.
DANGERS
IN THE SECOND ATTENTION
THE ACTIONS OF THE NAGUAL ARE
DEADLY.
the actions of the nagual are deadly... if you
don't have enough power to parry the nagual's onslaught, you're
dead, regardless of my help or Genaro's concern.
TOP,186.
YOU MAY DIE IF YOU COME INTO DIRECT PHYSICAL
CONTACT WITH THE NAGUAL
You must be concerned with the nagual only at
certain moments..the rest of the time you and I are alike like all
the other people on this earth..you have to exert the most
demanding vigil to be sure when a man is a nagual and when a man
is simply a man. You may die if you come into direct physical
contact with the nagual. TOP,182.
IS
HUNTING POWER SAFE?
POWER WAS A DEVASTATING FORCE THAT COULD
EASILY LEAD TO ONE'S DEATH AND HAD TO BE TREATED WITH GREAT
CARE.
Power was a devastating force that could
easily lead to one's death and had to be treated with great
care.JTI,104.
TO VENTURE INTO THE UNKNOWN WITHOUT POWER IS
STUPID, YOU MUST BE CAREFUL WHEN ONE IS DEALING WITH
POWER
Death is always waiting, and when the
warrior's power wanes death simply taps him. Thus, to venture into
the unknown without any power is stupid. One will only find death.
JTI,135.You must be infinitely careful. When one is dealing with
power, one has to be perfect. mistakes are deadly here.
JTI,147.
BECOMING AVAILABLE TO POWER HAD TO BE DONE
SYSTEMATICALLY, BUT ALWAYS WITH GREAT CAUTION.
Becoming available to power had to be done
systematically, but always with great
caution...JTI,104.
WHAT
CAN HAPPEN WHEN SOMEONE HAS POWER?
MAN'S THIRD NATURAL ENEMY IS POWER: IT CAN
TURN SOMEONE INTO A CRUEL, CAPRICIOUS MAN
His third enemy. Power! Power is the strongest
of all enemies. And naturally the easiest thing to do is to give
in; after all, the man is truly invincible. He commands; he begins
by taking calculated risks, and ends in making rules, because he
is master. A man at this stage hardly notices his third enemy
closing in on him. And suddenly, without knowing, he will
certainly have lost the battle. His enemy will have turned him
into a cruel, capricious man. TDJ,86.. he will never lose his
clarity or power. A man who is defeated by power dies without
really knowing how to handle it. Power is only a burden upon his
fate. Such a man has no command over himself, and cannot tell when
or how to use his power....TDJ,86.
HOW TO DEFEAT POWER: HE HAS TO DEFY IT,
DELIBERATELY AND REALIZE THE POWER WAS NEVER REALLY
HIS
To defeat the third enemy... he has to defy
it, deliberately. He has to come to realize the power he has
seemingly conquered is in reality never his. He must keep himself
in line at all times, handling carefully and faithfully all that
he has learned. If he can see that clarity and power, without his
control over himself, are worse than mistakes, he will reach a
point where everything is held in check. He will know then when
and how to use his power. And thus he will have defeated his third
enemy. TDJ,87.
WHAT
TO DO IF YOU ARE IN DANGER IN THE SECOND ATTENTION
NEVER TURN TO ONE'S LEFT WHEN FACING THE
NAGUAL
one should never turn to one's left when
facing the nagual. He said that the nagual was deadly and there
was no need to make the risks more dangerous than they already
were. TOP,168
THE ONLY WAY TO FEND OFF THE NAGUAL WAS TO
REMAIN UNALTERED.
the only way to fend off the nagual was to
remain unaltered. TOP,185.
LOOK AT THE NAGUAL AS IF IT WERE AN EVERYDAY
AFFAIR
...the only way to look at the nagual is as if
it were a common affair. TOP,169
NEVER LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE NAGUAL
...when one is dealing with the nagual, one
should never look into it directly TOP,169
MOVE YOUR EYES IN A CLOCKWISE DIRECTION IF
BEING ENVELOPED BY AN UNUSUAL FORCE
DJ told me that I should move my eyes in a
clockwise direction if I felt that I was being enveloped by an
unusual force.. FFW,112, 113.
BLINK TO BREAK THE FIXATION OF THE
NAGUAL
One must blink in order to break the fixation.
TOP,169
OR SHIFT YOUR EYES TO BREAK THE
FIXATION
Another thing one should do when facing the
nagual is to shift the line of the eyes from time to time, in
order to break the spell of the nagual. Changing the position of
the eyes always eases the burden of the tonal. this shifting
should only be done as a relief, though, not as another way of
palisading yourself to safeguard the order of the tonal. My bet
would be that you would strive to use this technique to hide the
rationality of your tonal behind it, and thus believe you're
saving it from extinction. the flaw of your reasoning is that
nobody wants or seeks the extinction of the tonal's rationality.
That fear is ill founded. TOP,170.
DEFENSIVE
POSITION
WHAT
IS THE DEFENSIVE POSITION?
THE FIGHTING FORM WAS PART OF A DEFENSE
TECHNIQUE USED IN CASES OF EXTREME DISTRESS AND DANGER
The fighting form was part of a defense
technique used in cases of extreme distress and danger. SR,161.
Then he gave me precise instructions about a
fighting form, a specific bodily position to be maintained while I
remained on my beneficial. I had to maintain this posture he
called a form. TDJ,175.... and it (the fighting form) had to be
used if I was attacked. TDJ,176. He warned me that the form had to
be adopted only in moments of extreme crisis, but so long as there
was no danger in sight I should simply sit cross-legged on my
spot. TDJ,176
HOW
DO YOU DO THE DEFENSIVE POSITION?
DESCRIPTION OF TECHNIQUE
The young changed positions and sat with their
left legs tucked under their seats.... this was posture that a
sorcerer used when things were uncertain JTI,205.
I was sitting with my knees against my chest. He
corrected my position and told me to sit with my left leg tucked
under my seat and my right one bent, with the knee in an upward
position. My right arm had to be by my side with my fist resting
on the ground, while my left arm was crossed over my chest. He
told me to face him and stay there, relaxed but not abandoned.
SR,160. If something came at me in a very
menacing way I had to adopt a fighting form that he had taught me
years before, which consisted of dancing, beating the ground with
the tip of the left foot, while I slapped my right thigh
vigorously. SR,161. sitting in vigil.. tuck
my right leg under my left thigh and keep my left leg in a squat
position. SR,202.It consisted of clapping the calf and thigh of my
right leg and stomping my left foot in a kind of dance I had to do
while facing the attacker. TDJ,176.
WHY IS
THE LEG TUCKED?
THE TUCKED LEG WAS USED AS A SPRING IN ORDER
TO STAND UP WITH GREAT SPEED IF NECESSARY
he explained that the tucked leg was used as a
spring in order to stand up with great speed, if it were
necessary. SR,202.
REALLY
DANGEROUS SITUATION
HURLING AN OBJECT AT THE ENEMY WITH A WAR
CRY
Under circumstances of extreme danger... he
said I could resort to one last means of defence-hurling an object
at the enemy. He told me that ordinarily one hurls a power object,
but since I did not possess any I was forced to use any small rock
that would fit into the palm of my right hand, a rock I could hold
by pressing it against my palm with my thumb. He said that such a
technique should be used only if one was indisputably in danger of
losing one's life. The hurling of the object had to be accompanied
by a war cry, a yell that had the property of directing the object
to its mark. he emphatically recommended careful and deliberate
about the outcry and not use it at random, but only under severe
conditions of seriousness. TDJ,176
WAR CRY/YELLING
THE YELL OF A WARRIOR WAS ONE OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT ISSUES OF SORCERY,
the yell of a warrior was one of the most
important issues of sorcery, and that don Genaro was capable of
focusing on his yell, using it as a vehicle. TOP,176.
DESCRIPTION OF THE WAR CRY
He said that the outcry or war cry was
something that remained with a man for the duration of his life;
thus it had to be good from the very beginning. And the only way
to start it correctly was by holding back one's natural fear and
haste until one was absolutely filled with power, and then the
yell would burst out with direction and power. He said these were
the conditions of seriousness needed to launch the yell.
TDJ,176.
I asked him to explain about the power that
was supposed to fill one before the outcry. he said that was
something that ran through the body coming from the ground where
one stood; it was a kind power that emanated from the beneficial
spot, to be exact. It was a force that pushed the yell out. If
such a force was properly managed, the battle cry would be
perfect. TDJ,176.
yelling was necessary to make our presence
known, because I had to make myself accesible to the power of that
specific water hole. JTI,95
NAME CALLING
the calling of a name was a serious matter,
especially if one was learning to tame an ally power...names were
reserved to be used only when one was calling for help, in moments
of great stress and need, and he assured me that such moments
happen sooner or later in the life of whoever seeks knowledge.
TDJ,58.
SHIELDS
WHY
DO WE NEED SHIELDS?
WHENEVER A SORCERER HAS AN ENCOUNTER WITH ANY
OF THOSE INEXPLICABLE AND UNBENDING FORCES..HIS GAP OPENS, MAKING
HIM MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO HIS DEATH THAN HE ORDINARILY
IS
Whenever a sorcerer has an encounter with any
of those inexplicable and unbending forces..his gap opens, making
him more susceptible to his death than he ordinarily is;
SR,216,217
IF ONE IS A WARRIOR THEN THEY HAVE THEIR WILL
TO FILL THAT GAP
I've told you that we die through that gap,
therefore if it is open one should have his will ready to fill it;
that is, if one is a warrior. SR,216,217
IF ONE IS NOT A WARRIOR YET, THEN WE MUST USE
ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIFE TO TAKE ONE'S MIND AWAY FROM THE FRIGHT
OF THE ENCOUNTER AND THUS ALLOW ONE'S GAP TO CLOSE.
if one is not a warrior, like yourself, then
one has no other recourse but to use the activities of daily life
to take one's mind away from the fright of the encounter and thus
allow one's gap to close. SR,216,217.
A WARRIOR MUST USE EVERYTHING TO CLOSE HIS
MORTAL GAP ONCE IT IS OPEN
A warrior must use everything available to him
to close his mortal gap once it opens. TOP,76.
A WARRIOR DELIBERATELY SELECTS THE ITEMS THAT
MAKE HIS WORLD FOR EVERY ITEM HE CHOOSES IS A SHIELD THAT PROTECTS
HIM FROM THE DANGERS OF THE SECOND ATTENTION
a warrior selects the items that make his
world. He selects deliberately, for every item he chooses is a
shield that protects him from the onslaughts of the forces he is
striving to use. A warrior would use his shields to protect
himself from his ally, for instance. SR,216,217. You cannot
surround yourself with things helter-skelter any longer. SR,217.
AN APPRENTICE MUST BE ALWAYS READY FOR AN
ENCOUNTER WITH THE SECOND ATTENTION WHICH COULD OPEN OUR GAP AND
KILL US
a warrior encounters those inexplicable and
unbending forces because he deliberately seeking them, thus he is
always prepared for the encounter. You.. are never prepared for
it. in fact, if those forces come to you they will take you by
surprise; the fright will open your gap and your life will
irresistibly escape through it. The first thing you must do, then,
is be prepared. Think that the ally is going to pop in front in
front of your eyes any minute and you must be ready for him. To
meet an ally is no party.. and the warrior takes the
responsibility of protecting his life. Then if any of those forces
tap you and open your gap, you must deliberately strive to close
it by yourself. For that purpose you must have a selected number
of things that give you great peace and pleasure, things which you
can deliberately use to take your thoughts from your fright and
close your gap and you solid. SR,217.
ENERGY SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON THE SPIRIT, NOT ON
SHIELDS
the recommendation for warriors is not to have
any material things on which to focus their power, but to focus it
on the spirit, on the true flight into the unknown, not on trivial
shields. EG,21.