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
 
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
 
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.......
 
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..
 
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.
 
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....
 
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
 
THEY LEARN TO SEE
Fourth: they learn to see. FFW,39
 
3. TEACHERS FOR THE SORCERER'S WAY
 
WHY DO WE NEED TEACHERS?
 
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
 
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
 
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.
 
SOME PEOPLE DON'T NEED A TEACHER
 
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
 
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
 
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.
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
WHY DO PEOPLE HAVE A HARD TIME WITHOUT A TEACHER?
 
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.
 
SOME THINGS THAT A TEACHER DOES
 
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.
 
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
 
HOW DOES A TEACHER DECIDE ON AN APPRENTICE?
 
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
 
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.
 
THE NAGUAL AS IT REFERS TO THE PERSON
 
WHAT IS A NAGUAL?
 
LEADER OF A PARTY OF SORCERERS
....leader of a party of sorcerers. TAOD, 10
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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....
 
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.
 
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.
 
HOW DOES ONE BECOME A NAGUAL?
 
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.
 
ADVANTAGES/DISADVANTAGES OF A NAGUAL
 
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....