Part III. - The Sorcerer's Way
A.) SORCERY
1. SORCERY EXPLAINED
How do we revamp our understanding of the world?
Why should we revamp our world?
What is sorcery?
Why is it called sorcery?
Sorcery contradiction
Sorcery's negative reputation
2. TYPES OF SORCERER'S
What is a sorcerer?
Characteristics of sorcerer's
Shine of a sorcerer's eye
Types of sorcerer's
Seers
What are some other names of sorcery?
What is the ultimate goal of sorcery?
Is sorcery a better life than the average normal one?
3. HISTORY OF SORCERY
How did sorcery start?
What is a toltec?
What does the word "toltec" mean?
When did the toltecs exist?
Where did they live?
What kind of jobs did they do?
What sorcery did they develop?
What were the characteristics of the toltecs?
What happened to the toltecs?
Sorcerers of today/new seers
What is the philosophy and characteristics of the new seers?
How do the new sorcerers organize their lineage?
Shaminism
What is it?
Who practises shaminism?
B.) SORCERER'S WAY
1. RATIONAL FOR SORCERER'S WAY
How does sorcery teach us to reach this ultimate goal?
What is the definition of the sorcerer's way?
What are the other names of the sorcerer's way?
What is impeccability?
What is the rationality behind sorcery/sorcerer's way?
What is the sorcery's explanation?
And that everything around us is only a perception
The world is a mystery
And this perception can be manipulated
Perception is controlled by where the assemblage point is fixed so manipulating the assemblage point becomes the most important goal of a sorcerer
What is the purpose of the second attention for new sorcerers?
Why do sorcerer go to other worlds?
Where does the energy come from to move the ap?
But to manipulate the assemblage point means to have freed internal energy
Since all of our energy is wrapped up in dealing with ourselves, the sorcerer's needed a code or a way of life that frees up energy and can handle the dangers of the second attention
How does the sorcerer's way/impeccability free our existing energy?
Good summerizations of losing self-importance
How does losing your self-importance free our energy?
What happens when we free our energy?
When sorcerers move the assemblage point enough, sorcerers learn to "see"
What does it mean to "see"?
How does seeing come about?
What is the difference between looking and seeing?
Do things change when you see?
Ultimate reality
Everything unimportant
Our new energy then becomes power
Personal power
What is power?
With that power, a sorcerer can accomplish their goal of regaining the totality of ourselves
Wings of perception/jumping into the abyss
Overall sorcerer's explanation for the abstract flight (review)
What else does the sorcerer's way accomplish?
Flaws in the warrior's way
No final step to the sorcerer's explanation
2. TEACHING THE SORCERER'S WAY
How is sorcery taught?
Sorcery is taught on two different levels
The 21 abstract cores in sorcery are taught using stories and in different shades of realizations
Sorcery is taught using concreteness
What is concreteness?
Do these concrete practices of sorcery have any real value?
The warriors path
Are people ever born as a warrior?
Do we need help on the warrior's path?
Why do we have to face the nagual alone?
What are the steps on the warrior's path?
First: becoming an apprentice.
How does someone become an apprentice?
What is a nagual's mark?
When do apprentices usually drop out?
Do apprentices ever go back to the warrior's way?
How does an apprentice know they are finished with their apprenticeship?
How long does it take for an apprentice to finish their apprenticeship?
Second: becoming a warrior
Why does one become a warrior?
How are warrior's organized?
What is a dreamer?
What is a stalker?
How does one become a warrior?
During these four stages the warrior will lose their human form
What will a person become after finishing these four stages?
5 attributes of warriorship
General description of a warrior
Who makes better warriors? Men or women?
Men
Women
Is it difficult in becoming a warrior?
Length of time to become a warrior
Third: becoming men of knowldege
When does a man become a man of knowledge?
What is a man of knowledge?
Fourth: becoming a seer
3. TEACHERS FOR THE SORCERER'S WAY
Why do we need teachers?
Some people don't need a teacher
Why do people have a hard time without a teacher?
Some things that a teacher does
How does a teacher decide on an apprentice?
The nagual as it refers to the person
What is a nagual?
How does one become a nagual?
Advantages/disadvantages of a nagual
C.) ENTERING THE SECOND ATTENTION
1. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
Entering the second attention
General requirements to get to the second attention
Completeness
Physical body
Entering the second attention
What are some general ways that get us to the second attention?
Is it difficult to enter the second attention?
What is intending?
How does one intend?
How long does it take to connect with intent?
What can sorcerer's do with their intent?
Techniques for intending
Why is intent beckoned with the eyes?
Using your eyes as a way to move the ap
How does a warrior get to the nagual through his will?
What conditions allow for the development of will?
When does will come out?
When does will not come out?
How does the will work?
How does a sorcerer use death to tune his/her will?
2. STOPPING THE WORLD
What is stopping the world?
What is the importance of stopping the world?
How do we stop the world?
What is shutting off our internal dialogue?
What happens when we shut off our internal dialogue?
How do we shut off our internal dialogue?
Description of stopping the internal dialogue
How does fixing our attention make us lose our self-reflection?
What are some ways to help lose our self-importance?
General
Technique/methods for shutting off the internal dialogue
Not-doings
What are not-doings?
What happens when we not-do?
Examples of not-doing
1. Losing personal history
Why do we need to lose our personal history?
How do you erase your personal history?
Is losing our personal history easier for men or women?
2. Changing routines, rituals and habits
All of our actions as normal humans are doings
How do we establish new routines?
How do we establish repetition in our daily world?
What is morbidity?
Disrupting routines
3. Gait of power
What is the gait of power?
Walking the assemblage point: how the gait of power works
Doing the gait of power
4. Gazing
What is the purpose of gazing?
How long do people gaze?
How do you gaze?
Types of gazing
5. The right way of walking
What is the right way of walking?
Why is the right way of walking so effective?
6. Sounds
A few more other techniques of not doing..
3. POWER PLANTS
What is the purpose of hallucinogenic plants?
Who are power plants given to?
What are the dangers of power plants?
Did don juan need to smoke the power plants?
Why did don juan use anthropomorphic qualities when describing the plant?
Types of power plants
Mescalito
What is it?
What is its purpose?
How do you get to know mescalito?
How do you know mescalito accepts you?
What were the songs of mescilito for?
Devil's weed (jimson weed)
What is it?
Little smoke
What is it?
4. CLEANING OUR WHAREHOUSE/TONAL
What is cleaning your warehouse?
Why do we have to clean our warehouse?
How do sorcerer's clean their tonal? (called shrinking the tonal)
You must talk to the tonal to give up control
Is cleaning your tonal easy?
Dangers of hurting our tonal
5. SORCERER'S BLOW
What is heightened awareness's purpose for sorcerer's?
How does a sorcerer go into heightened awareness?
What kinds of dents are there?
What determines the kind of dent?
How long do the cocoons stay dented?
How does the dent change our perception?
What is the mechanism for creating the dent?
Sorcerer's maneuver/the nagual's blow
Where does the nagual hit you?
How does heightened awareness affect someone in the everyday world?
6. STORING POWER
How do we store power?
How do we know power is being stored?
How long does it take to store power?
Ways of getting power....
From the earth
From the sun
From the wind
Senses
Empty gourd
Jogging on one spot
Walking in a power person's footprint
Inorganic being world
Sexual energy
Why do we need to save sexual energy?
Gifts of power
Power spots
What are power spots?
Types of power spots
Colors associated with power spots
Conditions for using a power spot
Dangers of power spots
Finding power spots
How long does it take to find a power spot?
Power objects
7. DREAMING
What happens in normal dreaming?
What happens when we are in normal sleep?
What dreaming is not
What is dreaming?
1. Practices to recondition our energy so that we can Increase our perception (move the ap)
2. Being aware in our dreams and having control
3. Dreaming is used to develop the double
4. Dreaming is a way to get to the nagual,safely
5. We are trying to find energy-generating items in our dreams
Looking for inorganic beings/scouts in our dreams
What are scouts?
Why do we want to follow the scouts?
How do we find scouts?
Stages of dreaming
1. Restful state
2. Dynamic vigil
3. Passive witnessing
4. Dynamic initiative
What's essential for dreaming?
1. Energy is necessary to do dreaming
2. You must convince yourself you are a dreamer/which develops into unbending intent/persistence
3. Dreaming must be done with sobriety
4
. Dreaming should be taught while in normal awareness because it is safer
5. A dreamer must start from a point of color
6. To do dreaming one needs to manipulate both the luminous and physical bodies
7. In dreaming, we must focus on dream items the same way we do in everyday life
8. Techniques to help dreaming: disrupting routines, the gait of power, not-doing and recapitulation
Where to do dreaming?
When is the best time to do dreaming?
What are the positions of dreaming?
What is the best way to enter dreaming?
Setting up dreaming
1. Sustain the image of something in your dream
2. Traveling to certain places while dreaming
3. Getting the double to focus on itself/seeing
Oneself in bed/dreaming the double
Gates of dreaming
First gate of dreaming: being aware when you are falling asleep and during
dreaming
Second gate of dreaming
Third gate of dreaming
The fourth gate of dreaming
Experiences while dreaming
Description of cc dreams
8. STALKING
What is the art of stalking?
What is the purpose of stalking?
How does stalking move the assemblage point?
The four foundations of stalking
1. Ruthlessness: the place of no pity/the second point
What is ruthlessness?
When do you experience ruthlessness?
2. Cunning, (not cruelty) but nice
3. Patient (not negligance) but active
4. Sweetness (not foolishness) but lethal
The seven principle's of the art of stalking (two #1s were given in different books)
1. Warriors choose their battleground
1. Warriors stalk themselves
Why do sorcerers stalk themselves?
How do stalkers stalk themselves?
2. Discard everything that is unnecessary
3. Use all your concentration to decide whether to enter into battle.
4. Relax, abandon yourself and let the powers guide us
5. When odds are bad, retreat for a moment, occupy their minds
6. Warriors compress time even for an instant
7. Warrior never pushes himself to the front
Results of stalking
Applying the seven principles brings about three results.
1. Stalkers learn to never take themselves seriously
2. Stalkers learn to have endless patience
3. Stalkers learn to have an endless capacity to survive
How do stalkers stalk?
General
Some types of stalking
Specific techniques for stalking
What is the main behavioral situation that stalkers want?
What is a petty tyrant?
What turns people into petty tyrants?
What is the purpose for the sorcerer's use of a petty tyrant?
How do stalkers handle themselves after moving their assemblage point?
What is controlled folly?
What is the purpose for controlled folly?
But does contol folly mean warrior's acts are insincere?
Why does a sorcerer go on living if nothing matters?
Recapitulation
What is the recapitulation?
What is the purpose of recapitulation?
How old is the recapitulation?
What is the key to the recapitulation?
How does breathing get back the lost energy?
What are the results from the recapitulation?
How long do you recapitulate?
How long does it take to make the recapitulation list?
What do you need while recapitulating or need to do?
When and where do you recapitulate?
What is the purpose of the crate?
How do you recapitulate?
What are the dangers of recapitulation?
9. SORCERY PASSES (THESE ARE THE FIRST DESCRIPTIONS ABOUT TENSEGRITY - HOWEVER THEY WERE REFERRED TO AS SORCERY PASSES)
What is the purpose of the sorcery passes?
How long do you do the passes?
How often do you do the passes?
Types of passes
Movements for keeping a young appearance
Movements to help the physical body
Movements for balancing our internal energy
Movements for gathering energy
Movements for directing energy
Movements to bring out the double
Movements for getting to the nagual
10. GETTING TO THE DOUBLE
What do we need to get to the double?
How does a warrior get to the double?
General
The gates of our body
How do we open the gates of our body?
What are some consequences of opening your gates?
Why do animals not like it if some of our gates are open?
Experiencing when the double comes out
How should the double be released?
What happens to you when your double becomes free?
The separation of the double from the physical body
What causes the cracking sound?
What are the dangers of releasing your double?
What do we do with the double once its come out?
Controlling the double
What is merging?
Casting energy lines
Seeing energy lines
How could you feel these energy lines?
How do you handle a double thats violent?
Moving in the second attention with your double
What are some techniques to get to the double?
Sound
Sorcery passes
11. SORCERER'S RECOLLECTION
What is it?
What is the difference between remembering and recollecting?
What is the purpose for the sorcerer's recollection?
How do we recollect?
How long does it take to recollect?
12. LOSING THE HUMAN FORM
What is the human form?
What is the problem with the human form?
What is losing the human form?
Do warriors have to lose their form?
When do warriors lose their human form?
What happens to us when we lose our human form?
Why is it important for warriors to lose their form?
New position of the assemblage point
Getting to the totality of yourself
Detachment from the concerns of everyday life
A warrior becomes impersonal and detached
Why are warriors incapable of feeling compassion?
Who can help people?
Why is it important for a warrior to be detached?
To be successful with other people
Not waste their energy
Can assess a situation
See everything as it is
How do warriors lose their human form?
What are the consequences from losing your human form?
Dangers of losing form
13. SEEING
Why should we get to the double?
How do we learn to see?
14. DANGERS ON THE SORCERER'S PATH
Dangers on the sorcerer's path
Dangers in the second attention
Is hunting power safe?
What can happen when someone has power?
What to do if you are in danger in the second attention
Defensive position
What is the defensive position?
How do you do the defensive position?
Why is the leg tucked?
Really dangerous situation
Shields
Why do we need shields?
D.) ENTERING THE THIRD ATTENTION
Is the third attention easy to enter?
How do we enter the third attention?
How do we see the force or experience it?
Is it dangerous to see the rolling force?
E.) A WARRIOR'S LIFE
1. PATH WITH A HEART
Destiny of a warrior/choosing a path
Choosing a path with heart
How do you know it is a path with heart?
Leaving a path
The world of day-to-day life
Living itself is sufficient in the journey
2. THE MIND/RATIONAL
What is the mind?
What does the mind do?
How do sorcerers use/control their minds?
Thinking
Realizations/understanding new things
There are two kinds of realizations
Learning
Rationalizing/seeking explanations
Wisdom
3. MAKING CHANGES
Making changes in our lives
4. STRATEGY
How does a warrior live?
Availability of a warrior
Inventories used as strategy
5. DEATH AS AN ADVISOR
What is wrong with thinking you are going to live forever?
How is death related to a warrior?
How do warriors make themselves acknowledge their mortality?
Symbolic death
How do warriors use death as their advisors?
What finally happens between sorcerers and death?
Old age: the final struggle of a warrior
Sometimes a warrior can actually escape death
Escaping accidental death
Immortality
6. UNBENDING INTENT
What is unbending intent?
Why is unbending intent important for sorcerers?
Waiting for your will
7. MAKING DECISIONS
How does a warrior make the right decisions?
Warriors need to be aware of everything that happens on the path..
Use omens to guide you
Interpretating omens
When everything looks bad, there is always a cubic centimeter of chance...
Centimeter of chance
8. ACTING AS A WARRIOR
Acting as a warrior
Responsibility for your acts
Just do it/ a warrior acts rather than talks
A warrior should be balanced
Warrior's inner state should reflect outer state
Well being of a warrior
When we are agitated
To relax
Breathing
Stretching
Exercise
Things in a warrior's life
Apologizing
Staying still
Staying warm
Eating
Drinking alcohol
Reading
Wearing hats
Poverty
Secrets
Mirrors
Clumsiness
Bewitching
Shame
Failure
Defeat
Quitting
Intensity of a warrior's life
Abandonment
Passion
Doing stuff
Being cautious
Taking things for granted
Things to avoid while on the path of a warrior...
Stress
Indulging
Hermit
Injuring the spirit
Fights
Becoming trapped
Getting lost on the path/pull of the daily world
Dealing with people
Speaking
Promises/oaths
Caring
Malicious acts
Interest in people
Confrontations
Possible danger to other people from warriors on the path
Connecting with others
Energy that affects someone else
Categories of types of people
9. MOOD OF A WARRIOR
Mood of a warrior
Sobriety
What is sobriety?
Why is sobriety important to sorcery?
Humbleness
Wanting/need
Control
Being fluid
Four reactions to difficult situations
10. WARRIOR EMOTIONS
Emotions of a warrior
Happiness
Fulfillment
Humor
Clarity
Doubt
Worrying
Fear
Sadness and melancholy
Anger
Loneliness
Affection
11. DEALING WITH THE WORLD
a. PLANTS AND TREES
Organic life
Plants
Trees
b. ANIMALS
Coyotes
Crows
c. EARTH AND SUN
Inorganic things
Earth
The sun
d. ELEMENTS
Fire
Smoke/smoking someone
Fog
Water
Weather
Thunder
Wind
Opposites
Above
Below
Loud and silent
Moving and stationary
Places
Power spot
Cave
e. TIME, DIRECTIONS, NUMBERS
Time
The directions
Numbers
12. STRENGTHENING OUR NEW CONTINUITY
Dealing with a shift in the assemblage point/keeping sane
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