Sorcery

A.) SORCERY

1. SORCERY EXPLAINED
WHEN WE EXPERIENCE THE NAGUAL WE MUST REVAMP OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD
through usage this specific way of perceiving becomes a system of interpreting sensory data...(when we move beyond our world) there is no sense to what we perceive ..the new sensory data has rendered our system inoperative; it can no longer be used to interpret what we are perceiving.. (but our rationality comes back and takes a chaotic perception and makes it into a comprehensible world) TAOD,75,76,77... I would have given anything to be crazy. That would have absolved some part of me from the crushing responsibility of revamping my understanding of the world. (after CC realizes that the allies were actual entities.) SRP,134.

HOW DO WE REVAMP OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD?

WE TURN TO SORCERY AND THE SORCERY'S WAY WHICH TELLS US THAT OUR PERCEPTION IS FIXED AND CAN BE CHANGED
....First, by making us realize we process our perception to fit a mold and second, by fiercely guiding us to perceive energy directly.....like the one used to teach us to perceive the world of daily affairs. TAOD,3

WHY SHOULD WE REVAMP OUR WORLD?

HUMANS MUST FREE THEIR PERCEPTION IN ORDER TO EVOLVE
in order to evolve, humans must free their awareness from its bindings to the social order. Once awareness is free, intent will redirect it into a new evolutionary path. TAOD,176

THE PURPOSE OF HUMANS IS ONLY TO LEARN
...man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because that is the nature of his lot, for good or bad. TDJ,64.

ALL LIVING CREATURES EXIST TO ENHANCE AWARENESS
the reason for the existence of all sentintent beings is to enhance awareness. FFW,54..

HUMANS NEED SPIRITUALITY, NOWADAYS MORE THAN EVER
Nowadays, more than ever, man needs to renew himself and experience emptiness and freedom. TSC,103....man's predicament is that he intuits his hidden resources, but he dares not use them... man needs now, more so than ever, to be taught new ideas that have to do exclusively with his inner world- sorcerer's ideas, not social ideas, ideas pertaining to man facing the unknown, facing his personal death. ..he needs to be taught the secrets of the AP. POS, 233

WHAT IS SORCERY?

SORCERY IS THE PATH THAT TEACHES US TO FREE ENERGY. PERCEIVE ENERGY DIRECTLY AND EXPERIENCE THE NAGUAL
For don Juan, sorcery was the act of embodying some specialized theoretical and practical premises about the nature and role of perception in molding the universe around us. TAOD, I.. And that is sorcery: the ability to use energy fields that are not employed in perceiving the ordinary world we know. Sorcery is a state of awareness. Sorcery is the ability to perceive something which ordinary perception cannot. POS,8 DJ had taught us sorcery as a pragmatic endeavor by means of which any of us can directly perceive energy. TSC,viii...sorcery is the act of reaching the place of silent knowledge. POS,247...he also taught me the art of freedom and that means that I learned to see the flow of energy. TSC,53

FREE EXISTING ENERGY IN US BY FOLLOWING THE SORCERER'S WAY, DEVELOP THE ENERGY BODY AND ENTER OTHER WORLDS WITH ALL OUR PHYSICALITY
in terms of practicalities, the trajectory of sorcery is, first, to free the existing energy in us by impeccably following the sorcerers' path; second, to use that energy to develop the energy body by means of dreaming; and third, to use awareness as an element of the environment in order to enter with the energy body and all our physicality into other worlds.TAOD ? She went on to elaborate that abstract sorcerers seek freedom through enhancing their capacity to perceive, while concrete sorcerers. like the traditional ones who lived in ancient Mexico, seek personal power and gratification through increasing their self-importance. TSC,151. We are a group consisting of sixteen people, myself included and one being: Manfred... ten of the people are women. All of us do the same thing: we have dedicated our lives to developing our double. We use our ethereal bodies and defy many of the natural laws of the physical world. Now, if that's being a sorcerer, then all of us are sorcerers. If not, then we're not. TSC,161.

SORCERY IS INTERFERENCE/KEY JOINT WHICH AFFECTS THINGS
Sorcery is to apply one's will to a key joint.. sorcery is interference. A sorcerer searches and finds the key joint of anything he wants to affect and then he applies his will to it. A sorcerer doesn't have to see to be a sorcerer, all he has to know is how to use his will. SR,199.

SORCERY IS MORE THAN BLACK MAGIC, IT IS COLD, ABSTRACT, IMPERSONAL
Sorcery is more than black cats and naked people dancing in a graveyard at midnight, putting hexes on people.. sorcery is cold, abstract, personal. That's why we call the act of perceiving it the sorcerer's crossing, or the flight to the abstract. To withstand its awesome pull we have to be strong and determined; it's not for the timid or weak-hearted. TSC,248.

SORCERY IS A JOURNEY OF RETURN. WE RETURN VICTORIOUS TO THE SPIRIT, HAVING DESCENDED INTO HELL. AND FROM HELL WE BRING TROPHIES. UNDERSTANDING IS ONE OF OUR TROPHIES.
sorcery is a journey of return. We return victorious to the spirit, having descended into hell. And from hell we bring trophies. Understanding is one of our trophies. POS,167

SORCERY TRUTHS THAT HAVE NO RATIONAL FOUNDATIONS AND ARE TRUTHS FOUND ONLY FOR PEOPLE WHO PERCEIVE ENERGY DIRECTLY AND SEE THE ESSENCE OF EVERYTHING
Sorcery truths.. these have no rational foundations and no relation whatsoever to the facts of our daily world but which are self evident truths for the sorcerers who perceive energy directly and see the essence of everything. TAOD, 5

WHY IS IT CALLED SORCERY?

CALLING THE KNOWLEDGE SORCERY OBSCURES EVEN MORE THE ALREADY OBSCURE PHENOMENA PRESENTED IN THE TEACHINGS
Following don Juan's suggestion, I have refrained from using shamanism, a category proper to anthropology, to classify his knowledge. I have called it all along what he himself called it: sorcery. On examination, however, I realized that calling it sorcery obscures even more the already obscure phenomena he presented to me in his teachings. TAOD,i., POS,7

IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE WHAT TERMS ARE USED TO DESCRIBE SORCERY AS LONG AS THE TRUTHS HAVE BEEN VERIFIED BY SEEING.
it does not make any difference what terms are used (to describe sorcery) as long as the truths have been verified by seeing... FFW,65,66

THE TERMS SORCERER'S USE ARE NEVER A FIGURE OF SPEECH BECAUSE IT STEMS FROM SEEING AND EMBRACES EVERYTHING THAT SEERS CAN ATTAIN
if the terms we propose originate in our reason they can only communicate the mundane agreement of everyday life. When seers propose a term.. it is never a figure of speech because it stems from seeing and embraces everything that seers can attain. FFW,65,66

SORCERY CONTRADICTION

HOW CAN MAN KEEP THE BONDS OF HIS HUMANNESS AND STILL VENTURE GLADLY AND PURPOSEFULLY INTO THE ABSOLUTE LONELINESS OF ETERNITY? WHENEVER YOU RESOLVE THIS RIDDLE, YOU'LL BE READY FOR THE DEFINITIVE JOURNEY.
how can man keep the bonds of his humanness and still venture gladly and purposefully into the absolute loneliness of eternity? Whenever you resolve this riddle, you'll be ready for the definitive journey. FFW,116.

THE RIDDLE OF THE SPIRIT, OR THE PARADOX OF THE ABSTRACT - SORCERER'S THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS PROJECTED BEYOND OUR HUMAN CONDITION.
the riddle of the spirit, or the paradox of the abstract - sorcerer's thoughts and actions projected beyond our human condition. POS,12.

THE RIDDLE OF THE HEART; THE PUZZLEMENT SORCERERS FEEL UPON BEOMING AWARE OF TWO THINGS: FIRST THAT THE WORLD APPEARS TO US TO BE UNALTERABLY OBJECTIVE AND FACTUAL, BECAUSE OF PECULIARITIES OF OUR AWARENESS AND PERCEPTION; SECOND, THAT IF DIFFERENT PECULIARITIES OF PERCEPTION COME INTO PLAY, THE VERY THINGS ABOUT THE WORLD THAT SEEM SO UNALTERABLY OBJECTIVE AND FACTUAL CHANGE.
..is the riddle of the heart; the puzzlement sorcerers feel upon beoming aware of two things: first that the world appears to us to be unalterably objective and factual, because of peculiarities of our awareness and perception; second, that if different peculiarities of perception come into play, the very things about the world that seem so unalterably objective and factual change. POS,12 ( In other words, Don Juan thought that if you learn to relive or undergo certain experiences that your assemblage point will shift. Thus art of stalking is just a way to practice moving the assemblage point. If you move the assemblage point your perception changes.. if your perception changes then your world view changes.)

SORCERY'S NEGATIVE REPUTATION

FOR THE AVERAGE MAN SORCERY IS A NEGATIVE BUSINESS
...for the average man..sorcery is a negative buisness....but it serves to attract interest.. but for the new seers to be sorcerers would be like entering a dead-end street. (DJ is talking about how the old sorcerers became doomed when they became obsessed with the unknown universes.) FFW,17

THE WORD SORCERER CONNOTES BELIEFS AND ACTIONS THAT ARE NOT PART OF WHAT THE NEW SORCERERS DO
We are sorcerers interested in power, in gathering energy, not losing it... I don't feel at ease with the word sorcerer.. he said (Don Juan).. because it connotes beliefs and actions that are not part of what we do. TSC,161. ...In this house are sorcerers... the nagual, myself (Clara), Manfred and the fourteen others you haven't met yet. We are all sorcerer's, all abstract beings. If you want to think of sorcery as something concrete, involving rituals and magic potions, all I can tell you is that there are sorcerers who are as concrete as that, but you won't find them in this house. TSC,150.
2. TYPES OF SORCERERS
WHAT IS A SORCERER?

ANYONE WHO SUCCEEDS IN MOVING THEIR ASSEMBLAGE POINT TO A NEW POSITION IS A SORCERER.
A sorcerer to us, is someone who, through discipline and perserverance, can break the limits of natural perception... TSC,150. Anyone who succeeds in moving his assemblage point to a new position is a sorcerer.POS,94

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE AN APPRENTICE OF SORCERY TO MOVE THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT
one did not have to be an apprentice of sorcery to reach this threshold (see moving the AP)POS,101

ONLY A SORCERER CAN EXPERIENCE THE NAGUAL
while the naugal which is in everything manifested itself only to the eye of the sorcerer. SRP,199

THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN AVERAGE MAN AND A SORCERER IS WHAT ONE EMPHASIZES: THE SORCERER USES THAT THRESHOLD AS A POINT OF REFERENCE AND AN AVERAGE MAN DOES HIS BEST TO FORGET ALL ABOUT IT.
and the only difference between an average man and a sorcerer, in such cases, is what each emphasizes. A sorcerer emphasizes crossing this threshold and uses the memory of it as a point of reference. An average man does not cross the threshold and does his best to forget all about it. POS,101....

SORCERERS CAN CHANGE THEIR AWARENESS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE DOUBLE AT WILL, WITH A BREATH AND ARE AS EFFICIENT AT SORCERY OR MARTIAL ARTS AS READILY AS THEY CAN MANIPULATE INTRICATE ACADEMIC CONSTRUCTS
I asked him if there are some people who can focus their awareness on either side of the double at will. .. sorcerers can do that... the day you can do that, you'll be a sorceress yourself. TSC,237. He said that some people can shift their awareness to the right or the left side of the double, after they have successfully completed the abstract flight, simply by manipulating the flow of their breath. Such people can practice sorcery or martial arts as readily as they can manipulate intricate academic constructs. TSC,237.

CHARACTERISTICS OF SORCERER'S

SORCERER'S ARE MYSTERIOUS
Sorcerer's are extremely mysterious beings... because most of the time they act from the energy of their double. TSC,231.

SORCERERS AS STORYTELLER
Sorcerers were storytellers.. storytelling for them was not only the advance runner that probed their perceptual limits but their path to perfection, to power, to the spirit. POS,124

SORCERER'S CREATE ILLUSIONS
Sorcerer's create illusions. TSC,155.

COMPARING SORCERER'S TO PRIESTS AND NUNS: NO REAL DIFFERENCE IN LIFESTYLES
she saw no difference in terms of life-style between sorcerers and true nuns and priests. She pointed out that not only were true nuns and priests complete as a rule, but they did not even weaken themselves with sexual acts... that is the reason why they will never be exterminated, no matter who tries to exterminate them... those who are after them are always empty; they don't have the vigour that true nuns and priests have... we have given up the world and yet we are in the midst of it. SRP,212.

SHINE OF A SORCERER'S EYE

INTENSITY IS AN AUTOMATIC RESULT OF THE MOVEMENT OF THE AP..IT IS AN ASPECT OF INTENT SO IT IS CONNECTED TO THE SHINE OF A SORCERER'S EYES..
intensity is an automatic result of the movement of the AP..it is an aspect of intent so it is connected to the shine of a sorcerer's eyes...POS,246 it's shown in the eyes of a sorcerer.. like a shimmering film over the eyes...the eyes of a sorcerer are brilliant.. POS,134.

THE GREATER THE SHINE, THE MORE RUTHLESS THE SORCERER...THIS IS BECAUSE THE FIRMER THE GRIP OF THE AP ON THE PLACE OF NO PITY..THE MORE THE EYES SHOWN.
the greater the shine, the more ruthless the sorcerer...this is because the firmer the grip of the AP on the place of no pity..the more the eyes shown. POS,134...

TYPES OF SORCERER'S

MASTER SORCERER

a master sorcerer was an eagle, or rather could make himself into an eagle. SR,98.. a master sorcerer could take his disciple on a journey with him and could actually pass through the ten layers of the other world. SR,99 (SEE OTHER WORLDS)The master provided that he was an eagle, could start at the very bottom layer and then go through each successive world until he reached the top. Evil sorcerers and dilettantes could be at best... go through only three layers. SR,99 You start at the very bottom and then your teacher takes you with him in his flight and soon, boom!. You go through the second; and boom! SR,99
He is a being who shapes and molds perception the way you paint a picture with your brushes. but that doesn't mean that he is abitrary. When he manipulates perception with his intent, his behavior is impeccable. TSC,92... when a consummate sorcerer is ready to leave the world, all he has to do is manipulate perception, intend a door, step through it and disappear. TSC,92.
She's so far removed from human beings and their concerns that her energy might completely disrupt you. By now, there's no difference between her physical body and her ethereal double. What I mean to say is that she is a master sorceress. TSC,173.

EVIL SORCERER
an evil sorcerer was a "tecolote", an owl.... an evil sorcerer was a child of the night and for such a man the most useful animals were the mountain lion or other wild cats, or the night birds, especially the owl. SR,98

LYRIC SORCERER
the brujos liricos, lyric sorcerers, meaning the dilettante sorcerers, preferred other animals-a crow for example. SR,98.

PHONY SORCERER
a phony sorcerer tries to explain everything in the world with explanations he is not sure about.. and so everything is witchcraft. SR,127.

BETTER TO SEE THAN BE A SORCERER
To be a sorcerer is a terrible burden...it is much better to learn to see. A man who sees is everything, in comparison, the sorcerer is a sad fellow. SR,199.
SEERS

THERE ARE MANY KINDS OF SEERS
Seers ..come in all shapes and sizes..there are scores of imbeciles who become seers...the characteristic of miserable seers is that they forget the wonder of the world... they become overwhelmed by the fact that they can see and believe its their genius that counts. ...Description of the two kinds of seers (FFW,29)

SEERS HAVE A HARD TIME COPING WITH SEEING
Seers ordinarily go to pieces on finding out that existence is incomprehensibly complex and that our normal awareness maligns it with its limitations. FFW,70..

WHAT ARE SOME OTHER NAMES OF SORCERY?

THE ART OF EMPTINESS/THE ART OF FREEDOM
The art of emptiness was the technique practiced by Chinese men of wisdom who wanted to go through the dragon's eye... today, we call it the art of freedom. We feel it's a better term because that art really leads to an abstract realm where humanness doesn't count... everything we have heard about this realm, from sages and seers who sought it, smacks of human concerns. But we, the ones who practice the art of freedom, have found out from firsthand experience that this is an inaccurate portrayal. in our experience, whatever is human in that realm is so unimportant that it is lost in the vastness. TSC,65. The art I am going to teach you is called the art of freedom. An art infinitely difficult to practice, but even more difficult to explain...TSC,43...

WHAT IS THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF SORCERY?

THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF SORCERY IS TO LIGHT ALL THE EMANATIONS INSIDE THEIR COCOON (LIGHT THE FIRE FROM WITHIN) WHICH MAKES US ENTER INTO THE THIRD ATTENTION/THIRD POINT (COMPLETE FREEDOM FROM PERCEPTION)/THIS MAKES US SLIP BY THE EAGLE WITHOUT BEING CONSUMED IN FULL AWARENESS
the final purpose for the impeccability code is that one day their individual connecting link with intent had to set them free to light the fire from within. POS,115 A perfect recapitulation could change a warrior as much, if not more, than the total control of the dreaming body. In this respect, dreaming and stalking led to the same end, the entering of the third attention. It was important for a warrior to know and practice both. EG,288
Warriors have only one thing in mind-their freedom. to die and be eaten by the Eagle is no challenge. On the other hand, to sneak around the Eagle and be free is the ultimate audacity. EG,296.
...the supreme accomplishment of human beings.. is to attain that level of attention (third) while retaining the life-force, without becoming a disembodied awareness moving like a flicker of light up to the Eagle's beak to be devoured. FFW,85. The real hope for us lies in the center.... he said touching my forehead and the center of my chest.. for in the wall that divides the two sides of the double is a hidden door that opens into a third, thin, secret compartment. Only when this door opens can one experience true freedom. TSC,237.
....The aim of sorcerers is to reach a state of total awareness in order to experience all the possibilities available to man. This state of awareness even implies an alternative way of dying. POS,15. Sorcerers' purpose is to free their perception. Sorcerers don't make up the world they are perceiving; they perceive energy directly, and then they discover that what they are perceiving is an unknown world. TAOD,79 The new seers aim to be free. FFW,132 ....the new seers are the warriors of total freedom, that their only search is the ultimate liberation that comes when they attain total awareness. FFW,146. She revealed in a confiding tone that we die because the possiblity that we could be transformed hasn't entered our conception. She stressed that this transformation must be accomplished during our lifetime, and that to succeed in this task is the only true purpose a human being can have. All other attainments are transient, since death dissolves them into nothingness.. the transformantion entails a total change.. and that is accomplished by the recapitulation; the conerstone of the art of freedom. TSC,43 Abstract....the search for freedom, the freedom to perceive, without obsessions, all that's humanly possible. TAOD 2..to be abstract means to make yourself available to the spirit by being aware of it.. not thinking abstractly POS,223. Freedom.....of perception...the third point....it is intent, the spirit, the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable. POS, 224, 228.. cannot be an investment...an adventure with no end, in which we risk our lives and much more for a few moments of something beyond words, beyond thoughts or feelings..to seek freedom is the only driving force..to fly off into that infinity out there..to dissolve..to lift off..to be like a flame of a candle, which in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle TAOD,81
they were warriors of total freedom..not caught by death..but choose the moment and their departure from this world...at that moment they would be consumed by the fire from within and vanish from the face of the earth. FFW,13.. the new seers let the mastery of awareness develop to its natural end, which is to extend the glow of awareness beyond the bounds of the luminous cocoon in one single stroke. (see third attention) FFW,85. He asserted that for the new seers to enter into the third attention is also a gift, but has a different meaning. It is more like a reward for an attainment. FFW,85

THE EAGLE FOR PURPOSES OF ENHANCING AWARENESS ALLOWS BEINGS TO SLIP BY IT WITHOUT BEING CONSUMED
It is only from the Eagle's actions that a seer can tell what it wants. The Eagle, although it is not moved by the circumstances of any living being, has granted a gift to each of those beings. In its own way and right, any one of them, if it so desires, has the power to keep the flame of awareness, the power to disobey the summons to die and be consumed. Every living thing has been granted the power, if it so desires, to seek an opening to freedom and go through it. it is evident to the seer who sees the opening and to the creatures who go through it, that the Eagle has granted that gift in order to perpetuate awareness. EG,173.

TO HELP GUIDE BEINGS PAST THE EAGLE, THE EAGLE CREATED THE NAGUAL
For the purpose of guiding living things to that opening, the Eagle created the Naugal.(this refers to living beings.. not intent or will) EG,173

IS SORCERY A BETTER LIFE THAN THE AVERAGE NORMAL ONE?

A SORCERER IS ONLY SLIGHTLY BETTER OFF THAN THE AVERAGE MAN. SORCERY DOES NOT HELP HIM LIVE A BETTER LIFE; IN FACT, I SHOULD SAY THAT SORCERY HINDERS HIM; IT MAKES HIS LIFE CUMBERSOME, PRECARIOUS.
There is very little to sorcery once you find out its trick. A sorcerer is only slightly better off than the average man. Sorcery does not help him live a better life; in fact, I should say that sorcery hinders him; it makes his life cumbersome, precarious.SR,214.

BY OPENING HIMSELF TO KNOWLEDGE A SORCERER BECOMES MORE VULNERABLE THAN THE AVERAGE MAN
By opening himself to knowledge a sorcerer becomes more vulnerable than the average man. On the one hand his fellow men hate him and fear him and will strive to end his life; on the other hand the inexplicable and unbending forces that surround every one of us, by right of our being alive, are for a sorcerer a source of greater danger. To be pierced by a fellow man is indeed painful, but nothing in comparison to being touched by an ally. A sorcerer, by opening himself to knowledge, falls prey to his will; thus he must feel and act like a warrior. What helps a sorcerer live a better life is the strength of being a warrior. SR,214.
3. THE HISTORY OF SORCERY

HOW DID SORCERY START?

A GROUP KNOWN AS THE TOLTECS/SORCERERS OF ANTIQUITY PROBABLY ATE SOME POWER PLANTS FOR SOME REASON AND AFTER SOME TIME BEGAN TO ANALYZE THEIR EXPERINECE
The way the Toltecs first started on the path of knowledge was by eating power plants.. whether prompted by curiosity, or hunger, or error they ate them. it was only a matter of time before some of them began to analyse their experiences. FFW,17

WHAT IS A TOLTEC?

ANTHROPOLOGICAL IT WAS A CULTURE OF NAHUATL-SPEAKING PEOPLE IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MEXICO WHICH WAS ALREADY EXTINCT BY THE TIME OF THE SPANISH CONQUEST
The anthropological meaning was... a culture of Nahuatl-speaking people in central and soutern Mexico which was already extinct at the time of the Spanish conquest. SRP,163.

A TOLTEC IS ONE WHO KNOWS BOTH THE MYSTERIES OF STALKING AND DREAMING
A Toltec is the receiver and holder of mysteries. SRP,163.
A sorcerer is a Toltec when that sorcerer has received the mysteries of stalking and dreaming. SRP,215.

WHAT DOES THE WORD "TOLTEC" MEAN?

TOLTEC MEANS "MAN OF KNOWLEDGE" AND DOES NOT REFER TO THE TOLTEC EMPIRE.
Toltec means "man of knowledge" and does not refer to the Toltec Empire. FFW,18.

WHEN DID THE TOLTECS EXIST?

PROBABLY THE LAST LINK IN A CHAIN PERHAPS THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE THE SPANISH CONQUEST
Toltecs existed ages (centuries or perhaps even millennia FFW,18) before the Spaniards came to Mexico...last link in a chain of knowledge that extended over thousands of years FFW,16 Sorcerers of antiquity.. men who existed in Mexico perhaps thousands of years before the Spanish Conquest, ( perhaps as far back as ten thousand years ago..ruled from seven thousand to three thousand years ago..from then on, sorcerers have been regrouping, restructuring what was left of the old ones. TAOD,59)

WHERE DID THEY LIVE?

ALL SUCH MEN OF KNOWLEDGE LIVED WITHIN A VAST GEOGRAPHICAL AREA, NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE VALLEY OF MEXICO
..all such men of knowledge lived within a vast geographical area, north and south of the valley of Mexico..FFW,18

WHAT KIND OF JOBS DID THEY DO?

CURING, BEWITCHING, STORYTELLING, DANCING, BEING AN ORACLE, PREPARING FOOD AND DRINK. THOSE LINES OF WORK FOSTERED SPECIFIC WISDOM, WISDOM THAT DISTINGUISHED THEM FROM AVERAGE MEN
and were employed in specific lines of work: curing, bewitching, storytelling, dancing, being an oracle, preparing food and drink. Those lines of work fostered specific wisdom, wisdom that distinguished them from average men...they were also people who fitted into the structure of everyday life, very much as doctors, artists, teachers, priests and merchants in our time do. They practiced their professions under the strict control of organized brotherhoods and became proficient and influential... FFW,18

WHAT SORCERY DID THEY DEVELOP?

THEY KNEW THE ART OF HANDLING AWARENESS/THEY KNEW THOUSANDS OF POSITIONS OF THE SECOND ATTENTION
they knew the art of handling awareness. FFW,16 men whose greatest accomplishment had been to build the structures of sorcery, emphasizing practicality and concreteness. He rendered them as men who were brilliant but lacking in wisdom. TAOD, pg The Toltecs had divided their secret knowledge into two sets of five categories each: the earth and the dark regions, fire and water, the above and below, the loud and the silent, the moving and the stationary. ... the old seers secret knowledge of the earth was employed either to groom or to destroy anything that stands on the ground. FFW,98,99 Toltec power stand (description of and turning to the north) SRP,273,274. Holding the images of dreams was a Toltec art. SRP,242.
They put all their eggs in one basket: the fixation of the assemblage point on the thousands of positions it can adopt...out of all the marvelous things the old sorcerers learned exploring those thousands of positions, only the art of dreaming and the art of stalking remain. TAOD,69... the old seers aimed at lighting up all the emanations inside their cocoons, one band at a time, They succeeded, but oddly enough the accomplishment of lighting up one band at a time was instrumental in their becoming imprisoned in the quagmire of the second attention. FFW,85
...(they were the only ones able to change their energetic shape into a straight line.)..they were trying to bend themselves into circles, which they couldn't quite make..they had also succeeded in stretching the duration of their consciousness. So they are alive and conscious to this day. TAOD, 12,13...they exist today in one of the layers of the universe. TAOD, 171.
..they coined the name allies (inorganic beings) and the allies taught them to move the assemblage point out of the egg's boundaries into the nonhuman universe...into worlds beyond the human domain. TAOD,49. The old sorcerers used to love their allies...more than they loved their own kind. TAOD,52,58
The dreaming emissary became the most vital entity for the (old Sorcerers) TAOD,67
(they could transform themselves into whatever by keeping the uniformity and cohesion of their assemblage point..their AP was very fluid ..they would shift their AP, stalk their perception, rearrange their cohesiveness to fit their new state of awareness..) TAOD,78
They preferred shifts of the AP...and were after the human unknown. TAOD,79

WHAT WERE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TOLTECS?

POWERFUL SORCERERS, SOMBER THEY LEANED TOWARD ACTION. THEIR BID IS TO DOMINATE, TO MASTER EVERYBODY AND EVERYTHING.
....powerful sorcerers, somber...they would influence and victimize people by fixating the awareness of their victims whatever they chose. FFW,16. Everything the Toltecs do is very simple. SRP,258. The ancient sorcerers were not given to thought. They leaned toward action. POS,42. Their bid is to dominate, to master everybody and everything. FFW,122 they did not seek order which was a great mistake..and a deadly consequence was their assumption that the unknown and the unknowable are the same thing. FFW,49. they were all action and no real knowledge... when it came time for them to understand what they had seen, they couldn't do it. FFW,70,71

THEY WERE SIMILAR TO THE ANCIENT CHINESE.. THEY WANTED TO UNDERSTAND THE UNIVERSE ETC..
the people of pre-Hispanic Mexico were very similar in many respects to the ancient Chinese. Perhaps because they both may have had the same origins, they shared a similar world view. The ancient Indians of Mexico.. had a slight advantage.. because the world in which they lived was in transition. This made them extremely eclectic and curious about every facet of existence. They wanted to understand the universe, life, death and the range of human possibilities in terms of awareness and perception. Their great drive to know led them to develop practices that enabled them to arrive at unimaginable levels of awareness. They made detailed descriptions of their practices and mapped the realms that those practices unveiled. This tradition they handed down from generation to generation, always shrouding it in secrecy. TSC,122.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TOLTECS?

THEY BECAME BOGGED DOWN IN THE SECOND ATTENTION/THE SPANISH CAME AND CONQUERED THEM AND ONLY A FEW SURVIVED
The cultural context of DJ's knowledge. He did not know that himself. He viewed it as the product of a sort of Pan-Indianism. His conjecture about its origin was that at one time, in the Indian world prior to the Conquest, the handling of the second attention became vitiated. It was developed without any hinderance over perhaps thousands of years, to the point that it lost its strength. The practioners of that time may have had no need for controls, and thus without restraint, the second attention, instead of becoming stronger, became weaker by virtue of its increased intricacy. Then the Spanish invaders came and destroyed the Indian world.. Only a handful of warriors survived... whatever DJ knew about the second attention was the restructured version, a new version which had built in restraints because it had been forged under the harshest conditions of suppresion..EG,187. ..demise of the Toltecs FFW,19
Just as in China, where there were ancient beliefs so farfetched that they have turned into legends, here in Mexico we also have our share of beliefs and legends...here in Mexico, there were two cultures that collided head on: the Spaniards and the Indians... We know everything about ancient Spain but not ancient Mexico simply because the Spaniards were the victors and tried to obliterate Indian traditions. But in spite of their systematic and relentless efforts, they didn't succeed completely. TSC,101.

SORCERERS OF TODAY/NEW SEERS

HOW THE NEW SEERS DEVELOPED
(how the new seers developed. FFW,20, 21)

HOW THE NEW SEERS TAUGHT THEIR IDEAS
(new seers of how they teach their ideas.. FFW,187)

WHAT IS THE PHILOSOPHY AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW SEERS?

THEY CHANGED THE OLD SORCERY TO FIT THEIR NEEDS
Sorcerers of today.... ..men renowned for their sound minds and their capacity to rectify the course for sorcery if they deemed it necessary.... they were through with description, comparison, and conjecture of any sort. FFW, 61.

THE HARSH CONDITIONS FOR THE OLD SEERS HELPED DEVELOP THE NEW SORCERERS
(after the Spanish conquest..the tonal of the Indians were obliterated..except for the sorcerers whose tonal)..took refuge in their nagual....The men of knowledge of today are the product of those conditions and are the ultimate connoisseurs of the nagual since they were left there thoroughly alone. There, the white man has never ventured. In fact, he doesn't even have the idea it exists. TOP,138.

THEY DIDN'T WANT CONCRETE THINGS
...they have no interest in concrete gains. There are no social functions for them, as there were for the sorcerers of the past. So you'll never catch them being the official seers or the sorcerers in residence. TAOD, 2

THEY DIDN'T WANT RITUALS OR THE UNKNOWN
Because we are interested in something beyond the aberrant esoteric rituals and incanations of those sorcerers of ancient times. You see, we believe that their bizarre practices and obsessive search for power resulted only in a greater enhancement of the self. TSC,123..This is a dead-end road, for it never leads to total freedom. Which is what we ourselves are after. The danger is that one can easily become swayed by the mood of those sorcerers. TSC,123.
We are sorcerers from the same tradition as those of ancient times. We have inherited all their esoteric rituals and incantations, but although we know how to use them we aren't interested in making them work. TSC,154.

THEY ONLY WENT INTO THE INORGANIC WORLDS AS ONLY A TRAINING EXERCISE
They (would go into other worlds (inorganic) only as an exercise)..they prefer movements of the AP...they were after the nonhuman unknown. TAOD, 79.

THE WORLD'S PRODUCED ARE OF NO VALUE FOR A WARRIOR
...most of the time the worlds the AP had assembled had been so close to the world of everyday life as to be virtually phantom worlds. Those visions are the product of man's inventory..they are no value for warrior's..because they are produced by a lateral shift of the AP.

THEY MAPPED THE UNKNOWN TO MAKE IT SEPERATE FROM THE UNKNOWABLE
through the use of controlled seeing, the new seers began to map the unknown (making it available to our perception) in order to seperate it from the unknowable.FFW,51

THEY DIDN'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT RANDOM CASES OF PEOPLE WHO ENTER THE UNKNOWN
the new seers did not consider it worthwhile to discuss the random cases of men and other sentient beings who enter the unknown and the unknowable without being aware of it; he referred to this as the Eagle's gift. FFW,85

THE NEW SEERS WERE PROFOUNDLY DISTURBED BY THE FACT THAT AWARENESS FORESTALLS DEATH AND AT THE SAME TIME INDUCES IT BY BEING FOOD FOR THE EAGLE. SINCE THEY COULD NOT EXPLAIN IT, FOR THERE IS NO RATIONAL WAY TO UNDERSTAND EXISTENCE, SEERS REALIZED THAT THEIR KNOWLEDGE IS COMPOSED OF CONTRADICTORY PROPOSITIONS
The new seers were profoundly disturbed by the fact that awareness forestalls death and at the same time induces it by being food for the Eagle. Since they could not explain it, for there is no rational way to understand existence, seers realized that their knowledge is composed of contradictory propositions.... the new seers found unquestionable truths by means of seeing. Those truths are arranged in terms of supossedly blatent contradictions. FFW,91

HOW DO THE NEW SORCERERS ORGANIZE THEIR LINEAGE?

THERE ARE TWO BRANCHES OF THAT LINEAGE, EACH HAS EIGHT MEMBERS. THE MEMBERS OF CLARA'S BRANCH ARE THE GRAUS AND THE MEMBERS OF MY BRANCH ARE THE ABELARS.
We are a lineage, but not a family lineage. In this house there are two branches of that lineage, each has eight members. The members of Clara's branch are the Graus and the members of my branch are the Abelars. Our origin is lost in time. We count ourselves by generations. I can teach what my group knows to someone who is like me. In this case, you are an Abelar (Nelida talking to Taisha.) TSC,189.

EXPLANATION OF THE NAUGAL'S GROUP

EG,174-178.... Stop at pg. 174... end of second full paragraph.

SHAMINISM

WHAT IS IT?

SHAMINISM IS DESCRIBED AS A BELIEF SYSTEM... ....WHICH MAINTAINS THAT AN UNSEEN WORLD OF ANCESTRAL SPIRITUAL FORCES, GOOD AND EVIL, IS PERVASIVE AROUND US AND THAT THESE SPIRITUAL FORCES CAN BE SUMMONED OR CONTROLLED THROUGH THE ACTS OF PRACTITIONERS, WHO ARE THE INTERMEDIARIES BETWEEN THE NATURAL AND THE SUPERNATURAL REALMS. DON JUAN CALLED THE SUPERNATURAL THE SECOND ATTENTION.
Shaminism is described as a belief system... ....which maintains that an unseen world of ancestral spiritual forces, good and evil, is pervasive around us and that these spiritual forces can be summoned or controlled through the acts of practitioners, who are the intermediaries between the natural and the supernatural realms. don juan called the supernatural the second attention. TAOD i.

WHO PRACTICES SHAMINISM?

1. Native people of northern Asia , TAOD, i
2. Certain North American Indian tribes, TAOD, i
3. Toltecs

OTHER SORCERERS
to this day there are scores of sorcerers all over, Mexico, descendents of those conquerors, who follow the Toltec ways but don't know what they are doing, because they are not seers. ..they copied the procedures of the Toltec seers without having the Toltec's inner knowledge...FFW,19

MAZATEC SORCERER
SRP,186.

TARAHUMARA INDIAN
TDJ,91

REFERENCES
Pima Indians.. JTI,57

MITOTE
a long peyote ceremony for peyoteros and apprentices. TDJ,142.

DIABLERA

a helper is the aid of a diablero. A helper is a spirit that lives on the other side of the world and helps a diablero to cause sickness and pain. It helps him kill. (not the same as an ally) To tame an ally is hard work. it is easier to get a helper on the other side. TDJ,181.