05-21-2011, 12:00 AM
Oh ok, thanks for mentioning. Actually as I was reading your reply...I came up with a good definition of not-doing. It goes like this...you said: "I'm thinking along the lines of things that your visual sight does not dominate just by virtue of the task...threading a screw out of sight cannot be dominated by sight."
Right, so a not-doing, in example, is taking a task that IS dominated by sight and then removing sight, just one example. So a not-doing is doing something that normally would not be done. Of course there are other ways to define it that would still be correct. But what I get out of not-doing is it changes behavior and perception of the action and thus enhances awareness with new insight. So a not-doing must entail unusual activity, not the norm, to let in the new. Because its the norm that keeps attention stable, our doings, which then become habits. Logic is the glue that binds them, logic being the unwanted kind in this case, unquestioned logic, or generic logic.
Like we often drive the same way home from work. A not-doing is driving a different way, even if its a longer direction, because our intuition guides us to. Not-doing can be illogical and yet at the same time, practical if done for sorcery purposes. So the logic is sorcery based and thus will not make sense to the ordinary mindset many have and reinforce.
So say you take a different route home, and your friend who is not familiar with sorcery or extra perception may ask you "why do you go this way? The other way is quicker and I want to get home I'm starved." You will feel the pressure of their logical thinking pressing on you. If you give in to their logic you will take the ordinary way home even though an inner voice says don't. But lets say you decide to ignore your friend's logic and follow your inner guidance. Then you later learn there was a big traffic pile up on your normal route home and then you see why you were guided to take another way. THAT is also why logic is not safe, it fails us becasue it makes us turn off our inner perception. Thats the somber perspective on it anyway, and good to keep in mind becasue not-doings are ways to open up our perceptional abilities too and this does factor into survival circumstances. Logic really is a flimsy method, and unfortunately we are taught it in school and at home when we are very little so it gets set in pretty good. And such logic is vast and encompassing, pre-prescribed notions about things that are not always the case. Being a sorcerer means operating outside the confines of this.
Right, so a not-doing, in example, is taking a task that IS dominated by sight and then removing sight, just one example. So a not-doing is doing something that normally would not be done. Of course there are other ways to define it that would still be correct. But what I get out of not-doing is it changes behavior and perception of the action and thus enhances awareness with new insight. So a not-doing must entail unusual activity, not the norm, to let in the new. Because its the norm that keeps attention stable, our doings, which then become habits. Logic is the glue that binds them, logic being the unwanted kind in this case, unquestioned logic, or generic logic.
Like we often drive the same way home from work. A not-doing is driving a different way, even if its a longer direction, because our intuition guides us to. Not-doing can be illogical and yet at the same time, practical if done for sorcery purposes. So the logic is sorcery based and thus will not make sense to the ordinary mindset many have and reinforce.
So say you take a different route home, and your friend who is not familiar with sorcery or extra perception may ask you "why do you go this way? The other way is quicker and I want to get home I'm starved." You will feel the pressure of their logical thinking pressing on you. If you give in to their logic you will take the ordinary way home even though an inner voice says don't. But lets say you decide to ignore your friend's logic and follow your inner guidance. Then you later learn there was a big traffic pile up on your normal route home and then you see why you were guided to take another way. THAT is also why logic is not safe, it fails us becasue it makes us turn off our inner perception. Thats the somber perspective on it anyway, and good to keep in mind becasue not-doings are ways to open up our perceptional abilities too and this does factor into survival circumstances. Logic really is a flimsy method, and unfortunately we are taught it in school and at home when we are very little so it gets set in pretty good. And such logic is vast and encompassing, pre-prescribed notions about things that are not always the case. Being a sorcerer means operating outside the confines of this.