10-31-2011, 12:00 AM
*intended more to open my mind than to explain anything in a rational manner*
"At various times don Juan attempted to name his knowledge for my
benefit. He felt that the most appropriate name was 'nagualism', but
that the term was too obscure. Calling it simply 'knowledge' made it too
vague, and to call it 'witchcraft' was debasing. 'The mastery of
intent' was too abstract, and 'the search for total freedom' too long
and metaphorical. Finally, because he was unable to find a more
appropriate name, he called it 'sorcery', although he admitted it was
not nearly accurate.
Over the years, he had given me different definitions of sorcery, but
he had always maintained that definitions change as knowledge
increases."
***
"Think of it this way," he proceeded. "It isn't that as time goes by
you're learning sorcery. Rather, what you're learning is to save energy.
This energy will enable you to handle some of the energy fields which
are inaccessible to you now.
"Sorcery, properly speaking, is simply the ability to use energy
fields that are not employed in perceiving the ordinary world we know.
Sorcery is a state of awareness and the ability to perceive something
which ordinary perception cannot.
"Everything I've put you through," don Juan went on, "and each of the
things I've shown you was only a device to convince you that there's
more to us than meets the eye.
We don't need anyone to teach us sorcery because there is really
nothing to learn. What we need is a teacher to convince us that there is
incalculable power at our fingertips. What a strange paradox!
"Every warrior on the path of knowledge thinks, at one time or
another, that he (or she) is learning sorcery. However, all he's really
doing is allowing himself to be convinced of the power hidden in his
being, and that he can reach it."
***
"He said that in the universe there is an unmeasurable, indescribable
force which sorcerers call Intent, and that absolutely everything that
exists in the entire cosmos is attached to Intent by a connecting link.
Sorcerers, or warriors, as he called them, were concerned with
discussing, understanding, and employing that connecting link.
They were especially concerned with cleaning it of the numbing
effects brought 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. Don Juan stressed that this 'cleaning
procedure' was extremely difficult to understand, or to learn to
perform."
***
"The aim of the new seers is to reach a state of total awareness in order
to experience all the possibilities of perception available to man.
This state of awareness even implies an alternative way of dying."
"The Power Of Silence" - Carlos Castaneda
"At various times don Juan attempted to name his knowledge for my
benefit. He felt that the most appropriate name was 'nagualism', but
that the term was too obscure. Calling it simply 'knowledge' made it too
vague, and to call it 'witchcraft' was debasing. 'The mastery of
intent' was too abstract, and 'the search for total freedom' too long
and metaphorical. Finally, because he was unable to find a more
appropriate name, he called it 'sorcery', although he admitted it was
not nearly accurate.
Over the years, he had given me different definitions of sorcery, but
he had always maintained that definitions change as knowledge
increases."
***
"Think of it this way," he proceeded. "It isn't that as time goes by
you're learning sorcery. Rather, what you're learning is to save energy.
This energy will enable you to handle some of the energy fields which
are inaccessible to you now.
"Sorcery, properly speaking, is simply the ability to use energy
fields that are not employed in perceiving the ordinary world we know.
Sorcery is a state of awareness and the ability to perceive something
which ordinary perception cannot.
"Everything I've put you through," don Juan went on, "and each of the
things I've shown you was only a device to convince you that there's
more to us than meets the eye.
We don't need anyone to teach us sorcery because there is really
nothing to learn. What we need is a teacher to convince us that there is
incalculable power at our fingertips. What a strange paradox!
"Every warrior on the path of knowledge thinks, at one time or
another, that he (or she) is learning sorcery. However, all he's really
doing is allowing himself to be convinced of the power hidden in his
being, and that he can reach it."
***
"He said that in the universe there is an unmeasurable, indescribable
force which sorcerers call Intent, and that absolutely everything that
exists in the entire cosmos is attached to Intent by a connecting link.
Sorcerers, or warriors, as he called them, were concerned with
discussing, understanding, and employing that connecting link.
They were especially concerned with cleaning it of the numbing
effects brought 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. Don Juan stressed that this 'cleaning
procedure' was extremely difficult to understand, or to learn to
perform."
***
"The aim of the new seers is to reach a state of total awareness in order
to experience all the possibilities of perception available to man.
This state of awareness even implies an alternative way of dying."
"The Power Of Silence" - Carlos Castaneda