01-07-2011, 12:00 AM
Wei Shan Yang wrote:
"Knowledge cannot be weakened by the FI because it is rooted in personal experience, not just what you believe or what you read in a book. So to store power, the warrior must accumulate Knowledge - which can only be arrived at through direct personal experience."
Here is where I see a point of entry for the FI...personal expereince. I had many personal expereinces in my very early childhood...starting from age 1 1/2 till about 6, very tramatizing. Its stored as personal experinces and knowledge, processed incorrectly. I find the FI accesses this BECAUSE its personal expereince and thus carries a sense of "validity" even though that valadity is very negative.
For example, one time I was hit and shaken by a neighbor when I was age four. He told my dad I had hit his son and so that justified his attacking me. My dad caught him doing this and ran over and knocked him out. The knowledge from this event though is that people are hostile, so doubts can be generated via this personal experience and its hard to deny its truth since it happened.
So exactly what knowledge do you speak of since some knowledge via personal experience will confirm our worst fears and doubts?If you really examine your negative experience (which was truly a nasty one), you will *see* that it only speaks to the actions of a single individual. You may conclude (erroneously) that all people are hostile, but that would be a conclusion based on a single incident or a few incidents, and not really indicative of humans as a whole. Additionally, this type of experience is what I would call an extant encounter, meaning it is random and you might just as easily have encountered a loving old lady who would have given you a perfect rose. Random. Chaos theory, in other words. No rhyme or reason. Or is there?
With that said, what's important to examine is the conclusions we draw based on our experiences - combined with our willingness and ability to release the negative energy attached to such random and unfortunate encounters. But was it unfortunate? Did it weaken you, or did it in some way make you stronger? That's maybe a different subject, but when I've had encounters with people on that level (and I had lots of them as a child, with a family member) what I have to remember as a warrior in the Now is that that really was "then" and this is the only Now, so it's a matter of detaching from my past so as to focus my energy and power in the now.
The kind of knowledge that leads to power is the knowledge of self: who are you? Knowing the answer to that question is opening the door to power that cannot be taken from you even by the FI. If the FI is targeting old experiences from childhood, for example, what I do is to look at the conclusions I have drawn rather than the experience itself. What I normally discover is that my conclusions themselves may be deeply rooted in the machinations of the FI - iow, if I have concluded that "humans are hostile" as a general rule of belief, it will preclude me from being open to further experience, and the FI has already won. So it's not the experience that's so important, as much as how we process and assimilate it, and how we ultimately come to *see* that the humans who are not awake (such as your nasty neighbor, obviously) are only pawns and puppets of the FI, and then you start to see a whole different can of nightcrawlers. Namely - the neighbor's actions were a result of a false belief, and not the result of Knowledge. He was used by the FI to infiltrate your reality at a very early and vulnerable age, to essentially attempt to "infect" you with the same false belief system he himself was already inhabiting.
If you *saw* that your neighbor was possessed by a demon, how would it alter your conclusions about the experience itself? Not that the FI is a demon in and of itself, but it can take on those characteristics based on how it uses others in its bid to infiltrate all. When I see that - really *see* it down to the core - it makes all the difference in the world. That "difference" is the separate reality don Juan spoke of.
"Knowledge cannot be weakened by the FI because it is rooted in personal experience, not just what you believe or what you read in a book. So to store power, the warrior must accumulate Knowledge - which can only be arrived at through direct personal experience."
Here is where I see a point of entry for the FI...personal expereince. I had many personal expereinces in my very early childhood...starting from age 1 1/2 till about 6, very tramatizing. Its stored as personal experinces and knowledge, processed incorrectly. I find the FI accesses this BECAUSE its personal expereince and thus carries a sense of "validity" even though that valadity is very negative.
For example, one time I was hit and shaken by a neighbor when I was age four. He told my dad I had hit his son and so that justified his attacking me. My dad caught him doing this and ran over and knocked him out. The knowledge from this event though is that people are hostile, so doubts can be generated via this personal experience and its hard to deny its truth since it happened.
So exactly what knowledge do you speak of since some knowledge via personal experience will confirm our worst fears and doubts?If you really examine your negative experience (which was truly a nasty one), you will *see* that it only speaks to the actions of a single individual. You may conclude (erroneously) that all people are hostile, but that would be a conclusion based on a single incident or a few incidents, and not really indicative of humans as a whole. Additionally, this type of experience is what I would call an extant encounter, meaning it is random and you might just as easily have encountered a loving old lady who would have given you a perfect rose. Random. Chaos theory, in other words. No rhyme or reason. Or is there?
With that said, what's important to examine is the conclusions we draw based on our experiences - combined with our willingness and ability to release the negative energy attached to such random and unfortunate encounters. But was it unfortunate? Did it weaken you, or did it in some way make you stronger? That's maybe a different subject, but when I've had encounters with people on that level (and I had lots of them as a child, with a family member) what I have to remember as a warrior in the Now is that that really was "then" and this is the only Now, so it's a matter of detaching from my past so as to focus my energy and power in the now.
The kind of knowledge that leads to power is the knowledge of self: who are you? Knowing the answer to that question is opening the door to power that cannot be taken from you even by the FI. If the FI is targeting old experiences from childhood, for example, what I do is to look at the conclusions I have drawn rather than the experience itself. What I normally discover is that my conclusions themselves may be deeply rooted in the machinations of the FI - iow, if I have concluded that "humans are hostile" as a general rule of belief, it will preclude me from being open to further experience, and the FI has already won. So it's not the experience that's so important, as much as how we process and assimilate it, and how we ultimately come to *see* that the humans who are not awake (such as your nasty neighbor, obviously) are only pawns and puppets of the FI, and then you start to see a whole different can of nightcrawlers. Namely - the neighbor's actions were a result of a false belief, and not the result of Knowledge. He was used by the FI to infiltrate your reality at a very early and vulnerable age, to essentially attempt to "infect" you with the same false belief system he himself was already inhabiting.
If you *saw* that your neighbor was possessed by a demon, how would it alter your conclusions about the experience itself? Not that the FI is a demon in and of itself, but it can take on those characteristics based on how it uses others in its bid to infiltrate all. When I see that - really *see* it down to the core - it makes all the difference in the world. That "difference" is the separate reality don Juan spoke of.