08-18-2008, 12:01 AM
From: The Fire
From Within, 1984
He said over and over again that the manipulation of intent begins with a command given to oneself; the command is then repeated until
it becomes the Eagle's command, and then the assemblage point shifts, accordingly, the moment warriors reach inner silence.
The fact that
such a maneuver is possible, he said, is something of the most singular importance to seers, old and new alike, but for reasons diametrically opposed.
Knowing about it allowed the old seers to move their assemblage point to inconceivable dreaming positions in the incommensurable unknown; for the new seers
it means refusing to be food, it means escaping the Eagle by moving their assemblage points to a particular dreaming position called
total freedom.
He explained that
the old seers discovered that it is possible to move the assemblage point to the limit of the known and keep it fixed there in a state
of prime heightened awareness. From that position, they saw the feasibility of slowly shifting their assemblage points permanently to other positions
beyond that limit..a stupendous feat fraught with daring but lacking sobriety, for they could never retract the movement of their
assemblage points, or perhaps they never wanted to.
Don Juan said
that adventurous men, faced with the choice of dying in the world of ordinary affairs or dying in unknown worlds, will unavoidably choose the latter, and
that the new seers, realizing that their predecessors had chosen merely to change the locale of their death, came to understand the
futility of it all; the futility of struggling to control their fellow men, the futility of assembling other worlds, and, above all, the futility of
self-importance.
One of the most
fortunate decisions that the new seers made, he said, was never to allow their assemblage points to move permanently to any position
other than heightened awareness. From that position, they actually resolved their dilemma of futility and found out that the solution is not simply to
choose an alternate world in which to die, but to choose total consciousness, total freedom.
Don Juan
commented that by choosing total freedom, the new seers unwittingly continued in the tradition of their predecessors and became the
quintessence of the death defiers.
He explained that
the new seers discovered that if the assemblage point is made to shift constantly to the confines of the unknown, but is made to return
to a position at the limit of the known, then when it is suddenly released it moves like lightning across the entire cocoon of man, aligning all the
emanations inside the cocoon at once.
"The new
seers burn with the force of alignment," don Juan went on, "with the force of will, which they have turned into the force of intent through a life
of impeccability. Intent is the alignment of all the amber emanations of awareness, so it is correct to say that total freedom means
total awareness."
"Is that
what all of you are going to do, don Juan?" I asked.
"We most
certainly will, if we have sufficient energy," he replied. "Freedom is the Eagle's gift to man. Unfortunately, very few men understand that all
we need, in order to accept such a magnificent gift, is to have sufficient energy.
"If that's all we need, then, by all means, we must become misers of energy."
After that, don
Juan made us enter into a state of normal awareness. At dusk, Pablito, Nestor, and I jumped into the abyss. And don Juan and the
nagual's party burned with the fire from within. They entered into total awareness, for they had sufficient energy to accept the mind-boggling
gift of freedom.
Well, there's alot here to look at so I'm just going to comment
on it a bit at a time.
He said over and over again that the manipulation of intent begins with a command given to
oneself; the command is then repeated until it becomes the Eagle's command, and then the assemblage point shifts,
accordingly, the moment warriors reach inner silence.
The way I would interpret this is first of all as "re-training" the
habits of the mind and body with your higher consciousness. The part of the mind that keeps talking to itself is actually the body, the autonomic mind/brain.
Your default mind/body physical existence is controlled by the "Eagle", which means it is something primitive, not the higher self or higher reason,
and certainly not the western version of God. The Eagle can be re-trained, meaning that your lower autonomic self can be retrained, Nature can be re-trained.
The Eagle's gift is Nature's gift. The energy of the Eagle is synonymous with the energy of the Brow Chakra, the chakra BELOW the
Crown.
From Within, 1984
He said over and over again that the manipulation of intent begins with a command given to oneself; the command is then repeated until
it becomes the Eagle's command, and then the assemblage point shifts, accordingly, the moment warriors reach inner silence.
The fact that
such a maneuver is possible, he said, is something of the most singular importance to seers, old and new alike, but for reasons diametrically opposed.
Knowing about it allowed the old seers to move their assemblage point to inconceivable dreaming positions in the incommensurable unknown; for the new seers
it means refusing to be food, it means escaping the Eagle by moving their assemblage points to a particular dreaming position called
total freedom.
He explained that
the old seers discovered that it is possible to move the assemblage point to the limit of the known and keep it fixed there in a state
of prime heightened awareness. From that position, they saw the feasibility of slowly shifting their assemblage points permanently to other positions
beyond that limit..a stupendous feat fraught with daring but lacking sobriety, for they could never retract the movement of their
assemblage points, or perhaps they never wanted to.
Don Juan said
that adventurous men, faced with the choice of dying in the world of ordinary affairs or dying in unknown worlds, will unavoidably choose the latter, and
that the new seers, realizing that their predecessors had chosen merely to change the locale of their death, came to understand the
futility of it all; the futility of struggling to control their fellow men, the futility of assembling other worlds, and, above all, the futility of
self-importance.
One of the most
fortunate decisions that the new seers made, he said, was never to allow their assemblage points to move permanently to any position
other than heightened awareness. From that position, they actually resolved their dilemma of futility and found out that the solution is not simply to
choose an alternate world in which to die, but to choose total consciousness, total freedom.
Don Juan
commented that by choosing total freedom, the new seers unwittingly continued in the tradition of their predecessors and became the
quintessence of the death defiers.
He explained that
the new seers discovered that if the assemblage point is made to shift constantly to the confines of the unknown, but is made to return
to a position at the limit of the known, then when it is suddenly released it moves like lightning across the entire cocoon of man, aligning all the
emanations inside the cocoon at once.
"The new
seers burn with the force of alignment," don Juan went on, "with the force of will, which they have turned into the force of intent through a life
of impeccability. Intent is the alignment of all the amber emanations of awareness, so it is correct to say that total freedom means
total awareness."
"Is that
what all of you are going to do, don Juan?" I asked.
"We most
certainly will, if we have sufficient energy," he replied. "Freedom is the Eagle's gift to man. Unfortunately, very few men understand that all
we need, in order to accept such a magnificent gift, is to have sufficient energy.
"If that's all we need, then, by all means, we must become misers of energy."
After that, don
Juan made us enter into a state of normal awareness. At dusk, Pablito, Nestor, and I jumped into the abyss. And don Juan and the
nagual's party burned with the fire from within. They entered into total awareness, for they had sufficient energy to accept the mind-boggling
gift of freedom.
Well, there's alot here to look at so I'm just going to comment
on it a bit at a time.
He said over and over again that the manipulation of intent begins with a command given to
oneself; the command is then repeated until it becomes the Eagle's command, and then the assemblage point shifts,
accordingly, the moment warriors reach inner silence.
The way I would interpret this is first of all as "re-training" the
habits of the mind and body with your higher consciousness. The part of the mind that keeps talking to itself is actually the body, the autonomic mind/brain.
Your default mind/body physical existence is controlled by the "Eagle", which means it is something primitive, not the higher self or higher reason,
and certainly not the western version of God. The Eagle can be re-trained, meaning that your lower autonomic self can be retrained, Nature can be re-trained.
The Eagle's gift is Nature's gift. The energy of the Eagle is synonymous with the energy of the Brow Chakra, the chakra BELOW the
Crown.