08-20-2008, 12:00 AM
"You're such an exaggerated fellow." he said. "The rolling force is not that bad. It's lovely in fact. The new seers recommend that
we open ourselves to it. The old seers also opened themselves to it, but for reasons and purposes guided mostly by self-importance and obsession.
"The new seers, on the other hand, make friends with it. They become familiar with that force by handling it without any self-importance. The result is
staggering in its consequences."
He said that a shift of the assemblage point is all that is needed to open oneself to the rolling force. He added that if the force is seen in a deliberate
manner, there is minimal danger.
A situation that is extremely dangerous, however, is an involuntary shift of the assemblage
point owing, perhaps, to physical fatigue, emotional exhaustion, disease, or simply a minor emotional or physical crisis; such as being frightened or being
drunk.
"When the assemblage point shifts involuntarily, the rolling force
cracks the cocoon," he went on. "I've talked many times about a gap that man has below his navel. It's not really below the navel
itself, but in the cocoon at the height of the navel. The gap is more like a dent; a natural flaw in the otherwise smooth cocoon. That is where the tumbler
hits us ceaselessly and where the cocoon cracks."
He went on to explain that if it is a minor shift of the assemblage point, the crack is very small. The cocoon quickly repairs itself, and people experience
what everybody has at one time or another; blotches of color and contorted shapes which remain even if the eyes are closed.
If the shift is considerable, the crack also is extensive, and it takes time for the cocoon to repair itself; as in the case of warriors who purposely use
power plants to elicit that shift, or people who take drugs and unwittingly do the same.
In these cases men feel numb and cold. They have difficulty talking or even thinking. It is as if they have been frozen from inside.
Don Juan said that in cases in which the assemblage point shifts drastically because of the effects of trauma or of a mortal disease, the rolling force
produces a crack the length of the cocoon. The cocoon collapses and curls in on itself, and the individual dies.
"Can a voluntary shift also produce a gap of that nature?" I asked.
"Sometimes," he replied. "We're really frail. As the tumbler hits us over and over, death comes to us through the gap. Death is the
rolling force. When it finds weakness in the gap of a luminous being, it automatically cracks it open and makes it collapse."
we open ourselves to it. The old seers also opened themselves to it, but for reasons and purposes guided mostly by self-importance and obsession.
"The new seers, on the other hand, make friends with it. They become familiar with that force by handling it without any self-importance. The result is
staggering in its consequences."
He said that a shift of the assemblage point is all that is needed to open oneself to the rolling force. He added that if the force is seen in a deliberate
manner, there is minimal danger.
A situation that is extremely dangerous, however, is an involuntary shift of the assemblage
point owing, perhaps, to physical fatigue, emotional exhaustion, disease, or simply a minor emotional or physical crisis; such as being frightened or being
drunk.
"When the assemblage point shifts involuntarily, the rolling force
cracks the cocoon," he went on. "I've talked many times about a gap that man has below his navel. It's not really below the navel
itself, but in the cocoon at the height of the navel. The gap is more like a dent; a natural flaw in the otherwise smooth cocoon. That is where the tumbler
hits us ceaselessly and where the cocoon cracks."
He went on to explain that if it is a minor shift of the assemblage point, the crack is very small. The cocoon quickly repairs itself, and people experience
what everybody has at one time or another; blotches of color and contorted shapes which remain even if the eyes are closed.
If the shift is considerable, the crack also is extensive, and it takes time for the cocoon to repair itself; as in the case of warriors who purposely use
power plants to elicit that shift, or people who take drugs and unwittingly do the same.
In these cases men feel numb and cold. They have difficulty talking or even thinking. It is as if they have been frozen from inside.
Don Juan said that in cases in which the assemblage point shifts drastically because of the effects of trauma or of a mortal disease, the rolling force
produces a crack the length of the cocoon. The cocoon collapses and curls in on itself, and the individual dies.
"Can a voluntary shift also produce a gap of that nature?" I asked.
"Sometimes," he replied. "We're really frail. As the tumbler hits us over and over, death comes to us through the gap. Death is the
rolling force. When it finds weakness in the gap of a luminous being, it automatically cracks it open and makes it collapse."