12-28-2007, 12:00 AM
I can't believe that Carlos Castaneda ever stopped the world. He may have gotten to interfere with the world for a little bit, but the world always resumed for him.
Only the very abstract was different for Carlos. He carried that part with him.
Any significant leap of consciousness, in any direction is going to be self defined as a discontinuity. It's all leaps. It's the Art of Leaping.
Drugs are leaps. Leaps are leaps. I don't think we can get around it. Is there an ultimate leap? Can I look at the world and physically not see it as it is?
Is that an error my physical seeing is prone to? Does it make up things? Does my physical seeing skip things for psychological reasons?
How and why would I be able to seriously see something as something it wasn't? How could I turn a strange animal into a log?
Only the very abstract was different for Carlos. He carried that part with him.
Any significant leap of consciousness, in any direction is going to be self defined as a discontinuity. It's all leaps. It's the Art of Leaping.
Drugs are leaps. Leaps are leaps. I don't think we can get around it. Is there an ultimate leap? Can I look at the world and physically not see it as it is?
Is that an error my physical seeing is prone to? Does it make up things? Does my physical seeing skip things for psychological reasons?
How and why would I be able to seriously see something as something it wasn't? How could I turn a strange animal into a log?