10-27-2011, 12:01 AM
“ For don Juan Matus, a pragmatic and extremely sober shaman, ‘Spirituality’ was an empty ideality, an assertion without basis that we believe to be very beautiful because it is encrusted with literary concepts and poetic expressions, but which never go beyond that.
Shamans like don Juan are essentially practical. For them there only exists a predatory universe in which intelligence or awareness is the product of life and death challenges. He considered himself a navigator of infinity and said that in order to navigate into the unknown like a shaman does, one needs unlimited pragmatism, boundless sobriety and guts of steel.
In view of all this, don Juan believed that ‘Spirituality’ is simply a description of something impossible to achieve within the patterns of the world of everyday life, and it is not a real way of acting.”
Shamans like don Juan are essentially practical. For them there only exists a predatory universe in which intelligence or awareness is the product of life and death challenges. He considered himself a navigator of infinity and said that in order to navigate into the unknown like a shaman does, one needs unlimited pragmatism, boundless sobriety and guts of steel.
In view of all this, don Juan believed that ‘Spirituality’ is simply a description of something impossible to achieve within the patterns of the world of everyday life, and it is not a real way of acting.”