05-10-2012, 12:00 AM
Trying to chip away a little more on creeping self-importance. Found this link, the complete interview of the sorceresses. Included a small part.http://www.spiritualrealist.com/MINDFIR ... NT%201.asp
A B E: So you don’t want to build up an image of yourself, even as a spiritual person?
TA I S H A A: No, you don’t want to add to that, and when you look at how much you have to get rid of, you’ll be kind of careful not to add more. [ And that’s where impeccability comes in. You want to maintain your daily behavior on an impeccable level, and that means you just do your humble best. We’re no longer interested in reasserting the ego or the self, or defending the self. The brunt of our daily energy really goes into defense of the self because it’s attacked left and right, and the mind rallies like lightning to try to patch up the ego’s wounds. But the sorcerer lets it go. Don Juan had a good adage. He said, “Eliminate the self and fear nothing.” If you don’t have a self, there’s absolutely nothing to fear, because all of our fears and disappointments come from our idea of the self, whether positive or negative.
So the only thing that the modern sorcerer or stalker is really dependent on is something so abstract that he calls it the Spirit, the Unknown. By getting rid of the self, they give the self to the Eagle as a token. They give themselves in a symbolic death, and in that sense the Eagle, they say, allows the impeccable warrior to escape
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A B E: So you don’t want to build up an image of yourself, even as a spiritual person?
TA I S H A A: No, you don’t want to add to that, and when you look at how much you have to get rid of, you’ll be kind of careful not to add more. [ And that’s where impeccability comes in. You want to maintain your daily behavior on an impeccable level, and that means you just do your humble best. We’re no longer interested in reasserting the ego or the self, or defending the self. The brunt of our daily energy really goes into defense of the self because it’s attacked left and right, and the mind rallies like lightning to try to patch up the ego’s wounds. But the sorcerer lets it go. Don Juan had a good adage. He said, “Eliminate the self and fear nothing.” If you don’t have a self, there’s absolutely nothing to fear, because all of our fears and disappointments come from our idea of the self, whether positive or negative.
So the only thing that the modern sorcerer or stalker is really dependent on is something so abstract that he calls it the Spirit, the Unknown. By getting rid of the self, they give the self to the Eagle as a token. They give themselves in a symbolic death, and in that sense the Eagle, they say, allows the impeccable warrior to escape
(edited font color for easier reading)