04-14-2012, 12:00 AM
The time decides which precise bundle of energy fields are to be used; out of an incalculable number.
"Handling the modality of the time- those select few energy fields-
takes all our available energy; and thus leaves us no extra energy that
would help us use any of the other energy fields."
He urged me with a subtle movement of his eyebrows to consider all this.
"This is what I mean," he went on, "when I say that the average man
lacks the energy needed to deal with sorcery. If he uses only the energy
he has, he can't perceive the worlds sorcerers do.
"To perceive sorcery worlds, sorcerers need to use a cluster of energy fields not ordinarily used.
"Naturally, if the average man is to perceive sorcery worlds and
understand sorcerers' perception, he must use the same energy cluster
sorcerers have used. And this is just not possible, because all of the
average man's energy is already deployed on the cluster of the times."
He paused as if searching for the appropriate words to make his point.
"Think of it this way," he proceeded. "It isn't that as time goes by
you're learning sorcery. Rather, what you're learning is to save energy.
This energy will enable you to handle some of the energy fields which
are inaccessible to you now.
"Sorcery, properly speaking, is simply the ability to use energy
fields that are not employed in perceiving the ordinary world we know.
Sorcery is a state of awareness and the ability to perceive something
which ordinary perception cannot.
"Everything I've put you through," don Juan went on, "and each of the
things I've shown you was only a device to convince you that there's
more to us than meets the eye.
We don't need anyone to teach us sorcery because there is really
nothing to learn. What we need is a teacher to convince us that there is
incalculable power at our fingertips. What a strange paradox!
"Every warrior on the path of knowledge thinks, at one time or
another, that he (or she) is learning sorcery. However, all he's really
doing is allowing himself to be convinced of the power hidden in his
being, and that he can reach it."
"Is that what you're doing, don Juan- convincing me?"
"Exactly. I'm trying to convince you that you can reach that power.
"I went through the same thing, and I was as hard to convince as you are."
"Once we have reached it," I asked, "what exactly do we do with it, don Juan?"
"Nothing. Once we have reached that understanding, it will by itself
make use of energy fields which are available to us but were
inaccessible.
"Access to formerly unavailable energy fields, as I have said, is sorcery in a nut shell.
"But then we begin to 'see', that is, to perceive something else; not
as imagination, but as real and concrete. And then we begin to know
without having to use words. And what any of us does with that increased
perception and with that silent knowledge depends on our own
temperament."
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"The Power Of Silence" - \Carlos Castaneda
"Handling the modality of the time- those select few energy fields-
takes all our available energy; and thus leaves us no extra energy that
would help us use any of the other energy fields."
He urged me with a subtle movement of his eyebrows to consider all this.
"This is what I mean," he went on, "when I say that the average man
lacks the energy needed to deal with sorcery. If he uses only the energy
he has, he can't perceive the worlds sorcerers do.
"To perceive sorcery worlds, sorcerers need to use a cluster of energy fields not ordinarily used.
"Naturally, if the average man is to perceive sorcery worlds and
understand sorcerers' perception, he must use the same energy cluster
sorcerers have used. And this is just not possible, because all of the
average man's energy is already deployed on the cluster of the times."
He paused as if searching for the appropriate words to make his point.
"Think of it this way," he proceeded. "It isn't that as time goes by
you're learning sorcery. Rather, what you're learning is to save energy.
This energy will enable you to handle some of the energy fields which
are inaccessible to you now.
"Sorcery, properly speaking, is simply the ability to use energy
fields that are not employed in perceiving the ordinary world we know.
Sorcery is a state of awareness and the ability to perceive something
which ordinary perception cannot.
"Everything I've put you through," don Juan went on, "and each of the
things I've shown you was only a device to convince you that there's
more to us than meets the eye.
We don't need anyone to teach us sorcery because there is really
nothing to learn. What we need is a teacher to convince us that there is
incalculable power at our fingertips. What a strange paradox!
"Every warrior on the path of knowledge thinks, at one time or
another, that he (or she) is learning sorcery. However, all he's really
doing is allowing himself to be convinced of the power hidden in his
being, and that he can reach it."
"Is that what you're doing, don Juan- convincing me?"
"Exactly. I'm trying to convince you that you can reach that power.
"I went through the same thing, and I was as hard to convince as you are."
"Once we have reached it," I asked, "what exactly do we do with it, don Juan?"
"Nothing. Once we have reached that understanding, it will by itself
make use of energy fields which are available to us but were
inaccessible.
"Access to formerly unavailable energy fields, as I have said, is sorcery in a nut shell.
"But then we begin to 'see', that is, to perceive something else; not
as imagination, but as real and concrete. And then we begin to know
without having to use words. And what any of us does with that increased
perception and with that silent knowledge depends on our own
temperament."
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"The Power Of Silence" - \Carlos Castaneda