01-18-2012, 12:01 AM
Don Juan stressed, in every way he was able, the value of a pragmatic
attitude in order to buttress the advent of inner silence. He defined a
pragmatic attitude as the capacity to absorb any contingency that might
appear along The way. He himself was, to me, the living example of such
an attitude. There w; isn't any uncertainty or liability that his mere
presence would not dispel.
He reiterated every time he could that the effects of inner silence
were very unsettling, and that the only deterrent to this condition was
the pragmatic attitude which was the product of a superbly pliable,
agile, strong body. He said that for sorcerers, the physical body was
the only entity that made any sense to them, and that there was no such
thing as a dualism between body and mind. He further stated that the
physical body involved both the body and the mind as we knew them, and
that in order to counterbalance the physical body as a holistic unit,
sorcerers considered another configuration of energy which was reached
through inner silence: the energy body. He explained that what I had
experienced .it the moment in which I had stopped the world was the
resurgence of my energy body, and that this configuration of energy was
the one which had always been able to see energy as it flowed in the
universe.
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"Magical Passes: The Practical Wisdom of the Shamans of Ancient Mexico"
attitude in order to buttress the advent of inner silence. He defined a
pragmatic attitude as the capacity to absorb any contingency that might
appear along The way. He himself was, to me, the living example of such
an attitude. There w; isn't any uncertainty or liability that his mere
presence would not dispel.
He reiterated every time he could that the effects of inner silence
were very unsettling, and that the only deterrent to this condition was
the pragmatic attitude which was the product of a superbly pliable,
agile, strong body. He said that for sorcerers, the physical body was
the only entity that made any sense to them, and that there was no such
thing as a dualism between body and mind. He further stated that the
physical body involved both the body and the mind as we knew them, and
that in order to counterbalance the physical body as a holistic unit,
sorcerers considered another configuration of energy which was reached
through inner silence: the energy body. He explained that what I had
experienced .it the moment in which I had stopped the world was the
resurgence of my energy body, and that this configuration of energy was
the one which had always been able to see energy as it flowed in the
universe.
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"Magical Passes: The Practical Wisdom of the Shamans of Ancient Mexico"