11-28-2011, 12:01 AM
DU, your link made me smile...thanks
I think Carlos himself would agree with your recommendation..that followers of the books use the framework to test the paradigm. In your example it was stalking and controlled folly...also there is erasing personal history, recapping, not doing...etc etc. He used Genaro as an example when he wrote about Genaro standing on his head when Carlos got too "academic' in his explanation or inquiries. Or Genaro used to write with his finger, mimicking Carlos's notetaking...he told Carlos he was a man of action.
I felt in many places I read, Carlos was wanting the reader to act more than think about what was said. The thinking aspect is important as I see it, but with nagualism, if you are not having experiences prior to the books, then you must certainly take action at some point as reading the words does not erase your personal history nor would reading a chapter on controlled folly make you able to do it the next day. His books are very interesting reads and the repetition caused many things he wrote to become saturated in the readers awareness and a momentum could be built up over time...but still, without action, I don't see how readers with no prior experience to back it up could get it by reading alone (and btw, I happen to believe that virtually every reader would have 'some' kind of prior experience that drew then to read his work...).
And not just any action is enough...it would take sincere and repeated action. Just like ...you can take piano lessons, but you sincerely have to dedicate your practice to become good...but yeah, there are those like Mozart who are born already with the natural ability too, but they are rarer.
Do I think he lied or made up Don Juan and others? No, I feel he reported his experiences.
I think Carlos himself would agree with your recommendation..that followers of the books use the framework to test the paradigm. In your example it was stalking and controlled folly...also there is erasing personal history, recapping, not doing...etc etc. He used Genaro as an example when he wrote about Genaro standing on his head when Carlos got too "academic' in his explanation or inquiries. Or Genaro used to write with his finger, mimicking Carlos's notetaking...he told Carlos he was a man of action.
I felt in many places I read, Carlos was wanting the reader to act more than think about what was said. The thinking aspect is important as I see it, but with nagualism, if you are not having experiences prior to the books, then you must certainly take action at some point as reading the words does not erase your personal history nor would reading a chapter on controlled folly make you able to do it the next day. His books are very interesting reads and the repetition caused many things he wrote to become saturated in the readers awareness and a momentum could be built up over time...but still, without action, I don't see how readers with no prior experience to back it up could get it by reading alone (and btw, I happen to believe that virtually every reader would have 'some' kind of prior experience that drew then to read his work...).
And not just any action is enough...it would take sincere and repeated action. Just like ...you can take piano lessons, but you sincerely have to dedicate your practice to become good...but yeah, there are those like Mozart who are born already with the natural ability too, but they are rarer.
Do I think he lied or made up Don Juan and others? No, I feel he reported his experiences.