04-20-2015, 12:00 AM
From Power of Silence - Carlos Castaneda
Let us say, for example, the story of Calixto Muni- and changing the ending so that instead of describing how Calixto Muni was drawn and quartered by the Spanish executioners, which is what happened, he tells a story of Calixto Muni the victorious rebel who succeeded in liberating his people.
Carlos relied - I told him that I would have to assume that changing the factual accout in the manner he was describing would have to be a psychological device, a sort of wishful thinking on the sorcerer storeyteller's part....
don Juan- Your arguement is glib and convincing and reasonable, he commented, but because your spirit is dead you can not see the flaw in your argument.... The sorcery storyteller who changes the factual ending does it because he can manipulate his elusive connection with intent and actually change things.... because his pure understanding is an advanced runner probing the immensity, the storyteller knows without a shadow of doubt that somewhere, somehow, in that infinity, at this very moment that Calixto Muni is victorious. He has delivered his people. His goal has transcended his person.
Let us say, for example, the story of Calixto Muni- and changing the ending so that instead of describing how Calixto Muni was drawn and quartered by the Spanish executioners, which is what happened, he tells a story of Calixto Muni the victorious rebel who succeeded in liberating his people.
Carlos relied - I told him that I would have to assume that changing the factual accout in the manner he was describing would have to be a psychological device, a sort of wishful thinking on the sorcerer storeyteller's part....
don Juan- Your arguement is glib and convincing and reasonable, he commented, but because your spirit is dead you can not see the flaw in your argument.... The sorcery storyteller who changes the factual ending does it because he can manipulate his elusive connection with intent and actually change things.... because his pure understanding is an advanced runner probing the immensity, the storyteller knows without a shadow of doubt that somewhere, somehow, in that infinity, at this very moment that Calixto Muni is victorious. He has delivered his people. His goal has transcended his person.