04-07-2011, 12:00 AM
Someone asked earlier in this thread for a description of what the AP is. I found a good article.
The Assemblage Point
Many
people have emailed me requesting clarification on the assemblage
point. The best point of reference for this is in the book The Fire From Within by Carlos Castaneda and here is information through my personal experience united with the teachings of Carlos.
People repeatedly choose to perceive the same reality for two
reasons. First, and most important, because we have been taught that
those particular realities are perceivable and “normal”, and second
because our assemblage points select and prepare those realities for
being used on a regular basis.
Having done considerable amounts of energy work and teachings for
people over the course of many years, it became evident that a major
distraction was almost always required for the purpose of facilitating
success in assisting one in shifting their assemblage point. One
person, who worked with me on a regular basis, asked me if I could
assist him with something when we got home from our walk in the desert.
I said, let’s do it right now and he asked me if we could without the
assistance of sage, feathers and a rattle. As a committed apprentice on
the path of awareness, he was at a point in this juncture when he needed
to move beyond this distraction so I explained that those items simply
serve as a tool to help provide focus to the task at hand. He asked me
if I needed them to do my work and was surprised when I told him no,
they are only utilized to create a focal point for the students and that
they don’t serve me at all.
Rituals and incantations are indeed necessary at one time in every
warrior’s life. But only for purposes of luring one’s first attention
away from the power of self-absorption, which keeps his assemblage point
rigidly fixed.
The obsessive entanglement of the first attention in self-absorption
or reason is a powerful binding force, and ritual behavior, because it
is repetitive, forces the first attention to free some energy from
watching the inventory, as a consequence of which the assemblage point
loses its rigidity.
To shift your assemblage point, one needs a lot of energy or
assistance from an impeccable nagual. What determines the shift is
energy. When the assemblage points moves from its fixated point, if you
are not a warrior, you think you’re losing your mind. If you are a
warrior, you know you’ve gone crazy, but you patiently wait. You see, to
be healthy and sane means that the assemblage point is immovable. When
it shifts, it literally means that one is deranged.
Impeccable warriors don’t lose their marbles. They remain untouched. Impeccable warriors may see horrifying and strange worlds and yet the next moment they are telling a joke, laughing with their friends or with strangers.
Two options are opened to warriors whose assemblage points have
shifted. One is to acknowledge being ill and to behave in deranged ways,
reacting emotionally to the strange worlds that their shifts force them
to witness; the other is to remain impassive, untouched, knowing that
the assemblage point always returns to its original position.
If the assemblage point doesn’t return to its original position, then
those people are lost. They are either incurably crazy, because their
assemblage points could never assemble the world as we know it, or they
are peerless seers who have begun their movement toward the unknown.
The fixation of the assemblage point begins as toddlers. Parents
restrict their children’s sense of perception by forcing their own upon
them, the very perceptions that they were taught by their parents and so
on and so on. A small child’s rendering of a house may not look
anything like a house but the parent or teacher will promptly draw about
six lines on a piece of paper and exclaim, “now that’s a house.” The
child’s perspective, therefore, becomes fixated on those drawn lines and
future renderings of the “house” will always maintain that perspective
having been locked in by the person that they trust to be right.
To shift ones assemblage point is to utilize the vast amounts of
energy that become available through recapitulation. The extra energy
allows one to perceive at a point beyond the limited perceptions that
have been placed upon us from birth. To imagine this all you have to do
is realize that everything in our existence is simply energy. Cars,
people, buildings, kitchen utensils, shoes, etc. They are tangible
objects that are made up of infinite atoms, electrons and sub-atomic
particles. Most people perceive them as concrete, solid objects.
Sorcerers perceive them of the very thing they are, pure energy. This is
not only possible but it is incredibly frightening when it first
occurs. Your rationale is challenged on an extreme level as you witness
the “melting” or transformation of form. It is the impeccable warrior
that keeps his act together and not surprising that if these shifts
occur to regular people they are apt to go insane.
http://thetoltecpath.word...om/the-assemblage-point/
The Assemblage Point
Many
people have emailed me requesting clarification on the assemblage
point. The best point of reference for this is in the book The Fire From Within by Carlos Castaneda and here is information through my personal experience united with the teachings of Carlos.
People repeatedly choose to perceive the same reality for two
reasons. First, and most important, because we have been taught that
those particular realities are perceivable and “normal”, and second
because our assemblage points select and prepare those realities for
being used on a regular basis.
Having done considerable amounts of energy work and teachings for
people over the course of many years, it became evident that a major
distraction was almost always required for the purpose of facilitating
success in assisting one in shifting their assemblage point. One
person, who worked with me on a regular basis, asked me if I could
assist him with something when we got home from our walk in the desert.
I said, let’s do it right now and he asked me if we could without the
assistance of sage, feathers and a rattle. As a committed apprentice on
the path of awareness, he was at a point in this juncture when he needed
to move beyond this distraction so I explained that those items simply
serve as a tool to help provide focus to the task at hand. He asked me
if I needed them to do my work and was surprised when I told him no,
they are only utilized to create a focal point for the students and that
they don’t serve me at all.
Rituals and incantations are indeed necessary at one time in every
warrior’s life. But only for purposes of luring one’s first attention
away from the power of self-absorption, which keeps his assemblage point
rigidly fixed.
The obsessive entanglement of the first attention in self-absorption
or reason is a powerful binding force, and ritual behavior, because it
is repetitive, forces the first attention to free some energy from
watching the inventory, as a consequence of which the assemblage point
loses its rigidity.
To shift your assemblage point, one needs a lot of energy or
assistance from an impeccable nagual. What determines the shift is
energy. When the assemblage points moves from its fixated point, if you
are not a warrior, you think you’re losing your mind. If you are a
warrior, you know you’ve gone crazy, but you patiently wait. You see, to
be healthy and sane means that the assemblage point is immovable. When
it shifts, it literally means that one is deranged.
Impeccable warriors don’t lose their marbles. They remain untouched. Impeccable warriors may see horrifying and strange worlds and yet the next moment they are telling a joke, laughing with their friends or with strangers.
Two options are opened to warriors whose assemblage points have
shifted. One is to acknowledge being ill and to behave in deranged ways,
reacting emotionally to the strange worlds that their shifts force them
to witness; the other is to remain impassive, untouched, knowing that
the assemblage point always returns to its original position.
If the assemblage point doesn’t return to its original position, then
those people are lost. They are either incurably crazy, because their
assemblage points could never assemble the world as we know it, or they
are peerless seers who have begun their movement toward the unknown.
The fixation of the assemblage point begins as toddlers. Parents
restrict their children’s sense of perception by forcing their own upon
them, the very perceptions that they were taught by their parents and so
on and so on. A small child’s rendering of a house may not look
anything like a house but the parent or teacher will promptly draw about
six lines on a piece of paper and exclaim, “now that’s a house.” The
child’s perspective, therefore, becomes fixated on those drawn lines and
future renderings of the “house” will always maintain that perspective
having been locked in by the person that they trust to be right.
To shift ones assemblage point is to utilize the vast amounts of
energy that become available through recapitulation. The extra energy
allows one to perceive at a point beyond the limited perceptions that
have been placed upon us from birth. To imagine this all you have to do
is realize that everything in our existence is simply energy. Cars,
people, buildings, kitchen utensils, shoes, etc. They are tangible
objects that are made up of infinite atoms, electrons and sub-atomic
particles. Most people perceive them as concrete, solid objects.
Sorcerers perceive them of the very thing they are, pure energy. This is
not only possible but it is incredibly frightening when it first
occurs. Your rationale is challenged on an extreme level as you witness
the “melting” or transformation of form. It is the impeccable warrior
that keeps his act together and not surprising that if these shifts
occur to regular people they are apt to go insane.
http://thetoltecpath.word...om/the-assemblage-point/