11-26-2010, 12:00 AM
Stalking power.
What does that mean? Well, first I think it means many things
according to who the perceiver is. But at its most basic level, it is a description
of what we warriors do naturally. I believe if we recognize this is what we are
stalking, we can concentrate our intent this way.
So what is it to stalk power? What is power? I like the term
nagual. Here we have the tonal, the daily world, we know that the nagual is the
unknown, the unseen and the unknowable until it links with the tonal. We stalk
it via this link.
So, say you see something about yourself you don’t like…a
reactivity. You could say you stalk your weakness…the reactivity. But truly we
are geared to be optimistic, I believe. Deep down we are not seeking weakness,
but strength. The “weakness” is only the friction necessitating the desire for
power, which is the abstract, which is us. Social conditioning makes us human,
the abstract makes us more what we really are. And the more we stalk power the more
we become it.
How do we do it? Within intent and with the eyes. Social
perspective is a piercing gaze, it hones in on a target. It looks at the world
it sees and uses the rational mind memories to impute meaning derived from the
need to return to equilibrium. Such as, someone made you mad, you feel angry,
you seek retaliation, you look upon your target with a preditorial gaze. This would
be reactivity.
To stalk power is to say “I don’t like being this way, this
is not who I am supposed to be. What am I truly then?”
You gaze at the unknown, the unseen. You ask questions, you
beckon power to you, you are it. Your eyes encompass, soften, permeate the
environment. You do not see it until it arrives, and there it is!
What does that mean? Well, first I think it means many things
according to who the perceiver is. But at its most basic level, it is a description
of what we warriors do naturally. I believe if we recognize this is what we are
stalking, we can concentrate our intent this way.
So what is it to stalk power? What is power? I like the term
nagual. Here we have the tonal, the daily world, we know that the nagual is the
unknown, the unseen and the unknowable until it links with the tonal. We stalk
it via this link.
So, say you see something about yourself you don’t like…a
reactivity. You could say you stalk your weakness…the reactivity. But truly we
are geared to be optimistic, I believe. Deep down we are not seeking weakness,
but strength. The “weakness” is only the friction necessitating the desire for
power, which is the abstract, which is us. Social conditioning makes us human,
the abstract makes us more what we really are. And the more we stalk power the more
we become it.
How do we do it? Within intent and with the eyes. Social
perspective is a piercing gaze, it hones in on a target. It looks at the world
it sees and uses the rational mind memories to impute meaning derived from the
need to return to equilibrium. Such as, someone made you mad, you feel angry,
you seek retaliation, you look upon your target with a preditorial gaze. This would
be reactivity.
To stalk power is to say “I don’t like being this way, this
is not who I am supposed to be. What am I truly then?”
You gaze at the unknown, the unseen. You ask questions, you
beckon power to you, you are it. Your eyes encompass, soften, permeate the
environment. You do not see it until it arrives, and there it is!