07-01-2006, 12:00 AM
1.Choose your battleground
When stalking someone in order to permanently affect their worldview/tonalic fixation, it is necessary to remove them from their element and into yours(the foreign element). We all use familiar elements to fixate ourselves. They keep our assemblage point steady and on one position. New surroundings jostle the assemblage point and assist in making it pliable enough to assemble new positions. Keeping the interactions in your element allows you to remain fixed in your purpose/intent as you draw them towards you and not the opposite. Likewise if a warrior foolishly ventures into an unknown/unpredictable environment to reel in someone, his assemblage point would be wavering and the taget would have the upper hand.
2.Discard What Isn't Essential
Eliminating as many elements of the familiar as possible effects the same as the First Principle: loosening of the assemblage point. It also frees up energy to focus and keeps the target's vision fixed; whereas with superfluity, the attention would tend to wander..
3.Put your life on the line for a decision
This functions to keep the warrior from making half-baked attempts. The tendency in all of us is towards laziness. It draws in all the warrior's resources and focuses them by giving magical acts the weight they deserve. This is essential during Principle #6.
4.Relax/abandon yourself/fear nothing
Stalking takes energy and obsessing bleeds it out faster than anything. Fretting over details or worrying about outcomes is a death-cocktail for intent. It assists in focus and elastic (instead of brittle) unwavering intent.
5.Retreat/regroup when facing "impossibilities"
This is a companion to #4 in that it tempers obsession and fear of failure. It also fosters patience: an essential ingredient to stalking. It also allows perspective and encourages flexibility to reroute one's energy in execution.
6.Compress time when opportunity flaunts itself
As a companion to #5, the Sixth Principle focuses action that was latent and building while the sorcerer was in retreat. Omens direct the warrior to ACT, at a given time in a specific manner, and the warrior must adhere to those directives quickly, almost mindlessly and without question. The other steps are like the sharpening of the sword. This step is the actual thrust.
7.Remain invisible: use proxies
Think of a bullfight. El Torredor uses a red cape to divert the rage of the bull elsewhere, as he deftly inserts spears into the animal's neck as it charges by him towards the diversion. The warrior controls the action without risking the target turning on, or worse, turning away from him and fleeing. Eventually, the bull's stubborness and bravado shrink to nothing and it falls to its knees before El Torredor. This is the moment where the subject realizes the futility of the fixation in his/her old ways; and how it can be deadly. Metaphorically, the fledgling symbolically dies and sheds old inventories/fixations and begins on his/her journey as a warrior.
And now: back to your regularly scheduled (de)programming...
When stalking someone in order to permanently affect their worldview/tonalic fixation, it is necessary to remove them from their element and into yours(the foreign element). We all use familiar elements to fixate ourselves. They keep our assemblage point steady and on one position. New surroundings jostle the assemblage point and assist in making it pliable enough to assemble new positions. Keeping the interactions in your element allows you to remain fixed in your purpose/intent as you draw them towards you and not the opposite. Likewise if a warrior foolishly ventures into an unknown/unpredictable environment to reel in someone, his assemblage point would be wavering and the taget would have the upper hand.
2.Discard What Isn't Essential
Eliminating as many elements of the familiar as possible effects the same as the First Principle: loosening of the assemblage point. It also frees up energy to focus and keeps the target's vision fixed; whereas with superfluity, the attention would tend to wander..
3.Put your life on the line for a decision
This functions to keep the warrior from making half-baked attempts. The tendency in all of us is towards laziness. It draws in all the warrior's resources and focuses them by giving magical acts the weight they deserve. This is essential during Principle #6.
4.Relax/abandon yourself/fear nothing
Stalking takes energy and obsessing bleeds it out faster than anything. Fretting over details or worrying about outcomes is a death-cocktail for intent. It assists in focus and elastic (instead of brittle) unwavering intent.
5.Retreat/regroup when facing "impossibilities"
This is a companion to #4 in that it tempers obsession and fear of failure. It also fosters patience: an essential ingredient to stalking. It also allows perspective and encourages flexibility to reroute one's energy in execution.
6.Compress time when opportunity flaunts itself
As a companion to #5, the Sixth Principle focuses action that was latent and building while the sorcerer was in retreat. Omens direct the warrior to ACT, at a given time in a specific manner, and the warrior must adhere to those directives quickly, almost mindlessly and without question. The other steps are like the sharpening of the sword. This step is the actual thrust.
7.Remain invisible: use proxies
Think of a bullfight. El Torredor uses a red cape to divert the rage of the bull elsewhere, as he deftly inserts spears into the animal's neck as it charges by him towards the diversion. The warrior controls the action without risking the target turning on, or worse, turning away from him and fleeing. Eventually, the bull's stubborness and bravado shrink to nothing and it falls to its knees before El Torredor. This is the moment where the subject realizes the futility of the fixation in his/her old ways; and how it can be deadly. Metaphorically, the fledgling symbolically dies and sheds old inventories/fixations and begins on his/her journey as a warrior.
And now: back to your regularly scheduled (de)programming...