03-12-2011, 12:00 AM
"I'll try to help you clarify what you know, then," he said. "Stalking
is a procedure, a very simple one. Stalking is special behavior that
follows certain principles. It is secretive, furtive, deceptive behavior
designed to deliver a jolt. And, when you stalk yourself you jolt
yourself, using your own behavior in a ruthless, cunning way."
He
explained that when a sorcerer's awareness became bogged down with the
weight of his perceptual input, which was what was happening to me, the
best, or even perhaps the only remedy was to use the idea of death to
deliver that stalking jolt.
"Your problem is very simple," he
said. "You become easily obsessed. I have been telling you that
sorcerers stalk themselves in order to break the power of their
obsessions. There are many ways of stalking oneself. If you don't want
to use the idea of your death, use the poems you read me to stalk
yourself."
"As I hear the words," don Juan said when I had
finished reading, "I feel that that man is seeing the essence of things
and I can see with him. I don't care what the poem is about. I care only
about the feeling the poet's longing brings me. I borrow his longing,
and with it I borrow the beauty. And marvel at the fact that he, like a
true warrior, lavishes it on the recipients, the beholders, retaining
for himself only his longing. This jolt, this shock of beauty, is
stalking." http://sorcery.yuku.com/topic/2573/Stal ... -Castaneda
This is what I too understand as stalking's primary purpose...to deliver
change, a jolt, for the better upon one's circumstances. Liberation of
what was fixed. To me stalking aids to draw one and potentially others
to the nagual, to a place of inner freedom, that's its purpose as far as
warriors are concerned. Changing behavior, fluidity, controlled folly.
I'd say the essence of stalking is being very fluid, mysterious in one's
actions but so sincere about it that everyone perceives it as not
mysterious at all. Stalking helps develop and maintain a fluid ap that
can shift to effectively fit (conservation, appropriate use of energy) each and every circumstance one faces. DJ said that
it was considered to call it "controlled folly maker" but that its just
far easier to simply say "stalker"
is a procedure, a very simple one. Stalking is special behavior that
follows certain principles. It is secretive, furtive, deceptive behavior
designed to deliver a jolt. And, when you stalk yourself you jolt
yourself, using your own behavior in a ruthless, cunning way."
He
explained that when a sorcerer's awareness became bogged down with the
weight of his perceptual input, which was what was happening to me, the
best, or even perhaps the only remedy was to use the idea of death to
deliver that stalking jolt.
"Your problem is very simple," he
said. "You become easily obsessed. I have been telling you that
sorcerers stalk themselves in order to break the power of their
obsessions. There are many ways of stalking oneself. If you don't want
to use the idea of your death, use the poems you read me to stalk
yourself."
"As I hear the words," don Juan said when I had
finished reading, "I feel that that man is seeing the essence of things
and I can see with him. I don't care what the poem is about. I care only
about the feeling the poet's longing brings me. I borrow his longing,
and with it I borrow the beauty. And marvel at the fact that he, like a
true warrior, lavishes it on the recipients, the beholders, retaining
for himself only his longing. This jolt, this shock of beauty, is
stalking." http://sorcery.yuku.com/topic/2573/Stal ... -Castaneda
This is what I too understand as stalking's primary purpose...to deliver
change, a jolt, for the better upon one's circumstances. Liberation of
what was fixed. To me stalking aids to draw one and potentially others
to the nagual, to a place of inner freedom, that's its purpose as far as
warriors are concerned. Changing behavior, fluidity, controlled folly.
I'd say the essence of stalking is being very fluid, mysterious in one's
actions but so sincere about it that everyone perceives it as not
mysterious at all. Stalking helps develop and maintain a fluid ap that
can shift to effectively fit (conservation, appropriate use of energy) each and every circumstance one faces. DJ said that
it was considered to call it "controlled folly maker" but that its just
far easier to simply say "stalker"