03-12-2011, 12:00 AM
Nu Lang wrote:"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
Thanks for posting that!
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
Thanks for posting that!