Reason: The oposite of a movement of the assemblage point

[El Espiritu del Foro]

From the Art of Dreaming:







"Upon awakening I gave don Juan, at his request, a complete description of what I had seen and done. He warned me that it was not possible to rely on
my rationality to understand my experience, not because my rationality was in any way impaired but because what had taken place was a phenomenon outside
the parameters of reason.





I, naturally, argued that nothing can be outside the limits of reason; things can be obscure, but sooner or later reason always finds a way to shed light
on anything. And I really believed this.





Don Juan, with extreme patience, pointed out that reason is only a by-product of the habitual position of the assemblage point; therefore, knowing
what is going on, being of sound mind, having our feet on the ground sources of great pride to us and assumed to be a natural consequence of our worth are
merely the result of the fixation of the assemblage point on its habitual place. The more rigid and stationary it is, the greater our confidence in
ourselves, the greater our feeling of knowing the world, of being able to predict."