02-07-2009, 12:00 AM
Emotions are (by definition) energy-in-motion. Castaneda seems to think that flyers can feed on anything.
If we think about it a little we could say that it's true. For instance: You love someone. That's fine and dandy... no harm there, BUT if you love
someone in an obsessive manner you become an attention-energy parasite, to feed the parasite within
yourself.
Perhaps the key here is not emotion... but unbalanced emotion. Energy coming from sexual desire, love, fear, anxiety,
pride, ambition, attachment,etc in an unbalanced way seems to be the flyer's diet.
If it doesn't eat it from within you, it can eat it from outside you and even from third parties around you.
As for the Castanedian issue, I just concurred with Toltechie in saying that Castaneda arrived to the wrong conclusions.
Seeing is objective, explaining what is perceived is highly subjective, specially among immature seers.
A lot of people presume seer-ship... and they really do see, but they interpret what they see in the
stupidest of ways.
You won't hear nor read many seers saying: I saw light, an scenario, this and that happened, a bubble of tread-like energy glowing green, etc...
You will hear a LOT of seers saying: You are
an **** and your energy body is screwed. I saw it!
Seer-ship gives us objective perception... but not the wisdom and sobriety to handle it and interpret it correctly. That takes time, study and experience.
Castaneda was not in a place of wisdom. Presuming and speculating things is not of shamans (LOL).
A great seer can actually see the past and see if flyers did or did not help in the development of human rationality,
but even that is unnecessary. At plain sight they seem extremely dull.
They loan us THEIR mind, remember? They are a superficial problem, if you ask me.
Ego/Self-Importance runs much more deeper.
That's what I'm saying. There is an abysmal difference between an imbecile seer and a shaman (one who knows). Examples are far to abundant.
If we think about it a little we could say that it's true. For instance: You love someone. That's fine and dandy... no harm there, BUT if you love
someone in an obsessive manner you become an attention-energy parasite, to feed the parasite within
yourself.
Perhaps the key here is not emotion... but unbalanced emotion. Energy coming from sexual desire, love, fear, anxiety,
pride, ambition, attachment,etc in an unbalanced way seems to be the flyer's diet.
If it doesn't eat it from within you, it can eat it from outside you and even from third parties around you.
As for the Castanedian issue, I just concurred with Toltechie in saying that Castaneda arrived to the wrong conclusions.
Seeing is objective, explaining what is perceived is highly subjective, specially among immature seers.
A lot of people presume seer-ship... and they really do see, but they interpret what they see in the
stupidest of ways.
You won't hear nor read many seers saying: I saw light, an scenario, this and that happened, a bubble of tread-like energy glowing green, etc...
You will hear a LOT of seers saying: You are
an **** and your energy body is screwed. I saw it!
Seer-ship gives us objective perception... but not the wisdom and sobriety to handle it and interpret it correctly. That takes time, study and experience.
Castaneda was not in a place of wisdom. Presuming and speculating things is not of shamans (LOL).
A great seer can actually see the past and see if flyers did or did not help in the development of human rationality,
but even that is unnecessary. At plain sight they seem extremely dull.
They loan us THEIR mind, remember? They are a superficial problem, if you ask me.
Ego/Self-Importance runs much more deeper.
That's what I'm saying. There is an abysmal difference between an imbecile seer and a shaman (one who knows). Examples are far to abundant.