03-06-2008, 12:00 AM
Hello Bob M
I think I understand what you are saying here. I tend to think of discipline more as Focus
However , in the case of a Castaneda, or even myself, discipline seems to be more about, can't remember the word I had in mind:; how about De-Programming?
I am thinking of Discipine more in the Training of the novice. By that, I mean the structuring of abilities discovered, or latent, or at hand.
How strange we humans are!
As a Christian, you must know the saying that there is none so blind as one who will not see, etc.
But, it is greater than Faith; it is Knowing, it is Education to Systems that are generally Unknown to, or unacceptable to, the everyday human being.
I concieve of Spirit as Air, or Radiation: Invisible, yet with Effect. Doesn't it seem so simple, as a scientific reality, yet so easily denied?
Do you remember that Carlos episode where he was collared like a dog to a post? I can't recall the exact word , but don Juan's cohort shouted it? I
keep thinking -Attention! Attention!
Dreaming. Until I noticed , from these books, I never paid enough attention to that place between Waking and Dreaming. Many Writers find their inspiration
there, and get out of bed to note it. Now, I find a lot of activity there, though my lifestyle does not allow me to chronicle a lot of it.
Attention. By paying attention, and accepting a reality, my dreams have indeed become a part of living, though not, in my case, as useful as don Juan taught
Is it possible that psycic abilities, as the Abos claim, is our genetic future, or our heritage, if we could find mind silence?
"At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered.
Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the Point. The Still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance
T.S. Eliot
by way of Sci-Fi author Julian May
Oh, this: do you recall how don Juan would say that Carlos had a violent nature?
Well, I identify with that , to my shame, and my dreams have reflected it.
I struggle, as a Warrior, to overcome. At work this week, there was a lockdown because of an abusive male over his wife or whatever.
A warrior is a peacemaker, not an abuser.
(the Italics are an accident, will remove)
I think I understand what you are saying here. I tend to think of discipline more as Focus
However , in the case of a Castaneda, or even myself, discipline seems to be more about, can't remember the word I had in mind:; how about De-Programming?
I am thinking of Discipine more in the Training of the novice. By that, I mean the structuring of abilities discovered, or latent, or at hand.
How strange we humans are!
As a Christian, you must know the saying that there is none so blind as one who will not see, etc.
But, it is greater than Faith; it is Knowing, it is Education to Systems that are generally Unknown to, or unacceptable to, the everyday human being.
I concieve of Spirit as Air, or Radiation: Invisible, yet with Effect. Doesn't it seem so simple, as a scientific reality, yet so easily denied?
Do you remember that Carlos episode where he was collared like a dog to a post? I can't recall the exact word , but don Juan's cohort shouted it? I
keep thinking -Attention! Attention!
Dreaming. Until I noticed , from these books, I never paid enough attention to that place between Waking and Dreaming. Many Writers find their inspiration
there, and get out of bed to note it. Now, I find a lot of activity there, though my lifestyle does not allow me to chronicle a lot of it.
Attention. By paying attention, and accepting a reality, my dreams have indeed become a part of living, though not, in my case, as useful as don Juan taught
Is it possible that psycic abilities, as the Abos claim, is our genetic future, or our heritage, if we could find mind silence?
"At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered.
Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the Point. The Still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance
T.S. Eliot
by way of Sci-Fi author Julian May
Oh, this: do you recall how don Juan would say that Carlos had a violent nature?
Well, I identify with that , to my shame, and my dreams have reflected it.
I struggle, as a Warrior, to overcome. At work this week, there was a lockdown because of an abusive male over his wife or whatever.
A warrior is a peacemaker, not an abuser.
(the Italics are an accident, will remove)