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Question:
Don Juan Matus describes the world as being predatory in nature, which is at
variance to perhaps all other mystical, shamanic and esoteric traditions.
Can you comment on this?
Answer:
In the tradition of the sorcerers to which don Juan belongs, it is maintained
that the universe is predatorial in nature. For sorcerers, this is not a
matter of speculation or of metaphorical predilection - they know for a fact
that it is predatorial. Throughout the ages they have described the
condition of man, which is about the bleakest description we know. As time
goes by, this description gains more and more ground. Sorcerers say that
just as we keep chickens, or gallinas in Spanish, in a coop, or a
gallinero, some entities that come from a universe of awareness keep us in
human coops. Sorcerers make a joke and say that those entities, which they
call flyers, or voladores, keep us human beings, or seres humanos, cooped
up in humaneros.
The flyers of the sorcerers' tradition are black shadows that we sometimes
detect and explain away as floaters in the retina. Sorcerers know for a
fact, by means of their capacity to see energy directly, that those shadows
are predatorial and that they keep us alive in order to devour our
awareness. Sorcerers say that our awareness is like a sheen around our total
field of energy that looks to them like a luminous ball. To them, this sheen
of awareness is like a plastic cover that would make the luminous ball shine
even more if it were not for the fact that it has been eaten away down to the
level of our heels.
Here is where the sorcerers description gets very disturbing to us;
sorcerers say that the only sheen of awareness left in us by our eaters is
the awareness of self-reflection. Therefore, all we are left with is the
concern with me, myself and I. In our personal lives we have corroborated
that the only force left in the immediate world around us is the force of
self-importance, which comes disguised in the form of humility, compassion,
altruism, kindness, you name it.
This sorcerer's description is of course our ultimate nemesis; we don't want
to believe that we are being raised for food. In this sense, naturally, the
sorcerers' tradition is at total variance with any other kind of spiritual
tradition. Sorcerers say, and believe me, not out of cynicism, that every
ideal we deal with in terms of spiritual traditions, religions, etc, is a
device concocted by the flyers to keep us in a lull. Imagine our disquietude
upon examining, weighing and pondering this proposition.
Question:
What is the 'jump for freedom' and what is 'death' to those people who have
not made this 'jump'?
Answer:
We understand that the jump to freedom is equivalent to evolving in a
premeditated way. For sorcerers, the natural reason for our lives, aside
from being eaten by the flyers, is to fend off our attackers in order to
allow our awareness to grow to its full capacity. To complete this task is
an evolutionary step which sorcerers call the jump to freedom. We haven't
reached that state so we truly don't know what it means.
Your question of what death is to people who have not made this jump can be
answered by sorcerers very simply by telling you that people who do not allow
the regrowth of awareness die by being eaten by the flyers.