01-16-2011, 12:00 AM
In order to navigate into the unknown like a
shaman does, one needs unlimited pragmatism, boundless sobriety and
guts of steel
Sobriety is the essence of impeccability.
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“ For don Juan Matus, a pragmatic and extremely sober shaman,
‘Spirituality’ was an empty ideality, an assertion without basis that
we believe to be very beautiful because it is encrusted with literary
concepts and poetic expressions, but which never go beyond that.
Shamans like don Juan are essentially practical. For them there only
exists a predatory universe in which intelligence or awareness is the
product of life and death challenges. He considered himself a navigator
of infinity and said that in order to navigate into the unknown like a
shaman does, one needs unlimited pragmatism, boundless sobriety and
guts of steel.
In view of all this, don Juan believed that ‘Spirituality’ is simply a
description of something impossible to achieve within the patterns of
the world of everyday life, and it is not a real way of acting.”
shaman does, one needs unlimited pragmatism, boundless sobriety and
guts of steel
Sobriety is the essence of impeccability.
----
“ For don Juan Matus, a pragmatic and extremely sober shaman,
‘Spirituality’ was an empty ideality, an assertion without basis that
we believe to be very beautiful because it is encrusted with literary
concepts and poetic expressions, but which never go beyond that.
Shamans like don Juan are essentially practical. For them there only
exists a predatory universe in which intelligence or awareness is the
product of life and death challenges. He considered himself a navigator
of infinity and said that in order to navigate into the unknown like a
shaman does, one needs unlimited pragmatism, boundless sobriety and
guts of steel.
In view of all this, don Juan believed that ‘Spirituality’ is simply a
description of something impossible to achieve within the patterns of
the world of everyday life, and it is not a real way of acting.”