Sustained action, stained redaction and strange reactions

[Uncle Sam]

Florinda
joked that Carlos has made a lot of mistakes in his life and that, over
the years, she has been witness to most of them. One of the more
recent, and according to her 'imbecilic', things he
did was create what came to be known as the Sunday Group, a local LA
practice group that Carlos worked with intensively over a period of more
than a year. Carlos' temperament
is not like don Juan's. She humorously described
Carlos Castaneda as the 'ultimate hit-and-run artist'. She said that
over a year ago he decided he would try to influence this small group of
people and attempt to mold them into
serious warrior-practitioners with the force of his
charismatic personality, his ability to talk about anything, and his
superior energy.

Florinda
told the Los Angeles crowd that Carlos had made a monumental error in
judgment because all he succeeded in doing was to make himself into
their 'Guru'. So the Sunday Group was immediately
abolished according to Florinda. Her statement signaled the end of the
group, much to the surprise of some workshop attendees who were members
of it. Later in the week,
Florinda's tale of the demise of the group would
spark speculation as to whether or not Carlos would be showing up for
the workshop at all.

[Uncle Sam]

After
the dinner break, a smiling Taisha Abelar strolled in to applause,
mounted the platform, signaled for quiet, stated her name, and began to
talk about Bobby again (or Robert, which she used
interchangeably). This time she did so in more detail. She discussed how
we are a reflection of the Flyer's mentality. All our systems of
socialization and conduct are examples
of their influence.

"All of our attributes, all of them, every single one, come from Robert."

Taisha
spoke of the big caches of energy that are like two columns on either
side of us. She said that to seers, these two caches of energy have
the appearance of two giant melting candles, one on
either side and to the front of us. She said that if we could access
that energy alone, it would be sufficient to throw off the bonds of the
Flyer's socialization and move
away from the position of ME.

"But
the Flyers prevent us from even perceiving them, let alone getting at
those caches of energy and accessing them," Taisha continued.
"If we could access the two huge caches of energy
that are on either side of us, we would then be capable of gaining
access to all the zillions of spots that our awareness could move to
within the fringe of awareness,
within the shallow stream. One could choose to move
the beam of attention to other positions besides the point between the
toes."

Taisha
went on to say that she was going to address certain points of
interest, points that are repeated endlessly because that's the only way

human beings are able to learn, by having things
relentlessly drilled into them over and over, again and again. Which is
precisely what don Juan and his party did to her and her cohorts.

She
emphatically stated that, "If it's not part of our cognitive system,
it's never registered. People will say, 'Oh sure, I know what you're
talking about.' We use to say to say the same thing.
When something comes from outside our cognitive system we THINK we can
understand it, but since it's not part of our system the data is
completely disregarded, it completely
bypasses us."

[Guest]