07-09-2012, 12:00 AM
It has come to my attention that humans quite often do not fully understand the difference between the foreign installation and what are commonly called "flyers". And yet, for every warrior who seeks to embrace freedom beyond the eagle, it is vitually important to comprehend the forces at work which will attempt to thwart your evolution at some point and, in reality, at EVERY point.
The best way to understand the foreign installation might be to think of it as Jung's "collective unconscious" - essentially the hive mind of humanity at large, the shared belief systems and cultural/social foundations which make up what you think of as "the normal assemblage point of humanity." The truth is that this "normal" assemblage point of humanity is actually one of the most ABnormal assemblage points in the natural kingdom, because it is utterly and absolutely false when one really begins to examine it.
Why is this so? Is it sinister? Is there some alien force known as "the flyers" at work?
No.
The "normal assemblage point of Man" is what it is because it represents the lowest common denominator of human experience and human beliefs. The hive exists not because it is right or wrong, but simply because it is the commonly SHARED foundation of the majority of human beings, and so it has "settled" into the mind/body/spirit of the species. The fact that it has become "second nature" doesn't mean it is natural at all.
What IS it? It is cultural and social gravity. If viewed as gravity, it becomes easier to visualize the thing itself. Think of all the combined/shared belief systems of humanity at their most fundamental level: "fire is hot, water is wet, all things die, the sky is blue, blood is red..." and so on. All of these beliefs actually "orbit" the collective hive of Man, making up his most fundamental beliefs and providing him with conclusions which may or may NOT be the least bit accurate. In most cases, the foreign installation hands out easy answers, much like a parent trying to tell a young child about the birds and the bees. In reality, birds and bees have nothing to do with human reproduction anymore than telling a child that "grandma went to heaven to be with god" has anything to do with human spirituality. Easy answers. That's the stock in trade of the foreign installation. It keeps humans complacent and provides them with a social/cultural/spiritual structure under which they can operate. The fact that their foundation is written on water is entirely irrelevant, because the majority of humans will never question it, never realize it, and therefore never move beyond its comforting confines. Everything is a choice, and that is THEIR choice.
Where do the flyers come in? Simply put, the flyers described in Castaneda's work are nothing more than shadows created by fear. So many warriors fear the flyers are eating their awareness, or draining their energy, when the actuality is that the warrior's fear creates the reality in which the warrior is losing awareness and energy - not because any extant flyer is nibbling away at the fringes of his energy, but because his BELIEF that it is happening creates the reality wherein it IS happening.
So is there a flyer, whether it existed before or after one creates it? No. It is an imagined fear, manifested, which does not exist as an extant being unto itself. Put another way, if there were no humans on earth, there would be no flyers. The flyers are transient tulpas, energetic manifestations created by thought and, especially, by fear.
As the warrior moves through his daily life, it's important to truly grasp these things, because until that occurs, the warrior has been programmed (moreso than even the ordinary humans with whom s/he shares the planet) to think s/he is being consumed by flyers and controlled by the foreign installation. But while both exist within the realm of possibility, NEITHER can be forced to go through the motions of actually occurring UNLESS the warrior relinquihes his awareness and surrenders to fear or false belief.
I had thought this was obvious to all serious warriors, but recent dialogs have proven otherwise. Clearly, this is my personal opinion. Not seeking agreement or argument. Just putting some additional knowledge into the blender. Yes, this is much simplified, but hopefully adequate to stimulate one's own thought processes.
QS
Originally posted at The Sorcerer's World
The best way to understand the foreign installation might be to think of it as Jung's "collective unconscious" - essentially the hive mind of humanity at large, the shared belief systems and cultural/social foundations which make up what you think of as "the normal assemblage point of humanity." The truth is that this "normal" assemblage point of humanity is actually one of the most ABnormal assemblage points in the natural kingdom, because it is utterly and absolutely false when one really begins to examine it.
Why is this so? Is it sinister? Is there some alien force known as "the flyers" at work?
No.
The "normal assemblage point of Man" is what it is because it represents the lowest common denominator of human experience and human beliefs. The hive exists not because it is right or wrong, but simply because it is the commonly SHARED foundation of the majority of human beings, and so it has "settled" into the mind/body/spirit of the species. The fact that it has become "second nature" doesn't mean it is natural at all.
What IS it? It is cultural and social gravity. If viewed as gravity, it becomes easier to visualize the thing itself. Think of all the combined/shared belief systems of humanity at their most fundamental level: "fire is hot, water is wet, all things die, the sky is blue, blood is red..." and so on. All of these beliefs actually "orbit" the collective hive of Man, making up his most fundamental beliefs and providing him with conclusions which may or may NOT be the least bit accurate. In most cases, the foreign installation hands out easy answers, much like a parent trying to tell a young child about the birds and the bees. In reality, birds and bees have nothing to do with human reproduction anymore than telling a child that "grandma went to heaven to be with god" has anything to do with human spirituality. Easy answers. That's the stock in trade of the foreign installation. It keeps humans complacent and provides them with a social/cultural/spiritual structure under which they can operate. The fact that their foundation is written on water is entirely irrelevant, because the majority of humans will never question it, never realize it, and therefore never move beyond its comforting confines. Everything is a choice, and that is THEIR choice.
Where do the flyers come in? Simply put, the flyers described in Castaneda's work are nothing more than shadows created by fear. So many warriors fear the flyers are eating their awareness, or draining their energy, when the actuality is that the warrior's fear creates the reality in which the warrior is losing awareness and energy - not because any extant flyer is nibbling away at the fringes of his energy, but because his BELIEF that it is happening creates the reality wherein it IS happening.
So is there a flyer, whether it existed before or after one creates it? No. It is an imagined fear, manifested, which does not exist as an extant being unto itself. Put another way, if there were no humans on earth, there would be no flyers. The flyers are transient tulpas, energetic manifestations created by thought and, especially, by fear.
As the warrior moves through his daily life, it's important to truly grasp these things, because until that occurs, the warrior has been programmed (moreso than even the ordinary humans with whom s/he shares the planet) to think s/he is being consumed by flyers and controlled by the foreign installation. But while both exist within the realm of possibility, NEITHER can be forced to go through the motions of actually occurring UNLESS the warrior relinquihes his awareness and surrenders to fear or false belief.
I had thought this was obvious to all serious warriors, but recent dialogs have proven otherwise. Clearly, this is my personal opinion. Not seeking agreement or argument. Just putting some additional knowledge into the blender. Yes, this is much simplified, but hopefully adequate to stimulate one's own thought processes.
QS
Originally posted at The Sorcerer's World
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