10-20-2014, 12:00 AM
Castaneda explains the origin of the flyers per Encounters With The Nagual - ©2004 by Armando Torres
From the chapter Evolution of the Path, Castaneda says...
"The old seers could not separate a great dose of self-importance from their practices. Since they enjoyed having power over their fellow men, they were never able to focus clearly on the proposal of total freedom. Although they were unbeatable seers, it was impossible for them to foresee that their enthusiasm to discover the world should end up involving them in commitments that would trap them.
"Most modern sorcerers are the heirs of the old seers. By ignoring the warrior's principles, they have devaluated the knowledge. They have become storytellers, herbalists, healers, or dancers; they have lost control of the assemblage point. In many cases, they do not even remember that the point exists.
"The new seers tried to stop all this; they took what they could use from the vision of the ancients, but they were wiser and more moderate. They cultivated an unbending intent and turned all their attention towards the way of the warrior. In that way they changed the entire intent of the practices. Upon completing their energy, some of them glimpsed a higher goal than the adventure of the second attention and pondered the possibility of being free. "Through their seeing, the new seers discovered something horrifying: That the enthusiasm of the old seers served as nutrition to certain conscious entities who were energy parasites. In the beginning, the contract between these beings and humans seemed very beneficial, we gave them part of our energy and they rewarded us with what was then a novelty: Reason. But in time it became obvious that the contract was a swindle. Reason is only good for making inventories of things, not for understanding them. Also, it has an unpleasant by-product which seers see as a membrane covering our luminosity: Self-importance. "For the new seers, that was intolerable, because they had a goal in mind which had never occurred to the old seers: The possibility of merging with the universe directly, without using the inorganics as intermediaries. "The new seers were pragmatic sorcerers, passionate about validation. In their desire to erase from their practices every last vestige of ego, they became distrustful people. Their method was elimination, they suppressed all that didn't point directly to their objective of total freedom. The result was that they became able to fixate their intent on intent itself, becoming one. Unhappily, that method forced them to sacrifice enormous portions of their knowledge."Their intent was so ferocious that it took them to close in on themselves. They filled their teaching with secrets. Since social relationships were not important for their objectives, they isolated themselves from society, creating their own, minuscule groups. Almost all of them left to live in the mountains, the forest, or the desert, where they remain until today, acquiring ethnic characteristics. That has certainly not helped them to refine the art of stalking; what's more, in the end it transformed their search for freedom into a purely rhetorical objective." Encounters With The Nagual - ©2004 by Armando Torres
From the chapter Evolution of the Path, Castaneda says...
"The old seers could not separate a great dose of self-importance from their practices. Since they enjoyed having power over their fellow men, they were never able to focus clearly on the proposal of total freedom. Although they were unbeatable seers, it was impossible for them to foresee that their enthusiasm to discover the world should end up involving them in commitments that would trap them.
"Most modern sorcerers are the heirs of the old seers. By ignoring the warrior's principles, they have devaluated the knowledge. They have become storytellers, herbalists, healers, or dancers; they have lost control of the assemblage point. In many cases, they do not even remember that the point exists.
"The new seers tried to stop all this; they took what they could use from the vision of the ancients, but they were wiser and more moderate. They cultivated an unbending intent and turned all their attention towards the way of the warrior. In that way they changed the entire intent of the practices. Upon completing their energy, some of them glimpsed a higher goal than the adventure of the second attention and pondered the possibility of being free. "Through their seeing, the new seers discovered something horrifying: That the enthusiasm of the old seers served as nutrition to certain conscious entities who were energy parasites. In the beginning, the contract between these beings and humans seemed very beneficial, we gave them part of our energy and they rewarded us with what was then a novelty: Reason. But in time it became obvious that the contract was a swindle. Reason is only good for making inventories of things, not for understanding them. Also, it has an unpleasant by-product which seers see as a membrane covering our luminosity: Self-importance. "For the new seers, that was intolerable, because they had a goal in mind which had never occurred to the old seers: The possibility of merging with the universe directly, without using the inorganics as intermediaries. "The new seers were pragmatic sorcerers, passionate about validation. In their desire to erase from their practices every last vestige of ego, they became distrustful people. Their method was elimination, they suppressed all that didn't point directly to their objective of total freedom. The result was that they became able to fixate their intent on intent itself, becoming one. Unhappily, that method forced them to sacrifice enormous portions of their knowledge."Their intent was so ferocious that it took them to close in on themselves. They filled their teaching with secrets. Since social relationships were not important for their objectives, they isolated themselves from society, creating their own, minuscule groups. Almost all of them left to live in the mountains, the forest, or the desert, where they remain until today, acquiring ethnic characteristics. That has certainly not helped them to refine the art of stalking; what's more, in the end it transformed their search for freedom into a purely rhetorical objective." Encounters With The Nagual - ©2004 by Armando Torres