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Icelander
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Sorcery, the journey of return.

#6920284 - 05/15/07 02:38 PM (18 years, 8 months ago)

According to Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan anyway, there was a time according to him that humans possessed silent knowledge. Knowing without thinking. (Intuitive knowing) He called it seeing. When mankind began his self reflection he kicked himself out of Eden so to speak. Self obsession and self importance began to rule our being and our way of relating to our world and everything. The path of Sorcery then is a way of returning to silent knowledge by dethroning self-importance as our primary way of relating to our experience. Once obsessive thinking about ourselves is reduced or stopped for a time then we again experience silent awareness and are guided by a clear channel of intuition. Don Juan called it moving the assemblage point. The assemblage point is sort of a point of focus inside our awareness. When it moves we can experience things in very different ways then we could were it glued to another spot.

"When self-importance is curtailed, the energy it requires is no longer expended. That increased energy then serves as the springboard that launches the assemblage point, automatically and without premeditation, into an inconceivable journey."

Could this be what all of us that claim a spiritual quest are really longing for?

"Once the assemblage point has moved, the movement itself entails moving from self-reflection, and this, in turn, assures a clear connecting link with the spirit. After all, it was self-reflection that had disconnected man from the spirit in the first place."

Now here's something interesting and maybe disturbing for some of us.

"Our difficulty with this simple progression is that most of us are unwilling to accept that we need so little to get on with. We are geared to expect instruction, teaching, guides, masters. And when we are told that we need no one, we don't believe it. We become nervous, then distrustful, and finally angry and disappointed. If we need help, it is not in methods, but in emphasis If someone makes us aware that we need to curtail or self-importance, that help is real.
Sorcerers say we should need no one to convince us that the world in infinitely more complex than our wildest fantasies. So, why are we dependent? Why do we crave someone to guide us when we can do it ourselves? Big question, eh?"

So who moves the assemblage point? According to Don Juan, the spirit does it. According to DJ there are no techniques in sorcery at all. The only thing that matters is moving the assemblage point to a place of silent knowledge and we can't do it because the spirit does it. It does it when we have enough free energy to call the spirit to us or create a clear channel between ourselves and the spirit. Self -importance is where all of our energy gets tied up and so we have none to call the spirit. The spirit or intent responds to energy according to DJ. So all our petty bullshit, self pity, self-importance, indulging, at every turn etc. all during our daily lives keeps us trapped exactly where we are no matter how spiritual we want to be or claim to be. It's right at the grass roots so to speak that the problem is solved. It's illusive because it's too obvious for us to see it. Our self-importance blinds us. Our complete focus on ourselves keeps us from seeing anything else even though it's right there.

OK now, for the record I'm not saying any of this is true or false. But it's worth contemplating don't you think? Especially in light of all the chasing spirituality and enlightenment that seems to go on throughout the ages, with so little results. (This last part IS my opinion);)

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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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