The basic premise of sorcery for a sorcerer is that the world of everyday life is not real, or out there, as we believe it is. For a sorcerer, reality, or the world we all know, is only a description.
For the sake of validating this premise I will concentrate the best of my efforts into leading you into a genuine conviction that what you hold in mind as the world at hand is merely a description of the world; a description that has been pounded into you from the moment you were born.
Everyone who comes into contact with a child is a teacher who incessantly describes the world to him, until the moment when the child is capable of perceiving the world as it is described. We have no memory of that portentous moment, simply because none of us could possibly have had any point of reference to compare it to anything else. From that moment on, however, the child is a member . He knows the description of the world; and his membership becomes full-fledged, perhaps, when he is capable of making all the proper perceptual interpretations which, by conforming to that description, validate it.
The reality of our day-to-day life, then, consists of an endless flow of perceptual interpretations which we, the individuals who share a specific membership, have learned to make in common.
The idea that the perceptual interpretations that make up the world have a flow is congruous with the fact that they run uninterruptedly and are rarely, if ever, open to question. In fact the reality of the world we know is so taken for granted that the basic premise of sorcery, that our reality is merely one of many descriptions, can hardly be taken as a serious proposition.
Fortunately for you, I'm not concerned at all with whether or not you can take my proposition seriously, and thus I will proceed to elucidate my points, in spite of your opposition, your disbelief, and your inability to understand what I am saying. Thus, as a teacher of sorcery, my endeavor is to describe the world to you. Your difficulty in grasping my concepts and methods will stem from the fact that the units of my description are alien and incompatible with those of your own.
I am teaching you how to see as opposed to merely looking , and stopping the world is the first step to seeing .
Stopping the world is not a cryptic metaphor that really doesn't mean anything. And its scope and importance as one of the main propositions of my knowledge should not be misjudged.
Now, as I said, this guy has 16 MP3s and just as much reading of it if you don't want to listen. And, just as a FYI, I am a big believer that the tease above is pretty much my feelings on the subject of perception too. -- Please read more and understand the `information' within the CC books for the value they hold.
http://www.prismagems.com/castaneda/
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, 40th Anniversary Edition
Separate Reality
The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life Death And The Universe
The Power of Silence: Further Lessons of don Juan
Tales of Power
The Active Side of Infinity
Magical Passes: The Practical Wisdom of the Shamans of Ancient Mexico
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And, please don't forget that Lujan Matus suggests that he too still has access to Don Juan's Knowledge thru controlled lucid dreaming and training. I interviewed LM here - http://theheavystuff.com/?p=140
Awakening the Third Eye: Discovering the True Essence of Recapitulation
Unveiling the Bible: A Warriors Revelation
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Others Claiming Similar Lineage Via CC
The Art of Navigation: Travels with Carlos Castaneda and Beyond
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