Power Of The Moment

Lujan Matus returns to the pages of BS -- here's a tease of this great post:
We are in a state of perpetual remembrance of the moment that escapes us. Every moment that you experience has already gone. So therefore there is no moment, per se, but only the recollection of that moment, which is reconstructed over and over again to give the appearance that the moment is stable, where in actuality it is not.

So the power of the moment that has escaped you is a memory that you reconstruct over
Lujan is the Shaman who I've interviewed in the past on my blog called The Heavy Stuff http://www.theheavystuff.com/ - he is also an advocate for a raw food diet. Make sure to visit his pages - and to see the end of this post - http://lujanmatus.blogspot.com/2011/02/power-of-moment.html.
Stewable, I assure you.

On my blogs, the above book has been the one most purchased in the past year. Lujan also has a new book here - Awakening the Third Eye: Discovering the True Essence of Recapitulation

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Speaking of great posts - Duensing Returns (perhaps) with a new blog but the same great thinking abilities http://tarnsitsandstations.blogspot.com/2011/02/imperative-of-avoiding-silence.html -- here's a tease:
....Is the avoidance of silence a  technologically enhanced addiction? Is the inability to maintain 'radio silence" a barrier to the immersion of both creative attempts to cross the brackets of language as well as being able to listen when the non local attempts to interject a concept?  Do we talk over our experiences? Is perhaps the goal of evolution not to become clever users of communication making sounds to over ride the environment but to become better listeners? Does communication preempt the rumination on it's context, while in flight, as it were?   Do we require a magazine or a program or a borrowed philosophy in order to function?
Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
An Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Answers From Silence: Using Your Inner Guidance To Find Purpose, Fulfillment, and Enlightenment
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Meanwhile.......... The Original Mojave Desert Phone Booth Site - http://www.deuceofclubs.com/moj/mojave.htm - Barf, Stew, or Both?

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Hottie, 90 Years Ago - Today's Shorpy: Real Time Travel.

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Barf Stew Entertains

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BS 2011 Gallery - #1 Fishnets, http://i.imgur.com/Ae7Ie.jpg #2 Busty Teen, http://i.imgur.com/NSsvZ.jpg #3 11 Trade Show Hotties, http://rc.runryder.com/fastphoto/45509/28337_10150355562380001_501285000_12464162_6276924_n.jpg

#4 Commando?, http://i.imgur.com/MiUWM.jpg Today's Topper, http://i.imgur.com/QITZb.gif

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Meanwhile, does Barf Stew taste good, or does it have good taste:

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Finally, for those who want to have what sound like a robot talk to them about esoteric words - does BS have a YouTube for you  - seriously, give it two minutes at least:

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Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan's Teachings

IF you ever wondered if someone who took the teachings of Carlos Castaneda seriously put together MP3s and more on the esoteric teachings of Each Book - wonder no more - here is a tease:
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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Dragons In The Computer - Responding To A Shaman's `Answer'

THIS GREAT POST IS NOW PART OF A GREAT BOOK. PLEASE CHECK OUT MY AUTHOR PAGE.


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What If You Knew Everything You Know Was Unknown?

As real Barfsters know, every once in awhile BS focuses on what I consider to be great websites, bloggers and thinkers. So far this year BS has featured Lon Strickler, Bruceleeeowe, Dan Mitchell and Bruce Duensing. And, now, I feature Duensing - my co-founder of The C Influence Blog - again. (Lon and Bruceleeeowe are also writers at TCI - and we continue to try for Dan.)

Seems Bruce has been digging into the perception rabbit hole deeper lately than just about anyone on the planet and what he has been uncovering is somewhat amazing and it seems he is being provided proof of some of his ideas as his intentionality's seemingly breakdown the interiors of actuality.

For example, from this post - What If You Knew Everything You Know Was Unknown? - http://materialintangible.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-if-you-knew-everything-you-know.html come these words from another recent post:

I was also struck by the similarity of the aim of both the traditional esoteric school, as well as one that is seemingly applied to such cases as the UFO phenomenon, whereas both appear to focus on the individual by deconstructing the imprinted knowledge base by which we function at perhaps one could consider, a base level, as in water seeking it's own level only in this case, the lowest level appears to be the cultural, consensus models of what reality can and cannot do, a common language of repetition, stereotype and predictability which is reinforced by all forms of our media.

Perhaps these words struck me because Lujan Matus seems to imply the same `wisdom/learning' supposedly being handed to him in his Dreaming via Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda's shaman of questionable existence. And that is, at least to my understandings, that our very perceptions are formed ONLY by repetition, stereotype and predictability -- that is largely given to us by our `parents'/culture. We learn (are told/shown) what is `real' and `how it acts'. Converting, as it were, the Unknown to the Known.

Bruce continues:

In other words, if a extraterrestrial landed and you had somewhat of a coherent conversation with this other animal from a entirely unique biology and sense perception, this ET would more than likely inform you and I that our animal perceptions of space, of time are simply that, perceptions that bear no relation to his reality or ours, that in fact, neither of them exist, except as by products, that we take in hand and create little fictions and great myths in a animal innocence similar to that of a dog, or a horse, or a cat. So what if you discovered exponentially, rather than being taught that everything you knew was wrong, misapplied, hopelessly self referential and not very helpful, and in fact, all of this had turned you the wrong way around for not just a moment or so, but for your entire life, in the deepest sense you could imagine?

In the above lines - I think Bruce brings home the concept of just how devastating an explosion of our understanding of our perceptions could be to an individual. Indeed, enough to `flip-out' some individuals and send them to `mental institutions' IMO. While other people become fixated at gaining more understandings of how perception `works' - and become `investigators' of the unknown in its available forms.

Bruce continues:

Perhaps the individual in a strange sense of evolution in my own rather admittedly "different" sense of the paranormal comes from Gurdjieff as well as Krishnamurti, as well as David Bohmn and Rodger Penrose , all of these individuals as fractals of the dance of the self and non-self I have noted, and yet none, much like the limits of my perception, can take the measure of the whole, and when paranormalists attempt to do so, I think their personal exposure limits come to the fore, wherein they have seen or have investigated so many strange events, that their self critical facilities are worn away like a rock in a rushing stream, so much so that, to them they begin a strange underpinning that anything is possible, if it is in human terms. I say that not everything is possible in human terms tho it is more than likely not in our terms

What I like above is that I think Bruce aptly describes our `faith' in the terms of human perception representing `real'. Now, does that mean that only by wearing away the facilities for perception that the condition for the `paranormal' - `appears'?

Bruce brings his ideas home with this:

A final question: Is it you and I that have created demons from the animal perception of biology? Perhaps we are being taught a new language and as such, I profess ignorance as to where this will lead although it may lead from our burrows where all the roles are within us from The Wizard of Oz, to the extraterrestrial from a far way realm, to a sort of bird alighting from one tree to the next. As for myself, the old demons have been driven from underneath the bed and replaced with a blank sheet of paper to improvise upon....and I sense there is something new that has arrived beyond our recycled mythologies, much like the hydraulic pressure that forces a liquid through the cracks of our foundational tenants drop by drop, until perhaps inevitably, we cannot go back or cling to our pet demons.  We perhaps are given a probability there is an experiential language we have yet to be cognizant of as a matter of self awareness rather than cultural imprinting

Like Bruce, I too believe that perceptions are largely a languagelike experience of imprinting. Lujan Matus implies the same too. -------------------------------- At this point, Bruce wrapped up his post --- but then - had a very weird `impossible event' happen to him ------ AS IF TO SHOW HIM that it might be a learning of a language which governs our potential reality - almost a sign to show he is on the right path. PLEASE GO TO THE LINK TO READ ABOUT THE IMPOSSIBLE EVENT. (That is shown to him in an area of his expertise.)

But, I'm not done with Bruce for today - as this is his latest and is one of his few fiction pieces: Another Conversation With An Old Devil - http://materialintangible.blogspot.com/2010/11/another-coversation-with-old-devil.html





The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff

Gurdjieff, Tsabropoulos: Chants, Hymns and Dances

Gurdjieff, A Beginner's Guide: How Changing The Way We React To Misplacing Our Keys Can Transform Our Lives


The above books largely talk about `The Fourth Way' Ideas - if that is new to you - you owe it to yourself to read up on these important ideas about the reality you experience as a human.
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More writings of Bruce - http://thecinfluenceblog.blogspot.com/

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