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According to Castaneda, the most significant facts in a person's life are his possession of a dormant awareness and the possibility that one may keep this awareness after death. The primary goal of a warrior (also warrior-traveler) is the continuation of his awareness after bodily death: to "dart past the Eagle and be free"; Eagle being the force which consumes the awareness of all beings at their death.
To cheat death in this way requires all of the discipline and procedures that constitute the warrior's way of life. These practices are devised to maximise the warrior's personal power, or experience. The condition for maintaining personal power is known as "impeccability".
Sufficient personal power leads to the mastery of intent, chiefly the controlled movement of what is known as the assemblage point. This is an artifact of the tradition's description of another world underlying what we perceive as ordinary reality. In this description men are glowing cocoons of awareness inhabiting a universe consisting of the Eagle's "emanations", described euphemistically as all-pervading filaments of light. Humans' cocoons are intersected throughout by these filaments, producing perception, but they filter our perceptions by concentrating on only a small bundle. The assemblage point is the focusing lens which selects from the emanations. In its accustomed position, the assemblage point produces what humans perceive as everyday, 'normal' reality. Movement of the assemblage point permits perception of the world in different ways; small movements lead to small changes in perception and large movements to radical changes. For example, dreaming is presented as the result of a movement of the assemblage point; "power plants" such as Peyote, used in the early stages of Castaneda's apprenticeship, produce powerfully altered states of mind through such movement................
Originally posted by half_minded
Do you guys believe in black magic or any other kind of magic in general. Know of any stories of black magic affecting people?
Originally posted by half_minded
why wud God let it affect me in the first place? i didnt do no harm to nobody
Originally posted by summoner84
hi i was just wondering if there were anyone who would like to exchange demon summoning rituals with me ? or like to start a discussion about spirits or black magick ? by the way if anyone needs some good grimoires i got lots of em
Originally posted by summoner84
hi i was just wondering if there were anyone who would like to exchange demon summoning rituals with me ? or like to start a discussion about spirits or black magick ? by the way if anyone needs some good grimoires i got lots of em
I am aquainted with some serious old school witches who are most effective in their discipline