Controlled folly is not something that a person can practice and learn progressively.
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In the challenge of learning to control folly, the key point is to understand what folly (or madness) is, and to discover what it is that controls it.
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Naturally, it is not the tonal that controls folly. The tonal as it is is part of folly, and folly cannot control itself. Folly can only be controlled by something that is prior to it and free from it.
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Common sense superficially understands folly as the loss of rationality/common sense, that is, the alignment of a perception that others do not perceive. But human beings are surrounded daily by evidence that aligning with collective perception is far from being a guarantee of sanity.
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From the point of view of perception, folly could be understood as the inability to maintain a stable assemblage point in a particular position, that is, the inability to have a stable and coherent world view. But folly as a whole is not limited to this, since the fixation of the assemblage point also shows itself to lead to another type of folly.
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The determining factor of folly is not the ability or lack of ability to have a coherent worldview, nor the ability to be rational or not, but the fact that, while we align ourselves with a present worldview, whatever it may be, we become totally confused with it and forget ourselves within it.
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On an energetic level, we are assemblage points perceiving the world and an image of ourselves through a particular position.
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When we forget that we are not exclusively this particular vision, and we completely cling to the image we have of ourselves within it, and to our interpretations and stories resulting from this particular perspective, we are officially crazy, because we have forgotten who we really are.
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Imagine, as an analogy, someone who plays a video game, and believes he is the character in the game. This person continues to be crazy no matter what actions he takes within the game. A assemblage point that is completely lost in self-reflection and in the self-image of that positioning becomes mad in the same way.
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What controls folly is not what we do within the worldview. What is, or can be, free from folly is what exists prior to the descriptions of the world. The Toltecs call this Intent, and the act of reuniting one’s consciousness of being with Intent is called losing the human form.
But Intent, for the tonal, is only a theoretical concept. At least until one is able to reunite inner silence and lucidity, in sufficient intensities, to perceive oneself experientially as a luminous being. And for this there is the path of the warrior.
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At one point, Don Juan calls the capacity to be conscious of Intent, to see through the multiple worldviews that we can align, as “Seeing.”
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That is, not limiting oneself to looking exclusively through the eyes of the tonal, of that worldview, but learning to see through the eyes of Intent.
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Seeing, in this sense, is what controls folly, canceling out the subjective interpretations and importances of that vision.
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When a luminous being is aware of its luminosity, prior to the senses and meanings, and acts through the tonal, through that one vision, as if it were a tonal, but knows that all its acts are the acts of an actor. It acts through the tonal, as if it were a tonal, among tonals, fully aware that it is the Intent itself within which the entire dream is occurring.
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By all criteria one’s acts may appear to be folly, but this folly is controlled.
Even if on the surface it may seem that one is committed to giving its best in what he or she does, that dream is being dreamed with lucidity.
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Controlling folly is not about trying to actively control your actions or thoughts in one way or another. What puts folly under control is Consciousness. It is in control of everything, without ever needing to control anything.
Jeremy Christopher
