I would like to outline now the possibility of a new area of philosophical inquiry, hinged on the definition of certain concepts from the sorcerers of ancient Mexico.
The first concept is seeing: the capacity that human beings have to perceive energy as it flows in the universe. This perception uses the entire organism as a vehicle. Energy adopts non-idiosyncratic, specific configurations that can be apprehended in the same terms by anyone who sees.
Another concept is intent: a perennial force that permeates the entire universe, a force that is aware of itself and responds to the beckoning of sorcerers. The act of using intent is called intending.
The subjectivity resulting from perceiving energy directly is not guided by syntax. This new intersubjectivity exists by means of what sorcerers call power, the sum total of all the intending brought together by an individual. For sorcerers, intentionality or intending is the pragmatic utilization of intent.
Taking sorcerers’ capacity to perceive energy directly as a point of departure, it is possible to conceive a new area for philosophical discourse. Sorcerers consider that the direct perception of energy is the usher that would lead us into a new subjectivity, free from syntax, as a way to reach intent.
(Carlos Castaneda, The Warrior’s Way – A Journal of Applied Hermeneutics)
