There are two questions that we would like to address ourselves to in this issue. The first is: When am I going to see?
To see energy as it flows in the universe has been the primary goal of sorcerers since the beginning of their quest. According to don Juan, warriors have endeavored to break the effect of our interpretation system and be able to perceive energy directly. The warriors’ way is a sustained maneuver designed to fulfill the goal of seeing energy directly. A sorcerer’s efforts are directed at obliterating the predominance of self-importance as the only means to suspend the effects of our interpretation system. Sorcerers call this state stopping the world. When they reach this state, they see energy directly. Don Juan advised that along with practices like Tensegrity, practitioners must intend their change, they must intend stopping the world. What is of supreme importance is intending the effect of following the steps.
Are you doing something to me through Tensegrity? Today, I felt something moving on my back and I am afraid.
Every one of us has had the same feelings and asked the same question to don Juan Matus. We all felt something moving on our backs. Don Juan said that it was a thankful muscle which had been fed with oxygen for the first time ever, after we had done the magical passes. He pointed out that the idea of being manipulated by an evil force was a product of our lifetime habit of relishing being victims. Don Juan’s recommendation for such fears was: “In case of doubt, be impeccable”. Our act of impeccability is to assure the complainer that we are in search of freedom, not the grip of obsessive self-importance.
(Carlos Castaneda, The Warrior’s Way – A Journal of Applied Hermeneutics)
