Our rational convictions, the affirmations we make about the world, may seem harmless, but they are the dividing line between clarity and power.
From the perspective of clarity, our convictions may seem like just impartial observations about reality.
But by reaffirming them, we are, in a completely unconscious way, DECREEING the reality we perceive,
by not yet truly understanding that it is THE POSITION OF THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT THAT DETERMINES THE REALITY WE PERCEIVE AND EXPERIENCE.
This is not a metaphor. It is literally the mechanism operating at all times, every instant, in our experience of reality.
The reaffirmations we make are anything but harmless and impartial. They are commands that position and keep our assemblage point aligned in a certain perspective and effectively CREATE those experiences for ourselves.
It is an often blind and unconscious way of using Power to create and recreate a series of similar experiences. In a potentially endless cycle, as experiences reinforce convictions, and the strengthened convictions fix the assemblage point more strongly, thus producing ever more clearly a certain linearity of experiences.
This is what could be very precisely called in this case self-fulfilling prophecies. Clarity is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
And it will not seem so to the one who is dealing with it from the inside.
They will seem like just honest and impartial observations about the world, coming from one’s own experience, from what one perceives. It will seem illogical or superstitious to even question these convictions.
This is precisely the obstacle that Clarity imposes.
Therefore, first and foremost, if one truly wants to overcome it, one must consider it, as has been said, almost as a deception.
Only when a male or female warrior is ready to assume full responsibility for his or her experience,
so as to be in a position to become aware of the mirroring relationship between one’s experience and one’s description of reality, one’s beliefs, convictions, expectations,
is it possible to truly understand the assemblage point
and recover the power over one’s own assemblage point.
As long as one is not willing to do this, one will be fated to project responsibility outward,
and to “throw away,” along with it, Power.
Feeling justified, but powerless, or else feigning a false potency.
Rationality does not impose chains.
We are the ones who choose to chain ourselves to it. Rationality needs to be perceived for what it is: a belief.
Not a truth.
Just a description.
Just a point before one’s eyes.
A choice, being made.
A choice that can be changed.
Without depending on the authorization of reason.
By the force of one’s own Will.
At that moment, moving the assemblage point can cease to be a monumental and arduous task, or something accidental and apparently caused by circumstances.
And we can reconnect with that in us which CHOOSES the position of our assemblage point.
And then the incalculable Power that has always been here, will once again be perceived as something concrete, real, within reach of our hands, within reach of our own Will.
Jeremy Christopher
