"The basic premise of sorcery for a sorcerer is that the world of everyday life is not real,
or out there, as we believe it is. For a sorcerer, reality, or the world we all know, is only
a description.
For the sake of validating this premise I will concentrate the best of my efforts into leading
you into a genuine conviction that what you hold in mind as the world at hand is merely a
description of the world; a description that has been pounded into you from the moment
you were born.
Everyone who comes into contact with a child is a teacher who incessantly describes the
world to him, until the moment when the child is capable of perceiving the world as it is
described. We have no memory of that portentous moment, simply because none of us
could possibly have had any point of reference to compare it to anything else. From that
moment on, however, the child is a
member . He knows the description of the world;
and his
membership becomes full-fledged, perhaps, when he is capable of making all
the proper perceptual interpretations which, by conforming to that description, validate it.
The reality of our day-to-day life, then, consists of an endless flow of perceptual interpretations
which we, the individuals who share a specific
membership, have learned to make in common.
The idea that the perceptual interpretations that make up the world have a flow is congruous
with the fact that they run uninterruptedly and are rarely, if ever, open to question. In fact the
reality of the world we know is so taken for granted that the basic premise of sorcery, that
our reality is merely one of many descriptions, can hardly be taken as a serious proposition.
Fortunately for you, I'm not concerned at all with whether or not you can take my proposition
seriously, and thus I will proceed to elucidate my points, in spite of your opposition, your
disbelief, and your inability to understand what I am saying. Thus, as a teacher of sorcery,
my endeavor is to describe the world to you. Your difficulty in grasping my concepts and
methods will stem from the fact that the units of my description are alien and incompatible
with those of your own." - Carlos Castaneda
I was having the distinct impression last night that this is a very literal truth. The way I worded it
was thus:
"The only difference between sleeping and awake/enlightened is that when one is enlightened
they are able to describe reality with a particular syntax which is archetypal."
Archetypal is equal to cosmic consciousness and christ consciousness.
This gave a whole new spin to the meaning of
Logos. "In the beginning was the Word..."
The Word made flesh is Christ (Iesous = 888).
8 = spider/arachne - the
spinner of webs.
The magickal world is highly influenced by spin.
Today's spin doctors were yesterday's witch doctors.
One has to be very intentional about what kinds of spin they adopt,
especially if one believes. Belief is a very powerful form of magnetism.
The old ways were highly centered around belief.
Today, we are highly centered around science.
But science is merely belief with a seal of approval from reason.
Facts of science are really no more true than beliefs or superstitions.
When science says X is proven to cause cancer, you still have a choice whether to
believe or adopt that description. There are plenty of people that don't get cancer from X.
So science is not the last word on anything. Scientific proof is simply one more form of syntax;
one which we have given credence to in an unconscious way, simply because it is said to be
proven, or this experiment had these results. Calling it scientific fact/proof is simply the spin
that the witch doctors use today to deliver a program without it being scrutinized by the will,
the same way religions use the "word of God".
We are each the authors/authorities of our scripts, our lives, our descriptions, our world views.
Be full of care when considering surrendering that ability to another, especially if you watch the
news. That is the arena of spin sorcerers and black magicians.
But do not be so cautious as to give it more power... any description is merely one among millions.
They're really neither good or bad. It's just a choice of responsibility. Just be aware that the world
is being spun, by you, or by someone else for you, but ultimately always by you.
