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Carlos Castaneda & Seeing
Carlos
Castaneda, in THE SECOND RING OF POWER, wrote that his teacher, Don Juan, instructed him, "Instead of teaching me to focus
my view, as gazers did, he taught me to open it, to flood my awareness by not focusing my sight on anything. I had to sort
of feel with my eyes everything in the 180-degree range in front of me, while I kept my eyes unfocused just above the line
of the horizon."
An Unknown Student of Castaneda on seeing
..."The third item is the key to the entire process. It is a way of using the eyes, of using vision in a different way to
that which constitutes the norm. In everyday usage the eyes tend to employ foveal vision; the aspect of vision where we focus
upon specifics, and out of these build and maintain our perceptual model of the world. Of course a certain amount of peripheral
vision is employed in the process of seeing, yet by comparison to foveal vision it is minimal, we open peripheral vision by:
1) Gently resting the gaze upon a distant fixed point.
2) Without moving the eyes becoming aware of what is above, below and to the left and right.
We effectively open the eyes in such a way that the rods and cones upon the surface of the eyes are saturated with information
from the world. The result of this influx of information is saturation of the conscious mind, which can only process a limited
amount of information simultaneously. The conscious mind checks out, as it were. What arises is communication of this information
in the direction of Second Attention. This is evidence by the state of utilizing See/Feel neurological circuitry which cuts
in directly as a result of the process.
Having arrived at this state, it is to be noted that with all the components deeply and congruently in place, the cessation
of internal dialogue is effectively cessation of the conscious process of maintaining our model of the world. We experience
the world through new eyes. It is from this state of Stopping the World that we have the opportunity to assemble new worlds,
to shift the Assemblage Point to new locations and experience and explore these worlds.
Exercise
1) Whilst walking rest your gaze gently on the horizon point and curl your fingertips, as if you were holding cylinders in
each of your hands, this is done in a relaxed way.
2) Without moving the eyes and gently resting your gaze become aware of what is present in your peripheral vision, above you,
beneath you, to your right and to your left.
3) Continue this until such a time as the State deepens and settles."
(Author Unknown)
From
Magical Passes by Carlos Castaneda "Ancient masters believed there is an inherent
amount of energy existing in each one of us, an amount which is not
subject to the onslaughts of outside forces augmenting it or
decreasing it. They believed that the quantity of energy was
sufficient to accomplish something which those sources deemed to be
the obsession of every man on Earth: breaking the parameters of
normal perception don Juan Marcos was convinced that our incapacity
to break those parameters was induced by our culture and social
milieu. He maintained that our culture and social milieu deployed
every bit of our inherent energy in fulfilling established behavioral
patterns which didn't allow us to break those parameters of normal
perception."
"Why in the world would I, or anyone
else, want to break
those parameters? I asked don Juan on one occasion."
"Breaking
those parameters is the unavoidable issue of mankind,” he replied.
“Breaking them means the entrance into unthinkable worlds of a
pragmatic value in no way different from the value of our world of
everyday life. Regardless of whether or not we accept this premise,
we are obsessed with breaking these parameters, and we fail miserably
at it, hence the profusion of drugs and stimulants and religious
rituals and ceremonies among modern man..." (Magical Passes by Carlos Castaneda) From William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven & Hell "If the doors of perception were cleansed
everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks
of his cavern." Aldous
Huxley - The Doors of Perception "To be
shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few
timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an
animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with
words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and
unconditionally, by Mind
at Large
— this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and
especially to the intellectual."
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