awareness
To talk about my own
programming and how difficult it was to even come to the awareness that I was
programmed as everyone is, and what is required to overcome it, is not a subject
that I relish. But there is no other way to give an exact meaning of what it
means to be “asleep.” It’s all fine and good for Castaneda to write about the
how the Predator gave us its mind; for Gurdjieff and Ouspensky to write about the Evil Magician who hypnotizes
his “sheeple”; for the Cassiopaeans
to tell us that we are programmed and/or hypnotized; but until you have
experienced awakening, or at the very least, have had a graphic description of
the state before and
after, you simply cannot grasp it, I don’t think.
Laura
Knight-Jadczyk, The Wave,
Part 13e
“But I don’t want to be
more aware” said Will. “I want to be less aware. Less aware
of horrors like Aunt Mary’s death, and the slums of Rendang
Lobo. Less aware of hideous sights and loathsome
smells…”Less aware of my fat income and other people’s sub-human poverty.
Less aware of my own excellent health in an ocean of malaria and hookworm, of
my own safely sterilized sex-fun in the ocean of starving babies. ‘Forgive
them, for they know not what they do.’ What a blessed state of affairs! But
unfortunately I do know what I’m doing. Only too well.
And here you go asking me to be even more aware than I am already.”
“I’m not asking anything”
she said. “I’m merely passing on the advice of a succession of shrewd old
birds…Start by becoming aware of what you think you are. It’ll help you to
become aware of what you are in fact.”
Aldous Huxley,
The mastery of awareness is the riddle of
the mind; the perplexity sorcerers experience when they recognize the
astounding mystery and scope of awareness and perception.
Carlos
Castaneda, The Power of Silence, 1987
Human
awareness is like an immense haunted house. The awareness of everyday life is
like being sealed in one room of that immense house for life. We enter the room
through a magical opening: birth. And we exit through another such magical
opening: death.
Sorcerers,
however, are capable of finding still another opening and can leave that sealed
room while still alive. A superb attainment. But their
astounding accomplishment is that when they escape from that sealed room they
choose freedom. They choose to leave that immense, haunted house entirely
instead of getting lost in other parts of it.
Morbidity is
the antithesis of the surge of energy awareness needs to reach freedom.
Morbidity makes sorcerers lose their way and become trapped in the intricate,
dark byways of the unknown.
Carlos
Castaneda, The Power of Silence, 1987
If we do not expect the
unexpected, we will never find
it.
Heraclitus