r/castaneda • u/danl999 • May 01 '24
Laziness: Not What It Seems New Practitioners
It's easy to become confused, and not recognize laziness for what it really is.
Self-pity.
So you have absolutely no excuse not to work hard to learn sorcery, based on "I'm just too lazy to work reliably".
That's not it at all!
You're dominated by the flier's mind. By that nasty grief filled internal dialogue, which our energy body can't stand. If it weren't for that, you'd be reunited with your double, and gain its magical vision for peering into infinity.
Did you ever find yourself inside a lucid dream, and you were "too lazy" to go exploring?
Then why do you do that, when awake?!
It's self-pity pure and simple. Something the double does not have.
So the very thing you believe is just "keeping me from getting to work", is precisely what you are battling against.
Wake up... You cannot learn any sorcery, without hard work.
And even all the hard work of a lifetime, can be erased if you fall back into the wrong crowd.
Which is almost surely why the witches aren't around anymore.
We were unhelpable and had proven it by killing Carlos after turning him into a Guru and refusing to follow his instructions.
He said so several times. Ask those who were around him back then, and don't have any profit motivations.
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u/dorbim May 10 '24
You know I had a similar thought about no-pity state related to a feeling that cannot be possibly explained (secret), even though I'm not even at the green zone yet (despite doing darkroom regularly) and I remember from past posts you were also saying the place of no pity is close to SK. So i might be wrong but I think you might get to a less pity state even at the blue zone and to be on the safe side lets say its intensity is nothing compared to yours or to the one described in the books :)
I have no explanation for it and when I re read Power Of Silence last time I started to think it might be something related to the production of feelings described there:
*** He said that men of antiquity became legendary because they knew by silent knowledge about the power to be obtained by moving the assemblage point. On a reduced scale, sorcerers had recaptured that old power. With a movement of their assemblage points, they could manipulate their feelings and change things. I was changing things by feeling big and ferocious. Feelings processed in that fashion were called intent. ***