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very powerful and vast entities; the idea that we have of them is equivalent to the one an ant
will have of us.
"However, their presence is painful and you can measure it in various ways. For example,
when they provoke us into attacks of rationality or distrust, or when we are tempted to violate
our own decisions. Lunatics can detect them very easily - too easily, I would say - since they
feel physically how these beings settle on their shoulders, generating paranoia. Suicide is the
stamp of flyers, because the flyers' mind is potentially homicidal."
"You say that it is an exchange, but what do we gain from such plunder?"
"In exchange for our energy, the flyers have given us our mind, our attachments, and our ego.
For them, we are not their slaves, but a kind of salaried workers. They bestowed these
privileges on a primitive race and gave us the gift of thinking, which made us evolve; indeed,
they have civilized us. If not for them, we would still be hiding in caves or making nests on
treetops.
"The flyers control us through our traditions and customs. They are the masters of religion,
the creators of history. We hear their voice on the radio and we read their ideas in the
newspapers. They manage all our means of information, and our belief systems. Their
strategy is magnificent. For example, there was an honest man who spoke of love and
freedom; they have transformed it into self-pity and servility. They do it with everyone, even
with naguals. For that reason, the work of a sorcerer is solitary.
"For millennia, flyers have concocted plans to collectivize us. There was a time when they
became so shameless that they were even seen in public, and people made representations of
them in stone. Those were dark times; they were everywhere. But now their strategy has
become so intelligent that we don't even know they exist. In the past, they hooked us through
our credulity, today, through our materialism. They are responsible for modern man's
ambition not to have to think for himself; just observe how long somebody will tolerate
silence!"
"Why the change in their strategy?"
"Because, at this time, they are running a great risk. Humanity is in very quick and constant
contact, and information can reach anyone. Either they must fill our heads, bombarding us day
and night with all kind of suggestions, or there will be some who will realize and warn the
others."
"What would happen if we were able to repel those entities?"
"In one week, we would recover our vitality and we would be shining again. But, as normal
human beings, we cannot think about that possibility, because it would imply to go against all
that
is socially acceptable. Fortunately, sorcerers have one weapon: Discipline.
"The encounter with inorganic beings happens gradually. In the beginning, we don't notice
them. But an apprentice begins to see them in his dreams and then while he is awake -
something that can drive him crazy, if he doesn't learn how to act as a warrior. Once he
understands, he can confront them.
"Sorcerers manipulate the foreign mind, turning into energy hunters. It is for that purpose my
cohorts and I have designed Tensegrity exercises for the masses. They have the virtue of
liberating us from the flyer's mind.
"In this sense, sorcerers are opportunists. They take advantage of the push they've been given
and say to their captors: 'Thanks for everything, see you later! The agreement you made was
with my ancestors, not with me'. When recapitulating their life, they are literally snatching the
food out of the flyer's mouth. It is like going to the store and returning a product to the
shopkeeper, demanding your money back. The inorganic beings don't like it, but they can't do
anything about it.
"Our advantage is that we are dispensable, there is a lot of food around! A position of total
alertness, which is nothing but discipline, creates such conditions in our attention that we
don't taste good any more to those beings. In that case, they turn away and leave us in peace."
Losing The Mind
In another conversation, Carlos said that our reason is a byproduct of the foreign mind, and
that we shouldn't trust it. For someone with my mental make-up, this was very difficult to
accept.
When I asked him about this, he explained that what sorcerers reject is not the capacity of
reason to reach conclusions, but the way it is imposed on our life as if it is the only
alternative.
"Rationality makes us feel like a solid block, and we begin to grant the greatest importance to
concepts like 'reality'. When we face unusual situations, like those which assault the sorcerer,
we tell ourselves: 'It is not reasonable', and it seems we have said everything there is to say.
"The world of our mind is dictatorial, but fragile. After some years of continuous use, the self
becomes so heavy that it is just common sense to give it a rest in order to continue ahead.
"A warrior fights to break the description of the world which has been injected into him, in
order to open up a space for new things. His war is against the self. For that purpose, he tries
to be permanently aware of his potential. Since the content of perception depends on the
position of the assemblage point, a warrior tries with all his might to loosen the fixation of
that point. Instead of creating a cult out of his speculations, he pays attention to certain
premises of the path of sorcerers.
"Those premises say that, in the first place, only a high level of energy can enable one to deal
adequately with the world. And second: Rationality is a consequence of the fixation of the
assemblage point in the position of reason, and that point moves when we achieve internal
silence. Third: In our luminous field, there are other positions every bit as pragmatic as
rationality. Fourth: When we achieve a point of view which includes reason as well as its twin
center, silent knowledge, concepts like truth and
lies stop being operative, and it becomes patently clear that man's true dilemma is to have
energy, or not have it.
"Sorcerers reason in a different way to ordinary people. For them, to anchor attention is
insanity, and to make it flow is common sense. They call the fixing of the assemblage point in
non-habitual areas 'seeing '. Staying sane is imperative, but they have found out that
rationality is not always sane. To stay sane is a voluntary act, while to be reasonable is just to
fix our attention on an area of collective consent."
"Are sorcerers opposed to reason, then?"
"I have already told you: They are opposed to its dictatorship. They know the center of reason
can take us very far. Absolute reason is merciless, it doesn't stop halfway; that's why people
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