Monday, September 16, 2019
Magic path current challenge: how often you think of yourself?
There is an opinion that 90% of time people think about themselves. Try to calculate how often you think of yourself.
"Don Juan says that all of the energy with which we can count on is already distributed. Hence, we may not be able to break the hegemony of perception, and when we meet a brujo we believe we have met a man who is inconsistent, because he does not use the energy available as we do".
"Then in order to be able to control the energy, because all of it is distributed, we have to release it, and there is only one way to do this: get rid of unnecessary things. And that is the importance of the personal "I". The approach is the following: "if you could release that energy, it would be sufficient for the ability to perceive that reality, that separate reality, and, first of all, it would have enough energy to perceive the gift of total consciousness"..."If you stopped feeling that self-importance," he comments to clarify the idea, " you would be invulnerable. What could somebody do to you? Something that hurts us is that we are betrayed or our egotism is being attacked ."
Interview: Carlos Cataneda, Javier Molina (1984)
Type: losing self-importance
Difficulty: low