Carlos Castaneda
I never really read him, but he was popular among my friends, or at least a good friend of mine.
"You must act as if you know what you are doing; when, in effect, you know nothing.
-- Don Juan, Yaqui shaman"
@Qqmike
It appears to me that when you think you know a lot (in terms of rational knowledge) in effect you know least about the situation as it currently presents itself to you, because you are coming from past knowledge instead of current live knowledge of what is right in front of you.
I think it is understood in the way of dropping rational knowledge and talking directly to the world in which you live.
It is essentially a live knowing of every moment, and every moment can be different, and you don't grow stale in stale knowledge that was dedicated to the past or the conclusions of other people that are no longer around, or are certainly not around now.
Perhaps I would say that you are then acting out of a flow of information that constantly presents itself to you, and perhaps this is was Castaneda was alluding to? To surrender to the flow of the moment, and to become wickedly daring or courageous. With a conviction to stay attuned to that. To keep living that. I believe that is what "Don Juan" was espousing?
I did believe it has to do with being able to withstand the opinions of others as they are trying to break down your mode of staying within the moment and living according to your own highest goals. To live based on a Knowing that cannot arise out of past knowledge. And people generally distrust that Knowing, they distrust themselves. They distrust their intuition and their instincts, treating it as something of the past.
I had written here about the chakras but I want to keep it a little condensed:
I believe the 4th chakra is about Leadership and Following. The 5th chakra is about Speaking and Listening, or Commanding and Obeying. I believe that if the rage of previously missed opportunities takes charge, what you get is what we know as unwanted criticism. People trying to break down what you are doing, or becoming 'mad' at what you are trying to change. Rage is the anger of past opportunities. Rage is saying: "I don't believe anymore in what I wanted to do myself, and if you now do that thing I have always wanted to do or change myself, I'm going to get mad at you for having the audacity to do so or to think you are so big that you can do these things." (This is often outrage ;-), as a sidenote).
The 6th chakra maintains your own vision. If your vision is strong, you are not easily daunted by words and you can also easily listen. If your vision is weak, words of others take charge of you ?.
Staying within the flow of acting based on your innate knowing then requires a constant presence of a stable vision. I believe this is where security lies.
"Unwilling to speak, you must succumb to rage. Unable to order, you must fall at the behest of 'women' who then take charge and destroy your female 4th."
"Rage that orders around... can only lead to the destruction of the feminine."
When the female side of the 4th chakra takes control of relationship, what you get is that current relations become the model of what is to be, which in essence means that the 'stale' relations of today become what is desired of tomorrow, it is not changing, it is not dynamic, it seeks to stabilize by preventing change and creating fixed ties (where no sexuality is present).
I believe ridicule is something that happens when you try to do something new that other people have wanted to do before, but gave up on. If you are prone to succumb to ridicule, instead of letting it make you stronger, you cannot stay within the moment of acting on your own impulse.
It seems then that when you need to keep acting (3rd chakra) you require stability in your support relations (4th chakra) which requires a commanding nature or the ability to speak out (5th chakra) which requires a well-functioning 6th chakra that keeps your visions intact. Security then arises from stable vision.
"You must act as if you know what you are doing; when, in effect, you know nothing.
-- Don Juan, Yaqui shaman"
@Qqmike
It appears to me that when you think you know a lot (in terms of rational knowledge) in effect you know least about the situation as it currently presents itself to you, because you are coming from past knowledge instead of current live knowledge of what is right in front of you.
I think it is understood in the way of dropping rational knowledge and talking directly to the world in which you live.
It is essentially a live knowing of every moment, and every moment can be different, and you don't grow stale in stale knowledge that was dedicated to the past or the conclusions of other people that are no longer around, or are certainly not around now.
Perhaps I would say that you are then acting out of a flow of information that constantly presents itself to you, and perhaps this is was Castaneda was alluding to? To surrender to the flow of the moment, and to become wickedly daring or courageous. With a conviction to stay attuned to that. To keep living that. I believe that is what "Don Juan" was espousing?
I did believe it has to do with being able to withstand the opinions of others as they are trying to break down your mode of staying within the moment and living according to your own highest goals. To live based on a Knowing that cannot arise out of past knowledge. And people generally distrust that Knowing, they distrust themselves. They distrust their intuition and their instincts, treating it as something of the past.
I had written here about the chakras but I want to keep it a little condensed:
I believe the 4th chakra is about Leadership and Following. The 5th chakra is about Speaking and Listening, or Commanding and Obeying. I believe that if the rage of previously missed opportunities takes charge, what you get is what we know as unwanted criticism. People trying to break down what you are doing, or becoming 'mad' at what you are trying to change. Rage is the anger of past opportunities. Rage is saying: "I don't believe anymore in what I wanted to do myself, and if you now do that thing I have always wanted to do or change myself, I'm going to get mad at you for having the audacity to do so or to think you are so big that you can do these things." (This is often outrage ;-), as a sidenote).
The 6th chakra maintains your own vision. If your vision is strong, you are not easily daunted by words and you can also easily listen. If your vision is weak, words of others take charge of you ?.
Staying within the flow of acting based on your innate knowing then requires a constant presence of a stable vision. I believe this is where security lies.
"Unwilling to speak, you must succumb to rage. Unable to order, you must fall at the behest of 'women' who then take charge and destroy your female 4th."
"Rage that orders around... can only lead to the destruction of the feminine."
When the female side of the 4th chakra takes control of relationship, what you get is that current relations become the model of what is to be, which in essence means that the 'stale' relations of today become what is desired of tomorrow, it is not changing, it is not dynamic, it seeks to stabilize by preventing change and creating fixed ties (where no sexuality is present).
I believe ridicule is something that happens when you try to do something new that other people have wanted to do before, but gave up on. If you are prone to succumb to ridicule, instead of letting it make you stronger, you cannot stay within the moment of acting on your own impulse.
It seems then that when you need to keep acting (3rd chakra) you require stability in your support relations (4th chakra) which requires a commanding nature or the ability to speak out (5th chakra) which requires a well-functioning 6th chakra that keeps your visions intact. Security then arises from stable vision.
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