Level 1: The law of Amnesia

Stop The World

Last modified on 07/26/2011, 10:31 AM

 


Stopper le monde est très facile. Tout dépend du regard qu'on y   pose.

 

Stopping the world is both  the most obvious and the most uncredible thing. It depends on the way you look at it. It depends if you are trying to or if you really succeed. It depends on what happens to you when the world is stopped.

 

Stopper   le monde jusqu'à ce qu'il s'efface d'un seul coup. © Lisa WeberIn the formation of Carlos CastanedaGo to page to become a spirit warrior or Nagual, learning to seeGo to page was a vital point, that Carlos, for personal reasons, has struggled to perfect. However, on the way to See, the warrior must first learn to stop the world. This is the first door, the first meeting with the guardian of the threshold.Go to page One day in the life of the Spirit Warrior, the world stops. Then he can discover the infinite, "this immensity out there."

 

Serge Gainsbourg,   pour qui, déjà, la terre s'est arrêté. Il est descendu, car il était   arrivé


Je voudrais que la terre s'arrête

pour descendre (?)"I want the earth stops to go out" Unhappily that's what he did.

 

Serge Gainsbourg

 

Ce   monde gris et galère semble beaucoup moins drôle que l'enfer de Jérôme   Bosch !!Stopping the world, is the first act of the warrior on the path of learning. The common man is content with the ordinary world, based on consensus. Since birth, every human beings give implicitly agreed to assemble the ordinary world, gray and dull, where they are bored. Yet there is an infinity of other possible worlds, each of us has in him the possibility to go there. "Our reality is only a description among many others." (source)Castaneda, Le voyage à Ixtlan, page 9

 

Stéphane Kervor,   poète français, 1949-2010


Il existe d'autres mondes au-dedans de celui-ci

La frontière est intérieure et le temps s'arrête ici (?)There are other worlds inside of this one / The boundary is inside and time stops here

Stéphane Kervor

 

Mescalito, le   peyotl, ou l'art du ne-pes-faire…To stop the world, Carlos Castaneda had to absorb kilograms of hallucinogens just because he was stupid.Saying Juan Matus He took Mescalito, name of respect Juan Matus give the peyote, and Little Smoke, mostly Datura and Lophophora williamsii. Some need liters of ayahuasca or tens of sweatlodges for -the time of a fleeting moment- stop the world and see. Others are used to it since they're young. These people do not need any potion to see. They know how to stop the world. Their auras are so … wow! "I've never seen before on this planet" (?)Stéphane Kervor

 

Mescalito, le peyotl, est un des moyens utilisés par Castaneda pour   stopper le monde. © Stef Kervor, sur un fond de vision sous peyotl,   auteur anonyme

 

Warrior Without Past

 

Bel   exemple d'aura indigo. Cliché réalisé par le procédé Kirlian.Their brand new auras are indigo, crystal or rainbow colour. Moreover their subtle bodies are fitted with incredible devices, a variety of electric body's supplements connected to huge and very active chakras. These lightning people grow up fast, in every sense. What wonders will they do when they will use their powers? They will change the future of this planet. Most of them will be ready before the end of 2012. In the meantime, learn to stop the world before it bolted. The first step is to erase your personal history.

 

>Un     jour, le guerrier arrive au bout du monde…

 

"You will not be so easily able to stop.
I know you're stubborn, but it does not matter.
The more you're stubborn, the better you become
when you'll finally manage to change."

(source)Castaneda, Le Voyage à Ixtlan, p.85

 

Au cours de stages, les apprenties peuvent expérimenter le     ne-pas-faire en restant des heures dans un arbre. Castaneda utilisait un     harnais de cuir pour de suspendre à une branche. Tous les moyens sont     bons, tant que les pieds ne touchent plus le sol.Become invisible. Elusive. Flee those who know you because they'll lay you down in the ancient world. "You are obliged to renew your personal history by telling your family and your friends everything you do. On the opposite, if you have no personal history, there is no single explanation to provide anyone, no one is disappointed or angered by your actions. And most importantly, nobody is trying to coerce you with his own thoughts." (source)Le voyage à Ixtlan, page 25 Of course, Castaneda balked. 

 

Pour pouvoir VOIR, le guerrier doit parvenir à stopper le monde,   disent les nouveaux voyants, los nuevos videntes.The sacrifice seemed too heavy for a profit too unrealistic. His benefactor had a big laugh, and said gently. "You, for example, you do not know what to think of me because I deleted my own story. Gradually, around me and my life, I created a fog. Now no one can know with certainty what I am or what I do." (source)Le voyage à Ixtlan, page 26 But Castaneda does not support anyone, even his benefactor, change his course of action.

 

Pour   toute une génération, Bob Dylan a été celui qui a arrêté le monde. Ici,   Dylan et Joan Baez en concert public à Newport, 1966.

 

Warrior Without Importance

 

Danse Yaqui au   soleil couchantCastaneda eventually upset. "You call yourself too seriously, said Don Juan. You're too damn important, at least according to the idea that you make from yourself. That's what has to change You're so important that you can allow you to leave when things do not go as you please. You're so important that you think normal to be upset by it. Maybe you think that this indicates a strong personality. It absurd! You're weak, you're conceited." (source)Le voyage à Ixtlan, page 33

 

Stopper le monde. Portrait imaginaire de Juan Matus, d'après   Necronocimon.On several occasions, Juan Matus returns to the obligation of losing his own importance. This is the direct corollary of the previous point. When the warrior has no past, it's not too hard loosing his own importance, changing his perspective on himself. When we discover the infinity of possible worlds, our importance is taking a beating. When we discover the complexity of the wonders of the afterlife, how would we puffed up with pride? The next step, moreover, will lead us to humility. No choice.

 

Your Death For Guide

 

Le   guerrier prend sa mort pour conseiller  --- © Cosey, une Tibétaine"Death is our eternal companion. She is always on our left, at arm's length." (source)Le voyage à Ixtlan, page 43 Castaneda takes a thrill: he is not at all familiar with these concepts. Suddenly he jumps: he has just seen his death in front of him. He is such a dramatic guy. "When you're impatient, only turn around to your left and seek advice from your death. All that is pettiness is forgotten at the instant when death moves toward you, when you catch a glance, only when you feel this companion is there ever observing you." (source)Le voyage à Ixtlan, page 44

 

Soudain, le guerrier aura stoppé le monde. Au crépuscule, il n'y a   que du pouvoirFrom there, you are just passing through. You are looking for places of power, the doors to other worlds. Gradually, you become inaccessible, you are fading away to be available to power. You will seek for it in the wilderness at dusk on a friendly hill where the wind blows. "At dusk, there is no wind. At this time of day, there is only power." (source)Le voyage à Ixtlan, page 70 You learn to walk, night vision enables you to run in the dark without tripping over any obstacle.

 

Totally Responsible

 

Dames   indiennes pratiquant assidûment le ne-pas-faireYou assume full responsibility for your actions, what is the minimum. And you also assume full responsibility for everything that happens to you, what characterizes the Nagual sorcerers. They never say: "Bad luck" but always "Thanks". They expect nothing. What happens to them is always best for them. They control their lives and at the same time they accept whatever happens. They assume all of the incomprehensible Rule. This is the only guide the warrior in "this immensity out there."

 

"There is only one thing
bad in you:
you think you have
eternity before you."

(source)Castaneda, Le Voyage à Ixtlan, p.85

 

Un jour, le guerrier de la connaissance parvient à stopper le         monde. © Cortezz & Morgana

 

Deux coccinelles, sans   difficulté apparente, en train de stopper   le monde grâce à leur   ne-pas-faireCastaneda is not an easy learner. Suddenly, Juan Matus should make him suffer all kinds of exercises that are for the reader, wonderful instructions, accurate and reproducible. So for him to learn to practice the "do-not-do", he shows how to get on a mound, a bed of strings. Those who have tried it will tell you the most good. Experiencing it is better than any drug. You floats, all the sensations and perceptions are incredibly sharp. And the body remembers this old technique that Juan Matus called:

 

Ne-pas-faire

 

Comme le roitelet du Chariot, le mental et son ego veulent   comprendre, mais ne veulent pas stopper le monde."Do-not-do" is very simple but extremely difficult. The point is not to understand but to control it. Seeing is of course the crowning finale of a man of knowledge, and seeing is only obtained when you stopped the world by the technique of "do-not-do". (source)Le voyage à Ixtlan, page 182

 

Of course, Castaneda don't get a thing, neither do we. Understanding is useless. Just do it. Your body knows better, let it go. Ignore your mind, always wanting to explain, willing to understand all! What a pride in this little kinglet!The kinglet of Arcana VII - The Chariot, of course. Go to page

 

 

Et soudain,   la guerrière peut voir : elle   est devenue une femme de connaissance.Since our childhood we were taught to do. It is the doing of all humans, placed end to end, which assembles the narrow plan that we call the world. Do-not-do means you stop considering anything for granted,as you were taught to do. You must rid your sensations, discard the familiar objects, undo these illusions that constitute the world of doing. Then, suddenly, this ready-made world collapses. The warrior stopped the world. He sees.

 

 

Now he needs to tighten his life, make it compact.

Then he can dream.Go to page

 

Ne-pas-faire, comme les mohaïs, ces statues mystérieuses dressées     par un peuple inconnu à une époque incertaine, sur Rapa-Nui ou Pâques,     l'île la plus isolée du monde.

 

Carlos Castaneda en   1949.A warrior treats the world as an infinite mystery,

 

and what people do as an unlimited folly.

 

Carlos CastanedaVoir, p.213