Section 2

The Recapitulation

Once Silence Is Attained Everything Is Possible

Section 2 June 9th … … September 8th
Continue and complete the reading program. Write essays
on : Not Doing & The 4 Moods of the Stalker. Exercise
Program. Continue & amend, if and as appropriate. Stalking
Practice. Commence Recapitulation Process. Introduce the
Sorcery Passes. Continue Not Doing and the application of
the 4 Moods of Stalking. Dreaming Practice : Continue
Gazing and commence Setting Up Dreaming.

Month 4

Read : The Fire from Within & The Power of Silence.

Begin essays on Not Doing & The 4 Moods of the
Stalker. Exercise : 1 circuit + workout. Complete the
Four Moods of Stalking – Sweetness. Commence
Recapitulation Practice. Study The Sorcery Passes.
Continue applying Not Doing & the 4 Moods of Staling.
Gazing practice : 30 mins. + Commence Setting Up
Dreaming.

Month 5

Read : The Art of Dreaming & The Sorcerer’s Crossing.

Continue essays. 1 circuit + 30 mins. workout.
Implement Sorcery Passes prior to performing the
Recapitulation. Continue applying Not Doing & the 4
Moods of Stalking. Gazing practice : 30 mins. +
Continue Setting Up Dreaming.

Month 6

Read : Being in Dreaming. Complete essays. 1 circuit +

30 mins. workout. Continue Sorcery Passes,
Recapitulation, applying Not Doing & the 4 moods of
Stalking. Gazing practice : 30 mins. + Continue Setting
Up Dreaming.

Notes

Review and evaluate this section prior to moving onto

section 3. Essays : The Recapitulation & The Sorcery
Passes begin next section.
 A Brief Synopsis of Sorcery
Procedural Stages

Stopping The World – Cessation of all

internal mapping processes. Sensory
Silence. Leads to- Collapsing The World –
Enabling the Sorcerer to Assemble other
Perceptual Worlds.

The Formless Warrior – The conclusion. A

consequence of Losing The Human Form. The Abstract
Flight – The leap into the Abstract and Freedom.

Procedural Requirements

Sorcerers Strategic Inventory – The

ordering of The Island of The Tonal.

Manipulation of The Assemblage Point –

Assembling Perceptual alternatives.

Erasing Personal History – Inaccessibility

to self and others. Accessibility to power.

The Recapitulation – A Stalkers methodology for accessing

Personal Power and The Double.

Setting Up Dreaming – A Dreamers methodology for

accessing The Double.

Losing Self Importance / Self Reflection – Redeployment of

energy into Impeccability.

The Petty Tyrant – A Stalkers methodology for Losing Self

Importance.

Not Doing – The Sorcerers methodology for widening

Perceptual Filters.
Gazing – The prelude to Seeing and Setting Up Dreaming
whilst storing Personal Power.

Sorcery Passes – Supportive of all practices specifically The

Recapitulation.

Sets of Principles

The Four Enemies of a Man of Knowledge

– Initiation across time.

The Four Moods of Stalking, the

Foundations of a Sorcerers behaviour.

The Attributes of a Warrior – The

precursors of Sobriety and Impeccability.

Comments concerning The Principles of Sorcery : In making

comments concerning the abstract aspects of Sorcery and
how to develop strategies and procedures for encapsulating
them one meets a task of great proportion.

During the first section of the practice The Four Moods of

Stalking were addressed directly. Ruthlessness specifically
was congruently developed and in its description of
‘discarding the superfluous’ is readily accessible. Cunning
proved to be more challenging as it calls for covert activity,
almost secretiveness. Patience which operates through and
across time is readily understood and of course it can be
taken quite literally. Sweetness calls for maintaining
Multiple Descriptions in respect of others and oneself. It was
in the instance of Sweetness that Carlos Castaneda was
given some of his Sorcery tasks, such as being a chef in a
roadside eatery. This not only developed a different
description to the Sorcery pursuits he was engaged upon but
more importantly addressed the issue of Self Importance.

All in all one can Intend ones life to fulfil the requirements
set by the Moods readily enough, it requires almost re-
inventing oneself in the light of them. To do this effectively,
I feel, requires that one travel somewhere neutral, a place
where one is unknown and in this way Erasing Personal
History can take place in a neutral environment. This takes
bravery for however adventurous one would like to be it
means entry into the unknown, granted this is the human
unknown.

The Four Enemies of a Man of Knowledge : Fear, Clarity,

Power & Old Age effectively unfold during a warriors
lifetime and as such serve as filters for assessing progress
along the path of Sorcery.

The Attributes of a Warrior, again unfold across time as a

result of pursuing the practises and tenets of Sorcery.
Control is arrived at through developing a sense of ‘the
equality of all things’ which fosters the Indifference often
alluded to and ensures the development of Controlled Folly.
Discipline is the practice of Unbending Intent in respect of
all that unfolds within a given pursuit or path. Forbearance
shares the characteristics of Patience, both in respect of
oneself, others and the world generally. Timing lends itself
to the deliberations that a warrior addresses and then
rather than continuing to think and talk, simply acts,
irrespective of the results. This engenders Impeccability
within ones acts. Will as we know is that mysterious
property that arises as a result of applying the previous
attributes and as such is emergent from a system set up to
enflesh it. Finally The Petty Tyrant operates directly in the
world and through their cultivation one develops flexibility,
the Moods of Stalking and of course as a result addresses Self
Importance directly.
 Not Doing

Is performed by the body

Set up by Gazing and is a method of storing personal power

Sorcery is the Cunning of the 1st Attention

And serves as the interface

Gazing is the Cunning of the 2nd Attention

And facilitates Active Dreaming

Setting Up Dreaming is the Cunning of the Double

It lures the one to flesh the other
Which one does what is open to conjecture
For it is a matter of the Dreamer and the Dreamed

Sorcery – The Not Doing of human life

When approaching Sorcery it is all too

easy to be human and attempt to
integrate its activities into the ongoing
life one has. Due to the amount of time
and focus I have brought to bear this
tendency has, in the main been
circumnavigated. The essence of Sorcery
is the development of the energy equal to making the
appropriate shifts from the everyday world to that of the
world of Sorcery. Within the practice this has been
approached via the Rings of Power, namely unhooking that
of Reason and connecting to that of Intent. This is the
primary purpose, for Actualisation of The Dreaming
Attention is brought about in this way.

To be human means to have a life, full as it is with the folly

we all individually generate and sustain in regard of the
agreement we share as to the nature of reality. This is the
Doing of human life. Who would not seek the comfort and
rewards of such? Only someone who has no choice and for
this reason Sorcery tricks those worthy of pursuing it. The
Not Doing of human life, of the human inventory is fulfilled
when Sorcery itself is undertaken as a pursuit congruently.
Sorcery is a Perceptual Art and the level of Perception is
dependant upon Personal Power and Personal Power is
dependant upon the elements outlined within the practice of
Sorcery itself. A very neat system indeed, teaching itself, as
it does by virtue of the amount of energy one can deploy
into Perception. Erasing Personal History is the Not Doing
of who you believe, and have been told, you are. This is
prefigured by Stopping The World. Not simply the world of
internal representations but also the world itself, this is how
a Sorcerer effectively collapses the world and as a result
breaks the mould of man by becoming a formless warrior.
Only then has one entered the world of Sorcery as all that
precedes it is prepatory. Losing Self Importance is an
essential aspect of this process for along with the Self
Reflection that accompanies it, represents the main stay of
maintaining the description of human life.

And yet even Not Doing becomes a Doing at some point in

time. The pursuit of Sorcery itself can become a Doing. How
to allow for this is the major challenge the apprentice faces
initially for 1st Attention rules. An entire lifetime of
pursuing this path could mean little except formulating a
new mask, a new description. Again it is all a matter of
energy and its resultant perception. To break the mask of
the everyday world is challenging enough. To break the
mask of Sorcery is a challenge almost beyond contemplating
for we are indeed caught within the thrall of The Ring of
Reason. As such the Not Doing of Sorcery is a necessary
stage of development. This is a subtle point and as such
requires a sophistication of perception, rare, if indeed
present at all. Multiple Description fulfils this in part, plus
the inaccessibility often spoken of. Inaccessibility attained
primarily by ‘Acting without Believing.’ This is the fulcrum
that overthrows the tendency to fixate and whilst holding
the double description of the world and of Sorcery itself,
the Sorcerer slips between descriptions and begins to
rehearse the Freedom often spoken of. Not the Freedom that
arises by pursuing this path and entering the abstract but
that of exercising perceptual freedom here and now which
presupposes the presence of the abstract. As Don Juan has
indicated on many occasions the Sorcerers task lies in
transforming the apparently concrete into the abstract.
Only when the transference of consciousness to the Double
has been attained can one even begin to contemplate the
world of Sorcery beyond it being a description.

Hence the practice of Not Doing at every conceivable level

is implicit in the tenets of Sorcery, elsewise one simply
maintains a new description of the world and little else. This
is one aspect of the ‘millimetre of chance’ sometimes spoken
of, for in truth the universe does indeed stare back at us
indifferently. Impeccability, preceded and set up by
unbending Intent, the erasure of Human History, the loss of
Self Importance and finally the human form, enables us to
enter the world of Sorcery proper. The rest is rumour.

Behavioural Not Doing

Pattern interruption is the primary

outcome to this aspect of Not Doing.
Pattern interruption involves taking an
inventory of ones habits and the ways in
which things are done and doing them
differently. This has two primary
outcomes. Firstly, becoming conscious of
‘how you do who you are’ and secondly, by doing things
differently one establishes new behaviours in order to
connect neurology in different ways, thereby exploring new
choices, Examples would be :

The breaking of routines.

Changing your way of dressing or speaking.

If you have a tendency to speak much, practice

silence and vice versa.
 As you notice elements of character that define
you, to yourself and others, change them.

Assume the characteristics and manner of someone

else for a period of time.

Do five things that you regularly do, differently.

Do five unique things which you would not usually

do.

The list is inexhaustible, covering as it does all aspects of an

individuals actions. Energy is locked within the patterns of
our behaviour and as such to practice Not Doing frees this
energy by the breaking of established patterns. This
effectively generates the flexibility required to pursue this
path, opens the possibility of entering Multiple Description
and of course begins the practice of becoming inaccessible.
The hunter becomes unpredictable thereby becoming free to
perform actions which are both unique and unknown to all
but themselves. Not Doing in this respect is a primary skill of
The Stalker, whose primary context is themselves.

When explored at a deeper level the actions we perform and

how we perform them defines us both to ourselves and others,
this effectively is what maintains Personal History and the
Self Importance generated by evaluating our actions as being
important. The selection of one thing above another is a clear
demonstration of how we effectively evaluate ourselves
through the things we do and the way we do them. An
example would be : ‘it is important to me to do this in this
fashion because … … …’ By breaking the established patterns,
which begins the process of Erasing Personal History we
rearrange the items within our Personal Inventory and as
such not only become inaccessible to others but more
importantly to ourselves. This is what underpins ‘relaxing
and abandoning oneself ‘ … … … ‘acting without believing’
and ‘Stopping The World’ of our previous description.
 Perceptual Not Doing
The Art of Seeing

The description known as the everyday

world is formed by components of the
human inventory. Self Importance and
Self Reflection are totally dependant
upon it. Personal History is formed by it.
Perception itself is moulded by it. The
question is : How do we go about
performing Perceptual Not Doings which in effect facilitate
Seeing? That has been outlined clearly within the practices
of Sorcery, Stopping The World is the starting point which
in turn is facilitated by addressing the foregoing aspects of
the human inventory. It takes energy to do this, energy
which is, in the main accessed through the procedures
undertaken upon the Warriors path. For this reason, the
Warriors path and primarily living Impeccably was
conceived of as a strategy by The New Seers.

Don Juan clearly demonstrates throughout his teachings

and is very specific concerning how we assemble the world
perceptually and how it is maintained by both ourselves and
others. This is the power of The Ring of Reason, absolute
monarch within its world. Discarding reason is suicidal, it is
wiser to hone and shine it into what it can be, effectively a
guardian, a 1st Attention which is in and of itself Impeccable,
only then can we refine the connecting link to The Second
ring of Power – Intent.

Perceptual Not Doing is not dissimilar to its behavioural

counterpart. In some respects it could be said that the
behavioural aspect of Not Doing pertains to Stalkers and
the Art of Stalking, whilst Perceptual Not Doing rightly
applies to Dreamers and The Art of Dreaming.

It is in the holding of Multiple Descriptions that we

primarily begin to loosen the neural grip that one
perspective tends to create, as a result we gather
information from different vantage points and begin to shift
our viewpoint accordingly. Gazing as a practice begins the
process of Seeing for it engages the total system, the larger
unit of mind in perceiving objects directly. This is brought
about, by employing the components of the practice known
as Stopping The World.

Assembling different Perceptual Worlds is, in effect the Not

Doing of this world, as is, as previously stated, holding
Multiple Descriptions. The fluidity of travelling from one
description to the next exercises the Assemblage Point by
moving it from its habitual location to others. It is in
gaining the ability of living between descriptions that the
Sorcerer begins to perceive what lies within and beyond
appearances and as a result begins to fulfil the criteria of
Seeing, namely, to perceive and experience the energetic
aspect of the world directly. This takes energy, energy which
is accessed by performing the Recapitulation, Erasing
Personal History, losing Self Importance and the Self
Reflection that attends it, becoming inaccessible to the
human inventory and as a result becoming accessible to the
aspects of power that are useful. All this commences with
Stopping The World, which leads to Collapsing The World
and finally the attainment of the state of being a Formless
Warrior.

Summary

In conclusion, I will explore Not Doing

from the perspective of Damian
Sinclair, having done so from the
perspective of Sorcery itself in its
behavioural and perceptual aspects. I
close with a simple thought. Whilst
engaged upon a series of activities
outlined by the Arts of Dreaming and Stalking the Sorcerer
is effectively performing the act of shifting awareness from
the everyday world to that of the Sorcerers world, by this
act, and all that it takes to achieve it, the Sorcerer brings
into awareness and finally into existence the energetic
counterpart of a human being known as the Double or
Dreaming Attention. All procedures are aimed at this result
and it is through Not Doing that the path is accessed,
traversed and fulfilled.

The Not Doing of Damian Sinclair

Beginnings are all important. More so
when in the process of creating and
realising a myth. It is an essential
component within the model of Sorcery to
explore and ‘Erase Personal History.’ The
purpose of doing so is clearly defined when
you begin to consider the ‘Social
Agreement’ that defines us. To break this agreement is
challenging enough, and is made more so by the innocent
actions of others, those who seek to constantly define us as
what we appear to be. For this reason it is a Sorcerer’s
manoeuvre to change identity labels. Affectation is
powerless and meaningless except that the Sorcerer
performs this act with ‘Intent.’ A new identity ideally
contains components of : new environments, behaviours
and skills. New Beliefs and at least the ability to act ‘As If’
one had a new Identity. Much of this activity could easily
fall into the area of simple drama and histrionics, except, to
repeat a most important statement, the gesture is
accompanied and empowered by ‘Intent.’ Parts of my
personal history are relevant at this juncture. During the
last three years or so I have been developing in areas that
have both a personal and professional application. The
world lay before me and I in my exhilaration reached out
and took hold tightly. A personal decision wiped all this
away overnight and the ensuing chaos that spanned a year
erased much of my life and world. In some respects I had
‘Stopped’ and finally ‘Collapsed the world.’ An essential
undertaking in Sorcery. Upon returning to the world I
made the observation that in part much of me and what I
had achieved thus far was now redundant. A strategy was
required, for I saw no way forward and certainly no way
back. Synthesis is a personal skill, pulling divers elements
towards cohesion, finding the golden thread woven through
the diversity. I spent a year wandering around in territory
unfamiliar yet commonplace. Then the myth began to
unfold.

Damian Sinclair is a Being of Sorcery and is assumed with

the sole intention of manifesting the process outlined by this
practice period. The assumption of the Sorcerers identity,
Damian Sinclair forms the heart of what has been called
‘The Not Doings of Damian Sinclair.’ Sorcery itself is a
profound Not Doing in respect of ‘Everyday Perception’
each concept and practical skill effectively constitutes a Not
Doing of ‘Everyday Life.’ It is stated within Sorcery that
Awareness is Assembled in a specific way and is habituated
into patterns of familiarity. Magickal ritual, Intoxication,
Intense emotional states and trauma generally are methods
of ‘shifting’ Awareness from its habitual locations and
placing it on new sites, sometimes called ‘Worlds.’ Yet the
challenge remains, in order to transcend a purely
intellectual model of Perception it is demanded that we
effectively ‘Stop The World’ of human endeavour and all
that entails, and having done so redeploy the released
‘Personal Power’ into the direction we take as Sorcerers,
namely: to enter Freedom. All other purposes, though
entertaining are effectively redundant and constitute an
aspect of indulgence. This is how the Sorcerer begins to
develop his or her Impeccability. Impeccability, which in
this specific instance is supported and upheld by The Four
Moods of Stalking, specifically Ruthlessness. Who would
undertake such a task? To answer personally, only someone
who has no choice. Inflexibility in this instance being a
resource of great value. To reiterate Sorcery is the Not
Doing of human life and the pursuit of Sorcery, as outlined
constitutes The Not Doing of Damian Sinclair.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream

 The Four Moods of Stalking
Ruthlessness

Ruthlessness is not harshness. Having set a

Context or Direction, it is useful to ask :
‘What is of value to me in respect of this
Context or Direction?’ and ‘What is not?’
By performing this Personal Inventory the
possibility of ‘freeing up’ space and time
for something new arises, and the
possibility of experiencing the Context or Direction in a new
way can take place. It also allows us to become aware of the
appropriateness of Doing this Now, in which case we
proceed, or whether it is appropriate to withdraw,
consolidate and make thorough preparations prior to
entering the Context or Direction. In order to do this it is
necessary to bring to bear the full focus of our
concentration, concentration which is normally trapped
within the superfluous. By eliminating the superfluous we
are effectively enabled in respect of our powers of
concentration.

Congruently performing this Personal Inventory and

recognising ‘What is useful and What is not’ permits us to
only ‘carry’ what applies in that Context or Direction and
to ‘drop’ as redundant the components of Behaviour and
Belief that exist as obstructions. In this way it becomes
possible to enter fully any Context or embark upon a
journey in any Direction fully focussed and unencumbered
by the superfluous. Not a moment is wasted in
prevarication once a decision has been made. For in any
action we can act ‘As if’’ it were our Last Stand.
 Cunning
Sorcery is the Cunning of the 1st Attention
Gazing is the Cunning of the 2nd Attention
The Energetic Matrix is the Cunning of the Double

Cunning is not cruelty and has an

External and Internal aspect. Externally,
our behaviours around others are made
into deliberate acts in order to take control
of what is going on. This is not about
controlling others, rather it is about
controlling ourselves. In short developing
an awareness of the implications within what we are doing.
This effectively makes us inaccessible to others and in this
respect is a component of Erasing personal History. Only
then can we abandon ourselves to our Controlled Folly. For
we relax, have no fear and can simply act. Only then can
we begin to connect to Intent and only then can we be
guided and aided by the powers that surround us.
Internally, we stalk the self primarily and in this respect the
inaccessibility spoken of above applies to ourselves. We act
secretly and deliberately in order to circumnavigate the
established patterns of behaviour we continuously run,
invariably unconsciously. This is challenging, for if
overdone we can create disassociation, which takes us
further from our Intent. Truly abandoning ourselves in
respect of Self Importance and our Personal History is the
only way we can connect to the power of Intent. Only then
can it guide and aid us.
 Patience

Patience is not negligence. Timing is the

key. We can evaluate a context and
irrespective of our findings proceed. This
is excellent if in possession of the
necessary resources or information,
which is itself a primary resource.
Through Patience we develop a
connection to time and how we might begin to use it
usefully. When faced with circumstances that we lack
resources or sufficient information about, rather than
‘fretting’ we retreat. Retreat in this instance does not mean
to ‘back off’ we simply do something else. This something else
is a ‘shield’ through which we can re-assess the situation
from a vantage point and choose the appropriate time in
which to act. To act as a response to someone’s actions or
demands demonstrates a lack of awareness, accessibility and
the desire to protect ourselves, i.e. the bolstering of Self
Importance. Again there is an Internal and External aspect.
Patience with the world and others and more importantly,
Patience in respect of ourselves. It is a little like what arises
when we bang our head against a brick wall – it’s wonderful
when we stop.
 Sweetness

Sweetness is not foolishness and is

connected directly and specifically to
addressing Self Importance. We mingle
and act ordinary in order to remain
inaccessible. To prove ourselves, our
value and worth to others is time
consuming and tedious. Let others draw
attention to themselves and suffer the consequences. Only
when Self Importance is erased can we begin to practice
Sweetness, for it is not about false humility, a breed of Self
Importance itself. Guiding from behind creates momentum,
pulling from the front can be an effort. Shielding ones
Personal Power means to store it rather than deploying it
within human contexts that are invariably trivial.
Contextually, if you are always act as a sheep you will
become a sheep. When appropriate transform and through
that transformation demonstrate how little is really known
about you. This ensures inaccessibility for it leaves others
with questions in their minds in respect of you. And while
they are busily attempting to answer them, quick as a flash
– you’re gone.
 The Four Enemies of a Man of Knowledge
Fear … Clarity … Power … Old Age

Filtered through
The Four Moods of Stalking
Ruthlessness Cunning Patience Sweetness

Fear

However uncertain a fear may appear it

usually has its roots in something. The
primary task is to discover that
something and proceed from there. One
of the characteristics of fear is the way
it hides itself behind a multitude of
masks and once exposed dissolves into
the air itself. It has been stated in many traditions that fear
is the first guardian the novice meets upon the path of
initiation. This is understandable given that it is a protector
in disguise, sorting and sifting our experience in order to
determine what we can and cannot handle at any given
time. In this respect it operates at the same logical level of
pain. That is, as a warning. In pursuing any path of
learning, in this instance, Sorcery, it is commonplace to set
beliefs about what we are doing. This is understandable given
the nature of 1st Attention, however these beliefs stand in the
way of learning for two specific reasons. First, they code the
limitless within a limited description and secondly they bring
a halt to the progress we make upon the path of learning by
creating the possibility of disappointments. Disappointments
which are effectively contradictions to our expectations. We
doubt our learning and as a result invariably leave our
pursuit of knowledge behind in favour of something
perceived to be of more value.
In pursuing Sorcery it is wise to remember that what we are
doing and what we think we are doing are invariably two
different things. This awareness ensures that whilst fulfilling
the overt outcomes of Sorcery we are also able to fulfil the
covert outcomes. As a result, this approach and attitude
dispels our fears in respect of the progress we are making for
it clearly distinguishes between 1st and 2nd Attention pursuits.
Only the unknown strikes fear into us for once it has been
faced and understood it enters the realm of the known and
as such can no longer rule our emotions and thoughts the way
it did previously. This is true both conceptually in respect of
pursuing the path of knowledge and actually when faced
with the various masks that fear presents itself through
within our everyday world.

Within Sorcery Fear is challenged by each of the practices,

examples being : Erasing Personal History – thereby
attaining inaccessibility. Stopping The World – the
description or descriptions that hold the masks of Fear. The
Four Moods of Stalking – by turning the context of Fear into
prey for the hunter. Losing the Human Form – for only the
human aspect of the apprentice knows Fear as the Sorcerer
knows only Ruthlessness. Not Doing – specifically challenges
Fear by performing the behavioural and conceptual actions
that faces each mask squarely, thereby eradicating it.
Accessing and storing Personal Power – eliminates Fear, for
as a perception it can only operate at a specific energetic
level. Once that energetic level, which constitutes a
description of the world is transcended so is the Fear or
Fears that are isomorphic to it. Losing Self Importance –
eradicates Fear in one step, for we can only hold Fear within
us in respect of expectations and our need for a sense of
security. Only when we enter the freedom of inaccessibility
do we experience the 'place of no pity' which requires that no
self reflection is taking place. With no self reflection there is
no evaluation in respect of our personal human inventory.

Fear itself can become an ally, one which serves us by

indicating an area or areas which require Attention.
Attention which when applied appropriately will address the
issue or issues in question. For this reason it takes power to
pursue Sorcery in the first place, for from the outset it
challenges each and every presupposition we make in respect
of our perception of the world and Sorcery itself. The
important consideration is the blend of Moods that are
applied. As always this is dependant upon the context.
However :

Ruthlessness applied here is simply a matter of proceeding in

the light of ones fear. To be afraid and know that you are
afraid and yet to proceed is the true nature of courage. Fears
concerning a decision often occur after the decision has been
made and one has regrets. It is the role of Ruthlessness to
evaluate what is useful, given the context, consider the
implications and once committed – act. There is no room for
indecisiveness, especially in the light of the phantoms that
fear often manifests through. Fear can only manifest in the
instance of protecting the Self, as such it is also the role of
Ruthlessness to address Self Importance / Self Reflection. Only
where these exist can one hold a place for fear to make its
home. Ruthlessness in addressing the issues of Self eliminates
them and as such leaves no territory in which fear can take
root. The concept on its way to being a reality of ‘living in the
moment’ can only occur in the light of having faced Death
and in doing so having already died, symbolically. What is
their to fear in the light of this. Death as an advisor
eliminates the little fears that mask it and leaves the Warrior
free to go about the major issue of entering Freedom.

Cunning applied here is about strategy, overt and covert.

Acting in the light of ones fear or fears rehearses bravery.
This is overt behaviour a little like singing a song whilst
being pursued by an enemy of superior strength and ability.
Covertly it is about the recognition that in the light of the
immensity that awaits us beyond the gates of death, what is
their to fear here? Yes there are questions of survival, a
future and dreams and yet what do they amount to in the
light of eternity? Abandonment to the powers that aid and
guide us can only occur when inner silence arises, elsewise
the wisdom that exists all around us is drowned by the
static of our thinking and feeling natures. It is Cunning that
erases Personal History. Cunning that Stops The World.
Cunning that employs Sorcery as a 1st Attention strategy to
enter upon the path of freedom. Cunning in this instance is
more specifically Trickery. How else could we
circumnavigate the description/s we hold that are coded
with fear. In this instance it is Cunning that recognises that
he or she has that fear, it is bound within that description, I
am elsewhere.

Patience applied here develops awareness and

understanding. Challenges, which are masked opportunities
often give rise to grounded or ungrounded fears. The lesson
of Patience is to evaluate what we are able to do at a
specific time clearly. If we have the resources to face a
particular fear, we do. If not, retire until such a time as we
have the requisite resources and then enter the arena. There
is no wisdom in an untimely death, if such a thing could be
said to exist. Preoccupying ourselves with something
different – anything sets a new direction and with it a new
Perception arises. Patience is about timing. Timing is about
Perception and Perception is dependant upon energy.
Evaluate clearly and rather than deploying energy into
wasteful contexts one gathers energy instead which can, at
the appropriate point in time be applied in the appropriate
direction. This in itself gathers energy and as such the
process is generative.

Sweetness applied here acts and looks ordinary and in so

doing studies the nature of fear. Its strategies and masks, its
patterns and cycles. May even choose to act as if one has
succumbed and at the vital moment – act. It is almost as if
one could create a vessel for fear to inhabit, a description or
world in itself, occupy it congruently and having lured and
finally trapped all of ones fears there, in an instance leave
and enter a description or world where fear has no place. It
would take Sweetness to shield power long enough to achieve
this outcome and in many respects this could only occur
within dream. The question here is : How specifically do you
define dream? Fear like Death is an advisor and the
Sweetness contained in performing, as an example The
Recapitulation serves to eliminate fear/s at root by
disconnecting the hooks and regaining the Personal Power
contained within the context. Whilst doing this what you
are in effect is a simple human being facing the immensity
alone and applying what little skill you have, effectively.

Clarity

Clarity itself dispels fear by virtue of the

perceptual insights it grants, for fear can
only exist in the presence of ignorance.
Learning itself dispels fear in the light of
the knowledge attained. There are
effectively two distinct classes of Clarity.
For simplicities sake I shall write them as
a large [ C ] and a small [ c ]. The large C of Clarity carries
its own self monitoring system and in this respect could not
be considered an enemy in any respect. Not withstanding,
clarity, the small c of which Don Juan speaks, is the distinct
belief of thinking one knows. It is this order of clarity that I
shall address with my comments. Clarity itself banishes Fear
for it is in the light of our own minds and the reason it
contains that creates the ambience in which Fear has no
place. Clarity which gives rise to Knowledge dispels the
Ignorance that effectively serves as the vessel in which Fear
manifests. Clarity in all respects is to be considered a true
friend in the light of this and yet contextually, as described,
a friend who can turn and become a mortal enemy. This
occurs as a result of the certainty that arises and in its wake
learning ceases, for one knows, or at least believes that one
knows.

It has been said that a wise course of action is to doubt,

specifically the self that generates such limited
understanding, for this understanding invariably lies within
the domain of 1st Attention. And yet where is the fine line
between doubt and building upon ones developing
understanding? A possible answer to this is simple, it has
been said that a Warrior proceeds, acts without the need of
believing and in this way practices Not Doing. This
indifference has been described as a characteristic of Sobriety
and rather than being a cynical attitude of mind,
demonstrates clearly and succinctly freedom. In this instance
freedom is of a perceptual nature as it permits the limitations
within ones own awareness to be circumnavigated to a great
extent. How many times do we arrive at a point of
understanding in respect of a specific only to find that with
the passing of time that understanding is transcended in the
light of new information and the learning that follows on
from this? This is the natural flow of learning and without it
we stand still just as easily as when we make no effort at all.
The guideline is to recognise this natural tendency, celebrate
ones learning and yet be aware that even in the light of this,
there is so much more to learn, so much more to explore. In
this manner Sobriety is cultivated and the path of knowledge
becomes a joy to pursue rather than a task which is
dependant upon the ‘what’s in it for me’ attitude which is
dependant upon Self Importance. It is Self Importance itself
that brings us to the conclusion that we know anything, for
we measure ourselves in the light of what we have, in this
instance knowledge becomes a commodity.

The practice of Sorcery circumnavigates clarity becoming an

enemy, for when applied appropriately it carries its own
monitoring device, as previously stated this is the true nature
of Clarity [ large C ] and not the indulgence that is human,
clarity with a small c. The practice without equal in the
tempering of clarity is the Stalkers predilection of recognising
the Mystery that surrounds us and the Mystery that we are,
equal to all things. Along with this our duty to unravel the
Mystery knowing full well the futility of our efforts in the
light of the immensity that surrounds us. This is acting
without the need of believing and represents, as previously
stated true perceptual freedom. The rest is 1st Attention
indulgence brought about in the main by human vanity and
ignorance. True Clarity effectively unseats itself by
monitoring itself as it develops. This is the nature of useful
circumspection which is achieved by applying The Sorcerers
Strategic Inventory at regular intervals.

Ruthlessness applied here is recognising that however much

we think we know, in the light of Mystery and the
immensity that awaits us it amounts to little, if anything.
This is the nature of humility and stands as our only
resource when facing the onset of Clarity. It is the ability of
holding the paradox, whilst knowing so much, relatively
speaking, compare it to what there is to know and find
yourself realistically only a little wiser, if at all. This
Clarity, Certainty and Knowledge fuels Self Importance, for
we are supported by our beliefs about ourselves, filtered
through the expectations of societies agreement and
consensus. Address Self Importance and in many ways
Clarity, as an enemy is defeated. It is Ruthlessness alone
that achieves the end result of facing and defeating Clarity
granting the Warrior the opportunity to cast aside petty
Self supporting knowledge and belief in order to enter the
wider arena of all that is possible. Ruthlessness that
perceives, all but dimly the direction and its attendant
perceived goal and embarks, unencumbered by thinking and
talking, the hand maidens of Reason. To unhook the Ring of
Reason is a primary requirement within the pursuit of
Sorcery for only then can we even dream of what the Ring
of Intent might be. To make this possible we require inner
silence. This inner silence can only occur in the light of ‘all
things being equal and therefore meaningless.’ It takes
Clarity to perceive this and Ruthlessness to achieve it.

Cunning applied, as always is about strategy. How does one

use Clarity [ big C ] to defeat clarity [ small c ] ? Yes we
know that takes Power. Cunning grants us many resources,
inaccessibility being the primary one. For one to be
inaccessible presupposes that we do not and cannot take
ourselves seriously. For this reason Sorcerers not only laugh
at the antics of others but more importantly they can laugh
at their own. Cunning specifically develops the strategies
that address the perceived fear or fears we manifest, this
itself takes Clarity. In situations where the power of Clarity
is in excess of our own ability to match it we need Cunning
in order to turn the tables. At this time, when we are likely
to experience the inflation that knowing brings to us it is the
true humility of the Warrior that comes into play. Not the
narrow modesty of the average human being but the white
hot flame that burns away the dross exposing the pure gold
of knowledge. A Knowledge which once again cannot be
considered an enemy, for it guides us truly, irrespective of
our ongoing perceptions of it. It is in the territory of Clarity
with a large C that this takes place, the rest is sham and
human Self Importance. Trickery as always with Cunning
plays a vital role here in as much as one proceeds acting as
if one knows whilst harbouring the insidious and useful
thought that at the realistic level one is in fact a little
stupid. In this way we trick the self. Yes this can be done
with Cunning for as I once said : ‘Sorcery is the Cunning of
the 1st Attention and serves as the interface. Gazing is the
Cunning of the 2nd Attention and facilitates Active
Dreaming. And Setting Up Dreaming is the Cunning of the
Double, it lures the one to flesh the other, which one does
what is open to conjecture for it is a matter of the Dreamer
and the Dream’. Holding the paradox is the key. The
inaccessibility one attains in respect of ones thinking and
beliefs matched by the accessibility to Power. The natural
domain of Clarity with a large C.

Patience as always is an ambience and relates directly to

time and timing. In the presence of Clarity one can say in
effect, ‘oh! yes, thank you very much, however I think I will
get on with this for now’ this is the ‘do something else’
approach we adopt when faced with the inflation that arises
from knowing or thinking we know. Yes we can rejoice in
the knowledge, however, as is mentioned by Don Juan on
many occasions if we fall to the emotional state of ‘Wow’ we
are lost, caught up in the throes of a Human Inventory.
Patience permits us to recognise through its relationship to
time that whatever we think we know in the present will
always amount to little in respect of what we can come to
know once we begin to practice Sobriety. Patience and
Sobriety in this respect walk hand in hand. Patience also
grants us the ability to recognise that overwhelmed in the
short term by Clarity we can retire as indicated in the
above passage and do something different, in the certainty
that ‘this too will pass.’ The ability to do this takes profound
Sobriety and detachment. It would be like walking through
the fields of paradise and remarking ‘ that is a little
interesting.’ Rather than being swept away which is a
human tendency. This sounds a little cold, however when
you consider what we have made of the ‘mould of man’ it
should not be surprising that I manifest this attitude. It is
strategically appropriate. Patience in a word is Timing.
Timing is the recognition that to all things its season and as
the Warrior walks into Freedom, nothing and I mean no
thing, concrete or abstract will detain them. It takes
Patience to be compassionate with oneself in the light of
Clarity as it unfolds, masks the way and distracts us.
Fortunately Sorcery knows this, allows for it and moves on.
This is the Clarity with the large C spoken of many times. A
true friend and with Patience cultivated into becoming a
true ally. It takes Patience to become aware of this and
Patience to make it, a dream, reality. Intent grants this in
the light of Personal Power and Personal Power arises from
Clarity which is dependant upon Patience.

Sweetness applied becomes : ‘and in the light of all this one is

a simple human being.’ Sweetness defeats all inflation
whether that inflation arises from Clarity or elsewhere. The
humility to say yes, that is indeed marvellous however ‘how
does it compare to a nova burning in the starlit night in the
area of space around Orion?’ Sweetness is true humility and
true humility circumnavigates the pitfalls that arise when
the onslaught of Clarity takes place. These words are simple,
short and sweet and suffice to convey my meaning, a
meaning I have no Intention of burying beneath mere
verbiage. Simplicity is the key to Sweetness and in this way
Clarity cannot become an enemy but one more guide on the
path of becoming a Man or Woman of Knowledge.
 Power

Nations rise, bask in the splendour of

their heyday and then fall, diminish and
enter the realm of obscurity from whence
they came. Such is human history and
such is the nature of being human, for
our history is simply an extension of our
nature, collectively speaking. True Power
vanquishes Clarity for it takes Personal Power to see through
the veil of our own sensory coding of the world to the true
mystery that lies all about us. Sadly this Power also inflates
our Self Importance – the blessing and curse of the Ancient
Sorcerers. A blessing for it made it possible for them to
explore and scale unimaginable heights, heights we in the
present can only speculate upon. A curse for it bound them
within descriptions that did not permit the existence of, or
the entry into Freedom. It has been said that ultimate power
corrupts ultimately. We have only to see how detractors act
when it is there time of power. How the quiet liberal, out of
necessity, becomes the despot when put in the position of
being able to express what was previously, circumstantially
repressed. Let Power be the Power of Wisdom, then and then
alone can it truly be transcendent and of value to the
Warrior. The Sorcerer hunts Power for the sole purpose of
Perceptual redeployment. The Man or Woman of knowledge
perceives it as simply a means to an end. A metaphor best
illustrates this : You have a vehicle [ life itself ] you have a
map [ Sorcery ] and you have the requisite skills onboard
with which to undertake your journey. Yet the engine of
your vehicle, has no fuel, like the petrol you would place in a
cars engine, the fuel here is power.

Power is invariably perceived as being power over things or

people, the only thing to have power over is the pursuit itself,
outlined succinctly by The Art of Stalking and the only
person is the Sorcerer him or herself. The rest is human
vanity, which is certainly curtailed by death. As a model of
perception Sorcery is predisposed towards perceptual power,
for this reason alone are most of its procedures undertaken.
The Recapitulation reclaims what has been deployed into an
individuals Personal History. Impeccability ensures that the
optimum is achieved with minimum effort. Not Doing,
effectively stores power by creating diversity and
inaccessibility. Setting Up Dreaming grants the opportunity
to access new and divers worlds wherein power is plentiful.

The guideline lies in the recognition of what one wants power

for. Power over things or people is transitory. Power over
the self permits the Sorcerer to pursue their path
unencumbered by the pettiness that is characteristic of the
human condition. A condition which in the main is based
upon fear. Fear which the Warrior defeats with Clarity and
Clarity itself is defeated by Power, for it follows that power
or energy if you prefer is the difference that makes the
difference. The distance between one perception and another
might be microscopic and yet from one perspective they
might as well be light years apart. Consider for a moment
what a truly traumatic memory is like, at the time how close
to you was joy? And if you could measure, how far apart did
they seem at the time?

Within Sorcery, Power is contained by the application of two

of the attributes of a Warrior, namely : Control and
Discipline. These are effectively supported by the Sobriety
which is engendered by the pursuit of Sorcery itself. The
attitude of indifference, stemming as it does from the
recognition that ‘all things are equal and therefore
meaningless’ enables the Sorcerer to attain Sobriety, the
means of remaining sober in the light of the onslaughts of
power. It takes power to know this and it takes power to
resist power for the question is, How does one remain
inaccessible to the indulgent aspects of power whilst
remaining accessible to its useful aspects?

Ruthlessness applied here takes a number of directions.

Power, true Power that is, can be employed to defeat itself.
For Power to defend itself is indeed weakness and simply
Self Importance being exerted. To have passed through the
portals of Fear and Clarity it would be presupposed that the
Warrior by this time had sufficient resources to defeat the
insidious nature of Power. Sadly in the majority of instances
this is not the case. Self Importance is so deeply ingrained
into the human system, primarily as the means of personal
survival that to circumnavigate it requires nothing short of
accessing and utilising the Double or Energetic Being which
is our true nature. This all but improbable task is facilitated
by Sorcery, yet there are many stop over points on the way.
Power is one of them, perhaps the most challenging of all?
Grant a person all that they want with the opportunity of
gaining more. Give them their hearts desire. Lay at their
feet untold riches, abstract and concrete and who would,
who could say, this is not enough? Only a fool or someone
with no choice. In this respect it is the Ruthlessness of
Sorcery itself that enables the Warrior to perceive the
Mystery and the potential it implies and turn away from
the human description. What is promised in return?
Nothing, only the opportunity to explore the unknown.
Exploration which promises no reward. How does that sit
with the ‘what’s in it for me’ attitude of the average
human? The average human in this instance covers the
entirety of humanity, without a single exception.
Ruthlessness alone handles Power by saying ‘how useful is
this in the context of my present pursuit?’ As previously
stated it takes Power to take the abstract flight, Power to
embark upon the path of Sorcery and Power alone sets ‘The
Fire From Within’ into motion. These are very different
applications to inflating ones self worth or values which is
the province wherein Power is truly an enemy. Applied
where appropriate like the preceding cases of Fear and
Clarity, rather than being an enemy it becomes a friend
and ally. Ruthlessness alone sets this up for it cuts to the
heart of things and dispenses with the superfluous retaining
only what is vital for the journey to hand – The journey into
Freedom.

Cunning applied is indeed trickery. How else can one

remove oneself from the all but orgiastic reality of bathing
in ones sense of Personal Power? It is in the sense of
‘abandoning oneself’ that one can become sufficiently light
enough to float free of human tendencies. The relaxation
spoken of naturally arises as a consequence. There is an
aspect of Power which is minor and purely personal. Like
Fear it masks itself in a form most easily recognised by us
individually. Calls to us. Seduces us. There is no fall from
grace, there is no success. There is only Power. Cunning here
deploys Power into appropriate contexts in order for it to
become generative. A little like spending money to make
money. There is an attitude prevalent within Sorcery that
one has to be all but miserly with the use of ones energy.
This is true after a fashion and yet the attitude is
reminiscent of the miser hoarding money in fear of the day
when he or she will have none. The universe may very well
be predatory that is no reason to act as the hunter or the
victim, for this is only a perception. I say only a perception
knowing full well that all there is only Perception. A
paradox to fathom. Cunning as always tricks the self,
redeploys Power as previously described and remains light
as a consequence. It was a tendency of The Ancient
Sorcerers to hoard and I suspect the case with many of their
modern counterparts. The ‘New Mood’ beckons and what
has been said in respect of Power and in this instance
Cunning is an intrinsic aspect of this ‘New Mood.’ It takes
lack of Fear to say this. It takes Clarity to perceive the
implications of saying it and it takes Power itself to realise
it. Cunning indeed.

Patience in the face of Power has little difficulty for it

recognises the antics of a small child calling for attention. A
small child it cherishes and it promises that ‘this too will
pass.’ It is only in the instance of not resisting can power be
allowed to flow freely without taking on the personal aspects
outlined by an individuals Personal History. In this respect
only a Formless Warrior can truly handle the onset of
Power. For only a Formless Warrior, by simple definition
can supply a suitably neutral Energetic Matrix which is
depersonalised sufficient to using Power in the appropriate
way. This is an idea all but abstract, and yet concrete in
time. The time in question when one has the resource of
Formlessness. A time which visits us in the present as a
friend and guide. This is the quality of Patience, the
ambience that permits time to unfold according to its
energetic requirements and level. To not interfere is all but
impossible to the human being, who by their very nature is
a creature of wants. Formlessness itself is the only logical
application of Power, if Power is to be useful to the Warrior
in their chosen pursuits. Patience here serves the role of
counsellor as well as guide for the Power in question is not
Personal but rather the Power of Intent. For this reason the
majority of individuals who succumb to this enemy are
clearly seen to distort and in some respects pervert the
natural flow of Power from Intent to the more personalised
aspect called Will. Will in this instance is purely human and
in application is demonstrated by the entirety of human
history. Draw your own conclusions. Patience is the
ambience that permits the child growing strong in Power to
mature into the Formlessness which is its natural state. All
other manifestations of Power are a sham. The ‘do
something else’ in this instance refers to holding at least a
Double Description, the everyday world and the world of
Sorcery being sufficient to achieve the outcome of not
succumbing to the seduction of Power. Multiple Description
is ideal for it permits the Warrior to ‘live between
descriptions' thereby being inaccessible to the aspect of
Power that defeats them and yet accessible to the aspect of
Power that facilitates the Warrior into Formlessness. The
only application of Power which is generative and hence
useful given the Sorcerers pursuits. This takes Power and
more importantly it takes Patience, manifesting through
time, to achieve.

Sweetness applied again returns to simplicity. In the light of

this unfolding drama one is simply one human being
pursuing a Mystery all but unattainable. Using whatever
resources one has, and the ones that develop as a
consequence. As a simple human being the humility this
engenders is the only resource one has in the light of the
onslaught of Power. The arch seducer. There are instances,
numerous to recall of ‘burn out’ victims, individuals without
sufficient ability to handle what is going on. Power in this
instance inflates them to the point of implosion. They are
damaged by effectively rending the veil of the everyday
world which expels them, and yet, ironically they have
insufficient Power to access the world of Sorcery outside of
it being a 1st Attention description. This is sad indeed and
yet these instances serve as examples, as lessons of what can
happen. Sorcery selects its own. They are the survivors, few
in number and yet for them the myth unfolds truly and in a
balanced way. This is not to say that their path is easy,
quite the contrary, the instances of burn out are
paradoxically easy options. The Warrior, true, is alone at
this time and it is only their perception, paradoxically
fuelled by Power that stands as a support and guide. The
point made here is subtle and all but abstract and yet rings
true. Humility is the key to facing the onset of Power, as
humility truly aspects the principle that ‘one is indeed equal
to all things, whether one is a mountain, an ant or a human
being.’ Power here becomes a friend and is vanquished as an
enemy by the gentleness that is intrinsic in maintaining
such an attitude congruently. There is no place for deception
or self deception for one is dealing primarily with the
abstract principles of Intent and The Great Spirit in the face
of which humility is our natural recourse. The Shields which
constitute our Path With Heart play a major role in respect
of granting us the opportunity for transformation, for the
Warrior selects the items purposefully, fully engaging in
their pursuit until such a time as it is appropriate to enter
the arena of Sorcery directly. This is yet another method for
off setting the onslaught of Power for once again it deploys
Power into useful directions. This is the hallmark of
Patience which operates primarily through time and
timing.
 Old Age

The last of the enemies, that which

unseats, even Power. Old Age need not be
viewed as the accumulation of years, for
there are many younger people who
clearly demonstrate the onset of Old Age
in as much as their attitudes, beliefs and
behaviours are so set that only Death
awaits them. Returning to the concept of Old Age as spoken
of by Don Juan, this can only exist as a reality within the
everyday world, for should the Warrior reach an ancient
age, a lifetime of Impeccability circumnavigates the pitfalls
presented by Old Age – the desire to rest. The accumulation
of Power through a lifetime of practice, congruently applied
leaves no place for the infirmity which invariably
accompanies Old Age. Death, the natural consequence of
advancing years serving as an advisor addresses how the
infirmities of Old Age arise and can be circumnavigated. In
our arrogance we act as if we are immortal, this Don Juan
points out on numerous occasions. The truth is we have little
time, faced as we are by the immensity of the Mystery that
confronts and surrounds us. A lifetime of Impeccability
leaves no place for the infirmities commonly associated with
Old Age. In this instance Old Age, like Death becomes an
advisor.

And yet at times we grow tired, would seek rest from our
labours and yet there is no opportunity for rest, only the
Dramatic Exertion and Unbending Intent that has been
cultivated over a lifetime can serve as a resource in the light
of the ultimate enemy that defeats us at the end. Sorcery
suggests The Abstract Flight, the means of entering Death
consciously as one way of defeating, even Old Age. Time itself
is the only witness to the validity of this concept or not. The
rest is pure rumour.

Yet throughout life, each moment, each thought, each action

is a rehearsal for our impending death. We have choices : The
models of spirituality assuage us with the promise of
immortality. Designed to placate what is at root our deepest
fear and to furnish the few with the power over the many,
the few in this instance are called teachers. The question is :
what do we wish to rehearse? Sorcery applied effectively is
designed to arouse our curiosity as to the nature of what we
are and are capable of becoming and the nature of the
Mystery that surrounds us. This insatiable curiosity alone
could almost keep us so preoccupied with our explorations
that we forget or overlook getting old, for Old Age is part of
the program that is engendered and supported by The
Everyday Description of The World. Few, if any escape and
yet we are driven to make the effort.

This perspective alone, applied appropriately ensures that the

desire to rest and take it easy never occurs and for this
reason is the metaphor of the battle and the battlefield
applied when speaking of the Sorcerers world and its pursuit.
Others are granted the appearance of possessing immortality,
for a Warrior this is nonsense for they have only the here and
the now. The rest is human indulgence, meaningless and
trivial in the light of the passing of time.

Life itself is The Abstract Flight and for the Warrior upon
the path of becoming a Man or Woman of Knowledge there is
no time or inclination to be diverted by the merely
entertaining. This again, is the result of attaining Sobriety
and more importantly the application of the first principle of
Sorcery, namely, Ruthlessness.

Ruthlessness is Sobriety and Sobriety is Ruthlessness and in

the light of the presence of such resources is Old Age
defeated. This is the ultimate proof of the validity of the
pursuit of Sorcery itself.

Ruthlessness applied recognises what is required in terms of

maintaining ones youthfulness irrespective of whether one is
twenty five or sixty five. The cultivation of health and well
– being through a balanced approach to life can and does
offset many of the consequences of living a chaotic life. Diet,
exercise, environment, work, relationships, the shields we
call A Path With Heart and the pursuit of Sorcery itself are
significant ways of defeating the last of the enemies. We are
as old or as young as we feel. This is a matter of attitude
supported by the practical considerations that make it
possible. Ruthlessness is the application of the strategies
necessary to achieve this. The elimination of what creates
and fosters harm in the life of a Warrior demands that
Ruthlessness be applied at the appropriate times within the
appropriate contexts. For this reason the Warrior performs
regular Strategic Inventories in order to sort The Island of
The Tonal on a regular basis. It is a continuous and ongoing
process. Old Age can also be referred to as a loss of vitality
or energy. The Ruthlessness of The Recapitulation with its
outcome of reclaiming energy spread across our Personal
History ensures that vitality is maintained. The practice of
Controlled Folly likewise is Ruthlessness applied within the
world. Sorcery itself is Ruthlessness for as the first principle
it pervades every aspect of the pursuit. When faced with
those occasions when one is called upon to stop, it is the
Ruthlessness of Control and Discipline that remind the
warrior of their pursuit and its goal – the path to Freedom.

Cunning is again the application of strategies Intended to

trick the 1st Attention into ‘breaking the mould of man.’ A
mould which contains the concepts of Old Age and Death.
Cunning here lies within the practice of The Recapitulation,
offering as it does a surrogate history to the Eagle at the
point of Death and thereby passing by intact. This is
referred to as conscious death, where the Warrior enters
Freedom as defined by their predilection. It is Cunning
indeed to pursue a path without a destination, for one is
always travelling, always encountering newness and
difference. It is almost as if one forgets to grow old. The
everyday world is set up in such a way as to fulfil the
expectations of those who signed the agreement. The
Warrior has broken the agreement and all that it entails.
Mystery, complete and inviolate is their only quest, a quest
that leaves no room for the infirmities associated with Old
Age. At this time these may be simply words, fortunately
there is an appropriate evidence procedure, for were I to
choose to stay around until I was eighty or so, my being and
state of being would serve as the evidence that corroborated
or denied these words. Sorcery as described is the Cunning of
the 1st Attention for in its application one ultimately ceases
to be human in the mundane sense of the word, this offers
the opportunity of transcending the human condition and
evolving into new and different abilities. This, evolution
demands of us. With so much at stake and so little time, how
could the Warrior permit Old Age to unseat them at this
crucial point in time? Preparing to leave the world and all
it entails, to embark upon a journey without equal is surely
sufficient to maintain the energetic level this quest
demands. Cunning is applied as strategy throughout the
Warriors lifetime and facilitates the Impeccability which
itself results from connecting to Intent which in turn arises
through the pursuit of the Art and Science of Sorcery.
Energy, Awareness and Perception being its focus points.
Cunning indeed facilitates a vital approach within the
Energetic Matrix consisting as it does of Mind – Body and
Double which maintains and sustains vitality. Within this
reality there is no room for Old Age as commonly
experienced within the everyday world. It is all dependant
upon skill and strategy and this takes the application of
Cunning.

Patience is the ambience, the field through which all the

above is permitted to unfold. It is time and the relationship
we have to time. Sorcerers manipulate time through
manipulating Perception, living entire lifetimes within
what could be judged to be a relatively short time. The
distortion of time also enables the Sorcerer to face the
oncoming time differently. Rather than moving towards the
future, an average persons approach to the continuum of
time, the Sorcerer stands still, as it were and the future
moves towards them. This nuance of difference facilitates
Awareness unfolding in distinctly different ways compared
to the norm. The application of Patience, the ambience of
time unfolding, permits the development of Impeccability
which calls for the sum total of ones energy being available
in the instance to hand. There is nothing new in this idea
accept that within Sorcery it ceases to be an idea and is
made concrete simply through the practice of The
Recapitulation. A process which is dependant upon time
and Patience. For what commences as an abstract becomes
concrete as sufficient Personal Power is released into ones
Perceptual abilities. The difference between one perception
and another being the amount of energy available at the
time. If this were not the case we would become enlightened
beings overnight simply by reading about the possibility of
becoming so. Time is a man made concept which though
measured objectively in days, months and years is
experienced subjectively. Hence a moment can contain an
eternity when experienced from a Core State perspective.
Likewise years can fly by and the seduction of youth awakes
one day to the horrors of Old Age and infirmity. All a
dream. Old Age likewise is mans expectations being fulfilled
by the consensus that reality imposes. A reality we in effect
have set up as part of the socialisation process we have been
educated into. Few, very few escape the inevitable and yet
there are those who dream and when we consider dreaming,
have not all things commenced with a dream? Patience and
its relationship to time is the means of unseating Old Age by
never actually arriving at this Perception. For at the end of
the day there is only Perception.

Sweetness in this instance again lies in humility. Of leading

a life which engenders vitality by Erasing Self Importance,
Erasing Personal History and effectively Stopping The
World in which time unfolds in a linear fashion. The
indescribable feats spoken of in Sorcery are effectively
performed by the Double, the Energy body. This aspect when
actualised grants untold abilities to the Sorcerer who all but
takes up permanent residence in the Double. And while all
this takes place the man or woman in question simply lives
in the world. As a Stalker, apparently no different from the
average person, yet possessed of skills and energy that has
made the inconceivable an everyday reality. This is the
transformation spoken of, for it manifests in two parts.
First it is the simplicity of having erased Self Importance in
order to attain the Inaccessibility required to fulfil ones
path uninterrupted. Secondly it is the transformation of the
human into the Sorcerer. For the Sorcerer lives at least two
lives. The everyday world of the man or woman and then
there is the Sorcerer proper. Human beings are not
Sorcerers. It is the Double that is the Sorcerer and in this
way transformation is taking place continually. It is
relatively easy to act and look commonplace when in effect
one is just that. It is the Sorcerer that is extraordinary.
There is nothing human about a Sorcerer as there is nothing
Sorcerous about a human. The question of Old Age viewed in
this way is simply a matter of where you place your energy.
For it to be contained within the human construct leads
ultimately to death, this is currently a certainty. For it to be
transferred to the Double, as in Dreaming is surely the way
the Abstract Flight is undertaken. A task indescribable in
its implications and yet presupposed by the entire structure
called Sorcery. Old Age is unseated and defeated by
Sweetness through the application of the only
transformation possible. Entry into the 3 Attention, when
rd

the Fire From Within takes place and one leaves this world
total and complete. In this way Sorcerers cannot die for
their energy has been transferred to an almost inaccessible
aspect of our being that we call the Double. All speculation
concerning spirituality is a sham and insurance against
fear. There is only one form of immortality and that is, not
to die. Transcending death by retaining ones consciousness
is only possible in the light of the Double. This
transformation lies at the very heart of Sorcery and it is
through Sweetness that even Old Age is defeated.
 The Recapitulation

I
Introduction

According to Toltec tradition,

transformation is the only true purpose
a human being can have.
Transformation entails a total change of
one’s habitual ways of thinking and
behaving and is a task that must be
accomplished in a Warrior’s lifetime.
This task is accomplished by the Recapitulation. Once old
habits, thoughts, expectations and feelings are reframed as a
result of the Recapitulation, the Warrior is in a position to
gather enough energy to live by new rationales and to
substantiate these rationales by directly Perceiving a
different reality. Recapitulation is the apex of the Art of
Stalking and is the act of reclaiming the Personal Power
invested in past actions, in order to redeploy and enhance
the reclaimed energy for extraordinary feats of Perception.
The act of recalling experiences - starting from the present,
going back to the earliest memories, using the Sweeping
Breath, to sweep the memories clean one by one -
encapsulates the Warrior’s Recapitulation.

The Recapitulation is an ancient renewal process developed

thousands of years ago. It is a Magical act in which Breath
and Intent play an essential role. In the Recapitulation, the
Breathing gathers energy and circulates it and the Intent of
the Recapitulation guides it to free Warriors from their
biological and social ties. The Intent of Recapitulation is
having an unbending desire to perform it, and its end result
is Freedom.

Imagine yourself as a giant memory warehouse. From the

moment you are born, parents, teachers, the socialising and
educational structures etc. have stored feelings, ideas,
mental dialogues, behavioural patterns and beliefs into that
warehouse: the conditioning that forms and moulds you into
what you become. It is through the Recapitulation that
Warriors discard items that are no longer useful from their
warehouse, to reclaim the Personal Power lodged within
these items and make room for different Perceptions. The
human body can be transformed into a tool capable of
gathering, storing and directing energy, for Warriors
regard the body as a source of Power, not merely a
biological organism. Through the Recapitulation, the
warrior becomes aware that as the warehouse becomes
empty, energy from infinity can flow through it, which in
turn leads to Freedom. In Don Juan’s tradition, Freedom is
to be free from Humanness and Freedom is not possible if
the Warrior’s warehouse is filled with desires, feelings, ideas,
objects that are part of a Human inventory.

Through the Recapitulation the Warrior realises that there

is an aspect within them that knows indisputably the
outcome of any action they are about to perform. The
Warrior calls this moment of direct knowing, the Seer. By
undertaking the act of Recapitulation, Warriors grant the
Seer the freedom to See and deliberately turn it into a force
that is both mysterious and effective which eventually
guides them into Freedom. Warriors sink into a state of
profound Recapitulation to achieve the emptying process so
that energy can flow unimpeded. Then the Seer in them has
full reign enabling them to transform the energy of the
universe into the force of Intent.
Karys Orsini
 II
Guidelines & Structure

Make a list of the people you have met

during your life, starting from the
present and going back to your earliest
memories. The list forms a matrix for the
mind to hook on to and does, in part
commence the process of Recapitulation.
It is useful to start the Recapitulation by
focusing your attention on past sexual activities as the bulk
of your energy is caught up in these events, so free those
memories first. Take the first item on your list and set up
the scene by experiencing all the details pertinent to the
event that you are going to recall. Recall everything you
experienced with that person from the moment you met
them to the last time you interacted with them. Once all the
elements are in place, use the Sweeping Breath. The
movement of the head is like a fan that stirs everything in
that experience. A Recapitulation is complete when several
‘layers’ of the experience have been accessed and ‘swept’
clean and when all emotional turmoil [ positive or negative ]
within the memory has been released and neutralised. It is
said that with time and expertise, an event can be
Recapitulated within the moment it is occurring.
 Procedure

1. Place the chin on the Right shoulder and

slowly inhale until you reach the Left
shoulder. Once the inhalation is
complete, look forward and exhale.

2. Take the first item on the list. Whilst

focusing ahead, fully re-experience the
person and event/s. See them, Hear them and Feel them.
[ take time to do this effectively ]

3. When the memory has been fully recalled, inhale slowly

by moving the head from the Right to the Left shoulder,
Intending to breathe in all the energy fibres left behind in
the event and the person/s involved.

4. Now, exhale moving the head from the Left to the Right
shoulder, Intending to breathe out all the energy fibres
left in you by others.

5. Repeat the cycle as many times as necessary so that all

the emotional turmoil within that event is released.

6. Finally move your head from Right to Left and back

again without breathing to sever all ties with that
particular event.
 III
The Recapitulation
1st & 2nd Attention

Whilst the cognitive practice is taking

place, 1st Attention is engaged. The
system, the 2nd Attention, employs its
own methodology which differs from the
cognitive method. Where they combine is
in the Breathing Pass itself. The 2nd
Attentions methodology is to use the
breath as a carrier wave. This is an example of the 1st
Attention being engaged in the process, as such distracted,
whilst the 2nd Attention, The Sorcerer goes about the Intended
business. Much that has unfolded during the practice in
respect of how it has taught itself is based upon a simple
premise : There is the cognitive process which consists of the
list of contexts to be employed, this is the normal and formal
structure of the Recapitulation and consists of two phases.
The first phase is lineal and sequenced in respect of time. A
little like A then B then C etc. The second is random, is
lateral and works with a different methodology or
structure, one more in keeping with the system as a whole, a
system that does not in the main code time the way we do,
consciously.

It was this last consideration that led me to considering that

perhaps as we set up the cognitive aspect of the process
through working with the itemised list, the system following
this direction, [ the function of 1st Attention is to set
directions ] sets up its own methodology for engaging in the
Recapitulation, in its own way. It is to be remembered that
no aspect of Sorcery can be examined in isolation, however
apparently insignificant, all components are essential. A
point infinitely more applicable when addressing something
as significant as the practice of the Recapitulation.
 The Intent of Sorcery

Expanding the limits of normal perception is a concept that

stems from the Sorcerers’ belief that our choices in life are
limited, due to the fact that they are defined by the social
order. Sorcerers’ believe that the social order sets up our list
of options, but we do the rest: by accepting only these
choices, we set a limit to our nearly limitless possibilities.

This limitation, they say, fortunately applies only to our

social side and not to the other side of us: a practically
inaccessible side, which is not in the realm of ordinary
awareness. Their main endeavour, therefore, is to uncover
that side. They do this by breaking the frail, yet resilient,
shield of human assumptions about what we are and what
we are capable of becoming.

Sorcerers’ acknowledge that in our world of daily affairs

there are people who probe into the unknown in pursuit of
alternative views of reality. They contend that the ideal
consequences of such probings should be the capacity to
draw from our findings the necessary energy to change and
to detach ourselves from our definition of reality. But they
argue that unfortunately such probings are essentially
mental endeavours. New thoughts, new ideas hardly ever
change us.

One of the things that I learned in the sorcerers’ world was

that without retreating from the world, and without
injuring themselves in the process, Sorcerers’ do accomplish
the magnificent task of breaking the agreement that has
defined reality

Florinda Donner Grau Being in Dreaming

 Structural Metaphor of The Recapitulation

The following visual metaphor and its

accompanying comments concerns a
little known sensory modality known as
the Vestibular System. It occupies the
same territory as the coded senses of
sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste and the
sensory system loosely referred to as feelings. As a sensory
system it governs ‘orientation in time and space’ and its
primary organ of reception is the inner ear, commonly
connected to the sense of balance.

Concerns in the Present

The I
In The Present

Past Experiences Future Expectations

This albeit simplistic graphic representation allows for three

components that impact an individual in the present
moment.

Past experiences held within the system as memories.

Memories which depending upon their level of intensity and
the current context can all but fixate an individual at a
point along the continuum of time which is effectively, Past
called the Present.

Concerns in the present. An example of which would be,

whilst attempting to focus upon some immediate task other
elements call to our Attention.

Future expectations, dreams and goals. Those elements

which serve the purpose of drawing us onward.

The above is simplistic yet represents ongoing human

experience and the processing that we engage in most of the
time. This is acceptable within the description of the
everyday world and is considered as being normal. Within
Sorcery however the sum total of ones energy is consumed
by holding the description of the world we have in place. To
free up sufficient energy for Perceptual Diversity is a
primary outcome within a model that is concerned with
Awareness and Perception. The Sorcerer addresses this in
many ways. The Recapitulation itself being primary. Also
utilised are the Erasure of Personal History, the loss of Self
Importance, the Arts of Stalking and Dreaming, Not Doing
and of course Stopping The World.

The Recapitulation posits that any and all interchanges

perform two major functions :

Energy from another is deposited within our energetic field.

We leave our energy in anothers energetic field.

This energy is said to be held in place by hooks [ a metaphor

? ] The purpose of the Recapitulation is to free the hooks left
in us by others [ foreign energy ] and reclaim our energy
hooked into the energetic fields of others. This is achieved by
‘fanning’ the experience with the breath whilst reliving, in
an associated way the experience being Recapitulated. A
practice of this kind is the only way we have of accessing
Personal Power locked within the contexts of our Personal
History. Then and only then can we begin to think of what
acting in the moment with the totality of our being means.
This we call Impeccability. It is to be reiterated that the
question of performing the Recapitulation is not to be
viewed as a matter of morality or ethics. Like all Sorcery
Manoeuvres it is simply a matter of strategy. Returning
briefly to ‘orientation in time and space.’ ‘Where’ and for
that matter ‘When’ is someone in any given instance? The
Recapitulation ensures that once the Intent of the procedure
has been realised, then and only then can we act
continuously from and within the moment. It is for this
reason that a Stalker primarily Stalks the self and the
Recapitulation is the primary procedure of this in action.
As a consequence, the Assemblage Point is continuously and
gently shifted from one location to another thereby
exercising its fluidity rather than reinforcing its fixity. It
follows that all components of Sorcery are fully dependant
upon this singular and vital practice.

A Path with Heart

The only important question is : Does this Path have a

Heart? All paths are the same : They lead nowhere. They
are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my
own life I could say that I have traversed long, long paths,
but I am not anywhere. My benefactors question has
meaning now. If the path has a Heart, the path is good. If it
doesn’t it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere, but one has
Heart, the other doesn’t. One makes for a joyful journey, as
long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will
make you curse your life. One makes you strong, the other
weakens you.
 Time Coding The Recapitulation
&
The Erasure of Time

Past Present Future

Level 1 Recapitulation

Level 2 Recapitulation

Level 3 Recapitulation

The List / s Items arising in the moment Expectations

Present contexts

Cognitive Process Sweeping the Context

Future Intimations

The present moment [ Concerns ]

1st / 2nd Attention

System Process

Recapitulating the previous day

Recapitulating The moment of Recapitulation

Terminates the process
The schemata demonstrates

Engaging the entire continuum of time within the

Recapitulation practice. Thereby ensuring a thoroughness.

The opportunity to Recapitulate recognising that at the

point when you Recapitulate the previous day, in some
respects you begin to Erase Time.

As a result of Erasing Time a new relationship with it

arises. Rather than experiencing the future as you move
towards it, you begin to experience the future moving
towards you. It is a Perceptual difference that enables the
Sorcerer to focus upon Intent in a way which is more
appropriate to their methodology and outcomes.

The following comments are taken directly from The

Witness, a journal that has been kept throughout the year
long practice period. The comments are presented verbatim
and sequentially in respect of time in order to demonstrate
the developing awareness that arose through performing the
practice itself.

The conditions of a solitary bird are five

First, that it flies to the highest point

Second, that it does not suffer for company

not even of its own kind

Third, that it aims its beak to the skies

Fourth, that it does not have a definite colour

Fifth, that it sings very softly

St. John of the cross

 IV
Comments – the Recapitulation & Lists

Comments concerning the Lists

To focus upon the components of ones life

that ‘Bind’ energy is essential to the
process of gathering sufficient energy to
perform such tasks as Setting Up
Dreaming. As a model of Perception it
could be said that the only difference
between one Perception [ or World ] and
another is simply the difference in the amount of ‘Personal
Power’ operative within that world. If energy is scattered
within the matrix of an individuals ‘Personal History’ it is
here and here alone that ‘The New Seers’ of Sorcery seek to
claim, or reclaim what was and is essentially theirs. The
alternative is to access energy through the relationships
formed in Transmundane dimensions. [ See The Art of
Dreaming by Carlos Castaneda ] This methodology, though
more than valid is far more in keeping with the
methodology employed by The Ancient Toltecs and again,
though valid is of no interest to The New Seers whose only
interest is The Path to Freedom. Personal Power is vital in
the pursuit of Sorcery and The Recapitulation is the most
effective and elegant method of accessing it. The process
itself is dependant upon the list. For Sorcery to be anything
other than an intellectual pursuit it is vital to ‘unhook’
Awareness from the ‘Ring of Reason’ where it has been
habitually fixed for most if not all of our life. The
Recapitulation is the jewel in the crown of The Stalkers Art
and the means of securing Personal Power equal to the tasks
that face The Sorcerer. This Process commences with a list.

What I refer to as the first pass takes the form of a detailed

over view. The second pass will chunk down a level in order
to identify key Anchors which will serve as mnemonic
devices, this stage will be a refinement of the raw material,
as it were. In the third and final pass I shall filter for
priorities, the method of elimination will be utilised and
upon completion I will have a detailed list, containing what
will be the core components of experience to submit to The
Recapitulation Process itself. Recognising the sensitive
nature of some of the contexts explored one has to be
Ruthless in not giving way to indulgence. The
Recapitulation is the way Sorcerers access their Personal
Power. The universe simply stands by and witnesses. The
Sorcerer reclaims what is rightfully theirs by taking it back
from the places it was left, across the vast tapestry of their
Personal History. The erasure of this Personal History is a
primary outcome of Sorcery and without this piece in place
all else is academic. The Recapitulation is designed
specifically to achieve this through its simple yet powerful
procedure. The implications are vast in respect of ones
Perception. Perception which is effectively fuelled by
Personal Power. Impeccability can only be applied when the
sum total of ones Personal Power is available in the now.

The list now exists in three forms

1 Its original form.

2 A form using the filter ‘Intensity’ What feels appropriate

to the final list

3 A form using the filter ‘Location’ Events listed by What

occurred Where

Rather than complicating the process it appears to break a

massive amount of information into more usefully accessible
pieces. Examining the information in this way can give a
different perspective and as such a different evaluation of
the instance/s being viewed.

It is interesting to note that not only do the lists set up the

practice itself, they also serve to rehearse the process and
also begin Recapitulation of events occurring live in the
world in the instance in which they are occurring.
One of my major beliefs concerning Sorcery is that in all
instances there is an overt and a covert outcome behind the
practice, any practice. In respect of the Recapitulation the
overt outcome is to process the Past with the Intent of
reclaiming Personal Power sealed into past contexts. In this
way Power is accessed and stored for redeployment,
Perceptually. It effectively pulls into the present the sum
total of ones Personal Power and in this respect is a
Prerequisite for Impeccability. How can one begin to think
of what that means when ones Personal Power is scattered
across time and as such, all but inaccessible? The covert
outcome, one of equal importance is rehearsing in the
present – Recapitulation. Instead of deploying Personal
Power into ongoing experiences one stands aside and
remains within the Mood of Sobriety. This is not
disassociation, a common enough phenomena but rather,
whilst fully engaged in an experience, totally abandoned to
it as it were the Sorcerer knows they are living within the
parameters of their Controlled Folly and as such go ahead.
All things being equal, therefore meaningless, in the light of
ones Death what else can a Sorcerer do but laugh?

The time I have spent forming the lists has given me

permission to look into things I would otherwise shy away
from, an understandable behaviour given the amount of
indulgence that can ensue. An excellent spin off has been
rehearsing the non deployment of energy into present
contexts. I have explored this notion elsewhere and can only
endorse the value of this prepatory process as a means of
acquiring the Sobriety which arises from treating ‘all things
as equal.’ The Recapitulation is essential to Sorcery, for
Stalker and Dreamer alike.
 The Sorcerers Strategic Inventory

Applied at the everyday level it

facilitates one into the Inaccessibility
required by fulfilling the criteria of
Erasing Personal History. Acting
deliberately is how it begins. Filtering
through The Moods of The Stalker,
specifically Ruthlessness achieved in a
short time what might have taken much longer. Simply put,
what did, and does not meet my Energetic requirements and
level is simply eliminated. This I call focus. This is also a
part of the procedure of ‘Ordering The Island of The Tonal.’
A Sorcerer acts strategically at all times and thereby fulfils
the criteria established by and known as, practising
‘Controlled Folly.’ The result, a simple and organised
personal life which creates few if any ripples within the
matrix of the Practice itself.

Applied to Sorcery itself the Inventory consists of the

deliberate acts performed. That is the components of the
Practice period employed. In its practical elements, what I
might call ‘The Shadow of the Practice.’ The 1st Attention
becomes engaged and is kept occupied, supported and
prepared for what follows. Here the Hunter applies
Cunning in Stalking primarily the Self in preparation for
latterly Stalking The Dreaming Attention itself. If these
statements have the appearance of ambiguity I make no
apology for that is the nature of Dream and Dreaming. A
Sorcerers Strategic Inventory in this instance consists of
working within the higher logical level frameworks of
practice. This approach and its methodology I would call
‘The Body of the Practice.’ In this way the Sorcerer
circumnavigates a fall into ‘The Conceit of Sorcery.’ A fall
which in the main is unobserved, as it forms an essential
part of ‘Ordering and Maintaining the Description of The
World.’ The outcome of this fall is simple to describe. Rather
than pursuing Sorcery as a Perceptual Art the would be
Sorcerer simply succeeds in strapping a new mask to their
face in the form of a new description of the world, the
Sorcerers description itself. It is here, in this context that
Cunning plays a crucial role. We are easily flattered, being
human and often inflate ourselves out of proportion with
what can best be described as realistic. We act as if we know
and as a result hold close to our hearts the cherished beliefs
we all but clutch in the face of our impending deaths. This,
the Mask of Self Importance which, supported by speech
and thinking, in effect supported by all we can possibly ever
know. The Sorcerers task, if not duty : To unravel the
Mystery knowing full well the folly we execute in so Doing.
This, the Sorcerers only advantage, the folly is at least
Controlled Folly. This is one way in which the Sorcerer
applies to Sorcery, the Sorcerers Strategic Inventory.

The key is simple. Cease to talk about things. Cease to think

about things. Simply Act and in so doing notice the
difference that makes the difference, whatever the context.

Comments concerning the Recapitulation

Day 1 and a gentle beginning. More a

matter of familiarising myself with the
technique. I have made some
observations. As the experience is
fanned with the breath there comes a
moment when the system knows it has
achieved the Intent of the practice and
one comes to a natural conclusion, prior to moving on to the
next item on the list. This also occurs at the end of the
practice period. The system knows when it is appropriate to
end the session and does so in a most direct manner. I have
also had further information arise from within the practice
concerning the context being explored. This was then added
to the list. The outcome, initially is to shift the Assemblage
Point to the event and the time in which the event took
place in order to perform the Recapitulation in an
appropriate fashion.

I am at this juncture acquainting myself with The

Recapitulation procedure in respect of the intricacies that
arise when one is practically applying something rather
than viewing it and offering opinions as a detached
observer. Suffice to say that I am learning the subtle
procedural nuances that makes for a cohesive and
sophisticated practice. I am absolutely thrilled and delighted
to be undertaking this spell binding practice and recognise it
for what it is – unique. Today I experienced an acute form
of association. When engaged upon a specific context I
briefly, very briefly assembled consciousness in the back of
a cab travelling to a specific destination. This is clear
evidence of two things. Association into the event [ 1st
Position ] is preferable to simply viewing the situation from
a distance [ 3rd Position ] It is an absolute requirement, how
else could one gather the deployed Personal Power still
locked within that context? The second point is that for a
Recapitulation to be effective in respect of its outcome, a
shift of the Assemblage Point takes place, a minor shift
which enables the practitioner to assemble the world of the
context and enter it fully. To find myself, in a manner of
speaking, in the back of a cab conversing with the driver
was astounding.

The process, now into its second week has been a revelation
in many respects. Firstly, the list I am currently working
with is equal to the task and yet it is interesting to note that
once engaged within the process itself the list is actively
updated. The list, sequenced in terms of time can be
superseded by what I can only refer to as ‘Intensity.’ The
experience is one of being swept from the item being
Recapitulated to an item, within the same context, that calls
to the Attention. There are also instances where an item
outside of the context calls upon the Attention. Sometimes
this is a wandering mind, sometimes it is not. Knowing
when the item being Recapitulated is complete or when it is
time to complete the session is another element I have
noted. Mention has been made of this, yet over the past few
days I have noticed that it is the breath itself that controls
the practice and at the appropriate time it softens and
detaches itself either from the item or from the context
itself. I have all but completed the first context of the first
list and now will address the context using the secondary
methodology. The first is strict lineal experience, the second
is random. The second pass picks up any residue energy that
the first pass has left behind or within oneself. The random
list is formed by entering a relaxed state, focussing on the
context and noticing what arises, what does is then
Recapitulated in turn. This is a systemic approach unlike
the first pass which is purely cognitive. I am of course
referring to the list and not to the process.

A previously Recapitulated context is generating content in

the present, as such I have to Recapitulate on an ongoing
live basis. This will eventually cease, however at present I
must become even more aware of how the everyday world
uses the contexts of ones life to alert you to its presence.

Challenging to say the least. To be expected. There is a fine

line between performing the Recapitulation and simply
indulging in reveries that stem from the past, be those
memories pleasant or not. The present calls for much in the
way of Sobriety.

I have begun to employ an interesting strategy. Whilst

working in the present context, as much as I choose to chunk
the items into blocks there is a tendency, because of the
intensity of the context, to experience residual energy in
the system. This comes from items in the list not yet
Recapitulated. Rather than continuing I need to complete
the process cleanly. How I have facilitated this for myself
is simple. Upon completion I take the present moment in
time and what is present within the system and briefly
Recapitulate, thereby clearing the residual energy so that it
does not attach itself to me throughout the rest of the day.
This has proven to be most effective so far and as such I will
continue to employ this closing procedure. I view it as a
development within the practice, one of refinement and
sensitivity. It works, that is sufficient.

Tomorrow I complete the first phase of the Recapitulation

having worked my way through List 1 [ 3 contexts ] and
Lists 2, 3 and 4 which covered the same context. I shall
complete by sweeping the entire context.

With the completion of phase 1 complete with its final sweep

I perform the last step, which is to burn the lists and
tomorrow immerse them in river water as a final act of
purification and severance. I have also deleted the lists
from my computer ‘C’ and ‘A’ drives, as such nothing
remains of the original lists and once the ashes have been
purified that will be the completion of phase 1

I am engaged upon Phase 2, a phase I take relatively slowly

as the items on the list cover a span of time. It is fascinating
to set up the practice with the breath, travel to the beginning
of the context and then proceed to sweep what in some
instances covered weeks if not months. I am also
Recapitulating the events of the previous day, the moment in
time and also the Recapitulation itself as previously outlined.
This strategy certainly develops a depth and richness within
the practice that I suspected and I am now gratified that
the System released this information to me.

I find Recapitulating the previous days events very useful

and in the time that I have spent doing it, a few sessions, I
note that next to nothing has hooked me and as such
conclude that rehearsing Recapitulating in the moment is
coming about. At least in this way creating present
Personal History is addressed appropriately.

I am currently Recapitulating the dreams of the night

before.
I have now practised The Recapitulation for three months
plus and find myself satisfied with its development. I have
been taught much in respect of its conceptual basis and its
applications and this has certainly fulfilled the criteria and
outcomes of the practice itself.

I am delighted with the amount of work I have done and the

insights and learnings gained. The first section was formal
and for three months I compiled lists. The second section saw
me complete those lists over the prescribed three months. The
third section finds me having completed this and working in
a less lineal way. By Recapitulating the previous day I begin
to erase time in its lineal flow. By Recapitulating the moment
I enter more congruently into the heart of the practice and
by Recapitulating the Recapitulation, I ensure that the
practice is performed across all aspects of time and
completed appropriately.

Once Silence Is Attained Everything Is Possible

I notice that at present I am spending much time

Recapitulating dreams. This I find very useful as in
dreaming content arises from deeper in the system and to
Recapitulate this is very beneficial. Throughout the
remainder of this section I shall focus on dream activity as
the main context for Recapitulation.
 IV
Summary

The preceding text was written within

the first eight months of the practice
period and what follows is written
during the concluding month of Section
3, that is month nine. It is to be
recognised that at this time, with three
further months of practice and
experience to unfold that what is written now is part of a
continuing process. One that will continue beyond the
confines of this year long practice. However for the record it
is appropriate to write a summary at this time.

It has been reported by individuals who have experienced

‘near death’ that ‘their life has flashed before them.’ Whether
this is true in all cases is debatable and yet if it were true it
would give the Recapitulation a meaning that not only
validates its procedure but would also make sense of ‘The
Eagle devouring awareness at the point of death’ often
alluded to in the texts of Carlos Castaneda. By Recapitulating
ones entire life whilst living, perhaps, has some bearing upon
the experience one has or might have at the point of death.
It has also been said that ‘what we forget we are condemned
to repeat.’ The evidence is clear enough when we begin to
notice the cyclic nature of some of the experiences we
undergo during life. Again by performing The Recapitulation
it is possible to break the repetitive patterns we run in
respect of our behaviour and as a result run more useful
alternatives. These two reasons alone would make performing
The Recapitulation vital to our ongoing and developing
being. Yet we are aware of the place of The Recapitulation
within The Toltec Tradition itself. Described as ‘The Jewel In
The Crown of Stalkers’ it is to be realised that The
Recapitulation is vital given any of the specific predilections
we encounter during our pursuit. At the outset of this essay I
listed a number of overt and covert outcomes in respect of the
practice. At this time, upon reflection, the truth of this has
been fully experienced as also has the idea of ‘The Process
Teaching Itself.’ Each successive pass of The Recapitulation
has released sufficient energy, energy which has been
deployed into developing an awareness of the next stage and
steps within the process itself.

Taisha Abelar, whose experience of The Recapitulation,

succinctly described in ‘The Sorcerers Crossing’ states that she
has, to date, completed four Recapitulations of her life.
Given that her initial description implies that she sank into a
profound state of Recapitulation by practising several hours
a day. Along with this she had the ongoing support of skilled
beings and secondary practices, such as The Sorcery Passes to
support her. These facts are stated in order that we,
operating from a radically different position, in all respects
are profoundly challenged when we undertake a practice of
this nature, for we have our everyday lives to live, the
absence of initiated beings and of course, The New Mood
which permits of no Nagual. In short we are Apprentice and
Nagual alike. A challenge beyond challenges. And yet we
proceed armed with the Personal Power at our disposal, with
Unbending Intent and the desire to enter Freedom.

We may, as is our tendency as human beings intellectualise

the practice, its value and what it means to us conceptually.
We may even convince ourselves and others that we have
sufficient Personal Power to recall our energy, scattered as it
is across our Personal History. This is conceit, for nothing
compares to performing The Recapitulation in all its aspects.
The act of forming the List grants us the opportunity, albeit
superficially, to connect to our lives in a way that was
previously unheard of. This aspect of The Recapitulation has
a profound effect in itself. To spend several months
cognitively examining ones life sets up the process and in this
respect the importance of the List cannot be overstated. As to
the process itself, it is a unique experience and what unfolds
is therefore unique. We have procedural guidelines, we have
the technique, the only other thing we require is the Intent to
perform The Recapitulation. Having arrived at this decision
and consequently commenced the practice, Sorcery begins to
unfold in a way inconceivable to us at times, and at others
simplistic and clear. This is our nature, to seek complexity
where, in truth, simplicity is the order of the day. The
pursuit of Sorcery itself is dependant totally upon the
performance of this practice and anyone entertaining the
thought of undertaking this pursuit is advised to bear this in
mind. The Recapitulation facilitates all other processes,
supplies the Personal Power we need to pursue this path and
grants us insights beyond the current description we have of
the world and Sorcery itself.

In closing Sorcery is a Perceptual Art, totally dependant

upon the amount of Personal Power we have available to us
at any given time. The entire process of Sorcery is geared to
shifting awareness from the concrete world of things to the
abstract world of energy. All its processes move in this
direction. Stopping The World, a prerequisite, sets the wheels
in motion. Erasing Personal History and losing Self
Importance accelerate this process. The Arts of Stalking and
Dreaming flesh out the Double. Not Doing creates the
Perceptual Diversity demanded by this pursuit and finally
and most importantly The Recapitulation supplies the energy
with which to do this. Whilst we possess Personal History we
remain accessible to the world and those within it. To erase
our history and make our Personal Power available for
Perceptual redeployment is the outcome of The Toltec
Tradition. This can only occur in the light of commencing
the process of Recapitulation for to pursue the path of
Sorcery having not done so is like wishing to swim without
the presence of water.

The essence of Sorcery is

The mystery of the Assemblage Point

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