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Carlos Castaneda

"Art of Dreaming":
"I propose that you do one nonsensical thing that might turn the tide," he said. "Repeat to yourself incessantly that the hinge of sorcery is the mystery of the assemblage point. If you repeat this to yourself long enough, some unseen force takes over and makes the appropriate changes in you."
Don Juan did not give me any indication that he was being facetious. I knew he meant every word of it. What bothered me was his insistence that I repeat the formula ceaselessly to myself. I caught myself thinking that all of it was asinine.
"Cut your cynical attitude," he snapped at me. "Repeat this in a bona fide manner.
"The mystery of the assemblage point is everything in sorcery," he continued, without looking at me. "Or rather, everything in sorcery rests on the manipulation of the assemblage point. You know all this, but you have to repeat it..."
This was the end of our exchange that day. I went home, and for nearly a year I faithfully and daily repeated what don Juan had asked me to say. The results of my litany-like invocation were incredible. I was firmly convinced that it had the same effect on my awareness that exercise has on the muscles of the body...

"The Fire from Within":
"You must remember then that intent begins with a command."
"The old seers used to say that if warriors are going to have an internal dialogue, they should have the proper dialogue. For the old seers that meant a dialogue about sorcery and the enhancement of their selfreflection. For the new seers, it doesn't mean dialogue, but the detached manipulation of intent through sober commands."
He said over and over again that the manipulation of intent begins with a command given to oneself; the command is then repeated until it becomes the Eagle's command, and then the assemblage point shifts, accordingly, the moment warriors reach inner silence.

"Power of Silence":
Words are tremendously powerful and important and are the magical property of whoever has them.

"Journey to Ixtlan":
"I want to change, but I don't know how. I am so inadequate."
"I already know that you think you are rotten, " he said.
"That's your doing. Now in order to affect that doing I am going to recommend that you learn another doing. From now on, and for a period of eight days, I want you to lie to yourself. Instead of telling yourself the truth, that you are ugly and rotten and inadequate, you will tell yourself that you are the complete opposite, knowing that you are lying and that you are absolutely beyond hope."
"But what would be the point of lying like that, don Juan?"
"It may hook you to another doing and then you may realize that both doings are lies, unreal, and that to hinge yourself to either one is a waste of time, because the only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. To arrive at that being is the not-doing of the self."

Alice A. Bailey

"Esoteric Psychology", vol.1

What I indicate and the suggestions I may make, will, I forecast, be demonstrated, in the scientific sense, during the coming Aquarian Age. Science will then have penetrated a little further into the field of intangible yet real phenomena; it will have discovered mayhap it has already made this discovery) that THE DENSE AND CONCRETE DO NOT EXIST; it will know that there is but ONE SUBSTANCE, present in nature in varying degrees of density and of vibratory activity, and that this substance is impelled by urgent purpose and expressive of divine INTENT.

That none of you may be hindered by the past or by the present, but may live as Onlookers, is the prayer, constant and believing, of your teacher - THE TIBETAN.

The indebtedness of the world to the trained psychologists cannot be estimated, but unless there is a KEY IDEA interjected into THE WHOLE FIELD OF THOGHT, it will fall of its own weight, and produce (as it is already producing) problems, complexes and diseases of the mind which are direct results of its own methods.

Forget not to find THE MEANING behind all forms and life experiences, and thereby learn to enter into that world of subjective forces which is the true world…

It is in the realm of so-called mind that the great principle of separateness is found. It is also in the realm of mind that the great AT-ONE-MENT is made.

Many are learning to hold the mind steady in the light.

In all occult work one is occupied with energy-energy units, energy embodied in forms, energy streams in flow; and that these energies are made potent and embody our purpose through the use of thought; they follow along the well-defined thought currents of the group.

In the last analysis, definition conveys mental satisfaction but is no criterion as to applied knowledge. Above everything else, it is necessary that the aspirant be practical.

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