[baro-san]

Originally Posted by freetree

Those quotations from the books :

...Human beings are perceivers, but the world that they perceive is an illusion: an illusion created by the description that was told to them from the moment they were born....

...To change our idea of the world is the crux of shamanism. And stopping the internal dialogue is the only way to accomplish it....

... The human form is a conglomerate of energy fields which exists in the universe, and which is related exclusively to human beings. Shamans call it the human form because those energy fields have been bent and contorted by a lifetime of habits and misuse....

.... The only freedom warriors have is to behave impeccably. Not only is impeccability freedom; it is the only way to straighten out the human form.....

.... The art of dreaming is the capacity to utilize one's ordinary dreams and transform them into controlled awareness by virtue of a specialized form of attention called the dreaming attention....

....The art of stalking is a set of procedures and attitudes that enables a warrior to get the best out of any conceivable situation.....

.... Self-importance is man's greatest enemy. What weakens him is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of his fellow men. Self-importance requires that one spend most of one's life offended by something or someone.....

.... The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.....

.... The worst that could happen to us is that we have to die, and since that is already our unalterable fate, we are free: those who have lost everything no longer have anything to fear.....

.... In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamans call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link. Warriors are concerned with discussing, understanding, and employing that connecting link. They are especially concerned with cleaning it of the numbing effects brought about by the ordinary concerns of their everyday lives. Shamanism at this level can be defined as the procedure of cleaning one's connecting link to intent......

.... Man's possibilities are so vast and mysterious that warriors, rather than thinking about them, have chosen to explore them, with no hope of ever understanding them.....

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