quantumshaman (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} quantumshaman) wrote,@ 2008-03-31 08:11:00 |
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| Entry tags: | assemblage point, the double, toltec |
Projecting the Double
From a conversation at THE SORCERER'S WORLD... wherein a young man finds himself in a Dreaming world of shadows, teaching his double to move, to walk, to be...
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When you are describing how you would be drawn into the world of shadows, and teaching your double to walk/move, this is something I have heard from a couple of other people over the years. While I have always *seen* that "creating the double" is an act/task which all sorcerers or wo/men of knowledge perform at some level, it has been my "normal" experience (if anything about this path can be called normal) that the double is a projection of ourselves which can be internal or extant, depending on the position of our assemblage point. In that regard, the double may also be *seen* to have an assemblage point of its own...
HOWEVER... what I have actually discovered in my own eperiences is that sorcerers, wo/men of knowledge and advanced warriors actually have the ability to "split" their assemblage point. This is NOT the same thing as "fragmentation" (a buzz word that some folks like to throw around without knowing its fully meaning), but is instead a means of - essentially - bilocation, being in two places at once, which was also discussed in the works of Castaneda.
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| "No sorcerer knows where his Other is. A sorcerer has no notion that he is in two places at once. To be aware of that would be the equivalent of facing his double, and the sorcerer that finds himself face to face with himself is a dead sorcerer. That is the rule. That is the way power has set things up. No one knows why." (Don Juan to Carlos Castaneda) |
Now... this quote above is a broad generalization in my opinion, but "true" at a rudimentary level of awareness - but that's another subject for another day. For now - it's the notion of being in two places at once that I wanted to highlight.
The thing is... I wonder if your experience in the shadow world may be an overlap of the two assemblage points. I wonder if the "shadow world" you are seeing may be some aspect of the world of the inorganic beings, where your double might be spending some "time" (what's time?) in order to gain certain experiences which are relevant to YOUR path. My own double (who calls himself Orlando) often ventures into the world of the IBs, and on the occasions when my AP has overlapped with his during those times, it feels as if *I* (Della) am trying to walk in molasses on a heavy gravity planet. But that is only true if I am entering that world with the AP of my humanform self. If/when I have entered that shadow world by BEING the double (i..e, when I can inhabit the AP of Orlando), there is no such sense of heaviness, because the double is actually an energy-form, or dreaming body, and operates on an entirely different set of rules (or no-rules) than our corporeal selves. The trick, therefore, is moving OUR assemblage point to be more in alignment with the AP of the double - which is far more fluid, just by its energetic nature.
In the movie, THE MATRIX, Morpheus makes some comments with regard to the jump program - something to the effect that our minds make it real, and something else with regard to the notion of "residual body image." Translated into real life, and into the sorcerer's world, what this tends to mean is that even in Dreaming, we may be accustomed to functioning with a body, and so we bring that "residual body image" with us - i.e., we *believe* we are subject to the laws of physics, time and gravity, so we respond accordingly even when (in Dreaming) we are in an energy body, or - put another way - we are the vessel of thought itself.
My point here is that when I can simply INHABIT the AP of the double without bringing my residual humanform programming with me, there are few if any limitations on what I can do. What that might mean is that if/when you can remember that the double is not subject to the laws of physics, gravity, etc., when you can PROJECT the double beyond even your own programming, you'll find that the sense of heaviness and the need to teach the double to walk/move will disappear, and you will be able to fly (as we all do in dreaming), or you will simply move/walk as a matter of thought rather than a matter of bio-mechanical motions.
You also commented that the double is not as easy to invoke as it was before... My first thought there was - "Good!" What I mean by that is that you might have actually PROJECTED the double into what some would call "a life of its own" (remember how Genaro's double seemed to have a life of its own?) - and once that occurs, it may actually FEEL to our humanform perceptions that the double has become more "distant." That really isn't the case in the big picture, but what has changed MAY be your ability to connect with the double.
In matters of actually connecting/communicating with the double, the warrior/sorcerer may begin to work directly with silent knowing - or what I call "gnosis". It's essentially a matter of learning the double's unique frequency (for lack of a better word), and being able to fine-tune one's own awareness to such a degree that we (eventually) develop what amounts to a direct line of communication with the double which may be accessed at will, at any time. Not as easy as it sounds, but not as hard as some choose to believe. It's a not-doing that becomes second-nature with some practice & experience.
The thing about projecting the double is that once this occurs (once we give the double autonomy and free will), the double then goes off into the All to gather experience. My personal take on this is that much of that experience could be found under the heading of "past lives" - which are grossly misunderstood here in the west as some sort of linear trip through history, but which many sorcerers would *see* as the travels of the double outside of linear time. "Sorcery" enables us to not only project the double in the first place, but to actually harvest the information/experience which the double experiences in his/her journeys. We call it sorcery because much of it is a lost art in our culture/species as a whole, but I personally think it is simply a HUMAN trait which is slowly disappearing (rather like our vestigial organs). The thing is... it isn't disappearing because it isn't needed, but because people have forgotten how to use it, and even if they knew HOW to use it in our modern culture, I rather doubt it would be easy to explain to them WHY it is necessary to use it.
Why? Because I have personally come to *see* that the double is the aspect of ourselves which we project beyond our corporeal limitations, and as such it is the vessel of our survival beyond the eagle AND the vessel of our awareness which may rightly be called "the totality of oneself".
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