the assemblage point and the fliers a critical analysisCASTANEDA

http://www.sustainedaction.org/Explorations/AP_and_flyers.htm AUDIO FOR THE BLIND The Assemblage Point and Flyers - A Critical Analysis
By David Worrell

Castaneda and his cohorts have beat us over the head for years with the model of the assemblage point and the emanations it assembles, but IMO, without ever adequately addressing the question of "movement," both movement on the emanations at large, or movement within a given assembled reality. For example, their model of the assemblage point explains that the perception of the world I now hold is a consequence of the assemblage point being in a certain position, thus lighting up (aligning) certain fibers --- but it says nothing about how it is I "move around" all over the place within that assembled world. In other words, it explains how I assemble this particular world, but says next to nothing about just how it is that my perception of the world continually and dramatically changes. I am going to get up and go make a tuna sandwich now, and to do that, I get up and walk into another room. Maybe then I go and sit in the park. My entire field of perception keeps changing completely.

Yes, this is obvious, but just reflect on the fact that the model of the assemblage point itself really says nothing about how our perception moves from place to place within any given world.

In my opinion, it also says next to nothing about how we interact in such amazing detail. Fine, it tells us we are all assembling more or less the same basic world right now, but obviously only a few of us are in close proximity, actually sharing the same immediate perceived environment. Again, the assemblage point model says almost nothing about how we walk around together or separate, talk to each other, touch each other, share similar experiences, or simultaneously have completely dissimilar experiences in the same world, etc.

And that leads me to a question I've been wanting to ask: do any of you people have a brain?

Castaneda always said: "don't ask me about the brain." Well sure, that's just great --- he's got this model of perception and how it occurs, and then he just THROWS OUT or ignores the entire enormous body of research on how our central nervous system, senses and brain are directly related to our perceptions. Nice work.

I keep wanting to speculate on what the connection is between our central nervous system/brain and the assemblage point of the luminous sphere. But frankly, I can't get very far, and one major reason is that I've never actually seen the assemblage point. Another reason is that I have not kept up with all the research on the brain. I keep vowing to read up on all the most current research on the brain and nervous system, but then never get to it. I will do this in the near future. :-)

See, the thing that is weird about this model is . . . in Castaneda's model, the brain and nervous system, and our entire body, are themselves only perceptions. If the "real" nature of our being is "a luminous sphere of energy," then what we perceive as our body (including the brain) is . . . just a perception of one facet of that luminous sphere. One has a full range of perception, while dreaming, lying on the bed with one's eyes closed.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• CASTANEDA
• NAGUAL
• SORCERY
• TOLTEC
• MATUS

[TheElf1111]

Archons, inorganic beings

[liverqiconstraint]

Use your real voice.

Sounds like it could be interesting info but I can't stand the voice nor can't listen to it.

[FearOfaBlackChannel]

What you are not mentioning of all of Juan Matus' explanations, is the point of "abstract" language to explain abstract models, since there is no way to think about them without making them absolute. The distinction between Nagual &Tonal is what clarifies this point. Any definition of Nagual is Tonal; Nagual is where Tonal lives yet still independent of it. The 'brain' is an abstract object of emanation being assembled along with autonomy to reveal or arrange 'perception'.

[FearOfaBlackChannel]

You ask "how the assemblage point relates to the brain" as if it must. This is like saying that RF waves must relate to an AM/FM tuner. Nowhere is it said that perception is manufactured by the AP, only assembled. Perception qualifies awareness; it is there already. The brain & body are only emanations of awareness tuned by perception that are being assembled. In other words perception itself IS the assemblage of emanation, an abstract thing in itself just like the RF waves are already there.

[101thehunter]

@xwaystranger Those millions of human brains are "foreign installations". 

Billions.

[xwaystranger]

You are correct: "Only Seers can see or understand the mystery of the Assemblage Point". Those millions of human brains are "foreign installations".