File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1998/deleuze-guattari.9810, message 342


From: Unleesh-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 05:13:03 EST
Subject: tensegrity and BwO


I know we've discussed this sort of thing before, but I'm copying a piece here
from the Castaneda Tensegrity site because I think it is so fucking amazing
and so incredibly deleuzian and I would like to discuss it :

" Don Juan explained to his students that those shamans discovered through
practices that he could not fathom, that it is possible for human beings to
perceive energy directly as it flows in the universe. In other words, those
shamans maintained, according to don Juan, that any one of us can do away, for
a moment, with our system of turning energy inflow into sensory data pertinent
to the kind of organism that we are. Turning the inflow of energy into sensory
data creates, shamans affirm, a system of interpretation that turns the
flowing energy of the universe into the world of everyday life that we know. 
      Don Juan further explained that once those shamans of ancient times had
established the validity of perceiving energy directly, which they called
seeing, they proceeded to refine it by applying it to themselves, meaning that
they perceived one another, whenever they wanted it, as a conglomerate of
energy fields. Human beings perceived in such a fashion appear to the seer as
gigantic luminous spheres. The size of these luminous spheres is the breadth
of the extended arms. 
      When human beings are perceived as conglomerates of energy fields, a
point of intense luminosity can be perceived at the height of the shoulder
blades an arm's length away from them, on the back. The seers of ancient times
who discovered this point of luminosity called it the assemblage point,
because they concluded that it is there that perception is assembled. They
noticed, aided by their seeing, that on that spot of luminosity, the location
of which is homogeneous for mankind, converge zillions of energy fields in the
form of luminous filaments which constitute the universe at large. Upon
converging there, they become sensory data, which is utilizable by human
beings as organisms. This utilization of energy turned into sensory data was
regarded by those shamans as an act of pure magic: energy at large transformed
by the assemblage point into a veritable, all-inclusive world in which human
beings as organisms can live and die. The act of transforming the inflow of
pure energy into the perceivable world was attributed by those shamans to a
system of interpretation. Their shattering conclusion, shattering to them, of
course, and perhaps to some of us who have the energy to be attentive, was
that the assemblage point was not only the spot where perception was assembled
by turning the inflow of pure energy into sensory data, but the spot where the
interpretation of sensory data took place. 
      Their next shattering observation was that the assemblage point is
displaced in a very natural and unobtrusive way out of its habitual position
during sleep. They found out that the greater the displacement, the more
bizarre the dreams that accompany it. From these seeing observations, those
shamans jumped to the pragmatic action of the volitional displacement of the
assemblage point. And they called their concluding results the art of
dreaming. 
      This art was defined by those shamans as the pragmatic utilization of
ordinary dreams to create an entrance into other worlds by the act of
displacing the assemblage point at will and maintaining that new position,
also at will. The observations of those shamans upon practicing the art of
dreaming were a mixture of reason and seeing energy directly as it flows in
the universe. They realized that at its habitual position, the assemblage
point is the spot where converges a given, minuscule portion of the energy
filaments that make up the universe, but if the assemblage point changes
location, within the luminous egg, a different minuscule portion of energy
fields converges on it, giving as a result a new inflow of sensory data:
energy fields different from the habitual ones are turned into sensory data,
and those different energy fields are interpreted as a different world. "

this is powerful fucking stuff!!!

   

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