The Indescribable Force

Sam Fleming

Everything is made out of the Indescribable Force‘s emanations. Only a small portion of those emanations is within reach of human awareness, and that small portion is still further reduced, to a minute fraction, by the constraints of our daily lives. That minute fraction of the Indescribable Force ‘s emanations is the known; the small portion within possible reach of human awareness is the unknown, and the incalculable rest is the unknowable.The new seers, being pragmatically oriented, became immediately cognizant of the compelling power of the emanations. They realized that all living creatures are forced to employ the Indescribable Force ‘s emanations without ever knowing what they are. They also realized that organisms are constructed to grasp a certain range of those emana-tions and that every species has a definite range. The emanations exert great pressure on organisms, and through that pressure organisms construct their perceivable world.In our case, as human beings, we employ those emanations and inter-pret them as reality. But what man senses is such a small portion of the In-describable Force ‘s emanations that it’s ridiculous to put much stock in our perceptions, and yet it isn’t possible for us to disregard our perceptions.The Indescribable Force ‘s emanations cannot be rendered at all in a lan-guage of comparisons. Individual seers may feel the urge to make com-ments about certain emanations, but that will remain personal.The new seers were terrible practical men. They weren’t involved in concocting rational theories. The new seers, imbued with practicality, were able to see a flux of emanations and to see how man and other living beings utilize them to construct their perceivable world.The way those emanations are utilized by man is so simple it sounds idiotic. For a seer, men are luminous beings. Our luminosity is made up of that portion of the Indescrib-able Force ‘s emanations which is encased in our egglike cocoon. That particular por-tion, that handful of emanations that is encased, is what makes us men. To perceive is to match the emanations contained inside our cocoon with those that are outside.

By Carlos Castaneda

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“Intent can be called, of course, for anything, but sorcerers have found out, the hard way, that intent comes to them only for something that is abstract. That’s the safety valve for sorcerers; otherwise they would be unbearable. Beckoning intent to resolve the conflict of your two minds, or to hear the voice of your true mind, is not a petty or arbitrary matter. Quite the contrary; it is ethereal and abstract, and yet as vital to you

as anything can be.”Carlos Castaneda

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“The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be

what is.”

Susan Sontag

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“Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.”

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Susan Sontag

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Sam Fleming