Peter Luce > Quotes

“When the ‘flyer’ is faced repeatedly with a silent mind it goes away. Inner silence, the opposite of inner dialog, makes us indigestible to the predator.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“As Castaneda said, he was ‘too lazy to remember what I had seen; therefore I only bothered with what I had looked at ... It is hard to believe that I can remember now something I didn't remember at all a while ago.’ He concluded that all of us look and see at the same time, but ‘we choose not to remember what we see’. In the two-step process of perception, we always see first, but immediately ignore what we see to focus only on what we look at instead. This act of perception is ‘the core of our being’. As we grow up, we develop our attention. Attention is the ability to ‘hold the images of the world’. Once we can perceive the agreed world and hold it in place, our perception becomes a constantly repeating two-step process which always produces the same being in the same world.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“Meeting the four allies: black rectangle, giant coyote, thin man and black jaguar.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“When reason connects with talking, we call that understanding.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“to be real means to be agreed on with someone.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“This energy is aware and conscious of itself, sizzling, alive and moving with the universe’s momentum and purpose.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“It is ‘a realm of indescribable features: a realm impossible to contain in words’.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“We hooked ourselves into the ‘ring of power’ that engaged us fully with that world. All our energy and complete sense of self were assigned to that ring of power.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“Sentient beings are lent awareness, and the purpose of life is to enrich that awareness and then return it to the endower in an enhanced form.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“Four enemies: fear, clarity, power and old age.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“We can’t stop it with conscious effort, because that effort is made up of more thoughts.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“But gender is a position of the assemblage point, so a male sorcerer can conceivably change to female by finding the right position.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“Don Juan drew a diagram in the dust, a geometrical shape with eight points. The eight points, organized from small to large, were called reason, talking, dreaming, seeing, feeling, will, the known, and the unknown.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“But memory isn’t what we think it is. Our normal memory is more like a denial of memory; it’s only a small selective recollection of a few items that our rationality and identity have chosen as their flag to rally around.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“The cocoon is a temporary feature, starting at birth and ending at death.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“In don Juan’s philosophy, there are two basic types of sorcerers: dreamers and stalkers. Sorcery is the ability to move the assemblage point. Dreamers achieve this through becoming aware of the natural movement of the assemblage point while dreaming, and then stabilizing their awareness at any new position discovered. Stalkers do this by modifying their behavior systematically until the new behavior causes the assemblage point to move.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“any new position reached accidentally cannot be sustained.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“Humans have an orb of bright energy about the size of a tennis ball located on the surface of the cocoon, about an arm’s length behind the right shoulder. This ball of energy is the agent which selects emanations passing through our cocoons to use for perception. It’s called the assemblage point because it’s the point where perception is assembled.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“Reason rescued us from earlier times when larger, darker powers dominated human life.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“his sixth book, The Eagle’s Gift, first published in 1981,”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“He embraces a certain mood, and holds himself accountable for every experience and outcome. He takes everything seriously, while laughing at all of it.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“The intention that makes the assemblage point assemble perception comes from the universe outside the cocoon.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“a shameless fraud, a trickster and huckster of the lowest type,”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“The inorganic beings seek out dreamers and basically try to capture them.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“Being able to move freely from the first to the second attention and back again is the mastery of awareness, which makes the totality of one’s self available and accessible.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“The ‘flyers’ are creatures from the unknown depths of the universe that live with us on earth, unseen. There are millions of them, resembling giant, primitive ‘mud shadows’ that fly and hop around us all the time. Their constant malevolent presence terrorizes us. Whenever our consciousness rises to a better level they smother us, consuming our emerging awareness, which is their food. The flyers deprive us of our human birthright of magic. They reduce us to our petty, powerless and self-absorbed state.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“Compared to them, we are like small children with lots of energy but no sophistication.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“The assemblage point not only selects and assembles perception, it also stores perception.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“Storytelling may be the highest form of sorcery, connecting our everyday consciousness with a deeper, ancient awareness.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“the luminous body constantly sends out very fine filaments which are energized by feelings and emotions. In an interaction with another cocoon, each person sends filaments into the interior of the other’s cocoon. If the interaction is not fully resolved when the cocoons part, each party leaves filaments inside the cocoon of the other person or persons involved. In this case, both parties lose energy to each other.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda