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collectively. The option that does seem, realistically, to be open to us is to choose our alignment and prepare ourselves for the emanations that are traveling “downward” to be better received. This is the essential point One of the greatest accomplishments of the seers of the Conquest was a construct he called the three-phase progression. By understanding the nature of man, they were able to reach the incontestable conclusion that if seers can hold their own in facing [human] petty tyrants, they can certainly face the unknown with impunity, and then they can even stand the presence of the is Doane Oe be unknowable. “The average man’s reaction is to think that the order of that statement should be reversed”, he went on. “A seer who can hold his own in the face of the 1 sae rt er! wen. 4. 1 unknown can certainly face petty tyrants. But that’s not so. What destroyed the superb seers of ancient times was that assumption. We know better now. We know that nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to stand the pressure of the unknowable.’”“4 exert our will and voice upward to change what is “above” us in order to change our reality. This idea is at the root of rites and rituals, demanding, pleading, visualizations, tapping, “workings”, and so forth. People who think that “meditating on compassion”, or “feeling the feelings of all beings”, is going to result in the “sonic entrainment of the heart’s rhythm [being] braided into more complex and coherent patterns”, which will then enable the person to “create a diamond imperishable body for use as a teaching vehicle down here on earth”, have missed the entire point. To compare such ideas to the true work of the Grail Seeker is simply ignorant. point of being able to think even momentarily about “the oneness of all beings”, or the “feelings of all beings”, or be in possession of “super- awareness”, he or she has spent many, many years in the struggle to “face petty tyrants”, or to fully realize objective reality in a step by step process that includes action in concert with understanding. They have repeatedly exposed themselves to as many “unpleasant experiences” as they can find, all the while struggling to master their 403 High Strangeness — Part Four or not, determines what kind of future we experience, individually and of Castaneda’s Don Juan when he said: All around us we see the result of this error: the idea that we can What seems to be true is that before the Seeker can ever achieve the “ Castaneda, Carlos, The Fire From Within, (New York: Pocket Books 1985) p. 19.