The war warrior fights ...
... He said that ancient man knew, in the most direct fashion, what to do and how best to do it. But, because he performed so well, he started to develop a sense of selfness, which gave him the feeling that he could predict and plan the actions he was used to performing. And thus the idea of an individual "self appeared; an individual self which
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But its covered with :
"... all he can do is express his despair in violent and cynical acts of self-destruction. ..."
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firkey: I guess you're either teasing or didn't understand the point of the quotation. It may sound strange to you, but Castaneda is very.. biblical. (And Yes I mean it). You can take it or leave it. Fighting with one's self goes all the way back to apostle Paul's writings. That was one of the main goals the early Christians set before them-to crucify the ego and to be identified with Christ, not with the self which is actually one with the flesh, and also with Satan, inhabiting our 'rebellious mind' (but the latter point is another story though). (Translated into CC's terms, to obey the commands of the spirit. Ain’t no Christ thing in sorcerer’s terminology ((: but still they’re talking about the same energetic reality!) Take Gal. 2:20 for instance. Paul was so desperate when he realized he was not his fallen self, but this link of identification was so hard to be broken! And of course the whole excerpt corresponds very much to Eph. 6:12. Sounds almost like CC just quoted it, altering a little bit! Interesting, heh.
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