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Has anyone here had any experience with what Castenada calls 'The mold of man'
here is the relevant quote
'But these accounts, however beautiful, are flawed by the gross and despairing mistake of believing that mold of man to be an omnipotent, omniscient creator; and so is the interpretation of the old seers, who called the mold of man a friendly spirit, a protector of man...The mold of man is not a creator, but the pattern of every human attribute we can think of and some we cannot even conceive. The mold is our God because we are what it stamps us with and not because it has created us from nothing and made us in its image and likeness. Don Juan said that in his opinion to fall on our knees in the presence of the mold of man reeks of arrogance and human self-centeredness...Anyone who sees the mold of man automatically assumes that it is God. He called the mystical experience a chance seeing, a one shot affair that has no significance whatsoever because it is a result of a random movement of the assemblage point. (The seers) The have seen, therefore, that what we call God is a static prototype of humanness without any power...The mold of man is exactly what it's name tells us it is, a pattern, a form, a cast that groups together a particular bunch of fiber like elements, which we call man." pg 266 Fire from within
thanks for any thoughts on this
here is the relevant quote
'But these accounts, however beautiful, are flawed by the gross and despairing mistake of believing that mold of man to be an omnipotent, omniscient creator; and so is the interpretation of the old seers, who called the mold of man a friendly spirit, a protector of man...The mold of man is not a creator, but the pattern of every human attribute we can think of and some we cannot even conceive. The mold is our God because we are what it stamps us with and not because it has created us from nothing and made us in its image and likeness. Don Juan said that in his opinion to fall on our knees in the presence of the mold of man reeks of arrogance and human self-centeredness...Anyone who sees the mold of man automatically assumes that it is God. He called the mystical experience a chance seeing, a one shot affair that has no significance whatsoever because it is a result of a random movement of the assemblage point. (The seers) The have seen, therefore, that what we call God is a static prototype of humanness without any power...The mold of man is exactly what it's name tells us it is, a pattern, a form, a cast that groups together a particular bunch of fiber like elements, which we call man." pg 266 Fire from within
thanks for any thoughts on this
