Dreaming is moving the AP, Stalking holding it on the new position.
Sounds simple enough, but how exactly do you hold it on the new position? The concept is a little abstract. Some practical real world examples would be useful.
Now most people can change conversational topics at the drop of a hat. Schizophrenics however have a handful of topics that once their attention lands on it, it's not coming off. It can get stuck there for days. Some of these attention traps they have are negative, but they also have positive ones that allow them to excel in certain fields, like art, mechanics. It lets them develop skills and talents most people could only dream of achieving.
It's my contention that unshakeable focus schizophrenics exhibit is Stalking at it's finest. Were they able to pick and choose when that unshakeable focus gets applied, they would make exceptional sorcerers.
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The stalking maneuver itself holds the AP at a new position. Stalking involves behavior with people, yes, but it includes ones’ self, too!
Sobriety plays a central role as well, but there are other ‘switches’ that must be on for the maneuver to work: ruthless, cunning… and a few others.
You're right about that:
https://reddit.com/r/castaneda/w/cholita (who has Schizophrenia)
Umm I’m not surprised when A person reaches the Limits Of Experience and crosses over the threshold there is every possibility that he or she won’t come back… and/or tip over. who can see god’s face and live?
LIMIT EXPERIENCE WHO COMES BACK AND WHO DOESN'T??
In continental philosophy, limit-experience (French: expérience limite) is a quality of experience that approaches the limits of possible experience. This can be in terms of its intensity, and it being seemingly impossible or paradoxical. In Lacanianism, a limit-experience dissociates the subject from the experience that it exists in and identifies with, leading to a confrontation with the Real.[1] The concept first appears in the work of Karl Jaspers and later, in the work of the French philosopher Georges Bataille; it subsequently became associated with French philosophers Maurice Blanchot and Michel Foucault through their use of the concept.
Dreaming and gazing exercises help keep the assemblage point fluid. The dreaming exercises are all geared toward using your awareness in dreams to fix the assemblage point while not awake. You can use this 'dreaming attention' in your waking life to move and fix the assemblage point.
Some examples from Castaneda include: gazing at shadows, walking while looking at the horizon, gazing at the horizon, walking with your hands loosely balled, carrying nothing in your hands while walking... Mix this with doing these kinds of exercises at the golden hour of