DWQA Questions › Tag: shameFilter:AllOpenResolvedClosedUnansweredSort byViewsAnswersVotesDon Juan talks about the first natural enemy on the path to becoming a man of knowledge. “Fear! A terrible enemy—treacherous and difficult to overcome. It remains concealed at every turn of the way, prowling, waiting. And if the man, terrified in its presence, runs away, his enemy (fear) will have put an end to his quest.” Castaneda asks him, “What will happen to the man if he runs away in fear?” Don Juan answers, “Nothing happens to him except that he will never learn. He will never become a man of knowledge. He will perhaps be a bully or a harmless, scared man; at any rate, he will be a defeated man. His first enemy will put an end to his cravings.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness220 views0 answers0 votesCastaneda asks Don Juan, “And what can he do to overcome fear?” Don Juan replies, “The answer is very simple. He must not run away. He must defy his fear, and in spite of it must take the next step in learning, and the next, and the next. He must be fully afraid, and yet he must not stop. That is the rule! And a moment will come when his enemy (fear) retreats. The man begins to feel sure of himself. His intent becomes stronger. Learning is no longer a terrifying task. When this joyful moment comes, the man can say without hesitation that he has defeated his first natural enemy.” Castaneda asks if it happens all at once or little by little? Don Juan says, “It happens little by little, and yet fear is vanquished suddenly and fast.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness219 views0 answers0 votesDon Juan talks about three other enemies to becoming a man of knowledge. But before we explore those, we know the fallen angelics and the billions of members of the Extraterrestrial Alliance are depraved. Sitting Bull said that depravity was a state of mind that is capable of experiencing pleasure only through instigating or vicariously witnessing the suffering of others. There is no other source of pleasure to the depraved mind. Are all depraved beings also fearful, or have some of them conquered fear as Don Juan suggests, the direct question being, “Are there fearless depraved beings?” If there are, that would appear to be a formidable foe indeed. What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness227 views0 answers0 votesDon Juan talks about the next natural enemy to becoming a man of knowledge. “Clarity! That clarity of mind, which is so hard to obtain, dispels fear, but also blinds. It forces the man never to doubt himself. It gives him the assurance he can do anything he pleases, for he sees clearly into everything. And he is courageous because he is clear, and he stops at nothing because he is clear. But all that is a mistake; it is like something incomplete. If the man yields to this make-believe power, he has succumbed to his second enemy and will fumble with learning. He will rush when he should be patient, or he will be patient when he should rush. And he will fumble with learning until he winds up incapable of learning anything more.” This sounds like a kind of arrogance, that the being defeated by clarity is one who thinks himself, falsely, as enlightened—falsely complete. Don Juan says, “He will no longer learn or yearn for anything.” Sounds like a lot of atheists and skeptics! (Which we know the ETs are.) The antithesis of humility. What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness216 views0 answers0 votesCastaneda asks how to avoid being defeated by clarity. Don Juan responds, “He must do what he did with fear. He must defy his clarity and use it only to see, and wait patiently and measure carefully before taking new steps; he must think, above all, that his clarity (his enlightenment?) is almost a mistake. And a moment will come when he will understand that his clarity was only a point before his eyes. He will know at this point that the power he has been pursuing is finally his. He can do with it whatever he pleases. His wish is the rule. He sees all that is around him. But he has also come to his third enemy, Power!” Fear and clarity (or arrogance) can interfere with obtaining true power. What is Creator’s perspective on Don Juan’s recipe for overcoming the second natural enemy to enlightenment—clarity?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness262 views0 answers0 votesDon Juan talks of the third natural enemy to enlightenment: “Power is the strongest of all enemies. And naturally the easiest thing to do is to give in; after all, the man (or the being) is truly invincible. He commands; he begins by taking calculated risks, and ends in making rules, because he is a master. A man at this stage hardly notices his third enemy (power) closing in on him. And suddenly, without knowing, he will certainly have lost the battle. His enemy (power) will have turned him into a cruel, capricious man. Such a man has no command over himself, and cannot tell when or how to use his power.” The mistake, it appears, is thinking the power is HIS to use as he pleases. He thinks he owns the power, rather than being a steward of it. What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness223 views0 answers0 votesCastaneda asks Don Juan how to defeat the third enemy to enlightenment—power. Don Juan responds, “He has to defy it, deliberately. He has to come to realize the power he has seemingly conquered is in reality never his. He must keep himself in line at all times, handling carefully and faithfully all he has learned. If he can see that clarity and power, without his control over himself, are worse than mistakes, he will reach a point where everything is held in check. He will know when and how to use his power. And thus he will have defeated his third enemy.” Is it safe to assume that all the fallen angelics and ET Alliance members have been defeated by the enemy, power, if not by clarity (or arrogance) and fear, that NONE of them have “control over themselves?” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness242 views0 answers0 votesIn all the questions asked so far, there was no mention of divine partnership. It seems Don Juan was giving a tutorial on how to achieve enlightenment without Creator’s assistance, which is apparently something very few can ever manage on their own. How does partnership with the divine, using Empowered Prayer and the Lightworker Healing Protocol, make the genuine attainment of enlightenment, and the defeat of the enemies of enlightenment, possible for the many, instead of the intrepid few?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness231 views0 answers0 votesHaving an open mind can seem unappealing to some, because it suggests a child-like vulnerability. Children are clearly much more open-minded than adults, and anyone with any experience around children knows how gullible and quick to believe anything children can be. How much is adult closed-mindedness a direct result and compensation for the vulnerability experienced as children?ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Problems in Society388 views0 answers0 votesChildren are not just gullible, they are also ignorant. However, even as children, lack of knowledge and understanding is quickly equated with stupidity. As a result, many if not most children learn early on that it is easier to pretend to know than it is to actually KNOW. As a result, rather than becoming truly educated and erudite, many people focus instead on fostering just the appearance of being mature and sophisticated rather than actually becoming truly mature and sophisticated. How widespread is this problem among humanity, and how much of it is a product of the interlopers versus being entirely human?ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Problems in Society394 views0 answers0 votesThere are two pathways to arriving at a conclusion about a matter. One is to investigate the underlying evidence, testimony, calculations, observations, etc., and the other is to simply borrow the conclusions of trusted others. Hence the overly heavy reliance on acquiring and showcasing credentials—so that one knows whom to trust as well as be trusted about a chosen specialty or body of knowledge. Is this human obsession with credentials only an issue in a free will physical environment?ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Problems in Society404 views0 answers0 votesThe more one pretends to know, versus how much they actually know, makes them increasingly vulnerable to unmasking, ridicule, and shaming from others—others who themselves are just as often pretending as not. Is this fear of being unmasked one of the principal motivators for those who are dedicated to exposing the phoniness of others?ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Problems in Society381 views0 answers0 votesPeer pressure is a huge factor in the development of particular coping skills. Peer pressure encourages individuals to act, to appear, to speak in matching ways with behaviors and beliefs that are not exactly helping one excel at the “art of living” in divine alignment. How much does the admonition “if you can’t beat them, join them” contribute to human complacency and compromise?ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Problems in Society330 views0 answers0 votesHow much is the fear of being ostracized, victimized, and exiled a contributing factor to being susceptible to mind control manipulation?ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Problems in Society379 views0 answers0 votesThe love of truth, the capacity to have a truly open mind that weighs information dispassionately and without filters, seems like a lonely commitment. As much as the love of truth gets lip service, the reality appears to be that the individual is fighting appearances and pressures to conform every step of the way. What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • Problems in Society427 views0 answers0 votes
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