Assemblage Points

Assemblage points:

I first learned the term assemblage point in my early teens reading Carlos Castaneda, intuitively understanding the meaning even as the concept itself escaped. Castaneda's books filled me with a sense of magic and that was enough for me at the time. Those teenage years are when we need magic the most it seems. In Toltec terms, the assemblage point is the place where awareness gathers to become our perception of the world. To shift that point is the goal of the sorcerers, it's how more subtle views of reality are come to be known. 

it's how we see other worlds. 

I'm not a sorcerer, although it's a fascinating view to study. And I'm still open to magic, maybe it's these middle years that require a greater shift in awareness, that magic is needed most now as I begin to turn towards an older age and begin to face mortality. Or course Castaneda urged this all along, using impending death as an advisor, keeping in mind that it's even present, a presence that lurks behind our left shoulder and is always ready to offer us its touch. The object of this awareness is to us diminish our self-importance, limiting the demands we place on the world to fulfill our sense of need. 

it's an important reminder. 

what I've discovered, rather importantly it seems, is that the assemblage point is ever shifting, and indeed our own body is a vast field of energy that offers multiple views of reality. We actually contain more microbes than human cells, just slightly past the majority but enough for me to consider myself a multi-dimensional figure, an assemblage point of infinite views, a collection of smaller consciousness that flows towards the sense of being an individual self - ironic in a way. 

so it's a shift that's happening on it's own, sorcery, and I'm less inclined to take myself so serious any more. It's impossible now really, energetically there is no individual self to hold such important all important opinions of the world. Mostly, I'm filled with joy for my own existence, that I exist within such a magical world where things called microbes gather to grant a sense of self-awareness. Smaller still, are molecules dancing, atoms creating structures, and particles becoming form. 

all of this, assemblage points for our consideration. 

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Peace, Eric