Mental Training Using Comfort-Based Motivation vs Motivation to Get Over Fear A teacher can trick us into learning what we need to learn and thereby help us “stop the world”. Then we live within that limited reality, unwilling to escape it, because it’s familiar. We’re all rife with limiting interpretations, which create a perceived reality that isn’t accurate. “Stopping the world” stops the habitual way we perceive reality. Don Juan stated that in order to arrive at ‘seeing’ one first had to ‘stop the world.’ ‘Stopping the world’ was indeed an appropriate rendition of certain states of awareness in which the reality of everyday life is altered because the flow of interpretation, which ordinarily runs uninterruptedly, has been stopped by a set of circumstances alien to that flow.” “There was another reality, which I did not know. My insistence on holding on to my standard version of reality rendered me almost deaf and blind to don Juan’s aims.” They were not the essential feature of the sorcerer’s description of the world. “It became evident to me that my original assumption about the role of psychotropic plants was erroneous. Don Juan tricked him into learning about knowledge while teaching him about medicinal plants.Ĭarlos reflects on his apprenticeship with don Juan in Journey to Ixtlan:
The only way to do that was to teach him about medicinal plants because that’s what Carlos was interested in.
He also knew that he had to capture Carlos’ attention to do this.
And why would it be otherwise? How can we know what we need to learn before we learn it?ĭon Juan knew that the most important thing to teach Carlos Castaneda was to learn about knowledge. What I’ve learned as a teacher is that what students need to learn is different than what they think. For example, some want to overcome their fear of falling. Students think they know what they need to learn when they come to our clinics.
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