Stalking

[Marilyn]

Ok, Fitz and Karl,

Straight from the books:

"The stalkers are the practitioners of controlled folly, just as the
dreamers are the practitioners of dreaming. Controlled folly is the
basis for stalking. The first principle of the art of stalking is that
warriors choose their battleground. The second principle is to discard
everything that is unnecessary. The third principle is that a warrior
must be willing and ready to enter into battle, for any battle is a
battle for one's life. The fourth principle is to relax, abandon
yourself, fear nothing. Only then will the powers that guide us open the
road and aid us. The fifth principle is when faced with odds that cannot
be dealt with, warriors retreat for a moment, let their minds meander.
The sixth principle is that warriors compress time; even an instant
counts. The seventh principle is to apply the other six. The first
precept of the rule is that everything that surrounds us is an
unfathomable mystery. The second precept is that we must try to unravel
these mysteries, but without ever hoping to accomplish this. The third
precept is that a warrior, aware of the unfathomable mystery that
surrounds him and aware of his duty to try to unravel it, takes his
rightful place among mysteries and regards himself as one. Consequently,
for a warrior there is no end to the mystery of being, whether being
means being a pebble, or an ant, or oneself. That is a warrior's
humbleness. Recapitulation is the forte of stalkers, as the dreaming
body is the forte of dreamers. Only a master stalker can be a master of
controlled folly. Controlled folly doesn't mean to con people. It
means that warriors apply the seven basic principles of the art of
stalking to whatever they do, from the most trivial acts to life and
death situations. Applying these principles brings about three results.
Stalkers learn never to take themselves seriously, they learn to laugh
at themselves. If they're not afraid of being a fool, they can fool
anyone. Stalkers learn to have endless patience, they are never in a
hurry, and never fret. They learn to have an endless capacity to
improvise."
The Eagles Gift

"It (stalking) started from an observation the new seers made that when
warriors steadily behave in ways not customary for them, the unused
emanations inside their cocoons begin to glow. And their assemblage
points shift in a mild, harmonious, barely noticeable fashion.
Stimulated by this observation, the new seers began to practice the
systematic control of their behavior. They called this practice the art
of stalking. The new seers. armed with this technique, tackled the
known in a sober and fruitful way. By continued practice, they made
their assemblage points move steadily. Other warriors can learn
stalking in their normal awareness, although it is advisable that they
do it in heightened awareness. Stalking belongs exclusively to the new
seers. They are the only seers who had to deal with people. The old
ones were so wrapped up in their sense of power that they didn't even
know that people existed. The purpose of stalking is twofold; first, to
move the assemblage point as steadily and safely as possible, and
nothing can do the job as well as stalking. The second is to imprint
its principles at such a deep level that the human inventory is
bypassed, as is the natural reaction of refusing and judging something
that may be offensive to reason."
The Fire From Within

"Don Juan said that his benefactor drilled him daily in the four moods
of stalking and insisted that Don Juan understand that ruthlessness
should not be harshness, cunning should not be cruelty, patience should
not be negligence, and sweetness should not be foolishness. He believed
women to be natural stalkers. (Yes!) And his conviction was so strong he
maintained that only in a woman's disguise could any man really learn
the art of stalking."
The Power of Silence

"He (Don Juan) defined stalking as the art that deals with the fixation
of the assemblage point on any location to which it is displaced. To
fixate the assemblage point on any new spot means to acquire cohesion.
Dreaming does it by forcing dreamers to fixate the assemblage point. The
dreaming attention, the energy body, the second attention, the
relationship with inorganic beings, the dreaming emissary are but
by-products of acquiring cohesion; by-products of fixating the
assemblage point on a number of dreaming positions. Shifts of the
assemblage point give rise to minute changes; which are practically
unnoticeable. Moving the assemblage point is more drastic. The
fixation of the assemblage point is resposible for the uniformity and
cohesion of the energy body. Stalking deals with the fixation of the
assemblage point once it has been displaced. If the assemblage point
does not become stationary, there is no way to perceive coherently and
the warrior only experiences a kaleidoscope of disassociated images.
(just a note here)
Insane people imagine a reality of their own because they don't have any
preconceived purpose at all. They bring chaos into the chaos. Sorcerers
bring order to the chaos."
The Art of Dreaming

M