Just reading Life is Real Only Then, When 'I Am' now... the prologue is very interesting. After talking about the various times he had taken bullets during his arduous journeys he talks about the struggles he went through after his car accident and the death of his mother and wife.

He says at one point the convictions he would have to make in order to get his shit together, so to speak, and one of them was a conviction that he would 'step of the corns' of those around him - meaning i think the ability to use his awareness of people's sleeping nature in order to keep his personal space and to up the notches of severity, perhaps, in order to keep people awake.

This sort of rang alarm bells in me because i have often seen this sort of practice as a form of black magic, when someone uses someone's weakness against them. In castaneda stuff, or in this book about Parallel Perception that i created a tribe for, there is a thing about the difference betwen 'Light Stalking' and 'Shadow Stalking'

I will make some quotes here for you.

"Lujan explained to me that someone with their personal power intact will be in a position to observe this process as it happens and therefore is able to make a choice at this point to either subdue or enlighten the one whose imprints are activated. He said that this is the fundamental distinction between the two types of stalking applied in the living construct: shadow stalking and light stalking.

Shadow stalking is applied to subdue another’s power by misdirecting their life force and drawing them away from their purpose. He then said that no-one can take away your personal power but they can direct your attention and draw you into areas that will absorb time and energy in matters that are not in line with your personal growth.

Light stalking is applied to align a person with their source of power and enable them to access the tools and energy needed to pursue their personal path in the way that is correct for them.

The third type of stalking involves the reordering of ones imprints within a dreaming context to allow freedom from the preoccupations that have been established in the living construct, and this gives the ability to apply multiple angles of cognitive insight in order to extract wisdom and power from those experiences which form the fundamental base plate of ones character. This is dream stalking.

Lujan warned me to be very aware of shadow stalking in the living construct as it is the basis from which the majority of people operate most of the time and presents a grave danger, in that the primary aim is to subdue purpose and waylay awareness in endless avenues of distraction and distortion. Shadow stalking identifies the imprints within ones character and once they are located establishes them as a usable base of operation."

So what you think? The relationship between severity and compassion has always intrigued me very much and I am constantly attempting to find the balance in myself