Power

I wrote already about shoulder devil. Now it’s about shoulder angel.
Just like death it’s a part of our energy but not the real angel. But it can act like one. It can give good advices because it knows everything about our abilities.
It’s called Power and it can be found on right behind the back.



I don’t know whether don Juan knew something about it – his understanding of power was different. I think the idea of the “death on the left” was taken from some ancient system and adopted for the Toltec needs while rejecting the rest of ideas.

Power is an ability to do something. Everyone can do something, those who cannot just do not live. So this is a point of entrance of all our energy (yes I know about Sushumna, Ida and Pingala and I know about Qi energy cycling, this is just another view). What’s interesting here is that any initiation you get connects to this point as an external source of energy or power and if it limits you someway it’s done here too.

Just like Death your Power can be reached through its graphical representation. But even so your Power can tell you many interesting and useful things about your abilities it makes sense to look at it before talking – sometimes it’s not the worst thing to know what is the source of your power and what are its limitations before using it or listening to its advices. So this one enables you to see your Power from aside.

Death is an Adviser

…He told me to turn around casually and look at a boulder to my left. He said that my death was there staring at me and if I turned when he signaled me I might be capable of seeing it. He signaled me with his eyes. I turned and I thought I saw a nickering movement over the boulder. A chill ran through my body, the muscles of my abdomen contracted involuntarily and I experienced a jolt, a spasm. After a moment I regained my composure and I explained away the sensation of seeing the flickering shadow as an optical illusion caused by turning my head so abruptly. "Death is our eternal companion," don Juan said with a most serious air. "It is always to our left, at an arm's length.”
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"The thing to do when you're impatient," he proceeded, "is to turn to your left and ask advice from your death. An immense amount of pettiness is dropped if your death makes a gesture to you, or if you catch a glimpse of it, or if you just have the feeling that your companion is there watching you."
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"Death is the only wise adviser that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, "I haven't touched you yet"."
© Carlos Castaneda – “The Jorney to Ixtlan”

Well, it’s not exactly “to our left”, it’s on left but behind the back. Memento mori – was great idea for explaining this phenomenon, it always works on sensitive natures. Don Juan stopped right here. Did he know more? I think he did.
Another interesting character can be found on the left is devil.

Yes, shoulder devil. :) Usually (not necessarily) it’s drawn there. And it advises and it tempts. These are not coincidental cases – it’s just the same phenomenon. Let’s call it Death – it’s a very good name.
In terms of Tarot Death is a set of operations with zero. If it’s multiplication it’s the end of existence. But it can be division and then it’s infinity, eternity and the rest of the things of this kind. Furthermore: zero point is a place where everything (not anything but everything) is possible – it’s a place of choice, it’s temptation.

But I don’t think don Juan mentioned this. What he talked about looks like different system. What’s “always to our left” and can be seen or felt someway is a part of our energy. Very interesting part. It knows everything about our ways in this world. So don Juan was right, "The thing to do when you're impatient is to turn to your left and ask advice from your death.” But it’s not that simple – there’s no don Juan around to give a sign in the right moment.
Fortunately, there’s another way to accomplish this. The way is sympathetic magic. Death can be accessed through its representation. Here it is.

And if you need an advice its where you can get it.
Memento mori :)

Healing image

Back to efficiency of amulets. Shape is not the only way to increase it. There’re many others. One of them is using some external source of energy. It can be energy of egregore as it usually happens in religions it can be something else. I’ll take the positive place of power. Fuji mountain is definitely good one.

(Photo from http://www.nationalgeographic.com)
Next step is creating amulet. I’ll take human silhouette, link it to the “mold of man” described by Castaneda, and run the Fuji energy through this stuff so the energy is shaped into “human” form.

This can be used for healing. The best way to use it is to put a left hand on the picture, but looking is good to. Furthermore this can be reproduced in any other form. But don’t forget Castaneda, “He said that I had to go beyond the mold, that the mold was merely a stage, a stopover that brought temporary peace and serenity to those who journey into the unknown, but that it was sterile, static.”
P.S. This image works good only where I place it, so downloading it is a bad idea.