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“ordinarily, dreamers are merely voyeurs. The way your journey turned out, you two got a ringside seat and lived the old sorcerers’ damnation. What happened to them was precisely what happened to you. The inorganic beings took them to worlds from which they could not return.”
“If you had gotten outside [the tenuous wisp of dream-thread anchoring you to the previous dream], you’d now be meandering hopelessly in that world,” don Juan said.
He explained that since we entered into that world with all our physicality, the fixation of our assembly points on the position preselected by the inorganic beingswas so overpowering that it created a sort of fog that obliterated any memory of the world we came from. He added that the natural consequence of such an immobility, as in the case of the sorcerers of antiquity, is that the dreamer’s assemblage point cannot return to its habitual position.
“Think about this,” he urged us. “Perhaps this is exactly what is happening to well of us in the world of daily life. We are here, and the fixation of our assemblage point is so overpowering that it has made us forget where we came from, and what our purpose was for coming here.”