Secular Magick

Malcom Gladwell is writing about Sorcery. Blink is mainly about adjusting perceptions and cognition while Tipping Point is primarily about affecting change. To put that in Castaneda's terms, Blink is about learning to See and Tipping Point is about applying your Will. If you were to add David Allen's Getting Things Done you would have impeccability and would be acting as a warrior.

Untrained introspection destroys people's ability to utilize rapid cognition. However, training in a systematic approach to the subject matter can over time become embedded in the unconscious and improve rapid cognition. The reason for this is that too much data is detrimental. Instead we need to find the key details, what Castaneda would call the Joints.

Systematic Blinking

1. Train yourself by looking at key details systematically


2. Hide extraneous or misleading information


3. Accept and appreciate rapid responses as data rather than as judgments


4. Slow or calm situation and reactions as much as possible to maintain conscious control.

It is by controlling the framing context of the situation systematically that we get the best results from our rapid unconscious cognition.

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// posted by Chris Titan @ 4:18 AM