The entire human race keeps a determined level of function and efficiency by means of the internal dialogue. The internal dialogue is the key to maintaining the assemblage point stationary at the position shared by the entire human race: at the height of the right shoulder blades, an arm’s length away.
By accomplishing the opposite of the internal dialogue, that is to say, maintaining Inner Silence, practitioners can break the fixation of their assemblage points, and thus acquire an extraordinary fluidity of perception. The passageway into the world of the sorcerers opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off the internal dialogue.
To change our idea of the world is the crux of sorcery, and stopping the internal dialogue is the only way to accomplish it. The rest is just padding. Now you are in some condition to know that nothing of what we do, with the exception of stopping the internal dialogue, can by itself change anything in us, or in our idea of the world. The provision is, of course, that that change should not be deranged.
Shutting off the internal dialogue is the key to the world of the sorcerers. The other activities are mere stepping stones that accelerate the effect of shutting off the internal dialogue. The internal dialogue is what grounds us. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such or so and so.
The suspension of the internal dialogue, the perennial companion of thought, is a state of profound quietude. Inner silence is a peculiar state of being in which thoughts are canceled out and one can function from a level other than that of daily awareness.
The old sorcerers called it Inner Silence because it is a state in which perception doesn’t depend on the senses. What is at work during Inner Silence is another faculty that man has, the faculty that makes him a magical being, the very faculty that has been curtailed, not by man himself but by the alien installation.
Inner Silence is the stand from which everything stems in sorcery. In other words, everything we do leads to that stand, which, like everything else in the world of sorcerers, doesn’t reveal itself unless something gigantic shakes us.
The ancient sorcerers devised endless ways to shake themselves or other sorcery practitioners at their foundations in order to reach that coveted state of Inner Silence. They considered the most far-fetched acts, which may seem totally unrelated to the pursuit of Inner Silence, such as, for instance, jumping into waterfalls or spending nights hanging upside down from the top branch of a tree, to be the key points that brought it into being. Inner Silence is accrued, accumulated. It is necessary to construct a core of Inner Silence in yourself, and then add to it, second by second, on every occasion you practice it.
Each individual has a different threshold of Inner Silence in terms of time, meaning that inner silence must be kept by each one of us for the length of time of our specific threshold before it can work. Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final, dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.
Some very talented practitioners need only a few minutes of silence to reach that coveted goal. Others, less talented, need long periods of silence, perhaps more than one hour of complete quietude, before they reach the desired result. The desired result is what the old sorcerers called stopping the world, the moment when everything around us ceases to be what it’s always been.
This is the moment when sorcerers return to the true nature of man. The old sorcerers also called it total freedom. It is the moment when man the slave becomes man the free being, capable of feats of perception that defy our linear imagination.
Inner Silence is the avenue that leads to a true suspension of judgment, to a moment when sensory data emanation from the universe at large ceases to be interpreted by the senses, a moment when cognition ceases to be the force which, through usage and repetition, decides the nature of the world.
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