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Order of the Voltec (too old to reply)
Mara 17 years ago
Having looked at, studied and practices quite a few varying paths
over the past 12 years I have come up against many groups that are
trying to sell you a whole load of crap from information that claims
to be based in historical fact and is really just a load of imagined
crap, to candles shaped like the High Priest's phallus. Beleive me, I
have seen them all (well, maybe not all, but enough to know the crap
from the honest). I'm quite a skeptic actually.
Being a 2nd degree member within the Order of the Voltec, I am not a
spokeperson, but I will say that the Voltec is a good path and one
that has helped me in my own magical and spiritual progress a great
deal. Anyway, just thought I would mention that Voltec is not a fly-
by-
night Order. They are honest, committed and very knowledgable.
Red Oak
II* Sorcerer
Order of the Voltec
ClearTonal 17 years ago
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what do the voltec practice?
v***@gmail.com 17 years ago
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The Voltec starts with a basic set of premises that concern the very
nature of the universe in which we operate. First, we regard
perception as the root of subjective existence. Time is understood by
us as the perceivable byproduct of attention, and thus the quality of
a living organism's attention determines how they will experience the
flow of time. The Voltec seeks to be continuously aware that there
are
two fields of perception within our immediate grasp. There are
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configurations of energy which we transform into physical data
through
our five senses, and there is, on top of that a social description
which we have been taught to impose upon those things we have learned
to perceive. This social aspect of perception is, as I have said, an
inheritance. It is passed down to us by our ancestors, and it is
modified according to the needs of these people at particular periods
in time. Without this social description, the world would lack
meaning. All of our ideas about the world and the way that it works
have been conditioned by the tenets of our social description. Our
most inner ideas and beliefs have grown out of this ancestral
heirloom, and we are taught, out of our instinctual avoidance of the
unknown, to avoid questioning it.
We know so little about some of the most important things that we
encounter on a daily basis, but because we have accepted a set of
common social explanations for these things, we never really bother
to
examine them and acknowledge their immensely mysterious nature. Take
death for instance. We think about death in a certain way and treat
it
as something with which we have an abundance of experience. What do
we
really know about death? We think it is the end of life because we
see
that when a living being dies, they resign all signs of life and
their
body begins to disappear. That is all we know, because that is all we
see. Everything else that we think we know about death is a result of
the influence of our socialization. Death is dark. Death is the end.
Death is cold. Death is bad. These are all ideas that have come into
existence by using values that are socially construed. We have been
taught to place a value on everything, and this social system of
values plays a tremendous role in limiting our capability of
assessing
the universe in terms that are more in line with energetic truth. The
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social aspect of perception tells us what we are, what is important
in
the world and what we should not bother paying attention to. We are
divorced from nature because we disregard anything that does not have
social value. That which has social value is immediately gratifying
to
the greatest of all social fictions, our very selves. The first and
primary task of the Voltec sorcerer is to recognize the social
description of the world for what it is, and systematically begin
separating this description from what they actually perceive. This is
no easy task, as our socialization is the only tool we have for
interacting with the world around us. This being acknowledged, we do
not want to throw away our ability to interact, but we do wish to
have
the capability of isolating the social aspect of something and then
relating to it in more sophisticated ways. Lets take death again for
instance. We can examine everything that we have been taught about
death, and then separate everything that is social from that which is
actually perceivable. If we are able to do this, then we might get
closer to the essence of what death really is and perhaps even get a
glimpse into its mysterious nature. This will never happen if we only
regard it in set terms that have been unexamined and handed down to
us
as a convenient way to comfort ourselves in a strange and mysterious
universe.
When we are capable of separating the social part of perception,
we
will also become capable of beginning the formation of our own field
of reality, or what we could call a second version of the world.
Voltec sorcerers come together to help each other reach what
Castaneda
might call a non-ordinary consensus. The world is made up of cultural
and social agreements. Our realities are a consequence of what we
emphasize in our thoughts. The nightside of the Voltec is also made
up
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of consensual agreements. Ones that are vastly different from what
the
average person is accustomed to. The nightside, or land of Nod, in
which we operate is a result of the redeployment of our energy and
the
result of emphasizing that which had previously gone unnoticed. Nod
is
the nightside of the tree of life, the unknown, the shadow realm, or
the nagual of the Toltecs. The Voltec, realizing the conditional
nature of reality, willfully isolates themselves from the perceptual
and consensual agreements of the average human being. New agreements
are made, and new ideas are emphasized. In this way a second field of
awareness can be cultivated and strengthened.
A central theme in Toltec sorcery and many other shamanic
traditions is the role that our internal self talk, or internal
dialogue plays in shaping our perception. Ken Eagle Feather, a well
known new age writer says that " Don Juan ( Castaneda's sorcery
teacher) refers to the combined elements of a world view as an
"inventory." He says that an inventory makes us invulnerable, which
is
why we go about making them in the first place ( Fire, 85-86). It
makes us invulnerable because it acts as a set of filters an mirrors,
determining what enters consciousness. When Don Juan brought
inorganic
beings into a house, for example, Castaneda couldn't perceive them.
They were part of a Toltec inventory Castaneda had not yet learned.
Since his inventory didn't contain that element, he could not
purposefully align his energy with them. Therefore, he couldn't
perceive them. As a result, he was protected from their
influence" ( Eagle Feather, 1995). Human beings talk to themselves
constantly. This is how we define and refine our daily world. Our
personal inventory is made up of the social agreements that we have
made with our society and our internal dialogue, or what we
incessantly tell ourselves about everything. We inherit our internal
dialogue from our ancestors as a part of their description of the
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world. As we slowly dismantle and restructure this dialogue, we seek
to replace its items with new ideas. Ideas which are based more
around
our goals as black magicians. The process of becoming a Voltec is
intimately connected with our relearning how to think. It is a task
of
replacing the old items of our mental inventory with entirely new
one.
This new description of the world is where the Voltec sorcerer
resides, away from the concerns of the everyday person, and isolated
from energies that will wear us down prematurely. Our lives are a
result of what we have been taught to emphasize. As Voltecs, we
choose
to emphasize that which is normally feared or discarded altogether.
We
emphasize and immerse ourselves in the darkness in order to discover
its silent secrets. We emphasize the fundamental energetic nature of
our physical bodies and the power that our minds have to shape them
according to our will. We emphasize the indisputable fact that our
dreams are the gateway to immense power, and that by learning to
consciously interact while in dreaming, we can begin to acquaint
ourselves with our double nature. For the Voltec sorcerer, belief is
indeed a means to and end, not an end in itself. This is one of the
basic premises of chaos magic, and one that we agree with completely.
The only difference may be in our understanding and application of
the
power of belief to actually alter the very core nature of what we
are.
For the Voltec, the left hand path leads farther and farther away
from
what is known to be human. Taking this path costs infinitely more
than
one might imagine, yet if it is traversed with a mix of confidence
and
respect it will yield delights undreamed of.
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In order to begin and sustain the transformation from interested
occult student to Voltec sorcerer, we have to take real life,
concrete
and practical measures."
Copyright, 2007 Order of the Voltec
ClearTonal 17 years ago
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why 'voltec' and not simply 'toltec'? it is after all not more or less
than what CC taught.
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