THE THIRD SERIES
The Series of the Five Concerns: The Westwood Series
One of the most important series for the practitioners of Tensegrity is
called The Series of the Five Concerns. A nickname for this series
is The Westwood Series, given to it because it was taught publicly
for the first time in the Pauley Pavilion at the University of California
at Los Angeles, which is located in an area called Westwood. This series
was conceived as an attempt to integrate what don Juan Matus called the
five concerns of the shamans of ancient Mexico. Everything those sorcerers
did rotated around five concerns: one, the magical passes; two, the energetic
center in the human body called the center for decisions; three,
recapitulation, the means for enhancing the scope of human awareness;
four, dreaming, the bone fide art of breaking the parameters of
normal perception; five, inner silence, the stage of human perception
from which those sorcerers launched every one of their perceptual attainments.
This sequence of five concerns was an arrangement patterned on the understanding
that those sorcerers had of the world around them.
One of the astounding findings of those shamans, according to what don
Juan taught, was the existence in the universe of an agglutinating force
that binds energy fields together into concrete, functional units. The
sorcerers who discovered the existence of this force described it as a
vibration, or a vibratory condition, that permeates groups of energy fields
and glues them together.
In terms of this arrangement of the five concerns of the shamans of ancient
Mexico, the magical passes fulfill the function of the vibratory condition
those shamans talked about. When those sorcerers put together this shamanistic
sequence of five concerns, they copied the patterning of energy that was
revealed to them when they were capable of seeing energy as it flows
in the universe. The binding force was the magical passes. The magical
passes were the unit that permeated through the four remaining units and
grouped them together into one functional whole.
The Westwood Series, following the patterning of the shamans of ancient
Mexico, has consequently been divided into four groups, arranged in terms
of their importance as envisioned by the sorcerers who formulated them:
one, the center for decisions; two, recapitulation; three,
dreaming; four, inner silence.
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