...Un par de pequeños extractos del libro: The Bene Gesserit Training Manual, de Daniel Fletcher (!).
El libro es un espléndido intento de atraer a este continuum la realidad de estas curiosas brujas galácticas...
Consultar antes a:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bene_Gesserit
The Prana/Bindu Spring
The P.S is a technique used to compress physical time and achieve physical speed and precision not normally attainable. The body must be relaxed and the mind sent into each muscle group, each joint and part of the body. The body is balanced and focused upon the movement to come. Basically, the movement is physically rehearsed but the body itself is not allowed to move. This technique may be practiced at any time.
For example, a pencil may be on the desk next to you. Focus on the pencil and visualize your hand reaching out and picking it up. Visualize this happening faster than the eye could see. You may wish to think about the feelings in your fingers when they pick up the pencil, reliving a future event. When you are ready, let it happen. If it is not fast enough for you, do not be discouraged. Your own personal standards may be higher than what is actually necessary.
You may be able to incorporate its principles into combat-related movements. With time and practice, the preparation will become quicker and easier. We are not breaking any laws of physics here, nor are we employing any supernatural ability. This is simply the focusing of mind and body for one specific movement. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.
Reality and Belief
We have long known that the objects of our palpable sense experiences can be influenced by choice.- both conscious choice and unconscious. This is a demonstrated fact that does not require that we believe some force within us reaches out and touches the universe. This addresses a pragmatic relationship between belief and what we identify as .real.. All of our judgments carry a heavy burden of ancestral beliefs to which we of the Gesserit tend to be more susceptible than most. It is not enough that we are aware of this and guard against it. Alternative interpretations must always receive our attention. Never underestimate the power of belief! At the quantum level our universe can be seen as an indeterminate place, predictable in a statistical way only when you employ large enough numbers. Between that universe and a relatively predictable one where the passage of a single planet can be timed to a picosecond, other forces come into play. For the inbetween universe where we find our daily lives, that which you believe is the dominant force. Your beliefs order the unfolding of daily events. If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.
Every known ._.-.._._..-._--_-._._.--_.._--.._-._..--We all exist in either one or the other. They are:
1. Communitas Reality (Mana)
2. Liminal Reality (Alaya)
Communitas reality is normal, commonplace reality. It is the normal state of being of the solid world of the living. This is the quotidian state of existence for all living things, connected and bound to each other by conventional reality and governed by the theorized laws of science, law and religion. In communitas, one is responsible for ones. actions. Liminal reality is special. It is the state one passes through between this reality and the next state of being; between the solid world and the spirit world. In this state, one is neither here nor there, but in limbo in the passage from one state to the next. During this stage one is considered to be highly charged and capable of high-level psychic functioning. Furthermore, those in the liminal state are not bound by any of the rules of the normal world. Only when they return to the real world do they leave liminality and re-enter the living state of communitas. Rituals, rites of passage, ceremonies and certain conditions (birth, profound illness, menstruation, etc.) provide a liminal state for those involved.
