Toltec Wisdom: The Focal Point of Consciousness
The focal point of consciousness, also known as the assemblage point in Toltec knowledge of human awareness or perception is where we experience everything from; our literal consciousness center, giving the very shape of the energetic and physical matter that we perceive. In Toltec wisdom, this point of consciousness is capable of displacement, consciously and unconsciously; altering our conscious experience massively. The displacements induce another experience entirely, opening up new routes of understanding, but they do not necessarily ‘speed up’ understanding as they are like experiencing a whole new world as an infant. It takes time and experience to be able to gain knowledge and build a cohesive foundation in newly traversed areas of consciousness.
Words and Consciousness
Words are not just tools of communication; they are forces of power for whoever holds them. When the assemblage point, the center of one’s perception, shifts to a deeper position, people often feel as though they suddenly possess knowledge and the language to express it. The movement unlocks new ways of seeing, and with that comes the vocabulary to give shape to the experience.
Shifts can also happen in subtler, less controlled ways. In the lives of ordinary people, the assemblage point sometimes drifts without their awareness and without any obvious cause. When this occurs, they may not recognize the shift directly, but they feel its effects: speech falters, words slip away, and they become tongue-tied, hesitant, volatile, or evasive. The disturbance in language is a reflection of the disturbance in perception. This is intricately intertwined on all levels of our spiritual, energetic, and physical bodies with what physical science reduces strictly to properties of the nervous system.
Energetic Location of the Assemblage Point
The assemblage point was, by the old seers, said to be located around a couple feet behind the back at the height of the shoulder blades. This location have a synchronicity with perception of consciousness in a ‘behind-the-self’ observer feeling, with the heart chakra energy center, and the torus field. They noticed that with unconscious and nearly dying bodies the assemblage point was very dim and disappeared entirely and was not apparent in deceased.
Assemblage Point Displacement
The old seers were capable of perceiving two types of assemblage point displacement. When was any position in the interior of the luminous ball in which it resides. This displacement they named a ‘shift’. The other was a displacement to outside the luminous ball. They called this displacement a ‘movement’ of the assemblage point. They found out the difference between the two is the nature of perception that each allows. How was the perceivable shifts within the luminous ball were said to be all within the human domain, no matter how bizarre they seem. The energetic luminous filaments that flow in the universe through the luminous ball. The movements outside the luminous ball engage luminous energy that are beyond the human realm of awareness. Imperceptible worlds with no trace of familiarity. The Toltecs referred to this type of knowledge as ‘unknowable knowledge’.
Physical manipulation of the assemblage point
Chemicals can be seen as manipulators of the assemblage point. Some of the obvious ones would be psychoactive components, plant material, as well as The processing of different chemicals through different chemical reactions to create chemicals that are unfamiliar to us in comparison naturally found in nature. Aside from the ingesting or injection of physical chemicals, a stunning example of this phenomena would be acupuncture anesthetic. The manipulation of activating different energy points that results in the assemblage disconnecting from or not perceiving sensations of pain.
The Shifting Point of Perception
Simply dislodging the assemblage point isn’t enough. In dreams, it naturally shifts sometimes to wildly distant positions and yet we unconsciously compensate without even knowing it. The mind quickly rebalances, and life carries on as if nothing has happened.
While it's a challenge to learn to stabilize your own perception in a new altered state of consciousness, the real lesson of the new seers only shows itself when one attempts to move someone else’s assemblage point. What truly matters is not just the shift itself, but the ability to stabilize the new position. That requires time, patience, and slow, deliberate effort for progress to be made.
Power plants jolt the assemblage point far from its ordinary setting. Dreams nudge it around, but power plants launch it into deeper and more consuming shifts. A teacher takes advantage of that disorientation, using it as proof that our perception of the world is never fixed. No matter how solid our perspective feels, it can always be moved, reshaped, and evolved. The chaotic and ungrounded nature of the struggle to stabilize ourselves in large shifts and movements of the assemblage point could be an explanation to why not everyone who utilizes power plants truly gains and integrates the wisdom that they can offer.
Openness to Altered Perception
We make sense of the incomprehensible by forcing it through the narrow filter of what’s familiar to us. That filter is the real barrier of perception. Most people are frightened by the freedom that lies beyond it, but not a warrior. For a warrior with wonder and an open mind unhindered from conclusions, that barrier is enticing, almost seductive with the mindset to further knowledge and true inner power. Every bit of knowledge we begin to understand is more humbling, with another death of the ego, showing us a little more knowledge with a massive amount of understanding of a whole new area of how little we know.
-J. Wesley
“Just seeing the movement of energy cannot tell us how or why energy moves.” -Don Juan Matus
