The phenomenological attitude and the “warrior's way”: learning to “see”

Abstract

The phenomenology, as a philosophical method, consists primarily of a change in attitude, from the “natural look” to the “essential seeing”. The phenomenological path begins when a phenomenon appears to consciousness in some descriptive way. With the reduction of assumptions or interpretations, phenomenology proposes to describe the pure data, the essence of what happens in appearance. In a literary description, we can understand this phenomenological objective as the description of the knowledge of sorcery, ordered by Carlos Castaneda in his unusual experiences of perception. In this article, we intend to bring together some points in common between witchcraft and phenomenology. In addition to Castaneda himself making direct reference to phenomenological concepts and using his method of description, the article shows an approximation with to “see”, which is the goal of both the phenomenologist and the sorcerer.