I »think this language comes from that amazingly famous con-man (and overt liar) Carlos Casteneda, or at least, its popularization probably does. The fact that he made all kinds of stuff up, and pretended he didn’t, doesn’t mean a lot of it isn’t useful… I learned a great deal from his writings… but I also (eventually) learned that he was lying his head off in all kinds of ways. This didn’t cause me to dismiss what I learned, but rather to question the source’s integrity as an author.

There’s a very important feature of this idea that is easily lost in translation: knowing ‘what’ something is, in language or concepts, is at once useful (in some specific ways) and »totally catastrophic in others. The »active suspension of knowledge leads to all kinds of »faculties that most of us will never discover… ambiguity, it turns out, represents the return of a diverse library of possible senses, intelligences, and aspects of relation that ‘knowledge’ effectively snuffs.