Carlos Castaneda

[Mato Kinze]

Originally Posted by jsam

Mato Kinze,

I do trust you. I am sure you have experienced what you describe.
Along my path, I experienced many paranormal and inexplicable events, which I found hard to believe, since my orientation was scientific and materialistic, and I was a born skeptic. I kept my mind open, formed no firm judgements, waiting for more info. I know from my experience that there are alternative perceptions to events in our world to that of our "common sense", and when I was looking for strange phenomena, I found it. I think there is a "reality" to all the things that people have believed in; spirits, ghosts, elves, fairies, demons, the astral entities, and even dragons. Like "what you believe is what you get".
For a while, I was intrigued by psi phenomena. I finally fell into the nagual, as Casteneda terms it, and was so shaken by the experience, thay even after it resulted in my awakening, I wanted nothing more to do with extraordinary phenomena, and for decades now, I have been at peace, enjoying "ordinary reality.

Namaste....jsam

Understood. My own experiences with the Nagual were likewise disturbing (no, let me be real...they were terrifying) at first. I'm still very "unsettled" when working in that realm and have often thought, almost wistfully, of how easy it was when I was ignorant of it all.

I may reach your level of acceptance at some point, but until then, I'm still trying to improve my connection to Source through actively engaging in the practices laid out in the Toltec Path as taught by Castaneda and his student (my teacher).

As for "what you believe is what you'll get", you may very well be right there too. But again, for now it's working for me and in the end, that's really all I care about.

Pila Maya, Mitaque Oyasin,
Mato Kinze

[supertom]

Nagual sounds so interesting haha, i want it now

[Liara Covert]

For some reason, what is disturbing also becomes incredibly fascinating. Its human nature to seek to understand based on human points of reference. As you evolve to encounter and feel things that defy familiar explanations, this is an invitation to confront fear of the unknown. If you choose to open yourself up to the immeasurable, indescribable and even unmentionable, then you are raising your awareness to levels that can only be understood by "getting there." As you meet people who are on the same plane or who have reached higher levels, you simply begin to communicate differently.

[supertom]

i've got 10 of is books active side of infinity is the last one i got, is there one after ??

[Liara Covert]

Supertom- Check out this website and click on the hyperlinks to individual book details (i.e. year of publication/ publisher).


Carlos Castaneda Biography and List of Works - Carlos Castaneda Books


Brief Description of Castaneda Books

1. The Teachings of Don Juan, A Yaqui Way of Knowledge- description of plant allies and way towards knowledge: mescalito (peyote cactus)- the protector of man, seeing beings as liquid colors; mushrooms- learning to handle, fly, and perceive as animal form; datura (weed)- female spirit, hard to handle, gives strength, lengthy procedure. This book was unique of the series in that the last part included a detailed scholarly "Structural Analysis" of the teachings.
2. A Separate Reality- Discusses the ideas of will, controlled folly, and seeing (as opposed to looking) as tools a warrior uses to be a man/person of knowledge.
3. Journey to Ixtlan- lessons about the warriors way, or stalking the world, routines, personal history, self-importance, death as an advisor, not-doing, dreaming
4. Tales of Power- description of points of perception in body or luminous cocoon, tonal or toñal (1st attention, known, right side awareness, [possibly the left-brain]) and nagual (2nd attention, unknown, left side awareness, right-brain), dreaming double
5. The Second Ring of Power- describes events after don Juan's departure, experiences with the women warriors of the original nagual's party, 2nd attention (second ring of power), losing "human 'form"', human mold, dreaming, gazing
6. The Eagle's Gift- description of the force that creates, destroys, and rules the universe (or at least the 48 bands of earth), also source of emanations themselves, description of the eagle's command to man, the rule of the nagual, various levels of petty tyrants, and way towards freedom, self-stalking and dreaming, power spots. Note that don Juan described the energy-structure/entity called eagle a thing that is not what we call an eagle, but rather a thing so vast as to be incomprehensible.
7. The Fire From Within- step by step (actually chapter by chapter) elucidation of the mastery of awareness or the new seers' knowledge: everything is energy (the Eagle's emanations or luminous emanations), the luminous cocoon and assemblage point(glow of awareness), the known (1st attention or tonal), unknown (2nd attention or nagual), unknowable (outside luminous cocoon), petty tyrants as a way to move assemblage point and foster warrior's way, twin worlds of organic and inorganic ( more correctly matter-beings and non-matter-bound beings- carbon-based/not carbon based wasn't what was meant), shifting the assemblage point and other bands of awareness, bundles of emanations that are the basis for the different species source of awareness and forms/molds, the human mold, the rolling force or tumbler (that hits luminous cocoon), the death defier, self-stalking, intent, and dreaming.
8. The Power of Silence- stories about essentially the mastery of intent, set into what were called sorcery cores.
9. The Art of Dreaming - steps to mastering control and consciousness of dreams.
10. Magical Passes- descriptions with photos of sorcery-based physical movements intended to increase well-being, a system which became known as Tensegrity
11. The Active Side of Infinity- recapitulation, making a log of significant life events (as seen by the spirit)
12. The Wheel of Time- recollection of the mood in which each previous book was written; significant quotes from each previous book.

[supertom]

thanks i downloaded 10 of his books off limewire just today.

[Liara Covert]

Castaneda is a an example of a person who invites his readers to come face-to-face with their core beliefs. His writing reminds readers that core beliefs are invisible only when we decide they are facts of life rather than conditioned beliefs and interpretations of this life we currently lead. We always have choices to be more closed-minded or open-minded. This is but one lesson in freedom. Many more await each of us when we're ready.