11-11-2012, 12:01 AM
trinsic wrote:
I have been reading Castenda's books for a couple of years in a quest to find out more about what happens after death. Not saying that everything I read has the truth but his books has some truth in it.
Im working on a screenplay involving aspects of sorcery but my own journey is to find the truth is equally important. I have been reading what's been said on death and I wondered. Why is it so important to survive after death? If your awareness gets transferred to the universe (as I have interpreted it, you loose your identity?)
One of the things don Juan said that originally caught my attention many years ago was that... when a man leaves this world in the manner of a sorcerer, he can take his awareness with him. That's a paraphrase, but generally accurate.
The way I see it is that an "ordinary man" (a non-sorcerer) gives up his awareness to the eagle at the moment of death. That awareness is shredded and returns to the cosmos to go through the infinite cycles of life, rebirth, death, and so on.
Someone who dies with awareness (a sorcerer) has the ability to "slip past the eagle to be free." Depending on how one interprets this (and there are lots of interpretations around these parts), that generally translates to keeping one's awareness (and identities) in some manner of eternal existence. My personal interpretation is that we transfer our awareness into our double (the energy/dreaming body) instead of giving up our awareness to the eagle. The double is the key to survival beyond the threshold of "death".
D
http://www.quantumshaman.com
I have been reading Castenda's books for a couple of years in a quest to find out more about what happens after death. Not saying that everything I read has the truth but his books has some truth in it.
Im working on a screenplay involving aspects of sorcery but my own journey is to find the truth is equally important. I have been reading what's been said on death and I wondered. Why is it so important to survive after death? If your awareness gets transferred to the universe (as I have interpreted it, you loose your identity?)
One of the things don Juan said that originally caught my attention many years ago was that... when a man leaves this world in the manner of a sorcerer, he can take his awareness with him. That's a paraphrase, but generally accurate.
The way I see it is that an "ordinary man" (a non-sorcerer) gives up his awareness to the eagle at the moment of death. That awareness is shredded and returns to the cosmos to go through the infinite cycles of life, rebirth, death, and so on.
Someone who dies with awareness (a sorcerer) has the ability to "slip past the eagle to be free." Depending on how one interprets this (and there are lots of interpretations around these parts), that generally translates to keeping one's awareness (and identities) in some manner of eternal existence. My personal interpretation is that we transfer our awareness into our double (the energy/dreaming body) instead of giving up our awareness to the eagle. The double is the key to survival beyond the threshold of "death".
D
http://www.quantumshaman.com