Talking to New People About nagualism

[bluedreamer]

Hey arnway, today surprized me I found the opportunity to talk to a new person about nagualism. He is a freind of mine who when I am with I always think he could benefit from reading Casteneda and maybe going from there to a more active engagement with the teachings, but until today I never felt the time was right to say much more than telling him that I am interested in it. He dropped by today before hitting the road to his home in another state and one of the things he said was that he decided that he wanted to experience people with fresh eyes and was seeing me in a new way. I had too decided to drop my opinions of him after getting frustrated with him for saying he would visit and then not showing up, and not answering my emails, so when he arrived I was glad to see him and not irritated with him any longer. I spoke to him a bit about how most of the time people aren't realing seeing who is front of them because they are looking through their opinions about various things and then I wanting to talk a little about nagualism which I did by showing him"a Separate Reality" , he read the back cover and then made a move to look inside the cover so I asked him to open it at random and read what was there if he didn't mind. He opened to the part where Don Juan is talking to Carlos about seeing, about how men think the acts of their selves and fellow men are important because they have learned to think they are important and therefore feel that way. I talked alittle about how that applied to me and how I realized that the way I was looking at things, that my opinions and focus on self blocked the perception of something else that was way more interesting than my personal opinions and drama, and that I am unlearning that because it has been discredited in my life and I am interested in something else. He was impressed that he had opened to that page in light of what he had said about seeing people with new eyes and he is aware that he is sometimes too self-important. He is a guy with a ton of energy and I feel that if he learns by unlearning he could do a lot with that energy. It was great for me to hear someone else read the passages from that book because I heard something that I hadn't paid much attention to the first time and that is noticing what Don Juan has Carlos do, for instance at one point Don Juan says something that overwhelms Carols' mind and Carlos gets suddenly unable to think coherently and gets exhausted, Don Juan tells him to clean and carefully shred some plants into a jar and then leaves him awhile. I saw that Don juan was anchoring Carlos, grounding him by having him do a practical and earthy task. Later Carlos is recouped and ready with more questions but Don zen Juan is hungry and fixes soup. He has carlos feed the fire. He teaches him some patience. Then Carlos sees the clouds and Don Juan makes the "apropros" statement about them before Carlos can comment on their beauty. that is where my friend stopped his reading. Now I'm gonna go back reading the book in a new way, more like reading the "spaces inbetween" which Don Juan talks about seeing in this book also.

All around good experience of sharing something of nagualism or maybe more like something about being a warrior.