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I asked him where he had learned the magical passes.
He answered:
"They are the heritage of the ancient seers."
At that time, he was not much seen in public. But, little by little, his secrecy had become less
rigid, and large groups of people began to approach him. As he began to teach the passes in
public, Carlos began to change them somewhat, making them more complicated and dividing
them into categories. He ended up giving them a name taken from architecture: Tensegrity,
which, he told us, was the combination of two terms, tension and integrity.
From the very first, there were some detractors, resentful people who - without stopping to
appreciate the practical side of these exercises - began to spread the word that the nagual had
just invented them.
When I mentioned that I was worried about this, he was firm:
"Tensegrity is my intent! A nagual has authority, and this is my gift to the world.
"Don Juan and his warriors taught their apprentices many specific movements which filled us
with energy and well-being, and helped free us from the yoke of the foreign mind. My role
has been to modify them slightly, taking them out of the sphere of the personal and adapting
them to people in general, so that they become useful to other groups of practitioners."
He told me that the method he had chosen in the beginning, of teaching the magical passes in
a limited form, was in certain ways a failure, since those who were moved to practice them
were too few to accumulate enough 'energetic mass'. So, in this new phase, he had created a
system able to impact on the awareness of multitudes.
"My cohorts and I will open a great door in the energy. That fissure is so powerful that it will
last for ages, and those who approach it to look inside will be swallowed to another world.
With Tensegrity, what I seek is to train those who are interested so that they can support that
transition. Those who don't have enough discipline, will perish in the intent.
"The plan of disclosing the teachings is the summary of thirty years of practices and
experiments. As a man and as a nagual, I have done as much as I have been able to do to
make it work, because I know that the collective mass of many warriors can cause a
commotion in the modality of our time."
10
The End Of The Lineage
On various occasions, Carlos affirmed that Don Juan Matus1 lineage ended with him. But
when I wanted to know more about it, he insisted that, for now, he could not give me any
more details.
"I can't know exactly what the design of power will be; who am I to determine something like
that? I know the traditional form of the lineage which I belong to ends with me, but whether a
new format will continue into the future or not is something that is determined by a superior
force."
He told me he had spent years waiting for signs of continuity - concretely, a person that had
the luminous characteristics to be the new nagual - but those signs didn't appear.
Consequently, he had decided to act in an impeccable way, as if he were the last nagual on
earth. From that came his urgency to tell everything.
Encounters With The Nagual. ©2002 by Armando Torres.
Conversations with Carlos Castaneda.
Encounters With The Nagual
Conversations with Carlos Castaneda
©2002 by Armando Torres
FIRST LIGHT PRESS
FIRST EDITION, NOVEMBER, 2004
First published in Spanish, November 2002
ISBN:968-5671-04-4
He answered:
"They are the heritage of the ancient seers."
At that time, he was not much seen in public. But, little by little, his secrecy had become less
rigid, and large groups of people began to approach him. As he began to teach the passes in
public, Carlos began to change them somewhat, making them more complicated and dividing
them into categories. He ended up giving them a name taken from architecture: Tensegrity,
which, he told us, was the combination of two terms, tension and integrity.
From the very first, there were some detractors, resentful people who - without stopping to
appreciate the practical side of these exercises - began to spread the word that the nagual had
just invented them.
When I mentioned that I was worried about this, he was firm:
"Tensegrity is my intent! A nagual has authority, and this is my gift to the world.
"Don Juan and his warriors taught their apprentices many specific movements which filled us
with energy and well-being, and helped free us from the yoke of the foreign mind. My role
has been to modify them slightly, taking them out of the sphere of the personal and adapting
them to people in general, so that they become useful to other groups of practitioners."
He told me that the method he had chosen in the beginning, of teaching the magical passes in
a limited form, was in certain ways a failure, since those who were moved to practice them
were too few to accumulate enough 'energetic mass'. So, in this new phase, he had created a
system able to impact on the awareness of multitudes.
"My cohorts and I will open a great door in the energy. That fissure is so powerful that it will
last for ages, and those who approach it to look inside will be swallowed to another world.
With Tensegrity, what I seek is to train those who are interested so that they can support that
transition. Those who don't have enough discipline, will perish in the intent.
"The plan of disclosing the teachings is the summary of thirty years of practices and
experiments. As a man and as a nagual, I have done as much as I have been able to do to
make it work, because I know that the collective mass of many warriors can cause a
commotion in the modality of our time."
10
The End Of The Lineage
On various occasions, Carlos affirmed that Don Juan Matus1 lineage ended with him. But
when I wanted to know more about it, he insisted that, for now, he could not give me any
more details.
"I can't know exactly what the design of power will be; who am I to determine something like
that? I know the traditional form of the lineage which I belong to ends with me, but whether a
new format will continue into the future or not is something that is determined by a superior
force."
He told me he had spent years waiting for signs of continuity - concretely, a person that had
the luminous characteristics to be the new nagual - but those signs didn't appear.
Consequently, he had decided to act in an impeccable way, as if he were the last nagual on
earth. From that came his urgency to tell everything.
Encounters With The Nagual. ©2002 by Armando Torres.
Conversations with Carlos Castaneda.
Encounters With The Nagual
Conversations with Carlos Castaneda
©2002 by Armando Torres
FIRST LIGHT PRESS
FIRST EDITION, NOVEMBER, 2004
First published in Spanish, November 2002
ISBN:968-5671-04-4