04-11-2009, 12:00 AM
"This forum is devoted to discussion of Carlos Castaneda and his books that revealed the teachings of the Nagual Don Juan
Matus."
Hey folks, Lone Wolf has asked me to moderate this forum, and I figured I'd give it a try. Not that it really seems to need moderating, but maybe I can
help draw some focus onto its original theme. So, I guess I'll start off with a post about my take on the man.
I've always pegged Castaneda as a "winner," as well as being somebody who sided with winners. His behavior, over the years, seemed to be guided
by this overall principal. The reason that I bring this up is because of the dreams I had that took place in the world of the death defiers. They are the
ultimate winners, in that it is actually their collective intent to take the path that gives every possible advantage. It had been a question in my mind, as I
experienced more and more within dreaming, how could somebody like Castaneda, start off knowing nothing about sorcery, but end up having learned the best of
all of sorcery's principals. It is not an accident that his books are basically the cream of sorcery, because what I believe is that his primary role
model was a death defier, and that Don Juan was probably aware of that.
As I see it, the entire spectrum of dreaming covers quite a bit of ground, but the part that operates through power is called sorcery. It is within that realm
of power that we cross paths with inorganic beings, sorcerers, naguals, death defiers and other inexplicable awareness. So, power is like a large river into
which other smaller rivers of awareness flow. This is where human and inorganic awareness can intermingle, but only within that main river of power.
Sorcerers therefore treat power as a medium, not a commodity. Within that river, I believe that Carlos was very discerning about what his intent was, and this
would probably serve as a good lesson to anyone that wants to accomplish something with dreaming and the nagual.
From what I can tell, a nagual man or woman must first be connected with some sort of lineage or path before they can become a nagual, they cannot be some sort
of free-floating nagual that is not an expression of any direction in particular. It's like, the fact that somebody is a nagual reveals that they have
taken a side, so to speak. The only difference between a possible nagual and an actual nagual, only being the ingredient of energetic commitment. So, first
and foremost, Castaneda was about his lineage, the only question being, what exactly was his specific direction within it?
Matus."
Hey folks, Lone Wolf has asked me to moderate this forum, and I figured I'd give it a try. Not that it really seems to need moderating, but maybe I can
help draw some focus onto its original theme. So, I guess I'll start off with a post about my take on the man.
I've always pegged Castaneda as a "winner," as well as being somebody who sided with winners. His behavior, over the years, seemed to be guided
by this overall principal. The reason that I bring this up is because of the dreams I had that took place in the world of the death defiers. They are the
ultimate winners, in that it is actually their collective intent to take the path that gives every possible advantage. It had been a question in my mind, as I
experienced more and more within dreaming, how could somebody like Castaneda, start off knowing nothing about sorcery, but end up having learned the best of
all of sorcery's principals. It is not an accident that his books are basically the cream of sorcery, because what I believe is that his primary role
model was a death defier, and that Don Juan was probably aware of that.
As I see it, the entire spectrum of dreaming covers quite a bit of ground, but the part that operates through power is called sorcery. It is within that realm
of power that we cross paths with inorganic beings, sorcerers, naguals, death defiers and other inexplicable awareness. So, power is like a large river into
which other smaller rivers of awareness flow. This is where human and inorganic awareness can intermingle, but only within that main river of power.
Sorcerers therefore treat power as a medium, not a commodity. Within that river, I believe that Carlos was very discerning about what his intent was, and this
would probably serve as a good lesson to anyone that wants to accomplish something with dreaming and the nagual.
From what I can tell, a nagual man or woman must first be connected with some sort of lineage or path before they can become a nagual, they cannot be some sort
of free-floating nagual that is not an expression of any direction in particular. It's like, the fact that somebody is a nagual reveals that they have
taken a side, so to speak. The only difference between a possible nagual and an actual nagual, only being the ingredient of energetic commitment. So, first
and foremost, Castaneda was about his lineage, the only question being, what exactly was his specific direction within it?