08-27-2011, 12:00 AM
I was reading a bit from The Fire From Within, the last chapter actually, and something caught my attention. It reads:
"He [Don Juan] explained that in the few days that he was lost in the black world he aged at least ten years, if not more. The emanations inside his cocoon felt the strain of years of solitary struggle."
Castaneda goes on:
"Silvio Manuel was a totally different case. The nagual Julian also plunged him into the unknown, but Silvio Manuel assembled another world with another set of bands, a world also without the emanations of time but one which has the opposite effect on seers. He disappeared for seven years and yet he felt he had been gone only a moment."
My question is: who among you have had a similar experience to Silvio Manuel's. I've felt glipses of this in dreaming of course, but to assemble another world like he did is a mythic feat. If some force tried to crush my unbending intent, then I would simply reassemble as i've done in the past, but not with as much luck as Silvio. What things must he have learned.
This is on page 294 in the Washington Square Press edition (publisher). If anyone interested reads their copy in the right context, then perhaps we could have an informed discussion.
Yours,
--Teopiltzin
"He [Don Juan] explained that in the few days that he was lost in the black world he aged at least ten years, if not more. The emanations inside his cocoon felt the strain of years of solitary struggle."
Castaneda goes on:
"Silvio Manuel was a totally different case. The nagual Julian also plunged him into the unknown, but Silvio Manuel assembled another world with another set of bands, a world also without the emanations of time but one which has the opposite effect on seers. He disappeared for seven years and yet he felt he had been gone only a moment."
My question is: who among you have had a similar experience to Silvio Manuel's. I've felt glipses of this in dreaming of course, but to assemble another world like he did is a mythic feat. If some force tried to crush my unbending intent, then I would simply reassemble as i've done in the past, but not with as much luck as Silvio. What things must he have learned.
This is on page 294 in the Washington Square Press edition (publisher). If anyone interested reads their copy in the right context, then perhaps we could have an informed discussion.
Yours,
--Teopiltzin