06-04-2007, 12:00 AM
Where did he publish this statement? And would this be one exception to "under no circumstances"?
Here's the passage and I think I see the loophole that CC went for:
Quote:"He recommended to me, however, that under no circumstances should I talk about the magical passes with any of his disciples or with people in general. His reasons were that the magical passes pertained exclusively to each person, and that their effect was so shattering, it was better just to practice them without discussing them.."~ Magical Passes Introduction
Somewhere else in the books don Juan told CC that he had to find his own magical passes via dreaming, or seeing...I forget which. I think it was either one. Or maybe both. "Recommended" was the loophole that enabled the writing of the book. Maybe CC did feel his time was at an end and decided to go against the recommendation out of fear that the magical passes would go undiscovered.
IMHO, he should've written a book about magical passes, or at least a chapter, telling how to find them for oneself...the steps to seeing them or dreaming about them. But it would've been a short book indeed.
I still think it's very very odd that he would introduce a book on a forbidden subject with a reiteration that it was forbidden, but also a de facto circumvention of that taboo evidenced by the fact that the book was published.
I think don Juan's reasons are sound. Cutting corners especially modifying such an abstract core as the personal nature of the discovery of magical passes is a crucial unhinging of sorcery itself.
It is why I bought the book, read the introduction through a couple of times and then put it back on the shelf never having read it. How I access my particular magical passes is by relaxing and allowing myself to shift into heightened awareness and then a force comes along and "plays" with my arms, positioning them this or that way. Or perhaps if I'm standing, I'll suddenly shift, for no apparent reason, and adopt a stance that feels like I'm concentrating my energy, or projecting it, or whatever I'm up to that specific time.
Here's the passage and I think I see the loophole that CC went for:
Quote:"He recommended to me, however, that under no circumstances should I talk about the magical passes with any of his disciples or with people in general. His reasons were that the magical passes pertained exclusively to each person, and that their effect was so shattering, it was better just to practice them without discussing them.."~ Magical Passes Introduction
Somewhere else in the books don Juan told CC that he had to find his own magical passes via dreaming, or seeing...I forget which. I think it was either one. Or maybe both. "Recommended" was the loophole that enabled the writing of the book. Maybe CC did feel his time was at an end and decided to go against the recommendation out of fear that the magical passes would go undiscovered.
IMHO, he should've written a book about magical passes, or at least a chapter, telling how to find them for oneself...the steps to seeing them or dreaming about them. But it would've been a short book indeed.
I still think it's very very odd that he would introduce a book on a forbidden subject with a reiteration that it was forbidden, but also a de facto circumvention of that taboo evidenced by the fact that the book was published.
I think don Juan's reasons are sound. Cutting corners especially modifying such an abstract core as the personal nature of the discovery of magical passes is a crucial unhinging of sorcery itself.
It is why I bought the book, read the introduction through a couple of times and then put it back on the shelf never having read it. How I access my particular magical passes is by relaxing and allowing myself to shift into heightened awareness and then a force comes along and "plays" with my arms, positioning them this or that way. Or perhaps if I'm standing, I'll suddenly shift, for no apparent reason, and adopt a stance that feels like I'm concentrating my energy, or projecting it, or whatever I'm up to that specific time.