Carlos Castaneda

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To Ravenmoon she-philosopher:
the mode is inner silence, authenticity. If you are not living in inner
silence, you are completely losing your life time. Silence is primary,
original nature, your own being. So without being in silence, everything
is a nonsense.





You inner silence means to become deeply friend with yourself. Silence
is the authenticity of your own being itself. Without being in silence
your are wasting/losing your own being, it means only complications
without silence.
(The best method to get to original nature is zazen (in japanese), in
sakrit dhyana in asana, sitting meditation in a physiological posture,
meditation-concentration. You can use any other teknic, but whats really
important is to get there to silence, so you can live fully, not losing
the beauty of your life with internal babble/commenting/obtrusion...)

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I will help grandfather (CC) as boddhisattva later, if it will be needed. Enough time for that.

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Remarkable comet Garradd (C2009/P1) has come to be known for two
distinctive tails. From the perspective of earthbound comet watchers the
tails
are visible on opposite sides of its greenish coma. Seen here
in a telescopic view, the recognizable dust tail fans out to the right,
trailing the comet
nucleus in its orbit. Streaming away from the
sunward direction, a familiar bluish ion tail sweeps to the left. But
the comet also seems to have, at
least temporarily, sprouted a
second ion tail recorded in this image from February 24. Other comet
imagers have recently captured changing structures
in Garradd's ion
tail created as the plasma is buffeted by the magnetic fields in the
solar wind. Now moving more quickly through northern skies, on
March 5th comet Garradd will reach its closest approach to planet Earth, about 10.5 light-minutes distant.

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"Drugs made me want to do Castaneda"



:-))



Sad.



Really, CCs books contributed to many cases of personality disorders and accidents with drugs etc. Many many. If You dont become a real warrior sincere/truthful to oneself, a friend to oneself, you will get mad and get nowhere. You cant survive here like that.



Role of thumb: Without discipline butressing, all the hardly gained expansion of consciousnes turns into psychological aberration or energetic injury. And if you do it on higher level, you will get killed. Power will become your executioner.





I know of some particular cases, You can know about cases in your country. Not only fruitcakes, but also fatalities and suicides.

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Many, many cases of personality disorders.. grandfathers book are to blame. Especially the first two, FBI agents came in 1972 to CC that if he wont stop writing about drugs they will kick him out of U.S.



Also the idea, that you will get somewhere with the drugs is very eroneous. Mushrooms, dmt, lsd ( "the most damaging thing to mental health"- Artur Janov, eeg brain changes), ayahuasca. Maybe in the traditional, ethnobotanical context.



This is the problem i have reffered above, erroneous belief or misconception, the misunderstanding... about dichotomy physical body-energy body.



Thus taking drugs to move ones AP in physical body, damamaging oneself, especially the energetic centers and circuits in the brain. Stupid.



The desire to move ones AP thinking it could be done in physical body. Nono, only meditation (inner silence) and dreaming.. this activates the energy body.



All the drugs damage the body badly if they are taken wrong, and this is case in the west in a majority of cases, 90-95 % of halucinogenic drugs intake in the west is abuse.



Do not never advocate/traffic drugs, it damages people in the west.

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I am leaving QS. i am bored with it, i am bored with sorcery, bored with shamans/toltecs, bored with everything. yawn. i will come here in december to ask you how are you =))

Boredom is the symptom of an undisciplined mind.  Those who are awake never have time to be bored.

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QS: yes.
Btw i have got another field data... my informant (wont disclose) has met with the Tenant (born 5-7 000 years BC) in the dreaming/second attention. Interesting. But i can warn You that meeting others is not so bening, its rather brutal, depending on cirmumstances and who you meet. But you should not come in contact with them if you are not a hard-line toltec sorcerer. On the other hand, there is death defier/black hand complex, and this is an issue for every dreamer.
I can add that the situation of every man on this earth is this pull into negativity/darkness (stupidity is the dark side) primarily thru flyers (demons too), secondary demons etc. I.e. its not bening to be ordinary man, as its a "predatory" universe (kama-loka, the hells = underworld).
"Our fellow citiziens are black magicians"...
Do not forget..
Someone has asked what role am i playing here, it is this role of pinpointing You the readers the Cosmos, as CC had intentionally cut it down in his books. Thats my role.

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He had many epithets which alluded to different aspects of his deity: Titlacauan ("We are his Slaves"), Ipalnemoani ("He by whom we live"), Necoc Yaotl ("Enemy of Both Sides")..



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tezcatlipoca

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Have You read about Twins journey in the Underworld ? The tests on them.. brutal, but very interesting/important.



I recommend to the sceptics Stanislav Grofs book on death/compilation



http://www.amazon.com/Ult...tery-Death/dp/0966001990



Very usefull, also Armanda Torres has a good, first-class thanatalogical comments by CC





The issue is this death awaits everyone, and then there is this difference in the end..



In the modern teknocratic scientistic world, we are complete nincompoops as to the death, we are ignoring it.. the biggest mistake, but total mistake as related to the cosmos, its the more graver mistake to ignore cosmos (you end then in animal womb or as a hungry ghost), than to ignore basic "memento mori" in one life as the patients do.



In the middle ages, there was literature "ars moriendi", there was awareness of death, awareness of cosmos.



Nowadays, in the west, especially in the U.S., people are totally stupid as to that, the consum.



Please, dont be stupid here on this forum in this regard. Dont be fools..



Warrior/sorcery and awareness of death are the same, synonyms. There is death on every step on warriors path, as everything is lethal.



If you are interested in CCs antropological works, You should be aware of this.



This is the reason i am criticing new age and people flirting with Castaneda... its really ridiculous what some people think here.. No, you are mistaken. Death is the reality.

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QS: yes.
Btw i have got another field data... my informant (wont disclose) has met with the Tenant (born 5-7 000 years BC) in the dreaming/second attention. Interesting. But i can warn You that meeting others is not so bening, its rather brutal, depending on cirmumstances and who you meet. But you should not come in contact with them if you are not a hard-line toltec sorcerer. On the other hand, there is death defier/black hand complex, and this is an issue for every dreamer.
I say that if there IS a "tenant" born so many years ago, bring him/her on.  I'd be glad to meet with him/her, but despite years of putting out that invitation... nada.  Sounds like a nagual urban legend... heh.
But seriously... I'm game.  Seeing as how we are "beings who are going to die", there's really nothing to lose.  Bring it on.  First attention.  Second attention.  Makes no difference to me.

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QS: That sorcerer choose who to meet, not vice versa. You cant find him/her, he lives in difficult strata. There is an invocation (his name), but he wont come anyway, as he is a very distinctive doe =)

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QS: That sorcerer choose who to meet, not vice versa. You cant find him/her, he lives in difficult strata. There is an invocation (his name), but he wont come anyway, as he is a very distinctive doe =)
Heh.  It's always somethin', ain't it?  Can't come because they live in another world.  Can't come because you're not ready, young grasshopper.  Can't come 'cuz they got their persqueeter caught in an escalator.  LOL.
After all these years, it's started to remind me of Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

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Thats Buggs Bunny Della ! ))


This picture says everything.. ))))

and this looks like an ally hh

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Fairy tales are important for kids, later in life they find it useful, as not to be stupid hh. also the values..love will win

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This story is only about importance of substantial, sincere, profound spiritual work, in the importance of matter of life and death.



I must correct some bombastic claims (joke on you boys and girls), i have seen only the Intent ten years ago.. or it was 10 000 years ago hh. The cognitive world was my pure scientific interest, my hobby. Personally, i dont play any role, except of this short narrative to teach possibly some sceptics that to reverse to ignorant materialistic/scientictic world view is not an option. And more importantly, that Dharma is a law beyond everything, pointing to forming and aggregating/conditioning power of karma creating the existence (31 planes of existence).



The sorcerers of antiquity did not know about karma (karma is the existence forming force), e.g. how intent will create their post-mortem deal or the consenquences of their practices, second attention fixation/traps.



Dont be stupid, either as "ordinary" person or as a sorcerer.



whats the distinction here anyway, as of ordinary person (fellow citizien) and sorcerer as they are on the same substrate, beings on their way to gateway of death... they are really two types of travellers. ignorant people and the wise (that is spiritual warrior, e.g. not stupid, in the meaning what i write about).



Dont be stupid. Be wise.

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"Intent is the quantifiable force of energy which turns thoughtform into manifestation."



- QS

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The sorcerers of antiquity did not know about karma (karma is the existence forming force), e.g. how intent will create their post-mortem deal or the consenquences of their practices, second attention fixation/traps.

   Karma does not exist, other than as a thought-form.  Bad things happen to good people.  Good things happen to bad people.  Karma is just the boogeyman of the east.  If you believe in it, you probably end up creating it.  If you stop believing in everything you read and everything you think, maybe you would get a step closer to the authentic self.
...and for that matter... thought you were bored with sorcery and hitting the road for the high hills of SomePlaceElse. 
You make comments and claims, yet never seem to carry through or produce quantifiable, examinable evidence.  Your friend met the tenant... but the tenant won't meet anybody else because he has his left testicle caught in the crack between the worlds... or whatever.
If you want anybody to take you seriously, you REALLY need to focus, breathe, and stop bouncing around like a jack in the box.

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DJ would say, “One cannot dominate this force (idiots!), one can accede to it. That was the error of the old sorcerers.”





Speaking about Intent.





Dont be stupid. In Power of Silence there its described all the five possible WRONG (stupid) relations to Intent what have brought total disaster to old sorcers. Dont trip on it.



I hate writing about myself, but for your benefit i must admit that i did it, i was very stupid. and i got to the point of telekinesis. That was a serious degree of stupidity of wrong relation to Intent, if you got to the point of telekinesis. Old sorcers did move large stones with it. I did only a little telekinesis one, a few kilos of steel, but very serious degree of stupidity, e.g. of misunderstanding intent. I have really thought i can control it. You can imagine then the embarassment. One must focus on abstract or one gets unbearable ! hh. Very hard days.





Also Spirit is not what you think.



I just want to point you that to go in the tracks of Old Sorcerers, is really stupid. thats idiotic. I think this is the problem of un-educated sorcerers. Really stupid. Especially girls are prone to it - I cant fap to that !



You dont have a nagual so at least read the book power of silence.

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QS: and now i must step in QS !



You are mistaken QS: on karma (kamma in the original pali). e.g. you are ignorant on that, but you are lucky to have me here.



I will tell You what is karma QS..



Karma is a process (runned by Intent) in which You aggregate the components of existence ( there exists the Storehouse-consciousness, alaya-viynana) - and for example how you are born as human being, or reborn as an animal, or as ghost (for example the suicider), or particulary here, how you end up like Don Juan, or like Castaneda, or like the buried seers at rock in Mexico (death defiers), or like the some shamans of ancient Mexico. There is this formation of existence (there are mechanism, i know all the mechanisms), and this is called karma. If Dreamways wrote there is no karma for sorcerers, he doesnt know what is karma, and you dont know it too QS ! And the buried seers, the mexican "indians", the old sorcerers, did not know it too. They have ended up terribly in general, the old sorcerers, terrible folks.



For Your information QS, i dont pull it all out of my ass, its my knowledge, not my belief system. On the other hand, You lack this knowledge. But here you have possibility to fix your education, for your benefit.



No, its not my belief system, its a reality. its a knowledge. I have not read about it yesterday.



This is old, ancient knowlege, for example 2000 BC Indus valley civilization (Harrappa, Mohenjodaro), and in Mexico, Toltecs.. and Mayans had devoloped reincarnation systems for migration of souls in "incubators", Mayans knew what is the "karma".



But the Indians never got it to Gods realms (not the lower heavens in kama-loka). This is the domain of old BUDDHISM, or the predecessings. This world is here rather for gods amusement.





The problem here is that i am first-class worlds top scholar, really, the one who knows, who has the knowledge (one girl has written here that you cant know what is after death.. dont come here with this nonsense, the cosmos is clear like a crystal ) and You are those one who dont know, and should really think about what i write here, the food for thought, i am doing it a bit harder for you i know.



You can start reading the Pali canon in English. I suggest.



I have studied tomes of metaphysics really extensively, the whole spectrum, i know all the mechanisms, of heavens and hells. I am a real scholar (do you remember scholar Vicente Medrano ?), professor ! Now i demand call me proffesor !



QS: i have no problem with sorcerers world. I am free of that, above.. ) I did some scenes, and now you cant believe sorry.



I have a vast knowledge. really.

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You may not be pulling it out of YOUR ass, but you are pulling it out of the ass of the collective/consensual agreement.
You have no knowledge that I have seen.  Instead, you have tons of "information," most of which is nothing more than false belief systems heaped onto you by all those dusty books you've read.  Just 'cuz they're old doesn't make them true.  *shrugs*
Knowledge is the result of experience - nothing more, nothing less.  Therefore, I submit to you the idea that you really don't KNOW much of anything.  You are just a conduit for books you've read, videos you've watched, **** you have accumulated in your head.
None of it is real unless and until it is processed through experience.
You try to pass yourself off as a teacher, when the harsh reality is that you are desperately in need of one.  Not me - I don't want the job, because frankly I think any potential you may have is being devoured by your self-importance.  Demanding that someone call you professor?  Almost cracked a rib I laughed so hard on that one.
Throw all the books in the trash.  Then you'll be at a good starting point.
Until then, I won't waste anymore time or energy here.

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QS: "The core of your belief determines the realities you See and obliterates those you choose to ignore."



I. The Immaterial World (arupa-loka)

Realm Comments Cause of rebirth here

(31) Neither-perception-nor-non-perception (nevasaññanasaññayatanupaga deva) The inhabitants of these realms are possessed entirely of mind. Having no physical body, they are unable to hear Dhamma teachings. Fourth formless jhana

(30) Nothingness (akiñcaññayatanupaga deva) Third formless jhana

(29) Infinite Consciousness (viññanañcayatanupaga deva) Second formless jhana

(28) Infinite Space (akasanañcayatanupaga deva) First formless jhana

II. The Fine-Material World (rupa-loka)

Realm Comments Cause of rebirth here

(27) Peerless devas (akanittha deva) These are the five Pure Abodes (suddhavasa), which are accessible only to non-returners (anagami) and arahants. Beings who become non-returners in other planes are reborn here, where they attain arahantship.



Among its inhabitants is Brahma Sahampati, who begs the Buddha to teach Dhamma to the world (SN 6.1).





Fourth jhana. (See, e.g., AN 4.123.)

(26) Clear-sighted devas (sudassi deva)

(25) Beautiful devas (sudassa deva)

(24) Untroubled devas (atappa deva)

(23) Devas not Falling Away (aviha deva)

(22) Unconscious beings (asaññasatta) Only body is present; no mind.

(21) Very Fruitful devas (vehapphala deva) Beings in these planes enjoy varying degrees of jhanic bliss.

(20) Devas of Refulgent Glory (subhakinna deva)



Third jhana (highest degree). (See, e.g., AN 4.123.)

(19) Devas of Unbounded Glory (appamanasubha deva) Third jhana (medium degree)

(18) Devas of Limited Glory (parittasubha deva) Third jhana (minor degree)

(17) Devas of Streaming Radiance (abhassara deva)



Second jhana (highest degree). (See, e.g., AN 4.123.)

(16) Devas of Unbounded Radiance (appamanabha deva) Second jhana (medium degree)

(15) Devas of Limited Radiance (parittabha deva) Second jhana (minor degree)

(14) Great Brahmas (Maha brahma) One of this realm's most famous inhabitants is the Great Brahma, a deity whose delusion leads him to regard himself as the all-powerful, all-seeing creator of the universe (DN 11). First jhana (highest degree)

(13) Ministers of Brahma (brahma-purohita deva) Beings in these planes enjoy varying degrees of jhanic bliss. First jhana (medium degree)

(12) Retinue of Brahma (brahma-parisajja deva)



First jhana (minor degree). (See, e.g., AN 4.123.)

III. The Sensuous World (kama-loka)

Happy Destinations (sugati)

Realm Comments Cause of rebirth here

(11) Devas Wielding Power over the Creation of Others (paranimmita-vasavatti deva) These devas enjoy sense pleasures created by others for them. Mara, the personification of delusion and desire, lives here. · Ten wholesome actions (MN 41)



· Generosity



· The development of virtue and wisdom (AN 10.177)

(10) Devas Delighting in Creation (nimmanarati deva) These devas delight in the sense objects of their own creation.

(9) Contented devas (tusita deva) A realm of pure delight and gaiety. Bodhisattas abide here prior to their final human birth. This is where the bodhisatta Maitreya (Metteya), the next Buddha, is said to dwell.

( Yama devas (yama deva) These devas live in the air, free of all difficulties.

(7) The Thirty-three Gods (tavatimsa deva) Sakka, a devotee of the Buddha, presides over this realm. Many devas dwelling here live in mansions in the air.

(6) Devas of the Four Great Kings (catumaharajika deva) Home of the gandhabbas, the celestial musicians, and the yakkhas, tree spirits of varying degrees of ethical purity. The latter are analogous to the goblins, trolls, and fairies of Western fairy tales.

(5) Human beings (manussa loka)



You are here (for now).



Rebirth as a human being is extraordinarily rare (SN 56.48). It is also extraordinarily precious, as its unique balance of pleasure and pain (SN 35.135) facilitates the development of virtue and wisdom to the degree necessary to set one free from the entire cycle of rebirths.

· The development of virtue and wisdom (AN 10.177)



· The attainment of stream-entry (sotapatti) guarantees that all future rebirths will be in the human or higher realms.

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States of Deprivation (apaya)

Realm Comments Cause of rebirth here

(4) Asuras (asura) The demons — "titans" — that dwell here are engaged in relentless conflict with each other. · Ten unwholesome actions (MN 41)

(3) Hungry Shades/Ghosts (peta loka) Ghosts and unhappy spirits wander hopelessly about this realm, searching in vain for sensual fulfillment.



Read Ajaan Lee's colorful description of this realm.

· Ten unwholesome actions (MN 41)



· Lack of virtue, holding to wrong views (AN 10.177)

(2) Animals (tiracchana yoni) This realm includes all the non-human forms of life that are visible to us under ordinary circumstances: animals, insects, fish, birds, worms, etc. · Ten unwholesome actions (MN 41)



· Lack of virtue, holding to wrong views. If one is generous to monks and nuns, however, one may be reborn as an "ornamented" animal (i.e., a bird with bright plumage; a horse with attractive markings, etc.; AN 10.177).



· Behaving like an animal (MN 57)

(1) Hell (niraya) These are realms of unimaginable suffering and anguish (described in graphic detail in MN 129 and 130). Should not be confused with the eternal hell proposed by other religions, since one's time here is — as it is in every realm — temporary. · Ten unwholesome actions (MN 41)



· Lack of virtue, holding to wrong views (AN 10.177)



· Murdering your parents, murdering an arahant, injuring the Buddha, or creating a schism in the Sangha (AN 5.129)



· Being quarrelsome and annoying to others (Snp II.6)

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The Thirty-one Planes of Existence



http://www.accesstoinsigh...f/dhamma/sagga/loka.html

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quantumshaman wrote:You may not be pulling it out of YOUR ass, but you are pulling it out of the ass of the collective/consensual agreement.
You have no knowledge that I have seen.  Instead, you have tons of "information," most of which is nothing more than false belief systems heaped onto you by all those dusty books you've read.  Just 'cuz they're old doesn't make them true.  *shrugs*
Knowledge is the result of experience - nothing more, nothing less.  Therefore, I submit to you the idea that you really don't KNOW much of anything.  You are just a conduit for books you've read, videos you've watched, **** you have accumulated in your head.
None of it is real unless and until it is processed through experience.
You try to pass yourself off as a teacher, when the harsh reality is that you are desperately in need of one.  Not me - I don't want the job, because frankly I think any potential you may have is being devoured by your self-importance.  Demanding that someone call you professor?  Almost cracked a rib I laughed so hard on that one.
Throw all the books in the trash.  Then you'll be at a good starting point.
Until then, I won't waste anymore time or energy here.Madam, we have an agreement here =)
Thanks for a kind feedback. I cant change that i am scholar, i am scholar. Scientist. Phenomenology of "religion", comparative religion, ethnography, like Castaneda. Thats my hobby.  Of course i am not pulling it out of my ass, once again just for the others: Dreamways notes are valid (e.g. he is meeting DJ), Songbird was in Castanedas homeworld, another informant has met really the Tenant, i have met the nagual group (lineage) etc. I have full membership to the knowledge. I am the sure boy. So the world of sorcers and  the world of Dharma is real - the buddhist sorcerers/yogi/boddhisattvas (i have the full experience with that, really). even the Gods. not the lesser gods, like mayan or aztec gods/demons, or the mythological heroes.
The only reason i am writing about it here is thats my duty writing for those who have doubts about the importance of their life and death and thus their own spiritual practice, ie how they live, how they relate to Infinity, the Absolute.
I stress that Dharma is the primary, the Law. If you ignore it, you are simply ignorant like the old sorcerers, and thats the stupid mistake nowadays..

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I saw that second hag/ghoul about 3-4 weeks ago after I transitioned into the dreaming body beside my bed. Walked out the door and began to lift off to fly down the breezeway and out the front door to our apartment complex...and that thing was hanging, like a vampire, upside down in the doorway...humongous jet black shadow menacing which delivered me a barrage of gothic/baroque images and symbols into my dreaming eye as I flew towards it. I knew it was trying to disrupt me with fear, injecting me with a feeling of power with all the flashes of imagery and its imposing form. I didn't even slow down...just flew right through the center of it...and, sure enough, it was insubstantial. As I accelerated up and into the sky I turned and gave the beastie, still hanging in the doorway, a little curt wave and a wink...."Later, gator!"



They feed on fear it seems....strong emotional reaction. If you dont' give it...they don't get it...and then they're gone