Carlos Castaneda

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"all three of your usual bodies have to be detoxified to become Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya and Nirmanakaya as in Tibetan Vajrayana. Then does the highest body, the Supracausal, become three-in-one Vajrakaya, Diamond Body."



Scout ? i would like to understand some of this .

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Samsara



http://www.dhammaspread.org/page347.htm







Samsara (sangsara) means wandering on, or being stuck in the endless cycle of death and rebirth, and while being merely a concept to most people of the present day, to some yogis, meditators, it is understood through direct experience. Its origins go back some 5,000 years at least, in the Indus Valley region of India, and long before the supposed invasion from the northwest by the Aryans. (1)



The knowledge of samsara came about through the development of jhanas, and when the yogis became skilled in the fourth jhana they developed abhinnya, higher knowledges. These higher knowledges are described as follows:



· Iddhividha: Flying through the air, walking on water, diving into the earth, and the creation of forms.



· Dibbasota: the celestial ear, enabling one to hear subtle or coarse sounds far or near.



· Paracittavijanana: The power to discern the thoughts of others.



· Pubbenivasanussati: The power to remember the past lives of oneself and others.



· Dibbacakkhu: The celestial or divine eye, enabling one to see heavenly or earthly things far or near that are imperceptible to the physical eye, and in particular the dying and reappearance of beings.







In today’s world, such things appear to be within the realm of fantasy, but these are the fruits of willful, one-pointed samadhi leading to jhana. It is worth mentioning here that there are historical records of the yogis of early India traveling west to ancient Greece, and later not only influencing Roman culture but also Middle Eastern culture. They certainly influenced Western culture, indirectly at least, as the descriptive stories of Indian knowledge like walking on water and other such abilities, together with virgin birth, became the basic resume for the hagiography of all religious leaders of that time. You also have to consider that even with such knowledges a person is still an ordinary being ruled by ignorance of the true nature of existence and who the real creator is.



The higher knowledge that gave the early yogis the direct understanding of samsara was Dibbacakkhu, (2) the ‘celestial eye’, and they were able to experience an instantaneous birth into the Yama realm (Thai: Yuma loke) and see the energy form of beings. The Yama realm is also known as the death realm, although the meaning of Yama is ‘that which destroys pain’. What they saw was not what you might expect, particularly as many people have a concept of the soul or spirit leaving the body upon death and going off to a theme-park heaven or some other destination. What they saw was each individual being made up of an oval-shaped mind of fibers of energy or awareness, with certain centers of the energy interacting with energy from outside of them. They understood that all worlds, from the various unhappy states or hells to the most blissful heavenly realms, were all contained within each oval-shaped mind of energy, and when a being died in one realm its center of awareness simply moved to another realm. They understood that the energy was composed of karmic energy (kamma), and that all worlds were illusory or maya. The Yama realm has also been known as a realm for traveling, but that is another story.



This particular experience was not unique to the early yogis of India, although perhaps their understanding of it was. Some more recent anthropological evidence, somewhat tainted by capitalism and modern culture, also suggests that early Mesoamerican people experienced the same realm, although their interest in it was more towards exploratory possibilities than pure metaphysics. Several descriptions in the early Vedas regarding death parallel the descriptions by the Mesoamerican people, and the meaning is exactly the same in both cultures. That other civilizations would experience the same realm is not surprising, it is after all part of the essence of existence and not a cultural or religious experience.



The cosmology of the different realms is a description that existed long ago. Buddhism as such never formulated any cosmology, and simply uses the earlier descriptions found in the Vedas. While they are mere descriptions, the early yogis were quite knowledgeable about the different realms, and no doubt this was a huge science, which for the most part is now long forgotten. The fact that such higher knowledges exist leads to one obvious recognition, and that is that the usual realities of one realm are meaningless in another (something that those who have journeyed into their own minds have no doubt already discovered). Thus, there is little point in dwelling upon such knowledge as not every meditator will experience such things, and more importantly, ‘worldly’ knowledge is not the objective of Buddhist practice.



While there are Ajarns in Thailand, for example, who have had such experiences through developing the jhanas, such knowledge is simply termed ‘Tam’ (Dhamma) in the broad sense of the term, meaning the nature of existence, and it is not usually a subject of discussion because it is not a common subject for all Buddhists. Here it has relevance in outlining the origins of samsara, but it is not necessary to experience such things, nor is it necessary to believe them. Through vipassana meditation, meditators gradually comprehend the same essential nature of existence in their own minds, so there is no need to develop these higher knowledges.



The apparently endless journey of samsara is fueled by karma, and even though the early yogis were aware of this none of them knew the details of how to stop making karma. Before his spiritual perfection, The Buddha went through the same meditative developments, experienced the same higher knowledges, and came to the same conclusions, that this ‘wandering on’ was indeed pointless and unsatisfactory. However, he also understood the mind process, and knew the root cause of making karma and how to stop making it.



Very generally, we say that the root cause is ignorance, then, being more specific, we say that the root cause is attachment; we have attachment to things because of our ignorance. The attachment we have is twofold, namely, for the things we like and for the things we don’t like. When we act on this attachment, or react to it, we think, speak, or do something with a mental energy equal to the level of our attachment. We call this mental energy intent, and intent creates karma. Thus, karma is a conditioned energy that we create ourselves, and we later experience the consciousness of this energy through some form of existence, i.e. our present existence or some later existence.



To stop making karma we have to become aware of the mind process, which means that we have to stop being ignorant. To stop being ignorant we have to stop attaching to things, and the only way to do this is to look closely at the objects of our attachment and understand them as they really are. To do this you have to study, not read books, but study your own mind, hence the need to develop vipassana meditation. When you no longer attach to things, then you no longer act with intent and no longer create karma.



Building the mind or building the world



Building the mind or building the world (sang jit reu sang loke, in Thai), is basically a choice that people make in their lives, which means following one at the expense of the other to some extent. Building the mind means developing the mind through vipassana meditation, while building the world means taking the world and its affairs seriously.



This does not mean that yogis ignore the world completely; it simply means that they get their priorities straight. They develop the mind first, and whatever comes upon their path later they are then in a better position to deal with it (instead of being a part of the problem).



If one begins to understand the implications of samsara, then the one thing you realize about building the world is that you cannot possibly win. First of all, you are going to die no matter what, and secondly, whether people believe it or not, the world is maya, illusion. Thus, even if you end up as master of the universe, you are only master of the illusion, and you are merely a temporary phenomenon traveling towards a temporary end.



For those who would aim for a perfect world (disregarding the illusory nature of the world), the world is already perfect, according to its nature, the law of cause and effect. For those who would still insist on building a perfect world, then obviously a perfect world would be made up of perfect beings, so they had better get busy. If you want perfection, then look for it within your own mind.



Building the mind through vipassana meditation will bring you closer to this perfection, and your present journey will become more acceptable as you learn how to avoid suffering. Ultimately, it becomes your ticket out of samsara, as you refrain from subscribing to further destinations.







Footnotes:



(1)



There was no such race as Aryan, which meant an honorable or excellent person in Vedic sanskrit, nor any actual evidence of an invasion, and more recent archeological evidence reveals that the supposed invaders lived in this area at least 8,000 years ago. The historian who came up with such a theory, also happened to be a missionary who probably wanted to portray the superiority of fairer skin color over darker skin color, and that the invaders were perhaps connected to his own middle-eastern based religious culture that he considered to be superior.



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Dibbacakkhu is the real third eye, not the sensual home-entertainment version of the third eye associated with a part of the brain. Whatever body anyone has comes from their spirituality, thus materiality is of no consequence; it is just a mental product. To say that such knowledge is not for the faint of heart is still a gross understatement. In the Yama realm there is no materiality, and one must not forget that it is the death realm, there is no guarantee that anyone will actually come back. For those who do experience such knowledge, then this experience shapes the rest of their lives and their usual view of existence is lost forever. Having said all of that, however, this type of knowledge is still only a beginning, still on the mundane level.







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Cosmology



http://web.singnet.com.sg/~alankhoo/DharmaRealm.htm

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nice .



"Well then i must have taken the "warrior" completely on a hard-line military basis )) i should know that it is warrior of a soul =)) instead i took a right wing fundamentalist hardcore-halucinogen vs. predator fanatic =)))" Scout1 .



LOL

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If You are a so-called "sceptic" reading this site..
CCs works can be possibly a perfect compilation, like a novel.
But the so-called spiritual scepticism is untenable, as it is a modern spiritual materialistic ignorance.
Actually I recommend these two sources to detter this view via personal research:
Also i recommend it to You all members here so i share it.
1) An excellent book: Autobiography of Yogi. Especially:

CHAPTER: 43

THE RESURRECTION OF SRI YUKTESWAR
 http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/ayogi10.txt
2) Ayahuasca/Santo Daime spirituality.

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Beautiful, deep "conlusion" on CC by his student Bruce Wagner.



The Art of Reality



http://www.tricycle.com/feature/art-reality?page=0,0



Bruce Wagner remembers the "simple but not easy" lessons of his teacher, Carlos Castaneda





(i take this as a bottom line on CC. Otherwise, Nagualism can be practised and You can meet people who practice it. I can refer only to 2 practitioners for a reference thereof: Dreamways and NLW).
The only book on current Nagualism beside CCs works is the Armando Torres: The encounters with Nagual: Conversations with CC, and nagual.yuku.com
I have made just some remarks on this topic (Nagualism) and i have nothing to add further.
We just learn and grow (spiritually) as people, or not. The inner integrity, mindfullness, carefullness, inner silence and love are the atributes. The awareness (the art of awareness) is our life. That spirituality is our life, its our life. The awareness.
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ad Nagualism
Its based on Nagual (benefactor) lineage, warrior, Power etc. silence, recapitulation, dreaming, seeing.
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ad Yoga, Christianity, Buddhism.
I can recommend pure Yoga, especially Himalaya yoga traditions. Yoga is the pure integral spirituality, neither mere physical education or religion. Hence Yoga is denominator of both Christianity and Buddhism.


Himalaya tradition. Great book, really great book (of biblical proportions) next to Autobiography of a yogi, is Living with the Himalayan Masters by
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Rama
and other books by Swami Rama
http://www.swamij.com
The other Great book
The Holy science by Sri Yukteswar
http://www.scribd.com/doc/35297919/Sri- ... ly-Science
And in the last resort, the autobigraphy of former sorcerer Milarepa, who killed 35 people with black magic, and found the Way-out. If You would have felt lost, this book will help You.

God help You.

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Everything is possible.



But the rules..
Order =)

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Is that so?

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"Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions. To have such clarity you must lead a disciplined life. Only then will you know that any path is only a path and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do. But your decision to keep on the path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. I warn you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary.

This question is one that only a very old man asks. Does this path have a heart? All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long long paths, but I am not anywhere. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.



Before you embark on any path ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path. The trouble is nobody asks the question; and when a man finally realizes that he has taken a path without a heart, the path is ready to kill him. At that point very few men can stop to deliberate, and leave the path. A path without a heart is never enjoyable. You have to work hard even to take it. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy; it does not make you work at liking it.







I have told you that to choose a path you must be free from fear and ambition. The desire to learn is not ambition. It is our lot as men to want to know.

The path without a heart will turn against men and destroy them. It does not take much to die, and to seek death is to seek nothing.



For me there is only the traveling on the paths that have a heart, on any path that may have a heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge for me is to traverse its full length. And there I travel--looking, looking, breathlessly."

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The art of reality..



http://www.tricycle.com/feature/art-reality?page=0,0

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Ray: I'm in pain man. I want something from the peyote. I feel the universe functioning perfectly but I'm still perfectly locked inside myself. Instead of oneness, I feel total isolation. Aloneness. Fear... pain...Jim, all I feel is pain.

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Letter from Bob



Dear Tensegrity Practitioners,





What a strange paradox! Every warrior on the path of knowledge thinks, at one time or another, that he's learning sorcery, but all he's doing is allowing himself to be convinced of the power hidden in his being, and that he can reach it.

Carlos Castaneda



My name is Robert Savery and I have been practicing Tensegrity since 1994. For most of those years I have been a representative of Cleargreen and an instructor of Magical Passes. It is from my heart and with immeasurable gratitude and affection that I disagree with the path that Cleargreen has chosen to take. In my view Cleargreen Inc. today no longer serves the mass of practitioners, so I am resigning from representing it.

I did not want to be the one to write this letter, or to give up my cherished position as a Cleargreen instructor. I could easily sit by and let things take their course, but in the silence I hear a clear purpose and the intent of the Nagual.



Many of my cohorts agree that in the last few years there has been a struggle for control and power that is so far from where we all want to be, from where we all have been dreaming to be. Laugan productions and Cleargreen Inc. have been hiring lawyers and copywriting under their name all the workshop materials from the last 13 years that have been co-created amongst many of us. Inside Cleargreen we have become a hierarchy with a corporate view of money and power that is ready to bring a lawsuit on anyone who stands in the way. I can promise you that Carlos Castaneda would have closed Cleargeen offices years ago.



I am very thankful that Cleargreen has served the amazing purpose of co-guiding the teachings of the students of Don Juan and helping to create a mass of loving, sober and very awake practitioners all around the world. Carlos Castaneda left behind the dream of a mass of practitioners, in a structure of Tensegrity, which by definition is a system that functions through interdependence and not hierarchy. In my view, Cleargreen has lost sight of the power and inherent wisdom of the mass of practitioners to co-create how the teachings of the Nagual are navigated. In this parting of the ways, there is in fact deep disagreement of this relationship of Cleargreen and practitioners, where Cleargreen views practitioners more as corporate clients rather than equal members of the Tensegrity structure.





There is a naturally growing movement among the practitioners of the world to self organize low cost events where they can invite any instructor they wish. It is very likely, judging from previous events like One Earth, that Cleargreen will not support this natural organic organization of practitioners, and that one way they will combat it is through offering some practitioner organizers positions in the hierarchy in order to gain their support of Cleargreen, as it is now being set-up. I see the current approach of Cleargreen to be one of power concentrated in two or three people who believe that they alone have the final word on how the teachings of the Nagual and this path of knowledge should be shared. In spite of this, it is my hope and trust that the power and intent of the current vibrating force in the Tensegrity community will hold strong as it takes this next step into becoming its own nature; that each of us in this powerful mass of practitioners will not give up this dream and will claim what is ours.



Carlos Castaneda said many times that we do not have a Don Juan Matus to move our assemblage point, but we have the mass of practitioners, and that IS the Nagual. He said many times that he did not want us to follow a leader but to follow Intent. He also said that the mass of practitioners creates an "energetic platform" of heightened awareness. "There are no advanced practitioners - only action." We are ready and the time is now! No one holds the key to our salvation.





It was my hope that the maneuvers of Cleargreen Inc. and Laugan Productions to shift the internal structure of Cleargreen, including cutting themselves off from Miles and Aerin, was not from self-interest, and that my beloved cohorts would see their folly. My understanding of their current view is that the teachings of the Nagual, and all of the tracking and gathering of knowledge for the last 13 years is theirs to copyright and have control over its future course. Even the direct apprentices of Carlos Castaneda are being threatened by lawsuits if they try to teach what they were given. Are you kidding me?! I can only speak for myself, but I know that this concern is shared by other direct apprentices, previous Tensegrity instructors, and many long time practitioners. We are volunteers that have given our hearts and creativity to this path that belongs to all of us.



A year ago I moved back from Los Angeles to Hawaii, and it is here that I have had a chance to step back in this land of Aloha and get a new view; one that you are reading here. My heart is with you all and I feel that we will soon gather together as a vibrating mass of awareness. As the Nagual reminded us over and over, "We are beings that are going to die" and as such we can each trust the voice of the seer within to guide us as individuals, and as an energetic structure bound together by the immense affection we have for each other.
Onward,
Robert Savery
09.04.2010

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Carlos Castaneda was a graduate student in anthropology at the
university of California, Los Angeles, gathering information on various
medicinal herbs used by the Indians of Sonora, Mexico, when he met the
old Yaqui Indian, Don Juan. He wrote a series of books outlining his
apprenticeship to this Yaqui sorcerer who guided the young anthroplogist
on a magical journey into another world. Castaneda learned that for us
to perceive any of the worlds that exist beside our own, not only do we
have to covet them but we need to have sufficient energy to seize them.

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Awareness
Silence (power of silence)
Life (your life, my life)
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Intent (Spirit)
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Power
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it is nothing else.. its awareness (or buddha also).. your/my life, our lives. nothing else. (body is awareness, consciousness)
How simple.

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Of course Carlos provided a great illustration of how fanatical
obsession even with a good thing like 'freedom' can be very unhealthy.
In addition to freedom from country, family, and one's own right mind,
Carlos also offered freedom from truth, freedom from reality, freedom
from science and reason, freedom from genuine responsibility, freedom
from love, freedom even from death. Carlos was practically psycho on the
issue of freedom, to the point where almost everything else in a
balanced life went into the toilet at the expense of some perfect,
absolute, idealized freedom. Carlos became the superhero of those who
know "the price of everything and the value of nothing".
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CC was speaking also about it as the term: Failure of syntax.. thats precisely that in all the specific regards

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This is the thread on the state of affair... how things are and were.. aka you are dancing with devil



Howard Y. Lee, Castaneda's Reluctant New Nagual in CASTANEDA'S TEACHINGS OF DON JUAN Forum

http://sorcery.yuku.com/t...-New-Nagual#.T-GZ83Is1w0

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Inside your mind runs a dialogue. It talks to you. You listen and you
believe the words you hear are yours? Are they really? This dialogue
tells you things. About people. About how you feel. Your inner fears.
Yourself. What would life be like without this constant mental noise?
People like music because music can replace the dialogue if even
briefly. This dialogue can be a master. It can make you its slave. Make
you say and do things you would never do if no one told you to do them.
The internal dialogue MUST be mastered by the warrior on this path. One
starts by controlling the dialogue. Become spartan like in your control
of it. Allow no thoughts that are unwanted. This process becomes
extremely important when one gets into old age. The dialogue can be
stopped. You can make it stop and each time you intentionally stop it
for however long you become more its master. Have you ever tried to stop
your internal dialogue? What is the result? Does it fight back? Modern
Nagualism embraces the control of the internal dialogue for if a warrior
can stop it then he can then inject intent into his will. Will is the
opposite of the internal dialogue. Will is the Warrior's Way.

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awareness = buddha..
it comes gently

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Don Juan had stated his belief that the Christian idea of being cast out from the Garden of Eden sounded to him like an allegory for losing our silent knowledge; our knowledge of intent. "Sorcery"/Warriors way/Nagualism then, was a going back to the beginning; a return to paradise.
It is not the residue sorcerers look forward to. The idea of the abstract, the spirit, is the only residue that is important. The idea of the personal self has no value whatsoever. Every time I've had the chance, I have made you aware of the need to abstract. You have always believed that I meant to think abstractly. No. To abstract means to make yourself available to the spirit by being aware of it.
      
One of the most dramatic things about the human condition is the macabre connection between stupidity and self-reflection.
    
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 It is stupidity that forces us to discard anything that does not conform with our self-reflective expectations. For example, as average men, we are blind to the most crucial piece of knowledge available to a human being: the existence of the assemblage point and the fact that it can move.
 
    For a rational man it's unthinkable that there should be an invisible point where perception is assembled.
    
 For the rational man to hold steadfastly to his self-image insures his abysmal ignorance. He ignores, for instance, the fact that sorcery is not incantations and hocus-pocus, but the freedom to perceive not only the world taken for granted, but everything else that is humanly possible.
      Here is where the average man's stupidity is most dangerous; he is afraid of sorcery. He trembles at the possibility of freedom. And freedom is at his fingertips. It's called the third point. And it can be reached as easily as the assemblage point can be made to move.

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Return to silence, Silent knowledge, is a return to paradise or to warriors way, sorcery, nagualism, zen,  a home-run. Its buddha...  awareness...
Those are brain waves anyway, EEG, deep silence, dreaming, seeing, recapitulation, everything. Hence tuning ones brainwaves.
*waves*

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Predators Of Awareness
Our conversation was not resumed before several years had passed. On that occasion - one of
his informal meetings - Carlos brought up an entirely new and frightening concept, which
gave rise to the most passionate controversies.
"Man," he said, "is a magical being, he has the same capacity to fly into the universe as any
one of the millions of awareness that exist. But, at some point in his history, he lost his
freedom. Now his mind is no longer his own, it is an implant."
He claimed that human beings are hostages to a group of cosmic entities who are devoted
predators, and who sorcerers call 'flyers'.
He said this had been a very secret topic among the ancient seers, but due to an omen, he had
realized that the time had come to disclose it. The omen was a picture that his friend Tony, a
Christian Buddhist, had taken. In it appeared the sharply outlined figure of a dark and
ominous creature, floating above a multitude of the faithful gathered among the pyramids of
Teotihuacan.
"My cohorts and I decided that it is time to let you know our true situation as social beings,
even at the cost of all the distrust that this information may generate in the public."
When I had the opportunity, I asked him to tell me more about the flyers, and then he told me
one of the most terrifying aspects of Don Juan's world: That we are prisoners of beings who
came from the confines of the universe, and that they use us as casually as we use chickens.
He explained:
"The portion of the universe accessible to us is the operative field of two radically different
kinds of awareness. One, which includes plants and animals, and also human beings, is a
whitish awareness;
it is young, a generator of energy. The other one is an infinitely older and more parasitic
awareness, possessor of an immense quantity of knowledge.
"Besides men and other beings that inhabit this Earth, there is in the universe an immense
range of inorganic entities. They are present among us, and occasionally they are visible. We
call them ghosts or apparitions. One of those species, which seers describe as enormous,
black, flying shapes, arrived here at some point from the depths of cosmos, and found an oasis
of awareness in our world. They have specialized in 'milking us'."
"That is incredible!" I exclaimed.
"I know, but it is the pure and terrifying truth. Have you never wondered about people's
energetic and emotional ups and downs? It is the predator, who shows up periodically to pick
up his quota of awareness. They only leave enough so that we may continue living, and
sometimes not even that."
"What do you mean?"
"Sometimes they take too much, and the person becomes gravely ill, and may even die."
I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
"Do you mean we are being eaten alive?" I asked.
He smiled.
"Well, they don't literally 'eat' us, what they do is a vibratory transfer. Awareness is energy
and they can align with us. Since by nature they are always hungry, and we, on the other
hand, exude light, the result of that alignment can be described as energy robbery."
"But why do they do it?"
"Because, on the cosmic plane, energy is the most powerful currency, and we all want it, and
we humans are a vital race, stuffed with nourishment. Every living being eats other beings,
and the most powerful always comes out the winner. Who said man is at the top of the food
chain? That idea could only have come from a human being. To inorganic beings, we are the
prey."
I commented that it was inconceivable to me that entities that are even more aware than us
could be predatory to that extent.
He replied:
"But what do you think you're doing when you eat a lettuce or a beefsteak? You are eating
life! Your sensibility is hypocritical. Cosmic predators are no more and no less cruel than we
are. When a stronger race consumes another, inferior one, it is helping its energy to evolve.
"I have already told you that in the universe there is only war. The confrontations of men are a
reflection of what happens out there. It is normal for one species to try to consume another; a
warrior does not complain about it, and tries to survive."
"And how do they consume us?"
"Through our emotions, properly directed by the internal dialogue. They have designed our
social environment in such a way that we are constantly shooting off waves of emotions,
which are immediately absorbed. Best of all, they like attacks of ego; for them, that is an
exquisite mouthful. Such emotions are the same anywhere in the universe where they occur,
and they have learned how to metabolize them.
"Some consume us for our lust, anger, or fear; others prefer more delicate feelings, like love
or fondness. But they are all after the same thing. Normally, they attack us around the area of
the head, heart, or stomach, where we store the thickest part of our energy."
"Do they attack animals, too?"
"These creatures use everything that's available, but they prefer organized awareness. They
drain animals and plants in the part of their attention that is not too fixed. They even attack
other inorganic beings, but they can see them and avoid them, like we avoid mosquitoes. The
only ones who are completely trapped by them are human beings."
"How is it possible that all this is happening without us realizing it?"
"Because we inherit the exchange with those beings almost like a genetic condition, and it
feels natural to us. When someone is born, the mother offers it like food, without realizing it,
because her mind is also controlled. Baptizing the child is like signing an agreement. Starting
from there, she devotes herself to install acceptable behavior patterns; she tames the child,
reduces its warring side, and transforms it into a meek sheep.
"When a boy has sufficient energy to reject that imposition, but not enough to enter the path
of the warrior, he becomes a rebel, or socially maladjusted.
"The flyers' advantage stems from the difference between our levels of awareness. They are
very powerful and vast entities; the idea that we have of them is equivalent to the one an ant
will have of us.
"However, their presence is painful and you can measure it in various ways. For example,
when they provoke us into attacks of rationality or distrust, or when we are tempted to violate
our own decisions. Lunatics can detect them very easily - too easily, I would say - since they
feel physically how these beings settle on their shoulders, generating paranoia. Suicide is the
stamp of flyers, because the flyers' mind is potentially homicidal."
"You say that it is an exchange, but what do we gain from such plunder?"
"In exchange for our energy, the flyers have given us our mind, our attachments, and our ego.
For them, we are not their slaves, but a kind of salaried workers. They bestowed these
privileges on a primitive race and gave us the gift of thinking, which made us evolve; indeed,
they have civilized us. If not for them, we would still be hiding in caves or making nests on
treetops.
"The flyers control us through our traditions and customs. They are the masters of religion,
the creators of history. We hear their voice on the radio and we read their ideas in the
newspapers. They manage all our means of information, and our belief systems. Their
strategy is magnificent. For example, there was an honest man who spoke of love and
freedom; they have transformed it into self-pity and servility. They do it with everyone, even
with naguals. For that reason, the work of a sorcerer is solitary.
"For millennia, flyers have concocted plans to collectivize us. There was a time when they
became so shameless that they were even seen in public, and people made representations of
them in stone. Those were dark times; they were everywhere. But now their strategy has
become so intelligent that we don't even know they exist. In the past, they hooked us through
our credulity, today, through our materialism. They are responsible for modern man's
ambition not to have to think for himself; just observe how long somebody will tolerate
silence!"
"Why the change in their strategy?"
"Because, at this time, they are running a great risk. Humanity is in very quick and constant
contact, and information can reach anyone. Either they must fill our heads, bombarding us day
and night with all kind of suggestions, or there will be some who will realize and warn the
others."
"What would happen if we were able to repel those entities?"
"In one week, we would recover our vitality and we would be shining again. But, as normal
human beings, we cannot think about that possibility, because it would imply to go against all
that
is socially acceptable. Fortunately, sorcerers have one weapon: Discipline.
"The encounter with inorganic beings happens gradually. In the beginning, we don't notice
them. But an apprentice begins to see them in his dreams and then while he is awake -
something that can drive him crazy, if he doesn't learn how to act as a warrior. Once he
understands, he can confront them.
"Sorcerers manipulate the foreign mind, turning into energy hunters. It is for that purpose my
cohorts and I have designed Tensegrity exercises for the masses. They have the virtue of
liberating us from the flyer's mind.
"In this sense, sorcerers are opportunists. They take advantage of the push they've been given
and say to their captors: 'Thanks for everything, see you later! The agreement you made was
with my ancestors, not with me'. When recapitulating their life, they are literally snatching the
food out of the flyer's mouth. It is like going to the store and returning a product to the
shopkeeper, demanding your money back. The inorganic beings don't like it, but they can't do
anything about it.
"Our advantage is that we are dispensable, there is a lot of food around! A position of total
alertness, which is nothing but discipline, creates such conditions in our attention that we
don't taste good any more to those beings. In that case, they turn away and leave us in peace."

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Nagual = Emptiness (sunyata).............. hence Buddha/Nirvana at the total-source (basis) is the next at hand





That was an idea that: tonal (physical body) and nagual are totally separated... and projected one each into other, i.e. like a hologram into tonal (body) on the matrix in the matter
the connection here is the point of the interest (thats a matter of intending of double/awareness of double)
E.g.
The tabular disintegration of tonal into nagual at death, is illustrated here on one deceased TV broadcasting moderator (RIP) (thnx Dark Bird for the term), video:

Hence the idea of totality of oneself on the basis of total tonal (body) projection from the Emptiness= Nagual (super-string to pure energy of consc.)

The base both on the dissintegration and arising is the Nagual = Emptiness

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1) The point is that the (ordinary) death is a complete/total/final dissolution of tonal into Nagual (Emptinesss)
2) Nagual remains (energy body), and flows away/disintegrates as a memory shade.. (the world of deceased)
(e.g. this is the reason why they have met Boddhidharma, the founder Chan/Zen buddhism and Kung-fu/Chi-kung after he was poisoned/cremated, walking past the check-point on Great chinese wall in his energy body (original kung-fu develops energy body, as a weapon)
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this the power of phenomenology, hermeneutics, comparative religion.
Carlos Castaneda has based it and proposed it in the Readers of Infinity.
This sketch could be used in open-accessible modern explanations as it is a scientifically valid (comparative) device on buddhism/nagualism.
(if you are a student or emergent scientist - phenomenologist of religion/comparative religion/philosophy of religion pursuing studies in Indian/Chinese buddhism contact me for a co-authorship in a decent paper on metaphysics)

[CI5]

In accordance with the Rule of the three-pronged nagual, I am following a
long-term strategy devised by Don Juan, which commits you to my
teacher's intent.



"What is expected from you is that you say to those who surround you: 'You are free, you can fly by yourselves! You have the necessary information, what are you waiting for? Act impeccably, and see how energy finds a way.'





"Warn everyone that with the culmination of Don Juan's lineage, the knowledge is wide open. Each
warrior is responsible for himself, and can provide himself with the
minimum opportunity, which is to organize his own party."