Carlos Castaneda: Hollywood shamanism without a movie

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Carlos CastanedaHollywood shamanism without a
movie

• My advice to young readers of Castaneda
• Beware of vanishing into somebody elses
  personality.
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  Scott Fitzgerald

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http//www.castanedamovie.com/enigma/enigmald.html

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Castaneda, The Real.
Born Peru on December 25, 1925. Education
Anthropology BA (1962), Ph.D (1970)
UCLA. Married? Yes, Margaret Runyan. Work 12
books. Died Los Angeles, April 27, 1998.
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Don Juan Human beings are perceivers, but the
world that they perceive is an illusion an
illusion created by the description that was told
to them from the moment they were born."
Tales of Power
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Mastery of Awareness
The basic premise of sorcery for a sorcerer is
that the world of everyday life is not real, or
out there, as we believe it is. For a sorcerer,
reality, or the world we all know, is only a
description.
I am teaching you how to see as opposed to
merely looking, and stopping the world is the
first step to seeing.
Journey To Ixtlan
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Erasing the personal history Don Juan Little
by little you must create a fog around yourself
you must erase everything around you until
nothing can be taken for granted, until nothing
is any longer for sure, or real. Your problem now
is that youre too real. Your endeavors are too
real your moods are too real. Dont take things
so for granted. You must begin to erase
yourself.
Journey To Ixtlan
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Don Juan "A warrior has no honor, no dignity,
no family, no name, no country he has only life
to be lived, and under these circumstances, his
only tie to his fellow men is his controlled
folly.
Tales of Power
Don Juan "When one has nothing to lose, one
becomes courageous. We are timid only when there
is something we can still cling to."
A Separate Reality
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Losing Self-Importance
Don Juan "Feeling important makes one heavy,
clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be
light and fluid."
A Separate Reality
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The Universe as an energy reality
Perception of luminous energy and bubbles of
energy around living things (luminous cocoon) and
ultimately the source of these energetic lines
which are consciousness itself.
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Only the energy filaments that pass directly
through the assemblage point can be assembled
into coherent perception.
If the assemblage point is displaced to another
position, no matter how minute the displacement,
different and unaccustomed energy filaments begin
to pass through it, engaging awareness and
forcing the assembling of these unaccustomed
energy fields into a steady, coherent
perception.
The Art of Dreaming
Painting by Mario Castillo
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The Art of Dreaming

• Our world is only one in a cluster of
  consecutive worlds, arranged like the layers of
  an onion. Even though we have been energetically
  conditioned to perceive solely our world, we
  still have the capability of entering into those
  other realms, which are as real, unique,
  absolute, and engulfing as our own world is.
• Through dreaming we can perceive other worlds.

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The Art of Dreaming

• In the course of ordinary dreams, the assemblage
  point becomes easily displaced by itself to
  another position on the surface or in the
  interior of the luminous egg.     
• Through discipline it is possible to cultivate
  and perform, in the course of sleep and ordinary
  dreams, a systematic displacement of the
  assemblage point.

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The Art of Dreaming
The 1st gate of dreaming. To set up dreaming
means to have a precise and practical command
over the general situation of a dream. This
control is no different from the control we have
over any situation in our daily lives. Sorcerers
are used to it and get it every time they want or
need to. In order for you to get used to it
yourself I taught you to look at your hands while
dreaming.
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Castaneda The Toltec Shamanism (nagualism)
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Books by Castaneda
- The Teachings of Don Juan A Yaqui Way of
Knowledge (1968) - A Separate Reality Further
Conversations with Don Juan (1971) - Journey to
Ixtlan The Lessons of Don Juan (1972) - Sorcery
A Description of the World (1973) - Tales of
Power (1975) - The Second Ring of Power (1977) -
The Eagle's Gift (1981) - The Fire from Within
(1984) - The Power of Silence Further Lessons
of Don Juan (1987) - The Art of Dreaming (1993)
- Readers of Infinity A Journal of Applied
Hermeneutics (1996) Number 1/2/3/4 - Magical
Passes The Practical Wisdom of the Shamans of
Ancient Mexico (1998) - The Active Side of
Infinity (1999) - The Wheel Of Time  The
Shamans Of Mexico (2000)
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Castaneda-related ideas by Other People

• Shabono A Visit to a Remote and Magical World in
  the South American Rain Forest by Florinda
  Donner-Grau (1992)
• Being-In-Dreaming An Initiation into the
  Sorcerers' World by Florinda Donner-Grau (1992)
• The Sorceror's Crossing by Taisha Abelar first
  published in 1992 in hard back (1993)
• The Witch's Dream by Florinda Donner-Grau first
  published in 1985 (current re-print 1997)
• The Don Juan Papers Further Castaneda
  Controversies by Richard de Mille (1973)
• Carlos Castaneda Academic Opportunism and the
  Psychedelic Sixties by Jay Courtney Fikes (1993)
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice My Life with Carlos
  Castaneda by Amy Wallace (2003)
• The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception - The
  Living Tapestry of Lujan Matus by Lujan Matus
  (2005)
• The Four Yogas Of Enlightenment Guide To Don
  Juan's Nagualism Esoteric Buddhism by Edward
  Plotkin (2002)
• Encounters with the Nagual Conversations with
  Carlos Castaneda by Armando Torres (2002) Spanish
  (2004) English.

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