r/castaneda

In early autumn 1999, I read the book “The Art of Dreaming” for the first time. Two

or three weeks before Halloween, I wondered whether that world could truly exist,

and I set the intention to reach it by stating that wish aloud. The following night, I

had a dream in which my nagual was wandering across a snow-covered mountain

peak in winter and encountered a woman who looked like a school friend while

simultaneously being my neighbor. My nagual approached the woman and asked,

"Can you take me to the inorganic world?" The woman then took my nagual by the

left hand and led him to the highest point of the peak, where an abyss lay before

them. Ten meters below, there was a snow-covered ledge measuring five meters in

width and five meters in length. Hand in hand, the woman and my nagual jumped

from the mountain peak down onto the ledge, sinking into the snow up to their waists.

Afterward, the woman looked at my nagual with an inquiring expression and

shrugged her shoulders.

Afterwards, the woman climbed back to the summit on her side of the mountain, and

my nagual on his, and they stood in the same spot as before. The woman took my

nagual’s left hand again and said to him, "Relax, or it won't work!" Once more, they

leapt from the summit and plunged into the snow. This time, however, my nagual did

not get stuck in the snow but glided right through it. As the snow swept over his eyes,

his perception shifted, and my nagual suddenly found himself in a tunnel, however

alone. There, he heard a laughing male voice and asked, "Are there many like me

who reach this realm?" The voice replied, "Yes, but only special ones."

After that dream, my nagual knew how to enter that world, and I was convinced that

the woman was a scout from that realm. From that point on, while dreaming, my

nagual would grab people who looked like friends or neighbors, spin around with

them, and - by stating his intent aloud - intended to enter that world. This method,

too, proved successful. However, after twenty-six years, doubts arose, and I began to

question everything: Was the woman a scout, the energy body of a sorceress, or

something else? And what was the significance of the snow-capped mountain and the

technique itself? Traveling to the inorganic world together with the energy body of a

sorceress - without utilizing inorganic energy or a scout - would be something new

and unknown to both female and male sorcerers. For the ancient sorcerers, springs

and caves held special significance and were linked to the inorganic world, yet no one

would expect the entrance to that realm to be found on a mountain peak! My nagual,

however, never experienced the method described by Carlos Castaneda - that of

looking for strange phenomena while dreaming (such as flying fish or iridium

walking sticks) that transform into sizzling energy which one can then follow.

I personally question the claim that today there is no longer any way for men to enter

that realm, and I wish to draw attention to this topic.

Questions demanding answers

Why did the woman show my nagual this technique, and what was her intention?

Must I learn to keep this knowledge to myself, or am I permitted to pass it on?

Is there a universal key for male sorcerers that leads to this realm, and do women

hold this key in their hands?

The timing is right—it is October, and the odds are fifty-fifty: make or break?

Hello, I'm hoping someone can help.

I'm not a casual learner of these teachings. I'm not here to pass the time or be entertained. In them I found something I had always been looking for, and now I want to use the teachings in a more focused, deliberate way.

I'm practicing Tensegrity, starting from the first video, and I'd like to go one step further. I've been studying Dan's J Curve map and the darkroom practice described in several posts. If I follow the map, I understand that I first need to achieve internal silence, and I'm already working on that.

I have three questions:

1. Which Tensegrity or Magical Passes, if any, help stop the internal dialogue?
2. Do I need to practice any particular passes in order to perceive chi balls?
3. How trustworthy are the videos available for practicing Tensegrity, such as the first two with Kylie Lundahl and the others Cleargreen made in the 1990s? Do they teach the movements accurately, or are there errors or changes I should know about?

Thank you for any guidance.

I've been wondering about the position/direction of eyes creating "shines". I started noticing certain passes would cause bright lights to show up and also noticed bright lights happening in the day, not practicing, but usually from turning my head.

The dreaming passes were the ones most prominently and consistently, with big rings of light showing up "in" my eyes on the first pass. In the Dreaming Passes video, Jadey points out the Magical Passes book has the sorcerer in the image swinging his arm further back and he's looking further back towards his extended hand.

A conjecture: Going with the idea that there are certain positions of the eyes which can result in magic (the shines), I think the passes force/cause/assist in the eyes moving to/through those positions.

I was experimenting doing the first dreaming pass then trying to just turn my head (and thus eyes), and would still get the rings of light, sometimes. Not at all as consistently as doing the pass, but somewhat reliable.

I was able to replicate lights today on one of the later dreaming passes, the one where you turn to both sides before throwing the arm forward like throwing a disc. Whenever I would turn my head to the right then left, a quick vertical light showed up (about 90% of the time) to my right. I could then turn my head to the right (without doing the arm motion of the pass) and back to left, and saw the light flash some of the time (about 50%)

I thought it might be a vertical seam in the hotel wall reflecting light of a fire alarm light so I stared at the seam for a while, nothing, then I tried doing the pass at a faster rate and consistently saw the vertical light flash.

Maybe we can use our head turns to look for magic in the day, while out in public?

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I made this picture to answer a question, then posted it on instagram and facebook, and finally decided more posts is better than less posts.

Though, this one might anger those with a religious bent.

Even so, here it is from facebook.

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When it was clear he would die and nothing could stop it, also realizing that, as he told me, "I'm dying and no one believes me", Carlos proceeded to try to give us "practical magic" techniques.

He used the blue scout to demonstrate what "the whorl" looks like as it spits out text.

He enlisted Carol Tiggs to come demonstrate real magic. She selected two people, including me, and proceeded to push me through the floor of Dance home down below street level, and into a tunnel made of dirt. Which I later learned is a common way to perceive the inorganic being's world entrance.

Carlos also taught us about "the wall", a construct for visibly viewing silent knowledge streams.

And, he got his "rumour women" to spread the news that within 2 weeks, Carlos would actually demonstrate real magic right in front of us.

What came from that was "Pandora's Box" magical pass, which I've since learned is a fairly obvious way to "compress intent".

It's closely related to don Juan's technique where he manifested a Japanese squirrel for Carlos.

But no one could perceive the magic. You can't force people's assemblage points to move, and the second attention isn't visible unless it moves at least 6 inches down your back.

Cleargreen forgot about this amazing pass, and instead made up fake ones to sell.

But I remembered it, and eventually discovered that it can manifest just about anything.

Thus I named it "Pandora's Box".

The first "Zombie Assistant" I manufactured remained in my practice room, clearly visible, the entire night.

Then the next night I could "locate it" still in there.

And on the second night, I could still feel it's very creepy energy.

So this technique is a gold mine!

How does it work?

Actually, it seems to compress a piece of your own energy body, energize it, and then when you release it that partially sentient copy of your dreamer, forms into whatever latent impression you first had in your mind, when you removed the top hand.

A couple of weeks later I tested how many zombie assistants you can make, and still have them be "sentient".

Five in my case.

The energy body can't subdivide forever.

That's why people dissipate and are lost, after death.

Thus the old seers went to live in the inorganic being's world, to keep their awareness "contained".

And even the new seers go to that giant dome on the earth, after reaching the third attention.

You MUST "contain" your energy body once you are dead, or it spreads out so thin while you are exploring as a "specialized form of inorganic being", that it is no longer sentient.

So if any of you were hoping to go to "heaven" just because sorcerers have "seen" it's a real place (I've visited it 6 times), better think again.

Yes, you can go to heaven.

But it won't keep your awareness intact for long, and you'll perhaps end up being wallpaper there.

Just an echo of your original self.

Not aware of anything anymore.

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