Carlos Castaneda and the Crack Between Worlds Glimpses of the Ānahuacah Philosophy in the XXI Century by Luis Carlos de Morais unior I dedicate Glimpses to Glimpses to the Bra!ilian People "onnet # Luis Carlos de Morais unior $a%ualism& It doesn't matter what it is( My reli%ion is the whole uni)erse* +his )ortical flow where)er the clear ,utile stren%h of the )erse flutters( I come to think she-he is a pluri)erse +hat %rowls and lau%hs. harmoni!es and thunders/ "he-he is in him-herself. and beyond. is the )erse and the re)erse. 0nd reborns. when you desire it With With all the heart. in a deep and honest will( 1er-his name is 2ros. or any name else. 1ence she-he is a beast/ that ur%es. feels hun%ry and burns With With a fire that fore)er keeps the heat( "he-he is 3uroboros. and. with all its care. "he-he %enerates me 4 5 I %enerate her-him-her( 6In Sonnets)
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Tepeitic tonacatlalpa& 'ochitlalpa nechcala(ui(ueo oncan on ahuachtotonameyotimani& oncan ni(uittacaya in nepapan tlaoahuiac 'ochitl& tlaohuelic 'ochitl ahuach (ue(uentoc& ayauhcoamalotonameyotimani& oncan nechilhuia& 'i'ochitete(ui& in catlehuatl toconne(ui& ma mellel(uia in ticuicani& ti(uinmacataci in tocnihuan in teteuctin in (uellel(ui'ti(ue in tlalticpa(ue( tlalticpa(ue ( 6+hey led me within a )alley to a fertile spot. a flowery spot. where the dew spread out in %litterin% splendor. where I saw )arious lo)ely fra%rant flowers. lo)ely odorous flowers. clothed with the dew. scattered around in rainbow %lory. there they said to me. RPluck the flowers. whiche)er thou wishest. mayest thou the sin%er be %lad. and %i)e them to thy friends. to the nobles. that they may re=oice on the earth(: *uh nicnocuecue'antia in nepapan ahuiac'ochitl& in huel teyol(uima& in huel tetlamachti& nic itoaya manoo aca tohuanti hual cala(uini& ma cenca miec in ticmamani+ auh ca tel ye onimatico nitlanonottahci imi'pan in tocnihuan nican mochipa ti(ualtete(ui(ue in tlao nepapan ahuiac 'ochitl ihuan ticui(uihui in nepapan yectliyancuicatl ic ti(uimellel(ui'ti(ue in tocnihuan in tlalticpactlaca in tepilhuan (uauhtliya ocelotl, 6"o I %athered in the folds of my %arment the )arious fra%rant flowers. delicate scented. delicious. and I said. may some of our people enter here. may )ery many of us be here/ and I thou%ht I should %o forth to announce to our friends that here all of us should re=oice in the different lo)ely. odorous flowers. and that we should cull the )arious sweet son%s with which @
we mi%ht re=oice our friends here on earth. and the nobles in their %randeur and di%nity: Ca moch nicuitoya in nicuicani ic ni(uimicpac 'ochiti in tepilhuan inic ni(uimapan in can in mac ni(uinten+ niman ni(uehuaya yectli yacuicatl ic netimalolo in tepilhuan i'pan in tlo(ue in nahua(ue& auh in atley y maceuallo, 6"o I the sin%er %athered all the flowers to place them upon the nobles. to clothe them and put them in their hands/ and soon I lifted my )oice in a worthy son% %lorifyin% the nobles before the face of the Cause of 0ll. where there is no ser)itude(:
"ummaryF ; [ +he IntroductionF $anahualtin. $auallotl [ the 0lle%orical "tories&((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((V# ? \ +he 1uehuetlahtolli [ the 3ld Words (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((@ @ \+he $ine paths (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((#N \ +he "teps of power 6the Ma%ical Passes. the +ense%rity:((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((#K N [ +he ,ecapitulation((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((K@ A [ +he don]ts (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((;VV # \ +he Little +yrants(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((;VA [ +he techniOues of obser)ation ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((;V K [ +he +otal "ilence 6the Inner "ilence:((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((;;A ;V [ +he Impeccability (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((;?V ;; [ +he Treamin% (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((;? ;? [ +he Lurkin% ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((;@K +he inconclusion orF the 2ner%y +ales (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((;N# 0ppendi7 0F +he $otes of field of Carlos Castaneda(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((;AV 0ppendi7 BF +he Inter)iew with Lui! Carlos Maciel. in V#-V-?VVN((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((;#A 0ppendi7 CF Carlos Castaneda]s letter to ,obert Gordon Wasson. VK-VA-;KA(((((((((((((((((;K +he Biblio%raphy (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((?V?
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I( \ C^IC0P2^1C0 C ^IC0P2^1C03+L( 3+L( \ 60 CanJo do comeJo:. stan!as . N e A( B,I$+3$. Taniel G( *ncient nahuatl poetry. poetry. containin% the nahuatl te7t of XX_II X X_II ancient me7ican poems( Brinton's Brinton's Library of 0bori%inal 0merican Literature. $umber _II. with a translation. introduction. introduction. notes and )ocabulary. )ocabulary. ;KV. pp( ?N-?A. in httpF--www(%utenber%(or httpF--www(%utenber%(or%-files-;??;K-;??;K %-files-;??;K-;??;K\h-;??;K\h(htm \h-;??;K\h(htm((
0"l nagual no es humano) The nagual is not human Bernardino de "aha%`n K 3kse nechka(((;V We open the book. book . and a story be%ins( We see a youn% man. unknown a%e. he could either be in his old twenties or in his old thirties. he is not 0merican. but he li)es in the ^("(0 and studies at ^CL0. ^ni)ersity of California / this youn% man tra)els to Me7ico periodically. in his car. to look for an Indian. Ton uan. 6but. states that is not his real name:. and with this Indian. learn witchcraft( +his youn% man]s name is Carlos. and this information. he also claims is untrue( In a certain moment. when Ton uan introduces his witchcraft partner Ton Genero. he will say somethin% like thatF I])e already told you must ne)er re)eal your name or where you are to a wi!ard( +he te7t of the book 6which. in fact. are many. the same learnin% unfolds. e7pands. and differentiates in each new )olume: in)ol)es us( +he self\portrait that Carlos paints is of an a)era%e hei%ht youn% man. who considers himself inappropriate. shy. coward. unsuccessful in his works and studies. he is broke. he is Latin. and nobody e)en knows where he comes from( 1e seems not to ha)e ima%ination and. in each learnin% desclosure. he starts with his bunch of ob=ections of the most lame common sense/ sens e/ he is e)en afraid of his own shadow. so he would ne)er consider bein% alone in the woods or in the desert. or fidin% creatures from Rthe beyondS( 1e is scared to death. in each new ad)enture( 0nd Ton uan is terrible. inclement( 0nd he has super powers( +he less polemical power. perhaps. is the ability of not eatin% or drinkin% for days. walkin% throu%h the desert. and tryin% to con)ince Carlos to do the same(;; 9
Qray Bernardino de "aha%`n. author of Codi' Matritensis e do Codice #lorentino. #lorentino. 1istoria general de las cosas de la .ue!a "spana( "spana ( RBernardino de "aha%`n. name of birth Bernardino de ,i)era. ,ibera ,ibera or ,ibeira 6"aha%`n. Leo. 2spanha. 2spanha. ca( ;KK [ Me7ico City. City. Qebruary N. ;NKV: was a "panish Qranciscan Qriar ( 0uthor of many bilin%ual works in $auatl and "panish. considered nowadays amon% the most )aluable documents to the reconstruction of the history of old Me7ico. before the arri)al of "panish settlersS( -(((httpF--pt(wikipedia(or%-wik httpF--pt(wikipedia(or%-wiki-BernardinoUdeU"aha% i-BernardinoUdeU"aha%C@B0n C@B0n ;V R3nce upon a timeS. in nYhuatl( ;; C0"+0$2T0. Carlos( C0"+0$2T0. Carlos( The teachings of Don 2uan3 * 4a(ui /ay of kno/ledge, *
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3r. in the preparation of the use of the de)il's weed to flyF -(((- 1e said he would let it stand there. because it would take him two days to prepare the second portion( 1e said that. meanwhile. I shouldn]t eat anythin%( I could drink water. but could not eat any food(;? 3n the ne7t chapter. preparin% the mi7ture which Ton uan used to call RfumitoSF 3n +hursday. Tecember ?A. I had my first e7perience with Ton uan's friend. the weed( I rode my car all day with him. and worked for him( We %ot back home at the ni%htfall( I mentioned we hadn't eaten the whole day( 1e was not e)en a little concerned/ and instead of bein% concerned. he started to tell me how essential it would be for me to %et familiar with the weed( -(((-;@ 0nd there would be other many e7amples. throu%hout the work. of Ton uan's disdain with his diet( +he old Indian makes him %o throu%h all these e7periences. which dri)es Carlos cra!y. and which always make him feel physically ill. after( \ +rust your inner power [ he said. close to me( [ It is all that we ha)e in this misterious world -(((When Ton uan was done %i)in% me the instructions. I was practically panickin%( I hold his arm and I wouldn't let %o( It took me two or three minutes to %et calm enou%ht to say thin%s a%ain( 0 ner)ous tremor ran throu% throu%hh my stomac stomachh and abd abdome omen. n. stoppin stoppin%% me from sayin% thin%s coherently( In a calm low )oice. he told me I should control myself. because the darkness was like the wind. an unknown entity at loose. that could catch me if I weren't careful( 0nd that I had to be entirely calm to deal de al with it( \ ou should surrender. so your inner power is able to mer%e with the power of the ni%ht [ he whispered in my ear +hen. he e7plained it would pass in front of me/ and I had another panickin% moment of irrational fear( \ But that is madness [ I protested Tonn uan To uan wa wass not not mad mad nor nor impa impati tien ent( t( 1e %i%%l %i%%led ed and wh whis isper pered ed somethin% I could not undertand u ndertand properly( \ What did you say& [ I asked loudly with teeth chatterin%( Ton =uan shut my mouth co)erin% it with his hand and said. whisperin%. that a warrior was actin% like if he knew what he was doin%. when. in fact. he didn]t know anythin%( 1e repeated that sentence three or four times. as if he wanted me to decode it( 1e saidF \ 0 warrior is impeccable when he trusts his inner power. without considerin% it to be small or "r!a do Dia5o - 6s "nsinamentos de Dom 2uan( 2uan( @N ed( +rad( Lu!ia Machado da Costa( ,io de aneiroF $o)a 2ra. ?V;;. pp( ;?@ e ss( @N ed( +rad( Lu!ia Machado da Costa( ,io de aneiroF $o)a 2ra. ?V;;. pp( ;?@ e ss( ;? C0"+0$2T0. Carlos( * Carlos( * "r!a do Dia5o - 6s "nsinamentos de Dom 2uan( 2uan( @N ed( +rad( Lu!ia Machado da Costa( ,io de aneiroF $o)a 2ra. ?V;;. p( ;A?( ;@ C0"+0$2T0. Carlos( * Carlos( * "r!a do Dia5o - 6s "nsinamentos de Dom 2uan( 2uan( @N ed( +rad( Lu!ia Machado da Costa( ,io de aneiroF $o)a 2ra. ?V;;. p ;#;(
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lar%e(; 3n the other hand. Carlos has %reat e7periencesF 1e sees a bi% new uni)erse. much bi%%er than the one he was used to. and him and his world %row pa%e by pa%e. with each e7perience and learnin%( 2)ery chapter. short or lon%. dependin% on the book. is a total catharsis. %eneral. %enial( %enial( 2ach sentence sentence is. almost. almost. a super niet!sche\ham niet!sche\hammer mer on the head 6Teleu!e will say. spino!ist:( 0nd the fact that Carlos is a a)era%e man. with no special powers. no beauty. no intelli%ence. nor bra)ery. or. at least. let's say. all the time. in the book. like a "ancho Pan!a who becomes a Ton ui7ote. almost by chance. this fact completely in)ol)es us( +he reader. who considered himself dumb. inappropriate. inappropriate. fearful 6but. has ne)er had the %uts to confess this to anyone:. feels himself the prota%onist of the e7traordinary e)ents that he reads. of the Rpower talesS talesS that Carlos tells( tells( 0nd understands understands that the learnin% learnin% is possible to him as well( +he book is filled with re)olutions. in the libertin% and super\powered ethical re)elations . to%ether with healin% techniOues for body and soul. and an e7planation of how the uni)erse is 6ontolo%ical:. an e7planation as worthy as the 2astern and Western mystical )isions we already know. which can be perfectly tuned and synchroni!ed with the sta%e that science has achie)ed in the ?Vth and ?;st Centuries 6Ouantum physics. %eneral relati)ity. superstrin% theory:( RCarlos Castaneda was one of the most profound and influential thin thinke kers rs of the the twen twenti tiet ethh cent century ury(( 1is 1is idea ideass are are defi defini nin% n% the the futu future re direction of the e)olution of human consciousness( We all owe him a lotS( Teepak Chopra -(((RWe are incredibly fortunate to ha)e Carlos Castanedas books( +aken to%e to%eth ther er.. form form a wo work rk that that is amon amon%% the the best best that that the the scie scienc ncee of anthropolo%y has producedS( +he $ew ork +imes ;N But. you see. this is not a report of certainties/ this is the sa%a of my perple7ities. before his work( ;
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Which is only the iceber% tip( Carlos Castaneda did somethin% twice re)olutionary. in his field work and in his reportin% work( 1e not only has chan%ed the concepts concepts of ontolo%y ontolo%y.. whitchcraft. whitchcraft. anthropolo%y anthropolo%y and social science. but he has also enriched and has made a comple7 %enuine knowled%e of the pre\columbian american ci)ili!ations become possible. not by the 2urocentric point of )iew. but lettin% tradition speak for itself( 0ccordin% to his wordsF R+he beliefs system. which I came to study s tudy.. has eaten me upS +he other side of re)olution re)olution is that he brou%ht a real possibilit possibilityy to human e)olution. as species and as indi)iduals 6connected and. at the same time. independent:. throu%h the possibility of us relatin% with nauallotl 6the na%ualism:( "ome people ar%ue he stood for emic anthropolo%y. but. I think it %oes deeper. much deeper( 2mic is an anthropolo%ical )iew made by si%nificant terms to the ones who perform it. the way how unconsciously unconsciously or consciously the person bein% studied e7plains e7plains to himself and to society society the reasons of the custom. Rinner descriptionS( It opposes the etic approach. which is a Rdescription of the outsideS. ie. how the e)ent e)entss and and )alue )aluess are obser obser)ed )ed by any any obser) obser)er er.. with with no inte intent ntio ionn to disc disco)e o)err wha whatt meanin% the a%ents of the actions %i)e to them( ;A 16
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6+he Professor Professor Clement: Clement: RMei%han RMei%han cleared his throat throat and looked looked around at the board( I')e known him since he was an under%raduate student student here here and I'm abso absolu lute tely ly con) con)in ince cedd that that he is an e7tr e7trem emel elyy creati)e creati)e thinker. thinker. that he's doin% anthropolo%y( anthropolo%y( 1e's workin% in an Yrea of co%niti)e learnin% and the whole cross\cultural thin%( 1e's put his fin%er on thin%s that no other anthropolo%ist hYs e)en been able to %et at. partly by luck and partly partly because because of his particular particular personalit personalityy( 1e's 1e's able to %et information that other anthropolo%ists can't %et. because he looks like an Indian and speaks "panish fluently and because he's a smart listener'S( listener'S(;# 6+he same professor Mei%han. always so %entle with Carlos. who helped him so much and always defended him. in)ited him to make an academic mo)ie on the paintin%s of the Indians on the rocks. at his home in +opan%a( Carlos went. it was fun. Rit was such a Oualitati)e2mphasis Oualitati)e2mphasis on the impersonal relations,eco)ery of methodolo%ical indi)idualismQormalism"ubstant indi)idualismQormalism"ubstanti)ism2thnolo%y2thno%r i)ism2thnolo%y2thno%raphy,elati)ely aphy,elati)ely to the currents and approaches we can easily addF ETICEMICStructuralism ETICEMICStructuralism and functionalismCulturalismBiologizing tendencyPsychologizing tendencyFrom part to wholeFrom whole to part +hese +hese different approaches towards the same
ob=ects of study ha)e produced distinct currents. currents. scientific contents contents and results( While 2+IC approach tends to be more related to biolo%ical anthropolo%y and binarist mental . as well as to all which intends to disco)er-formulate disco)er-formulate ma=or assumptions of human beha)ior. the 2MIC approach seeks to find the specificity of each aspect of the indi)idual and indi)idual]s culture. and is ultimately much of the raw material used by scholars who will use 2+IC approach( 2MIC P2,"P2C+I_2' Inner perspecti)e'F The anthropologist tries to understand a culture in the way the members of this cultures see it in order to learn the concepts they use and to tr y to see the world they way they do! The goal is to penetrate as deeply deeply as possible in the culture and gain greater greater insight! "hen writing about the culture the anthropologist allows readers to begin to appreciate how people from another culture culture li#e their li#es and gi#e meaning to to their world! Participant obser#ation is a $ey method!
2+IC P2,"P2C+I_2 3uter perspecti)e'F +he ob=ecti)e of this research is to understand the culture in scientific terms. compared compared to other culture and tryin% to e7plain the relations between the elements of this culture( +he concepts and theories used deri)e from a comparison chart that can be meanin%less to members of the culture( In order to apply comparati)e concepts adeOuately. adeOuately. it is usually necessary to make a first sur)ey of an emic perspecti)e( 2mic and 2tic are endpoints of a continuum. rather than completely opposite( In order to help e7plain more fully the terms. here are some e7amplesF Standards of war in a particular tribe Emic: culture members talk about the history of its conlict with certain neighboring groups and the betrayal of certain groups. EticF The anthropologist can often see the war as a result of the overpopulation and lack of protein that acts with war to remedy redistributing the population. Women in state of trance EmicF members of that culture say a woman whose ancestors were priests or priestesses is likely to be
called as a means by a spirit that possesses her and makes her act like cra!y until she %oes to the trainin% and becomes a priestess. a medium( EticF +he anthropolo%ist may e7plain that some women %o into a trance state. obser)in% the subordinate position of housewi)es housewi)es and the hi%h hi%h social position position of women who become become reli%ious leaders( leaders( ;#
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picnic.S but he would always remember the mo)ie in which only hins hands appeared. preparin% the rustic paintin% pa intin% material and paintin%. an artist ar tist RneolithicS( +his was soon after the release of his debut book(;: 3thers claim that Castaneda was part of the traditional practice of Rstory tellersS wi!ards. who heal and e)ol)e people with fabulous narrati)es 6Mar%aret Castaneda tells that Tou%las "hanon said to herF RI %et the impression that Carlos is a mYster storyteller and that's typical for a lot of Peru)iansS;K:( +hat specially specially seems to be the case of Eay Cordell Whitaker ?V. who is admittedly a storyteller shaman and performer of healin% son%s( 1owe)er. a%ain. Carlos brin%s us some more( 1is fourth book entitled Tales of Po/er 6which. 6which. in the bra!ilian translation %ot the absurd name of RPorta para o InfinitoS. Toor to Infinity but these tales are only a part of the process/ his ontolo%ical research %oes far beyond. the mentioned work critici!in% the warrior who is satisfied only Rlos cuentosS. Rthe talesS. or establishin% how much the power tales are like touchin% the surface of learnin% 6in Tales of Po/er . he speaks about RWitness of the acts of powerS. it's the name of one of the three parts. the initial part/ the two other bein%F R3 tonal' e o na%ual'S e R+he sorcerers e7planationS:( 1e also announced a book that would be written by Carol. the na%uala. called Tales of "nergy( "nergy( But this one. which maybe hasn't been done. yet. we don't know what the couple of no $anahualtin thou%ht it would be. or wanted it to be( In his The *cti!e Side of nfinity ?;. ho/e!er& ho/e!er& Ra collection of memorable factsS is mentioned. collection of real stories of the life of the person. which work as openin%s to the intent and as %uides to learin%( ,esembl ,esembles es that that Martin Martin Goodman Goodman had sou%ht to do somethi somethin% n% in the book book /as Carlos Castaneda??. to whom Martin finds in the Qrench Pyrenees. soon after Charles' death. someone who asks all the time to tell stories of his life. which ha)e a re)ealin% meanin% for him. Goodman. and thus to the reader( ;
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Carlos C>sar "al)ador 0ranha Castaneda. accordin% to himself. was born in Bra!il. in Tecember ?N. ;K@N. in the former uOueri county?@. known as Mairipor?. in the state state of "o Paulo. and some s ome say he was 3swaldo 0ranha's 0ranha's nephew?N( 1owe 1o we)e )err. the the rese resear arch ch of repo report rter er from from Time ma%a! ma%a!in ine. e. in ;K# ;K#@. @. alon% alon% with with immi%ration. tells him as born in Ca=amarca. Peru. same day and month. but in ;K?N( Mar%aret ,unyan Castaneda says that 6she thinks that: he was born on Christmas day. in Ca=amarca. but in ;K?A( "he herself. Mar%aret. was born in Charleston. West _ir%inia. Eanawha County. in $o)ember ;. ;K?;( ; K?;( "he " he and Carlos %ot married in anuary anuar y. ;KAV. ;K AV. separated sepa rated in uly of the same year. but only %ot lea%ally di)orced in Tecember ;#. ;K#@( 0bou 0b outt bein bein%% 3swa 3swald ld 0ranh 0ranha' a'ss neph nephew ew.. we see in Mar% Mar%ar aret et Mar% Mar%ar aret et ,u ,uny nyan an Castaneda's book. * book. * Magical 2ourney /ith Carlos Castaneda?A. that he himself told her se)eral times. as well as to many other friends and not so close ones( The teachin teachings gs of Don 2ua 2uann 6?@ ed. ;KK@:?# catalo% record in Bra!il states ?N as bein% date of birth/ these are the minutiae of catalo%in%F I"B$ N\V;\VV# ;K\A/ K@\VKK#/ CTT \ ?KK(#K?/ CT^ \ ?KK(##( +hus rankedF ;( Castaneda. Carlos. ;K?N\ ( ?( uan. Ton. ;K;\;K#@( @( aOui Indi Indian ans\ s\ ,eli ,eli%i %ion on and and Myth Mythol olo% o%yy ( 1a 1all lluc ucin ino% o%ens ens and reli reli%i %ious ous e7perience( N( 0wareness( 0wareness( I( +itle( It's ob)ious that. at least. the Time information Time information is wron%/ )ery likely. likely. all of it( Qollowin% Qollowin% the order of the re%ulation re%ulation that proposes to delete delete the personal history. history. he had the obli%ation not to tell his true data. or allow it to be found( +herefore. he can ha)e ?@
+upi word. is the name of a plant. amaranth\of\thorn( Beautiful city. from +upiF mairyporan%a. or Mairy mairyreya \ )illa%e. town/ poran%a \ beautiful( +upi +upi name %i)en by the clusters of the Qrench( ?N 3swaldo 2uclides de "ou!a 0ranha was born in Qebruary ;N. in 0le%rete. 0le%rete. ,io Grande do "ul. was the articulator of the @V's ,e)olution. Teputy Minister of Qinance of the Go)ernment of Get`lio _ar%as _ar%as @;. leader of the Go)ernment in the 0ssembly of @?. 0mbassador to the ^("( in @. Minister of Qorei%n 0ffairs 0ffairs from @ to . _III Conference held in Lima in Pan0mericana @. was elected General "ecretary in ;K# and reelected in ;K. in #. chaired the ^$ meetin% that partitioned Palestine and created the "tate of Israel. returned to the +reasury in the second _ar%as _ar%as %o)ernment in ;KN@. died on anuary ?#. ;KAV( ?A C0"+0$2T0. Mar%aret ,unyan( * ,unyan( * Magical 2ourney /ith Carlos Castaneda/ Castaneda/ Life with the famed mystical warrior( warrior( "an ose. $ew ork. ork. Lincoln. "han%aiF i^ni)erse. ?VV;( +here is no edition indicator. indicator. this is the 6re: impression that I used. but the ori%inal is C0"+0$2T0. C0"+0$2T0. Mar%aret ,unyan( * Magical 2ourney /ith Carlos Castaneda, _ictoriaF Castaneda, _ictoriaF Millenia Press ;KKA:( ?# C0"+0$2T0. Carlos( * Carlos( * "r!a-do-dia5o/ "r!a-do-dia5o/ as e7perincias ind%enas com plantas alucin<%enas re)eladas por Tom uan( @? ed( +rad( Lu!ia Machado da Costa( ,io de aneiroF ,ecord. ;KK@( 24
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any name. e as well as be born anywehere in "outh 0merica. or in the world( In an inter)iew. he says somethin% that %i)es the idea he is ChileanF "top bein% the 1ispanic macho man. loosen the reins( +hy mother made you belie)e thou art e7traordinary. because thou art a Chile man( +hey tau%ht you women are for thy use. as 0ristotle used to sayF women are crippled men( +he fact that many women. and Carol +i%%s. are better than I am. that is re)olution(? +here are some disturbin% indication. such as. for e7ample. his lan%ua%e competence( Many people who ha)e spoken to him. testify that Carlos use to speak with pronunciation pronunciation and slan%s in the followin% lan%ua%esF 2n%lish. as an 0merican and as a 1ispanic 6it's possible to hear his )oice ) oice in a radio rad io inter)iew. which lasted \ edited\ ;V minutes. recorded with him on the site httpF--www(youtube(com-watch&)Z@ihfe3py+Tc httpF--www(youtube(com-watch&)Z@ihfe3py+Tc// as I heard it. by his accente. I would say he is 1indu:/ "panish. as a Peru)ian. a Chilean. an 0r%entinian and a Me7ican/ Portu%uese. sometimes as a Bra!ilian. and sometimes as a Portu%uese. from Portu%al( What is more. he knew =ar%on. national anthems. folk son%s and son%s for children of all Latin 0merican countries 6sometimes/ to 0na Catan he pretended not to know:( Mar%aret ,unyan Castaneda. who was his friend. %irlfriend and wife. before fame. referes Carlos's admiration by the 2picurean poem De poem De erum .atura 6 .atura 6 *5out *5out the .ature of things. things. ; st century B(C(:. by +ito Lucr>cio Caro. who. accordin% to her. he studied. and she also saysF If he said to some people he was from the land land of Lucretius Lucretius 6Italy:. 6Italy:. he also said he was from Bra!il. and has made it clear to me that he was aware of the classics of that "outh 0merican country( In the fall. he %a)e me one of his albums. Bra!ilian Bachianas ng N. a suite of _illa\Lobos. a Bra!ilian collection of popular son%s. with fi)e arias of Puccini on the other side( +he suite and the folk son%s were in Portu%uese. and Carlos seemed to understand the lan%ua%e. as it would be if he had come from Bra!il Bra!il(( ^ntil ^ntil he recei)ed recei)ed re%ular re%ular letters letters from home. home. and I ne)er paid attention wether or not they were written in Portu%uese( 1e often read them to me in Portu%uese. I')e ne)er known( ?K ?
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"ome Peru)ian. born in ;K?N. entered the ^nited "tates. and he was called Carlos Casta8eda 6with a tilde on the n:( 0bout this one we know nothinh more. the trail was lost( 3ur hero was Bra!ilian. born in ;K@N. and was called Carlos 0ranha. or. Cesar 0ranha/ maybe( +hat is the lurkin%F he told the truth all the time. and most of people didn't belie)e it( +here was a historian. not )ery famous in the ^("(0. when our author %ot ther. called Carlos Casta8edaF it mi%ht be from him he took the name. fake. when he re%istered in the immi%ration/ and. to make it look different. he took the tilde off the n. in)entin% a new one. that would be like the 0n%lophones spelled that one. really "panish. since they didn't ha)e the 1ispanic letter 8 in their typewriter. back in the days( +his reasonin% I ha)e de)eloped. as well as that his real name may be C>sar "al)ador 0ranha( 0nd 0nd accordin% accordin% to the lurkin% lurkin% 6and representin% representin% the full connection connection between entre the tonal and the na%ual. and also +emple of the Qeathered "erpent. +eotihuacan. the same $ahualpilt!intli. the Prince of $a%uals. inte%ration of the "erpent and the 2a%le:. he presented himself at this point as Carlos C>sar 0ra8a Castaneda. ha)in% tunr into "panish the Portu%uese patronymic 0ranha. which appears so. referrin% to himself. in Portu%uese. with nh. e)en in 1ispanic sources/ the 1ispanic Wikipedia writes 0ranha. and also adds the first name . "al)ador( I like to consider Carlos Castaneda as bein% C>sar "al)ador 0ranha( 1owe)er. he himself states in the letter he wrote to ,obert Gordon Wasson. on "eptember A. ;KA. that his real name is Carlos 0ranha 6as well as Ton uan would actually be uan/ he says. in the same document. which I rewrite in 0ppendi7 C. that I could not chan%e the remarkable name of his master:( In se)eral other moments. such as seminars. reaffirmed Carlos 0ranha as bein% his name( Qlorinda dedicated Sha5ono to Sha5ono to him like thisF R+o the fi)e\le%%ed spider-that carries me-on its backS. makin% us understand his real name is 0ranha 6"pider. in 2n%lish:( But. clearly. the noun earns a metaphorical meanin%. the one that ensnares( +he fi)e le%s can refer to the secret fact that. apparently. accordin% to what is known nowadays. Carlos's new $a%ual %roup of three plon%s. was. maybe. composed by fi)e elementsF himself. Qlorinda Tonner\Grau. +aisha 0belar. the $a%ual woman 6na%uala: httpF--es(wikipedia(or%-wiki httpF--es(wikipedia(or%-wiki-CarlosUCastaneda -CarlosUCastaneda
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Carol +i%%s 6who. later. named Carolina 0ranha. with nh. on Clear%reen' "panish site. makin% us belie)ed the Portu%uese form was used@@:. and the )ery secret oan Baker 6this is totally my speculation. it seems they were %reat friends. and all of them li)ed in terraced houses:( +here are other elements that appear later on. which would be like the new %roups. non\linear. since the pro)ided reproduction by the three\plon%%ed na%ual radial@ and multip multiplie lierF rF Blue Blue "cout/ "cout/ 3ran%e 3ran%e "cout/ "cout/ the Chacmol Chacmoles es@N. the the me7i me7ican can appre apprent ntic ices es or listeners. the ones who participate in seminars around the world. the practitioners readers etc( 6+he scouts. are the true allies. because they are IB that come from other re%ions of the space. and the encounter with humans turns out to be producti)e / inor%anic bein%s from band of emanations twin of our or%anic band. band . are not considered as 0lly. because they are )ery similar to us. and do not produce e)olution or learnin% to the warrior:( 3n the other hand. there is another hypothesisF Would Carlos be. or could he become. after he runs throu%h the second and third attentions. a fi)e\plon%%ed na%ual& Would this be what he refers to& +his readin% is )ery bold. but I came to think of itF fi)e\le%%ed spider. fi)e\plon%%ed na%ual( In physics there are plastic forces 6which len%thens the body without without shapin% it: and the plastic forces 6body shapin%:( I think the biolo%ical biolo%ical ener%y is a third force. which implies two characteristics. characteristics. both concurrent and simultaneously( I mean. the )ital ener%y both fits and is transmuted 6and here we ha)e a new e)oluti e)olutionar onaryy hypo hypothe thesis sis.. which which I present present.. in the style style of Creati!e @@
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%one( \ When did Ton uan die& \ In ;K#@( \ Tid you take o)er the %roup after his death& \ $o( Tona Qlorinda. Tom uan's partner. continued to %uide us until the day she was %one( \ When did Qlorinda die& \ In;KN( Qlorinda [ and indicates indicates Qlorinda Qlorinda Tonner [ adopted adopted the name as a memory( $ow I understand the reason why durin% the meetin% Castaneda refered re fered to her sometimes as RGinaS/ it's probably her real name( Qlor Qlorin inda da To Tonn nner er has has alre alread adyy si%n si%ned ed her her name name like that hat in a book -Sha5ono-. Sha5ono-. published three years before Miss Qlorinda's Qlorinda's death( death( +he e7chan%e of names while Ton uan's partner was still ali)e su%%ests it was more of a si%n of continuity than a memory of the absent( Qlorinda did not stay for too lon% with Tom uan/ howe)er. and considerin% the respect and cumplicity in which Castaneda treats her. both seemed to share dedicati dedication on towards Rthe premises premises of witchcraftS( witchcraftS( But Castaneda could not initiate her. since he himself does not see him as a master( +he e7planation may be that the fra%ile and discrete Tonner was an apprentice of Miss Qlorinda. who transmited. back in the days. her knoled%e to Castaneda himself( +his old woman was na%ual and master of the %roup for ;? years(@K +he +he fi)e fi)e\pl \plon% on%%e %edd na%ua na%uall 6and 6and the the fourt fourthh and and fift fifthh atte attent ntio ion: n: are are re)ea re)eale ledd by Tomin%o Tel%ado "ol ?@( ?@( 3n the back. with another cryptic drawin%. he e7plainsF +he +he cosm cosmo%o o%oni nicc and and cosm cosmol olo% o%ic ical al kn know owle led%e d%e beO beOue ueat athe hedd by our ancestors remains hidden. hopin% that the wheel of fate spins a%ain from social materialism. to the perception of ener%y( Meanwhile. the Power of percei)in% decided to show us a path that leads us to the encounter with the other bein% that e7ists within our parallel body( +he nahuas from 0Ouila county. county. MichoacYn. in the me7ica ^("(0. practice se)eral sub=ects like $ahualo%y ou Perceptics( @K
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+o percei)e the enery as well as tra)el in it/ a wonderful fate( +o e7pand your percepti)e abilities until you form with your luminous e%% a %iant assembla%e point and. therefore. e7tend it until con)ert it to the whole. to be born in the fifth attention. ehre the ea%les li)e. as another one of them(V 6In The *rt of Stalking Stalking Parallel Parallel Percepti Perception on.. Lu=an Matus also uses hiero%lyphs that are used to the lurkin% and intentF R+he 1iero%lyph of 1aunted 0warenessS e R+he 1ierophyph of Inner Li%htS;. which are schematics-dia%rams and portals. )ery different from those of Tomin%o. and at the same time stran%ely similar/ since all come from the +oltec intent(: When readin% Tomin%o. I understand that the points are assembla%e points. which the normal man owns two. and which a na%ual mi%ht ha)e three. four or fi)e 6this account is mine. because I came to the conclusion that the cocoon has at least two anchora%e points. and I will e7plain it better in a moment:( In his site. Tomin%o e7plains us that theF Perceptics is the science of perception( It is di)ided into three nahualo%yF the the prima primary ry second secondar aryy indi indi)i )idua duall ener ener%y %y or inor inor%an %anic ic and and or%a or%ani nicc consciences. the constant )ibration proportional to the bodies or the infi infini nite te uni)e uni)erse rse of PL0C PL0C2 2 and and the the fini finite te\li \line near ar un uni) i)ers ersee and and the the nahualtec cosmo%ony e nahualtec or the promordial ci)ili!ation( 6+he nahualtecs from 0!tlania. nowadays 0ntartica. the first ci)ili!ation of Ypo Ypoda da.. nowa nowada days ys the the land land// wh whic ichh Ch Cham amue ues. s. u uec echu hua. a. 3lme 3lmec. c. teotihuacs. teotihuacs. Mayan and 0!tec descendents descendents de)eloped de)eloped the toltecachtl toltecachtl or primordial philosophy and the )ibratory ener%y to transcend the attentional portals and the nahuatlaca. au7iliary science of perceptics that studies nahuais of three or four plon%s and the nahual of fi)e plon%s. independent independent primary primary.. secundary secundary additional additional and an artificial artificial assembla%e assembla%e ? point(: Carlos Castaneda had many other names. and this is part of the eminence of a na%ual. the strate%y of erasin% personal history. to become fluid and unforeseeable e)en to himself. of his %lo%al ener%etic confi%uration that includes four directions 6north. south. east. west:. west:. of the three kinds of men 6of action. of knowled%e and behind the scenes: and of the two families of a %roupF the dreamers 6at the lurkin% of the names of Ton uan's warrior %roup. the Tonner family. or Tonner\Grau. which Qlorinda and Carlos are affiliated: and the V
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lurkers 60belar. +aisha sub%roup:( ,esembles that Grau is also the name of the family of the lukers in Ton uan's %roup. which makes it all more complicated. because. if so. Qlorinda =oined the two surnames. the ones from the two families. to hers( Qor the master of +aisha's lurkin% is Clara Grau. lurker( +he north is stren%th. will/ the west is sentiment. power/ the south is %rowth. testimony/ and the east is order. search 6the types of fi%hters. dreamers and lurkers. of each of these directions. brin% their own characteristics:( Carlos states states that. back in his newly newly famous teachin% teachin% days at ^CL0. about the four wind of a na%ual. the four warriors that fi%ht with him in the battles 6as allies. to find the crack crack between between the worlds. worlds. to enter enter the second attenti attention on etc:( etc:( +hat +hat informa informati tion on is in Mar%aret]s Mar%aret]s book. and it happens in a book called * called * Separate eality. eality. with the metaphor of the warriors weapons and shields( +here is a south dreamer and a south lurker. that are characteri!ed by %rowth and testimony. testimony. and so forth( +he types of male warrior areF of knowled%e 62ast:. search/ of action 6$orth:. will/ behind the scenes 6West:. power/ messen%er 6"outh:. assistent. witness( +he messen%er mi%ht be either a man or a woman( In Ton uan]s %roup. as told by Carlos Castaneda. uan +uma was the messen%er( +he messen%er messen%er in Carlos]s Carlos]s %roup would be the brilliant brilliant warrior 2li%io. who. accordin% accordin% to what our author tell us. %ot disappointed to him. because he could not follow him to see the %lory [ thus. the first one to reali!e that actually Carlos was not a four\plon%%ed na%ual. was not to them 6the "econd circle of power. Ton uan]s apprentices:( _icente Manuel was a man of knowled%e@. a student and sa)ant. e7pert in healin% and plants( Genaro was a man of action. who was not )ery skillful when speakin%. but who used to do wonders with his physical body and with his dream body. and induced effects of fear and mo)ement the assembla%e point in learners 6especially in Carlos. because he was his benefactor. also RbenefactorS in "panish. the one who shows to the na%ual/ while Ton To n uan was his master. the one who orders the island of tonal:( Ton uan 6e)en bein% the na%ual of his %roup: and Ton Genaro followed the @
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%uidelines of "il)io 2lia 6the man behind the scenes of Ton uan]s %roup: in Carlos]s learnin%. for se)eral reasons 6a na%ual is ne)er offiacially in the front of anythin%. he always lurks the lurkin%:. lurkin%:. amon% these. the fact that they RseeS that Carlos was not a four\ plon%%ed na%ual. a true successor successo r of Ton uan( +he nanahualtin 6na%uals: also %et surname of the family]s sub%roup. i(e. dreamers or lurkers. because they are more skillful with one of the two techniOues( Carlos was Tonner. Ton uan 0belar etc 6it mi%ht ha)e a leadership interchan%e in relation to the preponderance of %enerations:( But. in fact. this di)ision is predominantly female/ and a na%ual is the center. he binds it all. he has all the characteristics( 0 na%ual is many different man in one. he has one name for each occasion. or person or situation( +his is a manifestation of his lurkin%( Qlorinda tells in 7eing in 7eing in Dreaming that the %roup of female warrior of the na%ual Ton uan used to call Carlos as Isidoro Baltasar to her. as well as she should name Ton uan as Mariano 0ureliano 6Qlorinda has published three books [ in the other two she mentions briefly Ton uan and the master Qlorinda \. this is the best one/ +aisha only one/ her books are )ery important. because they pro)e or because at least they are an e)idence of Carlos]s learnin%. because they illuminate other facets of Ton uan]s %roup. and because they brin% information of the female learnin%. to the lurker. +aisha. and to the dreamer. Qlorinda( 1owe)er. all of her books related to Carlo]s work. are not e)en close to be as %ood %ood as his. his. in term termss of dept depth. h. poly polyse semy my.. inno inno)a )ati tion on.. impa impact ct.. re re)o )olu luti tion on and and RbenefactoryS:( Carlos himslef re)eals in inter)iews 6such as. for instance. Con!ersations /ith Carlos Castaneda. Castaneda. to Carmina Qort: that for many years he had been a humble Latin worker called os> Lui! Cortes. oe Cortes. identity under which he was a cook in a diner for a certain period of time. for e7ample( 3n the other hand. the man of knowled%e must culti)ate his own plurality. he is many in one. because he has access to the other positions of his assembla%e point N and. therefore. to the other emanations that are inside the cocoon. but which are not normally usedF ; [ by
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him. ? \ by his related and relationships. @ [ by his surroundin%s. [ by his time. N [ by his re%ion. A [ by humanity/ but which are real. and they are there. and he can access it. throu%h his discipline( It is the picture of the historian Carlos 2duardo Casta8eda. that was released by his associates. to the press. when his death or e7chan%e of attentions. in uly. ;KK 6the passin% of Carlos Castaneda. our author. happened two months earlier. on 0pril ?#:( Carlos 2duardo Casta8eda was born in Camar%o. +amaulipas. Me7ico. $o)ember ;;. ;A( 1e as a professor at ^ni)ersity in +e7as and 0ustin(A 3ne of his important books was The Me'ican Side of the Te'as e!olution( e!olution(# ^ntil ^ntil nowadays. many websites websites show this picture picture as bein% of our author. author. in fact. fact. there are two )ersions. there are presented as bein% himself. an adult man and as an old man. both of Carlos 2duardo Casta8eda( +here is also a picture of Carlos Mauricio Casta8eda. =ournalist. born in Cuba. in ;K@?. died in Lisboa. Portu%al. in ?VVV( "ome websites assi%n this picture to our Carlos Castaneda( +here are also photo%raphs of the weddin% our Carlos attended. alon% with oan Baker/ that one from the book of his Mar%aret ,unyan Castaneda. * Castaneda. * Magical 2ourney /ith Carlos Castaneda. Castaneda. published published in ;KK#. his with with Mar%aret' Mar%aret'ss son and his fostered 0drian 0drian _ashon. also known as C( ( Castaneda. and his. at his own %raduation. wearin% a %own. A
_( _( httpF--www(ute7as(edu-fac httpF--www(ute7as(edu-faculty-council-?VVV\?VV; ulty-council-?VVV\?VV;-memorials-memorials-"C0$$2T-castaneda(pdf( "C0$$2T-castaneda(pdf( _( tb( Eni%ht Without 0rmorF Qeli7 T( 0lmara! r( Carlos 2duardo Castaneda. ;KA\;KN( +e7asF Colle%e "tationF +e7as 0M ^ni)ersity Press. ;KKK( # Washin%tonF Tocumentary Publications. ;K#;( RCarlos 2( Casta8eda played a central role in the early de)elopment of the Benson Latin 0merican 0merican Collection. which is considered one of the worlds foremost repositories of Latin 0merican materials( materials( 1e was a Phi Beta Eappa %raduate of the ^ni)ersity of +e7as at 0ustin where he earned the B(0(. M(0(. and Ph(T( de%rees( Tr( Casta8eda was librarian of the Latin 0merican Collection from ;K?# until ;KA and is %i)en principal credit for acOuirin% the incomparable pri)ate collection of Garcia Ica!balceta of Me7ico( ,eco%ni!ed as an authority on the early history of Me7ico and +e7as. +e7as. Tr( Casta8eda ser)ed as a part\time associate professor of history from ;K@A to ;KA. when he was named professor of Latin 0merican history. history. a position he continued until his death in ;KN(-(((- Casta8eda was %ranted his Ph(T( from the ^ni)ersity of +e7as at 0ustin 0ustin in ;K@?( 1is dissertation. MorfiAs dissertation. MorfiAs 1istory of Te'as Te'as.. is a critical edition from an ori%inal manuscript by Qr( uan 0u%ustin Morfi that Tr( Casta8eda disco)ered within the archi)es of the con)ent of "an Qrancisco el Grande in the $ational Library Library of Me7ico httpF--www(lib(ute7as(e httpF--www(lib(ute7as(edu-pcl-history-c du-pcl-history-castaneda(html astaneda(html RCarlos Castaneda \ 3ne the nation's nation's top "panish\lan%ua%e publishers who in a career spannin% fi)e decades was editor and publisher of the newspapers 2l $ue)o 1erald and 2l $ue)o Tia and Life Ma%a!ine 6"panish lan%ua%e )ersion naturally:S -(((- 6 httpF--www(lifeinle%acy httpF--www(lifeinle%acy(com-?VV?-WI,?VV?;V;?( (com-?VV?-WI,?VV?;V;?(htmlTK? htmlTK?:( :( +he website spells his name without a tilde. but this one is with a tilde. Carlos Mauricio Casta8eda( +here is an 2ducational Qoundation with his name( .
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and another one. partially hidin% his face with his hand. these two in the inter)iew published in Time ma%a!ine( 0my Wallace also uses these picturtes. and adds one in which she %ets kissed on the cheek by Carlos. but he is in his back. in her book Sorcerer8s Sorcerer8s *pprentice( *pprentice( "he alsos uses the picture of the title pa%e of * of * Separate eality+ further con!ersations /ith Don 2uan 2ua n. Bma "stranha ealidade. ealidade. in the first ori%inal edition 6of "imon and "chuster. $ew ork:. with a dedication si%ned by Carlos to herF +o 0my Wallace With With best wishes R+he way to freedom is sometimes a whisper in the earS. don uan said that(K +he sentence is %ood. intri%uin%. as e)erythin% that comes from Carlos. always. in each inter)iew. in each con)ersation he was not aware that would be reproduced. always the same feelin% of power and of somethin% really hu%e. Rthe crack between the worldsS. the possibility that each second mi%ht accomplish total freedom( 0my limita limitates tes herself herself to obser) obser) that that the synta7 synta7 is not so well\co well\const nstruct ructed ed to the standards standards of the 2n%lish lan%ua%e. lan%ua%e. and speculates speculates that Carlos mi%ht ha)e had re)iewers re)iewers of the publishers in his books. who would ha)e chan%ed the phrasal constructions. e)en thou%h he stated it did not happen. as if it had any rele)ance whatsoe)er( 0nd he is Ouotin% Ton uan +hus. it was not his synta7. but of his master. ladino indian. american-me7 american-me7ican-y ican-yaOui aOui 6Ton uan li)ed in 0ri!ona. 0ri!ona. the ^("(0. ^("(0. and in "onora. Me7ico. Me7ico. amon% other places/ Carlos research and his learnin% with him happened in these two countries/ Ton uan spoke both "panish and 2n%lish. amon% many other Indian lan%ua%es:( Back to the picture in which Carlos places his hand on his face. there is a picture of Chico BuarOue in which he does the same hidin% his face but showin% his eyes. and it is on the the co)e co)err of hi book book Chico 7uar(ue do 7rasil . with many articles about the sin%er. or%abi!ed by ,inaldo Qernandes and edited by Garamond and by the $ational Library( People hidden in the trash can of de Carlos's house filmed and photoh%raphed the K
+o 0my Wallace with best wishes( R+he way to freedom is sometimes a whisper in the ear.S don uan said that( W0LL0C2. 0my( 0my( "orcerer's 0pprentice/ 0pprentice/ my life with Carlos Castaneda( ? ed( 6s- indicaJo de ediJo:( BerkeleyF Qro%. ?VV#. p ?. traduJo minha(
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ancient na%ual. many times. accompanied by his associates( +hese pictures. the one of the weddin%. the one with his son and the one of the %raduation are similar and are cosidered to be of the RtrueS Carlos Castaneda. from fr om The teachings of Don 2uan( 2uan( If he did it. it was not by chance that Carlos chose the name of Carlos 2duardo Casta8eda Casta8eda as his pseudonym. because the Me7ican professor was a %reat researcher of the history of his country. that Castaneda also contributed a lot to rescue( Probably. it was a symbolic %esture of Carlos. who took o)er the scene soon after the historian died( In fact. there is no man named Carlos Castaneda. and to think of that is silliness( 1enc 1e nce. e. such such as othe otherr myth mythol olo% o%ic ical al fi%ur fi%ures. es. oroa oroast ster er.. Ch Chri rist st.. Bu Buddh ddha. a. Carl Carlos os Castaneda was a myth. a story. a tale of power. which can be )ery powerful to us. that can transmute us. and that only makes sense if it does so( ust like all of us. the myth is made of dust and powerF and the power is able to become %reater( 3n the other hand. Carlos Castaneda Castaneda is the ali)e myth. myth. because he mana%ed mana%ed to wake people up from their drowsiness and from their do%matic rest. either bein% a common sense. or a scientific. or a philosophical. or e)en a reli%ious drowsiness( Castaneda becomes a character. due to his books. inter)iews. lectures and also because of all the people's ima%ination about him( 1ence. he doubles himself. and remakes himself in doubles. which are also real. as effecti)e. affecti)e((NV NV
0lternatine Biblio%raphyF a: "ome inter)iewsF Cor)alan. Graciela. RMa%ical Blend n;S. 0 con)ersation with the elusi)e Carlos Castaneda( Cor)alan. Graciela. RMa%ical Blend n;NS. Carlos Castaneda. part II( "andra BurtonBurton. "andra. R+ime Ma%a!ineS. Ma%a!ineS. Ma%ic and ,eality( ;K#@( Cor)alan. Graciela. Ter We% der +olteken +olteken \ 2in Gesprdch mit Carlos Castaneda. Qischer. ;K# Eeen. "am. Psycholo%y +oday. +oday. "orcerer's 0pprentice( 0pprentice( ;K#N( Le)iton. ,ichard. Ro%a Ro%a ournal. Mar!o-0prile ;KK n;;NS. +he 0rt of Treamin%( +hompson. Eeith. R$ew 0%e ournal. Mar!o-0prile ;KKS. Carlos Castaneda "peaksF Portrait of a "orcerer( Wa%ner. Bruce. RTetailsS. Mar!o ;KK. +he "ecret Life of Carlos CastanedaF ou 3nly Li)e +wice( b: 0l%uma 0l%uma Crtica e 0l%uma +eoriaF +eoriaF 0sh. Lee( ,e)iew of 0 "eparate ,eality( ,eality( Library ournal. ;K#; 6May ;: Barthelme. Tonald( +he +eachin%s 3f Ton B(F 0 ankee Way 3f Enowled%e( $ew ork +imes Ma%a!ine. ;K#@ 6Qeb ;;:. ;\;N. AA\A#( ,eproduced in T( Barthelme. Guilty Pleasures( Tell. ;K#( Beffeman. Gerald T( 0nemic 0nd 2metic 0nalyses In "ocial 0nthropolo%y( 0nthropolo%y( 0merican 0nthropolo%ist. 0nthropolo%ist. ;KAA. A6?. pt ;:. @A\@N( Castaneda. Mar%aret ,unyan. as told to Wanda Wanda "ue Parrott( My 1usband Carlos Castaneda( Qate. ;K#N 6Qeb:( Castaneda. Mar%aret ,unyan( 0 Ma%ical ourney with Carlos Castaneda( _ictoriaF _ictoriaF Millenia Press ;KKA( Cook. Bruce( Is Carlos Castaneda for ,eal& $ational 3bser)er. ;K#@ 6Qeb ?:( Crapan!ano. _incent( Popular 0nthropolo%y( Partisan ,e)iew. ;K#@( Cra)ens. Gwyneth( +alkin% +o Power 0nd "pinnin% With +he 0lly( 1arper's Ma%a!ine Te 1olmes. ,ebecca B( "habonoF "candal or "uperb "ocial "cience& 0merican 0nthropolo%y 0nthropolo%y _ol( _ol( N. p(
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"o many )ersions )ersions of his life. pictures of different different faces. contradictory contradictory facts. so much information in the press. online. as well as in books. it seems stran%e and wonderful the use a na%ual is capable of doin% in his huntin% field. in this case. the Western societys transition from the XX century to the XXI century( Ton uan tells Carlos that a warrior uses his huntin% field. his field was the "onoran Tesert. Tesert. Carlos's Carlos's field is the bi% city and the academic world. and then. the tar%et public of AA Tobkin de ,ios. , ios. Marlene( _isionary _isionary _ineF Psychedelic 1ealin% in the Peru)ian 0ma!on( 0ma!on( "an QranciscoF Chandler. Chandler. ;K#?( To)er. ;K#N( Qire. ohn-Lame Teer 2rdoes. ,ichard( Lame Teer. "eeker of _isions( "imon "chuster. ;K#?( Qoster. Geor%e M( $a%ualism in Me7ico and Guatemala( 0cta 0mericana. 0mericana. ;K6an\un: Qreilicher. Lila( +he Carlos Castaneda +rilo%y( Publishers Weekly. ;K#?6$o) ?V:( Qurst. Peter +( +( Qlesh of the GodsF +he ,itual ^se of 1allucino%ens( Prae%er. Prae%er. ;K#?( Qurst. Peter +( 1uichol Conceptions 3f +he "oul( Qolklore 0mericas. ;KA#6une:( Giddin%s. ,uth Warner. collector( aOui Myths and Le%ends( ^( 0ri!ona. ;KNK( Gill. erry 1( +he World 3f Ton uanF "ome ,eflections( "oundin%s. ;K#( Globus. Gordon G( Will +he ,eal Ton uan' Please "tand ^p( +he 0cademy. 0cademy. ;K#N6Tec:( Goldschmidt. Walter( 27plorin% the Ways of Mankind( ?nd edition( 1olt. ,inehart. Winston( Grosso. Michael( Plato 0nd 3ut\3f\+he\Body 27periences( ournal of the 0merican "ociety for Psychical ,esearch. ;K#N 6an:( 1arris. Mar)in( Cultural MaterialismF +he "tru%%le for a "cience of Culture( $ew orkF orkF ,andom 1ouse. ;K#K( 1olmes. ,ebecca( ;K@ "habonoF "candal or "uperb "ocial "cience& 0merican 0nthropolo%ist 0nthropolo%ist N Eeen. "am( "orcerer's 0pprentice( Psycholo%y +oday. ;K#? 6Tec:( Eendall. 2laine( ;K?( ,e)iew of "habono by Qlorinda Tonner ( Los 0n%eles +imes. May K Picchi. Tebra( ;K@( ,e)iew , e)iew of "habono by Qlorinda Tonner( 0merican 0nthropolo%ist AF A#\A#N Eennedy. Eennedy. William( Qiction or Qact( $ew ,epublic. ;K# 6$o) ;A:( Eiti)er. Eiti)er. 1einrich( Mescal. +he Ti)ine Plant and It's It's Psycholo%ical 2ffects( LondonF Ee%an Eleps. 0rt( Letter $ew ork +imes Book ,e)iew. ;K#@ 6Qeb :( Eluckhohn. Clyde( $a)aho Witchcraft( BostonF Beacon Press. ;K( Eurath. William 2dward 1( "picer( 0 Brief Introduction to aOui. 0 $ati)e Lan%ua%e of "onora 6^ni)ersity of 0ri!ona "ocial "cience Bulletin $o( ;N:( ^( 0ri!ona. ;K#( La Barre. Weston( 1allucino%ens and the "hamanic 3ri%ins of ,eli%ion( 6In Qurst\\op(cit(: La Barre. Weston( Weston( +he Peyote Cult. th edition( "chocken. ;K#N( Leach. 2dmund( 1i%h "chool( $ew ork ,e)iew of Books. ;KAK 6une N:( Le)y\Bruhl. Lucien( +he "oul of the Primiti)e( Prae%er. Prae%er. ;KAA( Lewis. C("( +ill We 1a)e Qaces( 1arcourt. Brace World. ;KNA( 2erdmans. ;KA( Madsen. William Madsen. Claudia( +he "orcerer's 0pprentice( $atural 1istory. ;K#;6une:( Mandelbaum. Ta)id G(. editor( "elected Writin%s of 2dward "apir in Lan%ua%e. Culture and Personality( ^( California. ;KK( Mandell. 0rnold 0rnold ( Ton uan In +he Mind( 1uman Beha)ior. Beha)ior. ;K#N6an:( Mar%olis. oseph( Ton uan 0s Philosopher( In $oel 6??\??:. ;K#A( Moises. ,osalio. Eelley. ane 1olden. 1olden. William Curry( +he +all CandleF +he Personal Chronicle of a aOui Indian( ^( $ebraska. ;K#;( Myerhoff. Barbara G( Peyote 1untF +he "acred ourney of the 1uichol Indians( Cornell ^(. ;K#( $oel. Taniel( "eein% "eein% CastanedaF ,eactions ,eactions to the Ton uan Writin%s Writin%s of Carlos Castaneda. Castaneda. Peri%ee Books 6;K#A: $oel. Taniel C( +he "oul of "hamanismF "hamanismF Western Western Qantasies. Qantasies. Ima%inal ,ealities( ,ealities( $ew ork( ork( Continuum( ;KK# 3ates. oyce Carol( 0nthropolo%y\or fiction& Letter $ew ork ork +imes Book ,e)iew. ;K#? 6$o) ?A:
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his books. the seminars. the internet( If Castaneda had been born in Tecember ?N. ;K?N. In Ca=amarca. Peru. his birth chart would ha)e been like the one done by Michael T( ,obbins. which you can find in his website and book with the same name T name Tapestry apestry of the GodsN;. _olume III. ?VVN( +he notion of sub=ecti)ity. of indi)iduality and intersub=ecti)ity are problemati!ed in toltecYyotl 6nauallotl:. and it leads people to blame. unreasonably. this knowled%e of schi!ophrenia or somethin% similar( 3ates. oyce Carol( Ton uan's Last Lau%h( Psycholo%y +oday. ;K#6"ep:( 3ates. oyce Carol( Letter to Taniel C( $oel( 6In $oel 6AK:. ;K#A\\op(cit(: Parrott. Wanda Wanda "ue( I ,emember Castaneda( Qate. ;K#N6Qeb:( Pearce. oseph Chilton( 27plorin% the Crack in the Cosmic 2%%( ulian. ;K#( Pocket Books. B ooks. ;K#N( Pearce. oseph Chilton( +he Crack in the Cosmic 2%%( ulian. ;K#;( Pocket Books. ;K#@( Puharich. 0ndri=a( +he "acred Mushroom( Toubleday. ;KNK. ;K#( Pul)ino. Charles ( Lee. ames L( Counselin% 0ccordin% 0ccordin% to Ton uan( Counselin% ,adin. Paul( +he +ricksterF 0 "tudy in 0merican Indian Mytholo%y( Philosophical Library. Library. ;KNA( ,iesman. Paul( +he Collaboration 3f +wo Men 0nd 0 Plant( $ew ork +imes Book ,e)iew. ;K#? 63ct ??:( ,oll. William G( +he Polter%eist( Polter%eist( $ew 0merican Library. Library. ;K#?. ;K#@( ,os!ak. +heodore( 0 "orcerer's 0pprentice( 0pprentice( $ation. ;KAK 6Qeb ;V: "il)erman. Ta)id( ,eadin% Castaneda( LondonF ,outled%e Ee%an Paul. ;K#N( "picer. 2dward 1( ,e)iew of +he +eachin%s +eachin%s of Ton uan 0merican 0nthropolo%ist. 0nthropolo%ist. ;KAK 60pr: "picer. 2dward 1( Pascua. 0 aOui _illa%e in 0ri!ona( ^( Chica%o. ;KV( "t( Petersbur% +imes 6Qlorida:. 0pril ?N( "ukenick. ,onald( ^pward and uanwardF +he Possible P ossible Tream( In $oel 6;;V\;?V:. ;K#A( 6op(cit(: Qirst published in _illa%e _illa%e _oice. _oice. ;K#@6an ?N:( +art. +art. Charles +( Tid I ,eally Qly& "ome Methodolo%ical $otes 3n +he In)esti%ation 3f 0ltered "tates 3f Consciousness 0nd Psi Phenomena( In ,oberto Ca)anna. editor. Psi Qa)orable "tates of Consciousness( $ew orkF Parapsycholo%y Qoundation 6?K West N#th "treet. $ew ork. $ ;VV;K:. ;K#V( +imes Book ,e)iew. ;K#63ct ?#: +omkins. Cal)in( +he +eachin%s 3f oe PyeF 6Qield notes for Carlos Castaneda's ne7t epiphany:( $ew orker. ;K#@6Qeb @:( _alero. 1elenaF as told to 2ttore Biocca( anoYmaF +he $arrati)e 3f 0 Girl Eidnapped By 0ma!onian Indians( ;K#; $ew orkF 2(P( Tutton/ $ew orkF Eodansha International( ;KKK( Wallace. ohn( +he "orcerer's "orcerer's 0pprenticeF Con)ersations with Carlos Castaneda( Penthouse. P enthouse. ;K#? 6Tec:( Wallis. ,obert ( "hamans-neo\"hamansF 2cstasy. 0lternati)e 0lternati)e 0rchaeolo%ies and Contemporary Pa%ans( LondonF ,outled%e( ?VV@( I"B$ V\;N\@V?V@\X Wasson. ,( Gordon. Gordon . _alentina P( I 0te +he "acred Mushrooms( +his Week. ;KN#6May ;K:( UUUUUU( "eekin% +he Ma%ic Mushrooms( Mushrooms( Life. ;KN#6May ;KN#6May ;@:( UUUUUU( "omaF Ti)ine Ti)ine Mushroom of Immortality Immortality(( 1arcourt. Brace Brace World. World. ;KA UUUUUU( +he 1allucino%enic 1allucino%enic Qun%i of Me7ico( Me7ico( 1ar)ard ^ni)ersity ^ni)ersity Botanical Museum Museum Leaflets. ;KA;6Qeb ;#:( UUUUUU( +he Ti)ine MushroomF MushroomF Primiti)e Primiti)e ,eli%ion and 1allucinatory 0%ents( Proceedin%s of the the 0merican 0merican Philosophical "ociety. "ociety. ;KN 6une: Ben=amin Lee( Lee( Lan%ua%e. +hou%ht. and ,eality( MI+. ;KNA( Wilk. "tan( ,e)iew of 0 "eparate ,eality( 0merican 0nthropolo%ist( ;K#? 60u%: oun%. Tudley( +he Ma%ic of Peyote( $ew ork +imes Book ,e)iew. ;KA 6"ep ?K:( c: 3ther worksF Gaby Geuter( Qilmin% CastanedaF +he 1unt for Ma%ic and ,eason 6?VV: Eelley. Eelley. ane 1olden( 0^I 0^I W3M2$F Contemporary C ontemporary Life 1istories 6;KK#: 2dward Plotkin +he Qour o%as o%as 3f 2nli%htenmentF Guide +o +o Ton uan's uan's $a%ualism 2soteric Buddhism 6?VV?: $e)ille Goddard( R0wakened R0wakened Ima%inationS by hea)ily influenced influenced the work of Castaneda( Castaneda( Gennaio ?VV#
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+her +heree ha)e ha)e been been some some more more we well ll elab elabor orat ated ed crit critic ics. s. bu butt no nott many many.. besi beside de a disseminated comon sense. which discredit the work. =ust because they ha)e a limited )iew of all the learin% implies( I didn't think much about his stran%e use of metaphor( 1e'd lon% been talkin% talkin % that way. e)er since sinc e the early days of his fieldwork field work(( In casual con)ersation he would use words he'd ne)er used before ;KAV. words like impeccable' and warrior' and in)incible'. absolute neo\ primiti)isms of the hokiest sort( I ne)er really doubted that Carlos was spendin% his time amon% the Indians and I assumed these stran%e additions to his )ocabulary were a natural effect of it (N? 0mon% the stron%est ones. we can menton ,ichard TeMille 6son of the film\maker Cecil Cecil Blount Blount TeMille. TeMille. of 1ollyw 1ollywood ood mo)ies mo)ies such as ings of ings:. ings:. with the books Castaneda8s 2ourney3 The Po/er and the *llegory 6;K# 6;K#A: A: and and The Don 2uan Papers 6;KV:N@ and ay Courtney Courtney Qikes. author of Carlos Carlos Castaneda& *cademic 6pportunism and the Psychedelic Psychedelic Si'ties Si'ties 6;KK@:N. works which are totally dedicated to RunmaskS the RCastaneda farceS( +he classi classics cs Co/s& Pigs& ars& and itches3 The iddles of Culture EE. by Mar)in 1arris. published in ;K#N. critici!es the R2urocentricS and RreactionaryS )iew. with which Carlos had built his RcharacterS Ton uan. was not concerned about the social in=ustices 0lice Eehoe. "hamans and ,eli%ionF 0n 0nthropoli%ical 0nthropoli%ical 27ploration in Critical +hinkin%( ?VVV( LondraF Wa)eland Press( Graham EaneF +oltec TreamerF 0 Collection Collection of Memorable 2)ents from the life of a Man\of\0ction 6?VV? ^E: Little Bi% Press( on WhaleF +he Catalyst of PowerF +he 0ssembla%e Point of Man 6Paperback: Qindhorn Press 6Mar!o ;. ?VV;: William William Patrick PattersonF +he Life +eachin%s of Carlos Castaneda( 0rete Communications. ?VV#( Bernard Tubant e Michel Mar%uerie La )oie du %uerrier \La )ia del %uerrero\ 62d( Maisnie Guy +redaniel. anuary ;. ;KKV: +heun MaresF ,eturn of the Warriors. Cry 3f +he 2a%le. +he Mists of Tra%on Lore. "hadow of the Wolf Qire Qrank Giano ,ipelF $a%ualismo 51
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a%ainst the yaOuis. nor pities about the shoeshiner boys of Me7ico. who used to eat lefto)ers at a restaurant( 2)en 2)en ackno acknowl wled ed%i %in% n% the the )ery )ery essen essenti tial al )era )eraci city ty of Cast Castane aneda da''s statements. statements. Mar)in 1arris dedicated dedicated an entire chapter of his book Co/s& Pigs& ars and itches itches.. ;K# in order to critici!e what he considered to be a anthropolo%ical work wor k of poor Ouality Oua lity.. that accepts with critici!in% the emic perspecti emic perspecti)e )e of the ob=ect of study and does not not keep the ob=ecti)ity ob=ecti)ity reOuired an in)esti%ation worthy of the name( 1e also critici!es the ideolo%y of the work. which becomes parado7ical its success amon% the rebels of the counterculture( 1arris statesF 7y statesF 7y any chance& /ould there 5e a more distre distressfu ssfull e'ample e'ample of technocra technocrat& t& that the one of the ya( ya(ui ui magician& to /hom the social pro5lems of his people did not deser!e a minute of his attentionF& about a passa%e wrote by Castaneda. in which the aOui shaman says that boys who be% in the place where he is [ alon% with Castaneda [ would ne)er be able to become a man of kno/ledge( kno/ledge( 6+hi 6+hiss is untru untrueF eF it was Cast Castane aneda da wh whoo said said these these boys did did not ha)e chances chances.. Ton uan stated stated that both those kids kids and Carlos Carlos had had the NA same chance of becomin% a man of knowled%e(: $either 1arris nor Wikipedia Wikipedia Ton uan was not with Carlos. that one who told he saw/ the boys were not yaOuis. no ethnicity was mentioned/ mentioned/ and they also did not be%. but they were shoeshiners who ate lefto)ers that were still on the tables of the restaurant/ Ton uan did not say neither this nor thatF he said that any of those boys had much more possibilities of becomin% a man of knowled%e than Carlos. that his set and perfect world had not done any %ood. in relation to what he considered to be the most important partF the learnin%( learnin%( 0nd that e)ery man of knowled%e knowled%e that he knew had been like those kids who ate lefto)ers from the tables( 1e saidF Rdon't feel sorry for themS. which was e7actly what Carlos feltF \ 1a 1a)e )en] n]tt you you told told me once once that that.. in yo your ur op opin inio ion. n. the the %rea %reate test st achie)ement of a person is becomin% a man of knowled%e& -(((\ To you think your wealthy word would. by any chance. help you becomin% a man of knowled%e& \ asked Ton uan. with a sli%ht sarcasm( I did not answer. and he asked a%ain in a different way/ I always do the same with him when I think he is not understandin% me( \ In other words [ he said. with an open smile. knowin% for sure that I was aware of his artifice artifice \. ha) ha)ee your freedom freedom and your opp opport ortuni unitie tiess helped you becomin% a man of knowled%e& \ $o \ respondei. enfaticamente( \ "o. how can you feel sorry for those kids& [ he continued. )ery seriously( [ 0ny one of them is capable of becomin% a man of knowled%e( NA
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0ll man of knowled%e that I am aware of . were like the boys you saw eatin% lefto)ers and lickin% the tables(N# Well. the non\pietism. non\humanism. non\conformism towards the current )alues 6way of education. way of bein%:. the total freedom of the man of knowled%e towards the conflicts of the men in their specific time. the ups and downs of a society. is e7actly the startin% point of the liberation that the warrior builds in his ener%y. ener%y. with the learnin%( Mar)in missed up real bad( Psychoanalysis would also offer us their critics. which are rele)ant. perhaps. but limited( ,eferrin% to narcissism. "i%mund Qreud saysF 0 third element that competes with this e7tension\ le%itimate. it seems to me \ the libido theory comes from our obser)ations and conceptions of life of children and primiti)e peoples( We We find traits that. sin%ly . can be attributed to me%alomaniaF an o)erestimation of the power of their desires and psychic acts. the Romnipotence of thou%htsS. a belief in the ma%ical power of words. a techniOue of dealin% with the outside world. the Rma%icS. which appears as a consistent application of these %randiose premises(N 0s $iet!sche said. it is necessary to %o beyond man/ is an ur%ent need to rein)ent the 1umanities. as Gilles Teleu!e and Q>li7 Guattari show us. in Mil in Mil Plat9s( Plat9s( I will not %et any further with this topic. which I belie)e is )ery promisin%F the learnin% of Castaneda. accordin% to what I think. is connected to what Teleu!e calls virtual.
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Carlos tells tells that Ton uan used to tell him that the sorcerers do not ha)e neither past nor future. the sorcerers always li)e in the present( In fact. all of us do( +his is pure time( +he %erminal Ouestion of philosophy( $iet!sche knwe it. and he said so himself( +he cra!y one are the other ones( When the "te)ens teach us about the Rshamanistic =ourneyS of $orth 0merica IndiansNK. what they tell us. what kind of e7perience is that& Bein% in dreamin%. the dreamer body 6Cs3. by Teleu!e and Guattari:. the fibers of consciousness that we are. that come out of the womb to act. touch thin%s. the will that shoots from the middle of the body like an arrow. the double one. the na%ual. some stran%e realities( +he )irtual( I will stop here and add a different definition of warrior. different from the na%ual type of warrior. and that. howe)er. it is )ery connected to it. prepare to %et ama!ed ladies and %entlemen. the proposal to li)e as a warrior is on the four corners of the worldF -(((- +he path I intend to describe on this book neste is called the "hambhala path of the warrior( +he "hambhal "hambhalaa teachin% teachin%ss describe describe human human life as bein% bein% common. li)ed fully and completely. as an art path of the warrior( +o be a warrior. man or woman. means to dare to li)e %enuinely. e)en in the face of obstacl obstacles es such as fear. fear. dou doubt. bt. depression depression and e7ternal e7ternal a%%ression a%%ression(( +o be a warrior does not mean to wa%e a war( +o be a warrior means to ha)e the coura%e to know complete completely ly and fully who you really really are( Whether you =ud%e it %ood or bad. either happy or depressed. depressed. youn% or old. neurotic or balanced. balanced. as a true warrior you reco%ni!e the inherent basic basic %oodness. deeper and more lastin% lastin% than all these ephemeral ephemeral hi%hs hi%hs and lows( When When one is %enu %enuine inely ly authentic. authentic. one is open to that fundamental %oodness that e7ists in oneself and others. e)en when it seems obscure or completely completely buried( +he warriors ne)er %i)e up on anyone. includin% themsel)es(AV "till. the same people who =ud%e Carlos and other na%uals without knowin% them. do not know what they build and do with their their knowled%e knowled%e and power. power. for the %ood of society society and impro)ement of man. or. in Ton uan]s words. as they always are to deposit sums Ron the human bein% accountS. which has a )ery poor balance. in its affection without conditions. which. in fact. is the lo)e for the bein% in which we li)e. the 2arth( 6 0nd the NK
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Western science be%ins to reali!e that. for e7ample. in the brilliant Gaia 1ypothesis Lo)elock A;(: +he last time I saw him. was in Qebruary ;?. ;KKA. at the R+he $ew Ways of +ense% ense%ri rity tySS e)en e)entt 6RLos 6RLos $ue $ue)o )oss "end "endero eross de la +ense% ense%ri rida dadS: dS:.. or%ani!ed by Guillermo Ta! at the 0sturian Center -(((-( +o me. this e)ent was )ery important. because. as responsible for the dissemination. I was in char%e of or%ani!in% a press conference [ the only one that he 6Carlos: attended durin% all of his career\( 0 poi%nant detail was that the money raised. more than ;NV thousand pesos. was donated to a welfare institution to the Me7ican children/ I was touched to be present on the day of the deli)ery of the money( money(A? 0nd the +oltecs act like that to pay their debts( +hey know there is no such a thin% as action without a reaction. and they always return what they])e been %i)en. whether %ood or bad( In this case. each of us has benefited since the day we were concei)ed. with the 2a%le %ift. the food of the %round. the care and teachin% of our parents and society. the knowled%e we beOueath from our precursors and manifestations of the spirit( 0 warrior always pays off his debts( Back to the )iolent critics a%ainst Carlos. I am not analy!in% the ar%uments one by one. of the three most fundamented works. which are opposite from Carlos Castaneda]s works( Puttin% to%ether a number of issues. we should consider. not to fall into the anti e)olutionary trap of these critics. the followin%F ; \ Ton uan does not represent a culture. neither yaOui nor any other( It is silly to say that who uses the Mescalito. peyotl. are the 1uicholes. and not the yaOuis 6Mar%aret tells us that Carlos tra)eled with Ton uan to a 1uicholes land. to participate of a %reat peyotl session session.. which which is reported reported in * Separate eality. eality. and in which he e7plains that he was tryin% to find find a tacit a%reement a%reement and a non\)erbal means means of communication communication to define define the content of the re)elations. which. of course. he did not findA@:( Carlos is crystal crystal clear about A;
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present. and is the real face of Pan\0merican culture of the 0merindian peoples and acculturated who ha)e a lot lot to teach usF the toltecYyotl( +he one who best understood his proposal. and soon did it. was the poet 3cta)io Pa!( "tran%ely. the Me7ican %o)ernment promoted a delay between the ankee )ersion of Teachings of Don 2uan and 2uan and the "panish )ersion. $as )ersion. $as "nseKaas( "nseKaas( It was said that they feared that youn% 0mericans would enter throu%h Me7ico. and that the Me7icans themsel)es would look e)erywhere. after Ton uan( "tran%e reasons((( for this delay +he book was published in ;KA in the ^("(0. and in ;K#. in Me7ico( Me7ico( +his edition. edition. by the Qondo Q ondo de Cultura 2con
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much effort and se)eral new technical solutions so that they could build their city on the wetlands of the lake( +he first 0!tecs called themsel)es Me7ica. where the current name of the country comes from( "o. theres an under%round ri)er or ocean. that has ne)er lost its stren%th and has always %i)en fruits. but most could not see( +his unknown sea is the toltecYyotl . the na%ualism. the nauallotl. the stren%th of the +oltecs. oltecs. e7pressed in its knowled%e knowled%e and in its practices 6let's 6let's not for%et that. on his site. Tomin%o Tel%ado "olor!Yno still %i)es us two other synonyms of this knowled%e. which is di)ide di)idedd intoF intoF Rthe Rthe toltec toltecach achtl tl or primord primordial ial philos philosophy ophy and the )ibrat )ibration ional al ener%y ener%y to transcend the attentional portal. e the nahuatlaca. au7iliary science of perceptics that studies the nahuais of three or four points and the nahual of fi)e points. independent primary. additional secondary and the artificial assembla%e point R##:( 0nother related wordF We belie)e and practice the ancient +oltec concept of learnin% called nimomashtic. which literally means to teach(# 0nd what do Carlos Castaneda's book say& +his perception is )ery important. and it is worth hi%hli%htin%F Castaneda's work is neither anthropolo%y nor literature. it is a bi% +oltecYyotl 0%reement( It does ha)e anthropolo%ical and literary effects. but this is a refle7. it is somethin% seco second ndar aryy. the the prim primar aryy focu focus. s. and and its its %rea %reatt achi achie) e)em emen entt is to brin brin%% in a clea clearr. compre comprehe hensi nsi)e. )e. conc concis isee and and stru struct ctur ured ed wa wayy. the the kn know owle led%e d%e abou aboutt +oltec oltecYy Yyotl otl.. the the $a%ualism( +he word appears now in the first nYhuatl dictionary. the %oca5ulario .ahuatlCastellano. Castellano. of ;N#;. by Priest Molina/ who defines toltecYyotl as Rthe art of li)in%S( +he Dicionario +he Dicionario Manual e lustrado de $a $engua "spaKola. "spaKola. of the ,oyal "panish 0cademy. in its second edition. of ;KNV. records in na%ual and nYhuatl terms. with the spellin% Rna%uatleS. and also informs us about the term Rna%uatlatoS. which means the nYhuatl speakerF NA!A"( m( M
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ima%ery( +he process described here has all the characteristic features of a psycholo%ical compensation( It is known that the mask of the unconscious is not ri%id. but it reflects the face we turn to it( 1ostility %i)es it a menacin% aspect. kindness softens its features( +his is not a mere optical refle7. but an unattended answer that re)eals the independent nature of the one who responds( +hus. the Rfilius philosophorumS is not merely the mirror ima%e of the "on of God in an improper body/ this so of +iamat shows traces of the ori%inal mother\ima%e( 2)en thou%h it is clearly hermaphr hermaphrodi odite. te. its its name name is mascul masculine ine.. re)eali re)ealin% n% the tenden tendency cy to the a%ree a%reeme ment nt of the the chth chthoni onicc un unde derwo rworl rld. d. re=e re=ect cted ed by the the spiri spiritt and and identified as e)ilF it is undoubtedly a concession to the spirit and the masculine. althou%h it carries the wei%ht of the land and the fabulous character of its ori%inal animality(V 0nd. also. there is a lot of ima%ination ima%ination about what masculine masculine and feminine feminine could be 6self\critiOue of my e7planation:( _ery interestin% this "tarhawk's refle7ionF Why are there two %enders& Qor the same reason we why we di)ide a deck of cards shuffle them( "e7ual reproduction is an ele%ant method to ensure ma7imum biolo%ical di)ersity( 1owe)er. it would not describe the essential Ouality of the flow of erotic ener%y that sustains the uni)erse as a female - male polarity( +o do so. means to determine heterose7ual human relationships as the basic pattern of all bein%s. rele%atin% other types of attraction and desire to the status of de)iant( +his description not only makes it in)isible %ay and bise7ual realities/ it also isolate all of us. re%ardless of our se7ual preferences. the intricate dance of ener%y. and attraction attraction that we mi%hyt mi%hyt feel about the trees. flowers. rocks. sea. a %ood book or a paintin%. a sonnet or a sonata. a close friend or a distant star( Qor the erotic ener%y inherently %enerates and celebrates di)ersity( 0nd the Goddess reli%ion. at its core. is precisely the erotic dance of life actin% throu%h nature and culture(; But. you see. this respect towards other traditions and teachin%s. and that dialo% I su%%est. do not mean it is all the same. or that they are reducible to each other( Tue to the many in)asions of the _alley of Me7ico by warlike tribes. and after the arri)al of 2uropeans. the toltecs went into hidin% and continued their work. in countless )ery limited %roups. each with a particular strain. with their )ision and own findin%s/ e)en each na%ual and each warrior has his preferences( +hese %roups are isolated and poorly V
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communicate with each other( With the arri)al of Carlos and his work of spreadin%. thin%s %ot complicated. but the linea%es. which are now multiplied. continue each ha)in% its specific( Carlos did not come to end up with the linea%es. he came to potentiate them( Ton uan said se)eral se)eral times times in the books. and the witches witches of his %roup %roup in $ucid in $ucid Dreaming OF they did not perform pa%anism. pa%anism. dances. rituals. rituals. etc(. that would be a dead end for them/ all of that RIndian talkS of Ton uan in the be%innin% was a way of catchin% Carlos. because all na%ual has to decei)e his apprentice. no man or woman who is worthwhile would )oluntarily dedicate themsel)es to the learnin% 6that is what Ton uan tells them:( In fact. at the be%innin% of the work. the first two books. besides bein% an e7hibition of the lurkin%. and how the learnin% is to the ri%ht side. are also )aluable anthropolo%ical material. not about a tribe or ethnicity. but it is about that particular %roup. and at the same time. it is about that knowled%e sprawled by Me7ico and 0merica. the na%ualism( +he youn% Ton uan fled from the house of his benefactor. the na%ual uliYn. tryin% to break with the na%ual's %roup and with the learnin% . to die and be resurrected. and then reali!e that there was no better way for him( Carlos also Rlea)esS the learnin% 6the ri%ht side apren aprendi dice ceshi ship. p. that that one one that that is made made in inte intensi nsifi fied ed con consci sciou ousne snes. s. it has has cont contin inue ued. d. meanwhi meanwhile: le:.. in ;KAN. and came came back in ;KA. to show the book The Teachings of Don 2uan3 * 4a(ui ay of no/ledge no/ledge newly published to Ton uan. and immediately the relationship pulled itself to%ether. as usual( Mar%aret Castaneda tells that Carlos often kept %oin% to Me7ico and meetin% with the Indians. durin% this period. in which he claims he had supposedly been apart from his benefactor @( +here were three tricks at the $a%ual Ton uan's lurkin% in order to brin% Carlos to his %roup and learnin%F ;: the RfolkS fascination towards the pantheistic )iew of the indi%enous. which he has culti)ated with many reports and fake ritual beha)ior 6it is not worth it the study of what he does in the first books. to know and practice aOui witchcraft or any other. or to achie)e the same results/ he is actin% the R%ood sa)a%eS. to the deli%ht of ?
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Carlos and to his deli%ht:/ ?: the use of plants of power and of other means to loosen Carlos's assembla%e point . firmly cemented in reason and common sense 6includin% hikin% in the desert. climbin% hills. days without eatin%. breakin% routines etc(:/ @: a )aluable opponent that is a refined and sophisticated use of the lurkin%( +he lurkin% comes from the outside to the inside( ^nderstandin% who bothers and oppresses us as petty tyrants who help us in our de)elopment of the lurkin% principles is an act of power of the warrior( Qacin% a )aluable opponent is an act of power that comes from the master. whether a man. an inor%anic bein% or the 2a%le itself( In Carlos's case. his opponent was La Catalina. an incredibly powerful woman. a witch from Ton uan's cicle. an apprentice to%ether with him of the $a%ual ulian( But Carlos was not aware of thatF he only knew she was scary. dan%erous 6she could')e killed him. and she almost did. more than once: and that he felt a %reat se7ual attraction for her. e)en with all the fear he felt( In Ton uan's lurkin%. he understood that La Catalina was his enemy. and threatened his life. and that Carlos was the only ace in the hole he had a%ainst her( In fact. she was Ton uan's ally. and she was the ace in the hole. to e)ol)e Carlos. to make him learn the hard way. to be his acid test. for him to become a man of knowled%e( I')e been constantly repeatin% the word RmasterS. but Ton uan steadfastly refused this nickname( I told you I had recei)ed se)eral letters from people tellin% me it was wron% to write about my learnin%( +hey cited as an ar%ument. that the masters of 2astern esoteric doctrines demanded absolute secrecy about their teachin%s( \ Perhaps theses masters are =ust ha)in% fun with their mastery [ said Ton uan. without lookin% at me( [ I am not a master. I am =ust a warrior( warrior( 1ence. I do not know. in fact. how a master feels( \ But maybe Im re)ealin% thin%s that should not. Ton uan( \ I does not matter what you re)eal or keep for yourself( 2)erythin% 2)erythin% we do. e)erythin% e)erythin% we are. lies in our innerpower innerpower(( If we ha)e enou%h. a word that is pronounced may be sufficient to chan%e the course of our li)es( But. if we do not ha)e enou%h inner power. most ma%nificent wisdom fact mi%ht e re)ealed to us without such a re)elation make any difference(\ 0nd then he lowered his )oice. as if he was tellin% me somethin% confidential( \ I will pronounce what is perhaps the %reatest fact of
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Me7ican intellectuals and anthropolo%ists and from other Latin 0merican countries be%an a search for the comple7ity of reality before the conOuest. as a way of findin% their cultural identity and also claim a lar%e part our herita%e. and had been obliterated by concealment and falsif falsifica icatio tionn of the cultur culturee of thousan thousands ds 6that' 6that'ss ri%ht. ri%ht. thousan thousands: ds: of indi%e indi%enou nouss ci)ili!ations that there were here in this continent when the 2uropeans arri)ed( In the book The Teachings of Don 2uan3 * 4a(ui ay of no/ledge. no/ledge . we ha)e the thrillin% description of the four enemies of a man of knowled%eF fear. clarity. power and eld( 2)erybody faces the first one. the fourth almost e)erybody( +he second and the third. only the impeccable warriors who hunt power( It is necessary to understand that the state of fear is the natural condition of the a)era%e man. the natural condition condition of all of us. and it is the le)el of power. or a small inch of it. in which we all are. and from where the apprentices be%in. as a startin% point( +he field notes that ha)e been brou%ht to us are here reproduced on 0ttachment 0 6they were translated to portu%uese by me and to en%lish by 0line +hosi. my en%lish translator:/ the spanish ori%inal is is in the footnote at that place. which are the con)ersations in which Ton uan tells Carlos about the four enimies of a man of knowled%e( +he notes are from "aturday. 0pril .;KA?. and "unday 0pril ;N.;KA?. and correspond to those which are reported on these dates. in The teachings of Don 2uan?. but the te7t is )ery different. )ery much alike Ton uan's way of speakin%. the te7t clearly seems to ha)e been edited and Ror%ani!edS. Ror%ani!edS. in order to make the sub=ect more coherent coherent and in order not to ha)e )ariation of the theme durin% the con)ersation( Ton uan's personality in the notes its a little harder and cruder. more %enuine. and the con)ersation is e)en richer and more plural than the one from the book When Ton Carlos Castaneda asks Ton uan sobre about his benefactor and where they li)ed. he repliesFF +hat I cannot tell you( ust like you ha)e me. my time. and you cannot tell anyone where you met me. where you saw me. and where you found 3tom y pameuintana ,oo Maya"an Luis Potos 1uasteco. nYhuatl y pame"inaloa pame"inaloa Mayo"onora Mayo. pYpa%o. pima. seri seri y yaOui+abasco yaOui+abasco Chontal y chol_eracru! chol_eracru! $Yhuatl. tepehua. tepehua. popoluca y totonaca totonacaucatYn ucatYn Maya0bout the Qederal TistrictF R"e trata de los principales %rupos ind%enas mi%rantes establecidos establecidos en esa entidad( \\\ $otaF 0%uascalientes. Ba=a California "ur. Colima. $ue)o Le
me. not e)en my name( +his is the sorcerer's rule( +his is the rule when you want to know. when you ha)e %ood will(K; In the same way to Carlos. e)erythin% he told about Ton uan and about himself cannot factual. he is beyond anthropolo%y and Western notion of scientificity. he is workin% with power. pure consciousness. the mind. and its desi%ns( Ton uan did not allow him to record his )oice nor to take pictures( +hey say the Indians re=ect the picture because it Rsteals the soulS of the indi)idual( In Ton uan's case. there are se)eral features of the strate%y to considerF preser)e your RsoulS. in fact. its fluidity/ not submit the warrior to Western institutions 6R"e)eral men of knowled%e ha)e left their bones in the halls of e)idenceS:/ preser)e the anonymity of the na%ual and his %roup. etc( $e)ertheless. Mar%aret tells us thatF Carlos's years in the field had %enerated se)eral hundred pa%es of field notes. some photo%raphs. a brief ;A\mm film and some tape recorded inter)iews. most of which he later denied ha)in%( 1e had reworked his field notes all alon%. tryin% to put them into a more readable formS(K? 62)en thou%h I had not thou%ht of that. all the information in this book seems doubled. replicated. in doubleF the mark of the double bein%. p(: Carlos Carlos Castan Castaneda eda and the Crack Crack 7et/ee 7et/eenn orlds orlds Glimpse Glimpsess of the Unahua Unahuacah cah Philosophy in the II Century was Century was written in ?V;;. the ear of Grace. 6but had been studied. e7perimented. de)eloped. in)esti%ated and collected since ;KK. and: published in ?V;? 6year which marks the be%innin% of the Ath "un:( $e)er before. in the history of the uni)ersal literature. a work had had so much information per sOuare centimeter. cubic. penta. hepta or eneadimensinal My hypothesis. with which I work. and de)elop in this book areF ; [ +he +he na%u na%ual alis ism m is a real real.. efet efeti) i)ee and and ori% ori%in inal al prac practi tice ce.. crea create tedd with with the the collaborati collaboration on of many 0merican 0merican cultures/ cultures/ it aims at the Ouality Ouality of life. at the superior superior way of life. at the release of lower elements of human ethos. and at the e)olution of the indi)idual and of the species 6what $iet!sche used to call "upermen:( ? [ $a%ualism is one of the first and stron%est Pan 0merican phenomena. it used to be K;
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practiced throu%hout the continent that would one day be called 0merica. from 0laska to +ierra del Que%o. under many names. in different lan%ua%es. and with many specific techniOues coupled. but it was a continental disco)ery. that the Mon%olian people ha)e done here o)er the millennia of adaptation( It is in the Canadian witches. in the many redskins nations that li)ed in what is now the ^nited "tates and Me7ico. the Mayans. the Incas. and amon% the thousands of people in "outh 0mericaK@( @ \ Carlos Castaneda has done an anthropolo%ical findin% of an immense importance/ he has found the tip of the iceber%( 1e himself has %i)en many indications that pro)e it . and. alon% with him. after him. independently of him. as we are %oin% to show. this rescuin% and updatin% research. in an increasin% potentiation. towards a specific e)olution. which was precisely the proposal and the prophecy of these pre\Columbian peoplesF in ?V;? we will be in the A th sun. and the redisco)ery of na%ualism plays a fundamental role in this transformation( [ We are aware now. also by %enetic e)idence. that 2asterners came to li)e in 0merica. 0merica. trou%h different different paths. Berin% "trait. the 0leutian 0leutian Islands and e)en boats(K +hey brou%ht the embryo of what would be the na%ualism. in an ori%inal shamanistic )iew. )iew. different from the 2uro 0frican one. which. in 0sia. has been de)eloped in many stron% and millennial traditions. such as 1induism. +aoism and en( +his %erm has resulted here in many fruits of knowled%e. but most of them linked by the na%ualist perspecti)e 6e)en if with another name. accordin% to the lan%ua%e and culture of the people:( N [ $a%ualism is not a reli%ion. it has ne)er been one. and loses its stren%th and its characteristics when it is treated so( "till. it is a li)in% and acti)e herita%e of the 0merican people. one of the most beautiful %ifts we %i)e to the world. and we can. e)ery sin%le one of us can. profit from it. in such an effecti)e effecti)e and affecti)e way as did the people who used to li)e here. hundreds and thousands of years a%o( ConseOuently. ConseOuently. my aim in this book isF ; [ +o %i)e my interpretation of na%ualism( K@
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form the human cocoon. and the man form/ Carlos saw the mold of man. and. at another time. lost the human form 6those are )irtual e7periences:/ Ton Mi%uel ,ui! and Ton ose ,ui! e7plain this as followsF +his +his struct structure ure is what the toltecs toltecs used to call call human form( form( +he human form is not the format of the physical body/ it is the form our mind takes( It is the structure of our beliefs about oursel)es and about e)erythin% that helps our dream make sense( +he human form %i)es us our identity. identity. but it is not eOual to the frame of the dream( -(((-K# Carlos Carlos Castaneda Castaneda tells tells us that that he had written written a boo bookk abou aboutt Ton uan before before The Teachings. Teachings. but that he lost the manuscript in a cinema( +he title of this work was The Crack 7et/een orlds orlds?O( +he silent knowled%e leads to learnin%( +he elements that. accordin% to Carlos. in "l in "l Silencio nterno. nterno. that allow us to %et there areF ; \ ma%ical passes/ ? [ the center of decision/ @ [ the recapitulation/ [ the dreamin%/ N [ the eternal silence( We are %oin% to talk about each one of them in details later/ only the center of decisions that I will e7plain now. it is the _\shaped ca)ity located at the base of the neck. that should be worked on tense%rity so that the man can resume his power of makin% decisions. that was obliterated by the sociali!ation 6ne)er decide anythin% by himself. follow the herd:. thereafter may become a warrior and a man of knowled%e( +he center of decision is )ery important and powerful. it should be a)oided to touch it indiscriminately( indiscriminately( Carl Carlos os stat states es in The Po/er Po/er of Silenc Silence3 e3 #urt #urthe herr $ess $essons ons of Do Donn 2ua 2uann that the assembla%e point of humanity had been 6in the days of the toltecYyotl: at the silence knowled%e position. which is produced by the position of non\pity. not feel sorry for yourself 6and for others. which is always a mask for self\pity:( +he nowaday man would be in the reason position. which is not a fact. he is close to it. but not e)en that he is capable of doin% ( +o %et to the reason position is a %ood alternati)e. too. since from one position it is possible to see the other. antipode( I mean. men of knowled%e are super\rational( +aisha 0belar. in R+he nine pathsS conference. held in the e)enin% of "aturday. May ?A. ;KKN. in the 3me%a Institute 6transcribed by ,ich ennin%s:. %i)es this )ersion of the K#
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steps of power. and proposes the nine techniOues to mo)e the assembla%e point. ou ponto de alinhamento. ou ponto de a%lutinaJo. ou. produ!ir o ponto de mutaJoF -(((- +hrou%h discipline and trainin%. Witches can make their ener%y body appear as the physical body and )ice )ersa( +aisha saw for the first time the ener%y body after de)elopin% enou%h sobriety throu%h inner silence. and thus allowed the bri%htness of her luminous e%% to %row a%ain abo)e the le)el of her ankles( "o 2milito showed her his ener%y body. actin% somethin% like Rthe flip passS Rel pase del sacud
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$ine ways of mo)in% mo)in% the assembla% assembla%ee point& point& In fact there are thousands of ways to mo)e it. the ancients were e7perts in it. por>m Ton uan recomended the pure and simple intent. when we use methods to achie)e the mo)ement there is the risk of endin% up worshipin% the method( 1owe)er. in response to each of the cited techniOues. I comment that the tense%rity. as any other series of e7ercises. can mo)e the assembla%e point. be it either either by the concentra concentrarion rion reOuired reOuired to the repetitio repetitionn of comple7 comple7 mo)ements 6and the conseOuent silence: or by the physical e7haustion. which is also a door to the mo)ement( +he recapitulation mana%es to mo)e the assembla%e point by manipulatin% manipulatin% memory. memory. which leads us to relie)e the e)ents to a certain point that they are no lon%er a ballast in our li)es. thus. %eneratin%. more conciousness and freedom( +he don'ts. undoubtedly. help us to mo)e the assembla%e point. pro)ided that. by fi7in% our attention on topics to which we are not used to. we lea)e the common parameter. and that is enou%h to affect our daily perception( +he litt little le tyra tyrant ntss obli obli%e %e us to %o beyo beyond nd ou ourr limi limits ts.. and and this this mo)e mo)ess the the assembla%e point. the important thin% here is to e7ercise the control( +he techniOues of obser)ation are effecti)e. whene)er they are e7tended to a lon% term period. until somethin% breaks inside of us and the point mo)e mo)es( s( +he +he sile silenc ncee is. is. with withou outt a do doub ubt. t. the the best best wa wayy to achi achie) e)ee the the mo)ement of the assembla%e point. and to do so. only intent is reOuired. as I ha)e already mentioned( +he discipline and impeccable actions are ob)iously a way to refer to what has been mentioned abo)e. they are not the techniOue itself. but they are applicable to other techniOues. and. as an additional comment. they should apply to e)erythin% we do in life( +he dreamin% is ob)iously a result of the mo)ement of the assembla%e point. point. and not a techniOu techniOuee itself. itself. whilst whilst the lurkin% lurkin% is a techniOu techniOue. e. which which allows not only the mo)ement but it also pro)ides the means to keep point fi7ed. since the mo)ement is achie)ed( ;VV Cheers. uan ( (;VV uan olili!tli. the author of this reply to the forum. which he reports in his book Di book Diál álog ogoo de Guerreros 6the Guerreros 6the whole book is the material of his %roups discussions of the Internet. copied: does a )ery important continuity work with the in)esti%ations. with his books. sites. and with the edition of $os $os Test Testig igos os del .a .agua gual l . inter)iew of many people who ha)e met Carlos 6and some ha)e e)en met Ton uan: and of "n of "ncu cuent entos os con el .a .agua gual l . by 0rmando +orres( But we surely do not a%ree with e)erythin%. of course( I ha)e put his Ouote here because I am a fan of contro)ersy. and he disa%rees with +aisha. which is %reat( $ow. for instance. it ob)ious that the dreamin% is indeed a techniOue 6with its pro%ressi)e set of procedures. the si7 or more. in fact. ;VV
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there are always more %ates of dreamin%:. the most clearly techniOue he refused. they all are. and they all are mo)ements of the assembla%e point as well. e7actly because of the fact that they are techniOues that pro)ide it/ I will e7plain it better. in each chapter( _ct _ctor or "Ync "Ynche he!. !. in 6s "nsi "nsina namen mento toss de Do Donn Ca Carl rlos os.. also proposes his own list of techniOues. of course. rele)ant and )ery useful techniOues ; \ In)entory of ener%y use( ? \ +echniOue to determine the ener%etic Ouality of the acts( @ \ ,eferences to know how much ener%y we are born with( \ +echniOue +echniOue to stop stressful thou%hts thou%hts or emotions( emotions( N [ +echniOue echniOue of economy of ener%y and well\bein% 6RPractice carefully and for a period of three days or more a rule of thumbF ;V; T3 $3+ C,I+ICI2. T3 $3+ ^TG2. T3 $3+ C3MPL0I$S(;V; : A [ +echniOue of silence( # ;V? [ 2con 2conom omyy of se7ual se7ual ener% ener%yy \ +echni echniOue Oue to capt capture ure ener ener%y %y from from the the sun sun ;V? ( 6In fact. he
presents## techniOues throu%hout the book. and the list of all of them is on pp( ?AN\?A(: +he na%ual transcends the human. the Qranciscan Qriar "aha%`n himself reali!ed that. him. who was so )ital to preser)e the lan%ua%e and the elements of this ci)ili!ation. alon% with the coloni!ers. that. in its ma=ority. did not know and did not e)en wanted to know what was it all about( Qriar "aha%`n "aha%`n studied to master/ master/ nowadays. nowadays. many students of toltecYyotl toltecYyotl use his works to learn about ancient traditions( 0 na%ual is so far remo)ed from ordinary and current human bein% . as the latter is from the amoeba( amoeba( 0s the Matritense Code7 says. $0 $0W W0LLI ;V@ 0+L0E0+L. Rthe na%ual is not humanS( 3nee of the 3n the wa ways ys of und unders ersta tand ndin in%% the the $a $a%ua %uali lism sm 6$aua 6$auall llot otl: l: or +olte olteOu Ouid idad ad 6+oltecYyotl: is to distance oursel)es from the classic Western reason. and try to see in what e7tent wicthcraft ratifies and rectifies them 6while a certain science of the common sense rectifies them:( 2)en the a)era%e man and his use of =ud%ement and commom sense. in our world. is marked by the principles of the classic reason. and. whether he is a scientist or a man of the streets. he considers cra!yness e)erythin% that does apply to itF ;V;
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RCem ĀnYhuac 6pronunciado ori%inalmente ori%inalmente sem(aF'na(wak: es el nombre dado a la e7tensi7ico por parte de 1ernYn Cort>s y los europeos( "e trata de un nombre nYhuatl deri)ado de las palabras RcemS 6totalmente: y RĀnYhuacS. Oue a su )e! deri)a de las palabras RatlS 6a%ua: y RnahuacS. un locati)o Oue si%nifica Rcircun)alado o rodeadoS( 2l nombre literalmente literalmente entonces puede traducirse como Rtierra completamente rodeada por a%uaS. o Rla totalidad de lo Oue estY =unto a las a%uasS( La e7presianos. el 0tlYntico y el Pacfico( Teri)ado de Cem ĀnYhuac. los anti%uos pobladores de la Cuenca de M>7ico utili!aban el %entilicio nahuacah para referirse a los habitantes de Cem ĀnYhuac( para distin%uir a las distintas naciones Oue habitaban en Cem ĀnYhuac los denominaban como Rnahuacah mayaS. Rnahuacah !apotecahS. Rnahuacahh me7icahS y as sucesi)amenteS( sucesi)amenteS( httpF--es(wikipedia(or%-wiki httpF--es(wikipedia(or%-wiki-CemUCVnC@0;hua -CemUCVnC@0;huacc ( 0 Wikip>dia referencia Guillermo Marn neste arti%oF Marn. Guillermo( L0 CI_ILI0CI3$ T2L 0$01^0C( 0$01^0C( toltecayotl(or%( toltecayotl(or%( Consultado el ;# de octubre de ?V;V( ;;V httpF--es(wikipedia(or%-wiki httpF--es(wikipedia(or%-wiki-0rchi)oFCuencaUdeUMe -0rchi)oFCuencaUdeUMe7icoU77i(s)% 7icoU77i(s)% ;;; 2$$I$G". Gary( *steca Gary( *steca(( +rad( os> "an!( "o PauloF ,ecord. -s(d(-. pp( @#\@(
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traces of the planet. despite its systematic destruction( +his set of knowled%e. feelin%s and )alues is known as +oltecYyotl. and is the most )aluable le%acy of the people now called Me7ican. and represent. undoubtedly. a rich cultural herita%e of humanity( humanity( 0s in those days. the +oltecYyotl was transmitted to a select number of people who achie)e mastery and therefore the de%ree of RtoltecS( +he people or the so called masehuales li)ed with the laws. rules. traditions. uses and mores emanatin% emanatin% from the +oltecY +oltecYyotl. yotl. which allowed allowed them to li)e in harmony harmony with indi)iduals. families. people and nature( 1owe)er. this knowled%e has collapsed. for unknown reasos so far( +he fact is that around the year NV a(T. the inhabitants of what is now called Rarchaeolo%ical areasS from the Classic period ha)e destroyed stone by stone. ha)e co)ered theses places and ha)e literally literally disappeared from from the the earth earth.. de% de%ra rati tin% n% litt little le by litt little le thei theirr teach teachin in%s %s amon amon%% the the masehuales throu%h time( +his e)ent is mentioned in the myth of the departure of uet!alcoatl. and its prophesied return to 0nahuac( $e)ertheless. the knowled%e has been kept ali)e in a select %roup. but in a restricted manner. in the after period. known as the Post\Classical period 6from NV to ;N?; 0(T:. and it is assumed that at the be%innin% of the 2uropean 2uropean in)asion. the Calmecac of Cholula was directed by +oltec masters. who had RdisappearedS before Cort>s arri)ed in +enochtitlan( +enochtitlan( With the conOuest and subseOuent coloni!ation. the +oltecs took refu%e in the the in)i in)isi sibl blee and and impal impalpa pabl blee R$ R$ah ahual ual''s wo worl rldS dS.. not on only ly by the the 2uropeans. but in %eneral. by the coloni!ed nahuacahs( 0ccordin% to the +oltec tradition. +oltec %roups remained in hidin%. formin% many different Rlinea%esS throu%h many ways of keepin% the knowled%e( "ome used traditional medicine. some used the dance. others used the music. and most remained in total inward. inaccessible by the colonial world(;;? Guil Gu ille lerm rmoo Mar Marnn has has only only te7ts te7ts that that show and ar%ue ar%ue that that the Cem Cem Ān ĀnYh Yhua uacc ci)ili!ation was the most de)eloped one around the world. when the arri)al of 2uropeans to 0merica. and so was already. millennia before. in the time of the 3lmecs 6Pre\Classical. from VVV until until ?VV before Christ. Christ. but. the 3lmecs 3lmecs appeared around @VVV b(C:. in the times of the +oltecs 6Classical Period. ?VV b(C( up to appro7imately NV a(T(: and in the times of the 0!tecs. or Me7ica 6Post\Classical. from NV to around ;N?; a(T(:( 0ustin and Lu=Yn spatially di)ide ancient Me7ico into three cultural super areasF 0rid 0ridoa oame meri rica ca.. 3a 3asi sisa same meri rica ca and and Mesoa Mesoame meri rica ca(( +hey +hey also also or%a or%ani ni!e !e this this wa wayy the the understandin% of Mesoamerican periodsF pre\classical 6which includes the 3lmec:. classical 6which includes the +eotihuacan predominance:. the epiclassical and the post\classical ;;?
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6with the continuity of the +oltecs. +oltecs. the 0!tecs and the Chichimecs:;;@( +here ha)e been two wars a%ainst the na%ualism. two oppressorsF 0!tec in)aders may ha)e marked the be%innin% of the period of the new seers. concerned with the lurkin% and with the total freedom 6third attention:/ and the "panish. who made the in)asion and called it RconOuestS. and who. with the oppression of the church. the nobles and merchants. unwittin%ly helped to intensify the postulates of the lurkin% and freedom( +he brand new seers now appear in the twenty\first century. with the breakin% of the line of succession and with the re)elation that Castaneda has made in his work. spreadin% and multiplyin% 6as spores: the lines( 2)en an Irish man fou%ht a%ainst oppression in the Cem ĀnYhuac. and was a %reat re)olutionary. who. a hundred years before the Qrench ,e)olution. da ,e)oluJo Mineira 6absurdly referred to in history books as RdisloyaltyS: and 0merican Independence. tried to %i)e Me7ico its freedom. and the abolition of sla)ery and oppression of the Indians( 1e was called William Lamport. born in ;A;N. in We7ford. "outheast Ireland/ and e7ecuted in Me7ico. in ;ANK( 1is name %ot "panish features and it turned into Guill>n Lombardo. and. accordin% to some people. he is the real orro from the myths. books and mo)ies(;; 0nother 0nother curious thin% is the e7istence of a tribe of Indians in Peru)ian Peru)ian and Bra!ilian Bra!ilian 0ma!on. called 0mahuaca. a name that reminds nahuacah( nahuacah(;;N When the "panish people arri)ed in 0merica. the city of +eotihuacan 6now Me7ico City:. "tate of Me7ico. was one of the fi)e lar%est in the world. with public education. ;;@
0^"+I$. 0lfredo 0lfredo L7icoF 2l Cole%io de M>7ico. Qideicomiso 1istoria de las 0m>ricas. Qondo de Cultura 2conm o documentYrio Xorro documentYrio Xorro no no 1istory Channel. httpF--www(seuhistory(com-home(html( ;;N R3s yora ou amahuaca so um %rupo >tnico da 0ma!vnia Peruana. Oue se distribuem nas re%ies de ^cayali e Madre de Tios( Qalam o idioma amahuaca. Oue fa! parte da famlia lin%ustica pano( 0%rupam\se principalmente nos )ales dos rios Mapuya. Curan=a. "epahua. Inuya e ur`a( ur`a( -(((Qoram os missionYrios franciscanos Ouem. em ;AA. contactou pela primeira )e! os yora. Oue eles chamaram de amahuaca( 3s missionYrios encontraram ;? choJas na !ona do rio Con%uari. em um momento histsticos -(((-S( http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/+ora "ee also +he 0mahuaca \ 0ma!on +ribe of Peru in http://www.,r-stalinks.,om/amahua,a.html
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sanitation. sanitation. pa)ed roads and streets. hu%e buildin%s. buildin%s. pyramids. astronomy astronomy and other hi%hly hi%hly de)eloped sciences. includin% the R%enetic en%ineerin%S that produced corn 6by modifyin% the teo!intle plant: and makin% the edible wild nopal(;;A 0s we saw. saw. Cem Cem Ān ĀnYhu Yhuac ac mean meanss Rlan Rlandd surrou surround nded ed by wa wate terS rS.. Rlan Rlandd tota totall llyy surrounded by waterS. in nYhuatl( #eotihua,n was in the middle of Lake +e7coco. also surrounded by water. and some
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%irreinato 6;N?; +ome IIF 1istoria IIF 1istoria del %irreinato 6;N?; \ ;V#:. by _icente ,i)a Palacio( +ome IIIF $a IIIF $a Guerra de ndependencia 6;V \ ;?;:. by ulio Yrate( +ome I_F M<'ico I_F M<'ico ndependente 6;?; ndependente 6;?; \ ;NN:. by uan de Tios 0rias 6who died while writin%: and was continued by 2nriOue de 3la)arra e Qerrari( +ome _F $a _F $a eforma 6;NN eforma 6;NN \ ;A#:. ;A #:. by os> Maria _i%il(;;# 0tlantis was called RislandS by Plato in the +imaeus. because it was surrounded by water( I ha)e the theory that 0tlantis did not sink literally. because. if we try to fit the map of 0merica into the map of 2urope and 0frica. we can see they fit perfectly. it does not seem to a ha)e a %ap between them( It is known that the tectonic plates. upon which rest the continents. ha)e slid on the ma%ma %round throu%h the millennia. and that parts of lands ha)e %otten apart from each other( +he whole 0merica perfectly fits into 2urope and 0frica. thus. there was no lar%e e7panse of land that sank between them( 0nd it was the displacement of the lar%e strip of land of Pan%aea that became 0merica. which %enerated the 0tlantic 3cean. and then it emer%ed between 0merica on one side and 2urope and 0frica on the other side ( +herefore. 0merica %enerated the 0tlantic 3cean/ it is more lo%ical to think that 0merica is the real 0tlantis itself( 60nd there is also the matter of another ci)ili!ation that mi%ht ha)e inhabited an island in the 0tlantic. and that would be as e)ol)ed as the 0tlantis. to the point of i%norin% 2urope. considered by its people as bein% )ery underde)eloped( +his island e7isted. there are records of di)ers. and its name is 1y Bra!il(: 0nother interestin% point is that. if we carefully look to the map. we see that what we think abstractly as three separate continents. 2urope. 0frica and 0sia. are completely united. it is a continent. 2urasiafrica. an issue fairly resumed by Guillermo Marn( 0lso. 0merica is only one. but the 2uropeans ha)e insisted in separatin% them into three. and they ha)e e)en cut the Panama Canal to enlar%e the distance between $orth and "outh. which in fact are only one( Marn also says that the concept of Mesoamerica is ;;#
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coloni!in% coloni!in% and oppressi)e( oppressi)e( We We are a Panamerica/ Panamerica/ 0merica. 0merica. and the people who ha)e li)ed here before the 2uropeans arri)ed. are aware of that( 0s Plato himself admits that the deepest culture of 2%ypt and Greece comes from 0tlantis. perhaps the culture of these peoples has come from 0merica. because there are stron% indications that the whole 0merica. or part of 0merica. is the famous f amous 0tlantis( +here is a )ery interestin% document about this matter. the te7t RLa 0tlantida en el 0nYhuacS. by 0lfredo Cha)ero. that inte%rates the work to which we refer now . M<'ico . M<'ico a tra!
+ula in there. e forma detidos pelos etruscos. which is the fact point out by PlatoF the 1yperboreans of +heopompo are the people that. accordin% accord in% to Celtic traditions. were forced to lea)e their remote islands by the sea and settle in. what was then. Gaul( In our continent. they ad)anced to meet the %reat plains of the Pacific between @N and N de%rees( +hey also e7tended to the north. pushin% the monosyllabic race/ but the ice a%e forced them to seek direction to the south. and it is likely that. always followin% followin% the Pacific Pacific coast. coast. they ha)e come come to Peru. whose whose Inca race found kinship with the nahoas( $otwithstandin%. these mi%rations must ha)e been )ery primiti)e. because the nahoa race appears in the first times cut in the $orth of our territory. and e7tendin% only from "onora and "inaloa to the Chihuahua and acatecas. ie between ?? and @? de%rees of $orth latitude( +he 3tomi race occupied the center. and from the line of Chia Ch iapas pas to ucat ucatan an to the the south south.. e7te e7tend nded ed acros acrosss Cent Central ral 0meri 0merica ca enterin% the southern Maya\uiche race. which also occupied the islands of the Gulf 6of Me7ico:( "uch is the %eo%raphical location of the first three races. that we can reali!e after the separation of the continents( -(((;;
Maybe. this ad)anced ci)ili!ation of Cem ĀnYhuac. had influenced the 2%yptian. Mesopotamian and the 2uropean ci)ili!ations 6in the same architectural style. there the pyramids and !i%%urats in 0merica. but. surely su rely.. the influences are many:( 0nd maybe. yet. such such fact fact mi%h mi%htt ha)e ha)e been been censo censore redd by the the Rnew RnewSS ci)i ci)ili li!at !atio ions. ns. and and part partly ly.. inde indeed. ed. for%otten/ a mi7ture of en)y with i%norance 62uropean:( $anahualtin is the plural for na%ual 6we pronounce naual. and. sometimes. we spell s pell it RnahualS. RnaualS or RnawalS: or nawalli. or naualli. all these forms as used. and the closest to the ori%inal pronunciation is RnawalliSF Master of mystical knowled%e. in the $ahuatl lan%ua%e( 6I endea)ored to translate e)erythin% that appears in other lan%ua%es in the main body and notes of our te7t( +he reader will notice that this book brin%s mi7ed the followin% lan%ua%esF Portu%uese. "panish. 2n%lish and $ahuatl( 3f course. of course (((: Turin% the meetin%s in Los 0n%eles. Carlos always separated us from the %roup of people who spoke "panish and %a)e us at least one lecture in particularF RLatin classes(S class es(S 1e said that it is not the same to communicate the knowled%e of the witches in 2n%lish instead of "panish. because he learned it in the latter. and that it was in Me7ico where the fundamental concepts were de)eloped(;;K ;;
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of the historian 1errera. who found them in ;N@V in the pro)ince of CerOuin. in the mountains of 1onduras. and is as followsF R+he Te)il used to trick these nati)es appearin% to them in the form of a lion. ti%er. coyote. li!ard. snake. bird or any other animal( In these appearances. they %i)e him the name $a%uales. which is somethin% like %uardians or partners. and when this animal dies. the Indian who also destined. also dies( +he way in which this alliance was formed is as followsF +he Indian would %o to a place far remo)ed. and there he would call upon the streams. mountains and trees around him. cryin% and be%%in% for himself the fa)or %ranted to their ancestors( "oon he would sacrifice a do% or a rooster. and with the blood he would drench his ton%ue. ears and other body parts. and lay down to sleep( Bein% asleep or half\asleep. it could be to one of the animals mentioned that he saidF RGo huntin%. and the first animal or bird you see will be my form. and it will continue with you as your partner and $a%ual. fore)erS( +hus. their friendship was sealed so ti%htly that one if died. the other would also die/ and without a $a%ual. the nati)es thou%ht that anyone could become rich or powerfulS(;?@ We can notice two )ery important important facts now now.. in Brinton]s Brinton]s work. Bm "studo so5re o #olclore e a 1istNria .ati!a da *m
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2)en Brinton. despite bein% an anthropolo%ist. places himself a%ainst the indi%enous knowled%e. and embraces the 2uropean reli%ious pre=udices( But you see. the matter nowadays is barely reli%ious. one does not simply attempts to )anish with books. such as the ones of Castaneda. =ust due to the impression they are e)il( But it raises the Ouestion of truth. from a positi)ist positi)ist perspecti)eF perspecti)eF this could not ha)e happened. period( +herefore. is the author reportin% the childish beliefs of the sa)a%es& It]s 3E( 3r. is he usin% e)erythin% as mere fantasies of the mind that teach us thin%s& It]s 3E( 3r are they =ust mere metaphorsm alle%orical stories& It]s 3E( +he current sentencin% to the practices is not. at least officially. due to the fact they are uncon)entional. reli%iously speakin%/ but due to the fact they do not bow to positi)ist pre=udices 6and. most of all. of the common sense: that these practices are o)ercomin%( Tonalpohualli. te7t of traditional +oltec fi%ures. 0nother important document is the the Tonalpohualli. published in ?VVN in Me7ico. with comments by Mi%uel Tia! +apia. under the title +onalpohualliF Mathesis +oltec( +he +onalpohualli inte%rates +onalamatl(;?N 0t first. what is known about the +onalamatl is that it would be a di)inatory almanac. with calendar features as well( Mi%uel +apia Ta! shows in his book that +onalamatl was a real mYtesis. I mean. a science with astronomical. social. ethical. mathematical. %eometric. ma%ical implications. etc( In the introduction. he Ouotes a prophetic sentence in $Yhuatl about the fate of this odd bookF Tel cecni omamayoti omamayo ti omicuillo ompa moca(ui* moca(ui * "e oirY relatar lo Oue se puso en papel y se pint<* 6It will be heard about what was laid on a paper and painted(((: *nales de Cuauhtitlán;?A +he +oltecs. and people related to them. con)eyed their knowled%e in ima%es. which are not only RtranslatedS into words( +he ima%es of pyramids. buildin%s. sculptures. reliefs. paintin%s and manuscripts manus cripts mo)ed the assembla%e point and produced new perceptions and 125
R+he tonalamatl is is a di)inatory almanac used in central Me7ico in the decades. and perhaps centuries. leadin% up to the "panish the "panish conOuest( +he conOuest( +he word itself is $ahuatl is $ahuatl in ori%in. meanin% Rpa%es of daysS( +he tonalamatl was was structured around the sacred ?AV\day year. the tonalpohualli( tonalpohualli( +his ?AV\day year consisted of ?Vtrecena ?Vtrecena of of ;@ days each( 2ach pa%e of a tonalamatl represented represented one trecena. and was adorned with a paintin% of that trecenas rei%nin% rei%nin% deity and decorated decorated with the ;@ day\si%ns and ;@ other other %lyphs( +hese +hese day\ si%ns and %lyphs were used to cast horoscopes and discern the future(S httpF--en(wikipedia(or%-wiki-+onalamatl ;?A L2j$\P3,+ILL0. Mi%uel( $a Mi%uel( $a filosofLa náhuatl3 estudiada en sus fuentes( fuentes( @ ed( M>7icoF ^$0M. ;KAA. pp( ?A y @NK. apud T0. Mi%uel +apia( +apia( Tonalpohualli3 Mathesis tolteca( tolteca( M>7icoF ?VVN(
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R2stos adi)inos los tonalpouhOue no se re%an por los si%nos ni planetas del cielo. sino por una instrucci7icoF Porr`a. ;K##. p @;N. ibidem. translated by 0line +hosi(
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that the de)il. they said. had o)er the Indians(;? It bothers me that there are both anthropolo%ical and lin%uistic mo)ements in Me7ico and out of Me7ico to reco)er the unsuspected treasure that is the Ānahuacah ci)ili!ation 6and this book is a fine e7ample. since I am Bra!ilian:. and that somethin% similiar. thank God. is happenin% happenin% with the 0ymara 0ymara and Inca ci)ili!ations/ ci)ili!ations/ that does not bother me. about that I happily celebrate/ what bothers me is that we. the Bra!ilian people. ha)e not yet become aware of three facts that want our attentionF ; [ the %reatness of RnS Pindorama ci)ili!ations. and their lan%ua%es. which we need to rescue. re)i)e. and enhance. ? \ the parallel of our millionaire 0frican herita%e. of which we barely reali!e. thank to some mahtmas mahtmas such as or%e 0mado. Caryb> and ,o%er Bastide Bastide 6but we need to increase much more: and @ [ the Pan 0merican 0merican reality reality. we are the same 0merican 0merican people. we li)e on the same piece of land. from $orth to "outh. the 0merica( +his study that I de)elop here is actually done as a part of a bi% pro=ect of cultural studi studies es depl deploy oyed ed in the book booksF sF The The Cycl Cyclop ope8 e8ss "ye "ye 06 6lho 6lho do Cicl Ciclope ope)). about the anthropopha%y of the Bra!ilian indi%enous population and literary and philosophical work of 3swald de 0ndrade/ The 1art8s Student 06 "studante do Cora:;o). Cora:;o). about the ori%ins of our popular Bra!ilian music. with $oel ,osa. and of our cinema. with MYrio Pei7oto. and some some more more stud studiies/ es/ Proteus or3 The Transmutations8 *rt 0Proteu ou3 * *rte das Transmuta:Yes). Transmuta:Yes). of the counterculture philosophy of literature and of the music of or%e Mautner/ Crisologos The Poetry8s Student Caetano %eloso CrisNlogo - 6 "studante de Poesia Caetano %eloso. eloso. about the conseOuences of the anthropopha%y of the 0merindian peoples and of the literature of 3swald in the tropicalism/ The Sun ises for *ll - The Secret Secret 1istory of Sam5a 06 Sol .asceu pra Todos - * 1istNria Secreta Secreta do Sam5a). Sam5a). on the de)elopment of the popular Bra!ilian Music and its relationship with the eccentric )ision of the the Bra!i Bra!ili lian an mest mesti! i!oo peopl people( e( +he +he nYhu nYhuat atll lan% lan%ua ua%e %e 6word 6word that that mean meanss wisdo wisdom m or knowled%e: was the lan%ua%e of the peoples inhabitin% Me7ico and Central 0merica 61ua7tecas. Chichimecas. 0!tec. +otonacas. Mi7tecs. apotecs. etc(. e)en in the ^nited "tates "tates ^to\0!tecan ^to\0!tecan Indians of California California and of the West West speak $ahuatl $ahuatl lan%ua%e: lan%ua%e: before and durin% the 0!tec he%emony ( We can find in the site of the _ene!uelan PhT Professor Ta)id +u%%y. his $ecciones his $ecciones ;?
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para un Curso del .áhuatl Moderno. Moderno. $essons for a Course of the Modern .ahuatl ( +u%%y. bein% from _ene!uela. _ene!uela. and showin% interest in the study s tudy of the lan%ua%e of the +oltecs. +oltecs. still ali) ali)ee nowa nowaday days. s. is an e7amp e7ample le of this this %reat %reat Pan 0meric 0merican an mani manifes festa tati tion on that that runs runs throu%hout our continent( +he $ahuatl is known worldwide as the lan%ua%e spoken by the 0!tecs in the conOuest of Me7ico( It is the most southern member of the ^to\0!tecan family or uto\$ahua. which also includes the "hoshoni. uto. Comanche. Luiseno. Luiseno. 1opi. Papa%o. and other lan%ua%es lan%ua%es of the west we stern ern ^n ^nit ited ed "tat "tates es of 0mer 0meric ica. a. and and in Me7i Me7ico co the the aOui aOui.. the the tepehuYn. the %uaro=o. the +arahumara and the huichole. amon% others( +he e)idence indicates that this lar%e family had its be%innin% in "outhern California. and since then has been e7tended to the north and south( +he closest relati)es of $ahuatl seem to be the cora and huichole( $ahuatl is spoken of as if it were only one on e lan%ua%e. but in reality it is a family of lan%ua%es. of which the Classical $ahuatl is the best known( +he classical lan%ua%e is no lon%er spoken. but there are some modern )ariants that are its descendants( In the Classical era. and until nowa nowada days ys.. they they ha)e ha)e rema remain ined ed and and cont contin inue uedd dif differe ferent nt amon amon%% ;?K themsel)es( -(((1ere is a table of $ahuatl phonolo%y( I add this table in order to %uide the learner of this lan%ua%e in the readin%s of the many Ouotes and names that are written here. in $ahuatl( In this note ;@?. I brin% some pieces of information about the $ahuatl writin%. numbers. lo%o%rams. rebus writin% and phonetic %lyphsF;@V 129
+^GG. Ta)id( "e,,iones para un Curso del Nhuatl oderno ( pp( i7. ;@?( "ta( Catarina MYrtir. Puebla. M>7icoF ^ni)ersidad de las 0m>ricas\Puebla. electronic edition 6;KK;\?VV?:. p ;. http://www.sil.org/tugg!d/index"english.htm . 6me di! depois Oual > o arOui)o no site. Oue eu mudo aOui: ;@V ,e%ardin% the nYhuatl writin%. its numbers and lo%o%rams. see the website 0ncient "cripts(com. "cripts(com. a compendium of wold\wide systems from prehistory to today. de autoria de Lawrence. in httpF--www(ancientscripts httpF--www(ancientscripts(com-a!tec(ht (com-a!tec(html( ml( 1ere are some e7cerpts for you to ha)e an idea about the 0!tec writin% R-(((-+he R-(((- +he lan%ua%e that the 0!tec spoke was called $ahuatl( It was also the lan%ua%e of the ma=ority of the people in Central Me7ico and a lin%ua franca in lar%e parts of Mesoamerica( +he ori%in of $ahuatl writin% is poorly understood( It most resembles Mi7tec writin% Mi7tec writin% in that both use dots for numbers less than twenty 6in contrast to the bar\and\dot notation used in Maya and apotec:. apotec:. share similar construction style of compound si%ns. and place emphasis on short te7ts that rely on painted scenes for narrati)es instead of lon%er te7ts( It is thou%ht that Mi7tec writin% influenced $ahuatl writin%. but both are possibly influenced by earlier writin% systems of cities such as Xochicalco. Caca7tla. and the e)en more ancient +eotihuacan( +eotihuacan( $ahuatl writin% was was primary written written on perishable media media such as deer\skin deer\skin and paper paper codices( Tue to to ra)a%es of time and purposeful destruction of books by both the 0!tecs and the "panish conOuistadores. no pre\ Columbian book has sur)i)ed to the modern a%e( 0ll sur)i)in% documents containin% $ahuatl writin% were composed after the ConOuest and contained a mi7ture of 0!tec %lyphs and "panish notes( +here are a few codices made before the ConOuest from the Puebla re%ion in a somewhat different different style known as the RinternationalS Mi7teca\Puebla. Mi7teca\Puebla. style. but their e7act relationship to either 0!tec or Mi7tec or Mi7tec writin% is still somewhat obscure( General 3)er)iew $ahuatl writin% had had three primary primary functions. namely namely to mark calendrical calendrical dates. to record accountin% accountin%
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In the biblio%raphy. our dear reader will find material on the %rammar of the lan%ua%e. as well as of any other related( 1ere we ha)e news about the phonemes that e7ist in $ahuatl. the fourteen consonants and ei%ht )owels. includin% the %lottal consonant. which is like a k 6a stop sound: produced at the %lottis. ie. in the throat( +he consonants of Classical $ahuatl Post Labio\ Labial 0l)eolar Palatal _elar Glottal al)eolar )elar mathematical calculations. calculations. and to write names of people and places( $o continuous te7ts like those of the Maya. 2pi\3lmec. Maya. 2pi\3lmec. or or e)en apotec writin% apotec writin% system has been be found( 0s noted earlier. pictorial pictorial representation of e)ents are used in lieu of lon% te7ts to record history( Like other Mesoamerican scripts. the core of $ahuatl writin% consists of a set of calendrical si%ns and a )i%esimal number system( +he most important calendrical calendrical cycle obser)ed by the 0!tecs was the ?AV\day sacred calendar. called tonalpohualli in tonalpohualli in $ahuatl( +he tonalpohualli is tonalpohualli is essentially two parallel and interlockin% cycles. one of ?V days 6represented by Rday si%nsS:. and one of ;@ days 6represented by numbers called RcoefficientsS:( RcoefficientsS:( +he followin% are the ?V day si%ns in the 0!tec sacred calendar( calendar( 0 date in the tonalpohualli is tonalpohualli is composed of a day si%n and and a coefficient( "o. for e7ample. e7ample. the first day in the ?AV\day cycle would be ; Cipactli( 0s both the day si%n and the coefficient mo)es forward. the ne7t day would be ? 2hecatl( +his %oes on until ;@ 0catl is reached. at which point the coefficient cycle loops back to ;. and hence the ne7t day would be ; 3celotl( "imilarly. "imilarly. upon reachin% the last day si%n on day # Xochitl. the day si%n cycle %oes back to the first si%n. and the ne7t day would be Cipactl . +he 0!tecs had a @AN\day solar calendar called 'iuhpohualli. 'iuhpohualli. which consisted of ; months of ?V days. and an unlucky N\day period at the end of the year( 1owe)er. they rarely recorded dates in the solar calendar on manuscripts. and ne)er on monuments( In addition. like other Mesoamerican cultures. the 0!tecs 0!tecs also employed the Calendar ,ound. a N?\year period created by interlockin% the the ?AV\day and @AN\day cycles( 0 year year in the Calendar Calendar ,ound was named by the tonalpohualli name tonalpohualli name of last day of the last month in the 'iuhpohualli for 'iuhpohualli for that year( Because of the way the math worked out. only four day si%ns. namely Calli. +ochtli. +ochtli. 0catl. and +ecpatl. +ecpatl. could be part of a years name. and hence they were called Ryear bearersS( 0ccompanyin% 0ccompanyin% the year bearers were coefficients. coefficients. which could ran%e from ; to ;@( +o distin%uish distin%uish Calendar ,ound years from days in the ?AV\day calendar. years %lyphs were drawn inside rectan%ular RcartouchesS( 0 %ood e7ample occurs in the Code7 +elleriano\ +elleriano\ ,emensis. a document written after the "panish ConOuest but at a time when knowled%e of the pre\ Columbian culture was still a)ailable( In this document. 0!tec years are correlated to Western Gre%orian years. 0s you ha)e probably %athered by now. 0!tec 0!tec numbers are represented by lon% seOuences of dots( In %eneral. the 0!tecs almost e7clusi)ely e7clusi)ely used dots on manuscripts as well as on stone monuments. but the more ancient bar\and\dot system does make make rare appearances appearances on car)ed monuments monuments as well. primarily primarily due to artistic consideration( +he dot system. while feasible for calendrical use 6since no number will e)er e7ceed ?V:. was impossible when dealin% with accountin%. especially since the 0!tec 2mpire had to record lar%e amounts of tribute freOuently demanded from its pro)inces( +he Code7 Mendo!a. another post\ConOuest manuscript. depicted life in Central Me7ico around the time of conOuest and also contained a section on the tribute e7acted by the 2mpire( +o count items in e7cess of ?V efficiently efficiently.. the 0!tecs used %lyphs for the numbers ?V 6a fla%:. VV 6a feather:. and VVV 6a ba% of incense:( Qor e7ample. the number NVV would be a feather and fi)e fla%s 6VV x N 7 ?V Z NVV:( +o indicate indicate that the multiple %lyphs formin% a number belon% to a sin%le si%n %roup. a line is drawn to connect all the %lyphs( +he line is then connected to the ob=ect it is countin%( +he pre)ious e7amples are taken from the Code7 Mendo!a. and they pro)ide both the 0!tec and "panish )ersions of the information they are con)eyin%( 3n the left. you can see the a bundle topped by a series of fi)e fla%s. which is the number ;VV 6N 7 ?V:. and is reflected by the "panish caption RJient car%as de cacaoS. meanin% R;VV loads of cacao beansS( In the middle. the 0!tec representation is that of four fla%s and a bird. which is mirroed in the "panish " panish caption Rochenta pieles de pa=aros deste colorS. or RV pelts of birds of this
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from Central 0merica. and also shared this e7ploration of consciousness(;@ +here are many authors and works. which start to appear as years %o by. inspired or tryin% to keep up with the commitment with the anthropolo%ical reality of the Me7ican peoples and their autochthonous( +here are stron% e)idences 6which are %oin% to be presented throu%hout the book:. of a common pre\Coumbian Pan 0merican cultural back%round/ as Guillermo Marn states. in Conocimiento y e!aloraciNn de la #ilosofia del *náhuac. *náhuac. title that inspired our subtitle. as well as $a as $a #ilosofLa .áhuatl3 .áhua tl3 "studiada "s tudiada en sus #uentes. #uentes. de Mi%uel Le
RIndians from from Cent Centra rall 0merica who inhabit Me7 ico. Guatemala. 1onduras and "an "al)ador( +hey were one of the most cultured ci)ili!ations throu%hout history. with %reat emphasis on 0rchitecture. "culpture. Ceramics and 0stronomy( People of uncertain ori%in. the Maya. perhaps from the north. settled in southern Me7ico around ;VVV BC(S 6 httpF--www(t%@(com(br-maias- : R+he Mayan people inhabited the re%ion of the tropical forests of the current Guatemala. 1onduras and the ucatan Peninsula 6southern Me7ico today:( today:( +hey li)ed in these re%ions between the I_ and IX centuries B(C( 0mon% the ninth and tenth centuries. the +oltecs +oltecs in)aded these re%ions and dominated the Mayan ci)ili!ationS( ci)ili!ationS( 6 httpF--www(suapesOuisa(com httpF--www(suapesOuisa(com-astecas-astecas-:: _( tbF 0$$2^I$. Guy( R,eli%io e Cincia entre os MaiasS( InF * Ci!ilia:;o dos Maias( Maias( ,io de aneiroF 3tto Pierre 2ditores. ;K##( T0$IE2$. 2rich )on( R3 Oue teria acontecido em ;; de 0%osto de @;; a(C(&S( InF 6 dia em (ue os deuses chegaram( chegaram( "o PauloF Crculo do Li)ro. ;KA( ;@K L2j$\P3,+ILL0. Mi%uel, Mi%uel, $a #ilosofLa .áhuatl3 "studiada en sus #uentes( #uentes( @ ed( M>7icoF ^$0M. ;KAA( ;V M0,$. Guillermo( Conocimiento y re!aloraciNn de la #ilosofia del *náhuac( *náhuac( 3a7aca. M>7icoF ?V;V. eletronic edition. www(toltecayotl(or% edition. www(toltecayotl(or%.. p( ;;. translated by 0line +hosi(
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anthropomorphic animals and plants. until it became as we are today( +he o)oid consciences sou%ht more producti)e ways( ,emember that our only real opportunity opportunity here is to be considered food( +hat. with their e7ception to the rule. which is another rule that you already know( +he latest in the knowled%e field are the three %reat currentsF one that has its ancestors in 2%ypt from where it left to Greece. and which has become the current Christianity. taken from 1ebraism to current udaism ( +he other one. ori%inated in +ibe and we can trace it to Buddhism( +he other one increased in +eotihuacan. with the percei)ers of constructi)ism or +oltecs. whose sides reached the Maya. the Incas and the Canadian "iou7( With the arri)al arri)al of the "paniards. this this current had almost almost disappeared( disappeared( It has turned into linea%esF secret and hidden or%anic %roups( +he 2%yptian current used the knowled%e in e7oteric means. to pour it to the masses. disfi%ured disfi%ured and do%matic. do%matic. in order to focus power\ener% power\ener%yy and use it for human purposes only( +his feature is also its own offsprin%F udaism and Christianit( +rue knowled%e or%ani!ed it esoterically and only those with )ery precise ener%y fi%ures had access to it( What is also done nowadays nowadays is thisF hidin% the real. makin% derision and scorn of it. and appear false. accept acceptin% in% it as true. true. by means means of control control struct structures ures(( In Bud Buddhi dhism sm the opposit opp ositee happ happene ened( d( +hey +hey deli)e deli)ered red the truth to the massesF massesF we can all reach the second attention( "till. they concealed the third attention and the possibility to perpetuate the indi)idual consciousness( conscious ness( they wo)e a shawl of telluric transmi%rations with which e)olution\reincarnation access to the )ision of perennial contemplation of eternal paradise and so of eternal happin hap piness( ess( It sounds sounds more like con)ert con)ertin% in% our or%ani or%anicc cocoons cocoons to a ;; disfi%ured inor%anic body bod y( -(((+here is a %reat female Me7ican warrior. who many. such as the Tominican friar Maurice Coca%nac. in his book "ncuentros book "ncuentros con Carlos Castaneda y Pachita. Pachita. relate to our author( Pachita Pachita was called BYrbara Guerrero. and was a Me7ican Me7ican curandera( ,a`l +ortol +ortolero. ero. in the article RLas ense8an!as de Pachita. esa %ran chamana me7icanaS 6?VVA:. assi%ns her the the story story told told by Carlos Carlos em 6 Poder do Silêncio. Silêncio . about an operation he had seen in a healin% session with a shaman(;? Ton uan e7plains to him that the healer mo)ed the assembla%e point of the patient and of all those around. thereby ha)in% miracles( 0nd there is also Mara "abina 6;K. ?@ de no)embro de ;KN:. curandeira ma!ateca Oue )i)eu modestamente na "ierra Ma!ateca. no sul do M>7ico. e Oue utili!a)a em suas feitiJarias o co%umelo psilocybe me7icana( Muito polmica > Merilyn +unneshende. who interrupted a seminar in tense%rity. with ;;
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the presence of Carlos. shoutin% and callin% herself an apprentice of Ton uan 6Ra uma. or Ew'tsan. that is how he like to be referred toS:. Ton Genero 6who introduced himself to her as Chon akil: and of Tona Celestina de la "oledad( Carlos denied e)erythin%. about her and many others who also claimed to be Ton uan's apprentices. such as Een 2a%le Qeather( +he learnin% of Merilyn +unneshende is connected with the se7ual ener%y and healin%( "he has %i)en therapeutic seminars that were attended. and )ery well a)ailed by those who attended them(;@ Besi Beside dess bein bein%% one one more more fem female ale )oic )oicee in the lear learni nin% n%.. we ha)e ha)e a frui fruittful ful correspondence. which she makes with many traditionsF 0ll this knowled%e. combined with what I ha)e learned from Ton uan and his true and authentic inner fire ener%y throu%h practices until the moment of death. includes new features found in the ancient shamanic na%ualism and contains )aluable pieces of the spiritual and metaphysical pu!!le( I ha)e found. in addition to the +oltec. $ahua and Maya. some indi%enous cultures that ha)e the na%ual. the "hapershifter "un or Qire Bein% 6^ay Ein Mayan lan%ua%e: and started to become aware of the inner fire( +he erro. descendants of the Incas are one e7ample( +he aOui. uma and Tineh. cultural ancestors of the Mississippi are other e7amples( $a%ualism has found its roots in some pre +ibetan and "iberian know knowle led% d%ee and and be%an be%an lon% lon% befor beforee them them.. wh whil ilee the the trans transcon conti tinen nenta tall crossin% of the shamans perhaps V.VVV years a%o( 3 conhecimento da "erpente de fo%o do 0rco ris > encontrado em trechos trechos dentro da tradiJo tradiJo Eundalini Eundalini o%a. o%a. no desen)ol)iment desen)ol)imentoo tibetano tibetano do corpo do arco ris. dentro do +aosmo e o corpo imortal e entre os "iou7 e outros po)os nati)os americanos( 3s abor%ines australianos se referem abertamente serpente do arco ris como ener%ia )ital primordial e hY muitos desenhos anti%os anti%os rupestres rupestres representando representando esta ener%ia( ener%ia( $este li)ro li)ro eu compart compartilh ilhoo o Oue testem testemunhe unheii e e7p e7peri erimen mentei tei neste neste anti%o anti%o caminho. as liJes aprendidas e como trou7e beneficio as pessoas com curas dramYticas ener%ia e e7panso. e iluminaJo de conscincia( 0l%uns dos ensinamentos so no)amente re)elados e apareceram no momento oportuno( 0%ora o sentimento presente na esp>cie humana. na +erra e em todas as criaturas atualmente aberto e iminente > a mudanJa e)oluti)a e a oportunidade de realinhamento com nosso melhor intento poss)el( Muito do Oue Oue sint sintoo falt faltaa neste neste mund mundoo atual atual > enco encont ntra rarr sabed sabedori oriaa inte interi rior or ancest ancestral ral e tradic tradicion ional( al( "imple "implesme smente. nte. mudanJ mudanJas as nos paradi% paradi%mas mas de percepJo e ener%ia compartilhados( +enho a capacidade de curar e ter ferr ferram amen enta tass prYt prYtic icas as Oue Oue uso uso para para sobr sobre) e)i) i)er er.. en)o en)ol) l)er er e aspi aspira rar r ;@
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iluminaJo -(((-; Back to Guillermo Marn. let]s read another piece of RPropuesta de traba=oS of his collection Sele:;o de Te'tos e efle'Yes do $i!ro %iagem a 'tlan. 'tlan . which e7plains better what constitutes the scope of the work of Carlos Castaneda( $ote that he considers. not li%htly. that the+oltec knowled%e runs throu%hout 0merica. since 0laska 6northernmost: until +ierra del Que%o 6southern. near 0ntarctica:. thesis which we also embrace. and consi con side derr the the most most soli solidd and and salubr salubrio ious us basi basiss to con consol solid idat atee the the futu future re-p -pre resen sentt of PanamericaF -*- +he +he transcente transcente of the Rteachin%s Rteachin%s of Ton uanS and and the work of Castaneda Castaneda is what present to us a methodolo%y methodolo%y to face the world and life differently. and at the same time. like all ancient ancestral wisdom( +he diff differ eren ence ce is that that this this one one is Rour Rour ow ownS nS(( In esse essenc ncee shar shared ed by all all indi%enous peoples of the continent. from 0laska to +ierra del Que%o( +he meanin% of life and the )alue of the world. as well as possible RrealitiesS that li)e in it. are presented as an immense challen%e for a mind that is coloni!ed by the West. a sleepin% body and minimi!ed spirit by modernity and materialistic )iew of life( +he warriors way is not only a feat almost impossible impossible to practice. practice. but one of the few opportunities we ha)e as human bein%s. to face the chal challe len% n%ee of li)i li)in% n% here here and and no now w. in this this wo worl rldd that that shat shatte ters rs and and annihilates us as human bein%s( 0pplyin 0pplyin%% the se)ente se)enteen en techni techniOue Ouess consist consistent ently ly and flawle flawlessl sslyy in e)eryday life is the %reatest challen%e the Rreaders of Carlos CastanedaS can do( It took the author ten years as an apprentice to come to reali!e this and. most difficult. to apply them and follow the +oltecYyotl teachin%s in the $ahual world. throu%h his benefactor. oa7aca don Genaro( Indeed. the dominant culture since ;N?; classified the indi%enous cultures as sa)a%es and primiti)es. and their people as i%norant. lackin% in intelli%ence( "ince the be%innin% of the conOuest and durin% these fi)e centuries of coloni!ation. some de)oted their time to systematically and actually kill indi%enous people and cultures( "omethin% special these peoples and cultures must ha)e. since. despite the determination of the suppo supposed sed super superio iori rity ty of the the do domi mina nant nt cult culture ure.. it faile failedd to stop stop and and e7terminate these people and cultures( Qrom our point of )iew. this happens because these nati)e nati)e peoples are non\rational practitioners of the +oltecYyotl( I mean. they took it as a description of the world and life. in such way they li)e it and act it. they don't] think or reflect it( -*-;N uan uan olili olili!tl !tlii has an import important ant editori editorial al work in the de) de)elo elopme pment nt of the tolteO tolteOuid uidad ad 6$auallotl: in our centuryF he encoura%ed and published "nc published "ncue uent ntrros con con el .agua .agual l . by 0rmando 144
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1e said warrior do not lie. because if they do so. they lose ener%y( +he thin%s a warrior witness in his tra)els throu%h infinite are neither falsehood falsehood nor delusion( delusion( +hey are indescribable. indescribable. indeed. thin%s that are unprecedented in the e)eryday world( 3ne must be humble and learn to control his-her reactions of mind to continue witnessin%( +he thin% is. these stories are neither true nor lie. in the usual meanin% of the words( Like all mytholo%ies. they confront us with the most difficult for the dual reasonF the parado7( In a sense. they describe real accomplishments. but also fictitious( +hese symbols and. as such. ha)e different meanin%s at once( +he important thin% for a student is the profound content. one must stick to the spirit and not the literal lan%ua%e( Precisely. in order not to clin% to the literal lan%ua%e. ie the concepts. Carlos has continuously chan%ed them. a)oidin% the ratin%s we set( +his we could assess in each new book lauched after R,elatos de PoderS 6 Porta Porta para o nfinito:( nfinito:( +o me. the best e7ample were the )arious words that he used to refer to the transcendent. Rthe power that %o)erns human destinies.S Rthe na%ual of the timesS. the RspiritS. Rthe abstract.S Rintent.S Rthe infinity R.S the dark sea of awareness R. etc( It is the silent knowled%e and e7perience that re)eal the true meanin% of RitS(;A What a man of knowled%e seeks. is to li)e impeccably 6not to dilute his ener%y in social and personal issues. to %et rid of personal rele)ance. personal history and self\ima%e: and reach the inner silence 6which is to stop the world. because all the structures learned throu%hout the de)elopment of the person crumble. and he sees e)erythin% as an ener%y flow:( +he inner silence allows us to RseeS the ener%y of thin%s. which are not thin%s/ it allows us to see the world formed by emanations. consciences. and its ontolo%ical truth. what is really there. in terms of ener%y( \ 0 man of knowled%e is the one who faithfully followed the trials of the learnin% \ he said( \ 0 man who. without rushin% or stoppin%. went as far as possible in order to decipher the secrets of personal power(;# +he inner silence is the cause and the effect of the mo)ement of the assembla%e point( +he man is a cocoon that wraps !illions of consciences. but a man sees only the emanations he has learned to see. and that to him are the RrealS( +he real is a description 6ou descriJo: that we learn the hard way. under coercion( +here is a part of our bein% that focuses on the emanations we are seein%( It is the assembla%e point. a point the si!e of a ;A
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tennis ball. which is behind our left shoulder blade 6we are %oin% to see that Tomin%o says it is behind our ri%ht shoulder blade. and we are also %oin% to read what I think about that:. inside the luminous cocoon 6the fibers form a cocoon around the man. as if it was the aura:( +he inner silence is tri%%ered and causes the mo)ement of the assembla%e point. which is the most important part of the work of the warriors. because thats how they %et rid of the limitations and can e7plore new social realities( +he nine paths are a %ood condensation of the techniOues you can use in order to promote the mo)ement of the assembla%e point( I ha)e written this in a note here before. but. fearin% that people do not read the notes 6which are always )ery important. and here e)en more:. I reproduce ipsi litteris. )erbatim. )erbatim. what I ha)e said beforeF In 2n%lish Rassembla%e pointS. in "panish Rpunto de enca=eS. in Castaneda's te7ts( In Bra!il. since the be%innin%. it was wron%ly traslated as Ra%%lutination pointS. which does not ha)e the same meanin% in Portu%uese( In this case. we use Rassembla%e pointS( Tomin%o Tel%ado "ol
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fi)e\plon%%ed na%ual has fi)e assembla%e points( "o. we are all na%uals. to oursel)esF all of us ha)e at leats two assembla%e points. one to the ri%ht side 6ali%nment: and another one to the left side 6a%%lutination:( +he two\ plon%%ed na%ual can only %uide himself. but he can also do it to the second and third attentions( +he three\plon%%ed na%ual can only %uide himself as well. but he is the me%a benefactor. the one who shows the world of the na%ual for whole communities. by multiplyin% the lines and opportunities( +he four\plon%%ed na%ual is the one who can %uide a personal %roup to the second and to the third attention( In the third attention they will become the assembla%e point of the 2a%le. bein% able to aline any of his emanations. to his own benefit 6of the point and of the %iant cocoon:( +he first attention is known. the unknown are the second and third attentions. because we do not know them. but we can know them( +he fifth and the fourth attentions are the unknowable( +he second one is sli%htly known. because we )isit it e)ery day 6in our dreams. at least:( +he unknowable is out of any human possibility 6but can be accessed by na%uals who %o beyond the human:F accordin% to Tomin%o and his tradition. it is called 0!tlania. and it is the ori%in% of Cero 6this is the item 3ne of the comple7 and multi\dimensional rule of the fi)e\plon%%ed na%ual:( ,ead item ei%hteen 6which we already know in parts. by the rule of the fi)e\plon%%ed na%ual. re)ealed by Carlos. 6 Presente da Zguia:F Zguia:F +he +he Blac Blackk 0u 0ura ra 2a%l 2a%lee is comp compos osed ed of fort forty\e y\ei% i%ht ht %reat %reat bands bands of emanations( 0 %reat band emanates or%anic consciences( "e)en %reat bands emanate inor%anic consciences( Qorty %reat bands emanate stru struct ctur ures es or forms forms.. funct functio iona nall )ehi )ehicl cles es of consc conscio iousn usness ess(( +he +he first first attention is the %reat band that emanates or%anic consciences. and it is the first one because the Black 0ura 2a%le attaches in itself its its attention( +he secon secondd atte attenti ntion on is formed formed by se)en se)en ma=o ma=orr bands bands emanat emanatin in%% from from inor%anic consciences( +he Black 0ura 2a%le less firmly attaches its atte attent ntio ions ns on them them(( +he +he thir thirdd atte attent ntio ionn is the the forty forty %reat %reat bands bands of structural emanations( +he Black 0ura 2a%le hardly attaches its attention on them. since they do not house the consciences that feed it( +he percpetores found that once they e7isted in the third attention. they could perpetuate their indi)idual consciences fore)er. or while the ea%le e7isted. since they would not be disinte%rated by the serpent( +here. they do the dreamin%. creatin% micro uni)erses where they e7ist and perpetuate the
consciousness of the %reat bein%(;K +he fi)e\plon%%ed na%ual is the one who can %uide his personal %roup 6half dio7ide. half silicic. because the counterparts of their warriors are the emissaries of dreams: to the fourth and fifth attentions( It can also become the %amete that will reproduce the 2a%le( Tomi To min% n%oo is also the author author of $a Productica en la ModerniaciNn "ducati!a en M<'ico. M<'ico. in which he de)elops the concept of RproducticsS. that. alon% with the RpercepticsS form the Rener%eticsS. the RscienceS of the three Rna%ualo%iesS 6of the three. four or fi)e\ plon%%ed na%uals:( 0s we can see. and as we are about to see e)en more. there is a whole lot of de)elopments de)elopments in the work of Carlos Castaneda. Castaneda. as he opened the door to %enuine and deep Pan\0 Pan\0me meri rica cani nism sm knowl knowled ed%e %e befor beforee the the 2urop 2uropea eans ns arri) arri)ed. ed. and esta establ blis ishe hedd a real real earthOuake throu%hout Western culture( 3n one hand. the bi%%est dan%er. to become =ust another reli%ion. and mer%e with a thousand )aried forms that already e7ist. and this is happenin%. of course( 3n the other hand. the fire part. the lion part. the =oy of life. the resumption of somethin% that has always been ours. more than 0merican herita%e 6eOually. the three 0mericas. which are only one:. our human le%acy. as luminous conscious bein%s( +hus. it comes to neotolteOuidadF +he neotoltec philosophy is a stream of thou%ht de)eloped especially from the second half of the twentieth century. and which is based on the reinterpretation of Mesoamerican mytholo%y. especially that one related to the +oltec archaeolo%ical culture( Qor this reason. the followers of these beliefs. also called Core "hamanism. rely on certain sources. sources which particular interpretation points to the idea that the Mesoamericans were all of one only culture and beliefs that was called called +oltecYyotl( +oltecYyotl( +hey also rely on the writin%s of Carlos Castaneda. a Peru)ian or Bra!ilian anthropolo%ist 6his nationality is uncertain:( // $owadays. the term R+oltecS is used by many $ew $e w 0%e %roups. who call themsel)es practitioners of neona%ualism. or Rrescue %roups from the roots of national identityS and call +oltec e)ery person who follows the principles of the R+oltecS lifestyle . which can not establish es tablish on the basis of trusted sources( +he problem. from a critical perspecti)e. is that no one knows for sure what kinds of principles were those. and one can not clearly define what is a Rrescue %roup of roots of national identity.S and there are some who e)en claim Popol _uh _uh is +oltec. oltec. e)en thou%h it was written by the uiche of Guatemala( ;K
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+he Toltecáyotl is said to be the heiress of the historical +oltecs( Its followers and theoretical. based on primary sources and not facsimiles by uni)ersities. state that tolteOuidad can be translated as the way of life of all Mesoamerican. Mesoamerican. yet the ha)e no e)idence e)idence to show. show. e7cept for the $ew 0%e books RToltecatl . oficial de arte mecYnicaS RToltecauia RToltecauia.. o mestre fa!er al%oS( RToltecáyotl . arte de )i)erS(Padre Molina. %oca5ulario oca5ulario .ahuatl.ahuatl;NV Castellano& ;N#;( Castellano& ;N#;( -*0lthou%h. an obser)ation( +here are twice two proposals. which can be tracked from Castaneda( We mi%ht say it is the mark of the Latin 0merican man self\worth. and. mainly. the Me7ican( We mi%ht say his books are the return of a cultural tradition. knowled%e and power. that actually happens. happens . with sorcerers. writers. scientists s cientists etc. often Me7ican. )aluin% the the na% na%ua uali lism sm and findin findin%% a new way of li)i li)in% n% and and acti actin% n% in it( it( It' It's the the po posi siti tion on of Guillermo Marn( 3r. as Merilyn +unneshende. we mi%ht think that what Castaneda tells us inte%rates into a ma%ical herita%e of all mankind. mankind. it is a small brick on the reconstruction reconstruction wall of the ma%ic learin% that occurs throu%hout the world( 1ence. there are cross cultural matchesF the cocoon is the aura. the centers are the chakras. the two centers that are not spoken of are the two secret chakras ;N;. dreamin% is to take an astral trip. recap is to meditate. the inor%anic bein%s are elemental. etc. in a kind of theosophy of ma%ic( +he other proposal of double readin% is. either to belie)e in e)ery sin%le word he says literally. or to understand it as a te7tual creation( et. howe)er. with %reat )alue. because it ser)es as a e)olutionary learnin%. and it also has ethical and therapeutic characteristics 6many psychotherapists use techniOues they read in his books:( "ee. I understand that Castaneda's work is is all of that. in the the Rin betweenS( 1e is not stuck with and Rideolo%icalS )iew. a RtruthS about the world( But he offers all these possibilities. possibilities. in the %reatness of the %ift he %i)es usF the crack between worlds( 0 dia5lero is a dia5lero& and a warrior is a warrior( 3r. then. man can be both( +here +here are lots lots of of people people who who are are both( both( But But the the man who who =ust =ust crosse crossess the path path the path path of life life is is all( +oda +odayy I am nei neithe therr a warri warrior or nor nor a dia5lero, +o me there is only the possibility possibility to follow the paths paths that ha)e heart. any path that ;NV
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may ha)e heart( I tra)el there and to me the only worthwhile challen%e is to tra)erse its entire len%th( 0nd there I tra)el ((( lookin%. lookin%. %aspin%( -(((- +he special special thin% to learn is how to %et throu%h throu%h the crack crack between between the worlds and how to enter the other world( +here is a crack between two worlds. the world of diableros and the world of li)in% men( +here is a place where two worlds o)erlap( +he crack is there( It opens and closes like a door in the wind( +o %et there. a man must e7ert his will( I can tell he must ha)e an in)incible desire to do this. a total dedication( But he must do so without the help of any power. or any man( +he indi)idual alone must wei%h and must want until the time when ;N? his body is ready to undertake the =ourney(;N? 2uan. Ton uan states all paths are eOual. they lead no In The teachings of Don 2uan. where( But that some paths ha)e heart.( +he path that has a heart. to you. is the one that makes you stron% and happy. the one that does not reOuire effort( +he path without heart is the opposite. and can e)en kill( +he +he be%i be%inn nnin in%% of any any wa walk lkin in%. %. the the synt synthe hesi siss of impec impecca cabi bili lity ty.. the the heal health th and and transmutation alchemy. happens e)ery day of our li)es. when we choose. with coura%e and freedom. our path with heart(
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conscience& lurking& and intent& to the e'tent that they are not o!ertaken 5y death like the rest of mortal men& 5ut they choose the time and manner of their departure from this /orld, t is then that they are consumed 5y an inner fire and disappear from the earth& free& as if they had ne!er e'isted, Carlos Castaneda;N@ $ow. $ow. let's let's talk a little about the nine ways of mo)in% the assembla%e. accordin% to +aisha 0belar( 0b elar( +here will be many ways of presentin% these techniOues. and Carlos himslef makes his chan%es. chan%es. to which which we we ha)e alluded alluded earlier earlier.. as in The nner Silence 6 "l "l Silencio nterno:F nterno:F ; \ ma%ical passes/ ? [ the center of decisions/ @ [ the recap/ [ the dreamin%/ N [ the inner silence( +here is o)erlap in all techniOues. e7cept for the center of decisions 6section _:. about which we ha)e already spoken( Many reasons make me choose +aisha's approach( My readin% is totaly formed by the repeated rereadin% of Carlo's work work o)er time. once and a%ain. as many scholars do( 0nd his point of )iew is masculine( Learnin% from a male point of )iew( +aisha. bein% a woman. such as Qlorinda. in her books. brin%s us a female point of )iew( Besides. +aisha is a superb lurker. and her domain can ser)e as a %uide in a work like this. a documentary and at the same time. a study in the academic style. somethin% done to achie)e social matters. to be spoken out to the ri%ht( "till. +aisha brou%ht us the ori%inal approach of physical and breathin% e7ercises. and her book is a %reat openin% to the passes of power( +he foundation of the learnin% acti)ity and knowled%e of +oltec men is the intent 6which has been indiscrimina indiscriminately tely and wron%ly translated translated as intention intention and conscience the Bra!ilian editions:( 2)ery effort to mo)e the assembla%e point is done in order to intent. ie. bein% able to manipulate the intent( 0s our friend Lui! Carlos Maciel has once said 6he made se)eral scattered comments here and there. as in the prefaces of the book by 0na Catan and Carmina Qort:F In;KAV. the anthropolo%y student Carlos Carlos Castaneda was takin% a bus. in a ;N@
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small Me7ican town on the border with the ^nited "tates. and found an old Indian who introduced himself by the name of uan Matus( Castaneda was doin% a field research to his master's de%ree at the ^ni)ersity of Los 0n%eles and wanted the indian to %i)e him information about medicinal plants( +his meetin% %ained a mythic aura in recent decades. because from f rom it. it was re)ealed to e)erybody what mi%ht be the most dense and con)incin% esoteric doctrine of the ?Vth century( Ton uan did not teach Castaneda about medicinal plants( 1e simply tau%ht him that the world we see is only the way we percei)e it because we think it is so/ that if we stop thinkin% that the world is so. it will cease to be so/ and therefore. the world we belie)e we see is =ust a description of the world. =ust one description out of infinite others =ust as likely and real( In order to make the disciple disciple set aside his usual )iew that the world is =ust that we think it is. the master uses a )ariety of means. some e)en scary. as the e7periences pro)oked by certain certain hallucino%enic plants( But such teachin% resources were pro)isional and would be superseded by more subtle techniOues. described in later books of Castaneda( * Castaneda( * er!a do dia5o. dia5o. the first of these books. and one of the bi%%est best selles. amon% them \. narrates narrates the be%innin% be%innin% of of the anthropolo%i anthropolo%ist' st'ss lon% learnin% learnin% process process in in orde orderr to beco become me a sorc sorcer erer er(( 0n 0ndd it re)e re)eal alss the the enti entire re map map of the the ;N mysterious =ourney that starts in the ma%ical uni)erse of Ton uan( In fact. Carlos has ne)er taken his master's de%ree. ha)in% skipped strai%ht to the Ph(T(/ * Ph(T(/ * "r!a do Dia5o was Dia5o was his mono%raph dissertation dissertation to his bachelor de%ree. %iagem a 'tlan was 'tlan was his doctoral thesis( Mar%aret tells us that. about The Great #ear . Oue assaltou os acadmicos da ^ni)ersity of California. since the be%innin%. since before the publication of the Teachings of Don 2uan. 2uan. and that. while he was writin% %iagem a 'tlan. 'tlan. Carlos %a)e two free courses 6um de ante\%raduJo. Runder%raduateS. outro de %raduJo ^nder%raduation > %raduaJo em termos acadmicos em In%l€s( 3 Oue )c Ouer di!er com ante\%raduaJo& : at ^CL0. in which he used the material from this new book. the third one. that. as a dissertation 6doctoral thesis: recei)ed the title Sorcery3 * Description of the orld ;NN( 0fter writin% chapter ;. I read Mar%aret ,unyan Castaneda]s book. which rocked the boat e)en e) en more. I mean. which further fu rther complicates co mplicates the issue. makin% Carlos 6who was her friend. boyfriend boyfriend and husband. whom she met in ;KNN: a Peru)ian Peru)ian %enius and ma%ic since the be%innin% 0 modern modern Peru)i Peru)ian an curandero is curandero is 2duardo Calder
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Palomino was master of "haron durin% his years of fieldwork( "haron. who had attended the leanin% leanin% lon% before I met Carlos at ^CL0. noticed noticed a number of similarities between the teachin%s of Ton uan and 2duardo( What is interestin%. because this means that Ton uan is either only a part of a )ast continental tradition 6oceanic tradition:. or that he is a character who was created less based on aOuis 6who do not use hallucino%ens: than on the old %uys who Carlos used see the sOuare of Ca=amarca( 3ne thin% is for sure \ 2duardo is a real and ali)e sorcerer from the coast of Peru. who knows )ery well what a ni%ht with Mother Cactus is( 0s we can see. the similarity to what Carlos told told is remarkable;NA( RMother CactusS. RMadre CactusS. is the Peru)ian +orch. also called in "panish RPeru)ian RPeru)ian antorchaS or R1uachumaS. R1uachumaS. used in reli%ious reli%ious ceremonies. and it contains a lot of mescaline. bein% compared to Peyotl 6Mescalito:. which. howe)er. is much more potent( Mar%aret reports that "o Pedro has ;(? %rams of mescaline per kilo. enOuanto Oue o seu primo da 0m>rica Central o do $orte o Peyotl possui @ alcaloides( 6$o compreendi: "he treats "o Pedro as bein% Mother Cactus( I found two related species. the Plan of "o Pedro Pedro 6+ric 6+richoce hocereus reus pachano pachanoi: i: and Mother Mother Cactus Cactus 6+rich 6+richocer ocereus eus peru)i peru)ianus anus or peru)ian 2chinopsis:. which presents the followin% scientific classificationF Ein%domF Plantae. Ti)isionF Ma%noliophyta. ClassF Ma%noliosida/ 3rderF Caryophyllales/ Qamily F Cactaceae. Cactaceae. GenusF 2chinopsis/ 2chinopsis/ "peciesF "peciesF 2chinopsis 2chinopsis peru)iana/ peru)iana/ "ynonymF "ynonymF +richocereu +richocereuss peru)ianus( With it. it is possible to prepare the ceremonial drink RcimoraS which is mi7ed with other entheo%enic plants( It lies at @.VVV meters altitude187( Ton uan used three kinds of plants with Carlos. which he called with names of their ownn trad ow tradit itio ion. n. and and wh whic ichh corre correspo spond nd to the the order order of scient scientif ific ic names names as Ouo Ouote tedd by CastanedaF Mescalito. 2r)a do Tiabo and QumitoF Tom uan used. separately and at different times. three hallucino%enic plantsF peyote 6 $ophophora $ophophora /illiamsii:. /illiamsii:. datura 6 Datura Datura ino'ia syn( syn( D, ;N meteloides:. meteloides:. and a mushroom 6possibly me7ican Psilocybe:( +he classification is thus peyotlF Ein%domF Plantae. Ti)isionF Ma%noliophyta. ClassF Ma%noliosida/ 3rderF Caryophyllales/ QamilyF Cactaceae. subfamilyF Cactoideae/ +ribuF $ophophora/ "peciesF $, /illiamsii/ /illiamsii/ binom Cact Cactea eae/ e/ Ge Genu nusF sF $ophophora/ nomial nameF $ophophora ;NA
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his debut book( +hat he already had one or more Me7ican Indian informants back in the days( 1e married her une7pectedly. to soon after keep away from home for lon% periods. )ery often. tellin% her he had Rfound a manS. the informant. the Indian sorcerer. Ton uan( Mar%aret is witness to it all( 1ow interestin%. the fact that Carlos had told her like this. and Ton uan had told him. more or less at the same time -(((- Mescalito has shown me you and. by doin% that. he told me you were the chosen one( \ ou mean I was chosen amon% others to some sort of task. somethin% like that& \ $o( What I mean is that Mescalito told me you could be the man I ha)e been lookin% for( \ When did he tell you that. Ton uan& \ Playin% with you. he told me that( +hat makes you the chosen one to me( \ What does Rbein% chosenS mean& \ +here are some secrets I am aware of Tengo Tengo secretos( secretos( I ha)e secrets I cannot re)eal to anyone. unless I find my chosen man( +he other ni%ht. when I saw you playin% with Mescalito. it became clear to me that you were the man( But youre not an Indian( 1ow stran%e;A +he picture he paints of his master is the most faithful possible( +he one he paints of himself himself is not/ nothin%. not e)en a little little bit( Carlos used himself himself as a character. character. to show to the West and the world the le%acy of the e)olutionary line of Ton uan( 1e portrays himself as weak. weak. u%ly u%ly. unat unattr tract acti) i)e. e. stup stupid id.. la!y la!y.. cowar cowardl dlyy. chil childi dish. sh. scared scared of To Tonn uan uan]s ]s re)elations. who told him a na%ual is a charmer. all the time( ;A
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history( Carlton chan%ed his name. probably so. and as an adult. became known as 0drian( In the polisemy of the affectionate nickname he %a)e to his fostered child. maybe Carlos was demonstratin% his thou%hts that Carlton was the e7pression of Mar%aret's ma%ical e7pression. the full materiali!ation of its form. as he told her. in the )iew of the male and female combined 6the man has the woman inside of himself. the woman has a man inside of herself. nay. the man is a man and a woman himself. the woman is a woman and a man herself. such as in the )iew of anima and animus of Carl Gusta) un%;AK( \ +he "teps of power 6the Ma%ical Passes. the +ense%rity: +he trick of brin%in% the three brains into harmony is to open up to infinity( In)ite down a force that sees you actin% accordin% to its desi%ns( It's the eOui)alent of openin% up to our potential on this earth( +hat's what our free will amounts toF openin% oursel)es fully to the plan that's laid out for us, us, -(((;#V Carlos Castaneda accordin% to Martin Goodman Goodman's book is really. really %ood. and it brin%s new re)elations. it is worth it to read it. and. within the lo%ic of the world of sorcery. it works. disablin% us to restrict its alle%ed factuality \ the Ouestion Ou estion for us is the intense factuality( Ton uan started chan%in% the way he talked throu%hout Carlos books. and that makes sense. because there were new an%les. and. mainly mainly. startin% from 6 Presente da Zguia. Zguia. Carlos wrote what he could mana%e to remember about the instructions he recei)ed while in the left side. in intensified awareness( +he R+eachin%s of Ton uanS form the pre)ious books was what he %a)e to the ri%ht side. when Carlos was in RordinaryS awareness( Both instructions are important. and they always happen to e)erybody( It is what the $a%ual Lu=an Matus calls parallel perceptions( 6$ot to be confused with the parallel bein%s. people related by emanations from their cocoon. and who do not know usually know each other:( In the same way. Carlos from Martin's book speaks completly differently from Carlos who wrote his books. from the inter)iews. who is more at ease. and who continuasly use spanish words. includin% bad words. and )ery humorous sayin%s. all in the style of Ton uan. without bein% e7actly like Ton uan 6Carlos and Ton uan ha)e their own particular ;AK
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styles at all times. unmistakable:( Carlos from Martin Goodman's book does not say Castilian e7pression. and he does not say bad words. nor =okes. and he is much more RliteraryS. usin% richer )ocabulary than Carlos who we are accustomed to( +o be%in with. here it is the panorama of his work. as it is presented in a plan. accordin% to Wikipedia. the free encyclopedia. online. in 2n%lishF \ +he Mastery of ConsciousnessF The Teachi eachings ngs of Do Donn 2ua 2uan3 n3 * 4a(ui a(ui ay of n no/ o/le ledg dgee. ;KA. A. under%raduate thesis * Separate eality3 #urther Con!ersations /ith Don 2uan. 2uan. ;K#; 2ourney to 'tlan3 The $essons of Don 2uan. 2uan. ;K#?. PhT thesis Magical Passes3 The Practical isdom of the Shamans of *ncient Me'ico. Me'ico. ;KK: \ +he Mastery of +ransformationF Tales of Po/er . ;K#N The Second ing of Po/er . ;K## The "agle8s Gift . ;K; The *cti!e Side of nfinity. nfinity . ;KKK \ +he Mastery of IntentF The #ire from ithin. ithin . ;K The Po/er of Silence3 #urther $essons of Don 2uan. 2uan . ;K# The *rt of Dreaming . ;KK@ The heel 6f Time3 The Shamans 6f Me'ico. Me'ico . ?VVV Wikipedia in Portu%uese does not display all the information abo)e [ on the other hand. it is stated that Carlos was 3swaldo 3swaldo 0ranha's 0ranha's nephew. nephew. data which ob)iously cannot be confirmed 6someone said. someone heard. etc:( 2is a e7plicaJo Oue o site an%l encora=ado a a%ir e a assumir a responsabilidade pela sua )ida( Mestria da +ransformaJo \ durante a Mestria da +ransformaJo o %uerreiro\)ia=ante se esforJa para limpar e retomar ener%ia para afiar a sua `nica li%aJo com o esprito. o intento( 3 %uerreiro\)ia=ante se torna impecY)el por testar empiricamente a sua cone7o e e)entualmente banir todas as d`)idas. aceitando o seu destino. e se comprometendo a se%uir o caminho com coraJo( Mestria do Intento \ uma )e! Oue o %uerreiro\)ia=ante =Y acumulou suficiente ener%ia e7tra. e poder pessoal suficiente. a se%unda atenJo adormecida > ati)ada( 2nsonhar se torna poss)el( 3 %uerreiro\)ia=ante KA
mant>m impecabilidade. percorre o caminho com coraJo. e espera uma abertura para a liberdade(;#; +his point of )iew is attached with that one which we can infer some readin%s of Carlos himself. who de)ides the mastercrafts into twoF conciousness 6which includes the dreamin%:. lurkin% and intent/ we can see that the lurkin% here would be related to the transformation( +hese are the titles in "panish/ we know that Carlos hi%hly )alued the teachin%s in the neo\Latin lan%ua%e. which he learned from his benefactor . and that he himself re)ised the Castilian Castilian translations translations of his works 6and some of them Carlos Carlos himself translated translated:F :F $as $as "nseKanas de Don 2uan 2uan.. Bna ealidad *parte. *parte. %iaJe a 'tlan. 'tlan . elatos de Poder . "l Segu Segund ndoo *nil *nillo lo de Pode Poderr. "l Don del Zguila. Zguila. "l #uego nterno. nterno. "l Conocimiento Silencioso. Silencioso. "l *rte de "nsoKar . "l Silencio nterno 6Silent no/legde. no/legde. ;KKA. also known as R2l Libro P`rpuraS. R +he purple bookS. which was only sold in +ense%rity workshops:. "l $ado *cti!o del nfinito. nfinito. Pases Mágicos and Mágicos and $a $a ueda del Tiempo( Tiempo( Teachings of Don 2uan was issued. were deli%hted with the Carlos' readers. when The Teachings whole counterculture mood of the book. and the stren%th. beauty and %enius of that Indian. and his super\rational use of Rpower plantsS( "uch research. somehow. was the ori%inal scope of the paper or article or thesis that Carlos Castaneda wanted to do when he tra)eled the southwest ^("(. lookin% for an RinformantS. who would later be Ton uan. who he met almost by chance. when he had already %i)en up findin% one. in the Greyhound railway station. in $o%ales. 0ri!ona( Carlos wanted to do a work on the rital and therapeutic use of the hallucino%enic plants amon% Indians. and his first two books deal with the way he li)ed these e7periences( In this sta%e of his work. Carlos made a remarkable contribution to entheobotanics. which studies entheo%ens. plants that brin% mystic trance 6RenS Z inside. RtheosS Z %od:. science which its creation was influenced by the millionaire pioneer ,obert Gordon Wasson 6VK-??-;K \ ;?-?@-;KA:. who. alon% with his wife. the ,ussian _alentina Wasson. resarched for many years the plants of power. who participated in rituals in Me7ico and were on the co)er of the ma%a!ine $ife ma%a!ine $ife.. em ;KN#( We must must also ment mentio ionn The Doors of Perception. Perception. ;KN. by 0ldous 1u7ley. title inspired by the )erses )er ses of William Blake. of ;#K@F ;#;
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0nd title which will later on inspire the musical band +he Toors. which its leader im Morrison also took peyote. and always saw the spirit of an Indian who %uided him( 0ccordin% to Carlos wife's opinion. who was wife in the AV's and %irlfriend in the NV's. Mar%aret ,unyan Castaneda. the work of 1u7ley would also ha)e influeced our authorF +he thin% that most contributed to his interest in the respectable occultism was the book. +he Toors of Perception \ 0ldous 1u7ley's contro)ersial e7periment with mescaline that became a classic soon after its appearance in ;KN( ^ntil before readin% 1u7ley. Carlos felt there was somet somethi hin% n% )a%ue )a%uely ly )ul%a )ul%arr in myst mystic icis ism m and and in the the alte altere redd stat states es of consciousness( - ((( Perception( +he book is It was in ;KNA when Carlos read The Doors of Perception( an eclectic mi7 of scholarship and respect for the mysterium tremendum. and by the first readin% Carlos was hooked(-(((-;#@ +he ma%a!ine of the Bra!ilian newspaper 6 Glo5o. Glo5o. une ;;. ?V;?. breaks the news RPro%r RPro%ram amaa de ndi ndio/ o/ shama shamani nicc ritu ritual alss %ain %ain stre stren%t n%th. h. attr attrac actt more more fans fans and and renew renew themsel)es. mi7in% 2astern philosophies and e)en psychoanalysis. Rabout the emer%ence of the phenomenon of neo7amanism in ,io de aneiro. and Ouotes the shaman +7anaban Qabiano's line. leadin% urban rituals. such as self\healin% workshops and disco)eryF +he townspeople ha)e difficulty dealin% with plants( Medicine is an ali%nment tool of the spirit with the body( When you are ali%ned. you look inside and find your self\healin%( -(((-;# 3n the other hand. this aspect was also crafted by other serious researchers. as we see in the so enli%htened work of the 0merican +ercence McEenna 6,eal 1allucinations and +he Qood of the Gods:. and in the work of Bra!ilian authors. tooF "an%irardi r( 6+he Indian and the hallucino%enic plants: that studies the phenomenon amon% the Indians of Rthe three 0mericasS 6which are one:. and 0le7 Polari of 0l)er%a 63 Li)ro das MiraJes and Guide of the Qorest;#N:. who participates and makes the honest and passionate account of the cult of 172
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the "anto Taime( +he lauch of Philippe Bandeira de Melo's book about the theme is also announced. * announced. * .o!a *urora *urora de uma *ntiga Manh;( Manh;( Carlos was almost immediately disputed by e7perts. for his descriptions of the plants are )a%ue and RecumenicalS. he does not seem to define well the set plants he used. or the re%ion they were from. or e)en to what specific culture they came from( +he +he )ery )ery ethno ethnobo bota tani nist st ,ob ,ober ertt Gordo Gordonn Wasson asson.. made made him him a missi missi)e )e serie seriess of Ouestions that Carlos replied promptly. in a letter dated "eptember A. ;KA(( I pro)ide the letter in 0ppendi7 C almost in full 6only omittin% %reetin%s etc(: Tue to the fact it is a precious document. which summari!es many of the suspicions of teachers and intellectuals a%ainst Carlos and his work. which became clearer with time( Wasson asks Castaneda for e)idences and ri%orous analysis. passin% throu%h the sie)e of identifications and documentations( Carlos. since the be%innin%. does not want or promise to do any of that( 1is %oal is another one. or many others( 1is %oal is to radiate the fertili!ation of two different world )iews. two different worlds. with this copious communication. is to be the real Rcrack between the worldsS( +he learnin% that Carlos proposes. howe)er. %oes much further. and it abandons the need for the use of plants to mo)e the assembla%e point( In its class to under%raduates at ^CL0 in ;K#?. he said 6and seems to refer to the ma%ical passes:F It is better to practice the aOui e7ercises than to use the psychotropics( melhor praticar os e7erccios dos yaOui do Oue usar psicotr
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bent inward toward his chest( 1e turned his left palm toward the back and his ri%ht palm toward the front( +hen the fin%ers on each hand be%an mo)in% wildly as if they were puckin% a %iant ban=o( Carlos made fists and turned himself around %racefully into a pri!efi%hter's stance( 1e stood there tense and locked. his arms out and le%s bent in his determined crouch. stony eyed( 0nd suddenly. there they were((( the lines of the world +he net. the web. the cosmic interstitial flow;## "e)eral cra!ed fans saw in the two early books of Carlos Castaneda an endorsement for the use of dru%s. far more RprosaicS. which they could purchase on the corner stores. or in supermarkets( 3thers. cra!ier still. were hospitali!ed or had an o)erdose. as well as some frantic ones =umped off abysses later on. and the blame has been assi%ned to Carlos. by family members. the public and the media( +here has always always been cra!y people people who use books 6or mo)ies mo)ies and music: as ans e7cuse to their actions. and they use anythin% with that that intention. and. if there were not any work of art to blame. they would find another Rscape%oatS to put the blame for their unbalance( Carlos himself claims for balance all the time. the impeccability. Rtemper the tonal with the na%ual and na%ual with the tonal(S( "oon he starts. since his second book. 0 "eparate ,eality. to clarify that his Ouestion is the perception of other RlayersS of the uni)erse. the mo)ement of the Rassembla%e pointS( +he use of Rpower plantsS is not the best. it is not recommended. it is not what you usually do. it was an e7ceptional resource used specifically by him. because he was a a )ery strict na%ual. )ery attached to his certainties. and his assembla%e point 6his conscience: would not cede one inch( Qlorinda said that dru%s make it )ery difficult to %et to the second atte attent ntio ionn throu throu%h %h the the dream dreamin in%( %( 0 list listen ener er said said that that To Tonn uan uan had had recommended Carlos Castaneda to meet Mescalito as many times as possible( Qlorinda said yes. but to do so throu%h the dreamin%( -(((0 listener listener asks if we need power plants( Carlos Castaneda Castaneda answered $3. abso absolu lute tely ly not( not( 1e took took them them beca becaus usee his his assa assamb mbla la%e %e po poin intt wa wass e7cessi)ely ri%id(( -((( $o dru%s( $ot e)en mari=uana( $either peyote. nor heroin(;# But from the be%innin%. from the first book. Ton uan teaches other techniOues. ;##
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healthier and more mana%eable ones. to mo)e the assambla%e point( +he way of life of the warrior. the impeccability. the controlled madness. the hunt. the lurk. the dreamin%. the contemplation. etc( 0nd also. the warrior dance mo)ements. which are ma%ical passes( 0bout the edition in Bra!il of The *rt of Dreaminh. Dreaminh. I said that the book I was lookin% for could be found in a certain bookstore downtown. we saw that( It was a sudden intuition. I did not e)en know why I was sayin% that( We walked to the store. and at the entrance there was a pile of books. translated. recently launched in Bra!il. and I did not e)en know it had that title( +hen I wondered if there would still be other works of Castaneda. and he appeared in my dream. makin% certain mo)ements while %i)in% a few steps forward. and told me that an important part of the learnin% learnin% are these maneu)ers. maneu)ers. which would put us immediately immediately in another world. another reality( I had lot of resistance facin% the learnin% as somethin% physical. e)en thou%h. since the be%innin%. Ton uan said so himself. and tau%ht him the power passes and dance of power. since theTeachings the Teachings(( Carlos told me in the dream that the name of the new book would be Passes of Power( ears later. the book was translated and published in Bra!il entitled as Ma%ical Passes. and the techniOue had h ad been renamed r enamed by him as +ense%rity. +ense%rity. +ense%ridad in "panish(;#K We can see at the website Carlos Castaneda8s Tensegrity presented Tensegrity presented by Cleargreen ncorporated F Is it reOuired to be in a Practice Group to %et all the benefits of the ma%ical passes& $o. it is not reOuired( 0s Carlos Castaneda writes in Ma%ical PassesF RPracticin% in %roups is beneficial in many ways and harmful in others( It is beneficial because it allows the creation of a consensus of mo)ement and the opportunity to learn by e7amination and comparison( It is harmful because it encoura%es dependence on others and the emer%ence of syntactic commands and reOuests related to hierarchy(S 6p( @A: +he idea of syntactical commands are e7plained below on the same pa%e. alon% with some of the ad)anta%es of practicin% in lar%er %roups( %rou ps( Choosin% the best way to practice is left to the indi)idualF ;#K
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R+he +ense%rity should be practiced in the easiest wayF either in %roups or alone or both(S 6p( @A: We think that practicin% alone allows us to perform the ma%ical passes that seem to match the best indi)idual at any %i)en time. while workin% to%ether helps us offset our practice runnin% ma%ical passes that we could not otherwise practice alone. or helps us to ad=ust our speed to match the %roup( +hese adaptations and ad=ustments can brin% a mo)ement of the assembla%e point( +hey can allow us to form a new connection with the intentF the intent to percei)e and act in a new way. with affection and %ratitude for our fellow bein%s(;V Betw Betwee eenn anua anuary ry and and 0p 0pri rill of ;KKA. ;KKA. Carl Carlos os pu publ blis ishe hedd the the pape paperr The arriors8 ay[eaders of nfinity ;;. concatenated with his work 6almost: secret 6the Purple Book. sold only in the seminaries of tense%rity. especially in Me7ico:. the same year. and his lectures and demonstrations of tense%rity( In this unheralded book. 2l "ilencio Internal. he e7plains his concept of Rinfinite readersS who are obser)in% the ener%y on the hori!on 6or wall. at the ed%e of )ision:. in which they see a spot they call Rthe stain color %renade R. ie red 6Granada contains ma%nesium. and its color is a deep blood red;?:( In thei theirr con conti tinuo nuous us pursu pursuit it to find find solu soluti tions ons and and answe answers rs to thei their r Ouestions. the shamans of ancient Me7ico disco)ered that. when you reach the inner silence. the consciousness of man easily %i)e a =ump to the direct perception perception of reflected reflected ener%y at any %i)en hori!on( hori!on( +hey used the sky as the hori!on. hori!on. like the mountains. mountains. or in a smaller space. the walls of their homes( +hey were able to see ener%y reflected on these hori!ons as if they hey we were re wa watc tchi hin% n% a mo) o)iie( +hey +hey conc conciisel sely desc descri ribe bedd thi this phenomenon as the )isuali!ation of ener%y that looks like a tint \ to be precise. a reddish spot on the hori!on. %ranade red color( +hey called it the stain color of %ranade(;@ It talks about the techniOues to achie)e inner silence( 0nd it teaches some ma%ical passes. which then appear in the book de)oted to them 6there is another ano ther book boo k that was not written by Carlos called Pases sueltos. which were conducted in seminars. and collected by participants:( "olor!ano Tomin%o Tel%ado. in his ma%nificent work. tells us in stern. strict and comple7 key physical e7ercises to mo)e the assambla%e point. and that his linea%e. the ;V
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