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The Requirements of Intent – The Two One-Way Bridges

Ancient Cycle, Carlos Castaneda, Power of Silence / By / 24 minutes of reading

Castaneda reflects on his “here and here” experience, prompting don Juan to explain that such a “movement of the assemblage point” is a sorcerer’s goal, achieved through impeccability and curtailing self-reflection to access inner energy. Don Juan recounts his own initiation by nagual Julian, who, to teach him about the spirit, threw him into a raging river, forcing a shift into silent knowledge and split perception. Don Juan later learns from nagual Elías that Julian’s act was a masterful display of “waking up intent” to bring him to the “third point”—freedom of perception. This “third point” is a bridge from “reason” (the current human state) back to “silent knowledge,” accessible through “concern” and “pure understanding,” with the spirit responding to “gestures” of true abandon rather than words.

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The Requirements of Intent – The Third Point

Ancient Cycle, Carlos Castaneda, Power of Silence / By / 42 minutes of reading

Castaneda recounts an experience where his reason ceased, leading to a state of “silent knowledge” where his assemblage point shifted, allowing him to perceive “here and here”—being in multiple places at once. This enabled him to perceive a real jaguar, which don Juan explained was a manifestation of the spirit that moved Castaneda’s assemblage point through intent. Don Juan emphasizes that this “third point” is freedom of perception, beyond typical two-dimensional reality, and highlights how average men’s self-reflection prevents them from recognizing this accessible freedom.

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The Requirements of Intent – Breaking the Mirror of Self-Reflection

Ancient Cycle, Carlos Castaneda, Power of Silence / By / 22 minutes of reading

In this continuation, Don Juan further explains the process of breaking the mirror of self-reflection, emphasizing that the assemblage point can be moved by the nagual’s presence, but ultimately, it’s the spirit that makes the actual movement. He clarifies that instruction isn’t what moves the assemblage point; instead, it’s the curtailment of self-importance, which then releases energy, launching the assemblage point into a new perception. Don Juan illustrates this by recounting his manipulative tactics in Guaymas, which shattered Castaneda’s continuity and forced his assemblage point to the “place of no pity.” He reveals that his feigned senility was a deliberate act of masked ruthlessness, designed to bypass Castaneda’s rationality and lead him to a state of detached hardness, thereby beginning his journey into a “dreaming state” and the world of sorcery.

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The Knock of the Spirit – The Last Seduction of the Nagual Julian

Ancient Cycle, Carlos Castaneda, Power of Silence / By / 16 minutes of reading

This extensive excerpt further illustrates the Knock of the Spirit as the second abstract core, revealing how the spirit’s manifestations—ranging from the sentient “warrior trees” to traumatic life-or-death situations—serve to move the assemblage point and activate the “connecting link to intent.” Don Juan recounts the challenging apprenticeship of his benefactor, the nagual Julian, whose initial encounter with the spirit was a near-fatal hemorrhage during a seduction. The narrative stresses that the spirit’s direct commands and the intensity of experiences like those involving sexual energy are meant to induce heightened awareness and foster the acquisition of silent knowledge, often requiring apprentices to overcome their “natural barriers,” such as the narrator’s tendency to disguise complacency as independence.

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The Knock of the Spirit – The Abstract

Ancient Cycle, Carlos Castaneda, Power of Silence / By / 20 minutes of reading

This chapter delves into the “second abstract core” of sorcery, termed the Knock of the Spirit, which is the spirit’s direct and often forceful invitation to a sorcerer or beginner to enter the “edifice of intent.” This phenomenon represents a form of knowledge without words, a profound understanding that transcends conventional thought, as exemplified by the experiences of the nagual Elías and don Juan himself. The spirit’s intervention, sometimes tied to intense experiences like those involving sexual energy or dreaming, aims to shift one’s assemblage point and revive the dormant connecting link to intent, demanding a fierce, unbending intent to overcome the ego’s resistance and accept this unfamiliar realm.

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