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Silent Knowledge – Dreaming

Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, Silent Knowledge / By Carlos Castaneda / 4 minutes of reading

In this chapter, Castaneda explores the “art of dreaming,” which he defines as the sorcerers’ technique for breaking the parameters of normal perception to travel into the unknown. Don Juan explains that sorcerers’ dreaming (*ensoñar*) is different from ordinary dreaming (*soñar*) and is based on the deliberate displacement of the “assemblage point” from its usual position. This practice originated from the ancient sorcerers’ observation that the assemblage point moves naturally during sleep. The key to this art is the development of “dreaming attention,” a focused awareness that allows the practitioner to control the dream state and enter other real, energy-generating worlds. The art of dreaming is complemented by the “art of stalking,” which is the ability to hold the assemblage point fixed in its new position, allowing for a full exploration of these other realms.

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Silent Knowledge – The Westwood Series

Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, Silent Knowledge / By Carlos Castaneda / 29 minutes of reading

This final chapter is dedicated to “The Westwood Series,” a specific sequence of magical passes designed to integrate the other four “concerns” of the ancient sorcerers: the center for decisions, the Recapitulation, dreaming, and inner silence. Don Juan explained that the magical passes themselves act as an “agglutinating force,” a vibration that binds these other areas of practice into a single, functional unit. The chapter serves as a practical manual, organizing the series into four distinct sections, each corresponding to one of the other concerns. It then provides detailed descriptions and instructions for performing each of the individual passes within these four categories, outlining their specific movements and energetic purposes.

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A Witness to the Acts of Power – The Secret of The Luminous Beings

Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, Tales of Power / By Carlos Castaneda / 37 minutes of reading

In this chapter, Don Juan and Don Genaro initiated a series of challenging tests designed to push me beyond my conventional understanding, culminating in a demonstration of “the secret of the luminous beings.” Through exercises in focusing my will and stopping internal dialogue, I experienced profound perceptual shifts, such as witnessing “the ally” as a moth and “seeing” people as energetic forms. Don Juan explained that all beings are luminous and that our perception is governed by an “assemblage point” that can be moved through discipline and personal power. The chapter concluded with Don Genaro’s astonishing reappearance, which further blurred the lines between ordinary reality and the sorcerers’ world, emphasizing that my reason alone was insufficient to grasp these events and that true understanding lay in direct perception and the cultivation of my will.

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A Witness to the Acts of Power – The Dreamer and the Dreamed

Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, Tales of Power / By Carlos Castaneda / 46 minutes of reading

In this chapter, Don Juan and Don Genaro continued to challenge my rational understanding of reality. Don Juan clarified the concept of the ‘double,’ explaining that Don Genaro had appeared as his double the previous night, an entity born of dreaming that defies conventional physical laws. He emphasized that my struggles with belief stemmed from my reason attempting to confine experiences within its ‘description of the world.’ The core lesson, however, centered on ‘the dreamer and the dreamed,’ a profound notion that ultimately, we ourselves are dreams, dreamed by our own doubles, a mystery of luminous beings that can only be witnessed, not logically explained.

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AI and the potentialization of the collective assemblage point movement

Authors, J Christopher, Nagualism, New Cycle, Stalking / By J Christopher / 2 minutes of reading

Until recently, human beings used to receive, in their daily lives, media that reinforced a linear worldview. Where what was shown in images and videos were always scenes that reaffirmed a predictable description of reality. Even though there was slightly

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The Requirements of Intent – Intending Appearances

Ancient Cycle, Carlos Castaneda, Power of Silence / By Nagualismo / 34 minutes of reading

In this account, Castaneda describes an extraordinary experience where his reasoning faculties ceased, and he felt a profound physical elation, being propelled through the chaparral without fatigue, a state don Juan later calls entering “silent knowledge” due to a movement of his assemblage point. During this, Castaneda perceives himself “looming over the bushes” and experiences being “here and here,” simultaneously observing the desert floor and the tops of shrubs, and being in two places at once (his standing spot and the jaguar’s location). This state allowed him to witness a real jaguar that he pursued, despite his academic mind trying to rationalize it as a mountain lion due to the unusual fauna. Don Juan explains that this spontaneous shift of Castaneda’s assemblage point was a result of the “spirit” moving it, and that for a sorcerer, intent—which is the spirit—can manipulate this point. He clarifies the difference between a profound “movement” and a smaller “shift” of the assemblage point and introduces the “third point” as freedom of perception, intent, and the spirit, which allows for a tridimensional perception beyond the usual two-dimensional reality. Don Juan emphasizes that while Castaneda’s experience was vital for him to access silent knowledge, the jaguar itself was the true manifestation of the spirit, a source of awe and magic, serving as a vehicle for his realizations. He also highlights the “macabre connection between stupidity and self-reflection” in average men who are blind to the existence and manipulability of the assemblage point and fear the freedom that sorcery offers.

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The Requirements of Intent – The Two One-Way Bridges

Ancient Cycle, Carlos Castaneda, Power of Silence / By Nagualismo / 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 Nagualismo / 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 – The Ticket to Impeccability

Ancient Cycle, Carlos Castaneda, Power of Silence / By Carlos Castaneda / 36 minutes of reading

In “The Ticket to Impeccability,” don Juan continues to explain to Castaneda that a warrior’s journey involves moving the assemblage point and invalidating their old continuity to achieve impeccability, which he likens to a sorcerer’s symbolic death. Don Juan recounts his own “death” experience, wherein, as a young man, he was tricked by the nagual Julian and his cohort of women into believing in a terrifying monster, living in fear and working as their valet for three years. This intense period, marked by a loss of self-importance and a developing detachment, ultimately led to don Juan’s confrontation with the “monster,” which he discovered was merely an energetic surge, a manifestation of his own fear. After this realization and a period of trying to live a “normal” life, characterized by a loss of detachment and deep poverty, don Juan underwent a profound recapitulation of his life, which culminated in a literal “death” in a field. This symbolic death, which the Eagle then “spat out” due to his impeccable recapitulation, served as his “ticket to impeccability,” a state of heightened awareness that allowed him to return to Julian’s household as a true sorcerer, “dead” to the world, and prepared to face the world as a warrior.

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

Ancient Cycle, Carlos Castaneda, Power of Silence / By Nagualismo / 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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