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Journal of Applied Hermeneutics – Who are the Chacmools?

A Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, Uncategorized / By Carlos Castaneda / 2 minutes of reading

In this query section, Castaneda addresses the question about the “chacmools,” a name given to instructors Kylie Lundahl, Reni Murez, and Nyei Murez. He explains the term’s origin, which don Juan Matus associated with warrior guardians protecting sacred sites. Castaneda clarifies that the title is not exclusive; anyone who accepts the responsibility of guarding, including himself and Carol Tiggs, becomes a chacmool. He notes that these three women were the first to bring the magical passes to the public and are now moving to a new phase on the warrior’s path.

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The Art of Dreaming – Author’s Note

Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming, Uncategorized / By Carlos Castaneda / 8 minutes of reading

In this note, Castaneda explains that the sorcery don Juan Matus taught him is not about spells but about specialized premises regarding perception. He called this knowledge sorcery. Don Juan was an intermediary to an unseen world he called the second attention, and his primary method for accessing it was the art of dreaming. He taught that our world is just one of many, like layers of an onion, which we can perceive if we have sufficient energy. Castaneda describes his apprenticeship, including his interaction with two different groups of apprentices, the second of which included Florinda Donner-Grau, Taisha Abelar, and Carol Tiggs. They knew each other only in the second attention until the boundaries of that state began to collapse. It took him fifteen years to store enough energy to linearly recall my dreaming lessons.

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The Blue Scout

Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming, Uncategorized / By Carlos Castaneda / 19 minutes of reading

After rashly giving his energy to the blue scout, Castaneda finds himself in don Juan’s house, completely drained of energy and memory. Florinda Grau explains that he was energetically wounded in a mortal combat with the inorganic beings. Don Juan later reveals the full extent of the event: the inorganics had lured Castaneda into a trap, consumed his energy body, and then pulled his physical body into their realm, a yellow-fog world. He was rescued only because don Juan, Carol Tiggs, and the others journeyed physically into that world, guided there by the now-freed blue scout. While recovering, Castaneda is visited by the scout in the form of a small girl, an event witnessed by all of don Juan’s companions. Don Juan explains that the inorganics’ trap played on Castaneda’s inherent need to break chains, which led him to free the scout at the cost of his own freedom. The scout had to take all of Castaneda’s energy to escape, and in exchange for letting it go, the inorganic beings kept him. The chapter ends with don Juan telling him that the responsibility of truly freeing the scout now rests with him and Carol Tiggs, and the way to learn how is to ask the dreaming emissary.

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Stalking the Stalkers

Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming, Uncategorized / By Carlos Castaneda / 25 minutes of reading

After becoming ill from the cognitive dissonance of meeting his fellow apprentices in the world of everyday life, Castaneda is given the final task of the third gate of dreaming by don Juan: a maneuver called “stalking the stalkers.” This involves deliberately drawing energy from the inorganic realm to make a physical journey into another world, using awareness itself as an energetic medium for travel. Because the feat requires immense energy, Castaneda must perform it with Carol Tiggs. In a Mexico City hotel, they attempt the maneuver, but instead of the intended controlled process, they are violently hurled into another world, waking up naked in a primitive shack. They realize they are in a trap set by the inorganic beings, where the world’s overpowering realness threatens to erase their memories of their origin. By shedding the world’s clothes and maintaining their focus, they manage to escape, waking up in their hotel room eighteen hours later. Don Juan explains that they succeeded in traveling physically but failed the task’s true intent, as the inorganic beings had hijacked the maneuver to trap them, just as they had trapped the sorcerers of antiquity.

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