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Silent Knowledge – The Recapitulation

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

In this chapter, Castaneda details the third pillar of sorcery practice: the “Recapitulation.” He describes it as a procedure for reliving one’s entire life with two main goals. The first is cosmological: to satisfy a universal force called “the Eagle,” which seeks a being’s life experiences, not its life force. By offering a detailed account of their lives, sorcerers can retain their life force at the moment of death and embark on a journey of perception as inorganic beings. The second goal is pragmatic: to acquire “perceptual fluidity.” Reliving memories forces the “assemblage point” to shift to its past positions, and this repetitive movement grants the practitioner the flexibility needed to face the unknown. Castaneda also describes the practical method taught by don Juan: making a list of all known persons and using a specific breathing technique to inhale recovered energy and exhale unwanted feelings associated with each memory.

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The Second Gate of Dreaming

Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming, Uncategorized / By Carlos Castaneda / 33 minutes of reading

After mastering the first gate of dreaming, Castaneda began to hear a nagging voice in his dreams, which don Juan identified as an entity from another world. Don Juan instructed him to command it to stop, which he did successfully. This marked my readiness for the second gate: waking up from a dream into another dream. This task proved difficult, but eventually, he found himself being pulled from one dream scene to another, and then another, a process he confirmed was the correct way to cross the second gate. He then introduced Castaneda to the concept of inorganic beings—conscious, energy-based life forms that are long, opaque, and candle-like. Don Juan explained that by crossing the first two gates, he had set bait for them and that the jolts of fear he was experiencing were their way of making contact.

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The Fixation of the Assemblage Point

Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming, Uncategorized / By Carlos Castaneda / 38 minutes of reading

In this chapter, don Juan discusses the manipulation of the assemblage point, leading to a story about the “tenant” or “death defier,” an ancient sorcerer who made a pact with the naguals of don Juan’s lineage, trading “gifts of power” for their energy. A few months later, Castaneda begin to hear a disembodied voice in his waking life, which don Juan identifies as the “dreaming emissary”—an alien, conscious energy from the realm of the inorganic beings that dreamers encounter. The emissary offers him knowledge and flattery, which he ultimately rejects. Don Juan then explains that fixating the assemblage point is the key to acquiring “cohesion,” which is the true goal of the dreaming practices.

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The World of Inorganic Beings

Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming, Uncategorized / By Carlos Castaneda / 36 minutes of reading

In this chapter, Castaneda begins his objective inquiry into the existence of inorganic beings. During his dreaming practices, he learn to isolate “scouts,” or bursts of foreign energy, which appear as incongruous items in my dreams. His first successful identification was an iridium monkey handle that transformed into a walking stick before dissolving. Don Juan explained that these scouts are reconnoiterers from the inorganic realm. Acting on his instructions, Castaneda finally voiced his intent to follow a scout—disguised as a fish-bird—and was pulled through a tunnel into a strange world that appeared as a gigantic, porous, spongy mass.

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The Shadow’s World

Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming, Uncategorized / By Carlos Castaneda / 35 minutes of reading

Don Juan warns Castaneda that the inorganic beings are plotting to trap him. He clarifies that the true task of the second gate of dreaming is not merely to change dreams, but to learn to isolate and follow the foreign energy “scouts,” which is the key to entering their universe. After an interruption in his practice, Castaneda’s journeys resume, and a scout leads him to a new region of the inorganic world called the “shadows’ world.” It is inhabited by mobile, bug-like inorganic beings that are different from the stationary, tunnel-like ones. The dreaming emissary explains their symbiotic relationship and tempts Castaneda with the knowledge of a mysterious third type of being, visible only to those who agree to stay forever. His dreaming then becomes more intense, featuring an aggressive new scout and a mysterious blue blob of energy that takes the form of a small, captive girl. Overcome with an inexplicable affection and concern for this “prisoner scout,” Castaneda rashly declares his intent to merge his energy with hers to set her free, falling into the very trap don Juan had feared.

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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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The New Area of Exploration

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

In this chapter, don Juan instructs Castaneda to begin the new task of seeing energy in his dreams by voicing his intent to see. After months of failure with phantom dreams, Castaneda has a breakthrough when a scout from the inorganic world appears. He then successfully sees the energy of objects and people in his dream, which shifts into a journey through what seems to be a real town. The journey ends when he is attacked by a hostile, glowing entity. Don Juan explains that Castaneda’s energy body, now complete, had journeyed on its own into another real world, another “layer of the onion,” and that the universe is predatorial. Later, don Juan explains the different colors of energy layers in our world—whitish, chartreuse, and amber—which correspond to historical positions of mankind’s assemblage point. He also describes different types of scouts, including dangerous ones that hide behind the dream-images of people close to the dreamer. The chapter culminates with don Juan’s most dreadful revelation: the dark energy sorcerers need for major maneuvers of the assemblage point comes from the realm of the inorganic beings, a binding legacy from the old sorcerers.

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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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The First Attention

Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, The Fire from Within, Uncategorized / By Carlos Castaneda / 21 minutes of reading

Don Juan begins to explain the “first attention,” which he defines as the highly developed, complex awareness that handles our day-to-day world. He states that this attention is responsible for taking an “inventory” of the Eagle’s emanations within our cocoons, a process unique to humans. He differentiates between “reason,” which ignores external impulses, and “self-absorption,” which uses them to agitate internal emanations, shortening life. The new seers, through “seeing,” understand that the first attention blocks the unknown, making us “invulnerable” but also limiting our perception. Don Juan, with Genaro’s help, demonstrates this by opening a door to “weird creatures” that Carlos’s first attention initially blocks from his perception, highlighting how our ordinary awareness acts as a shield against other realities. This experience leads to a hasty departure from Genaro’s house, as Carlos’s “first attention” is overwhelmed by the unknown.

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