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The Active Side of Infinity – Journeys Through the Dark Sea Of Awareness

Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, The Active side of Infinity / By Carlos Castaneda / 19 minutes of reading

In this chapter, don Juan clarifies that Castaneda’s previous “dream-fantasy” of meeting him in town was, in sorcery terms, a real “journey through the dark sea of awareness,” made possible by his accrued inner silence. He distinguishes this from “dreaming,” which he redefines as the art of deliberately displacing the assemblage point to perceive other worlds. After Castaneda recounts a memory of “seeing” a sleeping person’s assemblage point shift, don Juan prompts him to undertake a deliberate journey. From a state of inner silence, Castaneda finds himself transported with don Juan to a hostile Yaqui town where he can suddenly understand their language, not word by word, but in patterns of thought. He then finds himself in another town, where he perceives people not as luminous eggs, but as strange, insectlike cores of geometric shapes with a stringlike filament on top. After these inexplicable journeys, don Juan explains that this is what inner silence does: it breaks the continuity of time and allows one to travel through the dark sea of awareness, guided by the force of intent.

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The Woman in the Church – The Art of Dreaming

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

After being left by don Juan, Carlos Castaneda kneels in the church next to the death defier, an ancient sorcerer who appears as a woman. Initially terrified, he is mesmerized by her voice and presence. He offers her his energy freely but refuses her obligatory “gifts of power.” The woman then pulls him into the second attention, revealing the church and town as they existed in a different time, a product of her own intent. She explains the sorcerers’ art of creating veritable realms in dreaming through visualization and the technique of “twin positions.” Castaneda explores this tangible dream world with her, learning that only she generates energy within it. The experience culminates in a terrifying realization that their current reality might also be a shared dream, causing him to lose consciousness in a spinning descent into blackness.

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Gateways of Perception:

Assemblage point, Gebh al Tarik, Intent, Nagualism, New Cycle, Power Plants, Warrior Path / By Gebh al Tarik / 5 minutes of reading

A Bridge Between Don Juan’s Hallucinogens and Contemporary Entheogenic Paths There comes a point when the known world begins to dissolve—not as illusion, but because the perceptual structures that held it in place begin to shift. That point is not

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Daydreaming –When the Intent Speaks in Images

Gebh al Tarik, New Cycle, Take a look / By Gebh al Tarik / 5 minutes of reading

On the Toltec path, what we call devaneio in Portuguese corresponds exactly to what Don Juan called ensueño in Spanish and to what Castaneda’s books translate in some passages into English as daydreaming. Although, in everyday usage, these terms might

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When the Will Reveals Itself

Gebh al Tarik, Intent, Intent, New Cycle, Will / By Gebh al Tarik / 3 minutes of reading

There’s a secret that breathes in the space between two breaths. There — in that silence that doesn’t fit into any clock — we perceive that the body is merely the visible edge of something vaster. The skin vibrates like

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Examining the enemies on the path to knowledge – Part 2: Clarity

Intent, J Christopher, Nagualism, New Cycle / By J Christopher / 4 minutes of reading

Clarity is the stability of our worldview,and it is the confidence in that stability. Thus, when someone achieves Clarity, and allows themselves to be conquered by it, they begin to have the sensation of seeing things more and more clearly.The

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Journal of Applied Hermeutics – Fourth Principle of the Warrior’s Way: The Energy Body

A Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, Ancient Cycle, Assemblage point, Intent, See, Will, Will / By Carlos Castaneda / 6 minutes of reading

The fourth unit of the warriors’ way is THE ENERGY BODY Don Juan Matus explained that, since time immemorial, sorcerers have given the name of energy body to a special configuration of energy which belongs to each human being individually.

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Breaking the Barrier of Perception – The Fire from Within

Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, The Fire from Within / By Carlos Castaneda / 12 minutes of reading

Don Juan declares the culmination of his teachings on awareness, tasking Castaneda with breaking the barrier of perception unaided, by moving his assemblage point to assemble another world. He warns of a final test: jumping into an abyss from normal awareness, where success hinges on aligning a new world before impact. Castaneda, guided into a state of inner silence, experiences a shift into a familiar “sulfur dunes” world, and then into a black world, a uniquely valuable alignment. He encounters allies and perceives the black world’s peculiar timelessness, which ages the body. Don Juan explains that these are true shifts, not illusions, emphasizing the danger of being stranded in these new realities if one lacks control or the necessary support. He reveals that the old seers often misunderstood these shifts, mistaking them for literal ascensions or descents. The chapter culminates with Castaneda’s final challenge: to vanish the current world by entering the black world alone, a final act of inner silence and awareness that represents the warrior’s ultimate freedom and the dissolution of the everyday world.

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Epilogue – The Fire from Within

Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, The Fire from Within / By Carlos Castaneda / 5 minutes of reading

Don Juan concludes his teachings by assembling his party and apprentices on a mountaintop, preparing for their final departure into total awareness. He emphasizes that the manipulation of intent through sober commands, coupled with inner silence, is key to shifting assemblage points. This maneuver, vital for new seers, allows them to achieve total freedom by escaping the Eagle, unlike the old seers who merely shifted to other dreaming positions to delay death. Don Juan clarifies that freedom is the Eagle’s gift, attainable with sufficient energy and a life of impeccability. Castaneda, Pablito, and Nestor, along with other apprentices, are then instructed to jump into an abyss from normal awareness. Instead of dying, Castaneda (and the others) shifts his assemblage point and assembles another world, thus surviving the jump. The epilogue ends with Castaneda realizing that he and his fellow apprentices are left to integrate their heightened awareness, facing profound questions about man’s fate, and waiting for the energy to accept the ultimate gift of total awareness themselves.

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Stalking, Intent and The Dreaming Position – The Fire from Within

Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, The Fire from Within / By Carlos Castaneda / 22 minutes of reading

Don Juan continues his teachings on the mastery of awareness, introducing the three cornerstones of the new seers’ practices: the mastery of stalking, the mastery of intent, and the mastery of dreaming. He explains that stalking, a systematic control of behavior, subtly shifts the assemblage point and was uniquely developed by the new seers to handle people. The mastery of intent involves understanding and purposefully guiding “will,” the energy of alignment that shapes perception. Don Juan then elaborates on dreaming, revealing it as the most effective way to move the assemblage point, starting with its natural shift during sleep. He details the dangers of dreaming, stressing the necessity of sobriety and the warriors’ way to cultivate the inner strength needed to guide the assemblage point. Castaneda witnesses Genaro’s dreaming body in action, a non-human luminous blob, and learns that true mastery allows one to wake up in different “dreaming positions.” The chapter emphasizes that impeccability and unbending intent are key to achieving these shifts and the full potential of a warrior, enabling even collective dreaming among seers.

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