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Silent Knowledge – Inner Silence

Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, Silent Knowledge, Uncategorized / By Carlos Castaneda / 3 minutes of reading

This chapter focuses on “inner silence,” the ultimate goal for the sorcerers of ancient Mexico and the culmination of the other four practices. Don Juan defined it as a natural state of perception free from the internal dialogue, where awareness becomes sharper and knowledge is instantaneous. This state is the matrix for an evolutionary leap called “silent knowledge”. Castaneda explains that it is achieved through the disciplined practice of forcing oneself to be silent for accumulating periods of time, until a personal threshold is crossed. He then recounts his own experience of reaching this threshold, which resulted in “stopping the world” and becoming consciously aware, for the first time, that he was *seeing* energy directly. Don Juan clarified that this was not a new perception, but rather becoming deliberately conscious of an awareness that had always been present.

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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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The Woman in the Church

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

After being overcome with fear, Castaneda is led back to the church by don Juan to finally meet the death defier. He finds himself kneeling next to the mysterious sorcerer, who now appears as a dark, alluring Indian woman between thirty-five and forty years old. Her strangely familiar, raspy voice mesmerizes him. Overcoming his fear, he offers her his energy as a gift but refuses any “gift of power” in return. She explains that she cannot take it for free and must make a payment. She then induces a shift in his awareness, plunging him into the second attention where the church appears as it did in a much earlier time. She reveals that this is not the past, but her *intent*—a fully materialized dream of the past that he is now a part of. She explains this is the mystery of the fourth gate of dreaming: traveling to places that exist only in someone else’s intent. She also reveals the proper way to see energy in a dream is to point with the little finger, a trick don Juan had withheld as a joke at her expense. After a walk through her dream town, she pulls Castaneda into a second dream—her intent of the present-day town—which feels completely real, though nothing in it generates energy except for her. The experience ends when he feels himself pulled into a black, spinning vortex.

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Flying on the Wings of Intent

Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming, Uncategorized / By Carlos Castaneda / 31 minutes of reading

This chapter details Castaneda’s climactic encounter with the death defier. After a period of emotional turmoil and a second, deeper recapitulation of his life, Castaneda is taken by don Juan to a church to meet the being known as the tenant. The tenant appears as a woman, a fact that deeply unnerves Castaneda. She communicates that for a sorcerer of her power, gender is a matter of choice, a result of manipulating the assemblage point. Castaneda refuses her “gift of power” but agrees to give her his energy freely. She then pulls him into a dream of the same town but from a different era, a world created purely from her intent, explaining this is the true nature of the fourth gate of dreaming. She reveals a new technique for seeing energy—pointing with the little finger—and teaches him about “twin positions” for achieving total perception. The dream shifts, and Castaneda points at various items, confirming only the death defier herself is energy-generating. The experience ends with him waking up in the real church beside the woman.

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The Third Gate of Dreaming

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

Don Juan introduces Castaneda to the third gate of dreaming, which is reached when one finds oneself in a dream staring at one’s own sleeping body. The task of this gate is to move the energy body, an act which deliberately merges the dreaming and daily realities and helps to complete or consolidate the energy body. Castaneda finds himself stuck in his initial attempts, either waking up screaming or being paralyzed in the dream. Don Juan explains this is due to remaining emotional debris and prescribes another, more fluid round of recapitulation. After this, Castaneda is still unable to “walk” in his dreams until don Juan reveals the riddle: the energy body does not walk, it moves like energy itself—by being willed to soar or glide. Upon learning this, Castaneda finds his energy body is complete. Don Juan then reveals the true task of the third gate: to deliberately see energy in dreaming. This ability becomes the ultimate validation, allowing a dreamer to distinguish between a real, energy-generating world and a phantom dream.

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