Ancient Cycle

The Blue Scout – The Art of Dreaming

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

Following a perilous dream experience, Carlos Castaneda wakes up severely depleted of energy in don Juan’s home, discovering he was pulled out of the inorganic beings’ world. His companions, especially Florinda Grau, explain his “energetic wounding” and how he became “charged again” but with a disturbing new energy. Don Juan eventually reveals that Castaneda’s physical body was abducted by inorganic beings after his energy body entered their realm to free the **blue scout**. Don Juan, along with Carol Tiggs and others, intervened to rescue him by displacing their assemblage points. The chapter highlights the unprecedented nature of this event within their lineage and the grave implications for Castaneda’s future, as he is now tasked with freeing the scout, a challenge don Juan suggests he can resolve by consulting the emissary.

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The Third Gate of Dreaming – The Art of Dreaming

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

Carlos Castaneda enters the **third gate of dreaming**, where the goal is to merge his dreaming reality with daily reality by consolidating his **energy body**. He struggles with the compulsion to be absorbed by mundane details within his dreams, a challenge don Juan attributes to the energy body’s inexperience. Don Juan emphasizes the role of the **assemblage point** in this process and reveals that Castaneda’s physical body was abducted by inorganic beings, only to be rescued by don Juan and his companions, including Carol Tiggs, who collectively shifted their assemblage points. Castaneda learns that his struggle to move in dreams is due to his trying to “walk” his energy body, when it should glide or soar. Don Juan then sets the next task: to practice **seeing energy** in his dreams, the true measure of whether he is in a real world or a mere phantom projection.

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Delia talks about women’s silent slavery

Ancient Cycle, Authors, Being in Dreaming, Florinda Donner Grau, Way of the Warrior / By / 10 minutes of reading

An intense dialogue between Delia and Florinda takes place as they travel by car. The conversation begins with Delia’s admiration for the Yaqui warriors, quickly evolving into a philosophical discussion about the different types of war and freedom. Delia then expounds on the idea that women are, because of their feminine condition and sexuality, slaves to men, even in modern society.

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Journal of Applied Hermeneutics – Queries about the Warriors’ Way: The path without a teacher, Carlos’ plan, and Tensegrity

A Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, Nagualism, Warrior Path, Way of the Warrior / By / 7 minutes of reading

Carlos Castaneda addresses common inquiries about his role and the nature of Tensegrity and the warriors’ way. He clarifies that he sees himself as a counselor, aiming to guide others towards freedom from a “sight from the bridge” — a state of total silence where one perceives the present without the biases of the past or future. He emphasizes that the path is not about following a personal guru, as don Juan himself was a sorcerer perpetuating a lineage, not a teacher in the conventional sense. Instead, the true guide is the impersonal spirit or life force, accessible through inner silence. Castaneda explains that Tensegrity is a modernized system of “magical passes” — movements developed by ancient Mexican shamans to directly perceive energy — which were kept secret until now, as don Juan’s lineage concludes with his four disciples, freeing them to share this knowledge for the benefit of all, promoting well-being and breaking free from the constraints of everyday perception and self-importance.

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Journal of Applied Hermeneutics – Queries about the Warriors’ Way: What is the point of doing all those Practices?

A Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, Nagualism, Warrior Path, Way of the Warrior / By / 4 minutes of reading

In this section, Castaneda addresses two common questions. The first concerns when a practitioner will achieve “seeing,” the direct perception of energy. He explains that while practices are important, the crucial element is to “intend” the outcome—the state sorcerers call “stopping the world,” which is achieved by obliterating self-importance. The second question is about fear over strange physical sensations during Tensegrity. Castaneda recounts how don Juan Matus explained such feelings not as external manipulation, but as natural physiological responses or a product of one’s own victim mentality. Don Juan’s advice was to counter fear by being “impeccable”.

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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 / 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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The Journey of The Dreaming Body – The Fire from Within

Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, The Fire from Within / By / 25 minutes of reading

Don Juan brings his explanation of the mastery of awareness to a culmination, emphasizing that Castaneda must now break the barrier of perception unaided by shifting his assemblage point into a dreaming position. He reveals that the initial journey of the dreaming body (also called “the other”) is a form of perceptual dualism, triggered by extreme fright and guided by inner silence. Castaneda recalls a past experience where he perceived Genaro’s dreaming body and was shocked to witness his own double. Don Juan clarifies that these experiences are shifts of the assemblage point, not illusions, and that true travel in the dreaming body occurs when it takes precedence over the physical body. Castaneda also remembers being propelled across vast distances in his dreaming body, awakening in the house of Carol, the nagual woman, highlighting the incredible potential for movement and shared dreaming. Don Juan stresses that the perception of reality is entirely tied to the assemblage point’s position and that warriors must integrate these varied experiences. Despite the profound implications and Castaneda’s emotional turmoil, don Juan maintains that the path to freedom requires unbending intent and that ultimate understanding comes from embracing the mystery of relinquishing awareness at death.

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Breaking the Barrier of Perception – The Fire from Within

Ancient Cycle, Authors, Carlos Castaneda, The Fire from Within / By / 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 / 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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