Carlos Castaneda

The Manifestations of the Spirit – The Impeccability of Nagual Elias

Ancient Cycle, Carlos Castaneda, Power of Silence / By / 19 minutes of reading

This chapter, “The Manifestations of the Spirit,” explains the “first sorcery story” as the spirit’s direct interaction with a prospective nagual, presenting specific “omens” that serve as an irresistible lure. Don Juan recounts how his benefactor, the nagual Julian, was led to him through such precise signs, enabling him to save don Juan’s life. The narrative emphasizes that sorcerers, particularly naguals, possess a unique ability to “read omens” and understand their exact meaning through their “connecting link with intent,” a faculty akin to highly refined intuition. This is further illustrated by the story of the nagual Elías’s encounter with the actor Julian, whose “black shadow of death” indicated his destiny. Despite initial perplexity, Elías intervened, striking Julian’s and later Talia’s “assemblage points” to induce “heightened awareness,” ultimately leading them to join the “bird of freedom,” a metaphor for the sorcerers’ demanding path.

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Foreword and Introduction

Ancient Cycle, Carlos Castaneda, Power of Silence / By / 14 minutes of reading

In the Foreword and Introduction, Carlos Castaneda clarifies that his books document don Juan Matus’s unique teaching method for understanding the “sorcerers’ world,” a rigorous form of “oral instruction and manipulation of awareness” that is as complex as formal academic training. Don Juan, unable to find a perfect term, settled on “sorcery” to describe this knowledge, emphasizing that it’s not about learning new concepts but about “saving energy.” This conserved energy allows sorcerers to perceive a “modality of the time” beyond ordinary perception, tapping into “energy fields” inaccessible to average individuals whose energy is fully deployed in their everyday world. This “state of awareness,” or “silent knowledge,” is cultivated by a teacher (the “nagual”) who convinces the apprentice of their inherent power, facilitating a “direct knowing” without words, and is broadly categorized into the “mastery of awareness,” the “art of stalking,” and the “mastery of intent.”

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The way of the warrior is the harmony between actions and decisions, and then the harmony between the tonal and the nagual

Ancient Cycle, Carlos Castaneda, Nagualism, Stalking, Tales of Power, Tonal island cleansing, Warrior Path / By / 3 minutes of reading

– Write, write,” insisted Don Juan in a friendly tone. – Let’s say your notebook is the only sorcery you have. Tearing it up is one more way of exposing yourself to your fate. It will be one more of

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