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A Witness to the Acts of Power – The Dreamer and the Dreamed

Authors, Book excerpts, Carlos Castaneda, Tales of Power, Uncategorized / By / 46 minutes of reading

In this chapter, Don Juan and Don Genaro continued to challenge my rational understanding of reality. Don Juan clarified the concept of the ‘double,’ explaining that Don Genaro had appeared as his double the previous night, an entity born of dreaming that defies conventional physical laws. He emphasized that my struggles with belief stemmed from my reason attempting to confine experiences within its ‘description of the world.’ The core lesson, however, centered on ‘the dreamer and the dreamed,’ a profound notion that ultimately, we ourselves are dreams, dreamed by our own doubles, a mystery of luminous beings that can only be witnessed, not logically explained.

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A Witness to the Acts of Power – The Secret of The Luminous Beings

Authors, Book excerpts, Carlos Castaneda, Tales of Power, Uncategorized / By / 37 minutes of reading

In this chapter, Don Juan and Don Genaro initiated a series of challenging tests designed to push me beyond my conventional understanding, culminating in a demonstration of “the secret of the luminous beings.” Through exercises in focusing my will and stopping internal dialogue, I experienced profound perceptual shifts, such as witnessing “the ally” as a moth and “seeing” people as energetic forms. Don Juan explained that all beings are luminous and that our perception is governed by an “assemblage point” that can be moved through discipline and personal power. The chapter concluded with Don Genaro’s astonishing reappearance, which further blurred the lines between ordinary reality and the sorcerers’ world, emphasizing that my reason alone was insufficient to grasp these events and that true understanding lay in direct perception and the cultivation of my will.

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The Tonal and the Nagual – Having to Believe

Authors, Book excerpts, Carlos Castaneda, Tales of Power, Uncategorized / By / 23 minutes of reading

In this chapter, I met Don Juan in Mexico City, where he appeared in a suit, a deliberate incongruity designed to challenge my perception. He emphasized the warrior’s need for “impeccability” and “humbleness” over self-confidence, asserting that true understanding comes from accumulating personal power rather than seeking convenient explanations. Through the vivid retelling of my dream-control experiences and a symbolic story about two cats, Don Juan introduced the crucial distinction between merely “believing” and “having to believe”—the latter being a warrior’s conscious choice to accept unfathomable realities, particularly the omnipresent nature of death, as a source of power and mystery, exemplified by a dying man we observed in the park.

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AI and the potentialization of the collective assemblage point movement

Authors, J Christopher, Nagualism, New Cycle, Stalking / By / 2 minutes of reading

Until recently, human beings used to receive, in their daily lives, media that reinforced a linear worldview. Where what was shown in images and videos were always scenes that reaffirmed a predictable description of reality. Even though there was slightly

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