Carlos Castaneda - You Think You Have Time (Don Juan excerpt from 'Journey to Ixtlan')
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- "Is it so terrible to be a timid man?"
"No. It isn't if you are going to be immortal, but if you are going to die there is no time for timidity, simply because timidity makes you cling to something that exists only in your thoughts. It soothes you while everything is at a lull, but then the awesome, mysterious world will open its mouth for you, as it will open for every one of us, and then you will realize that your sure ways were not sure at all. Being timid prevents us from examining and exploiting our lot as men."
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In the early 1970s I was a university student in Canada. I had studied eastern philosophy for some years and had become involved with psychedelics. I would not discover the Don Juan books for some two or three years. Casteneda's books would eventually explain a number of baffling experiences I had during this period.
Firstly having discovered the Christian mystics; Theresa of Avalon, Meister Elkhart, St John of the Cross etc. through Aldous Huxley's Perennial Philosophy I had developed my own meditation to subdue my ego. One afternoon while walking alone on campus I was pursuing the censorship of my thoughts. Suddenly a disembodied voice loudly and clearly said "If you continue to pursue your practise you will die". I immediately heeded the warning and ended my practise. I intuitively treated this voice as having simply conveyed information. I sensed no personality, God or angel.
When years later I read the Don Juan saga I learned that this is the Voice of Seeing and yes there was no one home.
In another section of the books Don Juan explains that mystics in aggressively assaulting their selves are actually attacking the egg of energy enveloping us and protecting us from death. The mystic unwittingly rips open his or her cocoon of energy and perishes.
Another uncanny incident occurred when home from school for a long weekend. I awoke on Sunday morning with the feeling of a heavy sphere in my head. It gradually descended through my body all day long and disappeared though my feet in the evening. Years later I read Carlos Casteneda's account of his losing the human form. It was exactly as I had experienced it.
After finally discovering the Don Juan stories, so perhaps under their influence, I had other experiences as described by Carlos. I moved my assemblage point in an encounter with a telepathic young woman attacking me emotionally (magically).
The most disturbing was a year and half of revelations, mind altering and often terrifying. I was forced to review many incidents from my life infusing them with new meaning and destroying my belief in my mundane life. I have only recently realized this was the Recapitulation of one's life practised as a discipline amongst warriors, but forcefully imposed upon me, having no teacher I suppose.
As I am not a joiner I never sought out Carlos or his organization. But I cannot deny the power of these works. I am definitely not a nagual. Strange things happen to me but I cannot accomplish anything through my will.
So now to discuss the fraud charges levied against Carlos which appear to be well authenticated. The later books of Castaneda have much to do with Stalking. Stalking is the creation of a false crisis designed to move a student's assemblage point and push them into magical realms. I believe the whole Castaneda phenomena was an exercise in Stalking. The World was Stalked. To what end. Sorry no idea.
I read these books--the first three at least--many times in my twenties. How much guidance they gave me, and how much they have to teach me now--at 55yo. Great passage.
Do you realize all of this is working now, and 3 private class students are helping others for free. And there's a comnunity of several dozen who can do the impossible? Follow the rabbit hole.
@@daniellawton4336 Right on. Thanks.
@@daniellawton4336 I looked, but it isn't for me. Thank you.
Definitely some good advice and views in those books 😊 I read them in order, 1st to last. I loved ethnobotany, meditation, and central/south American history before I started, and really couldn't stop reading his books until I finished all of them.
@@chadkline4268 Eastern meditation systems were made up to steal money. They produce some meager results sorcerers don't even care about, and hype them up into "master" status. Do yourself a favor and ditch Eastern make believe. Get some real magic! Go find the video I just finished on Silent Knowledge to see what happens if you stop closing your eyes. Beats all Prophets, Saints, Mystics, and Masters from all of modern history. And dozens are doing that now. Carlos got accused of making it all up, but in the end it turns out he had the only thing that wasn't made up. And easy to see why if you study the history of it. Without magic, we never grow up.
Wonderful narration.
I have read these books many times and the narrator has done a beautiful job.
Oh yes, Luis Moreno is one of the best! 👏
This is an awesome read! This section says so much about the student-disciple relationship too, in spirituality or otherwise. The teacher KNOWS the wonderful potential that the student doesn't know they are capable of, so although it seems ruthless, they're actually helping the student by discouraging weaknesses.
Thank you for that great food for soul 🙏🏼 have a good day
I, the nagual woman, have enjoyed your readings. I think you have done a great job.
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(3:44) Great Clip on Self-Evolution - the cycles that start with the Great Deconstruction. By 10:30, Don Juan has expressed the suddenness of change in the Quantum Reality. It is not immediate - not that kind of suddenness. But the kind where there is no safety, no bridge, in-between. And things get ruined, and pulled away, as you pass from idyll wish to fantastic or disappointing reality.
Yes, words have power! They transcend that which we cannot….time
Oh this is quite great and timely as I need a good read. Well read. Awesome. I will also say we DO LIVE among spirits. They wish to see us prosper in experiences.
I think of Death daily and have done so since the age of 12 or so. I hadn't thought about it being a key component to greatness. The chiches are dumb but this has dimension to it.
Sometimes I feel like my only true friend is death.
@@Sun-ng7gjI fully expected you to say that your only friend is chiches
@@TheXabl0 I love surprises!
The meaning of CHICHES is chick-pea. Is this correct?
Awesome reading. Thanks mate. Have gone to sleep listening many many times.
Our greatest illusion is our own reality.
What a great writer.
Beautifully read. Excellent content.
Thanks a lot! A fantastic choice of messages!
Thank you for uploading!
Thank you!!
Every one of us is changing already; WE=mc2 don't need to change; it all happens to All of US👣 naturally, without effort or pushing against the grain🌾of belief🍁. Thru practice the artist/musician is patient knowing the outcome🗣️🎺🎸🎶!
Nice ! Thanks!
been a long time since i read this book. brings back memories. there so much truth in this writing. makes me think of my brother.. past situations, i guess also. . we have to be lucky .. because i know in places where some people are not timid - they make huge mistakes.. that is where it is so important to act selflessly or idk.. it raises many questions.. but really interesting to hear it in audiobook form. ty 🙏
Yea, except it's all working. It's sad you didn't notice that. Follow the rabbit hole.
Excellent
Someone ignorantly commented that don Juan only sounded wise, and then went into a rant about money and business. You should all know, don Juan was very wealthy. it was a 408 year old lineage of sorcerers, each passing down what they had accumulated. Don Juan and group owned 4 homes in Mexico, one of which we've tracked down in north west Mexico, but there was one near Mexico city also. He owned enough stock to go to share holder meetings as an important person, and their collection of art was fabulous. I know a witch who was part of helping restore and sell the art collection in Hollywood when don Juan left. Where some of their vast fortune was given to the witch Soledad, to influence movies in Hollywood. Star Wars was one of those results, and the magic of the Jedi is OUR magic. Anything you see in there, you can actually do with some hard work to learn how. Close to 40 have learned to do various stages of it, all of which is more than any other "magic" system out there. So maybe, keep your skepticism to yourself, until you look into it more? You'll get egg on your face if I see your comment.
Awesome new info, thnks. Very informative👌💚💛✨
@NolanVoid-dr1ch 😂😅😂😅😂😅...dream ur dream...sounds like BS to me..
I read these books in HS back in the late 90's. I've never researched them though. Was Don Juan a real person or a literary device?
Very nice to listen to this again.
It was fiction based on a real person, Huichole shaman but there was no breathing Don Juan. I read all his books from the time I was 16. Carlos tried to apply these 'teachings' but I dont think he suceeded with playing shaman from things I have read about him since his death.
@@rampriyadass8058 Thank you, sir.
@@rampriyadass8058 “los voladores” got him? (Referring to Castaneda)
Lie on the ground under a tree but instead of looking at the leaves look at the spaces between them. 😊
Funny, I did the same years ago after eating some nutmeg and resting in the woods after quietly kayaking on a narrow lake. It's important to catch a break from the needs of routine.
Wonderful narration..!! Thank you very much..!!! Cure The Ignorance..
This was a great book.
Thank you RUclips Algorithm !
"Your problem is that you think you have time" is an old Zen saying from the classic 12th century zen fable collections. Castaneda ripped off a lot of the zen teachings in his stories.
Ripped? Truth is written across cultures, esoteric knowledge is universal, there’s no rippage here.
You think humanity's struggle with death and time started with the Buddhist in the 12th century?
Sure did, but it introduced me to those concepts in high school. Had a profound impact on me.
It's always good to hear Castaneda. Anymore on the way from him?
a hunter must not only know his habits of his pray, but there is something guiding all living. ADIDAS COOP and evertynone wil win.
4 owl.s,
How about actually learning it all, for free? With pictures and cartoons. Follow the rabbit hole.
he dead :(
@@paradoxlust Odd that I've met him 3 times since! Not in dreams. Fully awake. Sorcery is odd like that. The rumor at the end was that Carlos found an alternative to the 3rd attention, which gives immortality. The 3rd attention is only good until the earth burns up with the sun expands. A couple of years after that, Star Wars added it to their plot, with Kwaigon reaching immortality. We've always theorized that the old witch Soledad is responsible for Star Wars, and the writers even admitted it was based in part on the books of Carlos. So far, they haven't deviated from our brand of magic.
To live each day as if it were our last day on earth is what it means to be fully alive. Unfortunately this is a very difficult objective to attain, especially in the context of contemporary society which has sterilized the world of all mystery and awe. I believe the only way to be fully alive and live each day as if it were our last is through pursuing the highest and most distant ideals, ideals which urge us forward on an ascending plane.
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The private class students of Carlos have everything working now. Even breaking the laws of physics from time to time. And are happy to help you for free. There's only 3 left, but that's more than enough. Follow the rabbit hole if you want to actually become as powerful as they were in the lineages. But without a lineage or a Nagual! Good riddance to those. The old seers never needed that.
@@David-Once Our success rate helping others is only 1 in 100 willing to put in any actual work. They rest prefer to pretend their sorcery. Of 5 of those who will put in the work needed to find their energy body, visibly, only one will reach Silent Knowledge. The rest go back to their normal lives, because it's "too cold" in the world of sorcery. So you have to make an effort and find the rabbit hole yourself. Carlos did the same in private classes, giving people tasks to fulfill before they could learn. It's a long tradition in sorcery, and part of how the path actually works. Think of it like making that mirror from the books. That whole exercise is completely pointless, since you can see blobs of purple that will turn into an Ally, all night long on the walls of your room. But to do it out in a stream in full sunlight is a level harder. And what insured it would work, was the effort Carlos put in, to build his own mirror from scratch. That's how "intent" works. You have to "intend" to be on the path, with actual effort. Paying some faker for magic lessons, won't cut it.
Please tell us more❤
@@AE0N777 After Carlos died, everything went to hell. His reputation was thoroughly destroyed by lies of people who wanted to cash in on him, such as Robert Marshall, who always had it in for Carlos. But endless others, gleefully trashing him until no one took him seriously anymore, except cooks and the naive. But Carlos had set things up to have a rest period, as "The Rule" requires. From Eagle's Gift. He made it blow up, as specified, released his Allies to one private class I attended, and then for the next 15 years they plagued me. Finally around 20 years later, his Allies blackmailed me to do something about it, and you can now find 3 private class students of Carlos, who studied with him almost daily for years, helping others make all this work. But you actually have to work hard to succeed. The instructions are clear, and no one wants your money, and you can see what success means in terms of INTENSE magic that even b reaks the laws of physics. But unfortunately, we'll still only get 1 in 100 to actually try the real thing, and only 1 in 500 will get far enough to break the laws of physics on demand, the way don Juan could. At any rate, there are now around 30 actual sorcerers, including one or two who are quite powerful. The others have a chance now, if they want to work daily.
What are you talking about and where can I join in please & thank you ❤
@@VladaldTrumptin When Carlos first tried to teach for free in public parks, likely near Santa Monica, he couldn't. He got hecklers. So he had to set up the workshops with armed guards and paid entry. It wasn't his desire, but our community is filled with bad men pretending to have knowledge. We get the same now, trying to restore his reputation. An average of 3 per week have to be tossed out. For that reason, you'll have to figure out where to go on your own. Kind of like an entrance fee to a workshop, to prove you aren't just a heckler.
Things that constantly flow are of GOD!
For they are forever
Harmony of sound= Vibrational Force essence of + Time -Electricity-water-magnetism
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"Sound light water magnetism"
Time.
GOD
The universe is a vibrational field that resonates all of these aspects.
The symphony we know as existence!
Dwelling on death by focusing on how short time is, is a waste of time. Death doesn't exist while you're alive. Death and life are two different universes. Death simply doesnt matter while you're alive and death, with it's subsequent short time model, is irrelevant. Awareness of having a short time comes from creation, work. Not death. What do you want to build? Can you get it accomplished? That is the only read ok nsble awareness of having a short time.
However, if you're a hunter, live by the sword, die by the sword. A hunters only sense of time is his stomach, and by necessity, death does wait at the accomplishment of every mission, for somebody
There’s a sucker born every minute.
Oh blues eyes who is the fairest of them all
Oh blue eyes who am I
To be or not to be is the answer so what is the question
A midsummer where words are created
The don the won oh blue eyes fly me to the moon
Actors in our Fictional Media Based Reality.
There are many.
Actors who step out of the cave to catch a breath of the four winds.
You have no time!
Of course you have time! Most of our time is wasted. 99% of humans waste their's on earth and then they died, not really knowing what the real purpose of life was. To them raising a family and having a job and other inanities constituted their whole life. When they are about to die and feel their ENERGY BODY leaving them its when they know that another unknown experience is about to happen. 🎁
Boomer platitudes: “Live like it’s your last day!”
Boomer behavior: *takes out tons of debt*
No ..
She is beautiful...entrancing ;) great words
The woman in the thumbnail is breathtaking.
No. It’s ur imagination
Why does the speaker pronounce Don Juan’s name as Don Kwan?
He’s Korean
That's how Juan is pronounced in proper Spanish. It's authentic and I appreciate it.
Don one lol
@siliconavalleys hell no, that's not how u pronounce it
This was reality fiction then and is sheer fiction and artifice now.
Yes. Only CNN can give us truth.
LOL@@sloaiza81
i was disapointed when my friend told me he invented don juan, not a real person, misleading
He made him real in your mind, what more do you want?
95% of what you read in your life is made up, fake and invented for a purpose. Yet it affects your mind.
If Don Juan was really Casteneda, than that's impressive
no that would be fantasy and make it literature. Tolkien was not a wizard.
Okay... But what if I argued that it's possible Tolkien at least communed with Spirit wizards. These guys are simply Too Good at writing aren't they?@@paradoxlust
But I actually come in on it being fact that there was a Nagual "Don Juan MAtus"@@paradoxlust
Crap this guy got some of his followers killed
Huh? Can you share please?
Maybe. Some sacrifice themselves because of a passage in a book,a song,because they believe in any number of things.
I wonder who thought civilization was a good idea,and how many deaths has it's creation caused,..and how many more are to come?
Our species prefers the artificial over the natural - we innovate therefore we are superior.
We protect and elevate the weak - that which nature detroys.
In this artificial environment all roads lead to casualties.
Take your pick.
A solitude hunter boiles his coffee in the blood, kahula?, cause water is not aveilable.
The monologue of enloved solitude hunter with the god of animals, willing to change at the warm of fire, cause-how boiling anything during night?
Cassanova
Yeah, I read all these books too, and you know what I think? Now that I've read more widely and deeply into various mystical traditions and practices, it seems pretty clear that Don Juan is a rhetorical device that Castaneda uses to disclose a philosophical system which is clearly not of Toltec origins. In fact, its all Kabbalistic mysticism combined with an ecclectic hodge-podge of monastic ascetical practice and the philosophical speculations of Spinoza, Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche. In other words, Castaneda is an original storyteller, but his story isn't original or even factual. But that's okay because its 'coyote wisdom' or some such bullshit to New Age seekers. The dude was probably funded by the CIA. You think you have time, but I think you have Chaim.
Chaim?
👂 🌎 🌏 🌐 🌍
Too bad he went crazy and started a cult.
where needing to be UG video gora sahib? you coming to the India people taking photo with you,they asking the you salary, you the talking UG sahib story, people the very happy.
And you think the 41 year old pollock is the enemy. 😆
but I thought Carlos turned to be merely a talented novelist who made up the whole thing and eventually just couldn't keep it going? which explained a reader's growing incomprehension and confusion as the series reached the end and it got more and more sort of 'garbled'. So what's going on now? They've made movies and everyone's talking about them? Or there's been a return of Carlos and it turns out he is really purporting to be some kind of mystic guru with 'powers'? Or what?
I felt kinda cheated at the end, back then. Since then I have learned about NDE and see it as the simple 'answer to everything' and the 'mystical truth' of everything and it seems clear to me now that any 'in depth', 'behind the curtain' metaphysical work that doesn't put the 'answer' as clearly as the NDE things do is fraudulent.
Which doesn't mean I don't like a good yarn.
Just I like to distinguish good yarns from fact. :)
neo platonists and sages of all times have known that esoterical truths are, esoterical. And can better be learned through the internal process that yarns and myths and aenigmata convey than by the pretense of factual statements, that end up deluding and obscuring the real depth of the truth
Casteneda declined to have movies made, despite the fortune he could have made. That leads me to conclude that he didn't write for money or made up the whole story. There's a quote somewhere that he didn't want Don Juan to be reduced to an Anthony Quinn role.
@@UnknownPascal-sc2nk Is he not making anything from this stuff now, then? I know nothing because I never heard much but what I did hear I think was about him being a student somewhere and he had to write something - so he started writing this... and it got away from him.
Love to know more. Facts Truth. If it can be found anywhere.
I was big on mull and mushrooms back then and was more than willing to believe all that kind of stuff... disappointment when it all (to me at least) turned into incomprehensible stuff at the end there... And then stopped. Love to be able to put a good end to it now.
@@LadtheMad I don't believe all that. I don't believe anything that's hard to find. Usually a con or a misunderstanding or just plain wishful thinking or stupidity. All the metaphysical answers I reasonably want I think I've got in the NDE reports. Course I'd love to have super mystic abilities to like - what? transport myself anywhere, manufacture anything anytime? all that kind of stuff. But that's not serious. In the serious real world there's just the simple 'mystical' truths those NDE people come back with is enough.
He died 25 years ago.@@abrogard142
cliffhanger mthrfkr
I thought woman gonna talk. Woman not talking - I don't watch
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Both DJ and his disciples are weaklings....the setting is flawed
Don Juan sounds like a stoned construction worker. He keeps talking in riddles and we are supposed to be in awe? Imagine if you told Don Juan: No Don Juan, YOU don’t understand. If the velocity of money is stable and you can asume it constant and the GDP as well, what does that tell you about the Money Supply? Ehhh? Speak up Don Juan, don’t be afraid l the Money Supply. You have to change. I can’t hear you now! Are you just going to looked puzzled like you didn’t know who Alan Greenspan was? (You can also use a cooking recipe for this exercise nd any number of other things, just speak with authority about whatever none-sense you say).
Lol....totally
This happens everytime a character, fictional or otherwise, portrays itself as 'wise'. So, the next time you feel you have some unseen wisdom to impart on your fellow humans........remember the idiocy of what you just described. I'd go so far as to say - wisdom that one can't articulate is not wisdom at all. It's just experience.
@@jeanlundi2141 Yea, but if you follow his advice you get to physically travel between worlds, with companions. Levitate small objects, open tunnels between people, play with real spirits who can move objects and are fully visible. Essentially, he really was "wise". You're thinking of everything else, designed to steal money. This is 8000 year old shamanism, from before money, so before there was a reason to make up stuff. Follow the rabbit hole, there are 30 of 40 openly doing the impossible now. Or don't. Lazy won't cut it with real magic.
Jaded man. You ran across the real thing, actual magic. But you're stuck in your hellish obsession with earning a living, in a single world. When you have access to 600 you can switch to, and 100,000 to play in with other people and beings. When the money bores you, you'll begin to fade away and die and wish you'd done something more interesting with your life.
@@daniellawton4336 Sounds good to me how do you access these places?
Fiction.
Yes, like 95% of what you will read in life. Yet it will affect you and everybody around you.
Fiction is a medium for expression, as is music, art, poetry.
Everything is if look at