Thank you Don Juan de Matus. Thank you Carlos Castañeda. Thank you Toltec Warrior. I testify here the Toltec Way is real and the path of Total Freedom. There's no limits to the Power and it's an ordinary life shattering reality. One can't emerge of the first punch of the Nagual unchanged, and it's a life-long arduous, stiff and wonderfull Art/Mastery. The Art of Dreaming. The Mastery of Intent. The Mastery of Stalking. May the road rise with you.
@@brig8013 check out secretenergy.com and the youtube channel innsrstanding, also podcasts the ancient future parts 1,2, and 3 and advanced intelligence on astralquest.podomatic.com are crucial
I've read 6 books by Carlos castaneda and still go back to them ,i can assure you that they have opened new doors of perception for me ,thank you mr castaneda ,tnank you Don Juan and Don Genaro,, much beauty in there
You should defenetly read the last book too, it reveals a lot & makes extra sense of the prior ones...the english title was "the active side of infinity", or "the effects/works of, like it's called in my language infinity" Would be very interesting to read his books in different languages to compare the words used in those different prints...like me, I should read them besides german also in english & spanish...unfortunately my spanish skills aren't good enough to even try
@@theiceman74 You obviously know something about it. But you're both missing certain tenets that are crucial to understanding Nagualism. Don Juan was a wizard and a great leader among his ilk. But to the average person, who lives in a different world, he appears to be a simple dirt poor Native American.
I read an excerpt of his book back in 1976, in English class, while attending college. I was enthralled and at the same time mystified. I then went out, bought and read his first three books at least twice. afterwards I went on my own spiritual journey in which I learned much but was, as well, mislead. At the age of 50 I reread his first three books again and then read all of his 9 books. I must be honest and state here that the first four where, by far, my favorite. No matter what the reality is regarding Don Juan and his relationship to Castaneda, for me, his books have had a most positive and profound influence. These, have been for me, works of a literary genius that has challenged my limited and, if you will, squared thinking. May you far well, Castaneda!
Castenad's work is relative to the 'Skinwalker' - wolves, Crows, Lions...CRYPTIDS ! Same geography and high strangeness experienced....it's all been written within his books ! Bravo !
This is actually a picture of the REAL Carlos Castaneda -- I saw him many times at the workshops. This is how he sounds too. He was so magical that we workshop attendees would listen to him with rapt interest and never wanted him to stop talking.
Thank you for posting this wonderful interview! Full disclosure: Reading CC's first four books in the early-to-mid 1970s altered the course of my life, literally. I went looking for someone like Juan Matus in Mexico in 1978 and spent two years on the road. I was disheartened by Richard de Mille's exposé, but could not dispute that his work uncovered many inconsistancies in Casteneda's narrative. Even if Carlos only dreamnt it, or even if he made it up, the stories (in the first four volumes, at least) are fabulous! In this 1969 interview, a chink in Casteneda's armor appears early on. The third question posed by the interviewer, Theodore Roszak, occurs at 7:05 in the tape - "Does he (don Juan) have any formal livelihood? How does he earn his way in the world?" Roszak asks. "Um... (three seconds pass as Carlos attempts to form a reply) I, I'd, I wouldn't be, uh, uh, able to, uh, to, uh, to discuss that. Rather, I don't think I could, at the moment." Casteneda purports to have known don Juan for nine years at the time this interview was conducted, yet he has no straightforward answer to this simple question. Was he never asked that before? Really? Fortunately for CC, Roszak resisted the temptation to press him further on the matter. Apart from that blip, it's a fascinating interview.
Perhaps in revealing that it would give too big a clue as to DJ whereabouts at the time. Or perhaps Castaneda felt he needed DJ's permission to answer that personal question. Alternately, the Toltec path stresses letting go of personal identity.
Don Juan tells Carlos in Tales of Power that he is a stock holder when explaining how he afforded his new bespoke suit. I've known many old men for years without knowing how they made their bones. Just because he fumbles the question doesn't show that he's lying. Pablito also refers to how don Juan had worked for him in carpentry for a few months.
Don Juan's way of making a living is gossipy and non-essential information to the content of his teachings, assuming that his teachings are more important rather than the idle gossip
Well if someone asked you to disclose how a great friend of yours makes a living, I think you may be hesitant to be so indiscreet too....none of your business ! In one of the books, I think in Tales Of Power, ''the day of the Tonal'' , Don Juan meets him in a town all dressed in a suit ! This in itself is quite a shock to CC. And Don Juan says he is attending to some business in the town, hence the attire. So...private business...
I'm looking a lot of comments saying that his books are fictional, but I wonder if they' at least have tried shrooms or ayahuasca. We have ayahuasca ceremonies in Costa Rica for those who would like to understand don Juan and Castaneda in a proper way. His books are real in other realities.
Andy Of course there was a time when Castenada was vilified by academics who's sole purpose in life was to maintain the status quo. They had the power to do this because one had to be specifically looking for information on psychedelics, so therefor only a few of us would ever stand to challenge the stability of their ivory towers. Now however with the advent of the WWW more of the world's population are becoming aware of the fact that reality as is understood by our rational is only one possible path of our existence. By being drawn into the works of say Graham Hancock for example the popular is becoming more and more aware of the fact that our esteemed academics are able to prove or disprove
Hard for us to accept that humans are only one of many intelligent species, each with their own agenda. Especially if they can perceive us more clearly than we can perceive them. How do we negotiate our space, our safety?
Oh my god!! is this really castaneda?? I can't belive it, this guy meas so much to me! fills good to imagine him speaking, I've read so many books already... thanks for the video
I like his voice. He was honest about feeling he wasn't up to it and had to quit which would make sense being early on in his apprenticeship. I don't detect any huge ego which many mistake as being the real deal. I'll never know for sure but he sounds very genuine to me.
Regardless of where the information comes from it resonates as truth with me. People just need to use there own inner intuition to divine what is real and what is fake. Sadly, some humans seemed to lose this ability 😢
He weaved color into stone and made my life far more interesting than if I hadn't read and became involved with his methods. He awakens the reader to the fact that we are alive and involved in a marvelous adventure on this flying sphere, and that anything is possible. Thankfully..Jeremy
There seems to be something very special and awesome feeling like I am and belong to a group of people who love Carlos Castanedas books and his journey with Don Juan, also all of the other “ characters “ in the books. Especially now in these times that we find ourselves living in. Thank you all!
excellent, back in my 20,s i real all of castenedas books several times over, i was obsessed actually lol, I've always wondered what he looked like and sounded like ? now i know, thanks for sharing ;)
I came 2 the US to study w. Castaneda. My opinion is that the Man was brilliant, a master entertainer & a powerful story teller. As an apprectice of Tensegrity there was a degree of unpleasant environment amongst practitioners,an air of ruthless competition & so forth< but that was minor. An uninformed, incorrect comment below says that all the close apprentices commited suiside. Castaneda may of not been a man of Light &Love, but his teachings were priceless. I had amazing experiences of growth
Would you say that the courses , and indeed the Invention, of Tensegrity, were Carlos' way of continuing the teachings ? Were the movements used shown to Carlos , along with a lot of other stuff he left out of the books (as he explains in the recommencing of publishing after the 4th book/ gap of years) and their importance only realised later. Though from what Carlos says in this interview, he kept visiting Don Juan after he had ''quit'' the apprenticeship, so did this time overlap with the Tensegrity courses development? I find this very intriguing , and that all the women disbanded on Carlos' death. Because in the books, Don Juan tells him that he will be the Nagual from then on (on Don Juans ''disappearance'') . So the story and actuality don't seem to agree here ....? The fact that most of the women disappeared without trace is incredible too....did they ''Leave'' ?!
much could be learned as individuals from Carlos's experiences with the Nagual teachings! I certainly did. Thx for preserving his work. Rgards, de lamb
@@RAY_FILET You didn't understand anything - thats sad...it's NOT about drugs!! You'd need a ton of "drugs" to open the prison you've locked up yourself...As Christ allready said "He who have ears to hear (will) hear - he who has eyes to see - (gonna) see"
I read the first three or four books in the late 1980's as a typical stoner teenager. I just re-read "Journey to Ixtlan" and was surprised to discover the correlations with Buddhism. Don Juan shattered Carlos' ego, or at least did his best to try. Erasing personal history, "seeing, dreaming, and stalking", through which one learns to become aware of the "world" beyond what the physical senses and the ego allow us to experience, and the idea of "stopping the world", are taught in Tibetan Buddhism.
Larry Holcomb what's funny is I read a book by OSHO titled Buddha, Zen, Tao, Tantra and then I was introduced to Carlos's books. My mind was blown at the correlation between the two, the truth is that love is the glue that ties all our spiritual abilities together and culture doesn't change the fact that we have great power which is revealed to us all through light, the only way to use these powers fully is to break from what this world considers proper and normal behavior and rather to focus on OURselves and learn to let go of our SELF to find the greater connection.
Before i sound like im trying to convince anyone, i wanted to say that im a very objective, analytical girl. Now, 5 years ago i started to experience a lot of not ordinary dreams. By not ordinary i mean dreams where my consciousness was there. I was aware of everything and i discussed with people that i know some powerful things like: we have to operate from the heart more. We have a journey etc. And cordons of lights where everywhere going out from our bodies. For a long time i started to change and i coudnt go out and i used to cry all the time. I was wearing only white clothes. I changed radically and i hated that because it started impending my career and outside world. Everything that was happening i did not do anything to trigger that. At least not consciously. After those years all those dreams started to manifest. Whatever i do smth pulls me back to those and i was in a deep depresion because i am afraid it was just an imaginary world and smth is wrong with me. A professor suggested me The Art of Dreaming. I skipped it for a long time. I decided to read it few days ago. I started to cry. I have done many of those things but not wanting to. I dont know why they happened. But now that im starting to accept them more i feel i have a part in allowing this. And i understand when he says they seem real. They are real. They are frightening real. I really hope we can evolve. If anyone is in this path please let's keep in touch and never surrender. By my experience is very hard to accept. But i now believe it didnt show to me without a reason.
Very informative interview Thanks for getting it on youtube I have been reading all of Carlos' books I like the fact that we can alter our consciousness with out the plants Once we lessen our self importance Namaste'
Thank you for this upload this is ny Favorite book and too hear Carlos speak about his thoughts and backstory on it is what i always wanted to know. Great video!
I'm loving this content. Would really enjoy studying because I know that this realm is not what we're taught and it can be altered even without outside stimulation.
If his spirit is distorted, he should simply fix it - purge it, make it perfect, because there is no other task in your entire lives, which is more worthwhile. To seek the perfection of the warrior’s spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, or manhood. Carlos Castaneda ( page 97 Present ) During life you lost connection with your spirit different reasons are the cause. The most important thing is to find that connection again. There is only one way learn the Truth of Life. Search for TruthContest and read the top entry of the Present
Nice, I'm reading the book now, finished the first third of it, so have you met the inorganic beings? and how are you dealing with them?? oh and the dreaming emissary, does it help you??
You cannot perceive that which you you are not the vibration of. No wonder Carlos generated such fear in those who could read the book and not perceive what Carlos experienced.
An important change in the Toltec tradition is the shift from fear based to love based teachings. The early writers, especially Castaneda, described the need for personal power to use in defense against attack from all manner of forces, seen and unseen. Castaneda often describes himself shaking in terror, waiting for some force or entity to attack him.
Knowledge implies that you know. Let me ask you something? What do you know? Personally I know, that I know absolutely nothing except that one day my body will be worn out and I will leave this reality. So you see, when you let go of the idea that there is a controller, an I, an ego - you let go of knowing and begin to feel. When you begin to feel what you call knowledge, instead of thinking it, that is where the magic starts happening. Knowing also implies thinking, which is a linear construct, "did you think this through" - meaning you begin a thought from one end and you think it through coming to a conclusion in the end. But my dearest friend, here is where the cookie crumbles: You, life itself is not linear, you are cyclical and the circle has no ends, it is infinite. Force nothing and go with the flow of the harsh river that is life - if you fight against the current instead of swimming with it, you will never cross the river. Bruce Lee said it very well: "You must be shapeless, formless, like water." There is no knowledge, only memory. We are all one and the same, life experiencing itself from more than 7.6 billion views at once, and that is just counting human life. The very reason that you do not have e.g. 5 human bodies at the same time, is that the human mind would not be able to cope with that - imagine having 5 minds all chattering to you at the same time, it would just be noise then. This is the very reason of the illusion of I. To let yourself experience life from one side at a time, while at the same time experiencing it from all sides but separated and yet not separated. We as a whole are an infinitely faceted diamond, with each facet being someones face which in reality is another reflection of you, life. What happens for the most part when you smile at someone? LOVE J
As I perceive it, in taking hallucination causing substances, it makes a huge difference if one is aware of different levels of awareness and existence, or not. Not having a reference point is horrific and destructive, for someone under that influence. See what I mean? We can get lost in a new unknown world, or know to find our way, by the presence of an inner point of stillness or presence. That's why a true shaman with integrity is valuable, maybe even necessary, in order to assist in an interpretation of such an unusual experience, for the one who is subject to it. Just like a witness can be comforting in someone's catharsis.
What if their predicament is that they cannot find someone who sees, which is the situation that most find themselves in the west.. You are right though - in all occasions where someone is chosen by the spirit rather than ancestral bonds or lineage there should be someone that can act as a witness and consciously 'see' the events and guide where necessary
Splash Dundee! Sorry to inform you that your God is an energy sacking vampire draining the human race of vital energy through mindless rituals through a carrot and stick belief system. Religion has done wonders for our world. Just turn on the news
How is it ironic that I choose to be open minded about the mysterious universe we inhabit, and you choose to follow one book that, albeit describes very similar wonders as Castanedas books do. I would call that ignorance on your part
Matt LFC "Religion has done wonders for our world. Just turn on the news" Actually look at history. Atheist communist governments (Russia and China) have committed more murders in a short time than anyone else. If you look at the people who obey Jesus's teaching like the Amish and many other peaceful Communities like the hundreds of thousands of peaceful Christians who have been murdered in the middle east recently by ISIS. you see those wonders being crucified like He was.
2 things have been in my mind about Carlos lately: 1.- its a terribly ironic situation that Peruvian-born Carlos left his native country which has a millenary tradition of witches and sorcerers and ended up in California to be trapped inside another millenary tradition of witches and sorcerers from Mexico. 2.- Without doubt Carlos reached unsurpassed heights in his nagual training and development but he had to carry to the end many of his shortcomings pinpointed by Don Juan continously : )
Any person that has experienced these substances understands, those that have not and remain sceptical, on what do you base your argument, inexperience? Ignorance is for many a mighty weapon used to oppose the things that are beyond their control. I found his books very interesting, whether they are true or not doesn´t disturb me but I know that they´re definately based on fact.
Much of what Castaneda writes and states is clearly true from a Yaqui perspective, while some of it differs from what my mom taught me, about how to handle and prepare yerbas, especially mandrake root, energy centers, etc. But, these are just some items from one culture attempting to communicate with another. Translation is so iffy, but all should know there are different realities and they vary from person to person and incident to incident--you can't bottle up life.
For those that may need clarification Don Juan gave Carlos drugs to loosen his assemblage point. This is only done for thosethat have a very ridge belief system. All of the other students of Don Juan's did not need drugs to break free from that point. (Carol Tiggs, Tasha etc...) The point of perception begins at that point and the worlds of unknown perceptions to us are many like layers of an onion. To completely understand these new perceptions available to us takes tons of energy. Talking about this is not going to break free to achieve these new perceptions. You must repeat this practice daily until the chains that bind your normal everyday perception break down and your normal world becomes a new world every bit as real as your daily Monday and Tuesday. The magic is our daily world (tonal) is a tiny fraction of what can be perceived by all humans. Just because you don't see that truth doesn't mean it's not real. Most people how have a deeply rooted belief system are afraid that there is more than what meets the eye. They would rather ridicule it and say its a fraud as that makes them feel safe.
More and more I see that I don't need Power Plants to achive Power of Perception. But what would happen if a talented apprentice of sorcery chooses to do it, even if that is not neccesary because he has a very flexible belief system?
Enrique I believe it is stated in the books that the other apprentices of Don Juan, the second ring of power, were supposed to take power plants late in their practice, and that it would give them a boost.
I have something better than the fraud. I have many beautiful synchronicities and premonitions and other experiences that have broken me from a local awareness only consciousness but charity is more important. However my experiences have happened when I began to hope in and confessed the power of that hope that the expressed image only begotten son of the eternal uncreated father cause of all gave me. To try to get into that world another way is dangerous and temporal. The gospel has its own recapitulation far beyond anything the alleged Don Juan taught. Believing Castaneda (or having a perversion of Christianity or anything else) makes you feel you have something when you don't. Carlos revealed some interesting occult knowledge but the stories he couched it in are something he himself could not appropriate. If I was going to use death as my advisor I wouldn't waste my time eating out and going to movies... He was nothing like his alleged teacher. He seemed like a nice guy indulgent academic and storyteller with some knowledge.
@@dougr6269 It seems like you have some fears of the occult, and the 'Seperate Reality' of Don Juan. Don't fear that which you don't understand, because you will just be limiting your experience in this big, beautiful universe that involves all facets of light and dark, good and bad, real and unreal. The Bible, I believe, is saying the same thing, in its own way. (To open up to diversity, and polarity, in order to experience the true joy of our existence).
You'll damange yourself with power plants. If you want to move your assemblage point, look for colors in absolute darkness, while forcing silence. Eventually your second attention will come out. Just a little at first. But that's all you need to move the assemblage point. It'll move all the way to heightened awareness if you just keep watching something from the second attention, in silence.Power plants are pathetic compared to what you can do with silence.
At that the time the interview was made, Castaneda had not yet "graduated" as a Nagual. His tutelage continued for many years and the question is: are there later interviews?
Interviews: Corvalan, Graciela, Magical Blend #14, “A conversation with the elusive Carlos Castaneda”. Corvalan, Graciela, Magical Blend #15, “Carlos Castaneda, part II”. Burton, Sandra, Time Magazine, “Magic and Reality”. 1973. Corvalan, Graciela, “Der Weg der Tolteken - Ein Gespräch mit Carlos Castaneda”, Fischer, 1987 Fort, Carmina, “Conversationes con Carlos Castaneda”. Madrid (Spain), 1991. Keen, Sam, Psychology Today, “Sorcerer’s Apprentice”. 1975. Leviton, Richard, Yoga Journal, March/April 1994 #115, “The Art of Dreaming”. Wagner, Bruce, Details, March 1994, “The Secret Life of Carlos Castaneda: You Only Live Twice”. www.fouryogas.com/details.pdf
+Entheo How strange is our perception. Carlos did not die. He fully transcended this form. How could that be fragile. On the other hand, in 1969, he was still not 'realized'.
yes i see what you are saying. its delicate and gentle may appear a bit vulnerable.. but gentleness and sensitivity transcend resistance. he is very strong , folks who know what there are respectful and gentle .they witness the unspeakable. and tread lightlyy
having read all of his writings, it is fascinating to hear his voice, and consider at the time (1969) he had no inkling of the knowledge he had been given in heightened awareness. I believe he was conflicted.
The title of the first book is unfortunate. Don Juan did not teach a "Yaqui way of Knowledge". His system and knowledge lineage did not derive from Yaqui culture. It was just a coincidence that he was a Yaqui by birth. Just as it would be erroneous to write a book: "The teachings of Carlos Castaneda: A Peruvian Way of Knowledge".
The statues of guys on their back w a bowl on lap are dreamers. The bowl would have water or was an obsidian mirror. The dreamer would look at his reflection and train himself to look at his dreaming double in different forms. Changing shape into whatever he wants.
Голос Карлоса Кастанеды, интонация, обороты, дыхание, о многом говорит, и если обладаешь возможностью визуализации, то не сложно даже представить его образ, говорящим. Это очень поможет в следующих прочтениях его книг для их понимания. Благодарю автора публикации!
Learn dreaming awake. It makes it possible to enter dreaming anytime you like. Procedure: Stop that internal dialogue 24 hours a day, permanently. After a few days of absolute hell, find a room you can darken. Cover leds with aluminum tape, and seal up windows and doors. From silence, watch the darkness for colors. You'll find them eventually. Expect to practice 2 hours a night minimum for a while. Once you can see colors, scoop them with your hand by putting it next to them (visually), and turning your head and hand at the same time, to give the illusion you're moving them onto your stomach. If you get a very bright puff of color (purple and reddish orange are common), try to compress it with your hands, like it was a ball of dough. Eventually the colors will behave like real objects and remain where put. Then go find Zuleica's technique in Eagle's gift and read about how to scoop the colors onto your second attention's assemblage point. You'll restore your second attention's energy body, and entering dreaming directly from awake will become possible. I can stop the world at will, assemble other worlds, manipulate don Juan's allies (Carlos left them to us in private classes), and "see" energy. In other words, Carlos wasn't making stuff up. Thanks to Toltec Warrior if he puts up with my presence here. I'm trying to correct the misconceptions about Castaneda.
His books have aged well. they actually make more sense now than they did back in the sixties. we now know about quantum physics, string theory, parallel universes, the fact that reality is created by the observer through the act of decoding wave form information into physical particles. that he has been largely proven right by cutting edge science would indicate that he wasn't entirely a fraud.
He wasn't even partly a fraud. The New World Order did a disinformation campaign on him because this way of viewing things was so antithetical to their agenda.
"fact that reality is created by the observer through the act of decoding wave form information into physical particles. that he has been largely proven right by cutting edge science" That's totally ridiculous. The only reason they get the particle wave difference is not because it was created by the observer but because particle is made of wave.
How does quantum physics makes sence of CC? You ealise they are going in oposite directions, right? Oh, of course, misinterpretations of heisenbergs theries... ProTip: observer doesn't have to be human, or alive, or conscious. Suddenly.
I think that he had a genuine contact with a Toltec teacher or teachers. But changed names dates etc to protect the identity of the group involved. There is genuine knowledge and wisdom coming through here.
@mmp11 he taught that the 'edge' should be taken back not that it should never be given away in the first place - and according to Castaneda in Don Juan's case the son was adopted also he was working in construction (digging ditches) when he describes his death on the river bank - You can assume he was quite likely into construction
right? straight edge vegan in a world of obese brainless zombie that consume tortured flesh poison, alchool poison, toxic air poison and cigartette poison, sleep badly, dont exercise, slave to monitors... Then im the bad one. Irony, sarcasm, pathetism. i made my choice.
When he was on the porch and DJ asked to to find his special spot to sit. The whole description of his thoughts were off. It's such things that make it easy to realise that he was making it all up.
14:30 "The experiences are designed to produce the knowledge that the reality of consensus is only a very small segment of the total range of what we could feel as real. if we could learn to code reality or stimuli the way a shaman does ..perhaps we could elongate our range of what we call real."
Yes, yes! And was I seem to remember the whole point of the Second Ring Of Power, in that we maintain the reality of the everyday with the first ring of power, not even realising the power of that, but we also have a second ring, and if you and one other engage them on the same world, you can maintain that other world too (one of very many!)
I also seeing portals and everything experienced with no drugs I thought it was me being crasy , I’m glad I found this book it help me understand I’m not alone
After my dad was killed by a car accident in 1975, I flipped out and had some experiences similar to Carlos and Don Juan, and Don Genaro. I firmly believed that if I slammed a karate chop into a light pole, I would shatter the light, and not feel a thing. I hit the pole, looked up, and saw what looked like glass shattering, and the light blinked out. I also felt nothing at all from my extreme blow. I believe I entered that crack between the worlds, as can only be done under a severely altered mindset. I also believed I was Jesus, and had magical powers that everyone but myself was able to witness. Our minds create our reality, but the fabric of that reality is already there, like props to use in our construction. Allies, benefactors, agreements from the world, memories of events and people from past and future lives, dreams, music, drugs- all tools to remove the outside layer of awareness, and to 'see'.
Thank you for posting this. Thank u Google algos. And Thank you Don Juan and Don Carlos.... In 1982, while trying to get thru a confusing philosophy class, I was gifted a book by a classmate and his girlfriend and 15 books later, my life has been and still profoundly influenced by this. BTW, the passage on parasitic predator which "gave us their minds" sounds like what has happened to the world. The works are impeccable extraordinary feats of blessings to current man and times.
It does not matter whether Castaneda's works are fiction or non-fiction. The true value is in the power of his words which have guided and changed my life. I invite you to visit my Facebook page dedicated to him at facebook.com/groups/6555392372
Michael Kitahara he was a great story teller i totally agree it doesnt matter if fiction or not. I've read all of his books multiple times (except the tensegrity book) and he has been inspiring me too for years and years
"If there were someone like Don Juan he would be enlightened, he would be like a Buddha or a Lao Tzu - but there is nobody like Don Juan. Carlos Castaneda's books are ninety-nine per cent fiction - beautiful, artful, but fiction. As there are scientific fictions, there are spiritual fictions also. There are third-rate spiritual fictions and first-rate ones: if you want third-rate, then read Lobsang Rampa; if you want first-rate, then read Carlos Castaneda. He is a great master - of fiction. But I say ninety-nine per cent fiction. One per cent of truth is there, hidden here and there; you will have to find it. It is good even to read it as fiction. Don't bother about Rampa's fiction, because it is rubbish created by a mediocre mind - and of course created for mediocre minds. But Carlos Castaneda is worth reading. When I say fiction I don't mean don't read him, I mean read him more carefully, because one per cent of truth is there. You will have to read it very carefully, but don't swallow it completely because it is ninety-nine per cent fiction. It can help your growth - it can create a desire to grow. That's why I say it is beautiful. But it can hinder growth also if you take it at its surface value. This man Carlos is really crafty, very clever. Rarely it happens, such cleverness - because it is very easy to create scientific fiction, not much imagination is needed, but to create spiritual fiction is very very difficult; one needs a great artistic and imaginary mind. Because things you don't know, how can you even imagine them? That's why I say one per cent of truth is there. On that one per cent of truth he has been able to create a big edifice. On that one per cent of truth he has been able to project much imagination. On that one iota of truth he has made the whole house, a beautiful palace - a fairy tale. But that one per cent of truth is there, otherwise it would have been impossible. So one per cent of Don Juan must be there somewhere or other. He must have met somebody; maybe his name was Don Juan, maybe not, that is not material, that doesn't matter. Carlos has come across a being superior to himself, he has come across a being who knows some secrets. Maybe he has not realized them, maybe he has stolen them, maybe he has just borrowed them from someone else. But he has met somebody who has somehow got some facts of spiritual life and this man has been able to create imagination around it. And the imagination becomes possible if you use drugs as a help - very easy, because drugs are nothing but an aid to imagination. This man has come across some being who knows something, and then through drugs he has projected that small truth into imaginary worlds. Then his whole fiction is created. It is a drug trip, but a good experiment in itself. And when I say all these things I am not condemning Carlos. In fact I have come to love the man. It is a rare flight of imagination, and if it is a hundred per cent fiction then Carlos himself is a rare being. If he has not come across anybody at all then he must have that one per cent of reality in himself. Because otherwise it is impossible - you can only build a house on a foundation, even an imaginary house needs at least a foundation in reality. You can make a house of cards but at least the ground, the solid ground is needed. That much is true. So read, because you will have to read. Every age has its own fictions, romances; one has to pass through them. You will have to read. You cannot escape Carlos Castaneda. But remember that only one per cent is true - and you have to find it."
he tore into every belief I had at that time, viciously ripping at religion, my beliefs in myself and family/I heard a voice but the man had no real face/I felt as though I was fighting for my life..or sanity but afterwards I felt that the conversation beat the hell out of me. It’s hard to believe you can survive such events, events that certain chemical substances cause. Whatever happened to cause Carlos Castaneda to write his books, I am thankful?
I love the books. Read them 20 years ago and now a second time and studied more details. I just ask myself, how far you can go when you don't have a nagual on your side.
@mmp11 in the works of Castaneda Don Juan's job is mentioned in actual fact. When Don Juan is recounting his experience of 'seeing' his son's death - he was working construction.
Someone once told me that Castaneda was a fraud, and explained that his 'Yaqui' teachings were actually stolen from Buddhist teachings. But I thought "Doesn't Yaqui teachings being in accord with Buddhist teachings from the other side of the world actually suggest independent confirmation of the reality of the teachings?"
I don't think it was actually Carlos talking in this inverview. Maybe because he's so young here I don't recognize his voice, but I heard him talk for hundreds of hours and it doesn't sound like Carlos to me. It would be just like him to send someone else.
It seems to me that what determines what many people believe is the emotional response to what they have read and that such people would do well to step back and be more aware of how they decide what they choose to believe Did the character Don Juan Matus really live and breath in this world ? ... Who knows ... and besides whether he is real or not is entirely beside the point
Don Juan dice en uno de sus libros que el Hombre no tiene amigos en la Tierra (somos destructores) En las circunstancias actuales, 2021, comprobamos que incluso el Hombre es un Lobo para el Hombre
As much as challenges and tests, offered to our body, emotions and soul, are present in ordinary life, it's even more significant, maybe an unavoidable neccessity, in a warrior's path in life. That is, coming from a background like the one of Carlos Castaneda or any other Western modern life oriented person. It's of course very different for a native, born in the shaman's tribe, learning the ropes from birth, sort of. Passing through the portal, symbolically, or proceed through a "dark night of the soul" call it what you choose for it, is often an essential process in growing out of our limitations, finding freedom. It all depends on our ability and level of awareness, our being awake. Apart from our limitations in our human attitude and our ego survival, in essence there's nothing to fear, as I perceive it. Fear is part of living under instinctual reign, ignoring the value of what's hidden in it. Allowing an outer authority to rule us, is asking for trouble, isn't it? Power can be used and abused, here on planet Earth. Count your blessings by discerning the games of power, within and without. Most often it's our own projection on the outside world, or a person, or God? that causes us to be in fear. For isn't it what our mind tells us to choose as truth, as real, that causes us to break into sweat and heart palpilations and to go in a fight and flight mode? Be surprised, when finding, being in such a state of fear, that you can stop, breathe and see what happens, what opens up for you. That's breaking through the veil that covers most of planet Earth these days, as I perceive it.
I love the idea that this shamanic lineage of knowledge could, over many hundreds of years, even thousands, create almost a science of sorts from tripping when it seems spontaneously weird and random
19:20 "You flew as a man flies ...all there is in reality is what you *felt*". OBEs are more than imagination...seers can report on events occurring at a distance.
Men are afraid of the unknown. Making fun of all this knowledge is a basic way to reassure themself, like kids do. It's also a ruse to justify sloth and indolence for keeping a confortable way of life. There is good news and bad news. Bad news : there is only one way to know if all this is "real" : walk the path and experiment by yourself ! Good news : not everybody can do the miracles Don Juan was doing, but there is one everybody can build with a little bit of discipline and patience : a real and lasting peace of mind whatever the circomstances you're crossing ! The deal is not to change the world with a magic wand, because it's perfect as it is. The deal is to change the relations we have with the world (and it starts with people around us) to unlock new potentials. This is a recurring theme in Castaneda's books.
Thank you Don Juan de Matus. Thank you Carlos Castañeda. Thank you Toltec Warrior.
I testify here the Toltec Way is real and the path of Total Freedom.
There's no limits to the Power and it's an ordinary life shattering reality.
One can't emerge of the first punch of the Nagual unchanged,
and it's a life-long arduous, stiff and wonderfull Art/Mastery.
The Art of Dreaming. The Mastery of Intent. The Mastery of Stalking.
May the road rise with you.
PSIKHE design u ever tried dmt
How do i get involved. Ive read the entirety of Carlos works. Wish i could connect with sone like minded individuals
Toltechnology baby!
@@brig8013 check out secretenergy.com and the youtube channel innsrstanding, also podcasts the ancient future parts 1,2, and 3 and advanced intelligence on astralquest.podomatic.com are crucial
I would like to believe this is true but cannot reconcile a dreamer or stalker using RUclips to tell me
I've read 6 books by Carlos castaneda and still go back to them ,i can assure you that they have opened new doors of perception for me ,thank you mr castaneda ,tnank you Don Juan and Don Genaro,, much beauty in there
You should defenetly read the last book too, it reveals a lot & makes extra sense of the prior ones...the english title was "the active side of infinity",
or "the effects/works of, like it's called in my language infinity"
Would be very interesting to read his books in different languages to compare the words used in those different prints...like me, I should read them besides german also in english & spanish...unfortunately my spanish skills aren't good enough to even try
Fantastic writer. I read all of the books and the imagery has stayed with me all my life.
Have you learned anything you can apply to your life?
Are you able to fly now ? Did you go to the other world looking for a helper? Who is your ally now? How are those talkative lizards ? Lol
@@theiceman74 You obviously know something about it. But you're both missing certain tenets that are crucial to understanding Nagualism. Don Juan was a wizard and a great leader among his ilk. But to the average person, who lives in a different world, he appears to be a simple dirt poor Native American.
@@levijessegonzalez3629 Absolutely. Every single day.
@@theiceman74 you are totally missing the point of his teachings.
I read an excerpt of his book back in 1976, in English class, while attending college. I was enthralled and at the same time mystified. I then went out, bought and read his first three books at least twice. afterwards I went on my own spiritual journey in which I learned much but was, as well, mislead. At the age of 50 I reread his first three books again and then read all of his 9 books. I must be honest and state here that the first four where, by far, my favorite. No matter what the reality is regarding Don Juan and his relationship to Castaneda, for me, his books have had a most positive and profound influence. These, have been for me, works of a literary genius that has challenged my limited and, if you will, squared thinking. May you far well, Castaneda!
Castenad's work is relative to the 'Skinwalker' - wolves, Crows, Lions...CRYPTIDS ! Same geography and high strangeness experienced....it's all been written within his books ! Bravo !
This is actually a picture of the REAL Carlos Castaneda -- I saw him many times at the workshops. This is how he sounds too. He was so magical that we workshop attendees would listen to him with rapt interest and never wanted him to stop talking.
It would be great to make a video regarding your experience with his teachings based on don Juan Matus.
Uhhhhh sure, he sounds sooooo incredible! Lmao ok
I love these books. It took me years to actually understand what he was really saying and writing about
Thank you for posting this wonderful interview!
Full disclosure: Reading CC's first four books in the early-to-mid 1970s altered the course of my life, literally. I went looking for someone like Juan Matus in Mexico in 1978 and spent two years on the road. I was disheartened by Richard de Mille's exposé, but could not dispute that his work uncovered many inconsistancies in Casteneda's narrative.
Even if Carlos only dreamnt it, or even if he made it up, the stories (in the first four volumes, at least) are fabulous!
In this 1969 interview, a chink in Casteneda's armor appears early on. The third question posed by the interviewer, Theodore Roszak, occurs at 7:05 in the tape -
"Does he (don Juan) have any formal livelihood? How does he earn his way in the world?" Roszak asks.
"Um... (three seconds pass as Carlos attempts to form a reply) I, I'd, I wouldn't be, uh, uh, able to, uh, to, uh, to discuss that. Rather, I don't think I could, at the moment."
Casteneda purports to have known don Juan for nine years at the time this interview was conducted, yet he has no straightforward answer to this simple question. Was he never asked that before? Really? Fortunately for CC, Roszak resisted the temptation to press him further on the matter.
Apart from that blip, it's a fascinating interview.
Maybe at that time he didn't want to tell that DJ was a stock holder.
Perhaps in revealing that it would give too big a clue as to DJ whereabouts at the time. Or perhaps Castaneda felt he needed DJ's permission to answer that personal question. Alternately, the Toltec path stresses letting go of personal identity.
Don Juan tells Carlos in Tales of Power that he is a stock holder when explaining how he afforded his new bespoke suit. I've known many old men for years without knowing how they made their bones. Just because he fumbles the question doesn't show that he's lying. Pablito also refers to how don Juan had worked for him in carpentry for a few months.
Don Juan's way of making a living is gossipy and non-essential information to the content of his teachings, assuming that his teachings are more important rather than the idle gossip
Well if someone asked you to disclose how a great friend of yours makes a living, I think you may be hesitant to be so indiscreet too....none of your business ! In one of the books, I think in Tales Of Power, ''the day of the Tonal'' , Don Juan meets him in a town all dressed in a suit ! This in itself is quite a shock to CC. And Don Juan says he is attending to some business in the town, hence the attire. So...private business...
I'm looking a lot of comments saying that his books are fictional, but I wonder if they' at least have tried shrooms or ayahuasca. We have ayahuasca ceremonies in Costa Rica for those who would like to understand don Juan and Castaneda in a proper way. His books are real in other realities.
Andy
Of course there was a time when Castenada was vilified by academics who's sole purpose in life was to maintain the status quo. They had the power to do this because one had to be specifically looking for information on psychedelics, so therefor only a few of us would ever stand to challenge the stability of their ivory towers. Now however with the advent of the WWW more of the world's population are becoming aware of the fact that reality as is understood by our rational is only one possible path of our existence. By being drawn into the works of say Graham Hancock for example the popular is becoming more and more aware of the fact that our esteemed academics are able to prove or disprove
Hard for us to accept that humans are only one of many intelligent species, each with their own agenda.
Especially if they can perceive us more clearly than we can perceive them. How do we negotiate our space, our safety?
its unimportant if its real or not, the teaching is there, real or not
Oh my god!! is this really castaneda?? I can't belive it, this guy meas so much to me! fills good to imagine him speaking, I've read so many books already... thanks for the video
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Lmao
I like his voice. He was honest about feeling he wasn't up to it and had to quit which would make sense being early on in his apprenticeship. I don't detect any huge ego which many mistake as being the real deal. I'll never know for sure but he sounds very genuine to me.
Carlos had a HUGE ego. Huge.
personally i believe this guy.
for me its not important if carlos story is real or not. cause don juan matus teaching exist even if unreal.
it transend the need to be real.
@@gabrielahimsa4387 So true.
Regardless of where the information comes from it resonates as truth with me. People just need to use there own inner intuition to divine what is real and what is fake. Sadly, some humans seemed to lose this ability 😢
He weaved color into stone and made my life far more interesting than if I hadn't read and became involved with his methods. He awakens the reader to the fact that we are alive and involved in a marvelous adventure on this flying sphere, and that anything is possible. Thankfully..Jeremy
I agree, beautiful.
Many thanx for this! I'm going back through all of the books, again after 10 years.
Good for you,I feel the same way m.ruclips.net/video/4utXqBJ828U/видео.html
There seems to be something very special and awesome feeling like I am and belong to a group of people who love Carlos Castanedas books and his journey with Don Juan, also all of the other “ characters “ in the books. Especially now in these times that we find ourselves living in. Thank you all!
good taste!
excellent, back in my 20,s i real all of castenedas books several times over, i was obsessed actually lol, I've always wondered what he looked like and sounded like ? now i know, thanks for sharing ;)
I remember reading "A separate reality" and was blown away.
Such a pleasure to hear this rare and early interview with Castaneda. Thank you.
Karen Bentley you look quite great Karen...
Carlos Castaneda is the real deal. We need more men like him, in spiritual realms. very good
Fascinating, wonderful, thanks. All the great teachings seem to lead back to present moment awareness.
I came 2 the US to study w. Castaneda. My opinion is that the Man was brilliant, a master entertainer & a powerful story teller. As an apprectice of Tensegrity there was a degree of unpleasant environment amongst practitioners,an air of ruthless competition & so forth< but that was minor. An uninformed, incorrect comment below says that all the close apprentices commited suiside. Castaneda may of not been a man of Light &Love, but his teachings were priceless. I had amazing experiences of growth
not to worry ... it's suicide to some... it's a sorcerer's leap to others ... either way, they've moved on
Would you say that the courses , and indeed the Invention, of Tensegrity, were Carlos' way of continuing the teachings ? Were the movements used shown to Carlos , along with a lot of other stuff he left out of the books (as he explains in the recommencing of publishing after the 4th book/ gap of years) and their importance only realised later. Though from what Carlos says in this interview, he kept visiting Don Juan after he had ''quit'' the apprenticeship, so did this time overlap with the Tensegrity courses development? I find this very intriguing , and that all the women disbanded on Carlos' death. Because in the books, Don Juan tells him that he will be the Nagual from then on (on Don Juans ''disappearance'') . So the story and actuality don't seem to agree here ....? The fact that most of the women disappeared without trace is incredible too....did they ''Leave'' ?!
much could be learned as individuals from Carlos's experiences with the Nagual teachings! I certainly did.
Thx for preserving his work.
Rgards,
de lamb
Amazing actually hearing this interview...thank you...
I thought I was the only one following this way of life 💪🏽 Love you all
You are NOT alone
A drug user? No, friend, you're definitely not alone. Sadly.
I heard all the stories, but I still believe in Don Juan. checked out da music, sick..
@@RAY_FILET You didn't understand anything - thats sad...it's NOT about drugs!!
You'd need a ton of "drugs" to open the prison you've locked up yourself...As Christ allready said "He who have ears to hear (will) hear - he who has eyes to see - (gonna) see"
I read the first three or four books in the late 1980's as a typical stoner teenager. I just re-read "Journey to Ixtlan" and was surprised to discover the correlations with Buddhism. Don Juan shattered Carlos' ego, or at least did his best to try. Erasing personal history, "seeing, dreaming, and stalking", through which one learns to become aware of the "world" beyond what the physical senses and the ego allow us to experience, and the idea of "stopping the world", are taught in Tibetan Buddhism.
read the other books
Larry Holcomb what's funny is I read a book by OSHO titled Buddha, Zen, Tao, Tantra and then I was introduced to Carlos's books. My mind was blown at the correlation between the two, the truth is that love is the glue that ties all our spiritual abilities together and culture doesn't change the fact that we have great power which is revealed to us all through light, the only way to use these powers fully is to break from what this world considers proper and normal behavior and rather to focus on OURselves and learn to let go of our SELF to find the greater connection.
The melancholy I experienced when reading that book still has not left me after 40 years.
Im 17 and its very strange to know these things and think the way I do in this time period. Cheers❤️
Gurdjieff as well.
The world has caught up to Carlos and Don Juan-quantum. interesting to hear him allude to later writing
Before i sound like im trying to convince anyone, i wanted to say that im a very objective, analytical girl. Now, 5 years ago i started to experience a lot of not ordinary dreams. By not ordinary i mean dreams where my consciousness was there. I was aware of everything and i discussed with people that i know some powerful things like: we have to operate from the heart more. We have a journey etc. And cordons of lights where everywhere going out from our bodies. For a long time i started to change and i coudnt go out and i used to cry all the time. I was wearing only white clothes. I changed radically and i hated that because it started impending my career and outside world. Everything that was happening i did not do anything to trigger that. At least not consciously. After those years all those dreams started to manifest. Whatever i do smth pulls me back to those and i was in a deep depresion because i am afraid it was just an imaginary world and smth is wrong with me. A professor suggested me The Art of Dreaming. I skipped it for a long time. I decided to read it few days ago. I started to cry. I have done many of those things but not wanting to. I dont know why they happened. But now that im starting to accept them more i feel i have a part in allowing this. And i understand when he says they seem real. They are real. They are frightening real. I really hope we can evolve. If anyone is in this path please let's keep in touch and never surrender. By my experience is very hard to accept. But i now believe it didnt show to me without a reason.
Thank you Ibbey for providing us with a most valuable insight into the harbinger of one of the profound spiritual teachings of the modern era.
THANK YOU Issa for sharing this AMAZING piece -my love for both these men made audibleXXXX WOW
I don't think I've ever heard this before. Thank you!
Very informative interview
Thanks for getting it on youtube
I have been reading all of Carlos' books
I like the fact that we can alter our consciousness
with out the plants
Once we lessen our self importance
Namaste'
Thank you for this upload this is ny Favorite book and too hear Carlos speak about his thoughts and backstory on it is what i always wanted to know. Great video!
gv105468 I realise how you must have felt. I remember my first sighting of what Castaneda himself looked like, it was the same for me
I'm loving this content. Would really enjoy studying because I know that this realm is not what we're taught and it can be altered even without outside stimulation.
Muchas gracias. Una maravilla!
Extraordinary. Thank you Carlos, thank you Theodore, wherever you may be
If his spirit is distorted, he should simply fix it - purge it, make it perfect, because there is no other task in your entire lives, which is more worthwhile. To seek the perfection of the warrior’s spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, or manhood. Carlos Castaneda ( page 97 Present ) During life you lost connection with your spirit different reasons are the cause. The most important thing is to find that connection again. There is only one way learn the Truth of Life. Search for TruthContest and read the top entry of the Present
I have completed the four gates of dreaming in the book the art of dreaming and have traveled to other worlds many times it is real
no drugs taken or needed
Nice, I'm reading the book now, finished the first third of it, so have you met the inorganic beings? and how are you dealing with them?? oh and the dreaming emissary, does it help you??
fcuk right is real...
Second that! I have crossed the first gate and it is all true and real. Just a matter of persistence to get there.
any tips
Thank sur for sharing. Magnificent
You cannot perceive that which you you are not the vibration of. No wonder Carlos generated such fear in those who could read the book and not perceive what Carlos experienced.
An important change in the Toltec tradition is the shift from fear based to love based teachings. The early writers, especially Castaneda, described the need for personal power to use in defense against attack from all manner of forces, seen and unseen. Castaneda often describes himself shaking in terror, waiting for some force or entity to attack him.
Love based? cmon man. 'knowledge based'
Knowledge implies that you know. Let me ask you something? What do you know? Personally I know, that I know absolutely nothing except that one day my body will be worn out and I will leave this reality. So you see, when you let go of the idea that there is a controller, an I, an ego - you let go of knowing and begin to feel. When you begin to feel what you call knowledge, instead of thinking it, that is where the magic starts happening. Knowing also implies thinking, which is a linear construct, "did you think this through" - meaning you begin a thought from one end and you think it through coming to a conclusion in the end. But my dearest friend, here is where the cookie crumbles: You, life itself is not linear, you are cyclical and the circle has no ends, it is infinite. Force nothing and go with the flow of the harsh river that is life - if you fight against the current instead of swimming with it, you will never cross the river. Bruce Lee said it very well: "You must be shapeless, formless, like water." There is no knowledge, only memory. We are all one and the same, life experiencing itself from more than 7.6 billion views at once, and that is just counting human life. The very reason that you do not have e.g. 5 human bodies at the same time, is that the human mind would not be able to cope with that - imagine having 5 minds all chattering to you at the same time, it would just be noise then. This is the very reason of the illusion of I. To let yourself experience life from one side at a time, while at the same time experiencing it from all sides but separated and yet not separated. We as a whole are an infinitely faceted diamond, with each facet being someones face which in reality is another reflection of you, life. What happens for the most part when you smile at someone?
LOVE
J
_A path with heart_
thats why slaughterhouse worker have no compasion, since they dont feel the useless suffering vibration. go vegan :D
As I perceive it, in taking hallucination causing substances, it makes a huge difference if one is aware of different levels of awareness and existence, or not. Not having a reference point is horrific and destructive, for someone under that influence. See what I mean? We can get lost in a new unknown world, or know to find our way, by the presence of an inner point of stillness or presence. That's why a true shaman with integrity is valuable, maybe even necessary, in order to assist in an interpretation of such an unusual experience, for the one who is subject to it. Just like a witness can be comforting in someone's catharsis.
What if their predicament is that they cannot find someone who sees, which is the situation that most find themselves in the west.. You are right though - in all occasions where someone is chosen by the spirit rather than ancestral bonds or lineage there should be someone that can act as a witness and consciously 'see' the events and guide where necessary
Splash Dundee! Sorry to inform you that your God is an energy sacking vampire draining the human race of vital energy through mindless rituals through a carrot and stick belief system. Religion has done wonders for our world. Just turn on the news
How is it ironic that I choose to be open minded about the mysterious universe we inhabit, and you choose to follow one book that, albeit describes very similar wonders as Castanedas books do. I would call that ignorance on your part
Matt LFC
"Religion has done wonders for our world. Just turn on the news"
Actually look at history. Atheist communist governments (Russia and China) have committed more murders in a short time than anyone else. If you look at the people who obey Jesus's teaching like the Amish and many other peaceful Communities like the hundreds of thousands of peaceful Christians who have been murdered in the middle east recently by ISIS. you see those wonders being crucified like He was.
2 things have been in my mind about Carlos lately: 1.- its a terribly ironic situation that Peruvian-born Carlos left his native country which has a millenary tradition of witches and sorcerers and ended up in California to be trapped inside another millenary tradition of witches and sorcerers from Mexico. 2.- Without doubt Carlos reached unsurpassed heights in his nagual training and development but he had to carry to the end many of his shortcomings pinpointed by Don Juan continously : )
Wow! thank you KPFA
Any person that has experienced these substances understands, those that have not and remain sceptical, on what do you base your argument, inexperience?
Ignorance is for many a mighty weapon used to oppose the things that are beyond their control.
I found his books very interesting, whether they are true or not doesn´t disturb me but I know that they´re definately based on fact.
Much of what Castaneda writes and states is clearly true from a Yaqui perspective, while some of it differs from what my mom taught me, about how to handle and prepare yerbas, especially mandrake root, energy centers, etc. But, these are just some items from one culture attempting to communicate with another. Translation is so iffy, but all should know there are different realities and they vary from person to person and incident to incident--you can't bottle up life.
i was introduced to the Castaneda while i was in the service in Germany in the 70's, by another soldier. last name Moon.....
For those that may need clarification Don Juan gave Carlos drugs to loosen his assemblage point. This is only done for thosethat have a very ridge belief system. All of the other students of Don Juan's did not need drugs to break free from that point.
(Carol Tiggs, Tasha etc...) The point of perception begins at that point and the worlds of unknown perceptions to us are many like layers of an onion. To completely understand these new perceptions available to us takes tons of energy. Talking about this is not going to break free to achieve these new perceptions. You must repeat this practice daily until the chains that bind your
normal everyday perception break down and your normal world becomes a new world every bit as real as your daily Monday and Tuesday. The magic is our daily world (tonal) is a tiny fraction of what can be perceived by all humans. Just because you don't see that truth doesn't mean it's not real. Most people how have a deeply rooted belief system are afraid that there is more than what meets the eye. They would rather ridicule it and say its a fraud as that makes them feel safe.
More and more I see that I don't need Power Plants to achive Power of Perception. But what would happen if a talented apprentice of sorcery chooses to do it, even if that is not neccesary because he has a very flexible belief system?
Enrique I believe it is stated in the books that the other apprentices of Don Juan, the second ring of power, were supposed to take power plants late in their practice, and that it would give them a boost.
I have something better than the fraud. I have many beautiful synchronicities and premonitions and other experiences that have broken me from a local awareness only consciousness but charity is more important. However my experiences have happened when I began to hope in and confessed the power of that hope that the expressed image only begotten son of the eternal uncreated father cause of all gave me.
To try to get into that world another way is dangerous and temporal. The gospel has its own recapitulation far beyond anything the alleged Don Juan taught.
Believing Castaneda (or having a perversion of Christianity or anything else) makes you feel you have something when you don't. Carlos revealed some interesting occult knowledge but the stories he couched it in are something he himself could not appropriate. If I was going to use death as my advisor I wouldn't waste my time eating out and going to movies... He was nothing like his alleged teacher. He seemed like a nice guy indulgent academic and storyteller with some knowledge.
@@dougr6269 It seems like you have some fears of the occult, and the 'Seperate Reality' of Don Juan. Don't fear that which you don't understand, because you will just be limiting your experience in this big, beautiful universe that involves all facets of light and dark, good and bad, real and unreal. The Bible, I believe, is saying the same thing, in its own way. (To open up to diversity, and polarity, in order to experience the true joy of our existence).
You'll damange yourself with power plants. If you want to move your assemblage point, look for colors in absolute darkness, while forcing silence. Eventually your second attention will come out. Just a little at first. But that's all you need to move the assemblage point. It'll move all the way to heightened awareness if you just keep watching something from the second attention, in silence.Power plants are pathetic compared to what you can do with silence.
amazing to meet person like don juan
Thanks for enormously insightful comment!
@Toltec Warrior - thanks. The graphics are superb. Carlos rocks.
Thank you so much for this. where did you find it? Very intrigued by your sleuthing. Another brilliant RUclips capability and much appreciated!
At that the time the interview was made, Castaneda had not yet "graduated" as a Nagual. His tutelage continued for many years and the question is: are there later interviews?
Interviews:
Corvalan, Graciela, Magical Blend #14, “A conversation with the elusive Carlos Castaneda”.
Corvalan, Graciela, Magical Blend #15, “Carlos Castaneda, part II”.
Burton, Sandra, Time Magazine, “Magic and Reality”. 1973.
Corvalan, Graciela, “Der Weg der Tolteken - Ein Gespräch mit Carlos Castaneda”, Fischer, 1987
Fort, Carmina, “Conversationes con Carlos Castaneda”. Madrid (Spain), 1991.
Keen, Sam, Psychology Today, “Sorcerer’s Apprentice”. 1975.
Leviton, Richard, Yoga Journal, March/April 1994 #115, “The Art of Dreaming”.
Wagner, Bruce, Details, March 1994, “The Secret Life of Carlos Castaneda: You Only Live Twice”. www.fouryogas.com/details.pdf
Oh wow thanks! Time for some more reading I guess :)
wow, listening his voice for the first time is quite something. To me it comes up as "fragile".
+Entheo How strange is our perception. Carlos did not die. He fully transcended this form. How could that be fragile. On the other hand, in 1969, he was still not 'realized'.
only a sensitive man..coud hace and write those experiences.
the wather is the most fragile element..but the stronger too..
yes i see what you are saying. its delicate and gentle may appear a bit vulnerable.. but gentleness and sensitivity transcend resistance. he is very strong , folks who know what there are respectful and gentle .they witness the unspeakable. and tread lightlyy
having read all of his writings, it is fascinating to hear his voice, and consider at the time (1969) he had no inkling of the knowledge he had been given in heightened awareness. I believe he was conflicted.
The title of the first book is unfortunate. Don Juan did not teach a "Yaqui way of Knowledge". His system and knowledge lineage did not derive from Yaqui culture. It was just a coincidence that he was a Yaqui by birth. Just as it would be erroneous to write a book: "The teachings of Carlos Castaneda: A Peruvian Way of Knowledge".
It's obvious all the others' comments here are from "true believers."
The statues of guys on their back w a bowl on lap are dreamers. The bowl would have water or was an obsidian mirror. The dreamer would look at his reflection and train himself to look at his dreaming double in different forms. Changing shape into whatever he wants.
Голос Карлоса Кастанеды, интонация, обороты, дыхание, о многом говорит, и если обладаешь возможностью визуализации, то не сложно даже представить его образ, говорящим. Это очень поможет в следующих прочтениях его книг для их понимания. Благодарю автора публикации!
Amazing interview
It took me 30 years but, I know now when I am dreaming. I can do things I could never do while awake.
Learn dreaming awake. It makes it possible to enter dreaming anytime you like. Procedure: Stop that internal dialogue 24 hours a day, permanently. After a few days of absolute hell, find a room you can darken. Cover leds with aluminum tape, and seal up windows and doors. From silence, watch the darkness for colors. You'll find them eventually. Expect to practice 2 hours a night minimum for a while. Once you can see colors, scoop them with your hand by putting it next to them (visually), and turning your head and hand at the same time, to give the illusion you're moving them onto your stomach.
If you get a very bright puff of color (purple and reddish orange are common), try to compress it with your hands, like it was a ball of dough.
Eventually the colors will behave like real objects and remain where put.
Then go find Zuleica's technique in Eagle's gift and read about how to scoop the colors onto your second attention's assemblage point. You'll restore your second attention's energy body, and entering dreaming directly from awake will become possible.
I can stop the world at will, assemble other worlds, manipulate don Juan's allies (Carlos left them to us in private classes), and "see" energy.
In other words, Carlos wasn't making stuff up.
Thanks to Toltec Warrior if he puts up with my presence here. I'm trying to correct the misconceptions about Castaneda.
@@StardotTechnologies Any tips for a beginner? Start from recapitulation?
His books have aged well. they actually make more sense now than they did back in the sixties. we now know about quantum physics, string theory, parallel universes, the fact that reality is created by the observer through the act of decoding wave form information into physical particles. that he has been largely proven right by cutting edge science would indicate that he wasn't entirely a fraud.
+Ice BoxElder Cybersmith-E CRACKADON MISTER PERFECT you must be republican
lol, no dough
He wasn't even partly a fraud. The New World Order did a disinformation campaign on him because this way of viewing things was so antithetical to their agenda.
"fact that reality is created by the observer through the act of decoding wave form information into physical particles. that he has been largely proven right by cutting edge science"
That's totally ridiculous. The only reason they get the particle wave difference is not because it was created by the observer but because particle is made of wave.
How does quantum physics makes sence of CC? You ealise they are going in oposite directions, right?
Oh, of course, misinterpretations of heisenbergs theries... ProTip: observer doesn't have to be human, or alive, or conscious. Suddenly.
DE NUEVO HE ESCUCHADO TU VOZ,NAGUAL EMOCINANTE.GRACIAS
I think that he had a genuine contact with a Toltec teacher or teachers. But changed names dates etc to protect the identity of the group involved.
There is genuine knowledge and wisdom coming through here.
36:00 "It is not nonsensical it is not fraudulent - it is a very serious endeavor"
I just did a Carlos Castaneda search and came up with it - Thanks
Why is no one else freaked out how good the sound quality is? It sounds like it was recorded yesterday and not 50 years ago.
@mmp11 he taught that the 'edge' should be taken back not that it should never be given away in the first place - and according to Castaneda in Don Juan's case the son was adopted
also he was working in construction (digging ditches) when he describes his death on the river bank - You can assume he was quite likely into construction
"When you are not sure of the ground beneath your feet then you are enlightened." - Mark Alberto Yoder Nunez
right? straight edge vegan in a world of obese brainless zombie that consume tortured flesh poison, alchool poison, toxic air poison and cigartette poison, sleep badly, dont exercise, slave to monitors... Then im the bad one. Irony, sarcasm, pathetism. i made my choice.
@@gabrielahimsa4387 nobody cares
When he was on the porch and DJ asked to to find his special spot to sit. The whole description of his thoughts were off. It's such things that make it easy to realise that he was making it all up.
Per favore anche la traduzione in italiano dei video su Castaneda e Juan Matus e oltre, grazie
14:30 "The experiences are designed to produce the knowledge that the reality of consensus is only a very small segment of the total range of what we could feel as real.
if we could learn to code reality or stimuli the way a shaman does ..perhaps we could elongate our range of what we call real."
Yes, yes! And was I seem to remember the whole point of the Second Ring Of Power, in that we maintain the reality of the everyday with the first ring of power, not even realising the power of that, but we also have a second ring, and if you and one other engage them on the same world, you can maintain that other world too (one of very many!)
just wow thank u Carlos...
Really is it Castaneda's voice ? I'm happy to hear that
I also seeing portals and everything experienced with no drugs I thought it was me being crasy , I’m glad I found this book it help me understand I’m not alone
After my dad was killed by a car accident in 1975, I flipped out and had some experiences similar to Carlos and Don Juan, and Don Genaro. I firmly believed that if I slammed a karate chop into a light pole, I would shatter the light, and not feel a thing. I hit the pole, looked up, and saw what looked like glass shattering, and the light blinked out. I also felt nothing at all from my extreme blow. I believe I entered that crack between the worlds, as can only be done under a severely altered mindset. I also believed I was Jesus, and had magical powers that everyone but myself was able to witness. Our minds create our reality, but the fabric of that reality is already there, like props to use in our construction. Allies, benefactors, agreements from the world, memories of events and people from past and future lives, dreams, music, drugs- all tools to remove the outside layer of awareness, and to 'see'.
Thank you for posting this.
Thank u Google algos.
And Thank you Don Juan and Don Carlos.... In 1982, while trying to get thru a confusing philosophy class, I was gifted a book by a classmate and his girlfriend and 15 books later, my life has been and still profoundly influenced by this. BTW, the passage on parasitic predator which "gave us their minds" sounds like what has happened to the world. The works are impeccable extraordinary feats of blessings to current man and times.
It is a means not for riches but for sharing&happiness, where you feel in communion, in full consciousness(!), with the entirety
Don Juan created for Castaneda an entire village out of thin air to enjoy for a few days!
It does not matter whether Castaneda's works are fiction or non-fiction.
The true value is in the power of his words which have guided and
changed my life. I invite you to visit my Facebook page dedicated to him at facebook.com/groups/6555392372
Michael Kitahara
he was a great story teller i totally agree it doesnt matter if fiction or not. I've read all of his books multiple times (except the tensegrity book) and he has been inspiring me too for years and years
"If there were someone like Don Juan he would be enlightened, he would be like a Buddha or a Lao Tzu - but there is nobody like Don Juan. Carlos Castaneda's books are ninety-nine per cent fiction - beautiful, artful, but fiction. As there are scientific fictions, there are spiritual fictions also.
There are third-rate spiritual fictions and first-rate ones: if you want third-rate, then read Lobsang Rampa; if you want first-rate, then read Carlos Castaneda. He is a great master - of fiction.
But I say ninety-nine per cent fiction. One per cent of truth is there, hidden here and there; you will have to find it. It is good even to read it as fiction. Don't bother about Rampa's fiction, because it is rubbish created by a mediocre mind - and of course created for mediocre minds. But Carlos Castaneda is worth reading. When I say fiction I don't mean don't read him, I mean read him more carefully, because one per cent of truth is there. You will have to read it very carefully, but don't swallow it completely because it is ninety-nine per cent fiction.
It can help your growth - it can create a desire to grow. That's why I say it is beautiful. But it can hinder growth also if you take it at its surface value.
This man Carlos is really crafty, very clever. Rarely it happens, such cleverness - because it is very easy to create scientific fiction, not much imagination is needed, but to create spiritual fiction is very very difficult; one needs a great artistic and imaginary mind. Because things you don't know, how can you even imagine them? That's why I say one per cent of truth is there. On that one per cent of truth he has been able to create a big edifice. On that one per cent of truth he has been able to project much imagination. On that one iota of truth he has made the whole house, a beautiful palace - a fairy tale. But that one per cent of truth is there, otherwise it would have been impossible.
So one per cent of Don Juan must be there somewhere or other. He must have met somebody; maybe his name was Don Juan, maybe not, that is not material, that doesn't matter. Carlos has come across a being superior to himself, he has come across a being who knows some secrets.
Maybe he has not realized them, maybe he has stolen them, maybe he has just borrowed them from someone else. But he has met somebody who has somehow got some facts of spiritual life and this man has been able to create imagination around it. And the imagination becomes possible if you use drugs as a help - very easy, because drugs are nothing but an aid to imagination.
This man has come across some being who knows something, and then through drugs he has projected that small truth into imaginary worlds. Then his whole fiction is created. It is a drug trip, but a good experiment in itself. And when I say all these things I am not condemning Carlos. In fact I have come to love the man. It is a rare flight of imagination, and if it is a hundred per cent fiction then Carlos himself is a rare being. If he has not come across anybody at all then he must have that one per cent of reality in himself. Because otherwise it is impossible - you can only build a house on a foundation, even an imaginary house needs at least a foundation in reality. You can make a house of cards but at least the ground, the solid ground is needed. That much is true.
So read, because you will have to read. Every age has its own fictions, romances; one has to pass through them. You will have to read. You cannot escape Carlos Castaneda. But remember that only one per cent is true - and you have to find it."
he tore into every belief I had at that time, viciously ripping at religion, my beliefs in myself and family/I heard a voice but the man had no real face/I felt as though I was fighting for my life..or sanity but afterwards I felt that the conversation beat the hell out of me. It’s hard to believe you can survive such events, events that certain chemical substances cause.
Whatever happened to cause Carlos Castaneda to write his books, I am thankful?
I love the books. Read them 20 years ago and now a second time and studied more details. I just ask myself, how far you can go when you don't have a nagual on your side.
Great question
And since one cannot choose, one has to be chosen it seems futile to try
@mmp11 in the works of Castaneda Don Juan's job is mentioned in actual fact. When Don Juan is recounting his experience of 'seeing' his son's death - he was working construction.
I thought it was only the son that was working at the job that killed him ...Maybe I've forgotten.
@ScorpIron58 he was picking him up, it may have been the case, maybe your right 👍
Why did Carlos Castaneda die of liver cancer? One of his long time witches wrote an interesting book called, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice".
Someone once told me that Castaneda was a fraud, and explained that his 'Yaqui' teachings were actually stolen from Buddhist teachings. But I thought "Doesn't Yaqui teachings being in accord with Buddhist teachings from the other side of the world actually suggest independent confirmation of the reality of the teachings?"
Thats what you call a self-confirmative argument! Lol
I don't think it was actually Carlos talking in this inverview. Maybe because he's so young here I don't recognize his voice, but I heard him talk for hundreds of hours and it doesn't sound like Carlos to me. It would be just like him to send someone else.
The only goal in my life and the most significant thing to learn this science and to enter in real experience .
"there is a place where there is no difference between things because there is no one there to ask the difference"
beautiful.
If you interested u can read Armando Torres after. And then Sergio Magaña books also.
It seems to me that what determines what many people believe is
the emotional response to what they have read
and that such people would do well to step back and be more aware of how they
decide what they choose to believe
Did the character Don Juan Matus really live and breath in this world ? ...
Who knows ...
and besides whether he is real or not is entirely beside the point
Amen
honestly I think that the descriptions of them doing peyote are so real there is no way you can fake a story like that.
Difficult subject to digest and visualise. Some fantastic imagery.
I am picturing Carlos madly taking notes inside his pocket.
you have read it well....you are so right....a woman of knowledge?
I used to live in Peru - a lot of Mestizos like to describe themselves as European/Spanish etc even though they have more indigenous blood.
Don Juan dice en uno de sus libros que el Hombre no tiene amigos en la Tierra (somos destructores) En las circunstancias actuales, 2021, comprobamos que incluso el Hombre es un Lobo para el Hombre
As much as challenges and tests, offered to our body, emotions and soul, are present in ordinary life, it's even more significant, maybe an unavoidable neccessity, in a warrior's path in life. That is, coming from a background like the one of Carlos Castaneda or any other Western modern life oriented person. It's of course very different for a native, born in the shaman's tribe, learning the ropes from birth, sort of.
Passing through the portal, symbolically, or proceed through a "dark night of the soul" call it what you choose for it, is often an essential process in growing out of our limitations, finding freedom. It all depends on our ability and level of awareness, our being awake.
Apart from our limitations in our human attitude and our ego survival, in essence there's nothing to fear, as I perceive it. Fear is part of living under instinctual reign, ignoring the value of what's hidden in it. Allowing an outer authority to rule us, is asking for trouble, isn't it? Power can be used and abused, here on planet Earth. Count your blessings by discerning the games of power, within and without.
Most often it's our own projection on the outside world, or a person, or God? that causes us to be in fear. For isn't it what our mind tells us to choose as truth, as real, that causes us to break into sweat and heart palpilations and to go in a fight and flight mode?
Be surprised, when finding, being in such a state of fear, that you can stop, breathe and see what happens, what opens up for you. That's breaking through the veil that covers most of planet Earth these days, as I perceive it.
33:27 I realized how important is being here and now (mindfulness)
love it!!
If anyone could point me to any related material, I would be very joyous !
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julian jaynes!!!
Look at this how we do Carlos Castaneda's practices nowadays:
Tensegrity Constellation Group 2014 (Тенсегрити группа Созвездие)
I love the idea that this shamanic lineage of knowledge could, over many hundreds of years, even thousands, create almost a science of sorts from tripping when it seems spontaneously weird and random
19:20 "You flew as a man flies ...all there is in reality is what you *felt*".
OBEs are more than imagination...seers can report on events occurring at a distance.
Men are afraid of the unknown. Making fun of all this knowledge is a basic way to reassure themself, like kids do.
It's also a ruse to justify sloth and indolence for keeping a confortable way of life.
There is good news and bad news.
Bad news : there is only one way to know if all this is "real" : walk the path and experiment by yourself !
Good news : not everybody can do the miracles Don Juan was doing, but there is one everybody can build with a little bit of discipline and patience : a real and lasting peace of mind whatever the circomstances you're crossing !
The deal is not to change the world with a magic wand, because it's perfect as it is. The deal is to change the relations we have with the world (and it starts with people around us) to unlock new potentials. This is a recurring theme in Castaneda's books.
he's the most objective man who ever exist.. simply the god of energy.