(Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda) He explained that in order to help erase personal history three other techniques were taught. They were: losing self-importance, assuming responsibility, and using death as an adviser. The idea was that, without the beneficial effect
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(Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda) Thursday, 22 December 1960 Don Juan was sitting on the floor, by the door of his house, with his back against the wall. He turned over a wooden milk crate and asked me to sit down
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(Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda) “Together with the right way of walking,” don Juan went on, “a teacher must teach his apprentice another possibility, which is even more subtle: the possibility of acting without believing, without expecting rewards – acting
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(The Universal Spiderweb by Armando Torres) In one conversation, he said: “Each conscious being in the universe is connected to a line of energy; the act of exchanging lines is called ‘aligning.’ Aligning allows us to experience perceptions different from the ordinary
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(Magical Passes by Carlos Castaneda) Don Juan Matus, a master sorcerer, a nagual, as master sorcerers are called when they lead a group of other sorcerers, introduced me to the cognitive world of shamans who lived in Mexico
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(Encounters with the Nagual by Armando Torres) When revising my notes, I discovered that another topic Carlos repeatedly referred to in his talks was the concept of recapitulation. He claimed that it is the exercise to which sorcerers dedicate most of their
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(Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda) He looked at me. He seemed undecided, then stood up and said that I had no other recourse but to keep my appointment with knowledge. I felt a shiver; my heart began to pound fast. I
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(Encounters with the Nagual by Armando Torres) One of Carlos’ characteristics was that he was unpredictable. Sometimes he arrived on time to his appointments, other times he was an hour late. The system had its advantages; it made the less interested
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(The Universal Spiderweb by Armando Torres) “‘I am’ is a made-up sentence; its interior is hollow, and it feeds on a nucleus of insecurity. Not-doing is an interruption in the flow of the habitual interpretation of the world. As long as
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(Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda) I drove to don Juan’s house and arrived there in the early morning. I had spent the night in a motel on the way down so I would get to his house before noon. Don Juan
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