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Hello, if my writings are not understandable, it’s because I don’t know English well and I’m using a translator.
I have been familiar with Carlos Castaneda’s books for a few years now and found them interesting and readable. I really want to follow the path Carlos described in his books, with my sole aim being to continue the journey that Don Juan taught Carlos.
However, I have encountered some questions and would like those who have walked this path to answer them. As Don Juan said, to enter the path of knowledge and power, one must be cautious and vigilant.

  1. Carlos Castaneda had a mentor like Don Juan who could help him, but we are alone in this winding and difficult path. In times of need, who should we turn to for help? Is it possible to embark on this path without a mentor or guide?
  2. After entering and performing exercises in the dark room and tensegrity, and encountering inorganic beings, will we face any problems?
  3. For those who think a lot and have obsessive thoughts, is there any danger? Or can it help?

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  1. Yes we’re all alone. And we like it that way!

  2. Yes, you’ll face endless problems.

  3. Yes, there’s danger. It’s real magic. Real always comes with danger.

Fake (everywhere else but this subreddit) does not come with danger, other than to your bank account.

I get the impression you’ve only read the first 3 books.

You need to read the others. They’re free, Techno has them all in a single pdf and the AIs do a very good job of translating to 57 different languages.

Here’s a clue what you’re possibly not understanding.

We DO NOT want to be “men of knowledge”.

Don Juan only taught that to Carlos to give him another point of view. So using that strange point of view about the world, and his normal point of view, he could slip through the middle and learn to “see”.

The men of knowledge never learned to see. They were profiteers who sold magic shows.

And other things.

But for them, it was all about getting stuff from other people.

You cant’ learn to be a seer if that’s your motivation.

So if you have any hopes of “teaching”, forget it.

You’ll never learn, if that’s your goal.

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I have read all the books, and some of them twice, albeit with poor translations that translators wrote with their personal flair. I have done a lot of research as well. But if I read them a thousand times and do not act, they are worthless.
In the place where I live, there are many mystical paths, but I chose this one among them. I don’t know the reason and interest behind it, maybe because it seems direct and clear to me. Of course, I don’t think this path can be compared to mystical paths like Sufism or Buddhism.
Please tell me why you went down a path that you say is full of endless dangers and problems. There must be reasons that I don’t know about. What motivated you to enter this path?
But I know that dying without knowledge is living life in vain. Don Juan lured Carlos into this path, but I don’t know why this interest has arisen in me to continue on this path, even if I have to give up a lot for it. My goal is not to gain power to influence everyone. My goal is to truly stop the world, achieve silence, and see the real truth. I don’t want to live and die like ordinary people, robotically and slavishly.
How does a warrior overcome his fear in the early stages of apprenticeship? I feel like the attacks of the flyers increase when starting.
Oh, how lucky Carlos Castaneda was to have someone like Don Juan.

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Because Sufism and Buddhism are frauds, designed only for stealing money from people.

And there’s pretty much nothing real anywhere else!

I wish there were. I truly wish there were.

It’s a very sad situation.

I searched for 15 years or so, all over the world.

Carlos searched for 20 and he could go meet anyone, even famous gurus.

We found absolutely nothing.

Other than simple meditative effects you can get by many methods, and which hardly constitute “magic”.

Worse, if you study Sufism you pick up such a bad understanding, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to ever get rid of the bad teachings and learn sorcery.

Sufism teaches you that magic is trivial and that once you acquire it, it’s like owning a rifle, or a screwdriver. Or a magic lamp.

It has no real understanding of the nature of magic.

Sufism is only for stealing from people who want to learn magic, but don’t know anything about it.

But Buddhism is just as bad.

As is Christianity or Judaism.

All make believe.

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Here’s a picture showing you why Sufism and Buddhism are fake magic.

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And the link to that youtube video, which you might want to watch so you understand what real magic is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1AchLvoP_Y

It’s possible that someone translated it to Farsi.

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Thank you very much for responding. However, not all my questions were answered, which were very important to me.

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Don’t be needy. That seems to be a characteristic of middle easterners. Wanting an authority figure to tell them it’s ok to learn.

This isn’t a money making business! So no one in here wants to waste their time on someone who is very unlikely to learn.

We have a VERY LOW success rate in here. Because it takes actual work to learn, instead of just pretending like people do everywhere else.

Meaning, even if 100 people subscribe to this subreddit, only 1 actually does any work.

And 4 of those 100 who don’t, ask a lot of questions which never help them get anywhere. Questions which in fact, harm beginners who read them.

People asking questions such as you did, wanting someone else to give them motivation, not able to find it on their own, are likely only a 1 in 1000 success rate.

If telling you that bothers you, make it 1 in 10,000.

You have to WANT magic.

And nothing else.

Then you have a tiny chance.

So do some work first, then if you still have questions when you are staring at magic right in front of your eyes, feel free to ask me.

Or you can of course always ask anyone else. Some of the women are very helpful.

But before you ask me more questions, see if you can learn to do this:

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Farsi version of Animations :

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW0RMk8WUH3YnbhGvv4pEwu9Z6KvGkF-3&si=48mTRBSFY7-3iN7I

The voiceover is done by the owner of the YouTube channel, which is actually a book-reading channel.

I’ll probably make a separate channel for sorcery media later and upload all the Farsi videos there.

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It’s all green zone stuff you can get by prayer, or many other methods.

You should probably give up on sorcery for now, until you start to be a bit more honest about what’s magic, and what’s just ordinary meditative effects hyped up by bad men.

And give up reliance on magic men or saints to motivate you.

I believe that’s one of the side effects of Islam. To want to put your faith in people, instead of insisting on real magic that can’t be denied.

Thai Buddhism causes the same problem. I doubt we’ll ever have success with someone born in Thailand. They’ve been thoroughly hazed by social pressure.

I’ve also been told, by the Chinese, that it’s hopeless to try to help the Chinese. Because they grew up with so much fake magic all around them, they are incapable of putting in the effort to learn the real thing.

Is that true? I have no idea, but I have an office in a Chinese country, and it does seem reasonable to me that they’re big fakers and won’t give that up.

Honestly… I’m not joking here.

You won’t be able to learn sorcery yet.

You have to have sobriety for that.

But later perhaps!

After you finally realize those other systems just want your money.

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So here’s the exception to my belief we won’t be able to teach any Iranians…

There’s people willing to do real work to help, and they aren’t trying to get money from people.

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All we need is energy. Tensegrity stirs energy and compels the centers of vitality to gather it from the periphery of the luminous sphere. Without energy, even the simplest thing will seem incredibly difficult and confusing, so one can spend a lifetime reading, only losing rather than gaining. Everything we usually do is a constant loss of energy, and we didn’t even have a way to start gaining it.

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Please explain the dangers and problems, as well as the ways to deal with them.

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  1. Yes, you can do this work without a teacher. We’re proof of that.and Intent wants it this way.

  2. IOBs are there to assist with your practice. They can’t harm you. No dangers except you could choose to go live with them, like the old seers did, later when you’re very advanced on the path. Is it a danger? Don’t think so, but it’s a choice you get to make, if you want.

  3. You just have to work harder to curb, quiet and stop your internal dialogue. No dangers. You will get to “see” and “interact” with the second attention/other realities.

You mentioned you had some “seeing” experiences while doing Tensegrity before. Was that dangerous? No. Why would it be dangerous now?

You should start PRACTCING. Come here and share your experiences and ask questions that arise as a result of your actual PRACTICE.

Fear is the first enemy of sorcery. Don’t let fear stop you before you even get started.

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Thanks!

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Thank you for your great response :clap:. However, (danl999) mentioned that there are many dangers and problems. It would be helpful if you could provide information about the dangers and problems, as well as ways to deal with them.

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If you are concerned with dangers before even starting you won’t be able to make it on this path. Don Juan also said that “everything is dangerous”.

Worry about it when you come to it.

“A warrior is impeccable when he trusts his personal power regardless of whether it is small or enormous.”

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He’s never going to learn at this time. Maybe 20 years later?

Who knows… I’ll be an interesting experiment to see who is incapable of learning right now, and goes away, but comes back and succeeds later on despite the bad start.

To find out what changed.

In his case, since he believes he’s already “seen”, and that some Sufi master showed him magic, I’d say the chances are he’ll turn into a con artist himself, rather than do any real work to learn.

Some people aren’t actually interested in learning, but rather are hopeful to learn how to pretend, so they can steal from others.

This isn’t just me being a grouchy old man, like Cholita insists (almost daily).

We’ve learned that in here! New people come, they claim Miguel Ruiz, or some other total faker is knowledgeable, and then after taking the time to point out that if they know anything, they should be able to do real magic and they should be telling others how to do it (namely just pointing out that they should have a place as obviously successful as this subreddit), rather than admit that it does seem that their idol is a faker, instead they claim they never really believed it in the first place.

And go on to explain their own great knowledge.

We get “franchisers” in here.

But those are everywhere!

Thus Reni is selling “teacher certificates” like every other fake magical group.

When you run out of workshop customers, you sell teacher’s credentials.

I’ve seen it over and over in other fake magical systems.

Fortunately we don’t have anything at all for sale.