When I started reading the books in the early 1990s, the first couple of books were really heavy on Omens, signs, receiving agreements from the spirit and how to slow down the world in order to see them.
I got a little into I think the second book, one in which Carlos was still dating his experiences with Don Juan. Turns out one of his experiences he dated was October 3/ 1968… my birthday.
So I took that as a sign.
Turns out it is still one of the most powerful chapters in my opinion and it is to this day the only thing that I know of which happened on Oct 3, 1968 other then me being born.
Rakshasa (Sanskrit: राक्षस, rākṣasa) is a supernatural being in Hindu mythology. As this mythology influenced other religions, the rakshasa was later incorporated into Buddhism.
I guess Tibetan Buddhists follow the old sorcerers?
Something I ponder as well. Geography. 10,000 years is a long time, time enough for remote/disparate populations to hook into that intent . Like when different groups living in different time periods and on different continents end up inventing basically the same exact solution to a problem.
Also, if you believe in the existence of a global interconnected civilization in prehistory (see tobacco and cocaine traces in ancient Egyptian mummies) then maybe we should take out the “of ancient Mexico?”
And just call it “the intent of the ancient sorcerer’s?” Because some of them may not have been of meso-american heritage.
It’s recommended, in Castaneda lineage (sect), to veer off their path at the end and go into the unknown anyway, which is a different intent from the ancients.
Buddhists haven’t conceived of the assemblage point yet. So the 3rd attention is not available to them. Given that, the IOB realm is the only escape for them.
Have you heard of the rainbow body phenomenon? Apparently when a Bonpo monk is ready to leave/die their physical body, in a matter of days, begins to shrink until it disappears; usually only nails and hair is left behind. What do you think that is about? Could that be related to burning from the fire from within?
This quote suggests either move to another Great Band or doing “complete” assembly, possibly assisted by Earth, is the way to do it “with boots and all”.
FFW:
Then something imprisoned me again. I moved at the same pace as the two blobs of light by my sides. Gradually they began to lose their brilliance, then became opaque, and finally they were don Juan and Genaro. We were walking on a deserted side street away from the main square. Then we turned back.
„Genaro just helped you to align your emanations with those emanations at large that belong to another band,” don Juan said to me. „Alignment has to be a very peaceful, unnoticeable act. No flying away, no great fuss.”
He said that the sobriety needed to let the assemblage point assemble other worlds is something that cannot be improvised. Sobriety has to mature and become a force in itself before warriors can break the barrier of perception with impunity.
We were coming closer to the main square. Genaro had not said a word. He walked in silence, as if absorbed in thought. Just before we came into the square, don Juan said that Genaro wanted to show me one more thing: that the position of the assemblage point is everything, and that the world it makes us perceive is so real that it does not leave room for anything except realness.
„Genaro will let his assemblage point assemble another world just for your benefit,” don Juan said to me. „And then you’ll realize that as he perceives it, the force of his perception will leave room for nothing else.”
Genaro walked ahead of us, and don Juan ordered me to roll my eyes in a counterclockwise direction while I looked at Genaro, to avoid being dragged with him. I obeyed him. Genaro was five or six feet away from me. Suddenly his shape became diffuse and in one instant he was gone like a puff of air.
I thought of the science fiction movies I had seen and wondered whether we are subliminally aware of our possibilities.
„Genaro is separated from us at this moment by the force of perception,” don Juan said quietly. „When the assemblage point assembles a world, that world is total. This is the marvel that the old seers stumbled upon and never realized what it was: the awareness of the earth can give us a boost to align other great bands of emanations, and the force of that new alignment makes the world vanish.
„Every time the old seers made a new alignment they believed they had descended to the depths’ or ascended to the heavens above. They never knew that the world disappears like a puff of air when a new total alignment makes us perceive another total world.”
He said that the sobriety needed to let the assemblage point assemble other worlds is something that cannot be improvised.
I believe that only comes from turning off the internal dialogue all day long, and even then only over time. And you can sort of hear it in what someone who’s succeeded says. No unnecessairy competition going on.
Wow, very cool find! I was hoping you could vanish for someone, the way Taisha said Emilito did.
When it comes to taking the physical matter along, I’m not sure why I care about that. You won’t have an organic body where we’re going, so no need for physical matter.
I guess it’s just a desire to “prove” things, which is something best given up in the dark room. What happens is what happened. What you experienced.
That’s good enough.
I’m lucky Cholita despises me. When I run into her in her dreaming body, there’s no way to verify it unless she drops a piece of new info.
If she despised me just a tiny bit less, so that I could talk to her, I’m sure she’d deny anything just out of spite.
She seems to like running away to the beach. She gets parking tickets. I’m not sure whether to give her a hard time over them. At least I know where she was.
Last time we were at the beach, we were following cobwebs in the darkness.