For those who didn't notice, don Yuan = Yoda, and the Jedi are sorcerers. From a more ancient clan.
A coincidence? No! Although it's been scrubbed from the internet, the subreddit has an article where the writers admit they got their idea from the books of Carlos.
But more than that, we know that Soledad the witch moved to Los Angeles along with many of the apprentices of don Juan, and used some left over lineage wealth to influence movies. Her motto was "money for movies".
So one can't help but notice, we can do nearly all of what the Jedi do.
Levitating a pear during a meal like Anakin did?
I've seen that, in a dinner setting.
And the way Yoda gazes up and can see anywhere in time and space, is what Silent Knowledge is!
So why are witches now showing up in Star Wars?
Conspiracy theory: Soledad still has influence in some odd way.
The witches of Star Wars are women who yield "the force". Except, they don't care if it's dark, or light. They use whatever power they can get.
Sounds like a witch to me...
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Even if the link has been down for years, there's a good chance wayback machine has a backup. (But you do need the original link to find it.)
I need to go look for old google street view maps of Los Angeles, around Dance Home. In case may animator agrees to copy Dance Home for me.
Hasn't gotten back to me yet on that one. I just hope he isn't religious, and is slowly deciding it's a sin to help us.
Oh IDK if old google map views got archived
there is a post in the sub from 5 years ago "The Wanderling on Yoda". the wanderling has a website where he writes about castaneda and star wars. he found a citation in the book "Empire Building - The Remarkable Real-life Story of Star Wars" from gerry jenkins. there is also paragraph about star wars in the wiki.
this book can currently be borrowed for free (for 1 hour) on the internet archive with a free account:
https://archive.org/details/empirebuildingre00jenk
relevant pages with keyword "Castenada" (he was written in the book with a spelling error)
are on page 37 and 59. i made screenshots of these pages and i can post them here, but i'm not sure if there would be a potential conflict with copyrights.
I think you could post these pages without problems (fair use, and the entire book is out on the interwebz already).
Plus, even at the library I think you're allowed to copy more than two pages and since no one here makes money from this, we're good to go.
ok, here are the screenshots. i have to put them in two separate comments. reddit allows just one picture to be uploaded to a comment.
page 37 from the book "Empire Building - The Remarkable Real-life Story of Star Wars" from Gerry Jenkins:
page 59 from the book "Empire Building - The Remarkable Real-life Story of Star Wars" from Gerry Jenkins:
I think you put a little too much emphasis on the star wars connection. I mean yes it is somewhat common knowledge that Lucas was influenced by Casteneda in his ideas about 'the Force', especially. Maybe Soledad had something to do with that, who knows. But how far does the analogy really carry, or in other words how much of Castaneda's actual sorcery practices are really portrayed in George Lucas' sci-fi, hero's journey, WWII-in-space saga?
I'm sure you know that there are a lot of movies that have similar themes and portray sorcery and/or magic in various ways.
All I know is, if they have some magic, I can easily figure out how to do that.
That's not so with other magical themed movies. Their magic is "unrealistic".
More like "the superman effect". Pretend magic, perhaps Sufism style.
For example, the instant I saw Ren and Rey remote viewing each other, I remembered that Pablito or Nestor had seen the other apprentices coming down the road, too far away to see with the physical eyes.
I also remembered Carlos seeing remotely, in detail. In private class.
So I tried it, and it worked! I got to watch cholita by the same method as ren and rey.
Visibly! Wide awake.
Cholita caught me, and stopped it.
And there are many other things in there which have the same perfect connection to our sorcery.
Yoda remote viewing anywhere in time and space is another. Recently they've even added Ahsoka picking up objects, to get a vision of where the object has been.
The way la Gorda did with the Toltec artifact, so that she gott attacked b y the old seers, traveling across time.
There's more things like that than I can count.
But, i suppose it could be coincidence.
Or, it could be someone tinkering with the writers, the same way the fliers tinker with us.
Via "Jedi mind trick" type activity.
The fliers do that to us! We know that for a fact.
Still, I suppose my Star Wars conspiracy theories are a bit tedious.
Well if you say that the magic in star wars is closer to your experience than other things, then ok. I'll take your word on it.
I love the star wars theories. Having grown up with it playing in my home nonstop, it's deep in my psyche. Everytime I learn something new for myself, I can see the moment in star wars that showed the same principle. Don't stop.
I saw some more Star Wars analogies earlier tonight watching Disney.
But some of them can only be noticed if you judge the "version" of magic we do, from direct experience.
That's what makes Star Wars so hard to explain.
They have the exact same "flavor" of magic.
Other movies are just random magic.
Dr. Strange, just does anything that sounds cool.
It's unrealistic. Not that you couldn't duplicate anything you see with him, but the amount of time to learn a specific thing as well as he does it, and the arbitrariness of it, makes that very unrealistic
1000 lifetimes is how long it would take, to do what he does.
And you wouldn't actually have gotten as far as you could have, if you didn't bother and just took what came next.
Perhaps the wisest words in Star Wars, which puzzle me no end because they're so true of our own sorcery, are "Pass on what you have learned!"
Excellent advice for our community.
When you pass it on, the force becomes your ally for sure.
You'll actually see it happen.
But making up nonsense intellectual bullshit is the far opposite of that.
That means you've given into the dark side, and taken the easy path to egotism.
So I work with little kids and make them do balancing challenges with me all the time. I sneak in Tensegrity moves as it does activate them physically. I don't say anything about it though. Just egg them on with silliness. Would that count as passing it on?
I don't know. We're all new at this.
And it would take very skilled "seeing" to figure that out.
On the other hand, if I'm correct, Soledad had the idea to influence small things we perceive, in order to "loosen things up" for sorcery viewpoints.
And we know that Juan Tuma, and most likely Vicente, did those "Mescalito" peyote ceremonies.
Possibly a business venture like the "Men of Knowledge", since their peyote ceremonies actually produced repeatable magic.
But obviously they also wanted people to be aware of what's available to us.
Just don't turn into the born again Christian type, brainwashing the kids.
As Carlos famously said, "Leave the children alone."
No it's nothing like that. I'm just a swim coach. They work with me for a 20 minute lesson then move on with their life. I have found that if I can make them balance and stress their body on their own they take it as the ultimate challenge. then when they physically give out they will listen and do the swim move I need them to learn.
But in that moment of balance I make them do certain moves that make it harder for them. Sometimes I will have a group of 6 kids all balancing on one foot with their knee up circling their raised foot while holding their arms up in front of them. While they're doing it I will make them squint their eyes to look for sparkles and twist their whole body side to side while balancing on their foot. They all get into the balancing poses because they want to be better than their friends, but very quickly it becomes super quiet because they all have to shut up in order to balance properly. They have to focus on themselves.
I tell them in order to be ready for action, they have to be in control of their emotions. In order to do that they have to be in control of their body and be aware of their surroundings. I try to make it as practical and pragmatic as I possibly can.
Most kids only work with me for a couple of months before their parents move them on to the next sport. So I try to give them a foundation of physical control over their own selves.
Interesting that the latest star wars have people standing on one foot and balancing, to practice using "the force"!
Another of my "Star Wars conspiracy" theories.
The way they teach people to learn to use the force.
It's tensegrity!
i recently watched disney's "the acolyte" and the witch "mother aniseya" said something to her 2 daughters, which reminded me about intent. then she showed her powers with a movement which looked liked a part of pandora's box.
the acolyte s01e03, at \~6m45s:
"All living things are connected by the same Thread. A Thread woven through all of existence. Some call it a Force and claim to use it. But we know the Thread is not a power you wield.
Pull the Thread. Change everything. It ties you to your destiny. It binds you to others."
photo of screen at 8m8s (screenshots were black and didn't work):
see animation of pandora's box for comparison at 0m13s https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/comments/12hm49q/raw_clip_of_pandoras_box/
Star Wars writers seem to keep drawing from our sorcery.
It's surprising.
In the early episodes when Carlos was so popular he was on the cover of Time magazine, it was obvious why they'd modeled "the force" after our magic.
But how that keeps going is surprising.
I often get techniques by watching Star Wars, and seeing some new magic.
Cholita and I were doing the remote viewing thing for a while, until I told Cholita's tonal copy, and she blocked it.
Never tell a witch if their double is practicing magic with you.
They can put a stop to it.
while searching for nestor i found a little info about soledad:
from "Castaneda Compendium - All Books, Notes & Periodicals.pdf", p1256, body mind spirit magazine - december 1992, Interviewed by Ken Eagle Feather and Carol Kramer:
also from https://sustainedaction.1109d1b.netsolhost.com/chronologies/florinda-donner/
from "Castaneda Compendium - All Books, Notes & Periodicals.pdf", p1344, July 23-25, 1993 - Florinda, Taisha, Carol and the Chacmools? first workshop, at the Rim Institute in Arizona:
Fascinating!
The first one makes it less likely Soledad Ruiz is the same one.
But the second one makes it seem possible.
is this the soledad from the book? - it looks like that to me, after reading an article written by estela leñero franco about soledad ruiz and a photo of her:
translated from https://www.proceso.com.mx/cultura/2021/3/2/soledad-ruiz-10-anos-de-su-partida-259293.html :
there is an still active facebook profile with her name and a few photos:
https://www.facebook.com/mtrasoledadruiz/photos/un-d%C3%ADa-como-hoy-pero-de-1936-nace-en-san-jos%C3%A9-del-pado-guanajuato-soledad-ruiz-d/1944367632264349/
facebook profile hat this imdb link: https://www.imdb.com/de/name/nm0749938/
Probably not. But someone did post a long article on her that made it seem so, until you read the other things written about Soledad, by Carlos and the witches.
Soledad is apparently a popular name, and Carlos used alternate names in his books.
So it would be odd if he used the real name just for her.
and it is said that the soledad from the books had at least one biological son - pablito. it doesn't fit 100%
from all-in-one pdf p599, the second ring of power, ch1 - the transformation of dona soledad, p22:
Minuto 30:00
Y si lees en el testimonio de Soledad Ruiz cuando y donde se veían…
También lo nombra a Pablito.
tony karam said in the video that he met soledad and pablito. theoritically he could confirm if they were found. through pablito maybe nestor‘s book could be found.
where can i find that testimonio of soledad ruiz? is this it - i have a hard time reading the handwritten text. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=784206604947130&set=a.784206494947141&__tn__=%2CO*F
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda_practice/comments/1qai1vt/soledad_ruiz/
one day i‘ll make it into the private subreddit.
Ups! Pensé que ya estabas. Eres un buen “rastreador”.
La Gorda believed that the men were unable to remember their instruction when I asked them to reveal their stalking knowledge to me, because they practiced it without knowing what they were doing. Their training was revealed, however, in their dealings with people. They were consummate artists in bending people to their wishes. Through their stalking practice the men had even learned controlled folly. For example, they carried on as if Soledad were Pablito's mother.
To any onlooker, it would seem that they were mother and son pitted against each other, when in reality they were acting out a part. They convinced everybody. Sometimes Pablito would give such a performance that he would even convince himself.
thanks, so it was a stalking maneuver and they weren‘t biologically mother and son.
also @u/NiKOLiNAZ :
i found some quotes of a german speaking guy who met soledad ruiz at a shaman congress in alpbach 1998 and what he writes about her makes it look like the soledad ruiz from the facebook profile is not the soledad from the books.
he also left a facebook "like" on soledad ruiz's facebook profile - this is how i found his website.
the quotes:
from https://www.otorongo.net/das-wirken-der-unendlichkeit/
from https://www.otorongo.net/wie-alles-begann-gctid112/
sources:
facebook like on one of soledad ruiz facebook posts: https://www.facebook.com/mtrasoledadruiz/posts/pfbid02WruX9kXa9Cojawke1HdVeYKLBY7XdeL88nF5zEmrY4Fa4pa7HFEBhsKdoJWadVKAl
picture of doña magdalena. teacher of soledad ruiz on soledad ruiz's profile:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=774457632588694&set=a.774455142588943&type=3
"Nein, meine Liebe, pero aqui estamos hablando aleman.”
Exquisita respuesta!
Dos cosas: 1. Era una maravillosa acechadora. 2. Tratar de verificar el mundo de los brujos desde el punto de vista lineal nos aleja de la magia, no nos deja “ver”.
Soy mujer, entiendo que los hombres lo “necesiten” pero pierden mucho tiempo en un camino que finalmente los lleva a tener que aceptar la interlinealidad. O no, justamente de la linealidad se “agarraron” los detractores cuando los brujos se fueron para decir que todo era una mentira.
"Nein, meine Liebe, pero aqui estamos hablando aleman.”
Exquisita respuesta!
Puede que sea la misma Soledad, puede que no, pero…
Dos cosas: 1. Era una maravillosa acechadora. 2. Tratar de verificar el mundo de los brujos desde el punto de vista lineal nos aleja de la magia, no nos deja “ver”.
Soy mujer, entiendo que los hombres lo “necesiten” pero pierden mucho tiempo en un camino que finalmente los lleva a tener que aceptar la interlinealidad. O no, justamente de la linealidad se “agarraron” los detractores cuando los brujos se fueron para decir que todo era una mentira.
to me too the beginning of the conversation does sound like something a stalker could say. maybe the „no“ wasn‘t meant as a no to the question and more as a „no“ to not speak spanish in a german congress.
maybe its just my imagination, but in the photo of doña magdalena (teacher of soledad ruiz) her left and her right eye are different:
from all in one pdf p544:
You're not imagining it. There's a different feeling to each side.
Maybe I'll try to convince Cholita to visit Vicam.
If she returns that is.
Esta mujer es Sue Graham. 🤔
there is an english article with this photo: https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-04-27/charles-mingus-and-pachita-the-mexican-healer-who-could-not-save-him.html
También creo que es ella. Encontré más documentos. Por ejemplo, una secuencia de 15 pases mágicos que el nagual en el año 1992 le enseño a unos actores de la UNAM justo cuando ella era la Coordinadora del Colegio de Literatura Dramática y Teatro de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras UNAM 1991-1992.
Además de que se movía en entornos teatrales y cinematográficos más allá de México porque fue egresada de la Escuela de Arte Escénica de Praga.
La vieja Florinda hizo que se distanciaran con el Nagual hasta que Florinda Donner en un viaje a México los reúne nuevamente en la casa de Jacobo.
interesting, do you know if somewhere it is said that she had any children? in the books it is said that pablito is her biological son.
i found a thesis where she is mentioned a lot: "la danza de los concheros: testimonio de una identidad": https://tesiunamdocumentos.dgb.unam.mx/pd2005/0602076/0602076.pdf
the facebook profile started after she passed away in 2011. the first entry i found was from 2011-06-20 and her birthday is mentionend on 2012-04-10.
Sobre si tuvo hijos de su vientre no lo se. En cuanto a Pablito como hijo ten en cuenta (explorador Azul hija de Carol/ explorador naranja hija de Florinda y hay más “maternidades”)
En 1992 el Nagual le enseñó pases mágicos a algunos integrantes de Tit. También les enseñaba al grupo de Danza tradicional Citlalmina. Y estaba muy interesado por los concheros.
Precioso material el que rastreaste! Muchas gracias!
Más cerca de Julián 😉