Castaneda: Basics

Castaneda wrote a novel not a manual, and he wrote just enough for people who've done it to know exactly what it is but can be quite confusing for people who haven't done it. What I'm writing here is a manual, something you'll need to go hand in hand with the novel.

Aura sighting exercise.

Put a blue object, comestic bottles etc against a white background preferably at a height of 1 feet on top of a table. Look at half a thumb length away from the blue object until you see a yellowish aura. You can even spread the auras or play with it. It takes 5 mins. You can change the object to different colours, to a bus, your house, table, yourself in the mirror. They all emit different colours. This is for practicing your peripherial vision.

The Dark Room - 1 to 2 hours.

Do this everyday for 1 month. The more hours the better. This a combination of mediation, grounding and shielding.

The video is for shielding because you'll need it. Change it to a different video everyday from the same channel.

1. Play the video, lay on your bed, use sleeping mask or black clothes over your eyes, eyes CLOSED.

2. Imagine there are 2 ponds, one beneath your feet and the other on top of your head.

3. Draw the water up from both feet, legs, hips, stomach, neck, face, head and leave it on the pond on top of your head. Repeat 10 times.

4. Now draw the water down from your head, let it travel to your face, neck, stomach, hips, legs, feet and leave it there. X 10 times.

5. Draw water from the head to left side of your face, neck, stomach, hips, legs, feet and jump to the other feet and up the legs, hips, stomach, neck, face, head and down again in a loop. X 10 times.

6. When you finish this, your body would have been quite relaxed your mind will float from the YT audio to other places. That is good. You might go off to sleep, that's fine too. Occassionally feel which part of your body is hot.

You might sweat profusely in the first week, that is fine. That's just your energy / plasma cleansing you. Once you learn how to keep your body in a relax state to a certain point, you might see colours or iobs hovering, half face, all white eyes, not even human, do not interact with those. Next you might see sceneries. Interact with sceneries, plant a tree, lift the animals, touch the grasses. Seeing iobs should not be the aim, they're just part of the journey, a thing that presents itself. If you're following every colours and shapes your mind will be too awake, you won't see sceneries so never follow the colours and shapes. Whenever you feel you're too awake, concentrate on the YT audio, the two ponds, parts of your body etc.

Generally speaking, you're seeing with the subconscious eyes not the physical eyes so an open or closed eyes hardly makes a difference but it's easier to get there via closed eyes. The sceneries will appear vague at the start, eventually it'll be as clear as HD movies. The aim is to see sceneries at command while drinking coffee. I can, for instance jump into the scenarios and feel the emotions when I read novels, watch tv etc while awake.

Whenever I make a post and people read it, I feel feathers, strings falling all over my back, hands, legs. Those are what Castaneda call tentacles, some call it energy, I call it plasma.Those are people's thoughts felt in the form of invisible feathers, strings. To only feel it is of no use, the real skill is to learn how to translate those plasma strings and know what message it conveys.