Found these books at a discount book store, good stuff in here? Any practical knowledge?
Castaneda Books
Found these books at a discount book store, good stuff in here? Any practical knowledge?
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The entire series is a story of Carlos' sorcery apprenticeship. A story with magical bonuses for the reader if they choose to accept them; like bringing you here for example. It will benefit you to read through the wiki to gain a sense of what those books are and what this place is.
The Gnostics seem to be fond of Castaneda. His works seem to keep coming back into my life so time for reading.
It would be a good idea to keep the two separate, one is a religion, the other is a technology used to move the assemblage point and eventually do real magic aka stuff you think is impossible. Lurk the subreddit a bit more if you’re interested, other people might reply to you and seem rude but everything that’s said here is meant to help you gain sorcery knowledge.
Thank you for your reply. I’ve seen DanI19 or something commenting a lot on the subject if thst’s what you meant 🤣
Yes they are, this page lists them sequentially(and lists some other related books and publications as well)
https://reddit.com/r/castaneda/w/booklist?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
You'll probably find more than a few superficial similarities between gnostisism and sorcery but that's where the similarities end, on the surface. One problem that we all seem to have is relating things together that we only think we understand. Maybe it's how our brains work, they make connections between things. So if you have a construct of information in your mind already called Gnostisism, anything you read in the books is going to automatically connect back to that and you'll think you're "getting it" but you're not. If you read around here enough you'll see tons of comments about people "pretending" or "confused/delusional" about topics and it's because of that. We think it's good enough to "know" things because it makes us better than people who don't know those things, and we feel no motivation to continue.
This is not facts to learn, it's activities to participate in and see for yourself. It's you learning about your own awareness directly, and how it connects to the universe at large. You don't evolve with tidbits of information and talking about things you think you know, you evolve through Action.
You could think of Intent like a current of energy. We want to be pulled by this specific current, and we must align with it. It leads further than anything else known.
A taste of that current, a hook to it, is contained within those books you have. It's already started for you. Keep it clean and paddle hard my friend.
There is little known about real gnosticism. I would try Gurdiieff teachings through some of his disciples; a very good read it's the Psychological Commentaries by Maurice Nicole
Can you take more photos of the books covers and of the box? I'm curious to see the art!
If you read all of the books, you'll be able to explain how all other magical systems really work, including gnosticism, and do far far more than any of their leaders, saints, gurus, masters, or prophets even dreamed of.
For real.
Here's a map given to us by Carlos himself. Three of his private students help out in here to make sure it doesn't get off track with pretending, the way other magical systems inevitably do.
Why do people pretend? Greed? Manipulation? Status? They don’t have access to the real stuff?
Because everyone is pretending their magic.
All religions, all magical systems, all philosophies.
Buddhism, Hinduism, Daoism, Kabbalah.
You might say, "But those produce results!"
Do they?
More than hitting the snooze button in the morning, and laying there enjoying half dream states?
More than Catholic monks or nuns, praying all day?
It's just "green zone" effects. Meditative effects from reducing your internal dialogue, using prayer, contemplation, or a mantra.
It's pitiful to call that magic!
Real magic brings tears to your eyes, or makes you pee your pants.
So everyone who comes here is already used to pretending, and when you tell them this produces REAL magic, they really don't understand.
They think that's just the religious sales pitch.
So they join in what they believe is going on.
Pretending.
Carlos however would have said, it's the "fliers".
A foreign entity which feeds off self-pity. Originating from the Pleiades star collection direction.
Self-pity produces an energy they like to consume.
So they manipulate us, kind of like the "Jedi mind trick", to keep us pretending.
Knowing that "group think" will cause that to spread, and hopefully destroy us.
It's a real struggle!
On average 3 people per week, for the last 4 or 5 years, had to be tossed out of here because they were pretending, angry, or trying to take us down.
Free magic, right here, and we get angry people showing up.
How does that even make any sense?!
Carlos specifically warned us about this attack, saying it tends to come when you are making progress as a group, or an individual has made a lot of progress and discusses it in here.
Three on average attack over a period of a day or two.
We've verified that ourselves.
It's the "attack of threes".
It's so common, we don't even bother to mention it anymore, in the private chat.
ah the threes. Shit happens in threes 🤣.
I’ve seen the puffs and colored puffs. Just couldn’t ever do anything with them. Funny, there was always stuff on the other side of them too, but I could never “see” what was there.
Children commonly see them, and if you can manage to search very old discussion groups, there was a back and forth about the puffs around 25 years ago.
Someone wondered what those are.
It's your dreamer! Out in the real world.
I see them with eyes open too, even in the day time, it’s like a fog in front of my eyes. Happens a lot during sex too. Not sure if related, or if I’m just focusing mentally.
The real ones will cause you to shapeshift, if you grab it and stretch it horizontally.
That's Minx (AKA the Devil's Weed Entity) in the cartoon.
this can be seen by others too?
Dozens in here have seen both of them.
Cholita even introduced me to Minx.
The Allies are very real!
They even have various names, in other countries.
The Krasue is my favorite because it's from Thailand.
Read them, and find out. Report back your findings.
I will report back.
I found a used copy of collectible box set online and scooped it up for shits and giggles. Don’t see that around much these days.
I think I was meant to find these. Talk about incredibly Niche.
Maybe….Castaneda’s books change people.
Those first 4 books are pretty adventurous, and intent will set the hook.
Enjoy!
so far, not sure how the first three plants will help me. I don’t live in an area where they grow. That and how dangerous they are, I would definitely need a guide. Halfway through the first book.
Uh, what you talking about plants? Maybe you meant to reply to someone else?
I was just assuming you read them, the first half of the first book was Don Juan teaching Castaneda about plant sorcery
Yep I’ve read them. As you read on, DJM moved CC to Hunter and taught him hunting. The plants he used were psychedelics for the purposes of moving CC’s assemblage point (AP). The first 3 books are a great read, all techniques and explanations start in book 4 and on.
I’m not a senior practitioner, but can you tell you, you don’t need plants/psychedelics, there’s a proven path to sorcery/shifting your AP (in this sub) that comes from former students of Castaneda’s and strictly follows the techniques in the books.
i’m not interested in psychedelics . I have an intuition that says the power is within and we have a connection already. I’m here for the lessons. ❤️. Thank you for your comment you validated that feeling.
Personally, from my experience, it’s not a power. It’s how we’re built. Humans are capable of changing realities and seeing/interacting with energy. Inner silence and tensegrity enables us to do it.
There’s a great DJM quote, “life is sufficient and complete, you have everything you need for the journey that is your life.”
The early books have some great life insights.
That would explain the mass informational genocides over our history and attempt to suppress all sorcery.
All will is revealed in the later books. For some we get a new description and understanding of our species and reality.
Most importantly, in conjunction with the books; there’s a path in this subreddit to seeing for yourself what Castaneda was writing about.