Carlos Castaneda & The Matrix of Reality (This is a really interesting video that deeply explores the mind bending insights contained in Castenadas books, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT)
The video is... fine. Better than talking is action, though. We are all about action here. You should definitely be practicing. The most important parts come in later books, not the early ones.
Do you know about the real Buddha story from reading about it or “seeing” the past?
Additional: do you have to be at that exact location to see the past or you can be anywhere and direct your seeing to the place and time that you want?
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u/danl999
7 points2025-06-07 11:16
Partly from seeing, but in the vague "darkflix" video in the air presentation method, which is notoriously unreliable.
What you "see" is absolutely true.
But in which copy of reality?
Fortunately, there's AIs now. They're butt kissers when it comes to religion, but if they detect you are analyzing from a historical point of view, they become honest and tell you what historical critics say about it.
Then you can easily see that the Buddha is an ugly fabrication, through using ChatGPT to ask about the actual history that can be verified to be true.
#1: Buddha almost certainly never left northern India. Back then, it was very dangerous to go out on the road like that. So all the Chinese stories about "The Buddha created shaolin kungfu", are nonsense.
#2. The Buddha and his followers never wrote anything down. Not a single thing. Supposedly his teachings were passed down accurately through verbal traditions, for 200 or 300 years before the Chinese came along and decided to bring it back to China.
They were traveling along the Silk Road.
But since nothing was written down, and since his followers had gone through at least 5 "bad players" like Reni, taking over when the previous dies, no one in their right mind would believe what the Chinese man took back to China, was anything like what the Buddha was teaching.
#3. The Buddha's primary teaching was that the caste system was not divinely inspired, and whoever joined his group, no matter how low in status, would have a status equal to the date when they joined. That's pretty much the only thing he taught that we actually know.
Meanwhile, ChatGPT can take apart all of the Chinese teachings they claim came from him, and show that they actually came from Confucianism, Daoism, and Ancestor worship.
Not to mention, the idea of "enlightenment" is obscene.
An offense against reality which is so vast, that concept doesn't even make sense.
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u/CiChocolate
2 points2025-06-07 19:42
Interesting. Thank you! AI is just an information regurgitation tool, though. It doesn't have access to the knowledge that you can't have access to. It's vastly inferior to just reading prime literature on any subject and making your own conclusions.
Direct knowledge and seeing, however, that's something priceless, something that can't be found through any other means.
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u/danl999
4 points2025-06-08 12:01
But it has been trained on pretty much ALL buddhist literature, so that a religious fanatic Buddhist can't claim something you can't easily verify with a large AI.
Actually AIs are more like databases of stored information you can look up using very complex keys.
Anyway, hopefully you can see that Buddhism is both obscene, and ludicrous.
But that's true of all religions that were created after money was invented.
The obscenity comes from describing a limited, human oriented reality.
When in fact, the vast majority of the universe is non-human, and not even rational.
Thus you know instantly on hearing their descriptions and rules, that they've never seen the Nagual.
They got trapped in the tiny green zone that meditation produces, and since all of their leaders were telling them that's the highest achievement, and they didn't have an grouchy old guy like me telling them that's nothing at all, and they have to work harder, they self-flatter and stop there.
The ludicrous part comes from them elaborating on the hierarchy of heaven.
When in fact, heaven is just a human construct.
You can visit it!
But you can visit many such constructs.
Except, Buddhists don't know that.
How can that be???
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u/residentatzero
1 points2025-06-07 04:55
I've wondered, as in the movie, the activity and purpose of the awakened people threatened the status quo of the AI.
Is there something like this happening in which when you try to curtail your inner chatter and other sorcery practices, can this trigger the hostile reaction of the flyers and cause both material and non material problems for you? Like can the start of discipline bring resistance from the external world, hostility from people, "bad luck" in general, maybe up to some point, as a means to dissuade you?
I think I have experienced this, not only this but also inorganic attacks. I also feel like this is due to do this half assed, as in not fully committed, and you may resolve this if you're more ruthless. But this is not easy at all. What I'm saying is being a weekend warrior can be worse than not trying at all, and only full engagement and intent will open a way out.
But again, when you're still a beginner you can't avoid going through that stage even for a long time you may be stuck in this level, and it's a terrible position. It can be intimidating and frustrating. The only hope out I can see is to keep pushing despite all the pain and struggle. I wish it was easier.
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u/Mescalito3
1 points2025-06-10 13:23
“The only real magic left on earth”
I beg to differ. There is real magic all over the world. However, tradition is dying all over and knowledge is being lost. Why wouldn’t you consider that Siberian/Mongolian shamans practice real magic? What about aborigines, central african tribes or even eastern Europe? There is even some evidence documented magic like that of Indigenous Indonesian people. You can’t deny that these people have some insights and knowledge that bring about real magic. Even if it was for healing purposes only, it is still valid and important. Perhaps it is not even closely as advanced as the way of the Toltecs, but it works and it is practical.
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The video is... fine. Better than talking is action, though. We are all about action here. You should definitely be practicing. The most important parts come in later books, not the early ones.
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/index/statement/
Uh...
We already do far more than that.
Didn't you notice?
Do you know about the real Buddha story from reading about it or “seeing” the past?
Additional: do you have to be at that exact location to see the past or you can be anywhere and direct your seeing to the place and time that you want?
Partly from seeing, but in the vague "darkflix" video in the air presentation method, which is notoriously unreliable.
What you "see" is absolutely true.
But in which copy of reality?
Fortunately, there's AIs now. They're butt kissers when it comes to religion, but if they detect you are analyzing from a historical point of view, they become honest and tell you what historical critics say about it.
Then you can easily see that the Buddha is an ugly fabrication, through using ChatGPT to ask about the actual history that can be verified to be true.
#1: Buddha almost certainly never left northern India. Back then, it was very dangerous to go out on the road like that. So all the Chinese stories about "The Buddha created shaolin kungfu", are nonsense.
#2. The Buddha and his followers never wrote anything down. Not a single thing. Supposedly his teachings were passed down accurately through verbal traditions, for 200 or 300 years before the Chinese came along and decided to bring it back to China.
They were traveling along the Silk Road.
But since nothing was written down, and since his followers had gone through at least 5 "bad players" like Reni, taking over when the previous dies, no one in their right mind would believe what the Chinese man took back to China, was anything like what the Buddha was teaching.
#3. The Buddha's primary teaching was that the caste system was not divinely inspired, and whoever joined his group, no matter how low in status, would have a status equal to the date when they joined. That's pretty much the only thing he taught that we actually know.
Meanwhile, ChatGPT can take apart all of the Chinese teachings they claim came from him, and show that they actually came from Confucianism, Daoism, and Ancestor worship.
Not to mention, the idea of "enlightenment" is obscene.
An offense against reality which is so vast, that concept doesn't even make sense.
Interesting. Thank you! AI is just an information regurgitation tool, though. It doesn't have access to the knowledge that you can't have access to. It's vastly inferior to just reading prime literature on any subject and making your own conclusions.
Direct knowledge and seeing, however, that's something priceless, something that can't be found through any other means.
But it has been trained on pretty much ALL buddhist literature, so that a religious fanatic Buddhist can't claim something you can't easily verify with a large AI.
Actually AIs are more like databases of stored information you can look up using very complex keys.
Anyway, hopefully you can see that Buddhism is both obscene, and ludicrous.
But that's true of all religions that were created after money was invented.
The obscenity comes from describing a limited, human oriented reality.
When in fact, the vast majority of the universe is non-human, and not even rational.
Thus you know instantly on hearing their descriptions and rules, that they've never seen the Nagual.
They got trapped in the tiny green zone that meditation produces, and since all of their leaders were telling them that's the highest achievement, and they didn't have an grouchy old guy like me telling them that's nothing at all, and they have to work harder, they self-flatter and stop there.
The ludicrous part comes from them elaborating on the hierarchy of heaven.
When in fact, heaven is just a human construct.
You can visit it!
But you can visit many such constructs.
Except, Buddhists don't know that.
How can that be???
I've wondered, as in the movie, the activity and purpose of the awakened people threatened the status quo of the AI.
Is there something like this happening in which when you try to curtail your inner chatter and other sorcery practices, can this trigger the hostile reaction of the flyers and cause both material and non material problems for you? Like can the start of discipline bring resistance from the external world, hostility from people, "bad luck" in general, maybe up to some point, as a means to dissuade you?
I think I have experienced this, not only this but also inorganic attacks. I also feel like this is due to do this half assed, as in not fully committed, and you may resolve this if you're more ruthless. But this is not easy at all. What I'm saying is being a weekend warrior can be worse than not trying at all, and only full engagement and intent will open a way out.
But again, when you're still a beginner you can't avoid going through that stage even for a long time you may be stuck in this level, and it's a terrible position. It can be intimidating and frustrating. The only hope out I can see is to keep pushing despite all the pain and struggle. I wish it was easier.
“The only real magic left on earth”
I beg to differ. There is real magic all over the world. However, tradition is dying all over and knowledge is being lost. Why wouldn’t you consider that Siberian/Mongolian shamans practice real magic? What about aborigines, central african tribes or even eastern Europe? There is even some evidence documented magic like that of Indigenous Indonesian people. You can’t deny that these people have some insights and knowledge that bring about real magic. Even if it was for healing purposes only, it is still valid and important. Perhaps it is not even closely as advanced as the way of the Toltecs, but it works and it is practical.