I hope there is someone who can point me to the right book with this scene I am looking for. I read all the books years ago, and just bought them all again tonight in the kindle version hoping to find this passage/Scene.
What I remember is a scene in the desert with Don or Carlos (not sure which) with a number of students/followers/apprentices and he (Don/Carlos) leaves the group, goes behind some brush/trees? He clears himself of all outward emanations so when he comes back to the group he is a completely blank slate. When the group sees him they all "see" someone different than everyone else - IE: their minds fill in the blanks left that Don/Carlos shed before coming back to the fire.
I want to say it was one of his middle to later books, but I could use some help if this rings a bell with anyone as to which book this was in.
Or, I could be totally making that scene up in my head - but I don't think so.
Thanks in advance,
-SVM
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It's Journey to Ixtlan.
I love the passage where Don Juan is taking Castaneda to teach him "Not doing" ......"Today that rock is going to drive you crazy..." lol
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The exercise was about stopping the internal dialogue?
You got it. I think he tells Castaneda to look at the depressions in the rock and by doing that he would understand what not-doing was.
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You could do stuff like that every night if you practice darkroom seriously.
And 1000 times more!
That was just don Juan in his double.
They don't actually have any clothes...
Whatever they're wearing is likely a creation of the viewer, unless it's a one to one situation, in which case they can manage to get the person their with to perceive whatever they're perceiving themselves as wearing.
Cholita's done that for me, including changing out fits as I watched, just because I thought of what would be "funny" to see her wearing.
Once she switched to a white tutu, because I'd been in Hollywood with her on Rodeo drive, shopping, and we ran into a cougar woman with a little poodle, wearing a white tutu.
Cholita floated up into the air a foot, hovering there, and change to wearing a tutu.
Journey to Ixtlan - Chapter 16
It was also a display of the Nagual for the other apprentices who were farther along. Don Juan later on reveals in 'Tales of Power' that Carlos was the only green one there.....