Carlos used to make up obviously lame stories about the Chacmools, any new people who were going to be in the inner group, and anyone from the old guard, like the witches.
Random example: Claiming the 3 Chacmools (Nyei, Reni and Kylie) looked EXACTLY like some old statues from the Toltec period, showing obvious old seers.
Or guards of old seers. The Chacmools guarded the king I believe.
He also changed people's names to match part of the storyline.
People are still obsessed with that to this day, on Facebook.
Sometimes a person will take as many as 3 weird names, and combine them to seem more powerful.
Like, Florinda Grau Spider.
Someone with that name messaged me on Facebook, and then deleted the message before I could read it.
They get all excited, start hyperventilating, and if I'm really lucky, they delete their messages before I get dragged into hell.
Wait... Dragged into hell sounds fun. I'll ask Lily to help out with that.
But we know for sure, Carlos encouraged others to get fake names. Like Felix, Corey, Ellis, and so on.
Never did he encourage Cholita or I to do that.
Why did he do that sort of thing?
He REALLY BELIEVED this gave them a slight advantage in their connection to intent.
Read Eagle's Gift to see how far this goes.
Theory is, the Eagle (the emanations), also has an existence as "the spirit".
It's like a side job, for the dark sea of awareness.
It created the myth of the Eagle, where the Eagle is actually a nice bird and wants some people to escape to freedom.
He'll eat the rest. But just so you don't despise him, anyone who wants to can work their butts off 3 hours a night forever, and escape to freedom.
Now, here's the "weird" part.
Assuming the rest of what I just wrote wasn't already weird.
The story the Spirit tells sorcerers, repeats in each new batch.
And the story is infinite. Not just what's in there.
So if there's a Zuleica there's going to be a Josefina, and then later, a Cholita.
All paranoid schizophrenic powerful westerly dreamers.
That type of connection is automatic.
But it seems, you can "help it out" by making up stuff.
So keep an eye out in workshop or lecture notes, for Carlos making up stuff for his students to adopt.
It's also of course, stalking and not-doing.
But still, I'd like to start collecting those things before they are lost.
Because if they work, they're like vitamins we need to know about.
Can't find the puffs?
Change your name to "Olmec Puff Eater".
Might help!
Wait...
Olmec Puff Eater Grau.
That's better!
Spider???
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Why? Because he knew you two didn't need it?
Beats me.
I could speculate.
I didn't need to be more hooked to the lineage, because I was already an obsessed autistic nerd.
If I went around calling myself, "Felix the Cat", it would have harmed the situation, not helped it.
And Cholita had no where else to go.
FYI: Cholita was a joke name, because she was with a famous "Chola" woman, from the university system.
As far as I know, she actually made her living being a famous Chola...
If you want to know what that means, go look at very old cartoons, like from the 50s.
Find the wolves with watches swinging at the side of their Zoot Suit, and those were the men who went with the Cholas.
The Cholas were really cool. Chicano, hair tied up with a simple pattern solid color scarf, thin, switch blade in purse.
So seeing short Cholita standing next to that Chola woman, Carlos dubbed her "mini-me" to a Chola.
But it was never her official fake name.
They called her by her real name.
Here's the Wiki section where that sort of stuff from the 90's is to be had:
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/additional_resources
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/magazine_interviews
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/audio
Bridging Heaven & Earth Show # 4 with the Chocmools of Carlos Castaneda
Post With List of Nyei Murez's Video Interviews
And Reni Murez materials on the main Cleargreen YouTube Channel
If I remember, I'll read it, and extract a list of what could hook you to intent.
In general, we need to slowly stop implying you can learn sorcery by your own efforts, and always emphasize you are hooking yourself to intent, not learning.
Not the best explanation. But we need to emphasize intent, so more Astral Travelers don't blow up when told that's not helpful.
Someone rewrote the Cleargreen page to do the same thing. As you quoted in chat.
A very good sign!
If they have a workshop, I need to post about it and recommend people to go.
So they won't include me on their list of "watered down drinks".
I’m hoping to change my name soon. I’m named after one of my parents, who was named after another relative, and they placed many expectations on my name. I don’t want to be attached to those expectations, them gossiping about me, saying my name negatively, etc. I don’t like my name anymore. I’ve started using variations of my name to free myself from family ties
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So watch out for used clothes.
Those carry trouble too.
Carlos had new women given gifts of used or new clothes, from established members.
Cholita got some fantastic clothes.
But clothes carry the intent of the owner. So goodwill stuff, as cool of a find, is not a good thing to buy.
And no need these days, with China making most of the clothes. Good stuff for cheap.
I'm too cheap to buy new clothes. So I guess I'll suffer through some of that residue.
But I won't be able to avoid questioning my decision now ☹
Is Cholita getting rid of any clothes? Lol
She threw them all away when she moved in with me.
I was horrified! Those might in fact have contained a few of la Gorda's clothes. Maybe even Zuleica's too!
But Cholita only cares about what happens 10 minutes later. The future is irrelevant to her.
I would have saved them from the garbage, but I made a deal with intent not to interfere with Cholita's direction.
She's very pissed off with me today.
The city told us she has to get rid of her little stream, running from the backyard to the front street, via our driveway. It flows over colorful glass blobs.
Yellow dots painted at strategic locations around the yard collect the energy.
At least, that's all I can figure out. Cholita never explains spells to me.
She was removing negative energy, but had it running for more than a week.
They frown on homemade streams in residential areas.
How strange...the designs of Intent:) i passed all the last night reading notes on workshop and private classes from sustained action, and then you posted on the same topic...
Taisha workshop notes are really perfect, i like her way of teaching very much, she is extremely clear and from the way She express herself Is clear that She hasn't anymore any trace of self-reflection and internal dialogue. Maybe it's a bit off topic (if It Is ill'made It a post or a comment in the chat) but i want to add a related experience which happened.
Yesterday was a rough day cause i felt exactly this conflict which later the notes from Carlos and Taisha speaks confirmed: i'm way more detached then before from the common mechanical working of the social order, but at the same time something in me still clings unconsciously to some of its aspects and even question if It Is possible, let's say, to have a feet in two shoes.
What i discovered Yesterday night probably helped by the lineage Intent was a sort of revelation i think. Reading the notes from Carlos and Taisha i must have hooked involuntarily to their Intent, cause (even if it's difficult to explain) not only their Words sounded truer than ever, but i felt how they were exactly related to my Energy at the Moment.
After Reading some notes on the flyers and the importance of silence and recapitulation i started to feel a wonderful nostalgia of something not clear which must have happened when i was kid, i have no clear visual Memories but i know for sure that these Memories lie in some part of my body, and when i was kid i must have been an avid sucker of the Spirit world, i felt exactly what Carlos mean when he recollects his memory of having seen at UCLA, we HAVE ALWAYS seen.
But i felt this strong opposition to seeing, like a hostile force physically present in the room, and even in my thoughts (insinuating doubts against my Will about the realness of sorcery), anyway the i got a feeling of resolution, like i know what i have to do, and keeping Reading the notes of Taisha speaking about how silence makes the world collaps, the room (lights were out but was not entirely dark) started to fill with buzzing particles light and in the darker spots i saw Red and purple dots, and It was like a confirmation of Intent i think.
I was very very grateful and decided to go to sleep and i was istantly in a lucid Dream, i was in a exact Copy of the room and and i take up my head to see what was going on, well all the room was filled with dark energy and there were an immense pressure going on, Shadows were moving, and one was over me, crawling over my stomach and pressuring me.
I didn't dare to Watch directly but i tried to remain sober invoking Intent and saying out loud "i'll never let you steel my Energy again", It didn't worked cause i was too weak, but the fact that i felt ready to fight even if a loss Is probable, maked me forget about the flyer/Shadow and concentrate on the ceiling.
I wanted to express my gratitude to taisha and the rest of the lineage wherever they were, the dark energy on the room start to open up up and forming like clouds of lights and i felt that maybe this opening was a way to let my gratitude flow to the Intent of the lineage.
At the same time i had the certainty that i am still too weak to face the unknown and the dark see of awareness, and that i have to recapitulate seriously and let every mundane concern behind, cause everything Is happening now, and not in the so called "normal" reality. I tried to get rid of the Shadow, trying to force the "Will" of the stomach to move myself up on the bed, the Shadow put on an extreme resistence and made me feel impotent, like an enourmous father which take down his sibling with no effort at all.
After sometime i manage to free myself, but getting up i was swarmed again by another Shadow which scared the hell out of me even more than before, this time i thought that i have to stop dreaming cause i have not enough Energy to fight again, but my grit was here i feel some sort of rage and desire to fight back even in the daily world.
It felt to me like they wanted to suck up all the Energy they can cause now that i physically know of their presence they Will not have the same Power over me .
So, Sorry for the long post, Just wanted to share an experience maybe connected with (the Intent of) the private classess and workshops. To me theres no doubt these fucking Shadows were real, the pressure over my stomach was unbearable, i couldn't move a single muscle, maybe i don't know, i was tricked and they are simple IOB, but definetly this experience to me seems a consistent explanation about why it's so difficult to live a magical Life, the Intent of human society Is huge, but my (inexperienced) opinion tells me that it couldn't be so strong to extirpate the magic totally and thoroughly from humanity without an external aid from the spirit world.
This is an example of a seemingly lame attempt to hook to intent
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/comments/oy9hf0/dreaming_beyond_fear_moscow_russia_january_3_4_5/h7srzre