NOTE: I searched throughout the wiki and the subreddit as a whole and I didn't find any information on it.
While reading Eagle's Gift, towards the end in Chapter 14 - Florinda , a peculiar concept emerge which is parallel being. From what I understood it to mean, it's a person's energetic doppelganger, and its described as the same-sex, and they're nearly impossible to find in this world.
I interpret the passage as the parallel being, being an actual physical-person and not a non-physical being (let me know if I misinterpreted it).
Question: I don't see anymore mention of these by CC and also, has it been investigated further if the parallel being is exclusively the same-sex? Or any other descriptive context (i.e. they where born in the same year as you, same country, etc.)?
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This is 100% true. But so are the different "types". There are alot of common classification you can make but in my opinion it not that useful for sorcery unless you can "see" it.
Different types?
In my situation, I think I felt them.
As I recall we speculated that Doña Soledad may still be alive as a result of finding her parallel being...and having her recap accepted by The Eagle (aka The Dark Sea of Awareness).
She's the only one in 3 generations to have found them, per what's been written. Which isn't much.
They're supposed to be an endless source of vitality, as you would be to your parallel being.
Our speculation also includes the suspicion that she may be in control of much of the lineage's accumulated wealth and resources, and is using it to fund select film and media productions (and also to hire and retain script writers).
I know that you're methodically going through the books from the first one right now, after having bought physical copies (just a heads up to Dan).
A few yars ago, I believe came across my parallel-being, but they're of the opposite sex (so I don't know if that disqualifies them). I ended up going into a psycho-spiritual crisis of sorts shortly after, which set me to find answers and Castañeda is one of the sources I found.
To this day, I honestly don't know what to fully believe sometimes in regards to this concept. In a manner of speaking I am just going with the flow at the moment. Maybe I came across an orthogonal-being (90° right-angle) instead of a parallel one.
Now, if I did find my parallel being, I don't think they're that rare in coming across them (and I don't think that they're exclusively of the same sex either). What would be rare is finding them and forming a spatial-physical bond with them, and on top of that it would be even more rare for both beings to have personal power as well (making their link to intent being cleaned up).
How old would Soledad be at this point?
And yes, as you can see all my Books here. I also have a master PDF with all the books combined. So I use that to search for keywords, etc. from my notes and or copy/paste key-select sections of the book(s) onto my Microsoft OneNote.
Just make sure the concept of a ”parallel being” out there isn’t your Vitaminol (see Active Side of Infinity)
No, I think it'll just be the beginning
Is this something different from the "energy double" ?
Also, of anyone got time to answer here - how does Castaneda and general sorcerers look upon incarnation concept?
I think Ive read too much but many folks on Escape prison planet subreddit speak about white light being false and that u shouldnt go in it, unless u want to repeat the cycle..
Also, I remember Lujan Matus mentioning meeting with this AI consciousness, which seemed like a being with certain task - to scan him..
All in all, Ive read through Castaneda's books and only recently by discovering this subreddit have come back to the topics, so there might be a lot of holes in my knowing which someone else could fill probably
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/terminology/cyclic_beings
And a little more throughout this page, and it’s linked content:
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/buddhism
Lujan Matus is a HORRIBLE fraud who claims our sorcery comes from Buddhism.
Can you imagine that?
Also claims to be re-incarnated.
Which is total nonsense, and contrary to sorcery itself. We don't come back!
But you do have other lives out there. Right now! And you can switch over to those, if you work hard.
Lujan hasn't even been paying enough attention to know our sorcery is Olmec, not Toltec, and easy to prove as being at least 8000 years old, with jade figurines showing our techniques are much older than Buddhism.
And a likely history going back 10,000 years, if you look at the relic documented west coast migrations from Proto-Siberia. The source of our sorcery.
Not to mention, Buddhism has no magic worth mentioning. It's just exaggerations and outright lies, to steal money from people before google was available to make that obvious.
But now it is! So use Google to clear up your mind.
Lujan has some lousy "peace and tranquility" youtube videos so childish, it's amazing anyone falls for him. And look at that "badass" sorcery name.
Is he 5 years old? Kind of looks that way on some of his book promotion photos.
I sure hope you develop more common sense, hanging around in here.
However, usually when someone brings up a terrible person like Loogie Matus in this subreddit, be it Sergio or Mango or one of the other foreign language speaking phonies whose names I can't remember, they're actually trying to promote that person.
And it turns out, what they really like about that fake sorcerer is that they're getting away with stealing money from others.
They're "franchise hopefuls" who admire those like Lujan, who succeeded in stealing from the community.
Don't be that guy for your own sake! Surely you'll have me to face if you do. There are actual students of Carlos around, to protect the teachings from people like Lujan.
And people who think of "teaching" before they learned, never get to see even a tiny bit of real sorcery magic.
Which is worth more than any job you could possibly scheme your way into.
If you knew the real thing, you wouldn't even trade it to be Elon Musk.
Or Steve Jobs if you don't like Elon's libertarian politics.
Thanks for the complete comment.
Not sure how much 'intuition' is real for non regular practicioners but I didnt fully buy into his stories, even though some of them was "lurking", entertaining and supposedly more revealing, or easier to grasp, than some things in Castaneda's books.
As about buddhism, from my little research, I found it interesting some ancient forms of it used "bone magic" and other death related rituals and acts..
Non the less, wanted to say I appreciate for you being here in this community and revealing and making all of these practices and niances more clear.
Jumping about 10 years ago when I first stumbled upon Castaneda, most concepts seemed super out of this world, foreign and hard to grasp..
I also never got clear answer on how to keep the energy but by visiting this subreddit, it came clear right away that Tensegrity and movement practices should be used.
Non the less, Ive got a lot of catching up and should make it as an appointment to do the dark room practice and not fall for the laziness trap..
Cool!!! That's what we need more of.
But the japanese name? Any way you're actually Japanese?
I've been told over and over again by the Chinese (I have an office in Taiwan), that there's NO WAY for this subreddit to exist and survive, among the chinese.
Because make believe magic is completely fine there. In fact, it's just "good business".
Which means everyone feels entitled to make up whatever they like, so they can sell it later on.
We do that in the USA too, but we feel "guilty" about it.
Not sure that's much different.
But it does mean we can police this place and try to keep it educational for real.
However, I never considered the Japanese.
So rigid. So "always the same way for everyone".
I even get imported to Japan by companies like Taito or Panasonic, because they need an influx of "creativity" from what they call a "Mad Man".
An old nerd with grey hair, who sounds as crazy as the scientist from Back to the Future.
So maybe, Japan could sustain real magic?
You couldn't add it on to the "Sanchin" katas, even though it would make those work amazingly well.
But maybe a new branch of Japanese magic is possible, with the real thing in it?
They still have witches there.
In Taiwan, I can't tell the witches from the garbage truck women who ball out people who don't sort their trash before throwing it away.
They carry brooms and wear pointy straw hats.
But so do the exorcist women putting exorcised demons into the little "anti-temples" on the opposite corners of street blocks, near a real ancestor workshop sanctuary.
Also, do you have any Japanese discount coupons to watch "Howl's Moving Castle"?
They always charge on streaming services...
Ok cool side topic about Japan..
What's your take on samurai training and 'philosophy' if you got into that in any way?
As for the nickname, long story short, it is based on videogame about a wolf Okami and its magical powers in relation to goddess - Amaterasu.
Supposedly, the word for Wolf and Godess in Japanese is very similar, but it would be more like ōkami then.
I did look into the word origins quite a bit, but the prefix -kami comes in a lot of words as well.
As about Taiwan - have u lived there?
That was my go to place in mind, to learn 'Electronics' there, since If I had been the 'worst' student in electrical knowledge there, I would by far be better than most students here, who have learn it locally..
Just my take and association with Taiwan myself..
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Not mentioning some ayahuasca/nnDMT plant spiecies originate there as well.. with local following entailing..
Ive got to find any entries where u might have commented on "power plant" use and their "work" in moving the assemblage point..
Ive come to utter alienness there, cold, hard field where I feel like nobody and 'lost'..
Okami word meaning, dissection
From: https://www.reddit.com/r/Sekiro/comments/cfzr3y/can_someone_here_give_me_the_true_meaning_of_okami/
The Japanese word for wolf is actually "ookami". It's basically four syllables: o o ka mi. And it's a single kanji character. The word "kami" means deity, but it's a completely different word/character from the above. So the phrase "ookami" could be the character for "great" plus the character for "deity", or "great deity
How about Hakaoshin? LOL
My favorite untranslatable Japanese word is Yugen, meaning something too deep and mysterious to describe. Closest word in English for that I feel would be sublime.
I was long on the trail of martial arts magic, from "the old ones".
And in particular, some off shots of the Samurai. Armorless Samurai moves.
There's real magic in there!
But it's not visible these days. If you were to get taken in by some karate guy claiming he still has some, you'd be making a big mistake.
There's google now.
Lived in Taiwan?
Just long enough to be pushed out of heightened awareness, by the miserable heat and humidity of the South Pacific islands.
My facebook has a picture of that.
Not a place I could stand living. My DNA came from the cold regions of the earth.
Power plants will ruin you.
I suppose you might try them once or twice.
Cholita tried them once.
And then Carlos "imported" her from mexico, and now she's stuck with me.
So better avoid them.
Besides, we BLOW AWAY any drug trip, no matter how "heroic".
Fully sober, wide awake, eyes open, walking around.
We kick the butt of Terrence McKenna nightly for hours.
His infrequent drug trips to try to get as high as we can, with waking dreaming, left him seriously damaged.
And he never got to see any real magic at all. Too lazy to follow the instructions Carlos gave him, but eager to cash in on that audience.
It's a dead end.
But if you're curious you can afford to try it once.
Just get some Cubensis spores, a pressure cooker, some mason jars, and a bit of brown rice flour. Maybe a pinch of specific minerals for lawn care.
I used to grow magic mushrooms almost as big as a Frisbee for a double women I encountered.
But there's absolutely no need to consume those, and you won't learn sorcery that way.
It's a mistaken belief.
The "Men of Knowledge" used mushrooms, rituals, and their Allies to do what they did.
If any of those is missing, there's no magic.
The power plants DO NOT produce magic.
That's from the ritual and the Ally. The ally channels Silent Knowledge, during the course of the ritual.
And we have both of those allies among us!
From the books. Those ones. For real.
Carlos left them to his private class.
Search for "Fairy's Pass" to see how to summon Little Smoke. Except she seems finicky.
The Devil's Weed entity might show up too. But usually uninvited.
Cholita has him. I call him "Minx".
A little bastard he is.
Just like in the books I suppose.
Cool, im absorbing as much as I can.
Do you think cacti /s. pedro might be a better choice for gaining at least some insights or "encounters" with true knowledge?
Yes trips are not worth it if the actions there or lived experience fades away and doesnt stay with you..
Non the less, from these 'substance realms' many more ppl can become curious what Castaneda had to tell about it and beings/allies in general..
Thanks for the notes, directions..
Currently I would like to find more about guarding the gap, if it ever comes to situation like that..
Cheers, non the less, if it still 'matters' and everything isnt already mostly singular and undivided..
2nd topic to look up - how Duality is described or how much internal dialogue, foreign installation comes in its play..
Thanks once more!
Sure, easy to get hold of San Pedro.
Makes you a bit woozy if you have to brew a tea and drink all that.
But it seems people are concentrating it into dark brown tar these days.
I haven't seen any, but I'm sure there's instructions all over.
I know a chinese man who has opium poppies growing in his backyard (by accident), A yellow bell shaped flower I don't know the name of, but which is as powerful as devil's weed, magic mushrooms in his front yard (I stuck them on some straw in a cold part of the garden years ago), and right across the street is enough San Pedro to get you high for a year.
No one would even notice if a piece "accidentally" fell off, and disappeared.
"Duality"?
Be careful, that topic is delusional in most magical systems.
Don Juan even makes fun of it at one point, using the chili sauce on a restaurant table.
Sorcerers can see it. They don't philosophize about it.
If you do darkroom, your "other half" will come out and sit on the end of the bed for you.
Fully visible! Creepy as hell, except in that state you don't care.
Im curious have u managed to meet people who have done "all of this", -
are able to move assamble point etc on their own, without the knowledge, information that Castaneda books and practices exist at all.. ?
I guess as you said some forms of magic can be found in certain practices or rings of people, communities but otherwise it is quite a rare sight to witness..
They use rituals to move their assemblage points, and have no knowledge of the assemblage point.
So they're essentially "men of knowledge" in some unusual form.
Can't do what we do as seers.
But it's not impossible there are some of those left too.
The seers come from the strains of ancient shamanism. Perhaps 8 all over the world, before agriculture, money, and cities ruined it all.
Once humans are pushed into cities, kept away from their natural environment and from spirits, they are so stupid, they'll grasp for any supernatural teaching, to make their horrible city lives more meaningful.
With money, con artists can trick them with pretend magic.
And the world has been dominated by that. All the original real magic, buried over.
But stick around in here and watch people t ry to bury what we have!
Just yesterday we had one.
On average, 3 people a week come to do something that would result in the destruction of our magic, if it went unchecked by the mods.
You should watch it closely, it's quite educational to see why everything out there is a fraud.
But in particular, "Islander Shamanism" has survived in some forms.
Japan would have that strain if anything was left.
Just keep in mind, anyone charging money to teach magic, is a total fraud.
Magic can't be practiced by people with such motivations.
At least, not if they claim they can actually each you.
I suppose someone who learned in here, and could do the real thing, could "teach", but would likely honestly tell people up front, they're wasting their time.
Thanks, this puts few things in perspective and doesnt break the reality in pieces right away..
Anyways, I guess it is now best not to overcrowd myself with excessive info and instead stick to few basic rules or things to follow..
Well, as always, matrix reality needs to protect itself, so it will attack anything that 'stands out' and doesnt want to fit in..
Not sure what can fix that, I guess spell work cant really cover it, as anyone with access to this place can still 'jump in' ..
It looks as it is one of these paradoxes, where for certain result you have to sacrifice or deal with a plethora of other annoying nuances..
因为中国人上不去互联网，哈哈哈哈，但是我翻出来了。
Chinese people not only can go to the internet, but they have hacked versions of all software packages, and all movies!
And most proprietary technologies.
When my software vendors break their promises for a permanent license on their expensive engineering software, and try to force me to buy a new copy because my "permanent license" is 10 years old, I just go to the Chinese site and get a hacked copy of the latest.
And someone gave me Howl's moving castle also, from the same Chinese site.
But it was legal because in fact I bought a copy.
On DVD. Won't play anymore.
Allowed digital backups are established law when it comes to copyrighted products on unreliable media like CDs and DVDs.
You are right. Piracy is very common in China.
For most Chinese, Google is forbidden to log in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall
AI will spoil that for the Chinese government.
To be clear for anyone else reading this too, the energy double and the parallel being are very different things.
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