The Six Explanatory Propositions, which were included in the Spanish language version of the Eagle's Gift by Carlos Castaneda but were never published in the English versions of the book.

Dreaming instruction is divided into two parts. Part one is about dreaming procedures that fix the dreaming attention and Part two is about the purely abstract explanations of these procedures. This is an interplay between enticing one's intellectual curiosity with the abstract principles of dreaming and guiding one to seek an outlet in its practices.

In this podcast I read a short extracts from Tales of Power and Journey to Ixtlan that that relate to Selecting a Topic for Dreaming: First Extract is from Part 1, Tales of Power: Witness to Acts of Power, Chapter 1. An Appointment With Knowledge. Second Extract is from Part 1, Journey to Ixtlan: Stopping the World, Chapter 12. A Battle of Power.

“The formless warrior uses that eye to start dreaming. If you don’t have a form, you don’t have to go to sleep to do dreaming. The eye in front of you pulls you every time you want to go.”

Hallucinogens and their use in spiritual rituals have been around for thousands of years and the modern spiritual movement’s use of Hallucinogens to achieve out of the body experiences is really no different than the divinations of the ancient Egyptians and Greeks.

“You’re again confusing issues. Solace, haven, fear, love, all of them are moods that you have learned without ever questioning their value. As one can see, the black magicians have already engaged all your allegiance.”

Most of the time when we’re dreaming, we’re not aware of it and just take what’s before us in the dream as real. But the Not-doing of dreaming is when you are aware that you’re dreaming and can take steps to control the dream.

“One of the first concerns of warriors is to free that energy in order to face the unknown with it,” Don Juan went on. “The action of rechanneling that energy is impeccability.”