"for a warrior there is no end to the mystery of being, whether being means being a pebble, or an ant, or oneself. That is a warrior's humbleness. One is equal to everything.”

In The Art of Dreaming, Carlos Castaneda takes the reader into the very heart of sorcery, challenging both imagination and reason, shaking the very foundations of our belief in what is "natural" and "logical."

Carlos shares a landscape full of terrors and mysterious forces, as sharply etched as a flash of lightning on the deserts and mountains where don Juan takes him to pursue the sorcerer's knowledge-- the knowledge that it is the Eagle that gives us, at our births, a spark of awareness, that it expects to reclaim at the end of our lives and which the sorcerer, through his discipline, fights to retain. Castaneda describes how don Juan and his party, left this world--"the warriors of don Juan's party had caught me for an eternal instant, before they vanished into the total light, before the Eagle let them go through"--and how he, himself, upon witnessing such a sight, jumped into the abyss.

Hello, and welcome to the Ancient wisdom modern mind Podcast, and before you read 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. I would like to take a moment to remind you to subscribe to this podcast. So go ahead and click on the subscribe button.

Six Explanatory Propositions are:

1. What we perceive as the world are the Eagle's emanations.

2. Attention is what makes us perceive the Eagle's emanations as the action of skimming.

3. The skimming’s are made sense of by the first ring of power.

4. Intent is the force that moves the first ring of power.

5. The first ring of power can be stopped by a functional blocking of the capability of building skimming’s.

6. The second attention.

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 References

// S O U R C E: Extract is from The Eagle’s Gift by Carlos Castaneda Spanish versions of the book