Following the Eagle's Flight - Understanding the Books of Carlos Castaneda

Following the Eagle's Flight: Understanding the books of Carlos CastanedaIntroduction Summary of the Sorcerer's Way Part I. - The Nature of the Universe and Ourselves Part II. - Why Can't We Perceive The True Nature Of The Universe? Part III.- A Strategy for Perceiving Our True Nature - The Sorcerer's Way

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Introduction: Following the Eagle's Flight - A Conceptual Guide to the Books of Carlos Castaneda. Ever since I could remember, I've had a vague awareness that the world was more than it seemed. As a child, I often felt surreal, like life was a play and everyone else pretended it was real. Growing up, this feeling mainfested itself into passions for science, literature and metaphysics. I began reading anything that helped deepen my understanding of life's mysteries.

The first time I read Carlos Castaneda, I was in high school. The book was Don Juan: A Yaqui's Source of Knowledge and to be honest, it didn't impress me. While the book was entertaining, I never gave any credence to Castaneda's experiences and considered them only as drug-induced possibilities. How could anybody turn into a crow? Instead I read: Watts, Rand, Kerouac, Keats, Pirsig, Jung, and anyone else who I thought had legitimately glimpsed into the human condition. I went to college, traveled for a few years and tried anything that could turn my vague awareness into a conscious knowing. I took a job teaching science but I was more interested in the metaphysical universe than the physical one. By that time, I understood that all humans possessed the ability to experience something greater than themselves. In fact, I would argue that the themes of most books deal with a person's experience of trying to tap into a greater power. The problem for me was that neither science, philosophy nor religion had ever explained that "greater power" in a rational, causual way. A few years later, I came across The Art of Dreaming and after only a few pages, I realized that this book was attempting to explain in detail, the metaphysical universe. I wondered whether I had missed something in Castaneda's first book so I immediately bought the entire series from a second-hand book shop and started reading. The more I read, the more I realized that Castaneda's books were not about drug-induced fantasies but about a system of knowledge (Toltec) that explained the nature of the universe. To understand that system, I knew I had to pluck out all the important pieces from each book and try and put them back together like a puzzle. After initially reading the series, I reread it again, this time marking each important passage and typing it into a computer. Having no idea how the pieces of knowledge fit together, I began organizing each idea conceptually trying to understand the main themes of Castaneda's writing. Finally, four years later, I put the last pieces of the puzzle together and stepped back to see what had been created. I wasn't disappointed. Castaneda had managed to weave into his books, the Toltec's entire system of knowledge. I was amazed at the simplicity behind the knowledge yet the thoroughness to include everything in its description. I no longer scoffed at the idea of someone becoming a crow, in fact, it seems very rational to me now. To ensure that I had left nothing out of the Toltec system of knowledge, I read the other books written by other members in Castaneda's group. All books verified and repeated what Castaneda wrote with the exception of Taisha Abelar's The Sorcerer's Crossing. Her book not only verified the Toltec knowledge but enhanced some explanations that were vague or incomplete. Her writings are included along with Castaneda's work.

Three themes emerged from Castaneda's work: First, the description of the universe and humans as energy. Second, the description why humans fail to perceive the universe and themselves as energy. Third, the description on how to perceive the universe and ourselves as energy via the sorcerer's way. See the summary of the Sorcerer's Way. To truly appreciate the core ideas of the Toltec knowledge, the work was designed to be read completely from beginning to end. Through a series of questions and answers, each Toltec concept is built upon each other thus enabling the reader to move deeper and deeper into the knowledge as they read. Each quotation is followed by the particular book's intials (see bottom of page for key) and page number. Finally, I would like to caution those who wish to understand Toltec knowledge through academic means only. You can't. This intellectual organization of knowledge serves as a starting point for people to question their reality but does nothing to help you experience that reality. To truly understand what it means to stop the world, to slip between its cracks and to follow the flight of the Eagle, you need to put away the books, stop talking about it and act. And you might, if you maintain your actions, (intent) and act impeccably, you just might be lucky enough to verify for yourself some of the concepts of the Toltec path. Jay French Guide to the books:DJ - The Teachings of Don Juan SR - A Separate Reality JTI - Journey to Ixtlan TOP - Tales of Power SRP - The Second Ring of Power EG - The Eagle's Gift FFW - The Fire from Within POS - The Power of Silence TAOD- The Art of Dreaming TSC - The Sorcerer's Crossing (Taisha Abelar) Back to the main page.

Summary of the Sorcerer's way I. What is the true nature of reality?

The universe and everything in it is made up solely of energy. There are no objects, just energy. This energy emanates from a force (The Eagle) and radiates throughout the universe (The Eagle's Emanations) as an infinite number of energy fields. Humans are energy bubbles (luminous eggs) that arise from one of the 48 energy fields associated with the earth.(Great Bands of Emanations) There are other non human bubbles arising from 7 different bands called inorganic beings. Humans begin perceiving when a vibrating portion of their emanations inside the luminous egg matches a vibrating portion of outside emanations and fixates. The place where fixation occurs inside the luminous egg is known as the assemblage point. The assemblage point is where perception takes place. The position of the assemblage point determines what a human will perceive. o If the assemblage point is fixated habitually on one spot, this is called the first attention. (tonal) o If the assemblage point fixates somewhere other than the habitual spot, this is known as the second attention. (nagual) o If the assemblage point fixates on all spots at once, this is known as the third attention. (fire from within) The purpose of humans is to enhance our awareness through our life experiences then be taken back up into the Eagle as food.

II. Why can't humans perceive the true nature of reality?

When humans are born, their assemblage point is very fluid and babies perceive many different things. (including energy) As babies get older, the assemblage point begins to fixate habitually based upon what people teach the baby. (tonal of the times) The habitual fixation of the assemblage point is reinforced daily so that all of our available energy is

used to keep it there. (ego) Our perception of reality therefore becomes fixed for life. III. How can humans perceive the true nature of reality? (The Sorcerer's Way)

To experience the true nature of reality, a person has to move the assemblage point from its habitual position. (called stopping the world) To move the assemblage point, humans have to free up some of the energy keeping the habitual assemblage point in place by o impeccability, recapitulation, not-doing, gazing, tensegrity, right way of walking, dreaming, etc. (This is the bulk of the Sorcerer's Way) o being frightened, scared, starved, anything where the ego doesn't concentrate on itself. After enough energy is freed up and the assemblage point is becoming fluid, the person then tries to permanently move their assemblage point into a different position. (losing the human form) After a person loses the human form or moves the assemblage point permanently, they are making decisions about their life based on reality as energy. They are in flow with nature and act accordingly with it, no matter how strange their actions may seem to a "normal" person. They are considered enlightened beings.

What is the ultimate goal of the Sorcerer's Way?

To enter the third attention which would allow them to bypass being food for the Eagle.

Guide to the books:DJ - The Teachings of Don Juan SR - A Separate Reality JTI - Journey to Ixtlan TOP - Tales of Power SRP - The Second Ring of Power EG - The Eagle's Gift

FFW - The Fire from Within POS - The Power of Silence TAOD- The Art of Dreaming TSC - The Sorcerer's Crossing (Taisha Abelar) Back to the main page.

OUTLINE - Following the Eagle's Flight: Understanding the books of Carlos CastanedaPart I. - The Nature of the Universe and Ourselves. A. The Universe B. Luminous Beings C. Awareness and Perception D. First Attention E. Second Attention 1. Inorganic Beings 2. Totality of Ourselves F. Third Attention G. Sex and Children H. Death ---> back to main page Part I. - The Nature of the Universe and Ourselves.A.) THE UNIVERSE What makes up the universe? What is the source of the universe's energy?

THE EAGLE Why is the source of all energy called the eagle? Do we really "see" the eagle? Is it dangerous to see the eagle? Does the eagle really look like an eagle? What is the eagle's purpose? Can you pray or ask favors from the eagle? What does the eagle respond to? How is the eagle's energy dispersed throughout the universe?

THE EAGLE'S EMANATIONS/LINES OF THE WORLD/EAGLE'S COMMANDS

What are the eagle's emanations? o Why are the eagle's emanations also called the eagle's commands? o What do the eagle's emanations look like? o How are the eagle's emanations arranged in the universe?

THE GREAT BAND OF EMANATIONS How would you describe the great bands? Are they really bands? How many great bands are there in the universe?

THE EARTH'S 48 GREAT BANDS OF EMANATIONS What do the earth's 48 great bands of emanations produce? How are the earth's 48 great bands of emanations divided?

THE ORGANIC BEING BAND What does the organic being band produce? What does the organic being cluster look like? How are the organic beings aligned on the band?

THE INORGANIC BEING BAND What do the seven inorganic bands produce?

THE OTHER 40 GREAT BANDS OF EMANATIONS FOR EARTH What are the other 40 great bands like? What do these other 40 bands look like?

WILL/INTENT What sustains or controls the eagle's emanations? What is the difference between will and intent? What is intent? o What are the different names of intent besides will? o How does intent appear to people? o Can intent communicate with us? o How does intent communicate with us? o What is the voice of the spirit? o How do we understand the voice of the spirit/intent? o How can we hear the voice of the spirit? o How does intent affect us?

ROLLING FORCE What is the rolling force? o What makes up the rolling force?

TUMBLING FORCE

What is the tumbling force?

CIRCULAR FORCE What is the circular force? o Why is it called the circular force? o Are they really circles? o How do the two forces hit us?

B.)LUMINOUS BEINGS/LUMINOUS EGGS What are all living creatures really? Does every creature have a body of energy? What are some other names for this body of energy? What exactly is the energy body? Does our energy body belong to the physical body? What is the real division in humans? What separates the physical body and the energy body? What does our energy look like? What determines the luminosity of a living creature? Are the emanations inside the bubbles the same as the eagle's emanations outside? What do you call the emanations outside the physical body but still within the cocoon? What do you call the emanations outside the cocoon? What shape do the emanations form? o What do sorcerer's eggs look like? o Were our luminous shapes always shaped like an egg? What is the purpose of the luminous egg? What are some chacteristics of the luminous egg? Are men and women's eggs different? What causes the intense shine in the luminous egg? What is the assemblage point? o How big is it? o Where is the assemblage point on the luminous body located? o Where is the assemblage point on the physical body located? o What is the assemblage point's purpose? o What is the glow of awareness/man's band of awareness? o What does the glow of awareness look like? o Where is it located? What is the purpose of the egg's long fibers that come out from the navel are? o What kind of fibers do people have? o What can you tell about someone from their fibers? How do the eggs move? Does the egg has any weaknesses? What is the luminous gap's purpose? o When does this gap open? o Are all gaps the same? o How does the egg protect itself from the rolling force? o What is the front plate? How do people see the luminous eggs? Analogy of the luminous ball: a ball of jack cheese How is the double divided/how does the energy circulate in the energy body?

Lower section Upper section Right section Left section How does the double perceive? o How does the double perceive energy in dreaming? o What things can perceive the double? o What can the double do? What is the physical body? o Where do men and women store their energy?... o Where are the energy centers in the physical body? First gate Second gate Third gate Fourth gate Fifth gate Sixth gate Seventh gate

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C.) AWARENESS/PERCEPTION What is the definition of awareness/perceiving? How does the eagle give us awareness? How does the eagle give us awareness through it's emanations? How do we perceive the 3 giant bundles? o What is associated with each bundle? o What is the amber bundle like? How is the energy of our world arranged? o What determines the cast/color? How do living things perceive? o What happens when the emanations at large puts pressure on our emanations? o How does our assemblage point help us to perceive? o What are some ways to refine our perception? o What determines what we can perceive? Can the assemblage point move? o What moves our assemblage point? o What happens if the assemblage point moves? o What kind of movements can the assemblage point do? What is a shift of the assemblage point? What is a movement of the assemblage point? o How do we feel when the ap moves? How do we know what we experience is real? o So then, what is reality? o What is the criteria for a real perception or a real world/how do we know what we experience is real? When does awareness begin? How does awareness or consciousness begin? What determines how much awareness each creature will have? Do creatures perceive the same when the emanations at large exert pressure on the same emanations? Does awareness grow? How does consciousness grow?

How do we increase our awareness? How does the glow increase? There are two types of awareness: right and left side What do you call awareness that has matured and developed? What is attention? How many types of attention are there? o the first and second attention are found within the human domain what is the human domain? The human domain is further split into: 1.) The human known - (first attention, emphasized emanations, used emanations in man's band of awareness) what is man's band of awareness? 2.) The human unknown - (second attention, unused emanations in man's band of awareness) 3.) The unknown proper- (second attention, beyond man' s comprehension) The third attention is found outside the human domain or the luminous cocoon How do we enter into an attention?

D.) THE FIRST ATTENTION What is the first attention? What are the other names of the first attention? What is the first tonal? How does the tonal make the world? What position of the assemblage point does the tonal result from? What great bands does the assemblage point assemble in the first attention? Seeing people as a tonal: types of tonals o What is seeing people as tonals? o How do you see people as tonals? o What kinds of tonals are there? Proper tonal Right tonal Average tonal How does the first attention correspond to the luminous body? How does the first attention corresponds to the physical body? What are we capable of perceiving in the first attention?

E.) SECOND ATTENTION What is the second attention? What are the other names of the second attention? What is the nagual? o How does the nagual work? o Is the nagual god? What bands does our assemblage point assemble in the second attention? When do we actually perceive another world? How does the second attention correspond to the luminous body? Where is the second attention assembled?

What causes us to perceive the human unknown? What kind of shifts are there? o Shallow shifts What will you perceive in a shallow shift? Where is the shadow world located? Heightened awareness What is heightened awareness? Descriptions of being in heightened awareness Shift along the midsection Shift in depth/to the left A lateral shift The mold of man What is it? Why is it called the mold of man? The shift below/place of the beast What causes the human unknown proper (no human traits)? o What kind of movements of the assemblage point are there? Deep displacement, deep left side Barrier of perception What will we perceive there? On the other side of the wall of fog/no-man's land/limbo/area between the parallel lines Descriptions of the second attention General sensations entering the second attention o Hearing o Vision o Dualism of perception o Colors/lights o Images o Clarity of thinking o Details o Weight sensations o Tickle on the head o Time o Emotions o Anything Descriptions of being in the second attention o Bubbles o Voices o Seeing in the dark o Cavern/Sponge World o Dome o Other Descriptions o Sensations following the focus of the second attention o Why do we forget experiences in heightened awareness when we are in normal awareness? Where are the memories trapped? o How do you act in the second attention? o What happens to the physical body in the second attention? What would someone see if someone disappeared into the nagual?

E-1. INORGANIC BEINGS What are they?

What does the cocoon of an inorganic being look like? How do inorganic beings interact with us? Can inorganic beings hurt us? How do we perceive them? Types of inorganic being The inorganic beings realm/dark regions o What does the inorganic being's realm look like? o How many levels in the dark regions? Other places/Anywhere/Waterholes o Sponge World Getting an inorganic being as an ally o Calling the inorganic beings Communicating with the inorganic beings o Why do we seek each other?

E-2. TOTALITY OF OURSELVES Where are the tonal and nagual located? Totality of oneself What is the totality of oneself? o Diagram of the totality of oneself o Drawing the diagram o Another example of a diagram o Meanings of the diagram

F.) THIRD ATTENTION What is the third attention? o Why can't we perceive in the third attention? o What happens to us when we go into the third attention?

G.) SEX/CHILDREN What is the purpose of sex? What happens to women after sex? What happens when we have a child? What happens to your luminous egg when you have children? How does a black spot develop in the egg?

H.) DEATH What is death? Where do we find death? Dying How do you know when someone is close to dying? Why do we die? How does our cocoon become weak? How does the rolling force kill us? What happens to us when we die?

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Part I. - The Nature of the Universe and OurselvesA.) THE UNIVERSE

What makes up the universe? What is the source of the universe's energy?

THE EAGLE Why is the source of all energy called the eagle? Do we really "see" the eagle? Is it dangerous to see the eagle? Does the eagle really look like an eagle? What is the eagle's purpose? Can you pray or ask favors from the eagle? What does the eagle respond to? How is the eagle's energy dispersed throughout the universe?

THE EAGLE'S EMANATIONS/LINES OF THE WORLD/EAGLE'S COMMANDS What are the eagle's emanations? o Why are the eagle's emanations also called the eagle's commands? o What do the eagle's emanations look like? o How are the eagle's emanations arranged in the universe?

THE GREAT BAND OF EMANATIONS How would you describe the great bands? Are they really bands? How many great bands are there in the universe?

THE EARTH'S 48 GREAT BANDS OF EMANATIONS What do the earth's 48 great bands of emanations produce? How are the earth's 48 great bands of emanations divided?

THE ORGANIC BEING BAND What does the organic being band produce? What does the organic being cluster look like? How are the organic beings aligned on the band?

THE INORGANIC BEING BAND What do the seven inorganic bands produce?

THE OTHER 40 GREAT BANDS OF EMANATIONS FOR EARTH What are the other 40 great bands like? What do these other 40 bands look like?

WILL/INTENT What sustains or controls the eagle's emanations? What is the difference between will and intent? What is intent? o What are the different names of intent besides will? o How does intent appear to people? o Can intent communicate with us? o How does intent communicate with us? o What is the voice of the spirit? o How do we understand the voice of the spirit/intent? o How can we hear the voice of the spirit? o How does intent affect us?

ROLLING FORCE What is the rolling force? o What makes up the rolling force?

TUMBLING FORCE What is the tumbling force?

CIRCULAR FORCE What is the circular force? o Why is it called the circular force? o Are they really circles? o How do the two forces hit us?

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Part I. - The Nature of the Universe and OurselvesB.)LUMINOUS BEINGS/LUMINOUS EGGS

What are all living creatures really? Does every creature have a body of energy? What are some other names for this body of energy? What exactly is the energy body? Does our energy body belong to the physical body? What is the real division in humans? What separates the physical body and the energy body? What does our energy look like? What determines the luminosity of a living creature? Are the emanations inside the bubbles the same as the eagle's emanations outside? What do you call the emanations outside the physical body but still within the cocoon? What do you call the emanations outside the cocoon? What shape do the emanations form? o What do sorcerer's eggs look like? o Were our luminous shapes always shaped like an egg? What is the purpose of the luminous egg? What are some chacteristics of the luminous egg? Are men and women's eggs different? What causes the intense shine in the luminous egg? What is the assemblage point? o How big is it? o Where is the assemblage point on the luminous body located? o Where is the assemblage point on the physical body located? o What is the assemblage point's purpose? o What is the glow of awareness/man's band of awareness? o What does the glow of awareness look like? o Where is it located? What is the purpose of the egg's long fibers that come out from the navel are? o What kind of fibers do people have? o What can you tell about someone from their fibers? How do the eggs move? Does the egg has any weaknesses? What is the luminous gap's purpose? o When does this gap open? o Are all gaps the same? o How does the egg protect itself from the rolling force? o What is the front plate? How do people see the luminous eggs? Analogy of the luminous ball: a ball of jack cheese How is the double divided/how does the energy circulate in the energy body? o Lower section o Upper section o Right section o Left section How does the double perceive? o How does the double perceive energy in dreaming?

What things can perceive the double? What can the double do? What is the physical body? o Where do men and women store their energy?... o Where are the energy centers in the physical body? First gate Second gate Third gate Fourth gate Fifth gate Sixth gate Seventh gate

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Part I. - The Nature of the Universe and OurselvesD.) THE FIRST ATTENTION

What is the first attention? What are the other names of the first attention? What is the first tonal? How does the tonal make the world? What position of the assemblage point does the tonal result from? What great bands does the assemblage point assemble in the first attention? Seeing people as a tonal: types of tonals o What is seeing people as tonals? o How do you see people as tonals?

What kinds of tonals are there? Proper tonal Right tonal Average tonal How does the first attention correspond to the luminous body? How does the first attention corresponds to the physical body? What are we capable of perceiving in the first attention?

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Part I. - The Nature of the Universe and OurselvesE.) SECOND ATTENTION

What is the second attention? What are the other names of the second attention? What is the nagual? o How does the nagual work? o Is the nagual god? What bands does our assemblage point assemble in the second attention? When do we actually perceive another world? How does the second attention correspond to the luminous body? Where is the second attention assembled? What causes us to perceive the human unknown? What kind of shifts are there? o Shallow shifts What will you perceive in a shallow shift? Where is the shadow world located? Heightened awareness What is heightened awareness? Descriptions of being in heightened awareness Shift along the midsection Shift in depth/to the left A lateral shift The mold of man What is it? Why is it called the mold of man? The shift below/place of the beast What causes the human unknown proper (no human traits)?

What kind of movements of the assemblage point are there? Deep displacement, deep left side Barrier of perception What will we perceive there? On the other side of the wall of fog/no-man's land/limbo/area between the parallel lines Descriptions of the second attention General sensations entering the second attention o Hearing o Vision o Dualism of perception o Colors/lights o Images o Clarity of thinking o Details o Weight sensations o Tickle on the head o Time o Emotions o Anything Descriptions of being in the second attention o Bubbles o Voices o Seeing in the dark o Cavern/Sponge World o Dome o Other Descriptions o Sensations following the focus of the second attention o Why do we forget experiences in heightened awareness when we are in normal awareness? Where are the memories trapped? o How do you act in the second attention? o What happens to the physical body in the second attention? What would someone see if someone disappeared into the nagual?

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E-1. INORGANIC BEINGS What are they? What does the cocoon of an inorganic being look like? How do inorganic beings interact with us? Can inorganic beings hurt us? How do we perceive them? Types of inorganic being The inorganic beings realm/dark regions o What does the inorganic being's realm look like? o How many levels in the dark regions? Other places/Anywhere/Waterholes o Sponge World Getting an inorganic being as an ally o Calling the inorganic beings Communicating with the inorganic beings o Why do we seek each other?

E-2. TOTALITY OF OURSELVES

Where are the tonal and nagual located? Totality of oneself What is the totality of oneself? o Diagram of the totality of oneself o Drawing the diagram o Another example of a diagram o Meanings of the diagram



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Part I. - The Nature of the Universe and OurselvesG.) SEX/CHILDREN

What is the purpose of sex? What happens to women after sex? What happens when we have a child? What happens to your luminous egg when you have children? How does a black spot develop in the egg?



Part I. - The Nature of the Universe and OurselvesH.) DEATH

What is death? Where do we find death? Dying How do you know when someone is close to dying? Why do we die? How does our cocoon become weak? How does the rolling force kill us? What happens to us when we die?



A.) THE UNIVERSE

WHAT MAKES UP THE UNIVERSE?

THE WHOLE UNIVERSE IS MADE UP OF ONLY ENERGY Universe...everything is energy. The whole universe is energy. TAOD,3....in the universe only energy exists...TAOD,239 .....In the universe there is only energy, and energy has only a here and now, an endless and ever present here and now. TAOD,248

THE UNIVERSE HAS EXITS AND ENTRANCES IN IT'S ENERGY FLOW There are entrances and exits in the energy flow of the universe. TAOD, 22

WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF THE UNIVERSE'S ENERGY? The Eagle is the source of the emanations.. FFW,58. The power that governs the destiny of all living beings is called the Eagle. EG,172 ...inconceivable dissolving force (Eagle) in the universe, TAOD,149

THE EAGLE

WHY IS THE SOURCE OF ALL ENERGY CALLED THE EAGLE?

OLD SORCERERS DESCRIBED IT AS HAVING THE APPEARANCE OF AN EAGLE It is called the Eagle not because it is an eagle or has anything to do with an eagle, but because it appears to the seer as an immeasurable jet-black eagle, standing as an eagle stands, its height reaching to infinity. EG,172 the old seers in the few glimpses that they could sustain, saw it as something that resembled a black-and-white eagle of infinite size. FFW,55

FOUR BLAZES REVEALED WHAT THE EAGLE IS LIKE TO THE OLD SORCERERS As the seer gazes on the blackness that the Eagle is, four blazes of light reveal what the Eagle is like. The first blaze, which is like a bolt of lightening, helps the seer make out the contours of the Eagle's body. there are patches of whiteness that look like an eagle's feathers and talons. A second blaze of lightening reveals the flapping, wind-creating blackness that looks like eagle's wings. With the third blaze of lightening the seer beholds a

piercing, inhuman eye. And the fourth and last blaze discloses what the Eagle is doing. EG,173

DO WE REALLY "SEE" THE EAGLE?

WE CANNOT SEE THE EAGLE BUT OUR BODY SENSES IT ...there is nothing visual about the Eagle. FFW,58. The entire body of a seer senses the Eagle. There is something in all of us that can make us witness with our entire body...because man is composed of the Eagle's emanations, man need only revert back to his components. FFW,58

IS IT DANGEROUS TO SEE THE EAGLE?

THERE IS SOME MORTAL RISK, DREAMING AND ONE'S INTENT HELP PROTECT YOU ..there is no way to see the Eagle's emanations without running a mortal risk...the technique of dreaming can be used as a shield to protect themselves from the deadly blow of the Eagle's emanations. FFW,191..The key to withstanding the Eagle's presence was the potency of one's intent.EG,243.

DOES THE EAGLE REALLY LOOK LIKE AN EAGLE?

MAN'S AWARENESS HAS THE PROBLEM OF TAKING SOMETHING INCOMPREHENSIBLE AND MAKING IT COMPREHENSIBLE The problem arises with man's awareness; it is his awareness that becomes entangled and confused... man's awareness is compelled to interpret. The result is a vision of the Eagle and the Eagle's emanations. FFW,58. It is called an Eagle because it is simply a case of something unknowable vaguely resembling something known.. but that always happens when impressionable people learn to perform acts that require great sobriety FFW,58 ...but there is no Eagle and no Eagle's emanations. What is out there is something that no living creature can grasp. FFW,58.

WHAT IS THE EAGLE'S PURPOSE?

THE EAGLE'S PURPOSE IS TO CONSUME THE AWARENESS OF ALL CREATURES

The Eagle is devouring the awareness of all the creatures that, alive on earth a moment before and now dead, have floated to the Eagle's beak, like a ceaseless swarm of fireflies, to meet their owner, their reason for having had life. The Eagle disentangles these tiny flames, lays them flat, as a tanner stretches out a hide, and then consumes them; for awareness is the Eagle's food. EG,173. (The Eagle) which makes organisms live by lending them their awareness. That force also makes organisms die, in order to extract the same lent awareness which organisms have enhanced through their life experiences.. TAOD,149

CAN YOU PRAY OR ASK FAVORS FROM THE EAGLE?

THE EAGLE REFLECTS ALL THINGS EQUALLY AND CANNOT BE MOVED The Eagle reflects equally and at once all those living things. There is no way, therefore, for man to pray to the Eagle, to ask for favors, to hope for grace. The human part of the Eagle is too insignificant to move the whole. EG,173.

WHAT DOES THE EAGLE RESPOND TO?

Since the Eagle is made of energy, the Eagle only responds to energy. For a creature to have an affect upon the Eagle that creature must posess an excess of energy. See Intent.

HOW IS THE EAGLE'S ENERGY DISPERSED THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE?

The Eagle's energy is released as lines of energy. These energy lines are known as the Eagle's emanations, lines of the world or the Eagle's commands. To keep things simple, only the terms Eagle's emanations or emanations will be used.

THE EAGLE'S EMANATIONS/LINES OF THE WORLD/EAGLE'S COMMANDS

WHAT ARE THE EAGLE'S EMANATIONS?

THE EAGLE'S EMANATIONS MAKE UP THE UNIVERSE

everything is made out of the Eagle's emanations. FFW,59 there is no world of objects (existing by themselves and as themselves just as we perceive them), but a universe of the Eagle's emanations. FFW,49, FFW,126 the Eagle's emanations are an immutable thing-initself, which engulfs everything that exists, the knowable and the unknowable FFW, 57

THE EAGLE'S EMANATIONS ARE AN INFINITE NUMBER OF ENERGY FIELDS RESEMBLING THREADS OF LIGHTS THAT HAVE AWARENESS AND ARE ETERNAL the universe is an infinite agglomeration of energy fields, (Eagle's emanations) resembling threads of light. POS,13 there are an infinite numbers of lines that joined us to things...,JTI,193 the Eagle's emanations are more than filaments of light.. each one of them is a source of boundless energy.. FFW,67 what's really out there are the Eagle's emanations, fluid, forever in motion, and yet unchanged, eternal. FFW,54 light that was alive and resemble ordinary light but ordinary light has no awareness.. POS,112 the filaments are aware of themselves, alive and vibrating, that there are so many of them that numbers have no meaning and that each of them is an eternity in itself. FFW,63 ..Essence of the universe resembles incandescent threads streched into infinity in every conceivable direction, luminous filaments that are conscious of themselves in ways impossible for the human mind to comprehend. , TAOD, 5..

The Eagle's emanations are an infinite amount of lines of energy emitting from the Eagle (source of all the energy in the universe) which cover the entire universe. These eternal threads of light are alive and aware, making up everything in the universe.

WHY ARE THE EAGLE'S EMANATIONS ALSO CALLED THE EAGLE'S COMMANDS?

THE EAGLE'S EMANATIONS ARE ALSO CALLED THE EAGLE'S COMMANDS THAT NO ONE CAN DISOBEY Eagle's commands ....although DJ disliked calling the emanations commands, that is what they are: commands that no one can disobey. FFW,92 Seers who see the Eagle's emanations often call them commands. FFW,59...

WHAT DO THE EAGLE'S EMANATIONS LOOK LIKE?

THERE IS NO TRUE VERSION OF THE EAGLE'S EMANATIONS there is no pat version of the emanation , as there is of the Eagle. FFW,62...

THERE IS NO WAY TO DESCRIBE WHAT THE EAGLE'S EMANATIONS ARE THEY MUST BE WITNESSED AS THE EAGLE WAS WITNESSED there is no way to describe what the Eagle's emanations really are... a seer must witness them , FFW, 57 ...emanations are something indescribable..FFW,63 One can catch a glimpse of them, as one can only catch a glimpse of the Eagle itself... , FFW, 57

DESCRIPTION OF THE EAGLE'S EMANATIONS (Description of EG,243.) they are a prescence, almost a mass of sorts, a pressure that creates a dazzling sensation. FFW, 57 I saw the lines of the world. I actually perceived the most extraordinary profusion of fluorescent white lines which crisscrossed everything around me. ,JTI,252...filaments of light began to radiate from everything on that prairie. At first it was like the explosion of an infinite number of short fibers, then the fibers became long threadlike strands of luminosity bundled together into beams of vibrating light that reached infinity. There was really no way for me to make sense of what I was seeing, or to describe it, except as filaments of vibrating light. The filaments were not intermingled or entwined. Although they sprang, and continued to spring, in every direction, each one seperate, and yet all of them were inextricably bundled together...I was seeing the Eagle's emanations POS,110 and the force that keeps them apart and bundles them together...what he had seen was intent, the force permeates everything. POS,110 almost instantaneously I saw a most brilliant array of live, compelling fibers of light. FFW,240 I thought I must have fainted or that the blow had made me fall asleep. Suddenly, I was looking at something literally beyond words. Bright strings of light shot out from everywhere, going everywhere, strings of light which were like nothing that had ever entered my thoughts. ...I made your assemblage point shift...and for an instant you were dreaming the filaments of the universe., TAOD, 16

HOW ARE THE EAGLE'S EMANATIONS ARRANGED IN THE UNIVERSE?

THE EMANATIONS ARE GROUPED IN CLUSTERS CALLED THE GREAT BAND OF EMANATIONS the Eagle's emanations are always grouped in clusters ..the old seers called those clusters the great bands of emanations. FFW,176.

THE GREAT BAND OF EMANATIONS

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE GREAT BANDS?

THE GREAT BANDS ARE CLUSTERED IN NO REAL ORDER, LIKE A PILE OF HAY HELD IN MIDAIR. The great bands are neither flat nor round, but indescribably clustered together, like a pile of hay, which is held together in midair by the force of the hand that pitched it. Thus, there is no real order to the emanations; to say that there is a central part or that there are edges is misleading, but necessary to understanding. FFW,180

ARE THEY REALLY BANDS?

THEY AREN'T REALLY BANDS BUT THE NAME STUCK They aren't really bands but the name stuck. FFW,176.

HOW MANY GREAT BANDS ARE THERE IN THE UNIVERSE?

THERE ARE AN INFINITY OF GREAT BANDS IN THE UNIVERSE There are an infinity of great bands, FFW,177

THERE ARE 48 GREAT BANDS IN THE EARTH, Seers have found out..that in the earth there are only 48 such bands. There are 48 types of organizations on the earth, 48 types of clusters or structures. Organic life is one of them. FFW,177

THE EARTH'S 48 GREAT BANDS OF EMANATIONS

WHAT DO THE EARTH'S 48 GREAT BANDS OF EMANATIONS PRODUCE?

Each of the earth's 48 great bands of emanations produces numerous bubbles on each band. These bubbles are like containers that are filled with a portion of the band's emanations. Each bubble may represent the emanations or energy associated with a living creature.

think of great bands as being like trees. All of them bear fruit; they produce containers filled with emanations; yet only eight of those trees bear edible fruit, that is, bubbles of awareness. Seven have sour fruit, but edible nonetheless, and one has the most juicy, lucious fruit there is. FFW,178..

HOW ARE THE EARTH'S 48 GREAT BANDS OF EMANATIONS DIVIDED?

The earth's 48 great bands are divided into three sections: first, 40 bands that produce bubbles with emanations that produce no energetic awareness, second, 7 bands called the inorganic being band that produce bubbles that represent creatures called inorganic beings, and finally, one band called the organic being band that produces bubbles that represent creatures called organic beings.

THE ORGANIC BEING BAND

WHAT DOES THE ORGANIC BEING BAND PRODUCE?

THE ORGANIC BEING CLUSTER PRODUCES ALL THE ORGANIC BEINGS There is an immeasurable cluster that produces organic beings. FFW,177 organic beings belong to the great same band. FFW,177.

WHAT DOES THE ORGANIC BEING CLUSTER LOOK LIKE?

THE ORGANIC BAND IS FLUFFY,TRANSPARENT, WITH A PECULIAR ENERGY the emanations of that organic band have a sort of fluffiness. They are transparent and have a a unique light of their own, a peculiar energy. They are aware, they jump. That's the reason why all organic beings are filled with a peculiar consuming energy. FFW,177

HOW ARE THE ORGANIC BEINGS ALIGNED ON THE BAND?

THE ORGANIC BEINGS ARE BUBBLES FORMED ON DIFFERENT PLACES ON THE BAND: SOME IN THE CENTER AND SOME NEAR THE EDGES

Think of it as an enormously wide band of luminous filaments, luminous strings with no end. Organic beings are bubbles that grow around a group of luminous filaments. Imagine that in this band of organic life some bubbles are formed around the luminous filaments in the center of the band, others are formed close to the edges; the band is wide enough to aomadate every kind of organic being with room to spare. In such an arrangement, bubbles that are close to the edges miss altogether the emanations that are in the center of the band, which are shared only by the bubbles that are aligned with the center. By the same token, bubbles in the center miss the emanations from the edges. FFW,177.

THE INORGANIC BEING BAND

WHAT DO THE SEVEN INORGANIC BANDS PRODUCE?

THE INORGANIC CLUSTER PRODUCES ALL THE INORGANIC BEINGS The same situation (as in the organic band) is prevalent in the inorganic bands.The three bundles of awareness produce specific kinds of inorganic beings in each of the seven great bands. FFW,180 The seers counted 7 bands that produced inorganic bubbles of awareness. FFW,177

THE OTHER 40 GREAT BANDS OF EMANATIONS FOR EARTH

WHAT ARE THE OTHER 40 GREAT BANDS LIKE?

THE OTHER 40 BANDS PRODUCE BUBBLES/VESSELS WITHOUT AWARENESS There are 40 bands that produce bubbles without awareness those are bands that generate only organization. FFW,177.. The product of the other forty great bands is not awareness at all, but a configuration of inanimate energy. (called vessels) ..vessels are rigid recepticles that hold emanations without being fields of energetic awareness. Their luminosity comes only from the energy of the encased emanations. FFW,182

WHAT DO THESE OTHER 40 BANDS LOOK LIKE?

THEY ARE OPAQUE AND DARKER THAN THE BANDS WITH AWARENESS The other bands are darker, but with a quality of opaqueness. FFW,177..

WILL/INTENT

WHAT SUSTAINS OR CONTROLS THE EAGLE'S EMANATIONS?

WILL/INTENT IS THE FORCE THAT SUSTAINS OR CONTROLS THE EAGLE'S EMANATIONS I was seeing the Eagle's emanations and the force that keeps them apart and bundles them together...what he had seen was intent, the force permeates everything..POS,110 ....the energy that comes out of of the alignment of emanations. FFW,189... Intent is the power that upholds the universe, It is a force that gives focus to everything. It makes the world happen...TSC,40...it is what makes the world... EG,148 it is present throughout everything there is. FFW,98 Without intent there was nothing. EG,243... intent is everywhere .. EG,148 ...underneath the dry leaves is the ground, the enormous earth. intent is the principle underneath everything. TSC,40. Will is a force which was the true link between men and the world. SR,147

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WILL AND INTENT?

WILL IS THE IMPERSONAL FORCE OF EAGLE'S EMANATIONS AND INTENT IS THE PERSONALIZED FORCE will is the impersonal force of alignment which changes into intent, the personalized force, which is at the service of each individual...FFW,237 ...intent is the purposeful guiding of will. FFW,190 they realized that will was the force that kept the Eagle's emanations separated and was not responsible for our awareness, but also for everything in the universe. They saw that this force had total consciousness and that it sprang from the very fields of energy that made the universe. They decided then that intent was a more appropriate name for it than will. POS,113,114. ...the new seers took a close look and called it will,the will of the Eagle's emanations or intent. FFW,98 ...alignment is a unique force because it either helps the assemblage point, or it keeps it glued to its customary position....the aspect of alignment that keeps the assemblage point stationary is will .... and the aspect that makes it shift is intent. FFW,237.. That blackness, that silence, gives rise to the intent to direct the second attention, to command it, to make it do things. This is why it is called will. The intent and the effect are will.. they are tied together. EG,143

Will and Intent are essentially the same thing. Will is used when describing the force that is holding up the universe in an objective manner and intent is used when that force changes

due to some personal interaction. However, will has also been confusingly described as also a personalized power.

Will is something else, something very clear and powerful which can direct our acts. Will is something a man uses.. to win a battle which by all calculations, should lose. Will.. has to do with astonishing feats that defy our common sense. It is kind of a control over ourselves. Will is a power. And since it is a power it has to be controlled and tuned and that takes time. SR,146. DJ said that will can be described as the maxium control of the luminosity of the body as a field of energy; or it can be described as a level of proficiency, or a state of being that comes abruptly into the daily life of a warrior at any given time. .EG,142. Will was allegedly cultivated only by sorcerers. it came to the practitioners veiled in mystery and purportedly gave them the capacity to perform extraordinary acts. ,TOP,83. what a sorcerer calls will is a power within ourselves. it is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. SR,147 What you yourself call will is character and strong disposition..what a sorcerer calls will is a force that comes from within and attaches itself to the world out there. SR,148Will is what can make you sueed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated. Will is what makes you invulnerable. Will is what sends a sorcerer through a wall; through space; to the moon, if he wants. SR,147.

Whatever term is used, the meaning is the same.. there is a universal force which holds everything in place and that force can be manipulated. However, for simplicity we will use the term which involves personal interaction - intent.

WHAT IS INTENT?

INTENT IS AN ABSTRACT UNMEASUREABLE, INDESCRIBABLE, INDEFINABLE, NEITHER GOOD NOR EVIL FORCE THAT YOU CANNOT SEE OR FEEL IT AND YET IT EXISTS. Intent is .....an unmeasurable, prevailing (, POS, 28), indescribable, indefinable (POS,235), ....something that cannot be seen or felt, something that does not seem to exist but yet does. POS,170.. ...intent has no desires of its own. EG,149. .....there is no way of knowing what intent is. POS,134 it is an abstract force, neither good nor evil... TSC,85 Everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. SRP,139... ....the force that changes and reorders things or keeps them as they are (POS, 28,97) force in the universe POS,10, blind, impersonal, ceaseless burst of energy that makes us behave in the ways we do..FFW,189 ...made up of pure energy.. POS,112 the nagual never ends..it has no

limits..,TOP,138 Will is a force, a power. SR,148. intend it with your intent, which is the layer beneath your thoughts. TSC,142

INTENT IS CONNECTED TO EVERYTHING that absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link. POS,10,22... people and all living creatures are slaves of intent. We are in its clutches. It makes us do whatever it wants. It makes us act in the world. It makes us die. EG,148

WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT NAMES OF INTENT BESIDES WILL?

THE NAMES OF INTENT .....Intent which sorcerers call the spirit, the abstract, the nagual.. POS, 28 .....the spirit is the force that sustains the universe (POS,114) Don Juan had explained the nagual to me as being the indescribable force, the source of everything... the nagual is in everything. SRP,198 The nagual is aware of everything...,TOP,129. there was only one thing which was indispensable for anything we did. He called it the spirit. ,JTI, the rolling force or the tumbling or circular force. FFW,241...the tumbler is the force from the Eagle's emanations..FFW,241. The left side, called the naugal, .states of heightened awareness, or the site of the second attention. EG,163. ....will is such a complete control of the second attention that it is called the other self. EG,144..will belongs to the other self. EG,143.......Powers that guide can be called...forces, spirits, airs, winds, or anything like that. ,JTI,86. Since intent is the undescribable force of the universe, it thus has many names. Everything is just an interpretation of that force.

HOW DOES INTENT APPEAR TO PEOPLE?

INTENT MANIFESTS ITSELF DIFFERENTLY IN DIFFERENT THINGS it is an all-encompassing force that manifests itself differently in different things. TSC,83.

CAN INTENT COMMUNICATE WITH US?

YES, DIRECT CONTACT WITH INTENT IS CALLED SILENT KNOWLEDGE

silent knowledge.. this is direct contact with intent. POS,115... Silent Knowledge has complete mastery, complete knowledge of everything.. but it cannot think, therefore, it cannot speak of what it knows..it is of course, intent- the spirit, the abstract. , POS,155 Everything has a form... but besides the outer shape, there is an inner awareness that rules things. This silent awareness is the spirit. TSC,83. This energy communicates with us. TSC,83.

ANOTHER NAME FOR SILENT KNOWLEDGE IS THE THIRD POINT silent knowlege is the third point because in order to get to it one had to pass the second point, the place of no pity. (ruthlessness) POS,242

HOW DOES INTENT COMMUNICATE WITH US?

Voice of the spirit

WHAT IS THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT?

THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT IS MORE OF A FEELING The voice of the spirit is an abstraction that has nothing to do with voices, and yet we may at times hear voices...TSC,85 ...don't expect a shout from the treetops... what we call the voice of the spirit is more of a feeling. Or it can be an idea that suddenly pops into your head. Sometimes it can be a longing to go somewhere vaguely familiar, or a longing to do something also vaguely familiar. TSC,84 If the spirit (intent) speaks to you, using its silent words, you will certainly know immediately what the spirit is. , POS,51 .It was not a voice it was lots of voices. TSC,85. ....will is very quiet, unnoticeable EG,143

HOW DO WE UNDERSTAND THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT/INTENT?

INTENT CAN ONLY BE UNDERSTOOD THROUGH EXPERIENCE AND WE CAN ONLY TALK ABOUT ITS EFFECTS. there is no way to talk about it except metaphorically.. TSC,40 the nagual is only effect. ,TOP,138. in order to talk about it we must borrow from the island of the tonal(reason), therefore it is more convienient not to explain it but simply recount its effects. ,TOP,129. silent knowledge can't be reasoned out. It can only be experienced. POS,247 The left side is perhaps comprehended, if comprehension is what takes place, with the total body, thus its

resistence to conceptualization. EG,163.. By intending it, but not with your thoughts.. Intent is so far away from thoughts that we can't talk about it; we can't even feel it. But we can certainly use it. TSC,142

DESCRIPTION OF EXPERIENCING THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT .... Taisha's experience description of.. (jumping and dancing to people singing in the wind)..TSC,84... When I finally came to sit down next to Clara, I was perspiring, but it was not a healthy physical sweat, It was more like the cold sweat of exhaustion. TSC,84...

HOW CAN WE HEAR THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT?

WHEN WE ARE ABSOLUTELY QUIET AND BALANCED The voice of the spirit comes from nowhere.. it comes from the depth of silence, from the realm of not-being. That voice can only be heard when we are absolutely quiet and balanced. TSC,87.

INTENT ONLY RESPONDS TO POWER NOT PRAYER a force that has no interest whatsoever in us, but that nevertheless responds to our own power. Not to our prayers, mind you, but to our power. TSC,85 it is where power hovers, but that was only a way of alluding to it. By reason of its effect, perhaps the nagual can be best understood in terms of power. ,TOP,138. But the spirit is nobody's guardian.. TSC,85

HOW DOES INTENT AFFECT US?

Intent is continously being produced from the Eagle's emanations and is hitting us all the time. We are not aware that it is constantly hitting us but it is the force that gives us both life and eventually caries us to our death. That force is named the rolling force.

ROLLING FORCE

WHAT IS THE ROLLING FORCE?

THE ROLLING FORCE IS THE INTENT FORCE FROM THE EAGLE'S EMANATIONS THAT CONTROL ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE AND DEATH FOR THE ORGANIC AND INORGANIC BEINGS The rolling force is an eternal line of iridescent rings or balls of fire, that roll onto living beings ceaselessly. FFW,243 The rolling force or balls of fire are expression of a force that pertains to all details of life and death. FFW,242. The rolling force is the means through which the Eagle distributes life and awareness for safekeeping..but it is also a force..that makes all living beings die. FFW,243

DEATH IS THE ROLLING FORCE. Death is the rolling force. FFW,245.

WHAT MAKES UP THE ROLLING FORCE?

THE BALANCE BETWEEN THE TWO FORCES(TUMBLING AND CIRCULAR) IS A DELICATE ONE The balance of the two forces in every living being is a delicate one. FFW,248.

The tumbling force and the circular force.

TUMBLING FORCE

WHAT IS THE TUMBLING FORCE?

THE TUMBLING FORCE IS THE PART OF THE ROLLING FORCE THAT RELATES TO DESTRUCTION AND DEATH the tumbling aspect of the RF relates exclusively to destruction and death. FFW,247. a ceaseless force that strikes us every instant of our lives. FFW,241.

CIRCULAR FORCE

WHAT IS THE CIRCULAR FORCE?

THE CIRCULAR FORCE IS THE PART OF THE ROLLING FORCE THAT MAINTAINS LIFE AND AWARENESS, FULFILLMENT AND PURPOSE the circular aspect.. is what maintains life and awareness, fulfillment and purpose. FFW,247. it strikes all living beings ceaselessly, but for a different purpose. It strikes them to give them strength, direction, awareness; to give them life. FFW,248

WHY IS IT CALLED THE CIRCULAR FORCE?

THE CIRCULAR FORCE COMES IN RINGS, THREADLIKE LOOPS OF IRIDESCENCE The reason they call it the circular force is that it comes in rings, threadlike loops of iridescence - a very delicate affair indeed... FFW,248

ARE THEY REALLY CIRCLES?

YOU ONLY SENSE THE FEELINGS OF RINGS WHICH FIT ALL ORGANIC AND INORGANIC BEINGS There are no circles to speak of, just a circular force..the feelings of rings..there are no different sizes either. It's one indivisible force that fits all living beings, organic and inorganic. FFW,248.

HOW DO THE TWO FORCES HIT US?

THE CIRCULAR FORCE HITS US JUST BEFORE THE TUMBLING FORCE The new seers saw that both forces are fused but are not the same. the circular force comes to us just before the tumbling force...they are so close to each other that they seem the same. FFW,248.

B.) LUMINOUS BEINGS/ LUMINOUS EGGSWHAT ARE ALL LIVING CREATURES REALLY?

ALL LIVING CREATURES ARE ENERGY BUBBLES MADE FROM THE EAGLE'S EMANATIONS living creatures are really luminous beings that look like bubbles of whitish light...sentient beings are minute bubbles made out of those filaments, microscopic points of light, attached to the infinite emanations... FFW,66,67 we are a feeling and that what we call our body is a cluster of luminous fibers that have awareness. TOP,94 (our energy body).. it is linked to some luminous lines of energy crisscrossing the universe. TSC,138 The double is nearly infinite.. for just as the physical is in communication with other physical bodies, the double is in communication with the universal life force. TSC,186 (the double) it is inherently the energy of a luminous being, EG,23 Luminous Beings ...the energy essence of human beings TAOD, 5 we are luminous beings. We are perceivers. We are an awareness; we are not objects; we have solidity. We are boundless. TOP,97. human beings are frail creatures composed of many layers of luminosity SRP,253 DOES EVERY CREATURE HAVE A BODY OF ENERGY? YES, EVERYTHING HAS A BODY OF ENERGY Not only living beings but everything in our world glimmers with an inner light of its own TAOD,175 All of us luminous beings have a double. TOP,58..the double is oneself and cannot be faced in any other way. the double is not a matter of personal choice..TOP,58

It is not clear if inanimate objects have energy associated with them. WHAT ARE SOME OTHER NAMES FOR THIS BODY OF ENERGY? luminous egg, luminous ball (the egg)is our energy self (which is our double). TAOD,11 ..cocoons and containers are fields of energetic awareness. FFW,182 energy body, other, double, self, (the dreaming body is known by different names FFW, 291) the energetic or nonrational side, which sorcerers call the double TSC,xii The ethereal body.TSC,114. The other is the self..the double is the self TOP,46 Again, like the term intent, the energy body has many names. The term luminous egg/ball is the energy body but is used as the container of the energy body. WHAT EXACTLY IS THE ENERGY BODY? PURE ENERGY Since it's pure energy, EG,23

THE ENERGY BODY IS PURE ENERGY SO HAS AN APPEARANCE BUT NO MASS A ghostlike configuration made of pure energy....has only appearance but no mass. EG,23

IT IS THE AWARENESS OF OURSELVES AS LUMINOUS BEINGS

As far as I know, the double is the awareness of our state as luminous beings. TOP,60

THE DOUBLE BEGINS IN DREAMING, THE DOUBLE IS A DREAM ....the double begins in dreaming..the double is a dream..TOP,64.

THE DOUBLE IS THE SORCERER HIMSELF, DEVELOPED THROUGH HIS DREAMING. The double is the sorcerer himself, developed through his dreaming. A double is an act of power to a sorcerer, but only a tale of power to you. TOP,47. ...instead of eyes, the dreaming body has just the glow of awareness (two points of intense amber lights..FFW,197) FFW,199...in the case of Genaro, his double is indistinguishable from the original. That's because his impeccability as a warrior is supreme. TOP,48

A 3-D IMAGE OF THE BODY WHEN SECOND ATTENTION IS FIXED a whitish, phantomlike emanation, which is projected by the fixation of the second attention into a 3-D image of the body. EG,23....

A PERFECT REPLICA OF THE DREAMER'S BODY ...the double is a perfect replica of the dreamer's body.(it looks exactly like oneself. SRP,176) EG,23

IT WAS TWICE THE SIZE OF THE PERSON WHO HAD IT they had always called that shape the double, because it was twice the size of the person who had it. SRP,199.

IT WAS SHINY ..It was like you, but very shiny.(may refer to Naugal) SRP,149

FOR A SORCERER THAT SEES THE DOUBLE IS BRIGHTER for a sorcerer that sees the double is brighter. TOP,46.

NO WAY OF KNOWING BUT IT IS REAL

..there is no way of knowing what the other is made of..but it is real..TOP,46 It is not a ghost, but as real as anything we deal with in the world. EG,23

THE DOUBLE IS SOLID AND CORPOREAL..SOLIDITY, CORPOREALNESS ARE MEMORIES. (the double is solid and corporeal)..solidity, corporealness are memories. therefore, like everything else we feel about the world, they are memories we accumulate. memories of the description. You have the memory of my solidity, the same way you have the memory of communicating through words. Thus, you talked with a coyote and you feel me as being solid. TOP,51.

OTHER ALWAYS COME SHROUDED IN WIND Dreaming body or the other (this term belongs to the old seers...it gives me a feeling of darkness, of shadows...the other always comes shrouded in wind FFW,291).... FFW,199

How the energy body is described depends on the sorcere's interpretation.. in the end its just energy. DOES OUR ENERGY BODY BELONG TO THE PHYSICAL BODY? THE ENERGY BODY IS THE COUNTERPART TO THE PHYSICAL BODY Energy body...it's the counterpart of the physical body. EG,23 The soft body is a mass of energy...we are aware of only its hard, outer casing.TSC,133 The double. The counterpart of the physical body, which by know you must know.. is not merely a projection of the mind. TSC,114. . ...the double is our energy source. The physical body is merely the receptacle where that energy has been placed. TSC,237. the double is both inside and outside the physical body... at the same time... TSC, 159.

WHAT IS THE REAL DIVISION IN HUMANS?

THE REAL DIVISION IS BETWEEN THE PHYSICAL BODY WHICH HOUSES THE MIND AND THE ENERGY BODY WHICH HOUSES OUR ENERGY The body-mind dualism is a false dichotomy. The real division is between the physical body, which houses the mind, and the ethereal body or the double which houses our energy. TSC,62. but our division is not between the mind and the body, but between the body, which houses the mind or the self, and the double, which is the receptacle of our basic energy. TSC,43 Human beings are divided in two. EG,163.... all the faculties, possibilities, and accomplishments of sorcery, from the simplest to the most astounding, are in the human body itself. EG,163. The two sides of a human being are totally seperate EG,228. The tonal

and the nagual are the two inherent parts of ourselves.. they cannot be led into each other. TOP,244. WHAT SEPERATES THE PHYSICAL BODY AND THE ENERGY BODY? THE TWO SIDES ARE SEPERATED BY A MEMBRANE the membrane that seperates their two sides. EG,230 WHAT DOES OUR ENERGY LOOK LIKE? OUR ENERGY WAVERS LIKE A HEAT WAVE, IT SCINTILLATES . our energy wavers..TAOD,164...organic beings energy are more like heat waves. FFW,121...our energy scintillates. TAOD,175 WHAT DETERMINES THE LUMINOSITY OF A LIVING CREATURE? THE LUMINOSITY IS DETERMINED BY THE PARTICULAR PORTION OF EMANATIONS FOUND IN THAT PARTICULAR COCOON. the luminosity of living beings is made by the particular portion of the Eagle's emanations they happen to have inside their luminous cocoons. FFW,66,67

WE ARE LUMINOUS BECAUSE WE ARE PIECES OF THE SUN We are pieces of the sun. (we are all like the sun, but very, very faint) That is why we are luminous beings. But our eyes can't see that luminosity because it is very faint. Our light is too weak, but it is light anyway. SRP,123. ARE THE EMANATIONS INSIDE THE BUBBLES THE SAME AS THE EAGLE'S EMANATIONS OUTSIDE? THE EMANATION PATTERNS ARE THE SAME INSIDE AND OUT BUT SOME OF OUR EMANATIONS ARE LOCATED AS MUCH AS 3 FEET OUTSIDE THE PHYSICAL BODY. The emanations inside and the emanations outside are the same filaments of light. FFW,66,67 Human beings are also composed of an incalculable number of the same threadlike energy fields.POS,13, FFW,62 some beams of light or energy allegedly crisscross the earth... these beams do not fluctuate as everything else in the universe does, but are fixed into a pattern. This pattern coincides with hundreds of points in the luminous body...since the luminous body is quite big, some of the points are as much as three feet away from the physical body. In a sense they are outside of us, and yet they are not; they are on the periphery of our luminosity and thus still belong to the total body. EG,196. WHAT DO YOU CALL THE EMANATIONS OUTSIDE THE PHYSICAL BODY BUT STILL WITHIN THE COCOON?

THE EMANATIONS INSIDE THE COCOON BUT LOCATED OUTSIDE THE PHYSICAL BODY IS CALLED THE ETHEREAL NET The ethereal net is the luminosity that surrounds the physical body... TSC,134 WHAT DO YOU CALL THE EMANATIONS OUTSIDE THE COCOON? WE CALL THE EMANATIONS OUTSIDE THE COCOON, THE EMANATIONS AT LARGE ...emanations at large.. are called this because they are immense. FFW,225.. The emanations outside the cocoon.. are called emanations at large. FFW,141

WHAT SHAPE DO THE EMANATIONS FORM? THE EMANATIONS AGGLOMERATE INTO A GIANT LUMINOUS EGG These Eagle's emanations form an encased agglomeration that manifests itself as a ball of light the size of a person's body with the arms extended laterally, like a giant luminous egg. POS,13, FFW,62 ..human beings were, for those who saw, luminous beings composed of something like fibers of light, which rotated from the front to the back and maintained the appearance of an egg. SR,106 ..men are fibers of light.. like white cobwebs. Very fine threads that circulate from the head to the navel. Thus a man looks like an egg of circulating fibers. And his arms and legs are like luminous bristles, bursting out in all directions. SR,23 When you see them, they seem to have fibers, but those fibers are really like layers, like an onion. EG,45 WHAT DO SORCERER'S EGGS LOOK LIKE? SORCERERS HAVE EGGS SHAPED LIKE TOMBSTONES Average human beings are like eggs... sorcerers are like tombstones; only we are round at both ends. SRP,210. WERE OUR LUMINOUS SHAPES ALWAYS SHAPED LIKE AN EGG? THE LUMINOUS SHAPE KEEPS CHANGING THROUGHOUT TIME, OUR SHAPES TODAY ARE REALLY MORE LIKE A BALL AND THE EGG SHAPE IS REALLY ASSOCIATED WITH PEOPLE OF ANCIENT TIMES. Don Juan had the impression that our energy shape keeps on changing through time. He said that every seer he knew, himself included, saw that human beings are shaped more like balls or even tombstones than eggs. But, once in awhile, and for no reason known to them sorcerers see a person whose energy is shaped like an egg. Don Juan suggested that people who are egglike in shape today are more akin to people of ancient times. TAOD,5 WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE LUMINOUS EGG? THE EGG IS A CONTAINER THAT HOLDS OUR ENERGY BODY

...the egglike shape is an external cocoon, a shell of luminosity that houses a most intriguing, haunting, mesmeric core made up of concentric circles of yellowish luminosity, the color of a candle's flame.... .EG,220.... the egg shaped shells were actually dull. the luminosity emanated from a brilliant core; the shell in fact dulled its radiance. EG,220... WHAT ARE SOME CHACTERISTICS OF THE LUMINOUS EGG? THE EGG IS MUCH BIGGER THAN THE HUMAN BODY, 7 FT HIGH BY 4 FT WIDE ...much bigger than the human body TAOD, 5... they were enormous, perhaps seven feet high by four feet wide or even larger. EG,41

THE EGGS HAVE A CERTAIN CONSISTENCY (DESCRIPTION OF) ... Consistency of luminous egg.. description. SRP,79,80,82 Zuleica ordered me to massage that place, to manipulate it by moving the fingers of both my hands right on that point as if I were playing a harp. She assured me that sooner or later I would end up feeling my fingers going through something as thick as water, and that finally I would feel my luminous shell. EG,253.

THE LUMINOUS EGGS ARE BRIGHT BLOBS OF LIGHT, VIBRANT AND FILLED WITH WHITENESS ....bright shapes that resemble giant eggs (a field of energy.) FFW, 115 The ones without spots... were dazzling bright... They were vibrant, filled with energy and whiteness. EG,45The double is white, yellowish white, like the sun. SRP,123 .....a blob of light FFW,270 ..the dreaming body is really just a blob of light. FFW,198

LUMINOUS EGGS HAVE SETS OF LONG FIBERS COMING FROM THE NAVEL AREA The most astonishing part of the egg-like creatures was a set of long fibers that came out of the area around the navel; those fibers were of the uttermost importance in the life of a man. SR,106 Then I realized that the energy to move them had come from a sticklike protuberance that acted upon them as a tentacle. It was balanced at the midpoint of my body.EG,155. everyman is in touch with everything else, not through his hands, though, but through a bunch of long fibers that shoot out from the center of his abdomen. SR,23 They are the tentacles that come out of a man's body which are apparent to any sorcerer who sees. SR,106.

THE EGGS SHOW EVERYTHING WE FEEL OR ARE IN IT'S FIBERS IN AREAS OF BRIGHTNESS ..we are luminous beings and everything we are or everything we feel shows in our fibers.. indications in the luminous fibers, areas of brightness. TOP,30.

HUMAN LUMINOUS EGGS HAVE A BRIGHTNESS PECULIAR TO THEM ONLY Humans have a brightness peculiar only to them. That's the only way to tell them apart from other luminous living beings. TOP,30. ARE MEN AND WOMEN'S EGGS DIFFERENT? YOU CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BY THE SHAPE OF SOME FILAMENTS CALLED ROOTS Our visions differed in that she could distinguish men from women by the shape of some filaments that she called roots. EG,46

WOMEN HAVE THICK FILAMENTS GROWING INWARD FROM THE GENITALIA THAT ARE USED TO NOURISH THE EMBRYO Women.. had thick bundles of filaments that resembled a lion's tail; they grew inward from the place of the genitalia....those roots were the givers of life. EG,46

MEN HAVE SHORT FILAMENTS THAT ARE FLOATING ALMOST SEPARATELY FROM THEIR LUMINOUS EGG Men.. had short filaments that were alive and floating almost seperately from the luminous mass of their bodies. EG,46.

WHAT CAUSES THE INTENSE SHINE IN THE LUMINOUS EGG? The assemblage point WHAT IS THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT? THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT IS A DOT WITH AN INTENSE SHINE IN THE LUMINOUS EGG. Assemblage point...a round spot of intense brilliance, TAOD,7, POS,13 a dot with an intense shine, on the glow of awareness; FFW,239 HOW BIG IS IT? IT IS ABOUT THE SIZE OF A TENNIS BALL the size of a tennis ball, TAOD,7, POS,13 WHERE IS THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT ON THE LUMINOUS BODY LOCATED? IT IS LOCATED PERMANANTLY INSIDE THE LUMINOUS BALL, FLUSH WITH ITS SURFACE, HIGH ON THE GLOW OF AWARENESS

the AP is not in the physical body but in the luminous shell, in the cocoon itself. FFW,127......it has nothing to do with (the physical body )..but it is part of the luminous egg. TAOD,11 permanently lodged inside the luminous ball, flush with its surface, TAOD,7, POS,13...it is high on the glow of awareness...almost on the crest, on the surface of the cocoon.. FFW,239 WHERE IS THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT ON THE PHYSICAL BODY LOCATED? IT IS LOCATED ABOUT 2 FEET BACK FROM THE CREST OF A PERSON'S RIGHT SHOULDER about two feet back from the crest of a person's right shoulder blade.... TAOD,7, POS,13 WHAT IS THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT'S PURPOSE? THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT MAKES US PERCEIVE/IT IS THE MARK OF LIFE AND CONSCIOUSNESS BECAUSE DEAD PEOPLE DON'T HAVE ONE ...it makes us perceive...perception is assembled there, on that point...all living beings have such a point of brilliance, TAOD,7, POS,13, FFW,136......there is no trace of an assemblage point on a dead being, because the assemblage point and its surrounding glow are the mark of life and consciousness. ..the glow is extremely dim in people who have been rendered unconscious or are about to die and it is totally absent in corpses. WHAT IS THE GLOW OF AWARENESS/MAN'S BAND OF AWARENESS? THE GLOW OF AWARENESS ALWAYS SURROUNDS THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT INTENSIFYING THE AMBER LUMINOSITY OF THE EMANATIONS PASSING THROUGH THE GLOW. (the glow of awareness) always surrounds it(the assemblage point), greatly intensifying the luminosity of the filaments passing directly through that glow. TAOD,7. (the glow of) awareness is a glow in the cocoon of living beings... man's awareness is a glow of amber luminosity more intense than the rest of the cocoon.. FFW, 67,68 " called man's band of awareness" FFW,239 WHAT DOES THE GLOW OF AWARENESS LOOK LIKE? IT IS A SPHERICAL GLOW SLIGHTLY BIGGER THAN THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT Glow of awareness.. a spherical glow, slightly bigger than the assemblage point, TAOD,7

THE GLOW HAS MANY DIFFERENT SHADES OF AMBER ..the glow of awareness has different colors..they are not colors but different casts of amber. FFW,179 WHERE IS IT LOCATED?

THE GLOW IS LOCATED ON A NARROW VERTICAL BAND ON THE EXTREME RIGHT SIDE OF THE SURFACE OF THE COCOON, RUNNING ITS ENTIRE LENGTH OR IT IS ALWAYS WHERE THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT IS. The glow is on a narrow vertical band on the extreme right side of the cocoon, running along its entire length. FFW, 67,68... ...normally the glow of awareness is seen on the surface of the cocoon of all sentient beings. FFW,130 ...the glow of awareness is always present wherever the assemblage point is, perception is automatically assembled there. TAOD,8 WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE EGG'S LONG FIBERS THAT COME OUT FROM THE NAVEL ARE? THE FIBERS DO NOT PROTECT YOU BUT INSTEAD THEY GUIDE YOUR NAGUAL'S PERCEPTION LIKE THE WAY YOUR EYES GUIDE THE TONAL'S PERCEPTION I had long, powerful fibers, which were not there to protect me, for there was nothing to protect, or to be protected from, but that they were there to guide my nagual's perception in very much the same way my eyes guided my normal tonal's perception. TOP,250 I had three thick tentacles in my midsection which I could use as crutches to lift up my whole body. EG,260. the will was a force that emanated from the umbilical region through an unseen opening below the navel, an opening he had called the gap. TOP,82..... it comes out through the belly, (navel area) where the luminous fibers are. One can feel it coming out (from the belly) SR,148 The energy needed in order to move and seek in dreaming stems from the area an inch or two below the belly button. He called that energy will, or the power to select, to assemble. EG,136.

WITH THE FIBERS YOU CAN PERCEIVE EVERYTHING AT ONCE They told me that my fibers were all around me, that through them I could perceive everything at once, and that one single fiber was enough for a leap from the rock into the ravine, or up from the rock to the ravine. ..TOP,250

THE FIBERS JOIN A MAN TO HIS SURROUNDINGS AND KEEP HIM BALANCED AND STABLE These fibers join a man to his surroundings; they keep his balance; they give him stability. SR,23.

THE FIBERS ARE NOT LIKE TOUCHING, IT IS SORT OF LIKE A FEELING. La Gorda signaled me to use my midsection. When I did that I did not have to bend over to touch the ground; there was something in me like a tentacle which I could feel. But I could not tell what I was feeling. There were no particular tactile qualities on which to base distinctions. EG,161.

THE FIBERS FEEL LIKE A LONG ITCHING a most peculiar sensation of a long itching...TOP,250

WHAT KIND OF FIBERS DO PEOPLE HAVE?

WEAK PEOPLE HAVE SHORT, ALMOST INVISIBLE FIBERS Weak persons have very short, almost invisible fibers; SR,106.

STRONG PEOPLE HAVE BRIGHT LONG FIBERS strong persons have bright, long ones SR,106 WHAT CAN YOU TELL ABOUT SOMEONE FROM THEIR FIBERS? WHEN A SORCERER SEES SOMEONE'S FIBERS THEY CAN TELL IF A PERSON IS SICK OR HEALTHY, BAD OR GOOD OR CAN SEE AND CAN DEAL WITH THEM ACCORDINGLY Sorcerers act toward people in accordance to the way they see their tentacles. SR,106 ..you can tell from the fibers if a person is healthy, or if he is sick or if he is mean, or kind, or treacherous. You can also tell from the fibers if a person can see. SR,106. Had I known (CC) what was going to take place, my fibers would have been agitated and would have interfered with DG. SR,107. HOW DO THE EGGS MOVE? THE EGGS MOVE IN A UNPLEASANT,JERKY FLOATING MANNER LEAVING A DEEP FURROW IN THE ENERGY IN THE EARTH ....giant,luminous shape that floats, making, as it moves, a deep furrow in the energy of the earth, just as if the luminous shape had a taproot that was dragging. TAOD,5 the luminous eggs did not walk. They moved in a floating manner, yet they were grounded. The way they moved was not pleasing. Their movements were stilted, wooden, and jerky. When they were in motion the whole egg shape became smaller and rounder; they seemed to jump or jerk, or shake up and down with great speed. The result was a most annoying nervous shivering. EG,44. DOES THE EGG HAS ANY WEAKNESSES? THE EGG HAS A GAP IN ITS COCOON JUST BELOW HIS NAVEL

Man has a gap below his navel. It's not really below the navel itself, but in his cocoon, at the height of his navel. The gap is more like a dent, a natural flaw in the otherwise smooth cocoon. FFW,245. It is at the place of your luminous fibers (at your abdominal area) SR,147 WHAT IS THE LUMINOUS GAP'S PURPOSE? EVERY LIVING CREATURE HAS A GAP, WITHOUT A GAP, YOU WOULD NEVER DIE. Every living being has a gap. If it didn't have one it wouldn't die. FFW,246

THE GAP IS AN OPENING WHICH ALLOWS OUR WILL TO SHOOT OUT it's an opening. it allows a space for the will to shoot out like an arrow. SR,147.

WHEN DOES THIS GAP OPEN? THE GAP OPENS AS ONE DEVELOPS ONE'S WILL There is a gap in us; like the soft spot on the head of a child which closes with age, this gap opens as one develops one's will. SR,147 ARE ALL GAPS THE SAME? EACH GAP IS DIFFERENT IN SIZE AND CONFIGURATION The gaps are different, however, in size and configuration. FFW,246

MAN'S GAP IS A BOWL-LIKE DEPRESSION THE SIZE OF A FIST Man's gap is a bowl-like depression the size of a fist, a very frail vulnerable configuration. FFW,246.

OTHER ORGANIC BEINGS GAPS ARE SIMILAR TO MAN'S GAP BUT SOME ARE WEAKER AND SOME ARE STRONGER the gaps of other organic beings are very much like man's; some are stronger than ours and others are weaker. FFW,246

HOW DOES THE EGG PROTECT ITSELF FROM THE ROLLING FORCE? THE EGG HAS A PROTECTIVE SHIELD IN FRONT TO PROTECT US FROM THE TUMBLERS CALLED THR FRONT PLATE

..the front of the egglike cocoon of man has a protective shield, which seers call the front plate. FFW,240

WHAT IS THE FRONT PLATE? THE FRONT PLATE IS AN ALMOST IMPREGNABLE SHIELD ONE FIFTH THE THICKNESS OF THE TOTAL COCOON It is almost impregnable, unyielding shield that protects us against the onslaught of a peculiar force (death force)..FFW,238. The front plate is about one-fifth the thickness of the total cocoon. FFW,240...

HOW DO PEOPLE SEE THE LUMINOUS EGGS? THE LUMINOSITY OF A HUMAN CAN ALMOST BE SEEN THROUGH LOOKING BUT THE ONLY TRUE WAY IS BY THE SORCERER'S SEEING Man's luminosity can be seen almost as if one were using the eyes alone. FFW,141 ...seers see them (assemblage and glow) without their eyes. TAOD, 7

DESCRIPTION OF SEEING A LUMINOUS EGG: CC SEES DJ AND DG AS TWO BALLS OF FIRE WITH FIBERS As I kept staring at them, my eyes went involuntarily out of focus. I knew I had definitly crossed them, because I was seeing four of them. the left eye image of DJ became superimposed on the right eye image of don Genaro; the result of the merger was that I saw an iridescent being standing in between don Juan and don Genaro....it was not a man as I ordinarily see men. It was rather a ball of white fire; something like fibers of light covered it. ...I was seeing two strange elongated luminous objects. They looked like white iridescent footballs with fibers, fibers that had a light of their own. TOP,217

ANALOGY OF THE LUMINOUS BALL: A BALL OF JACK CHEESE The luminous shape of man is like a ball of jack cheese with a thick disk of darker cheese injected into it. He drew an egglike shape and divided it in four longitudinal sections, saying that he would immediately erase the division lines because he had drawn them only to give me an idea where the band was located in the cocoon of man. He then drew a thick band at the line between the first and second sections and erased the division lines. He explained that the band was like a disk of chedder cheese that had been inserted into the ball of jack cheese. Now if that ball of jack cheese were transparent.. you would have a perfect replica of man's cocoon. The chedder cheese goes all the way inside the ball of jack cheese. It's a disk that goes from the surface on one side to the surface of the other side. The AP of man is

located high up, three-fourths of the way toward the top of the egg on the surface of the cocoon. FFW,140.

HOW IS THE DOUBLE DIVIDED/HOW DOES THE ENERGY CIRCULATE IN THE ENERGY BODY?

THE DOUBLE IS DIVIDED INTO A LOWER (ABDOMEN) AND AN UPPER SECTION (CHEST) WHERE TWO DIFFERENT CURRENTS OF ENERGY CIRCULATE He picked up a twig and drew an oval shape on the soft ground. Then he added a horizontal line that transected it midway. pointing to the two partitions...he explained that the double is divided into a lower and an upper section, which corresponds roughly in the physical body to the abdomen and chest cavities. Two different currents of energy circulate in these two sections. TSC,235 WHEN THESE TWO SECTIONS BECOME SEPARATED IN THE DOUBLE WE BECOME UNBALANCED Usually, in life, these two energies become seperated in the double, causing weaknesses and unbalance in the physical body. TSC,236

THE DOUBLE IS ALSO DIVIDED INTO LEFT AND RIGHT SIDES WHERE TWO DIFFERENT PATTERNS OF ENERGY CIRCULATE He drew another line, this time down the center of the elliptical shape, dividing it lengthwise into two, which, he stated, corresponds to the right and left sides of the body. These two sides also have two specific patterns of energy circulation. TSC,236

LOWER SECTION

LOWER SECTION CIRCULATES ORIGINAL ENERGY WE HAD WHILE STILL IN THE WOMB In the lower one circulates the original energy we had while still in the womb. TSC,235

THE ORIGINAL ENERGY SINKS DOWN TO THE GENTIAL AREA The original energy sinks down into the genital area. TSC,236

UPPER SECTION

THE UPPER SECTION CIRCULATES THOUGHT ENERGY WHICH ENTERS OUR BODY WITH THE FIRST BREATH In the upper section circulates the thought energy. This energy enters the body at birth with the first breath. TSC,235

THOUGHT ENERGY IS ENHANCED BY EXPERIENCE AND RISES UPWARD INTO THE HEAD ...he said that thought energy is enhanced by experience and rises upward into the head. TSC,235

RIGHT SECTION

ON THE RIGHT SIDE THE ENERGY CIRCULATES UP ON THE FRONT PART OF THE DOUBLE AND DOWN THE BACK SIDE OF IT In the right side, energy circulates up on the frontal part of the double, and down on the back of it. TSC,236

LEFT SECTION

ON THE LEFT SIDE THE ENERGY CIRCULATES DOWN ON THE FRONT PART OF THE DOUBLE AND UP THE BACK SIDE OF IT On the left side, energy circulates down on the frontal part of the double and up on the back. TSC,236

HOW DOES THE DOUBLE PERCEIVE? THE DOUBLE HAS AN INDEPENDENT PERCEPTION/IT DEALS WITH ENERGY .....its perception, although affected by our normal way of perceiving the daily world, is an independent perception. It has its own sphere...that sphere is energy...it deals with the energy in terms of energy. CC TAOD, 31,32 HOW DOES THE DOUBLE PERCEIVE ENERGY IN DREAMING? THERE ARE THREE WAYS IT DEALS WITH ENERGY IN DREAMING:

There are three ways it deals with energy in dreaming: CC TAOD, 31,32

ONE: IT CAN PERCEIVE ENERGY AS IT FLOWS it can perceive energy as it flows, or it can use energy to boost itself like a rocket into unexpected areas, (it can use currents of energy that exist in the universe to propel itself. All it has to do is isolate them, and off it goes with them.) CC TAOD, 31,32

TWO: IT CAN PERCEIVE AS WE ORDINARILY PERCEIVE THE WORLD or it can perceive as we ordinarily perceive the world. (It sees energy directly as a light or as a vibrating current of sorts or as a disturbnce. CC TAOD, 31,32

THIRD: IT FEELS ENERGY AS A JOLT OR AS A SENSATION THAT CAN EVEN BE PAIN Or it feels it directly as a jolt or as a sensation that can even be pain.) CC TAOD, 31,32...

WHAT THINGS CAN PERCEIVE THE DOUBLE? ANIMALS AND INFANTS CAN PERCEIVE THE DOUBLE Animals and infants have no problem perceiving the double and they are often disturbed by it. TSC,219. WHAT CAN THE DOUBLE DO? IT CAN PERFORM ACTS BEYOND THE POSSIBILITY OF THE PHYSICAL BODY Since it's pure energy, EG,23 it can perform acts that are beyond the possibility of the physical body EG,23

IT HAS INCONCEIVABLE POWER (when the double emerges) ..one is capable of performing inconceivable feats. TSC,237. The double has inconceivable power. TOP,77

IT COULD TURN INTO ANYTHING YOU WANT/OR DO ANYTHING He said I must struggle to fall asleep; that I no longer had a body and was free to turn into anything I wanted. TDJ,136 (The double can do).. anything we want it to do; it can jump over trees or fly through the air or become large or small or take the shape of an animal. Or it can

become aware of people's thoughts or become a thought and hurl itself in an instant over vast distances...it can even act like the self... if you know how to use it, you can appear in front of someone and talk to him as if you really there. TSC,136

IT COULD TRANSPORT ITSELF IN ONE INSTANT TO THE ENDS OF THE UNIVERSE .....it can transport itself in one instant to the ends of the universe (the journey of the energy body depends exclusively on the position of the assemblage point TAOD,171) EG,23 ..the dreaming body is a surge of energy that is transported by the movement of the AP to any place in this world, or to any place in the seven worlds available to man. FFW,199.

THE DOUBLE CAN GAZE AT THE EAGLE The dreaming body is very strong.. it is very easy for the DB to gaze at the Eagle's emanations interruptedly for long periods of time, but it is also very easy in the end for the DB to be totally consumed by them. FFW,200.

THE DOUBLE CANNOT EAT OR DRINK The dreaming body cannot handle the intent of eating or drinking. EG,145. (DG trying to eat desc. TOP,47)...The dreaming body has a different intent from the intent of the physical body. EG,146 Example of .EG,146.

IT CAN DO ANYTHING, YET IT CHOOSES TO BE UNOBTRUSIVE AND GENTLE it can do anything and yet it chooses to unobtusive and gentle. TOP,60

THE DOUBLE NEVER MAKES MISTAKES OR MISINTERPRETS THINGS/ALWAYS DIRECT AND TO THE POINT You said it to my double just a moment ago. my double never ever makes mistakes or misinterprets things. TSC,218. It's your double that's talking. It's always direct and to the point and since you have never allowed it expression, it is full of hatred and bitterness. TSC,222

THE ENERGY BODY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR WELL BEING he said that perhaps our greatest human fallacy is to believe that our health and well-being is in the realm of the body when, in essence, the control of our lives is in the realm of the double. TSC,236 This fallacy stems from the fact that the body controls our awareness. TSC,236

WHAT IS THE PHYSICAL BODY? THE PHYSICAL BODY IS JUST A COVERING OR A CONTAINER FOR OUR ENERGY BODY. The physical body is a covering, a container if you will. TSC,133

THE BODY IS DIVIDED INTO THREE MAIN CHAMBERS OF ENERGY: ABDOMEN, CHEST AND HEAD she went on to explain that the body is divided into three main chambers of energy: the abdomen, chest and head. She touched my stomach just below the navel, then my solar plexus and then the center of my forehead. She explained that these three points are the key centers of the three chambers. TSC,71.

THE EXACT MIDPOINT OF THE BODY (WHICH YOU SHOULD MEASURE) IS A TRUE CENTER OF ENERGY IN ALL OF US DJ had insisted that I measure my body to the hundredth of an inch and establish its exact midpoint, lengthwise as well as width. He had always said that such a point is a true center of energy in all of us. FFW,125

THERE IS A DELICATE GLOW AROUND THE STOMACH AND IS ALWAYS BEING PULLED AROUND BY EVERYTHING Human beings had a very delicate glow around the stomach and that glow was always being pulled by everything around.

THE FEELINGS/WORLD WERE CREATED FROM THE STOMACH What was in front of my eyes was rather like a feeling or a mood; and the center from where all those changes radiated was definitely in my stomach. I

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