By Carlos Castaneda
Hundreds of thousands of readers around the world have valuable the visionary brilliance of Carlos Castaneda, who first discover the area of the Yaqui Indian sorcerer within the Teachings of don Juan. Now, ultimately, don Juan returns within the strength of Silence -- clever, infuriating, able or operating miracles and enjoying useful jokes, yet regularly looking the knowledge of the warrior.The strength of Silence is Castaneda's such a lot mind-blowing booklet so far -- an excellent flash of data that illuminates the a long way reaches of the human brain. via don Juan's spell binding tales, the genuine that means of sorcery and magic is ultimately printed. Honed within the wasteland of Sonora, the visions of don Juan supply us the important secrets and techniques of trust and self-realization which are transcendental and legitimate for us all. it's Castaneda's specific genius to teach us that every one knowledge, energy, and gear lie inside ourselves -- unleashed with awesome strength and resourceful strength within the teachings of don Juan -- and within the writings of his well-known student, Carlos Castaneda
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No one could take such a person seriously, especially not a prospective apprentice who was not supposed to be volunteering for the sorcery task. Don Juan then said that he had given me different versions of what that sorcery task consisted. He said it would not be presumptuous of him to disclose that, from the spirit's point of view, the task consisted of clearing our connecting link with it. The edifice that intent flaunts before us is, then, a clearinghouse, within which we find not so much the procedures to clear our connecting link as the silent knowledge that allows the clearing process to take place.
Don Juan commanded in a stern voice. "I brought you here to discover if you can eat when your assemblage point has moved. " But then a man sat down at the table in front of me, and all my attention became trapped by him. "Move your eyes in circles," don Juan commanded. " I found it impossible to stop watching the man. I felt irritated by don Juan's demands. " I heard don Juan ask. I was seeing a luminous cocoon made of transparent wings which were folded over the cocoon itself. The wings unfolded, fluttered for an instant, peeled off, fell, and were replaced by new wings, which repeated the same process.
Is it not true that I had already fallen asleep? My hair is grey . . And everything is the same and it is not the same . . I reread the poem to myself and I caught the poet's mood of impotence and bewilderment. I asked don Juan if he felt the same. "I think the poet senses the pressure of aging and the anxiety that that realization produces," don Juan said. "But that is only one part of it. The other part, which interests me, is that the poet, although he never moves his assemblage point, intuits that something extraordinary is at stake.