interview with the English magazine "Beyond"
THE DREAM CONTINUES ...
occasion of the conclusion of a seminar of Carlos Castaneda's Magical Passes, which took place on 5 and 6 June in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bBeyond interviewed some of the magical passes instructors and trainees of the legendary sorcerer , with whom he discussed issues surrounding the mysterious "death" of Castaneda and know how they think those who learned with him. They are a new generation of navigators of the unknown is perpetuated them sublime shamanic dream of freedom.
For Concha Labarta
"Carlos Castaneda entered the active side of infinity, his game differs from other shamans of his lineage he left alone, leaving open the possibility that any practitioner of the way of the warrior can achieve freedom. " "Something revived the practice of the magical passes, something that had not been alive for a long time but that belongs in an intimate way." "The companions of Castaneda are here to supervise our efforts. They want to see if it is possible for a group follow an abstract purpose, not a guru or a leader." "Ultimately, what Carlos Castaneda said he was teaching us was not a system of knowledge, but an attitude: the attitude of the warrior. "In Carlos Castaneda was no space between words and actions. I had never met anyone like that. "" When we were overwhelmed, Carlos Castaneda repeated the last words of Don Juan: 'Forget the ego, and fear nothing, whatever the level of consciousness where you are. " "
The witch is gone, and yet for them remains a living presence, someone who contracted the incurable" virus "of the passion for freedom. They are a new generation for a new time, were enjoying elprivilegio the multifaceted Castaneda and magical, unforgettable someone say they changed their lives. But they are not the followers of his lineage, because the lineage - repeated thousands of times what Castaneda himself ended up in him and his fellow witches, Florinda Donner-Grau and Carol Tiggs Taisha. So, Carlos Castaneda has continued successors no new nagual. But it has left a "legacy": a large group of practitioners of his magic spread throughout the world, and a corporation, Cleargreen Inc., which belong those who were closest to him, conceived by Castaneda himself as an "agency" where individuals live, despite being very different people- not exist, because the group dilutes any possible hoax. They are young and full of enthusiasm. Castaneda, his cohorts helped female witches were taught their art, and his magic, hoping that they would undertake to continue spreading his dream of making available the amazing knowledge of a Mexican shaman lineage dating back centuries . But more than a system of knowledge, they have received, and so recognized in the following interview, the example of a vital choice: the way of the warrior, the same as Carlos Castaneda and his "witches" followed. Frugality, lightness, passion and impeccable are the attributes of the legendary warrior freedom embodied in Don Juan Matus, and later in their apprentices. Instructors of the magical passes that have responded to the questions of the interview serve the names of Darien Donner, Gavin Allister and Brandon Scott. In his words and his personal style of interpreting the way of the warrior is easily detectable deCastaneda footprint. Darien Donner provides intuitive vision, Gavin Allister, sobriety, and Brandon Scott facility to contact people, the "psychological touch" of the witch. Are different, and yet strangely similar and complementary. They all deny any role and insist on the need to be impersonal. Viewed from outside, you'd think that role they have had to play is certainly committed, are expected to be up to the teacher, nothing more and nothing less. It is not easy, but give the impression of having taken an enormous lightness. For them, the way of the warrior is not only a "matter of life or death", is also the only thing they could do, and all I want to do. Under these assumptions, seems to meet with success one of the highlights of the warrior: the convert their shares into a pleasure.
Beyond: now about a year ago that the media around the world announced the death of Carlos Castaneda, a story that was accompanied by a countless rumors that even cast doubt on its veracity. What can you say about this? Darien Donner: Carlos Castaneda embarked on what shamans called the final journey, the journey undertaken a shaman at the end of a life in the way of the warrior. The shamans say that No human death has a hidden option, something like a small print clause in a contract. It is an option available to every human being. This option is hidden in that death, instead of breaking the body as usual, unites, and so the shaman keeps his conscience, undertaking the final journey.
MA: Where and at what level Reality is now Castaneda? Did she leave this world as the shamans of his lineage, "become light," and if so, how can we understand something like that from the perspective of the everyday world? Brandon Scott: He entered the active side of infinity, which means it had a total connection with the intelligent force in the universe to which shamans call intent. His departure differs from other shamans of his lineage he left alone rather than with a group. By going that way, left an opening, the possibility that anyone interested in the warrior's path into the active side of infinity. And that entry begins now, bringing the mystery and wonder of the infinite to our daily existence.
MA: Castaneda often repeated that they were the last links to its lineage. However, the corporation has continued to hold seminars Cleargreen and spreading his teachings. Does that mean that there is some continuity? Gavin Allister: Cleargreen continues Tensegrity seminars, the modern version of the magical passes, for the same reason that we mentioned earlier: to make this wonderful option we gave Carlos Castaneda is accessible to anyone interested. Cleargreen consists of people who share a common goal and working together to achieve it. Carlos Castaneda met flawlessly with the task entrusted Don Juan, who was closing his line with a flourish. He and the three students of Don Juan had to decide what to do with the magical passes, the most precious and most pragmatic knowledge. And now they're out of their secret status. Why would they be the only ones who know the magical passes? Cleargreen is at the forefront of this possibility: making the warrior's way accessible to people genuinely interested. And the response from practitioners of Tensegrity has been fantastic, have created a network of practice groups worldwide, and there is a space Cleargreen website where they can ask questions or comments about your practice or about the way of the warrior. Certainly his comments reflect a lightness, a new clarity and a sense of purpose that can only come to live as guerrero.Parecen be really enjoying their practices, and we. that is the attitude of the Warrior: enjoy without expectations.
MA: What is at present the status of colleagues from Carlos Castaneda, Florinda Donner-Grau and Carol Tiggs Taisha? DD: The students of don Juan is here to oversee our efforts. We can say that they are our counselors. Want to see if it is possible for a group to follow a abstract purpose, not a guru or a leader.
AWAKENING THE BODY LEFT
MA: The magical passes are the most pragmatic of the teachings of Don Juan. What makes them different to other physical disciplines and what are its effects? GA: We do not know enough about other disciplines to make a serious comparison. We can say that what is remarkable in the magical passes is contained in the history of their origin: they are body movements that the shamans of don Juan's lineage found in states of heightened awareness called dreams, and they practiced for its striking effect on physical and mental. The magical passes are imbued with the intent of those shamans; derived from the second attention, and when practiced in silence and without waiting for results, can lead us to a state of heightened awareness. Its physical effects, therefore, are but a byproduct of their energy effect. Redistribute energy that has been scattered from our vital centers and put back again in these centers, where we can use to increase vitality and awareness. DD: The practice of the magical passes produced a subtle but noticeable twinkle in his eye. Shamans call it "a touch of the attempt." Rather, revive, something that had not been alive for a long time, but that belongs in an intimate way.
MA: The Barcelona workshop will focus on the Active Side Infinity, which is also the title of the latest book by Carlos Castaneda. What is particularly the meaning of that slogan? DD: The Active Side of Infinity is the name given to the shamans of the universe is composed of vibrational energy self-conscious. Also call attempt. Say it is a concrete kingdom, similar cases, but different from the affairs of our everyday world. Shamans are prepared to enter the active side of infinity collecting an album of memorable events of their lives, events that, like Don Juan explained to Carlos Castaneda, lit his way, things changed for them. They're impersonal events, at the same time extremely personal events bearing the stamp of infinity. Carlos Castaneda's book entitled The active side of infinity is just that: an album of memorable events and determinants of the life of a shaman.
MA: The wrap is another technique transmitted by Carlos Castaneda to achieve inner silence. But that detailed examination of one's life has become a thorny task for many. You are regulars recap. How do you solve these difficulties and expected results in the summary? DD: We all have difficult moments in the recap. But first I want to detail the purpose of this practice, which is conducted psychological purposes or with the desire of finding fault, but to be aware of what has been his life, and our actions in the present. Once we realize this purpose, it is easier to take the wrap without our usual sense of guilt or fear. You know that many people are conditioned to approach with awe to any activity or new task. I am well, but being able to see the attempts and struggles of other practitioners has helped me become aware of this pattern and to approach challenges with a lighter mood. · Fill your job with passion and pleasure ¨ Taisha says. She explained to us that we apply something to mix, which shamans call the body left We magical mystery normally never use. Then we recapitulate not as employees who are told to do and meet reluctantly, but as adventurers and explorers of the unknown. The seminar in Barcelona we will practice a series of magical passes to awaken the body left to incorporate fresh and serene that perception in the recapitulation. GA: We have also discovered that recapitulate group helps us get out of our super-personal view of the wrap. When you do a group, somehow the vision of our life is the same personal stamp. Seminar participants in Barcelona will have the opportunity to experience it.
MA: Barcelona is also expected to teach the magical passes to the intent and abstract affection for, try and love are abstract concepts hard to understand. Could you expand its significance? BRS: True. We are also difficult to understand. So instead of understanding the intent and abstract affection as concepts, shamans prefer to handle them and not for selfish reasons, but with a purpose abstract. We are told that the intent and abstract affection are handled with the body and not the intellect. Thus, the magical passes for the attempt are based on the premise that the body itself is the vehicle to try to turn our link with that immense conscious force that sustains the universe. For its part, the magical passes for affection abstract is based on the premise that only by incorporating the affection and action (rather than an idea or a statement, one can be freed from the rubric of our socialization, that training for emotional investors: I give you if you give me.
THE HUNTER OF CONSCIENCE
MA: There are few who wonder if something as serious as the commitment to personal freedom can be taught at an end week. What exactly was the objective pursued by Castaneda with the holding of these seminars? DD: The commitment to freedom is not can be taught in any way. The commitment to freedom is an inherent part of the heritage of human beings as beneficiary, is the basis of our desire to be explorers. Ultimately, what Carlos Castaneda said he was teaching us was not a system of knowledge, but an attitude: The attitude of the warrior. The warrior is someone who is conscious of his fleeting passage through the earth and behave according to that knowledge: A hunter of conscience. his mood is light, happy and sober, and live your life fully. GA: The mass of the seminars increases, provides this ability. We found that the more practitioners are present, the better is its ability to learn and retain new movements, new concepts. What Carlos Castaneda was in the seminars was something he described as the awakening of an energy flow between practitioners, a kind of wind that crossed vibration and creates a sense of urgency. Called unbending intent, the energy base of human beings. BRS: Practicing the magical passes within the framework of a seminar allows us to test for a moment what freedom is at the body. But Carlos Castaneda said that the seminar actually began on Monday, after the practitioner returned to their homes. Then is when they do the wrap and the magical passes they learn to extend that sense of purpose, the acute awareness they have experienced for a moment. GA: Students of Don Juan had a similar learning in the sense that if they went to see Don Juan and his cohorts for a few days and then returned to their lives, their jobs, their studies. He could spend a long time to see them again. And still working, summarizing, making the magical passes, smoothing their rough edges, making what they call small screwdriver adjustments ¨.
MA: You would be something similar to the heirs of Carlos Castaneda did not run the risk of mystified? How is it possible to maintain an impersonal attitude when someone becomes a reference point for many people? DD: We are facing this challenge as a group. On the one hand, each of us must face alone the infinite and in that sense no group. However, if we constitute a group in the sense that we are moving in the same direction. Our challenge is that our actions match our words, to be impeccable. If each of us do this individually, the group can work. BRS: Yes, certainly we are in danger of being mystified, so was Carlos Castaneda and so are you. Every human being seems to create a myth or a taxonomy of the other: this person is very smart, that is slow, this one will never achieve. Carlos Castaneda urged us to move away from this personal history and beliefs we have about who we are, personal mythology. The group keeps us mitifiquemos to each other, and we can navigate through the dangerous and exciting waters of the new. GA: Anyway Carlos Castaneda used to say it was good to feel a little uncomfortable, feeling that there was danger around. If we are too comfortable we are not motivated to find anything new. No assurances or guarantees, however, we are alert, motivated to act, to navigate.
MA: Cleargreen members have had the privilege of enjoying direct contact with someone as fascinating as Carlos Castaneda. To what extent their presence has influenced their lives? DD: They affect en nuestras vidas de manera total. nos pasó un "bicho" que ya no nos podemos quitar de encima. No podemos sacudirnos el anhelo de libertad... BRS: No había espacio alguno entre sus palabras y sus acciones? Yo nunca había conocido a alguien así. GA: El hizo un vínculo con el intento para cada uno de nosotros. Ese vínculo lo hizo para quienquiera que lo encontrara, ya sea a través de sus libros, de una charla o de los pases mágicos. Deseaba genuinamente que quien estuviera interesado y dispuesto a entrar de cuerpo entero en esa búsqueda, tuviese la posibilidad de la libertad. Y hay practicantes que lo toman en serio. Esta es la razón por la cual continuamos con los seminarios y con la enseñanza de los pases mágicos.
ARE THERE OTHER OPTIONS?
MA: The proposal of Carlos Castaneda, his foray into perceptual worlds has attracted thousands of people, but there are many who graded fancy. However, you seem to put it into practice. Should we understand that this is a really viable proposal? DD: We can tell you that Carlos Castaneda told us, and what their colleagues keep telling us when we face a new challenge: "Find out yourself, do not take my word." BRS: What choice do we have? The choice is a personal thing: stay home, or explore and find out. Don Juan told Carlos Castaneda: "We chose one only once: either we choose to be warriors or to be common or ordinary men. There is a second option, not on this Earth." Our choice then is either surf, or navegar.GA: We take an example to the sailors of the past: Italian explorers, Portuguese and English. What assurance did they not fall off the edge of the earth?
MA: In his own words, all you do is part of "energetic reasons." What kind of energy reasons "they have been induced to choose Barcelona as the seat of the only seminar held in Europe this year? GA: Because it works. If there is power, here we go. A sincerely interested group of practitioners gathered and presented us with a viable possibility. And now they are working with us to make this possible. DD: We are very excited, because Barcelona is a place that has history of sailors, of innovators and explorers who wanted to do something new, something unknown.
MA: Do you feel overwhelmed by the responsibility to continue with the dream of Carlos Castaneda? GA: Both instructors and practitioners of the magical passes form a unified body. In that sense, we are all carrying out that dream. It's a dream still alive as long as impeccable warriors who insist on being free from the limitations of our perception daily. Each individual must be impeccable: he cer as best you can do, without complaining, without blaming the other, and without the need to be flattered. That is our challenge. BRS: We're having a great deal, not because the task is easy, because it is pleasurable. We have no idea what might happen. How exciting! Carlos Castaneda told us that ultimately, human beings do not need a leader or a guide. Just need to know that there is another option available to them, one that includes the possibility of a journey of consciousness. DD: He taught us to do something to what he called "face time as they near." As we distribute more power through practice of the magical passes of the wrap and put into action what we learn from this, the gun day find out that the past and the future we no longer are so worrying. Someday we will not be so concerned about what will become of me? We are fighting for this perspective: that of being more and more in the present moment. In the moments when we feel overwhelmed, Carlos Castaneda repeated the last words that Don Juan had said, "Forget about me, and not be afraid of anything, whatever the level of consciousness where you are."
0 comments:
Post a Comment