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Following the Eagle's Flight: Understanding

the books of Carlos Castaneda

Introduction

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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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 Castaneda

Part 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

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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?

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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 EARTHWhat 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?

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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 EGGSWhat 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

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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? 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 gateSecond gateThird gateFourth gateFifth gateSixth gateSeventh gate 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?

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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 ATTENTIONWhat 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 tonalRight tonalAverage 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?

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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 awarenessShift along the midsection

Shift in depth/to the leftA lateral shift

The mold of manWhat 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 BEINGSWhat are they?

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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?

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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 COMMANDSWhat 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?

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THE INORGANIC BEING BAND

What do the seven inorganic bands produce?

THE OTHER 40 GREAT BANDS OF EMANATIONS FOR EARTHWhat 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 Ourselves

B.)LUMINOUS BEINGS/LUMINOUS EGGSWhat 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?

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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 gateSecond gateThird gateFourth gateFifth gateSixth gateSeventh gate

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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?

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o What kinds of tonals are there?Proper tonal

Right tonalAverage 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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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 awarenessShift along the midsection

Shift in depth/to the leftA lateral shift

The mold of manWhat is it?

Why is it called the mold of man?The shift below/place of the beast

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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 BEINGSWhat 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?

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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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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?

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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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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

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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?

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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?

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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-in-itself, 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

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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

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THE GREAT BANDS ARE CLUSTERED IN NO REAL ORDER, LIKE A PILE OF HAY HELD IN MID-AIR.

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.

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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

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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..

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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B.) LUMINOUS BEINGS/ LUMINOUS EGGS

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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

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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.

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..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

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