Over the past 10 years, the group "fixed the passes," arriving at a
consensus generic enough to be used by mankind. If the movements of
Tensegrity (the name derives from an architectural term related to
skeletal efficiency, happily combining "tension" and "integrity") often
seem angular and fierce in character, they are intended to produce a
jolt.
"I saw once a beautiful science fiction movie in which creatures
from another planet appeared," Castaneda said, "veeeery slowly A change
in perception is never like that. It is like this. Yank it out! You
cancel the parameters of normal perception. You move into it like a
robber bandit. Almost immediately, the robber bandit comes back. It's
just a moment. But the moments get longer and longer."
The chacmools may have been erased, but not Tensegrity A new
formation of warrior guardians were set to lead future seminars with
lectures to be given by all four Don Juan disciples--and an inorganic
being called the blue scout.
Don Juan's premise was that the world as we know it is only one
version of reality, a set of culturally embedded "agreements" and
"descriptions." Castaneda addressed the futility of the usual avenues of
inquiry:
"If you seek with the mind, it will not take you anywhere, except
to a tautological situation where you repeat the obvious. In science, the
tautological questions prove themselves. That the art of our science. . .
'All these variables and nothing else.' We are champions of pseudo
control--we reduce the problem to manageable science. What a
fantasy!
"One day on my way to the cafetena at UCLA, I didn't see people
anymore, I saw energies, blobs, luminous spheres. It was dazzling. Before
that, nothing existed except me, me, me. I went to talk to a psychiatrist
I worked with. He very kindly prescribed a tranquilizer and said,
'Carlos, you're working too hard. Take two days off.' It was impossible
to establish a dialogue with him."
Castaneda's own inquiries have led him from academic anthropology
topractical hermeneutics, the science of interpretation; he launched a
newsletter, The Warriors' Way: A Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, in
January. Titles under consideration for a gigantic work in progress have
included "Ethnohermeneutics" and "Phenomenological Anthropology."
"When sorcerers see, hermeneutics is the ultimate affair for us,"
Castaneda said. Seeing for the rest of us apparently involves only the
visual sense, and then only minimally.
"When you look at me now, what do you see?" I asked.
"I have to be in a special mood to see," he said. "It is very
difficult for me to see. I've got to get very somber, very heavy. If I'm
lighthearted and I look at you I see nothing. Then I turn around and I
see her, and what do I see? '1 joined the navy to see the world, and what
do I see? I see the sea!'
"I know more than I want to know. It's hell, true hell. If you see
too much, you become unbearable."
Castaneda ordered a cappuccino, then meticulously removed the
foamed milk teaspoon by teaspoon.
According to castaneda, most sorcerers must remain celibate in
order to conserve energy. It all depends on the circumstances under which
they were conceived."
Most of us are what we call BFs, the product of bored fucks," he
explained. "How was I conceived? Was it in the middle of great sexual
excitation, or was it nonsense, idiotic, pointless? Mine was stupid. The
two people involved didn't know what they were doing. I was conceived
behind a door, so I came out very nervous, watching. And this is the way
I am, basically For me to make use of energy I don't have is
lethal."
"What about married people?"
"That question has come up a lot. It's a question of energy," he
said. "If you know you were not conceived in a state of real excitation,
then no. On one level, it hasn't mattered if people are married. With the
launching of Tensegrity, we don't really know what will happen."
"You don't know what is going to happen? Sounds
irresponsible."
"How can you know?" he asked. "This is an implication of our
syntactical system. Our syntax requires a beginning, development, and
end. I was, I am, I will be. We are caught in that. How can we know what
you will be capable of if you have sufficient energy?
"I am giving you a series of ideas, if you have the balls to take
them seriously. Maybe you say this is idiotical, what kind of shit is
this? Like the little boy victims [whining], 'But what is going to happen
to me?' They'll never find out.
"The other three disciples--those farts--have balls; these are huge
women with the biggest balls you've ever seen. Try to stop Taisha Abelar
and see what happens. Try to stop Florinda."
The fourth disciple is no squeaker himself.
"Don Juan categorized people into three types," he said. "One was
farts, like me, a smelly fart--very assertive, ready to tell you, 'Fuck
you, are you sure that's the way to do it?' and Don Juan would very
patiently assure me that, yes, he was sure. I don't have that patience
myself. If somebody asks me am I sure, I go bananas because I'm not
sure!
"The other, golden piss--the sweetest, wonderful beings. They could
die for you, or so they say They won't, but they say it, which is very
nice--nicer than the fart but then you die for him.
"The third type, puke. Not fart, not piss, just puke--the kind that
doesn't have anything to give, but promises the world, and has you
begging . . . .
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