Getting Castaneda Quotes

“There are two parts of our being: the silent part – old, at ease and connected; and the modern rational part – light, nervous and fast.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“Meeting the four allies: black rectangle, giant coyote, thin man and black jaguar.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“Four enemies: fear, clarity, power and old age.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“a shameless fraud, a trickster and huckster of the lowest type,”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“Her only option was to arrange for the cats to be taken to an animal shelter and put to sleep.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“Through us the universe intends to become aware of itself. The monsters who imprison us are our challengers. There is no other way to look at them. If we take them as such, we can continue.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“When the ‘flyer’ is faced repeatedly with a silent mind it goes away. Inner silence, the opposite of inner dialog, makes us indigestible to the predator.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“Being a secret predator engaged in a nefarious activity, this predator mind is conspiratorial, cunning, furtive, evasive and insidious. Most of all, it is afraid of being discovered and exposed.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“It lives with us and feeds on our awareness, controlling us by imposing its own mind on top of ours.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“Our interior dialog, which stabilizes our world view, is full of recitations of problems, unfulfilled expectations, misunderstandings, frustrations and endless grievances. We are trapped in this dialog, and don’t even conceive that there could’ve been another type of consciousness in the past or could be another type in the future.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“We feel defeated, humiliated, and left powerless by a monstrous outside force that governs and ruins our lives. This is the one thing that unifies humanity, according to Matus, that we all have in common. All humans have the same sense of outrage, offense, self-pity and grievance – even billionaires and presidents.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“Once the new female apprentices were introduced, we never again see the old Castaneda-as-apprentice. The note-taking, doubting, questioning, non-seeing, frightened and confused student who acted as a foil for Juan Matus and Genaro Flores in the early books is gone. Castaneda is now the ‘young nagual’, the leader of the new generation. As for his followers, old descriptive words like student, cohort and apprentice are now often replaced by a new word: disciple.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“But gender is a position of the assemblage point, so a male sorcerer can conceivably change to female by finding the right position.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“The worlds beyond the inorganic realm are even more predatory and hostile to us than our own is.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“living an infinitely long life in that realm.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“Compared to them, we are like small children with lots of energy but no sophistication.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“The inorganic beings seek out dreamers and basically try to capture them.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“they covet the higher energy levels of humans.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“or we can lie down in dreaming attention and fall asleep again with the intent of dreaming onward from there.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“We have a fixed amount of energy available to us in our luminous being.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“In don Juan’s philosophy, there are two basic types of sorcerers: dreamers and stalkers. Sorcery is the ability to move the assemblage point. Dreamers achieve this through becoming aware of the natural movement of the assemblage point while dreaming, and then stabilizing their awareness at any new position discovered. Stalkers do this by modifying their behavior systematically until the new behavior causes the assemblage point to move.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“Works of great art can also move the assemblage point. Poems, statues, monuments, music and dance can all be among the highest forms of sorcery.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“the luminous body constantly sends out very fine filaments which are energized by feelings and emotions. In an interaction with another cocoon, each person sends filaments into the interior of the other’s cocoon. If the interaction is not fully resolved when the cocoons part, each party leaves filaments inside the cocoon of the other person or persons involved. In this case, both parties lose energy to each other.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“any new position reached accidentally cannot be sustained.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“it proceeded the era”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“We can’t stop it with conscious effort, because that effort is made up of more thoughts.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“We can, though, become aware of how we maintain it in one place.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“The mold has no power to do anything other than stamp us out as humans.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“Being able to move freely from the first to the second attention and back again is the mastery of awareness, which makes the totality of one’s self available and accessible.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda

“The assemblage point not only selects and assembles perception, it also stores perception.”
― Peter Luce, Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda