• Knowing Your Surroundings

    Knowing Your Surroundings

    The Seven Principle of Stalking are somewhat hard to decipher. Castaneda says we should practice these…

  • The Difference Between Allies, Powers, Inorganic and Organic Beings

    The Difference Between Allies, Powers, Inorganic and Organic Beings

    Allies and Powers and the difference are discussed in the first few chapters of the first…

  • On the Topic of Learning

    On the Topic of Learning

    …He added that nothing in this world is a gift, that whatever there was to learn…

  • Acquiesce

    Acquiesce

    Power, 249 The tonal doesn’t know that decisions are in the realm of the natural. When…

  • All the Riddles

    All the Riddles

    I’ve been reading about the Riddles and I’ve been wondering how to approach them. It strikes…

  • Death as an Advisor

    Death as an Advisor

    One of the great aids that the shamans of ancient Mexico employed in establishing the concept…

  • Will

    Will

    Will is the power of the second attention to focus on anything we wanted. The Second…

  • Controlled Folly

    Controlled Folly

    I’ve always had hard time understanding Controlled Folly as Castaneda means it. Trying to know what…

  • Awareness and Perception

    Awareness and Perception

    When I think of awareness and perception I harken back to my college days where I…

  • The Role of Intent

    The Role of Intent

    Castaneda talked a lot about the role of Intent in his works. This simple definition dosen’t…