HOW TO SHAKE OFF THE AWARENIVORES
HOW TO SHAKE OFF THE AWARENIVORES
by Waves Forest (first posted at www.freetheearthlings.com)
PART ONE: WHO CONTROLS THE CONTROLLERS?
What is keeping humans from reaching their full potential? What prevents modern civilizations from becoming truly civilized? More and more people are feeling the impulse to evolve to a higher state. What is holding us back?
We can imagine in great detail what a harmonious culture would be like. We have plenty of evidence of past societies that were stable, peaceful and maintained healthy long-term relations with their environments. Yet each was eventually overrun and demolished by dominator cultures with no apparent comprehension of or respect for the natural systems that made their existence possible.
We still have a chance to forge a civilization based on cooperation instead of conflict, harmonizing with natural principles rather than fighting them. Humans have repeatedly developed cleaner, safer sources of energy and raw materials, nonpolluting transportation methods, inexpensive full-spectrum healing options, and economic systems that promote abundance instead of scarcity. Despite generations of suppression by resource monopolists, these options still exist, ready to be deployed whenever we’re ready.
We know in our bones that impeccable behavior should be the reliable standard, not the remarkable exception. Compassion and generosity come naturally, unless people are conditioned to regard them as weaknesses to be exploited. Yet for all our envisioning and intending a bright new world, where peace, harmony and abundance prevail, we still aren’t managing to make it happen. We know better, yet seem collectively incapable of doing better. What the heck is wrong with us?
A problem can be solved only when it is fully and accurately described.
Its solution will be implicit in the problem’s description. When a problem persists despite many efforts to solve it, some key element is missing from the problem’s description. Where the missing element should be, we’ll find instead a faulty assumption or outright deception. The bigger the problem and the longer it’s lasted, the more deeply embedded the wrong assumption or deception must be.
When we extrapolate the eventual consequences of suppressing all efforts to establish a genuinely harmonious, sustainable civilization, there are no human conspirators that can ultimately benefit from doing so, no matter how strongly they may believe otherwise. Certain humans have clearly been persuaded that the outcome of such suppression of alternatives would be in their favor. Such humans would have to be totally self-absorbed, to the point of being oblivious to their underlying connection with the web of life, and utterly indifferent to all the suffering caused by their actions. But who or what is doing the persuading?
What sort of beings would think this arrangement serves their purposes,
and be capable of exerting the influence required, for so long, without revealing their role or even their existence? Can we work backwards from their effects to a description of their nature?
Their suppression of alternatives is causing long-term global ecological damage, turning forests into wastelands, poisoning soil, water and air, disrupting weather cycles, lowering oxygen levels and driving countless species to extinction. So even if all this is just a by-product of their agenda, they could not have human or even organic priorities. Whatever they are, they’d need to have either very long lives or absolute behavioral consistency over many generations. They’d have to be capable of continuous intimate contact with and influence over human minds, while remaining essentially invisible. And they’d have to have a motive, something they get from this mass manipulation of our species that makes it worth all the effort.
And if figuring all this out is going to do us any good, there must be some action we can take to remedy the situation.
If the underlying forces that artificially retard humanity do not originate with humans, the compulsion of some humans to acquire power over others and restrict their freedom is a symptom, not the cause, of the manipulation of human awareness. In that case those humans who are engaging in mind-control programs, for example, are just dramatizing on others something that has already been done to them at a much deeper level.
There is one irreducible quality that characterizes the humans who’ve appointed themselves the controllers and limiters of civilization’s options. All their behaviors ultimately flow from self-importance. And reinforcement of self-importance is the dominant theme in the prevailing social order. We aren’t just talking about egotism here, but rather the entire mode of awareness where everything around us is significant only insofar as it pertains to the self. This way of perceiving reality is so widespread that it mostly goes unnoticed, while other modes of awareness, with different criteria for significance, surface only occasionally. Humans who can disengage self-significance at will are embarrassingly rare.
What if self-importance is the very thing these hypothetical controllers of humanity are after?
This might be a good place to take a short break, because from here on this won’t be just an intellectual exercise, and it’s going to get kind of personal. So put down the magazine or step away from the computer, stretch, breathe deep, drink some water, even take a walk if you like.
It will also help a lot if you try the following simple movement:
Stand with your feet parallel, about shoulder-width apart, someplace where you can swing your arms around without crashing into anything. (If you cannot stand, sit on a stool with no back.) Gently rotate your upper body left, then right, continuing back and forth while swinging your arms around you horizontally. They will extend and then wrap around you naturally, impelled by centrifugal force as you rotate around and back on your axis. At the farthest point of each swing, let your fingers lightly land on the soft areas on your front and your back, between hips and ribcage. (These spots, over the liver, pancreas and adrenals, are sometimes called “the vital centers”.) Keep doing this for a few minutes. It will loosen your spine and shoulders, increase circulation and oxygen flow, and feel good. Also, at the deeper level where you are literally a luminous being, a big ball of light, this movement loosens the encrusted dispersed life energy around your equator and transfers it via your fingers back to your vital centers. These primary vortices then make that life energy available for enhancing your vitality and sense of well-being, and your ability to read the rest of this story without freaking out.
This movement is sometimes called “Lifesaver”, either because your hands are describing the shape of a huge lifesaver around your middle or perhaps because it can save your life if you do it enough. It is quite ancient,
older than this civilization cycle. Children occasionally rediscover it by instinct.
There are hundreds of prehistoric, specific movements of the limbs and breath, from simple ones like the Lifesaver to elaborate long forms, which are not in our usual daily inventory of movements. Later on we’ll describe others, in enough detail that you can learn and practice them, and share them with other people. In modern times these movements are known as “magical passes” or “tensegrity”. Said to be at least ten thousand years old, they may be ancestral to, or share a common ancestry with, chi kung, tai chi, yoga, Tibetan rites of rejuvenation and so on. Among other effects, they reduce stress and increase confidence and the range of what we can perceive. They also help quiet the mind, interrupt habitual thought patterns and dispel self-absorption, so with enough practice such movements should reduce our susceptibility to the influence of any hypothetical entities that may be cultivating humanity as a source of self-importance-flavored awareness.
Now hang in there, because those entities are about to get less hypothetical.
Among organic life forms there are plenty of examples of parasites who influence their hosts to do things that serve the interests of the parasite, not the host. We’ll skip digressing into the gruesome details, which can be easily found in various natural science publications. The point is, while the mechanism by which they accomplish this takeover is still being studied, it’s clear that these parasites are hijacking some part of their hosts’ nervous systems, enough to compel the hosts to do things they would not normally do, usually to provide the conditions the parasites require for reproduction.
So there are precedents in the natural world for life forms being tricked by parasites into acting against their own best interests. But could analogous external influences really account for the massive misbehavior of mankind?
First let’s distinguish the human activities which are in our long-term best interests from those that demonstrate inability to cooperate with Nature or each other. Behaviors in the second category invariably start with self-absorption, or self-significance might be a more precise term. If this is not immediately self-evident, choose some examples and trace the misbehaviors back to the mental state required to induce them. In all cases self-significance will be the initial condition for self-destructive or other-destructive actions. Bear in mind that self-significance can manifest
as self-pity, self-righteousness, attention-seeking compulsions, sheer bloody-mindedness, the indifferent obliteration of habitats, and assorted sociopathies. Note that all of these conditions involve a reduction of awareness. Later we’ll expand on these syndromes, particularly as they apply to the “powers that were”, the subset of elite humans still trying to steal the world and reduce the range of perception and energy of the rest of humanity.
Contrast these antics with the accomplishments of humans at their best.
Acts of great generosity are often described as “selfless”, and that may be literally accurate, at least for the duration of the act’s initiation.
Inspiration and creativity come right out of infinity. We commonly hear
that a new idea came from out of nowhere, or appeared in a dream. Even when we’re “awake”, at the moment when a truly original idea appears, an instant of inner silence has just occurred, a brief interruption of the internal dialog, which then allows inspiration to get through from the vast sea of awareness. The familiar mental chatter might immediately resume, with thoughts like “this’ll be worth a fortune” or “won’t everybody be impressed”, but at the exact moment of inspiration, such notions are miles away.
This also applies to episodes of “superhuman” abilities, whether brought on by a life-or-death situation that momentarily blows away self-significance, or by years of practice, discipline, impeccability and cumulative inner silence. And it applies to those children who have escaped being conditioned into self-importance, so their innate “paranormal” talents have been allowed to develop. Exceeding the boundaries of consensus reality is creativity in the broadest sense.
To put it bluntly, creativity and self-importance are mutually exclusive.
An objection arises at this point: what about those highly original artists, musicians and inventors who also happened to have colossal egos? What about the USA, where so many amazing innovations have originated, even though self-importance is perhaps what America is most famous for? (As the saying goes, “we’re number one at thinking we’re number one.”)
Here we have to distinguish between the various states of awareness a person can occupy at different times. Check the accounts of those highly creative individuals who also were famously self-important in their daily interactions, and we find once again that at those instants of inspiration, the self moved aside just long enough for some higher purpose to take hold.
They may have described the phenomenon in various ways, but that’s the core of it. Examine closely the moments in your life when your most original or inspired ideas occurred, and you’ll notice the same thing: a release from self-absorption and a momentary lapse in that otherwise incessant inner voice. And by original, we mean original for you; it’s no less inspired if it turns out later that others had the same idea.
But when the priorities of self-significance take over the creative process, inspiration crashes. Consider as an example those artists and musicians whose most original work occurs early in their careers, while they are fully open to inspiration, before all the praise and popularity has gone to their heads. Later when much of their attention is diverted toward maintaining their self-image, the accompanying mental noise blocks inspiration from getting through. Their work becomes repetitious, derivative and/or “commercial”. The notable exceptions continue producing innovative and beautiful works throughout their careers, repeatedly breaking out of self-reflection at least long enough for those great bursts of inspiration to get through to them from infinity.
Does all this shed some light on the pitiful condition of humanity’s self-appointed rulers? Their self-importance is monumental and unrelenting.
It’s not just their default mode of awareness, it’s their only mode. Thus they have an impenetrable barrier between them and the source of all inspiration and creativity. No inner silence for these clowns, and no original ideas, except for the ones they can buy or steal. Hence the same reheated tired old agendas, world domination, techno-feudalism, mass thought control, resource monopolies, slavery disguised as “free markets”, mass human sacrifice disguised as war, epidemics, starvation, and “natural” disasters, etcetera blah. They live in fear of getting discovered and overthrown. They are utterly blind to their connection with the web of life, and the intrinsic generosity and benevolence of nature. The mass awakening of humanity is leaving them behind, and they are oblivious to the many bandwidths of perception the rest of us are learning to access. They are so obsessed with domination and avoiding punishment, it’s never occurred to them that most of the rest of us will be too busy evolving to waste time punishing anyone. And anyway it’s hard to imagine a worse punishment than being what they already are.
This part bears reiterating. Over the years, researchers have described countless elaborate human conspiracies, in excruciating detail. Many are real, but none completely explain our overall situation. To fully account for the bewildering variety of suppressive phenomena we encounter, a complete theory must also explain the condition of the conspirators themselves.
So, how did they get that way? Is there a cure? Is their affliction just a more extreme case of the condition that affects most of humanity, or is it fundamentally different? And are we finally going to elaborate on the awareness-munching parasites alluded to earlier?
Okay, we’ve used half the article just sneaking up on the central premise. The very wits humans have tried to wrap around this problem appear to have been compromised at some deep level, to prevent us from ever getting a handle on what’s really going on. So we can pretty well bet that if anyone actually has identified the underlying thing that blocks humanity from reaching its full potential, and described detailed countermeasures, their work would be widely dismissed as fiction by minions of those who want to prolong the prevailing imbalance of power.
Anyone who has carefully read Carlos Castaneda’s books, especially “Magical Passes”, “The Active Side of Infinity” and “The Art of Dreaming”, and actually applied the techniques and maneuvers he described, probably has a pretty good idea where we’re going with this. Thanks for continuing to be patient while we fill in those who haven’t.
Carlos Castaneda was an anthropology student in 1960 when he met Don Juan Matus, the leader of a party of sorcerers or shamans (neither term is adequate) living in Mexico. Their party was the latest in a lineage that spanned twenty-five generations. Carlos started visiting and learning from Don Juan, thinking at first that he was studying a primitive belief system. It turned out instead to be an entire cognitive system vastly different from the one most modern humans operate under, and it swallowed him. Throughout their association Don Juan and his cohorts put Carlos through experiences that are considered flatly impossible by the prevailing modern belief system. They also provided explanations for how such things were in fact quite possible, along with techniques for accomplishing similar feats.
Castaneda wrote twelve books detailing what he learned and experienced, and we aren’t about to try and summarize them. One way of describing the abilities of Don Juan and his party is that they were able to act in the “real world” as if it were a dream, and vice versa. They moved great distances in an instant, plucked knowledge from out of nowhere, made impossible things appear and disappear, visited other worlds, and generally altered the features of reality at will.
It’s easy to see why this planet’s self-anointed royalty would be alarmed at the prospect of ordinary people acquiring such abilities.
In his first two books Carlos focused on those experiences he could attribute, mostly, to perceptual distortions caused by psychoactive plants he used early in his apprenticeship. (To provide the full picture, Don Juan exposed him to the entire range of practices comprising his tradition, including procedures Don Juan personally considered obsolete, some of which were not exactly user-friendly.) Later as his comprehension and memory improved, Carlos was forced to conclude that total sobriety was a prerequisite for coherently manipulating reality in the manner Don Juan demonstrated. And it should be noted that the female apprentices did not require psychoactive plants to break loose their fixation on consensus reality. More about them later.
Now this is key to the hypothesis we’re working toward: another vital prerequisite for accomplishing these manipulations of perception, and thus of reality, and a recurring theme throughout the books, is losing self-importance. Here’s one of many major differences between Don Juan and the “sorcerers” of more familiar western literature. While Don Juan and his party concentrated on controlling their own perceptions and behavior, most of the “sorcerers” of European history were focused on controlling others. To this day, their modern counterparts are preoccupied with controlling others, so it’s easy to see why “sorcery” is an unappealing and inadequate term for most of what Don Juan was doing. “Magic” really isn’t much better. The very fact that there is no accurate term in English for someone like Don Juan, or for his system of knowledge and practices, should be a giant clue. Even our capacity to think or talk about altering reality at such a deep level is constricted by lack of terminology.
But we’re going to try anyway. There are certain core concepts relayed by Castaneda that are central to this discussion. They can be verified by direct observation and experiment. These are not metaphors.
Our familiar world of people and objects is not the only level of reality we can access. Our world is generated by the interactions of fields of energy and awareness. These fields resemble countless strings of light, or luminous filaments, stretching in all directions. At the level where we consist entirely of energy, each of us resembles a ball of light made up of vast numbers of these filaments curled up together, extending as far as our arms can reach. This ball of light has a number of features, but two are most significant here.
The first is an especially bright spot a few inches across, which Don Juan called the assemblage point. The world we are witnessing at any given time is composed of the filaments from outside the ball of light which happen to flow through that extra bright spot, and are brought into alignment with those composing us. Perception is assembled and interpreted there at that point, hence the name.
When we are awake, the usual position of that bright spot is about an arm’s length behind the shoulder blades. However, that spot can be moved to other locations on or in the big ball of light that composes us. It moves around naturally when we dream, allowing unaccustomed filaments to flow through it and to be assembled into perception. That’s why the worlds we observe in dreaming look different from the one we inhabit while awake.
Several hundred of those worlds are actual places that continue to exist whether we’re there or not. It’s as if we all have a built-in reality tuner, but haven’t learned how to use it. Every wild ability demonstrated by Don Juan and his party involved manipulating their assemblage points.
There is a second feature of luminous beings that we have to appreciate if we want to understand the human condition. We are not just one ball of light, but two. The other ball of light is not anchored in this waking world.
Don Juan called it the dreaming body, the energy body or the double. For now let’s call it the dreamer. When we dream, some aspect of our waking awareness rides along with it and samples its explorations, adventures and variable identities. That second ball of light is our true other half, the “something missing” we all sense from an early age. It “breathes” infinity the way we breathe oxygen, and for similar reasons. It exists between us and infinity, that vast sea of awareness, and everything that reaches us from infinity, whether inspiration or regenerative energies, has to come through it. That’s why sleep deprivation can kill a person; the connection between the two balls of light gets too thin for the sustaining energies to reach and maintain the part of us that sticks up into this world.
This is the biggest secret about our true nature and potential as humans. We are double beings. The trans-dimensional connection between a person and their dreamer consists of a glowing coat, an extra sheen of awareness that should cover the ball of light that composes their waking self. However for the vast majority of people that glowing coat has been nearly consumed, until all that’s left is a glowing fringe down around the toes, just enough to keep us alive. That remnant is not enough to maintain a conscious link with the dreamer, let alone act in the waking world with the freedom of a dream. Even the possibility of doing so is widely disregarded, and people are usually led to believe that dreams are just imaginary and of no significance except insofar as they might apply symbolically to the waking world. And the reality people experience is greatly influenced by their expectations, especially where the limitations of their capabilities are concerned.
So now we are finally closing in on the awarenivores, literally eaters of awareness. We coined this term back in 2001, as an unambiguous word for the inorganic non-physical parasites that Don Juan called “the flyers”. Castaneda discussed the flyers at some of his Tensegrity workshops in the mid-1990s. His most detailed written description is in the chapter “Mud Shadows” in “The Active Side of Infinity”, though there are plenty of hints provided earlier in the book. For that matter, once we know what to look for, their impact is unmistakable throughout recorded human history.
Inorganic beings have awareness and energy but no physical organism, and they exist in greater variety even than organic life. Occasionally some are detected and described as elementals or nature spirits. Some are actually quite friendly. The awarenivores are just a subgroup of the unfriendly ones.
Yes we know this sounds loony. Get the details from Castaneda, and treat this as you would treat any hypothesis to be tested in the real world. See how well it explains some otherwise inexplicable human behaviors, like the tendency to act against their own best interests, set to the recurring theme of self-importance. Notice how many baffling phenomena finally start to make sense when examined in this context.
Consider the contradiction between the accomplishments of human ingenuity and the absurdities of human belief systems. How can people be so clever and so stupid at the same time? What makes someone who can be brilliant at solving problems turn around and cause idiotic problems in their
interactions with others?
In order to accomplish their predation, the awarenivores engage in the ultimate form of mind-control. Using their own minds as a template, they superimpose over the native human mind a false mind, which Don Juan called the “foreign installation”. And as you might expect from a parasite, the mind of the awarenivore is unimaginative, self-absorbed, obsessed with feeding on its host and avoiding discovery. They’ve edited their very existence out of humanity’s conceptual frameworks. Obscuring the native human capacity to perceive energy directly usually enables them to escape detection. However small children sometimes notice them and holler about monsters under the bed or wherever, until they’re either conditioned out of seeing such things, or driven crazy.
The food of these parasites is the self-importance-flavored flares of awareness released by provoking conflicts between humans, including imaginary conflicts. They don’t care what else we do, as long as most of our vital energy is diverted into self-significance. Their human proxies, the ones most severely infested, make sure that the social order continues to reinforce self-importance as the top priority. The “ruling class” is probably as unaware of being controlled as most people, although some apparently believe they’re serving the devil or something.
Thus for countless generations humans have basically been tricked into using half their magical powers to hold down the other half.
The good news is that we can change this, now that we know what’s really going on. Individually at first, then as a species. And our capabilities can expand as far as our imagination and impeccability will allow.
However, that won’t be accomplished by just thinking about it, not while the thing we’re thinking with keeps getting overruled by the very entities whose influence we’re trying to escape. It requires energetic techniques that reduce self-absorption and promote inner silence. Experiment with the Magical Passes; there are hundreds to choose from.
Learn and practice recapitulation, which retrieves life energy dispersed across time. Recapitulating involves revisiting, in as much detail as possible, the episodes in one’s life where feelings were generated, and inhaling slowly and deeply while gently turning the head to one side, then exhaling while turning it to the other side. This retrieves vital energy caught up in the interactions while expelling foreign energy left by others. Details are in “Magical Passes”, as well as in “The Sorcerer’s Crossing” by Taisha Abelar, another of Don Juan’s apprentices.
The discipline that comes with regular practice makes self-significance become less and less prominent, and replaces it with serenity, until the glowing coat of awareness is no longer tasty enough to interest the parasites.
Eventually they leave altogether, taking their foreign installation with them, whereupon the glowing coat can grow back, restoring the connection with the dreamer, and through it, with the sea of awareness.
But first the parasites will try to persuade anyone attempting to escape their control that it’s not worth it. They’ll use religious beliefs, fear of looking foolish, not having enough time or energy, whatever it takes to try and reinforce self-importance, and they’ve had thousands of years of practice.
Researchers can be familiar with all sorts of suppressed discoveries yet still overlook the huge implications of this subject, since so many deflector screens and clouds of chaff have been placed around it; entire books and websites are devoted to steering people away from pursuing it.
The only way to know for sure is to personally experiment with the energy-gathering and re-deploying movements. Since the parasites already have a huge head start, don’t wait around for part two of this article, where we’ll expand on certain ramifications of this story, point out some of the corroborating findings from other fields, and provide detailed instructions for performing more magical passes that aren’t in the books.
Until then, here’s one of our favorites:
A GESTURE OF AFFECTION FOR THE EARTH
This magical pass can be performed anywhere and anytime. It provides a boost from the earth’s energy and reinforces clarity and local confidence. It assists the healing of the earth and our connection with it, and makes it easier for the earth’s communications to get through to us without distortion. Also, it feels really good.
This pass starts with a deep breath, standing with fingers spread. Crouch and rest the palms on the ground, and exhale into it. Stand up, drawing the palms up the front of the body. Begin a slow inhalation as the hands reach the knees. Continue inhaling as the hands come up to the chest, then reach out to the sides, palms facing forward. Lean forward slightly, into the “wind of abstract affection”. Exhale as the hands cross over the chest, palms on upper ribcage. Inhale again while opening the arms out to the sides, palms forward, as before. Exhale again with the hands crossed over the chest, as before. With the next deep inhalation, the arms are opened out to the sides again, then brought back to the center front with the backs of the hands facing each other, fingers forward. Then they push toward the front, then curl out to the sides, as if swimming. The hands circle back toward the body, curling under and turning palms up. Finally the hands go forward at the center, as the elbows come to rest on the front vital centers, the soft spots between the hips and the ribcage. The slow inhalation ends here. Exhale while crossing the wrists, pivoting them inward, under and out, as if connected, so the palms now face forward. Breathe in as the hands grab the energy right in front of them and pull it apart, and rub it into the vital centers during the final exhalation.
HOW TO SHAKE OFF THE AWARENIVORES
by Waves Forest (first posted at www.freetheearthlings.com)
Part Two: TENSEGRITY TOOLKIT
In part one of this report we presented some evidence in support of a wild-sounding hypothesis: the artificial retardation of human progress and cooperation is induced by inorganic nonphysical parasites that “cultivate” humans as sources of self-importance-flavored awareness energy, which they consume. This predation occurs at the level of reality where we consist entirely of fields of energy. Even those humans who believe they are controlling everyone else are themselves being parasitized in the same manner. This arrangement has been going on all over the world throughout recorded history. The sorcerers who first identified these parasites called them “flyers”, but since that term has several meanings in modern English, we’ve been referring to them as “awarenivores” for the last decade or so.
Disengaging self-significance repels these parasites. To accomplish this we can utilize any of a wide variety of ancient energy-gathering and re-deploying movements which in modern times are known as magical passes or tensegrity.
Since some people may find these concepts rather upsetting, at this point it might be useful if we provide instructions for performing a pass with the specific purpose of restoring emotional equilibrium, before continuing this exploration.
MOVEMENT FOR DISPELLING ANGUISH
This pass serves as a sort of emotional reset button.
The movement is asymmetrical. Energy is pushed diagonally across the body from left to right, but not the other way.
Start with the feet about shoulder-width apart, and with the right foot about the same distance in front. The knees are slightly flexed for stability.
The hands are right beside the pancreas area, the vital center known as the center of feeling, on the left front side between the hip and ribcage. The left hand is held next to the crest of the hipbone with the flat palm up, fingers pointed diagonally towards a spot above the right knee. The right hand is held with the palm down, a few inches directly above the left palm, fingers pointing the opposite direction. The right elbow projects forward to allow this. From this position, take a deep breath.
Now with a sharp exhalation that fully engages the abdominal muscles, the hands shoot diagonally forward, horizontally, a few feet to the area above the right knee. They arrive with the left hand flexed back, fingers up, in a position such as one would use to stop traffic, and the right hand in a back fist just above it. The back of the right fist faces the same direction as the left palm, forward and to the right. This movement and breath is then repeated as many times as necessary, five, ten, twenty times, whatever it takes. The body can feel when it’s had enough. If the unwanted feeling returns later, simply perform the movement again. (One of the cumulative effects of regularly practicing magical passes is a reduced susceptibility to negative emotions.)
Although this is called a movement for dispelling anguish, as far as we can tell it works on dispelling other unwanted emotions as well. This pass would not be part of one’s regular practice, but used only when needed, or when showing others how to use it. It works regardless of whether one can see the energy, or understands how it works, so it is effective even for very young or very old people.
While many passes involve gathering energy from the periphery and bringing it back to the vital centers, this is one of the few that pushes it away. Our guess is that the energy specifically holding the unwanted feeling in place is being pushed into the right circulating vertical column of energy (one of two columns in front of the body, part of the internal structure of the luminous sphere) which recycles it.
We can now examine some further evidence for this highly weird yet ancient hypothesis, and some of its implications. We should acknowledge however that for many people, no amount of evidence or logical arguments will be persuasive until they have gathered enough energy, and accumulated enough inner silence, to directly perceive the energy involved and/or drive away the parasites long enough to start feeling the difference.
There’s one implication of this situation that we should cover right away, since it could otherwise easily become yet another source of victim mentality. While human self-significance has certainly been exploited and intensified by outside influences, it could not have been entirely created by them. Humans must have already had some innate capacity for that mode of awareness, where anything’s significance is determined by how it pertains to the self. Otherwise there would have been nothing to attract parasites that consume that variety of awareness in the first place. So let us consider this long-standing parasitism as an exciting challenge to overcome, rather than another reason to feel downtrodden and disempowered.
While we’re working on throwing off this influence, it will be easier for us to be more patient with each other if we can recognize that our flares of uncontrolled self-importance are being provoked to nourish the invisible energetic equivalent of some giant fleas. Some humans have it so bad they’re basically nothing but flyer-chow. So instead of condemning them, it makes more sense to just give them a wide margin and plan on working around their disability. That is certainly a challenge if such humans have seized command and control of much of humanity’s basic operating systems.
But if we weren’t capable of meeting that challenge, we wouldn’t have occurred here in the first place.
As we’d expect from parasites, principal features of the awarenivores are constant hunger, and anxiety about being discovered and denied food. Since their tactic for obtaining human compliance involves superimposing a false mind patterned after their own over the original human mind, these features are also widespread among humans. Even humans who’ve never had to go without food are anxious about food scarcity, and many eat much more food than they actually require.
Of course, an upside of the parasites’ food anxiety is that any plans the entrenched elite might have for massive population reduction will probably not be allowed to get too far. From the parasites’ viewpoint, while the occasional extermination of millions serves to keep most people worried about survival, and thus focused on the self, the deaths of billions would amount to needlessly wasting food. Their approach has been to keep most humans alive long enough to squeeze every bit of sustenance out of them, while maintaining continuous stress from many different threats to survival, mostly caused by other humans. To offset the trend toward mass awakening and peaceful coexistence, the threat level keeps getting ramped up, to the point where it takes the prospect of mass extinction to keep humans sufficiently self-absorbed, and now more and more of us are even seeing through that.
Frankly, we’re just not as dumb as we used to be. Despite all the efforts to lower human awareness, whether through mis-education, mind-control broadcasts, electromagnetic pollution, mass application of biocides, chemtrails, radiation, fluoridation, vaccination, pollution of water and food, health disinformation, oxygen depletion through deforestation, et many ceteras, more and more people are seeing the light or least less dark.
The sheer over-reaching of the would-be controllers has pushed many people past their disinformation-tolerance threshold. And certain key principles about information are finally catching on.
One is that lies cause stupidity. Mis-information causes distortions in the mental maps people are trying to operate with, making them functionally stupider, to the point of driving off a cliff that their map insists isn’t there. People can start out intrinsically bright, but then get filled full of lies until they’re dumber than sea slugs. Most people now recognize that life is safer and more interesting if those around them are less stupid, so telling lies is like peeing in the drinking water, polluting the environment with stupidity. The only ones who actually want others to be stupider are trying to take advantage of them, or avoid having their crimes detected. These facts are now more widely recognized than ever, and humans are experiencing an unprecedented collective impulse toward bringing out the truth.
Another principle that is catching on more broadly is that the usefulness of information is proportional to its improbability. That is, a fact that one could easily extrapolate from what’s already known is not as useful as one that could not be readily guessed just by extending prior knowledge. It’s one thing to know that it’s going to keep raining for awhile because it’s been raining for days and the sky looks pretty much the same. It’s a lot more important to know if there’s a tornado coming even though the existing conditions wouldn’t normally produce one, so nobody’s guessing it’s likely.
And it’s even more important to know, if it turns out to be true, that humans are actually capable of miraculous feats and unprecedented harmony and well-being, but are being side-tracked and manipulated by invisible eaters of awareness who are only interested in self-importance. It doesn’t get much more improbable than that.
A third principle with vast potential is the effect of the observer on whatever is being observed. The capacity of those who are about to experience the future to collectively determine its outcome cannot be overstated. And just as the role of awareness in modulating reality is
becoming more widely known, we are passing through the galactic plane where the interstellar medium is especially rich in reality pores, similar to what some call micro-wormholes, through which fresh reality can ooze. The controllers, both human and unseen, have long been engaged in a bizarre form of brinksmanship. They have sought to conceal from humanity the human capacity to affect the parameters of reality through intent, while at the same time trying to covertly harness that capacity in order to reinforce the thought forms they wish to predominate. One can easily guess by now what sort of thought forms those would be.
This is as good a place as any to clarify the concept of intent, the binding force that holds reality together. It’s a term that actually translated fairly well from the paleo-Toltec through Spanish and into English, but it’s still elusive. Don Juan Matus and his cohorts were and presumably still are masters of expanding their perception in ways that allowed them to join their own intent with that which sustained the reality around them, and invite it to shift in ways that would normally be impossible except in a dream. This is less implausible if we consider the possibility that the waking world may have started out as a dream, and then gradually solidified though group agreement. After all, the oldest oral traditions on Earth say that’s pretty much what happened.
For simplicity’s sake we’ll go ahead and continue calling the practices involved sorcery, since that’s what Don Juan called it, emphasizing its abstract quality, and ignore any negative connotations attached to this term by previous generations of controllers who wanted to spook people away from such possibilities.
Through practicing the magical passes, recapitulation and impeccability in their daily lives, sorcerers gathered enough energy and inner silence to directly perceive the luminous filaments composing reality, and the vibratory coalescing force that holds it together, which they called intent. Although intent is impersonal, it is somehow aware of itself, and it can be beckoned and influenced. Part of the trick however is that sorcerers don’t actually impose their will on intent, but rather they acquire the grace and fluidity to go along with what intent “wants to do”. This can include some highly exciting possibilities, by no means limited to the default-mode intending of ordinary reality in which most modern humans unwittingly engage.
Intending in the sense meant by sorcerers is quite deliberate, but it is not a mental process. It involves our energetic side, and is nearly impossible to describe, but it can be learned. The learning process can be scary, but awareness-at-large apparently does want awareness to expand, diversify and acquire new abilities. Don Juan’s apprentices nearly got creamed a number of times, especially Castaneda, yet they survived to share with us the tools to verify their wild stories and accomplish similar expansions of perception and thus of reality, as long as we are willing to disengage self-significance and act with impeccability.
At the level of sheer energy fields, the “ground state” of the luminous filaments is to stretch out straight in all directions, as far as can be perceived. (For all we know it could all be just one colossal filament zipping back and forth zillions of times, in and out of the seer’s field of view.) Intent is what gathers some vast number of these filaments together and curls them into a ball of light, whose projection into the familiar world is a human or some other creature. If intent stops holding the filaments together, the creature dies and the filaments unfurl and revert to their “original” state, stretched out in all directions.
It’s interesting to observe that many details of physical reality do look as though they’ve formed over a filamentary energetic substrate. These include the hairs on various plants and animals, conifer needles, cactus spines, the striations in muscle tissue and various minerals, the structural fibers and root hairs of plants, the mycelium of fungi, the axons and dendrites of neurons, cilia and even the microtubules and DNA within cells. All these potentially represent evidence that our familiar reality may indeed have crystallized out over configurations of luminous filaments, as seen by the sorcerers of ancient Mexico and their modern descendents.
As described in part one of this report, humans actually consist of not just one but two spheres of light. The second one is the part that dreams, and relays inspiration and life-sustaining energy to us here in the “real” world. The reason the connection between the two balls of light is so tenuous is that the awarenivores feed on the glow that forms that connection. If we can jettison self-absorption and drive off the parasites we can grow back the connection and vastly expand the range of what we can perceive, and what we can accomplish. Eventually we can bring the clarity and coherence of our daily awareness into our dreaming, and bring the capacity for doing miraculous things from our dreaming into our daily lives. But not, obviously, if we’re doing it just to try and impress somebody.
We can also exercise the option of not dying an ordinary stupid death when we decide to leave this world for good. Instead we can retain our individual awareness and fly free, exploring elsewhere. There’s a lot of elsewhere.
The recapitulation of our lives is what makes this abstract flight possible.
The force that generates awareness will accept a facsimile of our life experiences in the form of a thorough recapitulation, instead of having to take us apart to get at them, as usually happens at the end our time here.
When sorcerers, or whatever practitioners call themselves, accomplish this, the awareness composing them lights up their bodies and dissolves all internal distinctions among their cells. To the outside observer it looks as if they are turning into pure light before disappearing or flying off. If anyone wants to draw parallels with the “rainbow body” phenomena reported in Tibet, India and elsewhere, feel free. Some of those reports sound rather similar, but others differ widely.
In the modern western world, vanishing in a puff of light can complicate the daylights out of one’s affairs. Castaneda may have been the first of his lineage to have to officially “die” in order to avoid hanging up his estate, his publishing, and the activities of Cleargreen, the outfit he set up to teach the magical passes in various workshops around the world. He told us at the workshops that he was almost ready to go; he just wanted to give us everything he got from Don Juan first. “And then poof, I’m off. Maybe I’ll wear this suit, what do you think?” He put out three books at once, just before he left. One of his recurring jokes was, “Sure it’s a lot of work; what would you rather do? You want to die an ordinary stupid death? You want to die of liver cancer?” So naturally one of the in-jokes in his obituary, which he must’ve had a lot of fun composing, was “died of liver cancer.”
When he took off in the spring of 1998, following Don Juan’s trail, the Blue Scout went with him. When we saw her she resembled a thirty-year-old human female, but exceptionally alert and direct, with the impersonal whisper of infinity very close to the surface. As described in “The Art of Dreaming”, she materialized into this world in the form of a seven-year-old girl, after breaking out of the inorganic beings’ realm with Carlos. When someone asked what it was like where she came from originally, she said it was a pointless question, since there was no common frame of reference. “We didn’t even have bilateral symmetry.” The immeasurable distance she’d come from wherever she started was somehow visible in her eyes, and she clearly was ready to resume her interrupted journey.
Momentarily lurching from the sublime to the ridiculous, among the many attempts at misdirection on the internet is a photo of a woman who died in the desert, alleged to be the Blue Scout, but obviously someone else, as anyone who actually saw the Blue Scout can tell. The photo is even posted on Wikipedia, which may be a good source for mainstream topics but is nearly useless where exotic science is concerned, or any other subject the powers-that-thought-they-were are hoping to steer researchers away from seriously investigating.
After Carlos and the Blue Scout accomplished their “somersault into infinity”, the instructors at Cleargreen continued presenting workshops for anyone wanting to learn Tensegrity. The workshops continue to this day, and are announced on Cleargreen’s website. They also offer some instructional videos, and Castaneda’s book, “Magical Passes”, as well as “The Sorcerers’ Crossing” by Taisha Abelar, and “Being-In-Dreaming” by Florinda Donner. All these are highly recommended. It was Taisha’s book that provided the first written instructions for performing magical passes, twenty years ago. There are also hundreds of passes that have been taught at workshops but aren’t in the books or videos. Some have been written up informally and shared around on the net. Segments of the videos are up on YouTube. According to the original instructors, before he left, Carlos prepared scripts for twenty-eight Tensegrity videos. Presumably Cleargreen will produce and release the remaining videos when the time is right, but what’s already available is quite sufficient for the task at hand.
Despite all the mainstream efforts to persuade people that “there’s nothing to see here, folks; move along,” some eight million copies of Castaneda’s books are floating around out there. Thousands of people have learned tensegrity and are practicing with varying degrees of regularity. Their combined effect on the trajectory of consensus reality is impossible to calculate, but it can certainly be felt.
For those who enjoy computer analogies, the magical passes could be thought of as backdoor override commands in the software of reality. They work on the part of us that communicates directly with intent. Of all the methods available for enhancing awareness, vitality and perceptual fluidity, the magical passes, and the sorcerer’s path of which they are a part, are the most powerful we have encountered.
Here are instructions for performing four more magical passes, which as far as we know have not been written up elsewhere.
GRABBING ENERGY IN A CIRCLE
Among the several hundred magical passes available to us, this one is exceptionally useful for gathering energy from our perimeter and applying it wherever healing is needed. The energy that accumulates around our body’s equator is particularly effective for accelerating regeneration, once it is retrieved and brought inward.
This pass starts from a standing position, feet parallel, about shoulders-width apart, knees slightly flexed for stability, and hands hanging loose at the sides. Begin with a deep inhalation while the hands shake rapidly along the axis of the forearm, somewhat like rattling a doorknob very fast, though the fingers are pointing down. This vibration wakes up the capacity of the hands to act like gills, breathing in energy.
Next, the right foot pivots on the heel to point right. Then the left foot steps around and lands firmly, parallel with the right and shoulders-width apart, as before, with the body now facing ninety degrees to the right of its original position. At the same instant, the left hand swings out to the side, waist-high, and grabs the energy in an arc, parallel with the ground. A sharp exhalation accompanies this step and grab, with the abdominal muscles fully engaged for a moment.
Then the hand rubs this grabbed vital energy in, wherever healing is needed, as the remaining air is exhaled. Breathing out while rubbing energy into place accomplishes the transfer.
Another deep inhalation is followed by another step, grab and sharp exhalation, turning another quarter circle to the right, and again the grabbed energy is rubbed in wherever needed, while the remaining air is exhaled.
Repeating this for two more quarter circles brings the body around to face in its original direction. Now the entire movement is repeated exactly, only in mirror image; the left foot pivots left, the right hand grabs energy while the
right foot steps around, and so on, until after four quarter circles the body is once again facing in the original direction. This sequence is repeated as many times as desired; the body will let you know when it’s had enough for the time being. This pass can also be used when there are no injuries or body parts needing repair. In that case the energy is simply rubbed into the main vital centers, the soft areas at the sides between the hips and ribcage, over the liver, pancreas and adrenals. Like all the passes, this one works whether or not you can see the energy you are manipulating.
This pass was taught at Carlos Castaneda’s Magical Passes workshop in 1996 in Oakland, California. Most of the other passes from that workshop were included in the Intent Series chapter of the book “Magical Passes”, and
in the Intent Series video. Although “Grabbing Energy in a Circle” was part of the original “Oakland Series”, it did not make it into the book. Like most passes, this one is far easier to perform than to clearly describe using words alone. The book contains around two hundred pass descriptions, with several hundred photos, but there are hundreds of others that have been taught at Cleargreen’s workshops, and many of these are still waiting to be written up and shared around.
CROSSING AN ENERGY BRIDGE
This pass was taught by Taisha Abelar, and has been a favorite ever since.
We cannot articulate its effect except to say that it definitely feels like we’re going somewhere.
Stand with the feet together. Look past everything in front of you; focus on infinity. The hands are hanging down at the sides. Take a deep breath while rapidly shaking the hands, in the same manner as described at the start of “Grabbing Energy in a Circle”.
Bring the right hand around in a big overhand vertical circle, ending out in front and to the left of the body, shoulder-high, hand open with the thumb to the left, just as if grabbing a thick handrail on the left side of a narrow bridge. Exhale slightly as this grab is made. Then the left hand performs the same motion in mirror image, grabbing the rail on the right, while the right hand comes back around horizontally to a position slightly behind the body. Exhale the rest of the opening breath as the second grab is made. Breathing will now be deep but normal until the end of the pass. Both hands maintain the shape of holding a rail throughout the entire movement.
Next the left hand comes back around to the left, horizontally, while the right hand again swings up and over to describe a large infinity symbol (an 8 on its side) as if drawing it on a wall right in front of you, with the crossing point out in front of the upper chest. As the right hand is completing this motion, coming back to the right, the left hand comes around and traces the same large infinity symbol. As both hands complete their patterns, they wind up extending straight out to the sides, at shoulder height, still maintaining the shape of holding rails.
Now both hands simultaneously make three small forward loops, as if pulling oneself along while floating between the rails. The shoulders propel these arm movements, rolling forward at the same time. Next the hands and arms make three large forward loops, again propelled by forward shoulder rolls. Then make nine small forward loops, like the first three.
Finally as the hands complete the final loop, they come around and down, ending up a little behind the body, around the level of the hips, palms facing towards the back. Lean forward slightly, continuing to focus on infinity, and take a deep breath. Then exhale and relax.
THE CHEWING BREATH
This pass assists with any sort of assimilation, whether of food, experiences or knowledge. We learned it at the Tensegrity Workshop at UCLA in the summer of 2003.
This pass is most easily performed while standing but can be adapted to other positions if necessary. The palms are flat, with the thumbs right against the sides of the hands. Start with a slow inhalation while raising the hands in a forward arc from beside the legs up to a position in front of the armpits, close to the body. Continue inhaling as the hands push straight forward at the same level, then draw back again to right in front of the armpits. From there, hold the breath and chew, while the hands come down, then sweep up and out to the sides until the backs of the hands meet straight up overhead. Now swallow.
Then exhale while lowering the arms, again out to the sides, until the palms are facing each other behind the body, thus pushing the shoulder blades together.
EMBRACING THE DREAMER
This pass is also called “Enticing the Double” or “Affection for the Energy Body”. It assists in bringing the dreamer closer to the familiar part of us that is anchored in the waking world, and vice versa.
Begin from a standing position, feet parallel and about shoulders’ width apart, knees flexed for stability.
The hands are flat, with no space between the thumb and fingers. The hands, starting from beside the ears, strike forward and inward to where the outside of the shoulders would be, of a body standing a couple feet in front of you. This blow is accompanied by a sharp exhalation, with the abdominal muscles fully contracted for a moment. The hands draw back, beside the ears, then strike again, a little closer together, at the level of the chest. After drawing back once more, they strike again, a little closer together still, to the sides of where the waist would be. It is as if one is compacting energy with these blows into the upper body of the double. This first section is also a pass by itself, known as “Forging the Trunk of the Energy Body”, from the Recapitulation Series.
Next, the left hand gently reaches forward and stretches around the trunk that was just formed, at the shoulder level, as if it was a tree trunk a couple feet thick. To project the hand as far around as possible, the shoulder blade opens fully. This movement is repeated on the right. Then this reaching, stretching and wrapping movement is repeated at the chest level, first with the left hand, then the right. The same motion is repeated again at the level of the waist, with the left, then the right.
Now the wrists are flexed all the way back, with the hands flat and fingers up, and the left pushes all the way across from left to right, at the level of the eyes, as if sweeping consensus reality aside. The right hand does the same, sweeping across from right to left. Then with the wrists still flexed back, cross the forearms, about a foot in front of the face, with the left closest.
With the backs of the hands facing each other and the fingertips pointing up and in so that they just touch, the hands form a diamond-shaped window several inches across. Peer through this window, past everything in front of you, focusing on infinity, and take a deep breath. Then exhale as you step
forward, right foot first, and embrace the energy in front of you, wrapping your arms around and through it, crossing them over your chest.
In our experience this pass assists in making dreams more coherent and easy to recall, and in bringing some of the dreamer’s confidence and fluidity into waking life.
IRREPRESSIBLE FREE ENERGY
For a very long time we’ve had this peculiar impulse to try and explain certain fascinating subjects even though we didn’t fully understand them ourselves.
The first article we ever came up with was “Free Energy: Healing the Earth” back in 1977; it appeared under various titles in 1978. It described several free energy devices, all of which had been suppressed, Townsend Brown’s electro-gravitational inventions, examples of living creatures using related principles, and the nature of the aether, or “space-juice”. We also suggested, based on Castaneda’s work up to that point, that perhaps we could eventually alter reality directly in various favorable ways, and transcend the need for machinery to take us where we wanted to go.
Over the years we wrote about a variety of breakthroughs, all of which are suppressed to this day, whether free energy devices, gravity control, passive desalinators, oxidative therapies, even industrial hemp. (An encyclopedic selection can be found at rexresearch.com.) Since all these developments kept hitting the same barrier, and inventors and journalists were getting clobbered all over the place, it seemed advisable to pipe down for a while and try to zero in on what was the ultimate source of all this suppression. From as safe a distance as possible. No point investigating a deadly phenomenon if it eats you before you can report on your findings.
Plus it was quite obvious that many of these advanced discoveries weren’t simply suppressed but actively utilized by a select inner circle, with no intention of sharing any of their advantages with us peasants.
Yet all along the dazzling implications of the sorcerers’ path continued to simmer in the background. The capabilities demonstrated by Don Juan and his party must surely represent the ultimate in free energy.
From the beginning there were questions that never seemed to get addressed. For example, if extra-terrestrials were so bloody advanced, how come they still needed saucers to get anywhere? Ancient Mexican sorcerers could fly all over the place with no craft of any sort. So could certain Tibetan adepts, according to accounts by Baird Spalding (“Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East”) and others. So can the Siberian recluse Anastasia, to some extent, according to Vladimir Megre. And apparently none of them crash into things, which is more than the saucer pilots can say.
So, since the vast majority of us are blocked from accessing the electro-kinetic gravity-control option on any useful scale anyway, maybe we’re supposed to cut to the chase. Could it be that the human controllers and their possible ET overlords have actually done us a favor by preventing us from taking a technological path that leads to a dead-end?
The universe may be composed of impersonal forces, but at some deep level it seems to have quite a sense of humor. And it’s intending us forward.
