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Something I’ve found weird but interesting ...

Castaneda’s books which involve shamanic seeing of energy fields mention the observation that our minds (not brains, minds) are a foreign implant. Like, an energetic-pattern-parasite capable of interfering with brain function.

So, we’ve been colonized for a long time. Or, if you identify with the mind in “cogito ergo sum” fashion, we’ve invaded and colonized.

Just a thought ;)




On what basis could he make that claim? A sense of dissociation?


Multi-generational lineage of sorcerers including himself being able to observe the energetic structure of the mind and the entities attached to it.

This specific observation is in one of his books, the active side of infinity. It’s very disconcerting and very uncomfortable to read.

I have not observed these myself and I don’t think there’s instrumentation to confirm or rebutt these observations.


Downright Ellisonian.

Given what we know know about the manipulative practices Castaneda used within his small cult, I have no problem seeing those observations as reflections of his inner psyche through the lens of shamanic ritual and intoxicants, possibly amplified for artistic purposes.

>> I have not observed these myself and I don’t think there’s instrumentation to confirm or rebutt these observations.

The only instrumentation one has to confirm or rebut the experience of shamanic mystics is the practice of shamanic mysticism.


Sounds like Scientology




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