What exactly is carlos castaneda's "personal power" ?

[waterdrop]

What exactly is carlos castaneda's "personal power" ?    

Is it qi or some kind of other energy ? 

He describes it as something you gather ...  

(but to gather qi i understand you need first to form a dantian container ,  so maybe its not qi but something else ?)      

[Lairg]

I knew a woman that used to go to Castaneda's group.  She said that most of the time he was quite ordinary but occasionally he was a real Nagual (spiritual teacher)

 

From her observation I might deduce that Castaneda was not using qi or he would have been a Nagual much more often

 

I learned quite a lot from his accounts of Don Juan, including being able to see the personal death being standing behind the left shoulder of each live human.  Afaik that appears nowhere else in western literature.

 

From the attitude/actions of the death being it is possible to assess how close the human is to death.  

 

Sometimes the death being will cooperate.   I had a female friend whose mother had had dementia for years and was in care.  So we asked the mother's death being to take her.  Nothing happened.

 

A year later we tried again and the mother was gone within a week.

 

 

Edited August 25, 2022 by Lairg

[Nungali]

The ability to write good fiction ?

[Nungali]

50 minutes ago, Lairg said:

I knew a woman that used to go to Castaneda's group.  She said that most of the time he was quite ordinary but occasionally he was a real Nagual (spiritual teacher)

 

From her observation I might deduce that Castaneda was not using qi or he would have been a Nagual much more often

 

I learned quite a lot from his accounts of Don Juan, including being able to see the personal death being standing behind the left shoulder of each live human.  Afaik that appears nowhere else in western literature.

 

From the attitude/actions of the death being it is possible to assess how close the human is to death.  

 

Sometimes the death being will cooperate.   I had a female friend whose mother had had dementia for years and was in care.  So we asked the mother's death being to take her.  Nothing happened.

 

A year later we tried again and the mother was gone within a week.

 

 

 

 

There is a drug that does that .  I have seen it in action .  The drug has no toxicity that kills you itself .

 

It can be administered to those terminally ill that are just hanging on for some reason, when they should have died already .

 

They get stubborn, difficult, in pain, complaining , saying they want to die ... but they cant , some 'earthly force' is holding them back  (as well as hospital care ! but that is needed to try and decrease their suffering ) .

 

Its amazing  .   Patient causing trouble again ... continually  ... disrupting other patients, abusing staff for not letting her die ... call the doc and shoot her up with horrible  ' pain killers' , yet again !

 

But now, its the middle of the night , I am on night shift, amidst a  THREE YEAR DOCTORS STRIKE !  They have to call in  the only  doctor available at that time ... one that was already called into the psyche ward ... a psyche specialist doctor  .

 

he turns up,  a 1 minute assessment  and gives her  a hit . She calms down .  I come back 15 mins later, she is sitting up in bed ... GLOWING , looking beautiful, spirit shining  ... she who was an old stubborn 'death hag' an hour ago .

 

She says to me with a smile and a wink " Its alright now , Now I know , HE came and explained everything to me ?"

 

"What ? The doctor ? "

 

'No silly ... you know ..... 'HIM'   ... everything is alright now and dont you worry about it ."

 

"okay"  - shrug, and I went off .  I come back 20 mins later and she is still sitting up in bed  smiling like an angel, still glowing, and stone cold dead .

 

I asked the doctor and he told me to look it up in MIms  (the big drug manual) , nothing in it is harmful .... it just seems to allow people to 'let go' when their body  wants to die and has to die but they  let go.  I dont know who  "HE"   was , this mystical  'visitor' , for her it might have been Jesus or her deceased husband , IMO that doesnt matter - 'they' probably take on appearance pleasing to us anyway )

 

In the morning, when day shift arrived and night report was to be given and the old battleaxe  _ Ward Sister / boss turned up ) I ha dto ask why other patients with the same issue dont get the same  - it impacts them, us and our job and other patients , why not give them this drug instead of the pain killers that dont wotk .

 

I got a gruff look as if what the hell you talking about , she checked  the woman's  charts ,  for record , then checked Mims for the drug used -indications ... then gave me a disgusted look as if I just tried to sell her kids heroin ;

 

"Well no wonder we dont normally use that ... its a psychedelic !  " 

 

 

 

 

"Not on my watch they won't !  People in MY care will be dying

the good old fashioned way ... in pain torment confusion and fear ! "

[Lairg]

I knew a woman that made her living by massaging hospital patients nearing death.   What they needed was for (the intelligence of) the physical body to relax, then all would take its natural course.

 

She did not charge for the massages but the dying people kept giving her things they could not use, including a car

 

 

[Nungali]

I have had some beautiful experiences with some rare ones that 'shared their death' with me .  A shame it cant be beautiful for all .

 

Especially I remember  ' Good old Mr. Carpenter '  - a beautiful spirit , a beautiful life ... of which he shared his memories of with me . . . and his last moments . 

 

 

[Nungali]

... and I got his Porsche ! 

 

 

 

 

 

Spoiler

Just kidding