Getting Castaneda: Understanding Carlos Castaneda by Peter Luce

Author:Peter Luce [Luce, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780999262726
Published: 2017-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

This realignment, the separation from the young apprentices, started a new cycle of learning, where Castaneda and La Gorda worked together in Arizona and Los Angeles as equals. They explored a new world that they managed to open by deduction, and then investigate in their dreams.

The only way for the first attention to remember items from the second attention is through dreaming. Because they had shared experiences in the second attention, they assumed they should be able to dream together and, by doing so, remember things together.

To dream together they needed to be asleep at the same time, though not necessarily in the same location. They knew that their teachers had discussed dreaming together; it happened spontaneously if there was a shared intent. Because each of them separately had already learnt the basics of dreaming – which would be spelled out in Castaneda’s later book, The Art of Dreaming – they gradually figured out how to meet up in shared dreams and then explore those dreams together, uncovering memories they shared while in the other self.

According to Castaneda, by dreaming together he and La Gorda were recapitulating what all humans do as infants when we learn to join the world our elders impart to us. The luminous cocoon naturally and spontaneously dreams together with other cocoons, meaning they spontaneously put their assemblage points at the same positions. The participants can then agree on the contents of the world they share, which makes it real to them. Dreaming together is what we do when we join any world; it is also the procedure don Juan’s seers used to remember information and memories that were stored in the second attention.

The goal of the first part of don Juan’s sorcery training was to create shared memories in the second attention among the apprentices. Castaneda and La Gorda knew they had the same shared but hidden memories, because they knew don Juan set it up like that. Once they found themselves in a shared dream, by exploring it together it became real to them; to be real means to be agreed on with someone. Once that shared dream was real it became part of the first attention and was remembered. It could then release other related memories in a flood.

In their dreams together Castaneda and La Gorda met in a shared but forgotten memory, where they found themselves in a big house in Mexico with a large group of sorcerers, including Matus and Genaro. Memories are stored in very precise positions of the assemblage point. By meeting in a dream, they spontaneously located the same precise position of the assemblage point together. Then, they shared continuing awareness in that memory as it unfolded in a re-enactment. They relived memories which were previously lost to them. According to Castaneda, memories that are relocated in this way can be relived with even more clarity and intensity than the original experience had.

Castaneda and La Gorda remembered that Matus and Genaro were not alone but part of a

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