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"The
awareness of sorcerers grows when they do dreaming", he went on.
"And the moment it grows, something out there acknowledges its growth,
recognizes it and makes a bid for it."
-Art
of Dreaming
Dreaming, in castanedianism,
is a technique for being aware and act purposefully while asleep. Extending
awareness
into sleep! Dreaming is considered to be 'real'. It is one of two
roads for a practitioner, the other being stalking.
Remember that all sorcerers do both dreaming and stalking,
but that a practitioner often have an affinity for one of them. I believe
that being 'introvert' or 'extrovert' has little to do with ones predilection.
To be aware in dreams
is often referred to as 'lucid dreaming'.
The technique of dreaming
is described in detail in 'Art of Dreaming' [cc9], but dreaming is also
described in 'The Eagles Gift' [cc6]. The events in 'Art of Dreaming',
the ten first chapters, comes chronologically before the dreaming
events under the tutelage of Zuleica described
in 'The Eagles Gift'. The events from the later chapters in 'Art of Dreaming'
are from the last year of Castanedas apprenticeship.
The procedures of dreamers
are as follows:
-First, to free energy
by living like a practitioner.
-Second, to develop
the energy body, also called the 'dreaming body'
or the second self.
-Third, to use awareness
as an element of reality to enter into other worlds with our total being.
References from
Castanedas books:
Journey to Ixtlan
[cc3]: ch 10 (first mention)
Tales of Power [cc4]:
ch 1, ch 'Having to Believe'
Second Ring of Power
[cc5]: ch 'Art of Dreaming'
The Eagles Gift [cc6]:
part 2, part three
The Fire from Within
[cc7]: Various parts...
The Power of Silence
[cc8]: Beginning of part 2 'The Abstract' and part 4 'Seeing the Spirit'
The Art of Dreaming
[cc9]: Whole book, more or less.
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