| The Eagle
is something which will remain very theoretical for most practitioners.
This a summary of what is written in Castanedas books [book
6 onwards].
In The Eagle's Gift [CC book 6] the Eagle is described as the universal source of everything. Everything is said to emanate from the Eagle, and it is the source of awareness. The Eagle is an unpersonal force, like gravity. I have not found anything in any other traditions that even vaguely resembles the description of the Eagle. Well, vaguely perhaps... The Eagle is called
"the Eagle" because it looks like an Eagle to the seer, not because
it has anything at all to do with the animal eagle. The Eagle is shown
to the seer in four bright flashes of light:
It is said that the Eagle does not care for humans or human actions, but has given everyone the possibility to avoid being consumed by the Eagle at the moment of death; this is called "the Eagles Gift". The Eagles Emanations makes up several 'bands', of which a certain number of bands make up the world we perceive in our everyday world, and one of the bands make up our awareness. It is possible to shift the awareness to the other bands, and thus 'create' new worlds. There are said to be ten such worlds [Journey to Ixtlan]. The Eagle is part of the Unknowable. The Eagle cannot be seen directly, but must be seen in dreaming. The result when trying to see the Eagle directly is death [cc8], the reason being that it took too much energy to see the Eagle.
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