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Juan Luis receives award in Spain


also received awards Juan Luis Rosario, Manolo García, Miguel Ríos, Rosa, David Bisbal and Sergio Dalm, among others.

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Juliana O'Neal wins the Latino audience in France


Juliana O'Neal has developed a solid career that continues to grow. With his music has vindicated the value of merengue as a genre and has known how to put up the Dominican flag in other lands of very different cultures.

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Flamenco cycle in the Main Theater, tonight an interesting proposal: Joselete Linares and Maria Mix, Cadiz and Linares, both mounted.

M ª Ángeles Rodríguez Cuevas born in Sanlúcar de Barrameda on July 28, 1987. From an early
showed qualities for dancing and singing. In fact, only 6 years old began to make their first steps in dance at the dance academy Puerto Lucero which was later integrated into the group "Waves" (Sanlúcar de Barrameda). Soon, with 11 years old, wanted to see the light industry leading singer in the blood of the mixtures and Vargas. With this early age he began his first steps as a singer under the direction of a connoisseur of Pink Sunday flamenco Jerez de la Frontera.
His first public appearance as a singer was in Tele Puerto Real, in a program of flamenco Pepe Saldivar in March 1999 to 11 years. Taking just 4 months studying flamenco at its roots, and interpreting and then soleá de Alcalá, rose, tangos and bulerias, stands with 1 º Award Under 25 years and 1 Award of the songs of Sanlúcar in Competition Nights under Guide Sanlúcar de Barrameda on July 29, 1999 (running to meet the day before age 12).
From here, we can enumerate a lot of first prizes in all Andalusia, among which are: 1 Sing to Youth Award Light in Puerto Real in 12 years, 1 Youth Sing for Peteneras in Paterna de Rivera with 12 years as well.
addition to competitions, Maria Angeles Cuevas, that's how it was known artistically at first, and as a loophole, we highlight 5 First prizes Youth Contest Saetas de la Peña Flamenca "Good People" Jerez, from 2002 to 2010, and 3 Absolute First Prize in the same contest arrows in the years 2004, 2006 and 2008. Also a finalist in the events in Bolts of Baena, Malaga, Cadiz and Seville.
On the other hand, also obtained on 1 Saetas Absolute Prize in Puerto Real in 14 years, 2 Award Bolts in San Fernando, 2 º Award Saetas in Cadiz in 2008, 1 Award Absolute Saetas in Rota in 2009, and 1 Prize at the National Saetas Montilla, Córdoba in 2010.

José Heredia Heredia Linares Joselete " born in Linares (Jaén) in 1959. Gypsy singer, is probably the most prominent singer who currently live in the province. Presenting
and singing contests for the ball - only opportunity for many singers to try out - Joselete got first in his homeland and later in other areas larger, some notoriety grew as refined and perfected his art. Joselete today is undoubtedly an excellent singer, which dominates with equal success as difficult as styles and soleá siguiriya.
Jose has excelled in the singing for dancing and competitions, in which he has won some prizes. Highlight those obtained in Cordoba in 1992-the Don Manuel Torre and Antonio Chacón and the second edition of the Confederation of Andalusian Flamenco Clubs in 1993.

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First Death Anniversary - Invitation

D'flamenco fusion Callaos, free Internet download.

South Aires blow out the candles Shut D'third album, The edge where the sea ends . This new work arrives in port with no trick to treat his followers, download it free (decallaos.com) and in return, if you like, mándaselo to your friends. Alliance with the 'pirates' from the Red accompanied by a successful coup resulted in 30,000 downloads supported in the ear and mouth and social networks. Shut D'address the rumba, rock Andalusian and flamenco without complexes, a merger wave by the voice of 'The Canija' media image of a group that has adapted to changing times. Full interview

here.
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The invaluable work of Flamenco Course Network Inaugural Conference 2011, by José Manuel Caballero Bonald, 'Flamenco arts. " New Alboreá

simply by friends, an invaluable work.

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Milena Velba Without Trouthers

. Published the last issue of flamenco in electronic format.

Headlines
Flamenco included in the Representative List

Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO. 4

Chronicle How was the day of November 16,
day UNESCO
made its decision unanimously in favor of flamenco. 14

analysis criteria considered by the UNESCO to declare
flamenco
Heritage. 20

Road The nomination was giving
many steps to reach its acceptance by the world governing body
culture.
28 The interview
José Antonio Griñán, president of the Andalusian
says that "with this

affirm a commitment statement contained in our Constitution. " 30

Joys The framers of flamenco, members of the
large family of flamenco and representatives of various groups
cultural and social
show their appreciation for the recognition. 42

Flamenco campaign I joined the voices of all cultural and social strata
and managed
add more than 50,000 votes from 60 countries
. 64

In memory Uncle The centenary of Gregory the Borrico
has been commemorated with a show,
the publication of a book-disk and conclusion
a special day at the Centro Andaluz de Flamenco

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On Saturday our hosts rock Joselito Alberto San Miguel Méndez. Essential Cante de Jerez. Sounds

On Saturday 26, at 21:00, Peña Amigos del Cante de Zamora program a night of singing with the figure of Joselito Mendez on guitar, accompanied by Alberto San Miguel, an old rocker in Zamora .
Who's who in this performance.

Carrying the weight of a surname as Mendez has been one of the greatest strengths of José Peña Méndez (23-11-1966), one the most complete singers has Jerez de la Frontera in recent decades. Nieto
mother's side of the Pili, and nephew of the very Paquera de Jerez, José soon discovered the taste of the stage. He was 10 years, a Festival in which they were Bulería Earthquake, Uncle Borrico, Deafness and Manolito Jero, and in which his grandfather made him do his first steps. At age 14 he undertook towards the capital of Spain for six months and becomes part of the flamenco in Los Canasteros. They coincide with top artists, names like Lola Flores, Pansequito, Aurora Vargas, Dolores de Cordoba Manuel Deafness, and he absorbs knowledge. Months later, this time from the hand of Albarizuela Ballet performed an extensive tour of Japan, four-year, one of the pioneers to cross the planet bring flamenco to the Land of the Rising.

From there, Jose Mendez is claimed as a singer. First through various dance companies and later as a soloist. In this first aspect, the sublime lament from Jerez will put his dancers serving as Cristina Hoyos, Matilde Coral, Mario Maya, Farruco, Carmen Cortes, Manuela Carrasco, Ana Parrilla and Juana Amaya. His attachment to sing 'Pa Bailar' professional curries you to the point of acquiring extensive knowledge in the different styles and clubs that make up the flamenco, hence the broad range of interpretation.

As a soloist, José Méndez has led his powerful voice to the most important festivals, whether inside or outside our country. Bienal de Sevilla, La Fiesta de la Buleria Flamenco Jerez and Friday, Thursday Flamencos of Cadiz, the Parpuja of Chiclana, the Mont de Marsan Festival, the Nimes Festival, Tokyo Film Festival and the Festival de Jerez has been some of the proscenium that have hosted the talented singer from The Square. A level of rock, has performed in places as eloquent as the Taranto Almeria Peña, Peña Antonio Mairena, Coat or Torre la Peña Macarena, not to mention an appearance by the many companies in its native Jerez, such illustrious institutions as the Rock The Kestrels, Antonio Chacón, the rock Good People ; or Peña La Buleria. His professional resume is also endowed with large presences in various tablaos that make up the English, highlighting the Canasteros, Los Gallos, Cordoba Tablao or the English town of Barcelona.

The success record came in 1993 when he recorded, in the hands of French label Mundi Harmony, their only album alone so far, 'Entre dos barrios, for which the guitars had Moraíto boy and Juan Carmona. Precisely for this work was awarded the Young Flamenco in Marseille a year later.

Jose has collaborated on various recordings, highlighting the album 'From Santiago to La Plaza' Pepe de Lucia in 1987, and its contribution to the hard way at Christmas Sing Our Land, published by the Caja de Ahorros de Jerez in 1989 under the direction Manuel Parrilla. In 2006 he collaborated on the album 'Christmas Flamenco José Méndez' produced by the Cadena Cope.

protruding from his varied repertoire soleá their bulerías and fandangos, two poles in which it operates with more ease. However, its clear stream been done on the Malaga or not, singing Jerez.
One of his mentors, the dancer Cristina Hoyos, describes Joseph as a person who "loves flamenco, studies and interprets it in a very personal way, he sings for dance, mastered all the sticks and add to his technique a deep feeling that makes you excel among young people of talent. "

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flamingos in the media library Rtve: Duendeando with Oscar Herrero, the teaching of the flamenco guitar.

Duendeando: Oscar Herrero.

Visit Oscar Herrero Tomelloso guitarist with whom Matt reviews his career and his current show accompanied by orchestra, Concierto flamenco Verum. It brings the latest of his famous metronome that has just added a virtual guitar to flamenco styles known in time. Fernanda also hear soleá and Mariana de Cadiz bulerías.

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Flamenco Biennale 2011: Diego Tremendita Morao and Rosario. Cycle

Work Presentation Diego del Rosario Morao and only in the show the Golden Tremendita old Rocío Molina.

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non-ordinary reality

" When a person achieves contact with the spirits, and needs no teacher in ordinary reality, and that the spirits will provide the answers. The masters of the shaman instructed within the non-ordinary reality. There is no higher authority. "

Warlocks show us that the whole nature of reality is different from our conception of it, that is what we have been taught to believe is reality. Intellectually, we are ready to play with the idea that culture predetermines our lives, our conduct, we are ready to learn and what we feel. But we are not prepared to embody this idea, accept it as a practical and concrete proposal, and the reason we do not want to accept that culture also predetermines what we can perceive.

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flamenco in the Main Theater, tonight Cadiz girl singing in the voice of David Palomar. Flamenco III

Palomar David García (Cádiz, 1977). singer

Palomar El cante flamenco flavor permeates the Barrio de la Viña Cadiz, where he was born in 1977
. At 17, he took his first professional steps in tablaos and city academies.
Subsequently, he joined the company of dancer Javier Barón, participating in the premiere of 'Just for Art "at the Bienal de Sevilla 1998 and the subsequent tour of the show. Accompanying artists such as Isabel Bayon and Fernando Romero, and Rafael de Utrera and Carmen Lozano, is active in several European venues. It also works on tour 'Al-Andalus' the pianist Manolo Carrasco produced by the radio station Cope.
For the company of dancer Carmen Cortés sings show like 'Racial'
touring the United States, and "Solea, one is eternal," which premieres at the Teatro Albéniz de Madrid with the Güito as guest artist. Then he joined the company of Cristina Hoyos for more than four years with the international tour of 'A measure of time "and several television appearances
. Collaboration with the artist from Seville lasts until 2002, when
premiere at the Teatro Maestranza in Seville's work 'inland'. The company also works with Javier Latorre on shows such as 'ambivalence' and 'In the Name of the Rose',
premiered at the Festival de la Guitarra de Cordoba 2004, and in the play 'Penelope' which creates for the National Ballet Murcia.
addition to working with dancers, so does with the likes of guitarist Vicente Amigo. With musician Cordoba direct part in 'Poet' and 'City of ideas' in Spain and France. It also collaborates on a tour of Switzerland with Gerardo Núñez Quintet,
who also has him as a teacher of singing at the 10 th International Course of Sanlúcar.
Of the artists of his generation has worked with the dancer Jairo Barrull in Stockholm tour 'Gipsy Kids', in Luxembourg with 'Three dancers' Daniel Navarro, Pedro Córdoba and Nacho Blanco, with the dancer in the presentation Angeles Gabaldon of 'Taller Flamenco' at Seville's Flamenco Thursdays and educational show 'Once upon a time flamenco' at the Festival de Jerez 2006, with the dancer Mercedes Ruiz in 2005 with 'Pictures in the air' and 'gestures of a woman', as well as Flamenco Workshop in productions such as 'Harmattan' and 'Spain'.
David Palomar's voice also sounds on albums such as' Tela marinera 'Mariana Cornejo,' I sound flamenco 'and other titles in El Barrio,' Air 'by José Mercé and' La luna de Tomasa 'La Macanita and' Monroy 'Sergio Monroy, among others. He also recorded an album of flamenco fusion as a vocalist and composer of Levantito-to appearing on several television programs, "with the song 'Killing me softly' in the collective album" Perversions Flemish ', and the DVD' Meeting our flamenco '.

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depth dialogue with Carlos Castaneda - III

Ends extensive interview conducted by Graciela Corvalan the famous anthropologist, author, and finally apprentice shaman Don Juan Matus. You can say that with the work of Carlos Castaneda current interest aroused shamanism in the Western world, although certain aspects of his recent books have been controversial.

back to Joe Cordoba and his wife, Castaneda told us that one day the lady came Tolteca and said they were not working hard enough.
- "We sent to a business organizásemos fairly large landscaping, something like design and arrangement of gardens. This new task of the Toltec Woman was nothing small. We had to hire a group of people to help us to do the work during the week while we were in the cafeteria. Over the weekend we were devoted exclusively to the gardens. We were very successful! La Gorda is a very enterprising person. This year we worked a lot during the week ... were in the cafeteria and during the weekends pure drive the truck and pruning trees. The Toltec demands of women are great! I remember, "continued Castaneda some chance that we were at a friend's house when reporters came looking for Carlos Castaneda. They were journalists from the "New York Times ." Thing overlooked the Gorda and I got to plant trees in the garden of my friend. In the distance we saw them enter and leave the house. That was when my friend screamed and abused us a lot in front of journalists. It seems that Mrs. Joe Cordova and his identity could scream without consequences. No one who was present there came to our defense. Who were we? There, only the poor and working dogs in the sun! So it was between my friend and we deceive journalists. My body, however, I could not deceive. Three years we were involved in the task of giving the body experiences that made him realize that, indeed, we are nothing. The truth is that the body is not the only one suffering. The mind is also used to constant stimuli. The warrior, however, has no environmental stimuli, he does not need them. What better place, then, that one where we were! Nobody thinks there! "
Continuing the story of his adventures, Castaneda said more than once to him and kicked out Gorda the street. "Other times, going by truck down the road, we pushed the edges of the road. What choice do we have? Better to let them go!" For all that Castaneda was saying, it seems that the task of those years had to do with "how to survive in adverse circumstances, and with" the experience of discrimination. " This last, "something very hard to bear but very informative," he concluded calmly.

The purpose of homework is to learn to avoid the emotional impact that discrimination causes. The important thing is not to react, not angry. If you react, you are lost .

- "You do not get offended with the tiger when it attacks, one is on one side and lets it pass. On another occasion, the Gorda and I found work in a home, her maid and butler me. can not imagine how that turned out! We took to the streets and kicking without pay. Further! To protect us in the event that will protest, had called the local police. Can you imagine! was in prison for nothing. That year, the Gorda and I had to work very hard and suffering great hardship. Often we had nothing to eat. The worst thing was that we could not complain or group support. In doing so we were alone and could not escape. Anyway, even if we could say who would have thought we were nobodies. The task is always total.Verdaderamente, I'm Joe Cordoba Castaneda continued accompanying his words with his whole body, "and this is very nice because you can not fall lower. I've come to anything under that can be reached. That's all I am. "These last words touched the ground with their hands. As I said before, each one of us has different tasks to fulfill. The Genaros are very clever, Benigno is now in Chiapas and is doing very well . It has a band. Benigno possesses the gift of wonders imitate imitates Tom Jones and many more. Pablito is the same as usual, is very weak. Benigno is what makes the noise and the celebrated Pablito. Benigno is the collected works and Pablito applause. Now, "he said by way of conclusion, we have completed all the tasks we were doing and we are preparing for new tasks. Mrs. Tolteca is sent to us. "

The story of Joe Cordoba and his wife had impressed us very much. It was a very different experience to those of their books. We were interested in knowing if he had written or was writing something about Joe Cordova.
- "I knew Joe Cordoba was one of us said," had to exist. Why do not you write about it? From everything we've been saying you, Joe Cordova and Mrs.'s what struck me most. "
-" has just submitted a new manuscript to my agent. In this manuscript, Mrs. Tolteca is taught. Could not be otherwise ... Its title might be " Stalking and the art of being in the world ( " "The Art of Dreaming"? ). There is all his teaching. She is responsible for this manuscript. A woman had to be that teach about the art of stalking. Women know it well because they have lived with the enemy, that is, have always walked on tiptoe! in a male world. Precisely, because women have long experience in this art, Mrs. Tolteca is you have to give the principles of stalking. In the latter manuscript, however, there is nothing concrete about the life of Joe Cordoba and his wife I can not write in detail about that experience because nobody would understand or believe it. I can speak of them with very few ... If the essence of the experience of the last three years is in the book. "Turning to Mrs.
Toltec and modality, Castaneda said she was very different from Don Juan." She I do not want, "insisted the Gorda. however, it does want it! A Toltec women can not ask anything. Before you talk to him, her and know what to say. In addition, we must fear, when angry, hitting "concluded by many gestures indicating their fear. We were silent for a while. The sun had gone down and its rays reaching us between the trunks of trees. I felt a little cool. I figure that would be about seven o'clock in the afternoon.
Castaneda also seemed aware of the time. "It's too late. How about if we eat something? Do I call? "
We got up and started walking. On one of those ironies Castaneda charged by a stretch with my notes and books. The best thing was to leave everything in the car. So we did. Free packages, walk a few blocks in animated conversation. All they have achieved requires years of preparation and practice. An example is the practice of sleep. "That which seems silly, it is very difficult to achieve."
The exercise is to learn to dream at will and systematically. You start dreaming of a hand (the dreamer ) that enters the visual field of the dreamer. Then he sees the whole arm. Continues progressively until you can see yourself in the dream. The next stage is to learn to use dreams. That is, once control has been achieved, we must learn to act on them. "Thus, for example, dreams of self comes out the body and opens the door and out into the street. The street is then, something unheard of! Something in one out of one, something that will be achieved.
According to Castaneda, the dream does not take time. In other words, the dream does not occur in the time of our clocks. The sleep time is very compact.
"The woman continued Tolteca-Castaneda says that dreaming occurs at the time of P. Why? I do not know. As such, she says. "

Castaneda gave us to understand that in dreams there is a huge physical effort." In dreams you can live long, but the body suffers. My body feels a lot ... Then there is a blunder of years. "

several times, touching the subject of sleep, Castaneda would say that what they do in dreams has pragmatic value. In" Tales of Power, "reads the experiences of the dreams and the waking "acquire the same valence pragmatic", and for sorcerers "criteria to differentiate between sleep and wakefulness were ineffective.

That outputs or travel outside the physical body sharply awakened our interest, and wanted to know more about those experiences . He replied explaining that each has been different experiences. "La Gorda and I, for example, we go together. She takes me by the arm y. .. we're going. "
We also explained that the group must travel community. All are in constant training would aim to become witnesses!

"Becoming a witness means that you can not judge anything: I mean, this is an eternal view equivalent to no more prejudice." Josefina

seems to have great skills for these trips in the body's sleep. She wants to carry and tempts him by telling him wonders. La Gorda is the one that always saves him. "Josephine is very easy to break the arc of reflectivity. She is crazy, crazy," he exclaimed. Josefina flies very far. But do not want to go alone and always come back. Go back and search me ... I get reports that are great! · "
According to Castaneda, Josephine is a being that in this world can not work." Here, "said inmate would have ended up in an institution."
Josefina is a being "without ties" to the concrete, it is ethereal. "Anytime you can definitely go." La Gorda and he are, however, much more cautious in their flights. La Gorda, in particular, represents the stability and balance to some extent he missing.
After a pause, I remembered that vision of immense dome in "The Second Ring of Power" is presented as the meeting place and where Don Juan and Don Genaro would be waiting.
- "La Gorda also has that vision," he said thoughtfully. What you see is not an earthly horizon. It's very flat and arid in the horizon of which we stand as a huge arch that covers everything and you go up to the zenith. In that point of peak brightness is great. I would say something like a dome that glows amber. "
sought to apply pressure with questions to give us more info on that dome.
- "What is it?" Where is he? " -Inquire. Castaneda told us that the size of what they see, may be a planet. At its zenith, he added, is like a big wind. "
For the brevity of his answer, we Castaneda realized that would not talk much about that topic. It is also possible that it could not find the right words to express what they saw.
any case, it is clear that these visions, these flights in the body of sleep, are a constant training for the final journey, that escape through the left side of the eagle, that final leap that is called death, that to end the wrap, that can say "we are ready" in which we get all we are, but nothing more than what we are.

- "According to the woman Tolteca, these visions are aberrations mine. She thinks that this is my way of stopping unconscious actions, ie, the way I have to say I do not want to leave the world. Toltec women also said that with my attitude I'm stopping at the Gorda in their ability to fly more productive or more productive. "
Don Juan and don Genaro were big dreamers. They had absolute control of art." Scares me exclaimed Castaneda soon, putting his hand to his forehead that nobody notices that Don Juan is a dreamer unprecedented. The same is true of Don Genaro. Don Genaro, for example, is capable of carrying his body from dream to life every day. "The grand control of Don Juan and Don Genaro is evidence that not being noticed or unnoticed.
(In all the books, Castaneda referred to that of "not being noticed" and "go unnoticed". In "The Second Ring of Power" Castaneda recalls the time that Don Juan had told him to concentrate "in not being obvious. "Nestor, also says" Don Juan and Don Genaro learned not to be noticed amid all this. "Both are masters at the art of" stalking. "Don Genero, la Gorda said he was" in your body's sleep most of the time. ")

-" Everything they do, "he continued with enthusiasm is commendable. In Don Juan, deeply admire his great control, composure and serenity. Don John will never be able to say that is a senile old man. "It goes well with other people. There is here on campus, for example, an old teacher when I was a young man had become famous. At that time, he was at the peak of his physical strength and intellectual creativity. Now ... There is chewing his tongue cork! Now I can see him as he is, as a senile old man. In Don Juan, however, I can never say that. Its advantage over me is always abysmal. "
In the interview with Sam Keen, who once said Castaneda Don Juan asked if he thought the two were equal. Although he really did not think they were, in a condescending tone told him yes. Don Juan listened but did not accept their verdict. "No I think we are, "he said, because I am a hunter and a warrior and you're no more than a pimp . I am ready at any moment to offer a summary of my life. Your little world full of sadness and indecision not, can never be the same as mine. "

In all that Castaneda had told us you can find parallels with other movements and traditions of mystical thought.

In their own books cited authors and works of antiquity and the present. I reminded him that, among others, refers to " The Egyptian Book of the Dead ", the "Tractatus " of Wittgenstein, English poets as San Juan de la Cruz and Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Latin American writers as the Peruvian Cesar Vallejo.
- "Yes, I always order books, many books. Things I send each other. I used to read chunks of the books of Don Juan ... He likes poetry. It is clear that only likes the first four lines! According to him, what follows is an idiot. He says that after the first verse is lost strength, that is pure repetition. "
One of us asked if he had read or knew the yoga techniques and descriptions of the different planes of reality offered by the sacred books of India.

- "Everything that's wonderful. I had also very close relationships with people working in Hatha Yoga. In 1976, a doctor friend named Claudio Naranjo ( Did you know?" We asked, " ) hooked me up with a yoga teacher. So we went to visit him at his Ashram here in California. We communicate through a professor who was a translator. I wanted to discover in this interview, the parallels with my own travel experiences outside the body. Here, however, did not discuss anything important. There was, yes, great pomp and ceremony but nothing was said. Towards the end of the interview, this person took in their hands a kind of metal spray and began to get wet with a liquid whose smell I did not like. As soon as he retired, I asked what he'd just jump. Someone approached me and said I must be very happy because I had given his blessing. I insisted on knowing the contents of the vessel. Finally I was told that all the secretions of the master is kept: "Everything that comes out of it is sacred." You can imagine, "he concluded in a tone between jocular and bantering here ended the conversation with the yoga teacher." Castaneda
few years later had a similar experience with one of the followers of Gurdjieff. There was with him in Los Angeles at the behest of a friend. It seems that this man had imitated throughout Gurdjieff.
- "It had been stripped and had a huge mustache," he said indicating with his hands the size of them. As soon as we entered, it took me strongly of the neck and gave me a tremendous shock. Immediately after I said that I should let the teacher who had because I was wasting time. According to him, in eight or nine classes would teach me everything I needed to know. Can you imagine? In a few classes teach you everything. " Castaneda
also told us that the disciple of Gurdjieff had mentioned the use of drugs to speed up the process learning. The interview did not last long. It appears that Castaneda's friend soon realized the ridiculousness of the situation and the magnitude of his error. That friend had insisted that he saw the disciple of Gurdjieff because he was convinced that Castaneda needed a more serious teacher Don Juan. When the interview ended, Castaneda told us that her friend felt ashamed.
(It is curious that reference to Gurdjieff by parallelism that can be perceived between the tasks that women send Tolteca experience and discipline of the job in "The Fourth Way" ) Nd EQCCL.

We were walking and some six or seven blocks. For a while we talk about things circumstantial. I remember commenting that I had read in "La Gaceta Economic Culture Fund " Juan Tovar an article which mentioned the possibility of filming the books. "
" Yes. At one time they talked about that possibility. "We did after the story of his encounter with the producer Joseph E. Levine, who would have intimidated from his huge desk. The size of the desktop and the words of producer, only understood by the huge cigar between his lips holding ( "Did the tribe mind? "Said ), were the things that had impressed Castaneda. "He was behind a desk as on a stage, and I very little down there. Powerful! With hands covered with rings of very large stones."

Castaneda and Juan had told Tovar that the last thing I expected to see was Anthony Quinn in the role of Don Juan. Looks like someone had suggested to Mia Farrow for one of the papers. Designing such a film was very difficult. It is neither ethnography nor fiction. The project eventually failed. The Nagual Juan Matus said he could not do. "
During that time he was invited to participate in shows like Johnny Carson and Dick Cavett.
- "In the end I could not accept things like that. What I say to Johnny Carson, for example, if you ask me if I spoke or not the coyote? What would you say? I say yes, that ..." And then ? Undoubtedly, the situation had rendered to the ridiculous. Don Juan was the one who asked me to give testimony to a tradition. insisted that it accept interviews and give lectures to promote the books. Then I had it cut yet because this type of task takes a lot of energy. If you are in these things is to give them strength. " Castaneda
clearly explained that the proceeds of his books he is responsible to cover the costs of the whole group. Castaneda feeds them all.
- "Don Juan" he insisted gave me the task of putting in writing what the witches say. My task is not to write it until one day I say, "Enough, this is over." The impact or not in my books, I really do not know because I am not related to what happens here. In Don Juan before and the woman now belongs Tolteca all required books. They are responsible for everything that is said there. "
The tone of his voice and his manner impressed us deeply. It was obvious that here the task of Castaneda is to obey. Its purpose is merely to be flawless as a receiver and transmitter tradition and teaching.
- "Personally, I'm working on a type of journal , is something like a manual. In this work, yes, I am responsible. I wish a publisher would publish them and take care of distribution to interested persons and institutions of study. " We
said she had made about 18 units in which believed summed up the whole teaching of the Toltec nation. To organize the work, has used the phenomenology of E. Husserl as a theoretical framework to understand what he was taught.
- "Last week I was in New York. I brought the project to the editors at Simon & Schuster " but failed. It seems to be scared. It is such a thing can not succeed. Of those 18 points I am solely responsible, "he continued in a meditative tone, and as you can see, I was not successful. These 18 units are like the 18 falls that I've beaten severely head. I agree with the editors that work is a heavy reading, but that's me ... Don Juan, Don Genaro, all others are different. They are light! Why call them units? He asked ahead of us. The so called because each of them tries to show one way to break the unity of the family. In many ways this vision can be broken only perceptive. "
Castaneda, again trying to clarify this, we gave the example of the map.

- "Every time we go somewhere, we need a map with clear benchmarks to not lose. We did not find anything without a map. What happens next is that all we see is the map. Instead to see what to do, ended up seeing the map in us. That's why we break the bow of the reflectivity, constantly cutting the ties that lead to known reference points, is the last teaching of Don Juan. "

Many times during that afternoon had Castaneda to insist that he was not more than "just a bridge to the world." All knowledge of the books belong to the Toltec nation. At his insistence, I could not react and say that the work of combining the material of the notes in book coherent and well organized it was still huge and difficult. "No. I have no job. My job is simply to copy the page to me in dreams." According to Castaneda
can not create anything from nothing. Trying to create so absurd. To explain this, he brought up an episode in the life of his father.
- "My father decided it would be a great writer. To that end, decided to arrange his desk. He needed to have a desk that was perfect. Be taken into account in every detail, from the decoration of the walls at the rate of light from his desk. Once the room was ready, he spent much time looking for the right desktop for your business. The desk had to be a certain extent, wood, color, etc. The same happened with the election of the chair on which to sit. He then had to select the appropriate cover to not ruin the wood of his desk. The cover could be plastic, glass, leather, cardboard ... On that cover my father was going to support the paper you write your masterpiece. So, sitting in his chair against the white paper did not know what to write. That's my dad. He wants to start writing the perfect sentence. Sure ... and you can not write. One is always a tool, a broker. I see each page in a dream, and the success of each of these pages depends on the degree of fidelity with which I am able to copy that model of sleep. Precisely, the page or hit more impressive is that I've managed to reproduce the original more accurately. "Castaneda
These comments reveal a whole theory of knowledge and intellectual and artistic creation. (I immediately thought of Plato and St. Augustine with his image of "master interior".)

Conocer es descubrir y crear es copiar. Ni el conocimiento ni la creación pueden ser nunca una empresa de tipo personal.

Mientras cenábamos le mencioné algunas de las entrevistas que había leído. Le dije que me había gustado mucho la que Sam Keen le había hecho y que había publicado en " Psychology Today ". Castaneda también estaba satisfecho con esa entrevista. El le tiene mucho aprecio a Sam Keen. "Durante esos años -dijo- conocí a mucha gente de la cual hubiera querido seguir siendo amigo..., un ejemplo es el teólogo Sam Keen. Don Juan, sin embargo, dijo basta".
Con respecto the interview for "Time ," Castaneda told us that first came to meet him in Los Angeles a man journalist. It seems that the thing went well ( "did not work," said ) and left. Then sent him "one of those girls who can not refuse," he said making everyone smile. Everything went very well, and understood "a wonderland." Castaneda had the impression that she understood what he was saying. In the end, however, she did the article. The notes she had taken gave them to a reporter that "I believe that now is in Australia," he said. It seems that this reporter did what he wanted with the notes given. Whenever
for one reason or another mentioned the interview with "Time " was obviously annoyed. He had warned Don Juan that " Time" was a magazine too powerful and important. Don Juan on the other hand, had insisted that the interview was conducted. "The interview was done, just in case " concluded informally Castaneda again using an expression typically Buenos Aires. We also talked about the critics and what was written about him and his books. I mentioned to Richard de Mille and others who have questioned the veracity of his work and anthropological value them.
- "The work that I have to do is free from what critics may say. My task is to present this knowledge in the best possible way. Nothing I can say I care because I'm not Carlos Castaneda, the writer. "

"I am neither a writer or a thinker or a philosopher ... and consequently, their attacks do not find me. Now I know that I am nothing, nobody can take away anything because Joe Cordova is nothing. "

"No, in all this, no personal pride. We live in a lower level than the Mexican peasant, which is already saying a lot. We have touched the ground and can not fall lower. The difference between us and the farmer is that he is hopeful, wants things and working to one day have more than they have today. We, however, we have nothing and every time we get less. Can you imagine this? Criticism can not hit the target. I am never more fully than when I am Joe Cordoba vehemently exclaimed, getting up and opening his arms in a gesture of fullness. Joe Cordova, frying burgers all day with smoky eyes ... Do I understand you? ".
Not all critics were negative. Octavio Paz, for example, wrote a very good introduction to the English edition of "The Teachings of Don Juan." Seemed to me beautiful. "Yes," said Castaneda. This prologue is excellent. Octavio Paz is a gentleman. It may be one of the last ones that are left. "
The phrase "a gentleman" does not refer to the indisputable merits of Octavio Paz as a thinker and writer. No! The phrase points to the intrinsic qualities of being, the value of the person as a human. The Castaneda pointed out that "one of the last to go being" stressed the fact that it is an endangered species.
"Well," continued Castaneda trying to soften the impact. Maybe two gentlemen are. " The other is an old Mexican historian friend whose name was familiar to us. For he told us some stories that reflected their physical and intellectual vitality.

At this point in the conversation, Castaneda explained how to select the letters he receives. "Do you want to tell you how I found you?" He asked, turning to me.
He said that a boy friend gets them, puts them in a bag and keep them until he arrives in Los Angeles. Once in Los Angeles, Castaneda is always the same routine. First of all correspondence turns into a big box, "like toys", then just draw a card. The letter is what gets read and answered. Certainly never do writing. Castaneda leaves no trace.
- "The letter I got was the first one you wrote. Then I wanted another. Can not imagine how much trouble I had to get your phone! When it seemed he was not going to get lucky, I got through college. I really thought she was not going to talk to you. "
I was very surprised to know all the problems she had to give me. It seems that once had my letter in hand, he should try to exhaust all means.

magical universe in its place great importance on their signals.

- "Here in Los Angeles I have a friend I write a lot. Every time I've read all his letters, one after another as if it were a diary. Once, between those letters I came across one that I inadvertently opened. Although I immediately realized that it was not my friend, I read it. That was in the pile was for me a sign. "
That letter brought him into contact with two people who reported a very interesting experience. It was dark and had to enter the" San Bernardino Freeway . " They knew that they must continue to find where they were going until the end of the street. Then they had to turn left and continue until you reach the road. So they did, but after 20 minutes realized they were in a strange place. That was not the "San Bernardino Freeway ." Settled down and ask, but nobody helped. In one of the houses that were hit and threw them loudly.
Castaneda continued telling the two friends retraced the path until you reach a service station where they asked for directions. They were told the same thing they already knew. Again and to repeat the same steps without any problem and reached the road: Castaneda met with them. Of the two, it seems that only one is truly interested in understanding the mystery.

- "On earth" said by way of explanation, there are places, special places or openings, through which one enters and moves to something else. "Here he stopped and offered to take us." This is close ... In Los Angeles ... If you want to take them? The earth is alive. These places are where the land tickets regularly receives force or energy of the cosmos. That energy is what the warrior should be stored. Perhaps, if I can get severely impeccable next to eagle. Siqueira! Every 18 days a wave of energy falls on the earth. Tell you, from the third of August. May perceive. This wave of energy may or may not be strong, it depends. When the earth receives very large waves of energy, no matter where you are, she always reached. Faced with the magnitude of this force, the earth is small and the energy reaches everywhere. "
We were still talking animatedly when the waitress approached and curtly asked us if we were going to serve something else. Since no one wanted dessert or coffee, we had no choice but to raise. As soon as the waitress walked away, Castaneda said: "It seems we are throwing ..."
Yes, we were taking, and perhaps rightly so. ... To my surprise was late check the lateness of the hour. We got up and went to the avenue.
was night, the street and people looked like a fair. A mime dressed in tails and top hat clowned behind us. We all looked smiling as our eyes looking for the dish that is usually passed over these representations. To our right, under the eaves of an old theater, someone tried another representation in a miniature stage. I thought I saw a cat ready to function. There really looked around. At other times, a man dressed as a bear tried to compete with man orchestra. "The question is looking more and more extravagant alternatives," someone said.

As we walked back toward the campus , Castaneda spoke of a planned trip to Argentina.
- "There is a cycle closed. Back to Argentina is very important to me. Do not know yet when to do so, but I will. For now I have things to do here. Only in August marked the third anniversary of tasks, and may then you can go. "
That afternoon, Castaneda told us enough of Buenos Aires, its streets, neighborhoods and clubs. He recalled with nostalgia the Florida Street with its elegant shops and the street crowd. Still remembered exactly to the famous movie theaters. "The street Lavalle" said remembering. Castaneda lived in Buenos Aires during his childhood. It seems he was admitted to a central school.
"You know that in Buenos Aires should always be a club, "continued Castaneda. I was Chacarita. River Plate be not funny. Right? Chacarita , however, is always one of the last ". At that time, Chacarita always came last. It was touching to see it identified with the losers, with the" bottom ".
-" Surely the Gorda go with me. She wants to go. It is clear that she wants to go to " Paricio ." The purchase now Gorda Gucci. is elegant and wants to go to Paris. I always say, Gorda, why you want to go to Paris? There's nothing there. She has some idea of \u200b\u200bParis, "City of Light." You know ".

often named the Gorda this evening. With it, Castaneda brought us an extraordinary character by which he undoubtedly has great respect and admiration. What, then, the meaning all that circumstantial information about it given us? I think with those comments and the way they related to eating and sleeping on the Toltec , Castaneda tried to stop us we formed a rigid image of what they are . The work they are doing is very serious and their lives are stark, but not rigid nor are they oppressed by traditional norms of society. It is important release schemes, not replace them. Castaneda gave us to understand who has not traveled extensively in Latin America, excluding Mexico. "Lately I've only been in Venezuela. As I said, I have to go to Argentina soon. There is a cycle closed. Then I can go. ... Well, the truth is I do not know if I want to go yet." His last words were said, smiling. Who does not bind?
For Europe has traveled several times for issues relating to his books. "In 1973, however, Don Juan sent me to Italy," he said. My job was to go to Rome and get an audience with the Pope. I did not mean that he obtained a private audience but one of those hearings granted to groups of people. All I had to do in the interview was kissing her hand to the Supreme Pontiff. "Castaneda did everything as Don Juan had asked. He went to Italy, came to Rome and asked the audience." It was one of those hearings Wednesday, after the Pope officiates a public Mass in St. Peter's Square. Until the hearing but gave me ... I could not go. I did not get or the door. "
That afternoon, Castaneda referred several times to his family and his education and training typically liberal and frankly anticlerical. In" The second ring of power "Castaneda also refers to the inheritance anticlerical received. Don Juan, which seems to justify all their prejudices and struggles against the Catholic Church, says:

"Overcoming the nonsense of ourselves requires our time and energy. This is all that matters. The rest is of no consequence . Nothing that your grandfather and your father have said about the Church, has made them happy. To be an impeccable warrior, on the other hand, will give you strength, youth and power. Thus it right for you is to choose. " Castaneda

theorized about these issues. With regard to the dilemma "clerical / anticlerical" just wanted to convey a lesson with the example of his experience. That is, gave us to understand it is very difficult to break the patterns that have formed in youth.
"Then I asked, thinking of the task he had ordered Don Juan," will you go back to Italy? ".
"Oh No! No longer necessary. From all that has been a long time."
With regard to Europe, printing Castaneda was adamant. "There's nothing .. Europe is finished, everything is dead. One can note that even in the landscape. Alps have nothing to do with Colorado! A Europe lacks the strength that America has plenty."
With respect to Italy was particularly strong. "The miniature landscape. There's all very arregladito civilized. A hill here, a little house there. No force! In Italy, or a communist or Catholic. Nothing else.
His words made us understand that in Europe there are only ideologies old dichotomies of the past. Castaneda, however, moves in a very different level of politics or religion. In his universe, traditional ways of seeing and judging have no place.

Just before entering the campus , Castaneda turned, and pulling my arm and my hands said, "Ma'am, do not know how much I appreciate that you have presented me their friends. "His words were very intense and I was thrilled. It should be noted that I appreciated the fact that I had done well as an intermediary, as a bridge between my friends and himself.
When we reached the parking lot , graciously greeted us and we parted. Castaneda walked to the corner and disappeared behind the tall bushes on the street. It was near eleven o'clock at night. We got in the car and started our return trip. The two hours were short. We are very impressed and we did not have time to tell us all that the meeting that evening had inspired in us.

That afternoon Castaneda took great care to distinguish and clarify what he has been tested and is able to experiment, to what others say and do.

We said she had 17 years in the business of learning. During that time, there are things we have been able to experience and see for himself, others that are learning and other not yet incorporated into their lives. For example, he has found the Toltec way of eating and sleeping. The art of sleep also has built, but still need help from the Gorda. With respect to other phenomena became apparent that would not talk much, and more than once had to admit that there are things that do not understand. Moreover, there are many things we do not think it possible to ever understand. Castaneda, however, trust Don Juan and in his teaching, he relies on what has been achieved does not understand or explain. Again and again, Don Juan has shown that the Toltecs were right and, therefore, trusts that have to be right until the end.
The memory of that afternoon, has been clearly delineated as a picture in which Castaneda's fascinating figure occupies the entire space. All fantasies and wonders "in the words of Octavio Paz, the books that I had so often doubted and some disgust that was considered an unnecessary deployment of the phenomenal, after meeting with Castaneda became perfectly believable and possible.
Beyond the factuality of narrated events, we discover the essential truth of his claims. After all ... What is more difficult than frying burgers all day long as Joe Cordoba with smoky eyes? Today

Carlos Castaneda has been "Ido."

Sources:

"substantive dialogue with Carlos Castaneda"
in PDF (1980-1981)

Graciela Vico N. Corvalán

Magazine "esoteric" No. 3

Graciela N. Vico Corvalán a degree in philosophy ( National University of Cuyo, Mendoza ) and professor at the same university, earned his doctorate at Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri ) in 1975. Has developed a busy teaching schedule in the United States, teaching our language, American literature, history of religion and philosophy for children. It has also specialized in contemporary mystical thinkers. Alternating with writing dissertations, teaching well Community English courses. Has earned many academic honors and scholarships. Among his works is the translation into English of "To Be the Noad : On the Journey of Spiritual Unfolding " by Dr. Judy Gomez. Prepare a series of conversations with contemporary mystics thinkers of the Americas, and a series of short reviews for a project of the Modern Language Association : "Guide to Research in Women" s Studies ", Vol. In July last year at Montclair State College , spent two weeks in an intensive seminar on Philosophy for Children program Institute of Philosophy for Children . Among his most important speeches are: "Life as a rebellion and mission of Ezequiel Martínez Estrada", a course led by Dr. Ivan A. Schulman.

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depth dialogue with Carlos Castaneda - II

"Continuing the interview that Dr. Graciela Corvalan Argentina managed to do to Carlos Castaneda. In it there are some vital aspects of the path taken by the writer from his apprenticeship in the way of knowledge through famous Toltec Don Juan Matus. The magical aspect of life appears fully in the daily activities of Castañeda, transformed into a "man of power", though it appears as simple cook in a restaurant road ... "

Phenomenology, however, has a single value for Castaneda methodology. Husserl never not transcend the theoretical level and, consequently, did not touch the man in your life everyday. For Castaneda, Western man, European man, the most that has come is the politician. This politician would be the epitome of our civilization.

"Don Juan, - said their education, is opening the door for another man much more interesting: a man who already live in a world or magical universe. "Meditating

on that of "political man" came to mind a book of Edward Spranger called " Lifestyles", which states that the life of a politician "is crisscrossed by power relations and rivalry." The politician is the man whose power domain controls both the concrete reality of the world and the beings who inhabit it.
The world of Don Juan, however, is a magical world populated by entities and forces.
- "The beauty of Don Juan Castaneda said, is that although the world of every day he seems to be crazy (crazy! Crazy!), No one is able to perceive. The world, Don Juan offers a front which is necessarily temporary ... one hour a month sixty years. Nobody could get sloppy! Don Juan in this world is perfect because he always knew he's here is just a moment and that what comes after ... Well ... A beauty! Don Juan and Don Genaro intensely loved beauty. "

perception and conception that Don Juan has of reality and time are undoubtedly very different from ours. While the daily level of Don Juan is always impeccable, this is not prevents to know that "this side" is definitely all passengers.
Castaneda went on to describe a universe polarized into two extremes: the right and the left side. The right side correspond to the tonal and the left side the nagual .
In "Tales of Power " Don Juan Castaneda explains at length about these two halves of the "bubble of perception." He said that the teacher's task is to clean neatly part of the bubble , then rearrange "everything" on the other side.
- "The teacher is responsible for this merciless apprentice hammers until your whole world view is one half of the bubble . The other half, which has been cleaned, it can then be claimed by some that sorcerers will call. "

Explaining all this is very difficult because at this level are totally words inadequate. Indeed, the left side of the universe "implies the absence of words," and can not think without words. Here there are only actions. "In that other world," said Castaneda, the body acts. "

"The body, to understand, does not need words."

In the magical universe so to speak, of Don Juan, there are certain entities called "allies" or "fleeting shadows." These, you can capture a number of times. For such deposits has searched a lot of explanations but, according to Castaneda, there is no doubt that these phenomena depend mainly on the human anatomy. What is important is come to understand that there is a range of explanations that can account for these "fleeting shadows."
I asked, then, that knowing about the body of the speaker in his books.
"Is that for you the whole body is a body of knowledge?" I asked.
Meditating on these words of Castaneda, I thought the parallel with Tantric Yoga and the various centers or chakras that the officiating is awakening through certain rituals. In the book " The tight circle" of Miguel Serrano reads the chakras are centers of consciousness. "

In the same book, Karl Jung referred to a conversation Serrano he had with a chief of the Pueblo Indians called Ochwián Biano ( Mountain Lake ).

"I explained his impression of white, ever so restless, always looking for something aspire to something ... According Ochwián Biano, whites were crazy, because claimed think with your head, and only fools do well . This statement by the Indian Chief gave me great surprise and asked him how he thought. He said that with the heart. "

The road warrior's knowledge is long and requires total dedication. They all have a specific goal and a very pure incentive.
- "What's the point?" "I insist.
seems that the aim is to knowingly pass across the left side of the universe.
- "Try to be as close as possible to ensure eagle and slip out without her devouring us. The goal is to get out," he said on tiptoe on the left side of eagle. I do not know if you know, "he continued looking for ways to lighten the image, which is an entity called the Toltec Eagle . The visionary sees it as a vast blackness that extends to infinity, is a vast blackness that a lightning flashes. That's why they call it the eagle : it has black wings and back, and his chest is bright. The eye of this entity is not a human eye. The eagle has no mercy. Everything that is alive is represented in the Eagle . This entity contains all the beauty that man is capable of creating as well as all the brutality that is not the human being itself. What is truly human in Eagle is immensely small compared to the rest. The eagle is too much mass, bulk, darkness ... what little face is distinctive of human beings. The eagle attracts all living force that is ready to disappear because it feeds on that energy. The eagle is like a huge magnet that picks up all these beams of light that are the lifeblood of what we are dying. "

Castaneda

While saying this, your hands and fingers as the hammer head imitating an eagle pecking at the space with an insatiable appetite.
- "I just tell them what Don Juan and the others say. They're all witches! - He cried. All are wrapped in a metaphor that is incomprehensible to me. What is the master of man? What we claim? "He asked.
We listened carefully and we stopped talking because he had entered a field which no longer fit the questions.

- "The owner of us can not be a man," he said.

seems that the owner Toltecs call the "mold of man."
- "All things-plants, animals and humans, have a mold." Mold of man is the same for all human beings. My mold and his "continued explaining," is the same, but in each appears and acts differently depending on the development of the person. "

Since Castaneda's words, we interpret that the "human mold" is what brings us together, which unifies the life force. The human form, however, is that which prevents us from seeing the mold. It seems that while not losing the human form we are only able to see the reflections of the way in everything we perceive. In this human form we do not see but feel in our body. That "form" is what makes us who we are and we are unable to change .

In " The second ring of power " la Gorda Castaneda instructs him about the "human mold" and "human form." In this book, the "mold" is described as a light body and remember that Don Juan Castaneda, described it as "the source and origin of man." La Gorda, Don Juan remembers thinking that he was told that "if we have enough personal power we can glimpse the mold though we are not sorcerers, and when this happens we say that we have seen God. He said if we call God, it would be successful because the mold is God. "
Several times that afternoon we got on the topic of" human form "and" mold "of man. Surrounding the subject from different angles, there is increasing became more evident that "the way" human is the hard shell of the personal.
- "This human form - he said, is like a towel that covers one from the armpits to the feet. After that towel is a lighted candle is consumed to off. When the candle goes out is because one has died. Then comes the eagle and devours him. Castaneda continued seers are those beings capable of seeing the human being as a luminous egg. Within this sphere of light is the candle. If the seer sees the wing's little one, however strong the person seems, means it is already finished. "
Castaneda had told us before the Toltecs never die because being Toltec means losing the human form. Only that moment I understood: If the Toltec lost human form, there is nothing that the eagle to devour. We had no doubt either that the owner concepts of man and man mold and Eagle image referred to the same entity or closely related.

Several hours later, sitting at a hamburger in a cafe Westwood Boulevard and other street whose name I forget, Castaneda told us his experience in losing the human form. " He said his experience was not as strong as the Gorda, who had symptoms similar to those of a heart attack.
- "In my case, Castaneda said there was a simple phenomenon of hyperventilation. In that moment I felt a great pressure, a flow of energy came through the head, through his chest and stomach and followed by the legs until they disappear left foot. That was it. To make sure I went to the doctor but not me found nothing. I only suggested that breathing in a paper bag to reduce the amount of oxygen and hyperventilation to counter the phenomenon. "
(In" The Second Ring of Power ", the Gorda regards Castaneda that when she lost" human form began to see an eye always in front of it. This eye was with her all the time and almost ended up going mad. Little by little he got used to the eye one day it became part of it. "One day, when become a truly free form, shall not see that eye, the eye will be one with me ...")

the beginning of our conversation, Castaneda said something about "Toltec Teaching." According to Toltec
somehow have to return or pay the eagle his due. Castaneda has already told us that the owner of man is the eagle and that eagle is all the nobility and beauty as well as all the horror and ferocity that is all that is. Why eagle is the owner of man?
- "The eagle is the master of man because it feeds the flame of life, vital energy that emerges from all that is."
And, once again making the gesture with hands resembling the beak of an eagle head, ran his beak the space arm while saying:
- "So! So! devours everything!. The only way to escape the greed of the eagle, is out on tiptoe and holding my breath ... When you're ready for last flight, he makes an offering to the eagle, a gift-Castaneda stressed that it is almost like giving yourself. It gives the equivalent of an eagle. This offering they call it the personal summary . Don Juan said that death begins with this summary staff. Only then, ie, when death is undeniable and inescapable, the action begins. "
- "¿En qué consiste, cómo se hace la recapitulación personal?" -quisimos saber nosotros.
- "En primer lugar hay que hacer una lista de todas las personas que uno ha conocido a lo largo de la vida -respondió-; una lista de todos aquellos que de una u otra manera nos han forzado a poner el ego -ese centro del orgullo personal que más tarde mostraría como un monstruo de 3.000 cabezas-, sobre la mesa."

"Tenemos que traer de vuelta a todos los que han colaborado pare que entrásemos en ese juego de "me quieren o no me quieren". Juego que no es otra cosa que un vivir volcados sobre nosotros mismos..."

"¡Lamiéndonos nuestras lastimaduras! La recapitulación must be total, "he continued, going from Z to A, backwards. It starts now and goes into early childhood, until two or three years and even earlier if possible. From birth, everything is being recorded in our body. The summary is and requires a large memory training. But how does this wrap? Gone are carefully bringing the images and they are going against a setting, then with a nod from right to left, blowing each of the images as if barriésemos of our vision ... The breath is magic. "He added.
To recap the also ran out all the tricks, games and deceptions. It seems that in the end we know all our tricks and no way to put the ego on the table without once we realize that with that aim.

- "With the` one personal summary stripped of everything. Then. It is only the task, the task in all its simplicity, purity and rawness. The wrap is possible for all men but you have to have a will inflexible. If one hesitates or falters, is lost because the eagle devours him. In this area no doubt has a place. I'm not sure how to explain this, but in the performance and dedication to the task has to be compulsory without really be because the Toltec is a free man. The task asks for all of both, however, is free. Do you understand? If this is difficult to understand is because, at bottom, is a paradox. But this wrap-added Castaneda changing his tone and posture, you have to put sauce. The property of Don Juan and his "cronies" is that they are lightweight. Don Juan I cured my weighing. He is not solemn, nothing formal. "
(The first book," The Teachings of Don Juan ", he says," The thing to learn is how to get to the crack between worlds and how to enter another world ... There is a place where the two worlds are mounted one above the other. The crack is there. It opens and closes like a door in the wind. To get there, a man must exercise his will. Should I say, develop an indomitable desire, a total dedication. But it must do so without the help of no power and no man ...")

Within the seriousness of the task that they all perform there is always room for humor. To illustrate in a concrete way how Don Juan taught, Castaneda told us a very interesting episode. looks like he smoked a lot, and that Don Juan decided to cure him.
- "smoked like three packs per day. One after another! Do not let them off. You see that now I do not have pockets, "he said pointing to his shirt that, indeed, lacking them. I removed the pockets at the time to take the body a chance to feel something on the left side, and that this something will remind the habit. By eliminating the pocket also eliminated physical habit of bringing the hand towards the pocket. Don Juan had once told me we were going to spend a few days in the mountains of Chihuahua. I remember specifically told me not forget to bring me my cigarettes. He recommended, also, to bring supplies to about two packs a day and no more. Then I bought boxes of cigarettes, but instead of 20 I packed about 40. I did some divine packages I covered with foil to protect my load of animals and rain. Well equipped and with a backpack, I went to Don Juan through the hills. I walked there lighting cigarette after cigarette, and trying to catch my breath! Don Juan has a tremendous effect, I waited patiently while smoking and watching me shake me by the mountains. Now I would not have the patience he had with me! We come finally to a fairly high plateau surrounded by cliffs and steep slopes. Don Juan there invited me to try again or go down. For a long time I tried on one side and another until I finally had to abandon the attempt. No would be able to. We thus, for several days, until one morning I wake up and the first thing I do is find my cigarettes. Where are my divine packages? I search and search and not find them. When Don Juan is awake, you know what happens to me. I explain what happens and say, "Do not worry. Probably a coyote came and took them away, but can not be far behind. Here! Look! There are traces of coyote!" We spent the whole day tracing the footsteps of the coyote in search of the packages. After much searching, Don Juan kept insisting that I should not worry because just then I said to myself, behind the hill, there is a village. There you can buy all cigarettes you want. Again we went searching and searching ... It is clear that the people were looking now. Where is the village? No sign of him. As we looked at, when Don Juan sat down on the floor and getting the old man, good old man, started complaining: "This time I'm lost ... I'm old ... I can not more ..." While this saying, clutched her head and did great fuss. "
Castaneda made us the whole story imitating Don Juan in his gestures and tone of voice. It was a sight to see. Later, Castaneda himself would tell us that Don Juan used referring to their acting skills.

- "With so much walking, I followed Castaneda who had spent 10 or 12 days, and I were craving me! This is how I removed the urge to smoke. If we spent as the demons running through the hills! When it came back, imagine that Don Juan knew exactly how to do it. We went straight to the people. The difference was that then, I had no need to buy cigarettes. In this episode, "he said, have passed as nostalgic 15 years. "

"The line of not-doing," he said precisely the opposite of routine or routines which are used to. "

"habits such as cigarette for example, are the ones we have tied up in chains ... In the sense of not-doing, however, all avenues are possible. "
Castaneda gave us to understand that Don Juan knew very well at all, were known in their habits and weaknesses. It was like one at a time was holding. Don Juan and Don Genaro, "these two buddies," according to Castaneda, were able to make everyone the right move and thus make them fall into the path of knowledge.

was silent for a while, I finally broke to ask about Doña Soledad. I told her she had impressed me as a grotesque figure, as a witch, really.
- "Doña Soledad is India," he said. The story of his transformation is amazing. "

" He put this desire in its transformation in the end he succeeded. In this effort he developed his will to such an extent that as a result also developed personal pride too. "

" is precisely why I do not think she can go on tiptoe through the left side of eagle. Anyway, it's great what he was able to do with herself! Not if you remember who she was ... She was the "Manuelita" the "mommy" Pablito, always washing, ironing and washing ..., offering comidita to each other. "

To mean that, in Castaneda mimicked gestures and movements to a very poor little old lady.
- "You have to see it now," he went on. Doña Soledad strong young woman, now have to fear! The Wrap Doña Soledad took him seven years of his life. He got into a hole, and there out. It was stuck until the end of it. In seven years did more than that. Although I can not pass by the eagle-Castaneda said with admiration, "never again be the poor thing before." After a pause

Castaneda recalled that Don Juan and Don Genaro were no longer with them.
- "Now everything is different," said Castaneda nostalgic. Don Juan and Don Genaro not. The Toltec Woman is with us. She asks tasks. La Gorda and I do homework together. Others also have duties to perform, different tasks in different places also. According to Don Juan, women are more talented than men. Women are more susceptible. In life, moreover, they are spending less and less tired than men. That is why Don Juan has left me now in the hands of a woman. "

" I was left in the hands of the other side of the unit man-woman. "

" Moreover, I was left hands of women: the sisters and Gorda.
She now teaches not have a name. She is simply the Toltec Woman.
(Several months later, the Gorda (Maria Elena) phoned me to convey a message of Carlos Castaneda. In that conversation, I told the lady called Dona Florinda Toltec, and that it was a person very elegant, vivacious and restless. Mrs. Tolteca must be 50 years.)
- "Mrs. Tolteca is now teaching me. She is responsible for everything. All the others, and I are nothing Gorda ". We wanted to know if she knew I was going to meet us and their other plans.
- "Mrs. Tolteca knows everything. She sent me to Los Angeles to talk with you "he replied, addressing me. She knows about my projects and I'm going to New York.
We also wanted to know how she was. "Is that young? Is it old? "We asked.
-" Mrs. Tolteca is a very strong woman. Your muscles move in a peculiar way. He is old, but one of those old women who look like this by dint of makeup. "
was difficult to explain how she was. In their attempt, Castaneda sought a reference point and reminded us the movie" Giant .
- " remind you-we wonder-working film that James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor? E. There Taylor makes mature woman but in reality she was very young. The same impression on me because the Toltec Woman: An old face with makeup on a corpse still young. I would also say she is old. Do you know you the "National Enquirer ? "Continued loosely. A friend of mine is responsible for keep it to myself here in Los Angeles, and every time I've read them. That's all I read here ... Just at that newspaper ( recently ) saw some pictures of Elizabeth Taylor. Now that is really old! ".

This comment somehow summarized his opinion regarding the immense production news that characterizes our era. This comment also holds a trial on the value of all of Western culture. Everything is at the level of " National Enquirer." Nothing
Castaneda said that evening was casual. The various pieces of information that he provided were aimed at creating a certain impression on us. This intention was nothing equivocal Castaneda, on the contrary their interest was to convey the essential truth of the teaching they are involved.

continue talking about Mrs. Castaneda Toltec and told us that she will soon.
- "She told us that in its place will come two ladies. Tolteca She is very strict. Their demands are terrible! However, if the woman is fierce Toltec maybe the two that come to be much worse. It might not go yet! You can not stop loving can not prevent the body complains and track the severity of the company ... However, there is no way to alter the destination. That grabbed me, then! "
(By telephone, the Gorda also insisted that Ms. Tolteca was very" brave "and that while she loves more than Castaneda not hurt that he loved a little more. "We go with the whole body bruised from beatings he gives us," he said.)

"I have more freedom than to be impeccable because only if I change my destiny impeccable, that is, I'll tiptoe through the left side of the eagle. "

" If I am not perfect, do not change my destiny and the eagle devours me. The Nagual Juan Matus is a free man. He is free to fulfill his destiny. Do I understand you? I do not know if they understand what I mean, "said worried.
-" Of course I understand! He replied with vehemence. Both the latter as in many other things you have mentioned so far we are very similar to what we feel and live every day. "
-" Don Juan is a free man, "he continued. He seeks freedom, her spirit seeks. Don Juan is the basic bias-free, the perceptual bias that prevents us from seeing reality. "
The important thing that we had been talking about is the ability to disrupt the cycle of routines. Don Juan made him do many exercises to make them aware their routines. Among them is the "walk in darkness" and the "march to power."
How to break this cycle of routines? How to break this perception arch that unites the ordinary view of reality? That ordinary vision that our routines help to establish is precisely what Castaneda called the attention of the tonal "or" the first ring of the attention. "
-" Breaking the arc perceptual no easy task, can take years. The difficulty with me - said with a laugh that I am very stubborn. A I was doing bad things. This is why, in my case, Don Juan had to use drugs ... and that's how I was ... With the liver in the ditch! In the line of not-doing is done to disrupt the routines and become aware, "said Castaneda.
Saying this he got up and started walking back as we remembered a technique that Don Juan had taught him: that of walking backward the help of a mirror. Castaneda continued to be facilitated by referring to the task devised a metal ( like a ring like a crown that is held head ) in which he had fixed the mirror. That way he could practice the exercise and have free hands. Other examples of techniques of non-doing would be to put the belt on backwards and wear shoes
changed. All these techniques are designed to make one aware of what is being done each time. "Disrupting routines he said, is how we give the body new sensations. The body knows ...". Next
Castaneda told us some of the games that young Toltec practice for hours. "Games are not doing," he said. Games where there are no rules but they are created as is played. "
appears that the absence of fixed rules, the players' behavior is not predictable and therefore all must be very careful." One of these games, "he continued," is to give false signals to the adversary. It is a game of pulling and pulling. "

He said to pull in that game are 3 people and it takes two poles and a rope. With the rope tied to one player and it hangs of the posts. The other two players must pull the ends of the rope and try to deceive giving false signals. Everyone must be very careful that when you pull, the other will too and the person that hangs not skewed .
techniques and games to develop non-care. You can say that they are exercises in concentration as it requires those who practice to be fully aware of what they do. Castaneda said that senescence would have been locked in the perfect circle of the routines.

- "One way to teach the Toltec Woman is put ourselves in situations. I think it's the best way because we find ourselves in situations that we are nothing. The other way is the self-esteem, personal pride. For this last road we are turned into detectives, always attentive to all that we can move on and offend. "Detectives? Yes!"

"We had looking for evidence of whether we want or do not like us. So focused on our ego will do anything to strengthen it. "

" According to the woman Tolteca, it is best to start by considering that no one wants. "
Castaneda told us that Don Juan, personal pride resembles a monster 3,000 head.
- "One Abbe destroyed and other heads but always rise ... Is that one has all the tricks! He exclaimed. With the tricks we seem to believe that we are self deceiving someone. "
I remembered, then, the image of hunting down weaknesses" such as rabbits are collected from a trap, "which appears in his book." Yes, "he replied, must be constantly on the lookout. "Changing position, Castaneda began to ask the history of the last three years.
- "One of the main tasks was to cook in those cafeterias routes. La Gorda accompanied me this year as a waitress. More than a year there as we walked by Joe Cordoba and his wife! My full name was José Luis Córdoba , to serve, "he said bowing. But all I knew as Joe Cordova."
Castaneda told us the name or place of the city in which they lived. They may have been in several sites. It appears that he came first, the Gorda and Mrs. Toltec, who accompanied them for a while. The first was to find housing and work Joe Cordova, his Mrs and her mother. "That's how we present ourselves," said Castaneda, otherwise people would not have understood. "
For a long time looking for work, until at last they found him in a coffee shop map. "In this type of institution begins very early in the morning. At five have to be already working." Castaneda told us, laughing, that in those places first thing they ask you is: "Do you know how to make eggs?" What could that be to make eggs? It appears that he took some time to realize what they wanted to tell you, until finally it was discovered that the various ways of preparing eggs for breakfast. In restaurants or cafes for truckers, this "making eggs" is very important.
a year were working well. "Now you know" make eggs, "he said laughing, all that you want!". La Gorda also worked hard. It was so good waitress who ended up taking care of all the girls. After a year, when Mrs. Tolteca told them "that's enough, that ended with that task," the cafe owner did not want to let go. "The truth is that there work very hard. Much! From morning to night."
During that year had a significant meeting. This is the story of a girl named Terry, who came to the cafeteria where they were, asking for a job as a waitress. By then, Joe Cordova had won the confidence of the owner of the premises and was in charge of hiring and monitor all staff. As Terry said, she was looking to Carlos Castaneda. How could she know they were there? Castaneda did not know.

She told Castaneda, when Terry was not a good waitress. Over the months, however, changed, became clean and careful. "La Gorda gave much advice to Terry. We care a lot ... I never imagined with whom she spent all that time."
These last years have passed times of severe hardship during which they were abused and insulted. More than once he was going to say who he was, but ... "Who would have believed me," said In addition, she is the one that decides Toltec. " "That year, he went there were times when we were reduced to a minimum: we slept on the floor and ate a single thing."

Hearing this, we wanted to explain to us how to eat with. Castaneda told us that the Toltecs eat only one type of food at a time, but they do more often. "The Toltecs eat all day" - said casually.
(In this statement Castaneda can see the desire to break the image people have of the wizard or witch-beings with special powers who do not have the same needs of other mortals. Saying that "eat all day," Castaneda joined the rest of men.)
According to Castaneda, the mixture of food, for example, eating meat with potatoes and vegetables, is very unhealthy.
- "This mixture is very new in the life of mankind - he said."

"Eating only one food helps digestion and is better for the body."

"Once Don Juan accused me that I always felt bad. I defended you imagine! But then I realized he was right and I learned. Now I feel good, strong and healthy. "

sleep mode also they have is different from most of us. It is important to realize that you can sleep in many ways. According to Castaneda, we have been taught to bed and waking up at a certain time because that is what society wants of us. "Thus, for example," said Castaneda, parents lie to children to get rid of them. "We all laughed because something reason was that.
"I sleep all day and all night," he continued, "but if I add the hours and minutes I did not sleep that reach more than five hours a day. "Sleeping in this way requires, by the person, the ability to go straight to sleep.

Sources:

"substantive dialogue with Carlos Castaneda"
in PDF (1980-1981)

Vico N. Graciela Corvalan

Magazine "esoteric" No. 2