A disciple said to his master one day. "Master I am confused, because some say that there are many Gods and others say that there is only one God".

The Six Explanatory Propositions, which were included in the Spanish language version of the Eagle's Gift by Carlos Castaneda but were never published in the English versions of the book.

Dreaming instruction is divided into two parts. Part one is about dreaming procedures that fix the dreaming attention and Part two is about the purely abstract explanations of these procedures. This is an interplay between enticing one's intellectual curiosity with the abstract principles of dreaming and guiding one to seek an outlet in its practices.

In this podcast I read a short extracts from Tales of Power and Journey to Ixtlan that that relate to Selecting a Topic for Dreaming: First Extract is from Part 1, Tales of Power: Witness to Acts of Power, Chapter 1. An Appointment With Knowledge. Second Extract is from Part 1, Journey to Ixtlan: Stopping the World, Chapter 12. A Battle of Power.

“You’re again confusing issues. Solace, haven, fear, all of them are moods that you have learned without ever questioning their value. As one can see, the black magicians have already engaged all your allegiance.”

Hallucinogens and their use in spiritual rituals have been around for thousands of years and the modern spiritual movement’s use of Hallucinogens to achieve out of the body experiences is really no different than the divinations of the ancient Egyptians and Greeks.

“You’re again confusing issues. Solace, haven, fear, all of them are moods that you have learned without ever questioning their value. As one can see, the black magicians have already engaged all your allegiance.”

Most of the time when we’re dreaming, we’re not aware of it and just take what’s before us in the dream as real. But the Not-doing of dreaming is when you are aware that you’re dreaming and can take steps to control the dream.

“One of the first concerns of warriors is to free that energy in order to face the unknown with it,” Don Juan went on. “The action of rechanneling that energy is impeccability.”

Learn how to relax instantly with this quick self-hypnosis tool Jason teaches you in 30 seconds or less to dramatically lower your stress levels which will have a wonderful impact on every area of your life.

Rationality is the quality or state of being rational, a state based on our agreeability to reason. Rationality implies the conformity of one's beliefs with one's reasons to believe, but really what we called rationality is our ability to recognition patterns, an unconscious state where the brain identifies patterns that it can use to predict and expect what is coming.

Dhyana is normally translated as meaning meditation, but there are many forms of meditation and to simply call dhyana meditation is an over simplification of dhyana’s true implication.

Grounding is a very helpful quality to incorporate into a formal meditation routine. If you feel that you are especially spacey during meditation or that your internal dialogue is overwhelming while doing a mindfulness meditation for instance, try this first as a warm up, and if you want to you can also treat it as a meditation technique in itself.

Have you heard the term Red Pill or Blue Pill? This term came from the Matrix movie where Neo (The hero) was given a choice, take the Red Pill and escape the Matrix or take the Blue pill and forget that there is a world outside the matrix, but how does this concept relate to religion and religious practice?