CARLOS CASTANEDA, GNOSTICISM, THE ANTAHKARANA, CHAKRAS ABOVE THE HEAD AND ENERGY BLOCKAGE IMPLANTS
The eleven books of
Carlos Castaneda record his
apprenticeship with a Yaqui Indian, Don
Juan Matus, who plays Socratic mentor to
Castaneda’s skeptical anthropologist.
Over more than twenty years, Castaneda
learned the theory and practice of a new
discipline proposed by his mischievous
and demanding teacher. The art of the
“new seers” involves revising ancient
secrets of Toltec sorcery transmitted to
Don Juan through a late lineage dating
from the 18th century.
“Sorcery” in this case means a path of
magical experience that stands apart
from the experiential habits of humanity
(French sortir, “to leave, depart”).
Through a long process of trial and
error, Castaneda manages to alter the
parameters of perception and explore
other worlds. In the process of his
adventures, he encounters certain alien
inorganic beings who present an obstacle
or test for the shaman. In Magical
Passes, Castaneda wrote:
“Human beings are on a journey of
awareness, which has momentarily been
interrupted by extraneous forces.”
Mud Shadows - how the human mind has been infiltrated by energy blockages above the head
In Castaneda’s final book, The Active Side of Infinity (1998), Don Juan challenges Castaneda to reconcile man’s intelligence, demonstrated in so many achievements, with “the stupidity of his systems of beliefs... the stupidity of his contradictory behaviour.” Don Juan relates this blatant contradiction in human intelligence to what he calls “the topic of topics,” “the most serious topic in sorcery.” This topic is predation.
To the horrified astonishment of his apprentice, the elder sorcerer explains how the human mind has been infiltrated by an alien intelligence: But this is not alien, these guys are human and they live for thousands of years in imaginary universes in the chakras above the head. Although they can exist there for thousands of years always they have to return to vampirise more energy from their cattle, humanity, so they can ascend and live again.
We have a predator energy blockage that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings are its prisoners. The predator energy blockage is our lord and master. It has rendered us docile, helpless. If we want to protest, it suppresses our protest. If we want to act independently, it demands that we don’t do so...
Sorcerers believe that the predator energy blockages have given us our systems of beliefs, our ideas of good and evil, our social mores. They are the ones who set up our hopes and expectations and dreams of success or failure. They have given us covetousness, greed and cowardice. It is the predator energy blockages who make us complacent, routinary and egomaniacal.
According to Don Juan, the sorcerers of ancient Mexico called the predator energy blockage, the flyer,
“because it leaps through the air... It is a big shadow, impenetrably black, a black shadow that jumps through the air.”
This description matches thousands of accounts of the bizarre jumping movements, sometimes sideways, executed by shadows who accost people at random. Fleeting black shadows are less often reported, but they play the major role in the long and detailed report of alien activity by John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies.
Gnostic writings contain descriptions of alien predator energy blockages called Archon energy blockage, Arkontai in Greek. The texts from Nag Hammadi describe them as heavy, elusive, shadowy creatures. The most common name for them is “beings of the likeness, shadow-creatures.” Could the Archon energy blockage be compared to the “mud shadows” described by Don Juan?
This question raises the general issue of parallels between Don Juan’s Central American Toltec shamanism and the shamanism of the Mystery Schools of ancient Europe. Let’s consider some of these parallels.
First, there is the matter of the influence of the predator energy blockages or flyers on humanity. In The Active Side of Infinity, Don Juan tells Castaneda that “the predator energy blockages give us their mind, which becomes our mind.” This alarming statement suggests an immediate parallel to Gnostic teachings. Gnostics, who directed the Mystery Schools of the Near East in antiquity, taught that the true mind of human beings, nous authenticos, is part of the cosmic intelligence that pervades nature, but due to the intrusion of the Archon energy blockage, this “native mind” or "native genius" can be subverted and even occupied by another mind. This is the Implant Energy Blockage.
They warned that the Archon energy blockages invade the human psyche, they intrude mentally and psychologically, although they may also confront us physically as well. Their main impact, however, is in our mental syntax, in our paradigms and beliefs, exactly as Don Juan says of the flyers.
Don Juan tells Castaneda that the predator energy blockage’s mind is “a cheap model: economy strength, one size fits all.” This description fits the hive-mentality of the Archon energy blockage. Sorcerers call this uniform alien mind “the foreign installation, which exists in you and in every other human being.”
The foreign installation pulls us out of our syntax. It deranges our indigenous abilities to organize the world according to the language proper to our species. The role of correct syntax in the sorcerer’s mastery of intent is one of the central factors in the later teachings of Don Juan. The sorcerer’s concern for deviation of syntax, and consequent derouting of intent, parallels the importance of language and correct definition emphasized in Gnostic teaching.
Don Juan makes a number of statements pertinent to strategies against alien intrusion. He says that the sorcerers of ancient times “found out that if they taxed the flyers’ mind with inner silence, the foreign installation would flee, giving to any one of the practitioners involved in this maneouver the total certainty of the mind’s foreign origin.” In other words, the realization that another mind can operate in our minds only becomes fully clear and certain when the foreign mind has been exposed and expelled.
Only then do we understand how “the real mind that belongs to us, the sum total of our experience, after a lifetime of domination has been rendered shy, insecure and shifty.” The “real mind” of Castaneda can be equated to the nous authenticos of the Gnostics. The main effect of the flyers upon our mind is seen in mental conditioning, brainwashing.
This is also the main effect of Archontic intrusion and Implant Energy Blockages.
Psychic Self-Defence - Energy Enhancement Protection Against Archon Energy Blockages
Gnostic texts describe direct, physical confrontations with Archon energy blockages of two kinds, an embryonic or foetal type—hence, the Greys of modern UFO lore—and a reptilian type. The usual tactic of the Greys is first to stun and then infiltrate the mind of the human subject. In the First Apocalypse of James, the Gnostic master instructs a student in how to confront the Archon energy blockage.
These predator energy blockage entities are said to “abduct souls by night,” a precise description of modern ET abductions. The adept in the Mysteries learns to repel the Archon energy blockage with magical formulas (mantras) and magical passes or gestures of power (mudras) as in Energy Enhancement Level 2 - the elimination of energy blockages. In some texts, the encounter with the Archon energy blockage is structured according to the system of “planetary spheres.”
The adept who practices astral projection, lucid dreaming or “manipulations of the double” (as in Castaneda) is said to face the Archon energy blockage in a kind of computer-game maze of seven levels, corresponding to the seven planets or chakras. At each level, the adept is unable to continue unless he confronts the “gatekeeper energy blockages,” using magical passes and words.
For more on confronting Archon energy blockage, see A Gnostic Catechism.
The archetypal format of the “journey through the planetary spheres” was well-known in antiquity, particularly in schools of Hermetics and Kaballa. In Tantra Vidya, O. M. Hinze compares the Gnostic ascent through the seven spheres with the raising of kundalini through the seven chakras in Indian yogic traditions. Don Juan does not use the seven-level scheme, but his description of the flyers can be fitted into that scheme. "The Eagle" represents the Central Spiritual Sun in the Center of the Universe which all Sorcerers are afraid of as it represents the sleep of lethe where we forget when we die. Instead the Sorcerer prefers to inhabit the astral plane in the space between the Crown Chakra and the Soul Chakra, the first chakra above the head, through projection out of the body, or to take over the Body of one of his family, usually the first son as he will inherit, so the family remains rich and becomes even richer for thousands of years..
Don Juan's
"Inorganic Beings' represent the energy of kundalini chakra in the center of the earth. The correlation works especially well if we equate the “serpent worship” of certain Gnostic cults with Kundalini yoga practice, which may in turn be equated with "the fire from within” and the Plumed Serpent in several Castaneda books.In short, the Toltec sorcerers would also have been adepts of Kundalini yoga, cultivating “the fire from within.” Their encounters with the flyers might not have been formalized into a seven-level test-game, but the same experiences are indicated in all three instances: Toltec, Yogic Energy Enhancement, and Gnostic.
Gnostics believed that the force of Kundalini, or the ambient field generated by that force, served as protection from the Archon energy blockage.
On the use of Kundalini to repel alien intrusion, see Kundalini and the Alien Force.
The human character-traits attributed by Don Juan to deviation by the foreign installation are identical to those ascribed to the Archon energy blockage in Gnostic writings: psychopathy - envy (covetousness) and arrogance (egomania) are said to be their primary features, while their behaviour demonstrates that they are mindless drones (routinary), greedy for power over us and too cowardly to come out in the open and reveal themselves.
It would be misleading to make Don Juan’s revelations comply in a strict and literal way with Gnostic teachings, but these initial parallels are striking, and there is much more. Here is an outstanding instance where indigenous wisdom from the Americas tallies with the esoteric teachings of a long-lost spiritual tradition in the Near East. The Toltec-Gnostic parallel may seem remote and improbable at first sight.
But if we assume that shamanic experience is consistent and empirical (i.e., it can be tested by experience), it would not be surprising to find consistent reports in widely separate traditions.
The Foreign Installation - an ideological energy blockage virus implanted in our minds by Bad People
The idea of a foreign installation is extremely instructive. It immediately recalls metallic or crystalline implants said to be used by Aliens (and their human accomplices) to track human subjects. In another, less technological sense, it suggests an ideological energy blockage virus implanted in our minds by non-human entities. According to the Gnostic critique of Christianity, salvationist ideology in its Judeo-Christian form (i.e., belief in a divine redeemer and a final apocalypse) is just such a virus. It is something implanted in the human mind by alien forces.
From Sumerian and Babylonian times agents of the dark side have invented religions with which to enslave the minds of humanity. The Gnostic emphasis on Judeo-Christianity (which can now be extended to Islam) gives a strategic advantage in the detection of alien influences, because the patriarchal religions have dominated the historical narrative on our planet. This dominance is symptomatic of Archontic deviance, Gnostics said, whereas the Appolonian Saviour God available to anyone who meditates - one who gives his life for others, opposes that dark trend .
The alien mind penetrates into our story-telling activity, the narrative power so crucial for humanity to make its way in the cosmos. This is one of the ways, or the most effective way, that we are deviated from our proper course of evolution. For the human species, the capacity to achieve intent depends on developing plots, stories, narratives that can guide us from initial conception to final goal.
Human Purpose is manifold, and so the manner in which we are being deviated from that Purpose is likely to be multifarious. In the immense complexity of intrusion, clarity and concentration are indispensable assets. In a startling remark, Don Juan asserts that “the flyers’ mind has no concentration whatsoever.”
This remark recalls the Gnostic
assertion that the Archon energy
blockages direct a person to have no
ennoia, no will of their own, no
intentionality so they become distracted
slaves. The Concentration of
blockageless Enlightenment might be
defined as the coordination of attention
and intention. To concentrate is to
bring a certain depth of attention (Bythos)
to intent (Ennoia).
In Gnostic teachings, Bythos and Ennoia
are cosmic deities or principles of the
Pleroma, the Wholeness, and they are
also attributes of the human mind. They
are symbolized as two spheres. The
Concentration of blockageless
Enlightenment is to bring the two
spheres together at a single, unifying
point, a common center. We do this
constantly when we focus our attention
upon a certain intention or goal - the
Purpose of the Will, but the Archon
energy blockage direct us to be
incapable of anything like this because
they distract us to have, “no
concentration whatsoever.”
They Implant us to have no concentrating
power, no innate faculty that would
unite intention with attention. Human
resistance to their intrusion depends on
inner composure and mental discipline,
the sobriety of the warrior - the access
to energy enhancement techniques.
Don Juan’s counsels on the warrior’s
tests with the flyers seem to present a
Toltec version of Gnostic strategies for
resisting the Archon energy blockage.
Common Pointswith
Gnostic instruction, The White Magic new
sorcery introduced by Castaneda, and the
traditional knowledge of the Black Magic
of the “old seers” of the Toltec
tradition of ancient Mexico
Upon close examination, the teachings of
Don Juan, developed in nine books by
Carlos Castaneda from 1968 to 1998,
contain numerous distinct parallels with
Gnostic instruction. The White Magic new
sorcery introduced by Castaneda under
the tutelage of the enlightened sage Don
Juan is an extension and make-over of
traditional knowledge of the Black Magic
of the “old seers” of the Toltec
tradition of ancient Mexico. It differs
from the old sorcery largely in its lack
of concern for intricate power-games,
feuds, sinister pacts with non-human
powers, and control over others. Its aim
is freedom for the spiritual warrior,
rather than control over anyone or
anything.
Both in Toltec and Gnostic terms, the
ultimate liberation for humanity may
come through facing the alien predator
energy blockages. They are not here to
advance or assist us, but in confronting
and overcoming them we may gain a vital
boost toward another level of
consciousness - using access to energy
enhancement techniques. .
Some points of commonality between
Gnosticism and the Toltec-derived
neo-shamanism of Castaneda are:
the Toltec exposure of an Implant Energy
Blockage, alien mind or foreign
installation that makes us less and
other than we humanly are: comparable to
the Gnostic idea of a dehumanizing
ideological energy blockage virus
implanted in our minds by the
Alien/Archon energy blockage.
the importance for the sorcerer of
mastering intent: comparable to Gnostic
emphasis on ennoia, intentionality,
which aligns us with the Energy of God
and elevates us above the Archon energy
blockage.
Castaneda’s emphasis on syntax (correct
attributions, and the use of mental
command signals for directing intent):
comparable to Gnostic teaching on ennoia,
mental clarity, and correct attribution
(right use of definitions).
the Toltec assertion that predation is
“the topic of topics”: comparable to the
Gnostic emphasis on the intrusion of the
Archon energy blockage. Facing intrusion
of Implant Energy Blockages
is essential, because if we cannot see
how we are deviated, we cannot find our
true path in the cosmos.
the work with lucid dreaming, the
projection of astral travel, projection
of the double, in Gnostic circles and
the Mystery Schools: comparable to many
episodes in Castaneda.
the Toltec model of great bands of
emanations that pervade the universe:
comparable to the emanations or
streamings from the Pleroma described in
Mystery School revelation texts,
comparable to the Chakras above the Head
and below the base chakra.
the Toltec distinction between organic
and inorganic beings: comparable to the
distinction between humans and Archon
energy blockages in Gnostic cosmology.
the Toltec exploration of other worlds
and dimensions through the practice of
non-ordinary awareness of Meditation:
comparable to age-old shamanic practices
of the Mystery Schools.
Don Juan’s description of the “luminous
egg”: comparable to the oval of clear
light in Gnostic revelation texts and
the augoeides or "auric egg" of the
Mysteries.
the Toltec figure of the Eagle in the
center of the universe along the
Antahkarana, a primary metaphor in
Castaneda: comparable to the same figure
in the Nag Hammadi Codices where the
instructing voice of sacred mind,
perhaps equivalent to Castaneda’s “voice
of seeing,” states: “I appeared in the
form of an Eagle on the Tree of
Knowledge, the primal knowing that
arises in the pure light, that I might
teach them and awaken them out of the
depth of sleep” (The Apocryphon of John,
23.25-30).
the organization of the sorcerer’s party
into eight pairs of male and female
sorcerers: comparable to the
organization of the Mystery cells into
sixteen members, eight of each sex. (Artifactual
evidence: Orphic Serpent bowl, and
Pietroasa bowl.)
the cultivation of the fire from within,
Kundalini, or the Plumed Serpent of the
Toltecs: comparable to the Winged
Serpent and divine Instructor of the
Gnostics.
the mechanism of the assemblage point.
It would take an entire book to develop
these parallels at length. Three factors
out of the ten are of particular
importance. These factors are the
luminous egg of the auric field, the
great bands of emanations of the chakras
above the head, and the role of certain
inorganic beings as allies.
The Assemblage Point
the augoeides,
“golden aura,” comparable to the
luminous egg of Castaneda.
Among the many strange features in the
teachings of Don Juan, the matter of the
assemblage point is certainly one of the
most interesting. In several books we
are told that the luminous egg
surrounding a human being is attached to
the physical body by an odd mechanism
called the assemblage point. The
location of the point is high behind the
right shoulder.
Apparently, at that point in the body,
the luminous egg exerts a kind of
pressure, forming a dimple or
depression. As long as the force of the
egg stays in the dimple, the assemblage
point is stable and the human being
perceives reality in a predetermined
way. By shifting the assemblage point in
Meditation, sorcerers are able to change
their perception of reality, or actually
deconstruct and reconstruct reality at
will.
Don Juan’s instructions regarding the
assemblage point are as baffling as they
are fascinating, and far from clear. The
dynamics of sliding or shifting the
mechanism are difficult to understand,
and even harder to visualize. Moreover,
it seems that the assemblage point is a
weird item, not comparable to anything
found in any other sources.
There is, however, a rare piece of
testimony from the Mysteries that
describes the assemblage point in
exactly the manner found in Castaneda.
In The Subtle Body in Western Alchemical
Tradition which brought us VITRIOL,
Gnostic scholar G. R. S. Mead cites the
lost writings of Isadorus, the husband
of Hypatia and one of the last Gnostics
who taught at the Mystery School (the
Museum) in Alexandria. Isadorus’
original work is lost, but it was
paraphrased by another writer, Damascius,
so a few faint indications of his
teachings can be surmised. Isadorus is
said to have described the augoeides,
“golden aura,” comparable to the
luminous egg of Castaneda.
The nature and operation of the
augoiedes, also called the auric egg,
was one of the deepest secrets of the
Mysteries. Apparently, a lost treatise
of Isadorus stated that the augoeides
surrounds the human being like an oval
membrane, in such a way that the
physical body floats in the oval. This
is precisely how Castaneda describes the
luminous egg. The Gnostic teacher also
said that the luminous oval is connected
or locked into the physical body at a
point in the back, high up on the right
shoulder blade.
Thus, one of the weirdest details in
Castaneda’s writings is confirmed by a
teacher of the Mysteries who lived in
Alexandria the 5th century CE.
The removal of
Implant Energy Blockages from the Aura
as well as the chakras is one of the
most important removals of control.
A Cosmic Test - The Chakras above the
Head
THE ANTAHKARANA
In the classical scheme of the planetary
system, there are seven planets, not
including the Earth: Sun, Moon, Mercury,
Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. (The sun
is not of course a planet, but a star,
the central body of the planetary
system, and the moon is a satellite of
the earth. In some ancient systems,
these two bodies are excluded from the
seven and replaced by the lunar nodes.)
However, the Gurdjieffian Central
Spiritual Sun and the Energy Enhancement
Antahkarana psychic body say that the
planets are just symbols for Chakras
above the head.
This situation recalls Castaneda’s
description of the organic and inorganic
structure of the "great bands of
emanation” that compose the universe.
It corresponds to the Antahkarana of ancient India and of Alice Bailey and Djwan Khul
where the seven chakras of the body connect with chakras above the head and chakras like the Kundalini Chakra in the center of the earth in the center of the earth.If we set the earth apart from the other planets, the “seven inorganic bands” could well be correlated to the “seven planets,” known to be realms that do not support organic life as the Earth does. Gnostics taught that the earth does not belong to the planetary system, but is merely captured in it. They called the planetary system apart from earth the Hebdomad , the Sevenfold. This terminology may be compared to the Gnostic description of the realm of the Archon energy blockages, who are inorganic beings. The “seven inorganic bands” in Castaneda’s scheme may be different language for the same model.
Gnostic seers located the habitat of the predator energy blockage and Archon energy blockage in the planetary system, outside of the Earth along the psychic body of the Antahkarana.
Energy Enhancement sees BMs at different energy levels depending upon where they can project their imaginary universes. Low Level BMs in the space between the crown chakra and the Soul. Higher BMs can access Higher between the Soul and the Monad. Higher between the Monad and the Logos Chakras. But usually we find Energy Blockages, cutting us off from God at a height of 70 Million Chakras above the head. Once removed by the energy enhancement seven step process they can never easily return. We have to have invited these energy blockages into our psychic bodies when we entered into Dark Organisations of our free will in previous lifetimes.
The Archontic
realm would then be assembled from the
seven inorganic bands. Within the domain
so assembled, the Archon energy blockage
would be on their own “turf.” Their
presence in the world assembled around
us, the biosphere ruled by the laws of
organic chemistry, would be an
intrusion. Nowhere does Castaneda
indicate that the predator energy
blockage entities come from these seven
bands, but the conclusion is obvious. He
does say explicitly that the flyers are
inorganic beings, so the conclusion is
not only obvious but consistent with his
syntax, his system of description.
Don Juan specifies that sorcerers can
and usually do initiate contact with
inorganic beings. They do this by
shifting the assemblage point and
crossing into the unknown territory of
other bands in the chakras above the
head, or sliding into unknown regions of
our own band in the chakras below the
base chakra.
A great deal of the activity described
in Castaneda’s work consists of forays
into the other worlds contingent to ours
- the chakras above the head.
“Once the barrier is broken, inorganic
beings change and become what seers call
allies.”
In the Old Sorcerer Black magic
tradition these allies can be deviating
or even deadly, but mastering them by
removing them is one of the primary
tasks of the White Magician. There are
numerous allies in the cosmos at large.
The dark, shadowy predator energy
blockage would seem to be a unique
category of inorganic beings who is
perhaps not an ally at all, or else a
particularly difficult ally to master
because it comes from the chakras above
the head from the Dark Lodge on Sirius
and connects with and controls agents of
the dark side and all their implants on
this planet.
According to many indigenous traditions of White Magic, earth is visited by many kinds of other-dimensional beings like the Ascended Masters and the Avatar of Synthesis, who serve as allies and guides to humanity against the dark side. They do this by purification of the energy blockages into a purified crystalline substance which can no longer be corrupted. These talent Chakras are pure and are the direction of our future human evolution as Ascended masters like Don Juan.
Don Juan stressed the need to confront
this inorganic being to experience “the
total certainty of the mind’s foreign
origin.” The “predator energy blockage
that came from the depths of the cosmos
and took over the rule of our lives” may
certainly be equated to the Archon
energy blockage of Gnostic teachings.
Don Juan describes Alien intrusion and
its main consequence, behavioral
modification, in a most vivid manner.
The old sorcerer also makes a striking
comment on what might be gained from our
encounter with these entities.
“The flyers are an essential part of the
universe… and they must be taken as what
they really are — awesome, monstrous.
They are the means by which the universe
tests us.”
The parallels between Gnostic materials
and the new Toltec sorcery of Carlos
Castaneda are striking and present
sobering insights on the human
condition, if nothing else.
What can we do about the topic of
topics, predation by energy blockage
implants?
“All we can do is discipline ourselves
to the point where they will not touch
us,” Don Juan advises. Energy
Enhancement is that discipline.
Significantly, he says will not, not can
not. He also says that the alien
predator energy blockages are the way
the universe tests us, as just noted.
It follows that the intent to arrange
our minds and lives so that the
flyers/Archon energy blockage are not
willing to intrude on us is the capital
exercise, the primary test in progress
for humanity which is taught in Energy
Enhancement.
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