RickMace
Rick Mace

I created a Carlos Castaneda website. prismagems.com/castaneda It is a compilation of the main teachings. You can read it and listen to it.

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2024-09-14 13:09:42

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'Sunlight' -Easy
'Fasting' -Relatively Easy
'Walking' -Easy
'Presence' -Ah! That's the killer!! The internal dialogue just loves to play havoc and keep us anything but present very nearly ALL of the time!!
prismagems.com/castaneda
#meditation
#mindfulness
#philosophy
#bitcoin

2024-09-13 02:09:46

From my Carlos Castaneda compilation, Don Juan speaking:
@saylor
@JeffBooth
@LynAlden
@JackMallers
"Your concentration has to be total. To understand is of crucial importance. The new seers placed the highest value on deep, unemotional realizations. For instance, the other day, when you understood about your self-importance, you didn't understand anything really. You had an emotional outburst, that was all. I say this because the next day you were back on your high horse of self-importance as if you never had realized anything.
The same thing happened to the old seers. They were given to emotional reactions. But when the time came for them to understand what they had seen, they couldn't do it. To understand one needs sobriety, not emotionality. Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing."
#Castaneda #DonJuan #Shamanism #Consciousness #Mysticism #Mindfulness #Philosophy #bitcoin #zap
My compilation: prismagems.com/castaneda

2024-09-13 02:06:17

From my Carlos Castaneda compilation, Don Juan speaking:
@saylor
@JeffBooth
@LynAlden
@JackMallers
"Seeing is to lay bare the core of everything, to witness the unknown and to glimpse into the unknowable. As such, it doesn't bring one solace. Seers ordinarily go to pieces on finding out that existence is incomprehensibly complex and that our normal awareness maligns it with its limitations."
#Castaneda #DonJuan #Shamanism #Consciousness #Mysticism #Mindfulness #Philosophy #bitcoin #zap
My compilation: prismagems.com/castaneda

2024-09-13 02:01:39

From my Carlos Castaneda compilation, Don Juan speaking:
@saylor
@JeffBooth
@LynAlden
@JackMallers
"The first truth about awareness is that the world out there is not really as we think it is. We think it is a world of objects and it's not.
You say you agree with me because everything could be reduced to being a field of energy. But you are merely intuiting a truth. To reason it out is not to verify it. I am not interested in your agreement or disagreement, but in your attempt to comprehend what is involved in this truth. You cannot witness fields of energy; not as an average man, that is. Now, if you were able to see them, you would be a seer, in which case you would be explaining the truths about awareness.
Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives. Hence, the countless examples of people who have the clearest convictions and yet act diametrically against them time and time again; and have as the only explanation for their behavior the idea that to err is human.
The first truth is that the world is as it looks and yet it isn't. It's not as solid and real as our perception has been led to believe, but it isn't a mirage either. The world is not an illusion, as it has been said to be; it's real on the one hand, and unreal on the other. Pay close attention to this, for it must be understood, not just accepted. We perceive. This is a hard fact. But what we perceive is not a fact of the same kind, because we learn what to perceive.
Something out there is affecting our senses. This is the part that is real. The unreal part is what our senses tell us is there. Take a mountain, for instance. Our senses tell us that it is an object. It has size, color, form. We even have categories of mountains, and they are downright accurate. Nothing wrong with that; the flaw is simply that it has never occurred to us that our senses play only a superficial role. Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so.
I've used the term "the world" to mean everything that surrounds us. I have a better term, of course, but it would be quite incomprehensible to you. Seers say that we think there is a world of objects out there only because of our awareness. But what's really out there are the Indescribable Force's emanations, fluid, forever in motion, and yet unchanged, eternal."
#Castaneda #DonJuan #Shamanism #Consciousness #Mysticism #Mindfulness #Philosophy #bitcoin #zap
My compilation: prismagems.com/castaneda

2024-09-13 01:26:39

From my Carlos Castaneda compilation, Don Juan speaking:
@saylor
@JeffBooth
@LynAlden
"Seers are divided into two categories. Those who are willing to exercise self-restraint and can channel their activities toward pragmatic goals, which would benefit other seers and man in general, and those who don't care about self-restraint or about any pragmatic goals. The latter have failed to resolve the problem of self-importance.
Self-importance is not something simple and naive. On the one hand, it is the core of everything that is good in us, and on the other hand, the core of everything that is rotten. To get rid of the self-importance that is rotten requires a masterpiece of strategy.
In order to follow the path of knowledge one has to be very imaginative. In the path of knowledge nothing is as clear as we'd like it to be. Warriors fight self-importance as a matter of strategy, not principle.
Impeccability is nothing else but the proper use of energy. My statements have no inkling of morality. I've saved energy and that makes me impeccable. To understand this, you have to save enough energy yourself.
Warriors take strategic inventories. They list everything they do. Then they decide which of those things can be changed in order to allow themselves a respite, in terms of expending their energy.
The strategic inventory covers only behavioral patterns that are not essential to our survival and well-being.
In the strategic inventories of warriors, self-importance figures as the activity that consumes the greatest amount of energy, hence, their effort to eradicate it."
#Castaneda #DonJuan #Shamanism #Consciousness #Mysticism #Mindfulness #Philosophy #bitcoin #zap
My compilation: prismagems.com/castaneda

2024-09-13 01:16:07

From my Carlos Castaneda compilation, Don Juan speaking:
@saylor
@JeffBooth
@LynAlden
"Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it--what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Every effort should be made to eradicate self-importance from the lives of warriors. Without self-importance we are invulnerable."
#Castaneda #DonJuan #Shamanism #Consciousness #Mysticism #Mindfulness #Philosophy #bitcoin #zap
My compilation: prismagems.com/castaneda

2024-09-13 01:10:00

From my Carlos Castaneda compilation, Don Juan speaking:
@saylor
@JeffBooth
@LynAlden
"Our way of perceiving is a predator's way. There is another mode, the one I am familiarizing you with: the act of perceiving the essence of everything, energy itself, directly.
To perceive the essence of everything will make us understand, classify, and describe the world in entirely new, more exciting, more sophisticated terms. Terms that correspond to sorcery truths, which have no rational foundation and no relation whatsoever to the facts of our daily world but which are self-evident truths for the sorcerers who perceive energy directly and see the essence of everything."
#Castaneda #DonJuan #Shamanism #Consciousness #Mysticism #Mindfulness #Philosophy #bitcoin #zap
My compilation: prismagems.com/castaneda

2024-09-13 00:56:22

From my Carlos Castaneda compilation, Don Juan speaking:
@saylor
"The abstract is the search for freedom, freedom to perceive, without obsessions, all that's humanly possible. Present-day sorcerers seek the abstract because they seek freedom; they have no interest in concrete gains.
After lifelong discipline and training, sorcerers acquire the capacity to perceive the essence of things, a capacity they call seeing.
To perceive the energetic essence of things means that you perceive energy directly. By separating the social part of perception, you'll perceive the essence of everything. Whatever we are perceiving is energy, but since we can't directly perceive energy, we process our perception to fit a mold. This mold is the social part of perception, which you have to separate.
You have to separate it because it deliberately reduces the scope of what can be perceived and makes us believe that the mold into which we fit our perception is all that exists. For man to survive now, his perception must change at its social base.
This social base of perception is the physical certainty that the world is made of concrete objects. I call this a social base because a serious and fierce effort is put out by everybody to guide us to perceive the world the way we do.
Everything is energy. The whole universe is energy. The social base of our perception should be the physical certainty that energy is all there is. A mighty effort should be made to guide us to perceive energy as energy. Then we would have both alternatives at our fingertips."
#Castaneda #DonJuan #Shamanism #Consciousness #Mysticism #Mindfulness #Philosophy #bitcoin #zap
My compilation: prismagems.com/castaneda

2024-09-13 00:39:04

From my Carlos Castaneda compilation, Don Juan speaking:
" You say you've heard that the masters of Eastern esoteric doctrines demand absolute secrecy about their teachings. Perhaps those masters are just indulging in being masters. I'm not a master, I'm only a warrior. So I really don't know what a master feels like.
It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we have enough of it, one word uttered to us might be sufficient to change the course of our lives. But if we don't have enough personal power, the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and that revelation won't make a damn bit of difference.
I'm going to utter perhaps the greatest piece of knowledge anyone can voice. Let me see what you can do with it.
Do you know that at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity, if you so desire?
There! Eternity is there! All around! Do you know that you can extend yourself forever in any of the directions I have pointed to? Do you know that one moment can be eternity? This is not a riddle; it's a fact, but only if you mount that moment and use it to take the totality of yourself forever in any direction.
You didn't have this knowledge before, now you do. I have revealed it to you, but it doesn't make a bit of difference, because you don't have enough personal power to utilize my revelation. Yet if you did have enough power, my words alone would serve as the means for you to round up the totality of yourself and to get the crucial part of it out of the boundaries in which it is contained.
Your body is the boundary I'm talking about. One can get out of it. We are a feeling, an awareness encased here. We are luminous beings and for a luminous being only personal power matters."
Zap if you find value! Even one sat! That way I'll keep posting in this new world for me of Nostr!
Here is a link to the second 45 minutes of my Castaneda compilaton:
https://www.prismagems.com/castaneda/donjuan12.mp3
#Castaneda #DonJuan #Shamanism #Consciousness #Mysticism #Mindfulness #Philosophy #bitcoin #zap
My compilation: prismagems.com/castaneda

2024-09-13 00:29:50

From my Carlos Castaneda compilation:
The self-confidence of a warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to himself. You're after the self-confidence of the average man, when you should be after the humbleness of a warrior. The difference between the two is remarkable. Self-confidence entails knowing something for sure; humbleness entails being impeccable in one's actions and feelings.
#Castaneda #DonJuan #Shamanism #Consciousness #Mysticism #Mindfulness #Philosophy #bitcoin #zap
My compilation: prismagems.com/castaneda

2024-09-12 23:21:34

From my Carlos Castaneda compilation, this is the audio of my reading (thirty some years ago) the first 45 minutes of my compilation :
https://www.prismagems.com/castaneda/donjuan11.mp3
"To be sensitive is a natural condition of certain people. In the final analysis sensitivity matters very little. What matters is that a warrior be impeccable. What matters to a warrior is arriving at the totality of oneself."
#Castaneda #DonJuan #Shamanism #Consciousness #Mysticism #Mindfulness #Philosophy #bitcoin #zap
My compilation: prismagems.com/castaneda

2024-09-12 23:12:41

From my Carlos Castaneda compilation:
We need to look with our eyes to laugh. When our eyes see, everything is so equal that nothing is funny. My laughter, as well as everything I do is real but it also is controlled folly because it is useless; it changes nothing and yet I still do it.
One must always choose the path with heart in order to be at one's best, perhaps so one can always laugh.
You don't understand me now because of your habit of thinking as you look and thinking as you think. By "thinking" I mean the constant idea that we have of everything in the world. Seeing dispels that habit and until you learn to see you will not really understand what I mean.
Our lot as men is to learn. I have learned to see and I tell you that nothing really matters. A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting. A man of knowledge chooses a path with heart and follows it; and then he looks and rejoices and laughs; and then he sees and knows. He knows that his life will be over altogether too soon; he knows that he, as well as everybody else, is not going anywhere; he knows, because he sees, that nothing is more important than anything else. In other words, a man of knowledge has no honor, no dignity, no family, no name, no country, but only life to be lived, and under these circumstances his only tie to his fellow men is his controlled folly. Thus a man of knowledge endeavors, and sweats, and puffs, and if one looks at him he is just like any ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under control. Nothing being more important than anything else, a man of knowledge chooses any act, and acts it out as if it matters to him. His controlled folly makes him say that what he does matters and makes him act as if it did, and yet he knows that it doesn't; so when he fulfills his acts he retreats in peace, and whether his acts were good or bad, or worked or didn't, is in no way part of his concern.
You think about your acts, therefore you have to believe your acts are as important as you think they are, when in reality nothing of what one does is important. Nothing! But then if nothing really matters, as you ask me, how can I go on living? It would be simple to die; that's what you say and believe, because you're thinking about life, just as you're thinking now what seeing would be like. You want me to describe it to you so you can begin to think about it, the way you do with everything else. In the case of seeing, however, thinking is not the issue at all, so I cannot tell you what it is like to see. Now you want me to describe the reasons for my controlled folly and I can only tell you that controlled folly is very much like seeing; it is something you cannot think about.
#Castaneda #DonJuan #Shamanism #Consciousness #Mysticism #Mindfulness #Philosophy #bitcoin #zap
My compilation: prismagems.com/castaneda

2024-09-12 23:06:49

From my Carlos Castaneda compilation:
You think about yourself too much and that gives you a strange fatigue that makes you shut off the world around you and cling to your arguments.
A light and amenable disposition is needed in order to withstand the impact and the strangeness of the knowledge I am teaching you. Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy, and vain. To be a man of knowledge one needs to be light and fluid.
One has to reduce to a minimum all that is unnecessary in one's life.
Once you decide something put all your petty fears away. Your decision should vanquish them. I will tell you time and time again, the most effective way to live is as a warrior. Worry and think before you make any decision, but once you make it, be on your way free from worries or thoughts; there will be a million other decisions still awaiting you. That's the warrior's way.
A warrior thinks of his death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.
To be a warrior you have to be crystal clear.
#Castaneda #DonJuan #Shamanism #Consciousness #Mysticism #Mindfulness #Philosophy #bitcoin #zap
My compilation: prismagems.com/castaneda

2024-09-12 23:03:03

From my Carlos Castaneda compilation:
"A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps.
When a man has fulfilled those four requisites there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his acts lose the blundering quality of a fool's acts. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that."
#Castaneda #DonJuan #Shamanism #Consciousness #Mysticism #Mindfulness #Philosophy #bitcoin
My compilation: prismagems.com/castaneda

2024-09-12 22:55:26

And this next is my compilation's version of what I just posted:
" For a sorcerer, reality, or the world we all know, is only a description that has been pounded into you from the moment you were born. The reality of our day-to-day life, then, consists of an endless flow of perceptual interpretations which we have learned to make in common. I am teaching you how to see as opposed to merely looking, and stopping the world is the first step to seeing.
The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it. When you begin this teaching, there is another reality, that is to say, there is a sorcery description of the world, which you do not know. As a sorcerer and a teacher, I am teaching you that description. What I am doing with you consists, therefore, in setting up that unknown reality by unfolding its description, adding increasingly more complex parts as you go along.
In order to arrive at seeing one first has to stop the world. Stopping the world is indeed an appropriate rendition of certain states of awareness in which the reality of everyday life is altered because the flow of interpretation, which ordinarily runs uninterruptedly, has been stopped by a set of circumstances alien to that flow. In this case the set of circumstances alien to our normal flow of interpretations is the sorcery description of the world. The precondition for stopping the world is that one has to be convinced; in other words, one has to learn the new description in a total sense, for the purpose of pitting it against the old one, and in that way break the dogmatic certainty, which we all share, that the validity of our perceptions, or our reality of the world, is not to be questioned.
After stopping the world the next step is seeing. By that I mean what could be categorized as responding to the perceptual solicitations of a world outside the description we have learned to call reality."
#Castaneda #DonJuan #Nagual #ToltecWisdom #Shamanism #Consciousness #Mysticism #Mindfulness #philosophy
My compilation: prismagems.com/castaneda

2024-09-12 22:52:40

The following is from Carlos Castaneda's introduction at the beginning of Journey to Ixtlan.
"All the conversations that don Juan and I have had throughout the apprenticeship were conducted in Spanish, and only because of his thorough command of that language was I capable of obtaining complex explanations of his system of beliefs.
I have maintained the practice of referring to that system as sorcery and I have also maintained the practice of referring to don Juan as a sorcerer, because these were categories he himself used.
Since I was capable of writing down most of what was said in the beginning of my apprenticeship, and everything that was said in the later phases of it, I gathered voluminous field notes. In order to render those notes readable and still preserve the dramatic unity of don Juan's teachings, I have had to edit them, but what I have deleted is, I believe, immaterial to the points I want to raise.
In the case of my work with don Juan I have limited my efforts solely to viewing him as a sorcerer and to acquiring membership in his knowledge.
For the purpose of presenting my argument I must first explain the basic premise of sorcery as don Juan presented it to me. He said that for a sorcerer, the world of everyday life is not as real, or out there, as we believe it is. For a sorcerer, reality, or the world we all know, is only a description.
For the sake of validating this premise don Juan concentrated the best of his efforts into leading me to a genuine conviction that what I held in mind as the world at hand was merely a description of the world; a description that had been pounded into me from the moment I was born.
He pointed out that everyone who comes into contact with a child is a teacher who incessantly describes the world to him, until the moment when the child is capable of perceiving the world as it is described. According to don Juan, we have no memory of that portentous moment, simply because none of us could possibly have had any point of reference to compare it to anything else. From that moment on, however, the child is a member. He or she knows the description of the world; and their membership becomes full-fledged, I suppose, when they are capable of making all the proper perceptual interpretations which, by conforming to that description, validate it.
For don Juan, then, the reality of our day-to-day life consists of an endless flow of perceptual interpretations which we, the individuals who share a specific membership, have learned to make in common.
The idea that the perceptual interpretations that make up the world have a flow is congruous with the fact that they run uninterruptedly and are rarely, if ever, open to question. In fact, the reality of the world we know is so taken for granted that the basic premise of sorcery, that our reality is merely one of many descriptions, could hardly be taken as a serious proposition.
Fortunately, in the case of my apprenticeship, don Juan was not concerned at all with whether or not I could take his proposition seriously, and he proceeded to elucidate his points, in spite of my opposition, my disbelief, and my inability to understand what he was saying. Thus, as a teacher of sorcery, don Juan endeavoured to describe the world to me from the very first time we talked. My difficulty in grasping his concepts and methods stemmed from the fact that the units of his description were alien and incompatible with those of my own.
His contention was that he was teaching me how to see as opposed to merely "looking", and that stopping the world was the first step to seeing.
For years I had treated the idea of stopping the world as a cryptic metaphor that really did not mean anything. It was only during an informal conversation that took place towards the end of my apprenticeship that I came fully to realize its scope and importance as one of the main propositions of don Juan's knowledge. "
#Castaneda #DonJuan #Nagual #ToltecWisdom #Shamanism #Consciousness #Mysticism #Mindfulness #philosophy
My compilation: prismagems.com/castaneda

2024-09-12 05:19:27

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Ha! How about your brain refusing to shut the fuck up for seventy years!!
prismagems.com/castaneda

2024-09-08 00:51:21

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As for 'avoiding pain', I don't think that is mentioned in Castaneda's writings. At one point don Juan tells Carlos that 'pain and hunger are just thoughts, they are just thoughts for me now. I have accomplished that.' In that passage he is referencing turning off the internal dialogue or our ability to stop talking to ourselves.
I added a box on my prismagems.com/castaneda page where you can search the whole file for key words or phrases. I just did that for "pain" and it returned this:
Carlos Castaneda Don Juan Teachings: A Separate Reality
www.prismagems.com › castaneda › donjuan2
... pain. To be hungry or to be in pain means that the man has abandoned himself and is no longer a warrior; and the forces of his hunger and pain will destroy him.
Carlos Castaneda Don Juan Teachings: The Power of Silence
www.prismagems.com › castaneda › donjuan8
Death is painful only when it happens in one's bed, in sickness. In a fight for your life, you feel no pain. If you feel anything, it's exultation. One of ...
Carlos Castaneda's The Active Side of Infinity - Prismagems
www.prismagems.com › castaneda › donjuan12
A warrior-traveler finds that to return to the world of disorder, compulsion, noise, and pain is a most unappealing affair. You must know that your decision ...
Carlos Castaneda Don Juan Teachings: Journey to Ixtlan
www.prismagems.com › castaneda › donjuan3
If he succeeds in his hunting he can be a man of knowledge. You are a man and like any man you deserve everything that is a man's lot--joy, pain, sadness and ...
Carlos Castaneda Don Juan Teachings: Tales of Power - Prismagems
www.prismagems.com › castaneda › donjuan4
A warrior acknowledges his pain but he doesn't indulge in it. Thus the mood of a warrior who enters into the unknown is not one of sadness; on the contrary ...
Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan's Teachings - Prismagems
prismagems.com › castaneda › Carlos_Castaneda_Don_Juan
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2024-09-08 00:43:40

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I just saw that you'd looked at my prismagems.com/castaneda page! Cool! I hope you like it. It's easy to listen to me read it with my 25 years ago voice. Yeah, maybe longer than that. I recorded those on 90 cassette tapes thus each is 45 minutes long. I hope you like it!!
#castaneda
#shamanism

2024-09-07 03:41:50

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Actually I've never participated with tensegrity and Magical Passes is the one book that I didn't compile for my Castaneda website. I suppose I should go back and actually read it (it's the only Castaneda that I never read more than to just glance at it.)

2024-09-06 04:22:01

As long as I'm into self aggrandizement here, I'll tell you that I'm the ultimate master of clay on the potter's wheel. Potters tend to be artists and I've never claimed to be such (much to my chagrin)! But NO potter I've ever known has acknowledged my perfect control of the clay on the potter's wheel!
Yeah, I can't paint and have little sense for being artistic, but NO ONE on earth that I've seen can reproduce my PERFECT wheel thrown 'S' curve pottery forms.
You think that sounds too bold? Then you find them and tell me about them!
prismagems.com/pottery

2024-09-06 03:50:43

Seeking enlightenment by turning off your thinking is the way!
Remember Plato's famous words (I think it was Plato) "If at first you don't frick-a-freed, fry fry a hen."
Yeah! right up there with the American philosopher, Tom McAn, who said "if the shoe fits,wear it."

2024-09-06 03:33:24

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Driving like that on our narrow side streets will certainly bang up both sides of your car!!

2024-09-06 03:25:11

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Hello self, it's "Check mate TO king two, this is White rook" (from Independence Day).

2024-09-06 03:12:27

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Jack, I just crave attention! Please please, I know you are busy, but please please, pretty please, just reply to me!! A simple "Yo" from you would make my day and give my life meaning (well, if not "meaning", at least I would smile).
"Check mate king two, this is white rook."

2024-09-06 00:11:14

The idea of 'listening fast' hints at our ability to train ourselves to stop thinking or turn off the internal dialogue.
#Bitcoin
#Nostr
#philosophy

2024-09-05 04:50:12

I had a dear friend in the 70s, Lorenzo Bates, he wrote a song with the lyrics, "Look, feel, be... thinking has grown obsolete."
I love @npub1a2c…w83a and @npub15dq…lm5m. They are such amazing thinkers and are so very inspirational! And the thinking mind of those two and so many others is what drives and inspires so many of us.
And yet, there is that realm of inner silence that seems to be mostly ignored by the vast majority of us.
I'm quite at a loss as to how to bridge that gap... other than to encourage anyone interested to explore my Castaneda compilation.
#Castaneda
#shaminasm
#mindfulness
#bitcoin

2024-09-05 04:13:46

Let's look at what it means to intend.
Intending is actually a spiritual act. That is to say that when we intend, say, 'inner silence ', what we are really doing is setting the framework for something in the universe that is beyond our ability to understand.
This really is difficult to even talk about. just know that it IS possible.
Now, how can you come to 'know' that? Again, we are limited because we are only able to communicate with our vocabularies! And inner silence and intending such is transcendent to language.
#mindfulness
#Castaneda
#philosophy
#bitcoin
#freedom

2024-09-05 03:46:09

I won't be facetious about the bitcoin price again... continuing to stack sats ... that's the way, as I see it.
Writing here, I'll focus on bringing more people to the understanding that "turning off the internal dialogue", achieving "inner silence," "silencing the mind," is possible when you, first discover it as an achievable goal, and then learn that there methods or ways to so achieve that.
While, yes, there are a plethora of 'mindfulness' and meditation techniques, alone with a plethora of other teachings geared toward that; I would suggest to you that Carlos Castaneda's books and my compilation of those books provides the most direct and in depth way to achieving the silencing of the mind.
#castaneda
#mindfulness
#mysticism
#shamanism
#RealLife
#peace
#bitcoin
#lol

2024-09-03 08:04:53

Well, my praying for $30, 000 bitcoin or $3 bitcoin by today, September 3rd, didn't quite work out. So I didn't get my 100 bitcoin for my $300! but I did get
.0047!! That's not quite 100, but I'm happy! Maybe I started praying too late!! I'll start praying now for a three dollar bitcoin by October 3rd, my next chance to stack more !!
🤪
#Bitcoin

2024-09-01 13:34:17

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Like your daughter used to ask you, "Dad! Are you stupid?"

2024-09-01 13:28:36

Pray with me for bitcoin to go down to $30,000 by Sept 3rd (my next day to be able to buy a little more), and then shoots up to the moon on the 4th!! Thanks in advance!! 🙂
. ... just thinking... let's pray for a THREE DOLLAR bitcoin on Sept 3rd!! As long as we're praying we might as well think big!! Then my three hundred dollars to spend will get me one hundred bitcoin!!
Hey, let's add keeping our fingers crossed to the praying!! We want to cover all bases here!
Drinks on me on the 4th when it shoots back up to a high!! 🍀🍀🍀🍀
#BitcoinPrice #DayDreaming #WishfulThinking

2024-09-01 13:20:36

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Hi ZenMeme! I'm new here too (since about a week ago).
Pray with me for bitcoin to go down to $30,000 by Sept 3rd (my next day to be able to buy a little more), and then shoots up to the moon on the 4th!! Thanks in advance!! 🙂
. ... just thinking... let's pray for a THREE DOLLAR bitcoin on Sept 3rd!! As long as we're praying we might as well think big!! Then my three hundred dollars to spend will get me one hundred bitcoin!!
Hey, let's add keeping our fingers crossed to the praying!! We want to cover all bases here!
Drinks on me on the 4th when it shoots back up to a high!! 🍀🍀🍀🍀
#BitcoinPrice #DayDreaming #WishfulThinking

2024-08-31 03:44:19

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@thepurpose
Did you ever see my, up for 25 years or so now, Carlos Castaneda compilation?
prismagems.com/castaneda
#CarlosCastaneda

2024-08-30 12:04:40

ChatGPT gave this answer to a question. You can guess the question by the answer.
@WithTheGrain @Bushido @ThePurpose (maybe the last one is incorrect.
ChatGPT:
Yes, it sounds like the person who replied to your post is suggesting that you and the other Carlos Castaneda followers (@WithTheGrain and @Bushido) can create a sort of informal community by consistently using specific hashtags and mentioning each other's handles in your posts.
Forming a Community with Hashtags and Mentions
Mentions (@ handles): By starting your posts with @RickMace, @WithTheGrain, and @Bushido, you ensure that those specific people are notified about the post. This is a good way to keep each other in the loop and foster interaction between the group.
Hashtags (# phrases): Using specific hashtags like #DonJuan and others related to Carlos Castaneda’s work helps to create a common thread across your posts. When you and the others consistently use these hashtags, it makes it easier for others interested in the same topics to find your posts. Over time, this can attract more people to your group, effectively forming a small community around those topics.
Building a Community
If you and your fellow followers consistently use the same hashtags and engage with each other through mentions, you can organically build a community. Others who are interested in Carlos Castaneda and related subjects might start following those hashtags and joining in on your conversations. This way, you create a space for like-minded individuals to discuss and share content related to your shared interests.
Deciding on Hashtags
It might be a good idea to discuss and agree on a couple of specific hashtags that are both relevant and not overly broad, like #DonJuan or #CastanedaWisdom. Once you decide on those, consistently using them in your posts will help your community grow and stay connected.
This approach is a great way to cultivate a dedicated group of followers and create a shared space for discussion on Nostr!

2024-08-30 11:19:12

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So, I'm #RickMace but I don't see your # thingy

2024-08-30 11:12:55

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Thanks!!
How do I enable sending zaps on Primal to posts (notes?) from my wallet of Satoshi?
#asknostr

2024-08-30 06:46:57

Hi again, another fun thing that you might like if you are interested in US history is my daddy's autobiography. He was born in 1915 and his book is the story of his early life growing up in Montana. So, it's not so much about US history as it is the story of his early life and times. You can find it here: https://www.prismagems.com/justin/%E2%80%A8%E2%80%A8#Montana #Glendive

2024-08-30 06:33:46

I wrote earlier that Descartes’s "I think, therefore I am." should better be "I think, therefore I am insane." Will, while I did say that kind of tongue in cheek, it really does point to how our 'idle' thinking is pretty pointless. A friend, where I work, said, "No, it's not 'pointless' all thinking creates who we are." So I'll concede that. And yet, over and over in religious and mystical teachings, there is the ideal of, don Juan's, from Carlos Castaneda's books, 'stopping the internal dialogue', as the way to connect with ... 'the spirit'?, 'God'?, don't ask me what that is. Yet, after years of 'intending' to stop that internal voice that we all have, I, as I mentioned before, one time did that. It was quite amazing and I can't easily describe it. It was like 'I' was no longer there.   So, take that as you will, but do know that it is possible to do that. It doesn't matter if it takes you one day or thirty years (as in my case... lol), it is possible. "What's the value of that?" you might ask. Don't ask me as I don't really know. But my sense of it is that it is part of our possibilities as humans and that we should commit to intending that 'inner silence'.   I'm going to try to add the first audio reading of my compilation of Castaneda's books. If I can't add it (I'm new here, as you might know) then go find it yourself at prismagems.com/castaneda
https://www.prismagems.com/castaneda/
and the first of my reading it (recorded about 25 or so years ago) is at https://www.prismagems.com/castaneda/donjuan11.mp3%E2%80%A8%E2%80%A8#Castaneda #DonJuan #Nagual #ToltecWisdom #Shamanism #Consciousness #Mysticism #Mindfulness #religion

2024-08-30 05:26:06

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Really? I've received about 2.65 USD which is so very cool and fun! That goes to my wallet of Satoshi. But I haven't figured out how to send zaps from that wallet!

2024-08-30 05:21:47

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Thank you! Love your magic mushroom! I could use one of those right now! 😀
I won't give up!

2024-08-30 05:17:26

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Yeah, trying to zap you it says "insufficient funds" but my wallet of Satoshi has at least ten USD in it! Apparently (on Primal on this phone), while wallet of Satoshi is my 'send to' wallet, my send from wallet is a Primal wallet that is empty and I've not figured out how to put sats into it.
You are chief operations officer of Damus ( did I spell it wrong)? Okay, I'll go back to my new MacBook air m3 and try Damus again!

2024-08-30 05:06:40

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Thank you! I was tempted to just give up! You're encouraged me. Thank you! I'm back on my old android using Primal... I'll try from my new MacBook air m3 again as that is much easier as I can just type. I'm going to try 'zapping' you as someone else just said that my zaps work. But I don't see that.

2024-08-30 04:10:50

Oh, so frustrated with Primal, I just opened Damus and am writing from that. Let’s see it if works here. So frustrated!
I hope this gets to 'thepurpose' and 'withthegrain' !
Boy, I'm feeling very stupid as I still haven't figured out even how to reply directly to post that I see to me. Even just now getting this window to open, two minutes ago, I don't remember what I did other than click around until this opened (well, when I wrote all of this other than this parenthesis, I then hit 'post' and got an error message so am just plan posting it now as a new note). So stupid of me.
But assuming that you guys get this, if I make new posts myself (at least I've figured that out) I'll keep adding hashtags, even though I don't know the purpose of those or what they do. So when thepurpose said "I propose we agree on a Castaneda/ Don Juan hashtag that we could concentrate the first few notes." I have no idea how 'we' work together to 'concentrate the first few notes." What does that mean? Sorry to be such a noob!! -Rick
#introductions

2024-08-29 06:19:37

Exploring the teachings of Don Juan and the Toltec wisdom as presented by Carlos Castaneda. The journey of self-awareness and the path of the Nagual offer profound insights into consciousness and mysticism. #Castaneda #DonJuan #Nagual #ToltecWisdom #Shamanism #Consciousness #Mysticism #Mindfulness

2024-08-29 06:08:18

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"Nothing in the world is a gift. Whatever there is to learn has to be learned the hard way.
Turn my concepts into a viable way of life by a process of repetition. Everything new in our lives, such as the sorcerers' concepts I am teaching you, must be repeated to us to the point of exhaustion before we open ourselves to it."
DON JUAN
Ha!! Boy does that apply to my working on figuring out Primal!! lol

2024-08-29 05:56:10

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Wow! In some windows I don't see how to reply to you. For example you asked me about my intentions with Castaneda (something like that) in a recent post to me ... but I clicked around on that post to me and couldn't find where to open a reply window. I am now using primal from my new computer, so that is encouraging!! And I found this post and clicking on your name here the reply window opened, thus this writing. I'll keep learning!!

2024-08-29 05:05:05

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I struggling between my 8year old MacBook pro and 6+ iphone and my new MacBook air. as my 6+ doesn't support Nostr, I'm using a Sony Experia for Nostr. Yeah, it's a bit frustrating. But all of that is behind the reason for my sendythe picture rather than copy and paste the text.
If my message of thanks for the zap didn't get to you, well, thank you. I couldn't stop smiling... still haven't worked out how to send zaps myself from wallet of Satoshi!
https://m.primal.net/KSws.jpg

2024-08-29 04:40:45

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I received your zap!! thank you very much!! I couldn't stop smiling!! but I haven't figured out how to make wallet of Satoshi the wallet I can zap from myself! still trying to figure that out!

2024-08-26 10:37:56

Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am," but maybe he had it wrong. Perhaps it's more like, "I think therefore I am insane." 🤪 I certainly can't speak for others, but given the amount of time I spend in idle thinking, I thought that I'd make my first ever post here on that.
Still, and after 55 years of seeing Carlos Castaneda's don Juan's "turning off the internal dialogue" as a goal, I've done that only once. But that 'once' has me hopeful! #TongueInCheek #Mindfulness

2024-08-26 05:36:29

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You might like my Castaneda compilation. It's been up over 25 years. the link 'should be on my profile page... hopefully! (I just started learning to use Nostr two hours ago.)
When I learn how to actually post something myself I'd like to start doing that... I guess I'm a slow learner!!
[You're the fourth person I've sent this or a version of it to. I won't send it to anyone else. Now I'll work on figuring out how to send my own posts.]

2024-08-26 05:30:10

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2024-08-26 05:25:18

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You might like my Castaneda compilation. It's been up over 25 years. the link 'should be on my profile page... hopefully! (I just started learning to use Nostr two hours ago.)

2024-08-26 05:16:11

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This my very first 'post'?, 'reply'?
[Atually, here I've just pasted what I 'first wrote' to Ava.... I thought it was going to Ava... but maybe it went to the person she was replying to? hmmm!]
I still haven't learned how to post something myself! ... well, I don't mean to be annoying to you. I'd just searched 'Carlos Castaneda' and found you. Yeah, I found Nostr listening to bitcoin YouTube videos and spend the hour before writing this try to set it up and learn how to use it. ... can't even find the new paragraph button! lol. Anyway you might like my Castaneda compilation. It's been up over 25 years. the link 'should be on my profile page... hopefully!
Oh! I found the new paragraph button! I thought that was the send button. lol.

2024-08-26 04:55:10

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This my very first 'post'?, 'reply'? I still haven't learned how to post something myself! ... well, I don't mean to be annoying to you. I'd just searched 'Carlos Castaneda' and found you. Yeah, I found Nostr listening to bitcoin YouTube videos and spend the hour before writing this try to set it up and learn how to use it. ... can't even find the new paragraph button! lol. Anyway you might like my Castaneda compilation. It's been up over 25 years. the link 'should be on my profile page... hopefully!
Oh! I found the new paragraph button! I thought that was the send button. lol.