Don Juan and Carlos Castaneda on agency:
“In a world where death is the hunter, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.” https://twitter.com/alanpafka/status/2081734868195475657
The Teachings of Don Juan Changed My Life
After nearly two decades of sorcery this book really feels like tying it all together.
Apologies for the mediocre audio quality.
Chapters:
00:00 - Knowing your heart
01:50 - Confidence being on the right path
02:30 - Momentum
04:00 - A white man as a shaman in Brazil
05:00 - Transcending levels of awareness
07:00 - Does this path have a heart?
11:00 - Figuring things out for yourself
13:50 - The four enemies of a man of knowledge - Fear, Clarity, Power, Old Age
17:30 - How power plants advise us?
20:00 - Difference between God and entities?
21:30 - Passing on the wisdom to an apprentice
23:00 - Bypassing the ego and looking outside yourself
24:00 - Plant allies
27:00 - The devils weed
29:10 - Keeping the power plants in pure and clean energy and space
31:15 - Power from the plants
33:20 - Tobacco snuff and coca leaves
34:30 - Not getting angry at people anymore
35:20 - Order in the universe
36:00 - Craft and skills
36:30 - Man of knowledge
37:15 - Until death defeat is only psychological
38:30 - Mescalito & Kayumari and asking the spirit for answers while under the force
40:30 - You have to put in the effort and energy exchange
43:20 - Flying like a crow
44:30 - Different plants give different insight
46:30 - Responsibility of men and living in one world