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Magical Passes by Carlos Castaneda (1998, Hardcover) 
Magical Passes by Carlos Castaneda (1998, Hardcover)

 
Magical Passes by Carlos Castaneda (1998, Hardcover)

Publisher: Harpercollins
Publication Date: 1998-02-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0060175842
ISBN-13: 9780060175849
Product ID: EPID372162
Description: A series of body positions and movements designed to help one reach higher levels of consciousness, devised long ago by Mexican shamans and passed on to Castaneda by his master, Don Juan Matus.
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Synopsis
A series of body positions and movements designed to help one reach higher levels of consciousness, devised long ago by Mexican shamans and passed on to Castaneda by his master, Don Juan Matus.

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Publication Date:1998-02-01

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Length:225 pages
Height:9.8 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:18.4 oz

Publisher's Note
From the legendary bestselling New Age master comes a startlingly original combination of spirituality and self-help. In "Magical Passes", Carlos Castaneda reveals a system of body movements and positions that are the key to "dreaming" and journeying to new levels of perception...."Tensegrity" is Carlos Castaneda's term for the specialized movements--magical passes--that were discovered and developed by Mexican shamans in ancient times. Shrouded in secrecy, they are the pathway to shamanistic dreaming and "seeing." In this unprecedented book, Castaneda unveils the highly specific positions and movements of the body necessary to spiritual navigation, exercises he learned from his master, Don Juan Matus. Mastering them, readers will experience an unequaled sense of physical vitality, youth, and mental power, and be able to journey on their own to other realms of perception.

Thirty years ago, Carlos Castaneda published The Teachings of Don Juan, the story of a magical journey into the unknown. Under the tutelage of don Juan Matus, the young anthropologist entered another world and emerged to give readers of his first book glimpses of the "nonordinary reality" of a Yaqui Indian sorcerer. Castaneda wrote eight more books, most recently The Art of Dreaming, which describes don Juan's teaching methods as well as the sorcery arts he made Castaneda practice. Castaneda learned that for us to perceive any of the worlds that exist beside our own, we must not only covet them but find sufficient energy to seize them. Magical Passes offers readers the key to this energetic conditioning for the first time. In his revolutionary new book, Castaneda reveals a series of body positions and physical movements that have enabled various shamans and their apprentices to navigate their own sorceric journeys. The magical passes described in this unusual new volume allow those who practice them to travel the same road as the Mexican sorcerers and their apprentices - in addition to Carlos Castaneda, the apprentices of don Juan include Florinda Donner-Grau, Taisha Abelar, and Carol Tiggs - and to honor don Juan's quest while embarking on their own exploration into unknown worlds. The movements described in Magical Passes allow the practitioner to achieve new levels of physical and mental vitality.

Industry Reviews
Cult author Castaneda has written nine books (e.g., The Teachings of Don Juan, LJ 3/1/69) chronicling the life and practices of Yaqui sorcerer Don Juan Matus. While these books talk about the magical and shamanistic practices of Don Juan and his lineages, this new book begins with Don Juan chiding Castaneda about his physical well-being (or lack of it) and then teaching Castaneda the physical movements practiced by the sorcerers. These magical movements are called "tensegrity" a combination of the tension of contracting and relaxing with the integrity of the body moving in one complete unit. The bulk of the book is a detailed step-by-step description and photographs of the movements, which can be done following the book but require a concentration that cuts out extraneous thought. Recommended for collections where Castaneda's other books are popular and for collections on meditation and movement. Gail Wood, SUNY at Cortland
Moore

It has been 30 years since Castaneda published The Teachings of Don Juan, the first volume of his continuing story of his extraordinary apprenticeship to a Yaqui Indian sorcerer. In the eight books that followed, Castaneda maintained secrecy about many of the practices he was taught. Here, however, he lifts the veil on aspects of a tradition that he claims reaches back 27 generations, revealing a set of physical movements, called "magical passes," allegedly discovered by shamans of ancient Mexico. The purpose of the movements is to "agitate" and "redeploy" stuck energy fields within the body, inducing "inner silence," a "heightened awareness" and "an optimal state of being." Castaneda has adapted these movements into his own modern version, which he calls "tensegrity," a combination of the words tension and integrity, "the two driving forces of the magical passes." These postures and movements deal with issues including intent, "recapitulation" (remembering all one's life experiences), decision-making, dreaming, left- and right-body integration (similar to current views of left- and right-brain processes) and "masculine," or aggressive, energies. All of the movements are clearly illustrated through 486 halftones, but some if not most may be difficult to achieve without personal instruction. They do, however, seem to offer the possibility of offering a unique new path to opening the perceptions and releasing energy in the body. (Feb.)
Lopate

[Castaneda's] credibility has often been questioned over the years, but the seductive power of his tales is undeniable, and he continues to share Don Juan's teachings, from the bizarre mind trips in The Art of Dreaming (1993) to this presentation of a series of body movements, or magical passes, that allegedly help practitioners 'break the parameters of normal perception' by the 'redeployment' of energy. . . . Detailed metaphysical commentary accompanies the how-to photographs, and all one can say is, don't knock it until you've tried it.
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