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One of the `esoteric takeaways’ of the 1960’s and 70’s was the `tree-hugging’ phrase - “Be Here Now”. And, frankly, ultimately, it had a lot of `meanings’ - from the non-attachment of Zen, to a `re-connecting’ with the environment and spirituality, to a `self-centering’ - awareness and meditation connotation - and even more. It was a `hip’ thing to say (or - to say that you were `doing’).

(This would actually be `not-doing’ to those `into’ Carlos Castaneda.)

Anyway, that phrase BHN entered my mind again the other week and this post has been brain bubbling since then - so - let’s see how my mind treats this today. And, as you might expect - my mind generally has been mauling over the whole Phenomenology aspect of the phrase first - both in relation to `science’ and my so called Phillips Phenomenology. (see my categories (labels)  on this page for much more about PP)

The first `science’ thing that comes into my mind - is - of course, the shear impossibility to BE HERE NOW - as `all nows’ pass and have NO duration; and our actual `here’ is moving at an incredible rate of motion. All while being the pinpoint of the time-cone - with that exact balance of the actualized past `picking’ the next actualized space (the now) of the `future’.

Indeed, if we just consider THE REAL SPACE - that one (humans) occupied as matter — the `space’ that `was you’ - an instant ago ———- has truly `moved’ hugely. 

Do you know the reason?

Well, we are `traveling’ on a planet that is `rotating’; we are `traveling’ on a planet that is moving in rotation around a star; and we are `traveling’ as part of that stars rotation around OUR galaxy; and we are `traveling’ as part of the Milky Way’s `movement’ in a particular direction that all local galaxies are moving in. EVERY SECOND. Every Moment. (Indeed, I once added all this movement up and it is a large portion of 1% of the speed of light - every instant. The `here’ of `our last instant’ is `miles’ from the actual location of the `here’ of `this, our current instant’.)

So, that should put to rest in your mind that what we perceive as a permanent local space - is ONLY so - because it (every object within)  ALSO is moving at the same rate. We are matter spiraling thru space points - and have NO claim to a HERE in the human mind sense of the term. Indeed, only the `counting’ of the here’s of our space/matter - provides us with a `now’ or more precisely, a here-now,  at all.

And, before I even get to the `now(ish)’ - lets look at how human consciousness might fit into the words of this BHN phrase.

Certainly, the best connection of human consciousness lies in its own `beingness’.Beingness of the actualized past; beingness of the unactualized past; beingness of the actualized future (now); beingness of the `unactualized’ (referred to as the) future.

A beingness of `our space’ (body/matter) - a beingnessof `our minds’ (sense-knowingness of actualized memory, sense-knowingness of actualized now, sense-knowingness of actualized fantasy) - but most of all - a Beingness of Determinism via self-knowingness.

Indeed, we ARE, - our being IS, - because we KNOW the determinism we experience of space-time-and our consciousness - as only a BEING with a Ontological Knowingness can. BEINGS with ontological knowingness determine the `what is not able to not be’. That is, at least concerning their own perception structures of other SPACES (the not able to be) and other TIMES (the able to not be) - internally or externally.

(But spaces ARE NOTHING (not able to be) without duration (time - able to not be(ness) and time IS NOTHING without space to be (time needs to give a space it’s able to not be(ness) to MAKE - the determined Not Able To Not Be ————— that we call reality.

Finally, lets talk about what science has told humans about their consciousness of `our external senses of now’. First and foremost, research indicates that humans `see’ about 100 or so `frames’ of our external reality each second - YET - our consciousness picks about 8-12 of these and `molds them’ into a flowing reality for perception purposes. (Not only that - reality itself - turns on and turns off - trillions of times in that frame of reference.) I won’t even mention that what we `see’ in our brain is upside-down and the whole process needs to be righted for our senses.

But, even more important than that - at least to me - is that EVERYTHING we see —- all objects ——- are objects from the PAST — as the light that bounces off objects - which allows us to sense them -  has taken (time)(or a counted space)  to reach our retina. Time which MAKES that datum a PAST, a determined past that is UN-alterable as to its location or time of its data being sent by the light bounce.

So, if EVERYTHING outside of us is FROM the past (to us)  and is Now(ish) —- isn’t the best a human can do is - Be Here Nowish?

Hello, welcome to The Heavy Stuff (THS) - thanks for visiting. Recently, THS has been examining what I call the `cracks’ in the reality structure. I’ve noted in my last post (Anomalous Realities - The Cosmic Crack http://theheavystuff.com/?p=117) two examples of such `reality cracks’ that seem to allow `perceptions’ that are non-ordinary. The two examples, which I’ve talked about often, were the appearance of `physical’ Doppelgangers `into’ our so-called normal reality consensus - and - the `physical reality’ that is shared by people who underwent Mutual Hypnosis under Dr. Charles Tart in the 1960’s (and one would assume afterwards - but the searches for mutual hypnosis are quite bare).

My so-called `take’ on the `paranormal’, I find, is quite different from others who are interested in or who are `experiencers’ of the `non-ordinary states’ which include non-ordinary perceptions. To begin with, I am not religious in any normal sense of the word; I was raised Atheist, and am an Agnostic. Therefore, perhaps, my access to `structures of perception’ that seem to include everything from Saints, Angels, Guardians - to Jesus and the Devil himself - has never revealed any of `it’s’ (religions) paranormal perception structure to me.

BUT, as you know, deep believers - and even those occasionally NOT believers - have claimed to have had `visions’ (perceptions) which include everything from `God sent’ miracles (show me a sign) to `actual’ appearances of these iconic `beings-entities’. Indeed, looking at a list of such non-ordinary events would put these `structures of being’ IN OUR `so-called REAL reality of ordinary consensus’ - AND - put HUMANS `INTO’ `their religious rhelm’ (I was sitting at Jesus’s feet).

Likewise, at least to me, the same can be said of those that `experience’ a Bigfoot - or - some other UNKNOWN entity that seems to have and be of a `temporal character’ only. (I’m always reminded of Husserl at this point, with his chapter title - The Transformation Of Ideas Through Temporal Characters http://theheavystuff.com/?p=74.) Obviously, Ghosts(in at least one sense), Gremlins, Stickmen, Mythical Beasts, Fairies and others fall into the same phenomena. (Is it too hard for esoteric thinkers of my website to understand that these entities would be virtually identical to Doppelgangers - in a phenomenology sense?)

Which brings me to another ontological crack of phenomenology - the so-called - missing time experience; one of the memes of the whole `alien abduction’ experience. And, as my regular readers may remember - I’ve blogged about this in my highly original post on THS called `The Missing Space Of Missing Time Experiences’ - http://theheavystuff.com/?p=25 - AND, while I have alluded to it before - I have had a `missing time’ experience(s) with two other people who experienced the same time loss (as we were all together). (If you go to the first post of this website I tell that I’ve had wo-wo experiences of many types - only slowly am I revealing them - as frankly, to me, it’s the `structure of the non-consensus realities’ that is of more interest to me.) This mutual `special consensus, non-ordinary event’ `left NO footprint’ of phenomenology in any of our consciousnesses - and yes, once, many years later (and about 5 years ago) I underwent `hypnosis’ to see if any data could be uncovered from my brain. (I am told that I can’t be hypnotised.)

(What motivated this post was that recently on the internet a man with `real time alien abductions which involved missing time’ was featured (interviewed) for a paranormal website - which over and over - seems to find `galatic warnings’ hovering around every paranormal event horizon. ———— What’s my point? My point is that the `interpretation’ of non-ordinary events is often skewed to what one expects to find. After-all, it would be pretty boring if `missing time’ recall was of `nothing at all’ - like mine. It also helps that I think a large majority if not ALL `apocalyptic messages’ may simply have another possibility more related to `consciousness’ than to `real alien warnings’ - http://theheavystuff.com/?p=132 - `A Twist To `Aliens’ Showing Us OUR Apocalypse’ ).

Finally, as `boring’ as Phenomenology is to most folks - it just may answer the riddles of events such as described above today in this post. Indeed, recently, I became aware of a new Phenomenology Philosopher, Alexis Jardines - who has concepts such as “actual-virtual correlations” - which I can fit hand in hand with my own Phillips Phenomenology Ideas http://theheavystuff.com/?cat=5.

Lastly, some of all this may even fit a Sartre idea on Phenomenology called `Doing and Having’ — yes, doing and having. How you ask? Well, he makes an interesting distinction about `things’ that `one creates’ - such as a poem, essay, (blogpost) - or -even a cane out of a piece of wood; that somehow, OUR creation of this `thing’ - ties it TO US in an ontological manner (yet it stands alone) in our common consensus reality we all experience. Well, how about the `creation by us’ that is not tied to common consensus?

More links of interest.
Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge Classics)
Husserl’s Phenomenology (Cultural Memory in the Present)

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About 35 years ago I encountered the book `The Crack In The Cosmic Egg’ - an intellectual book that sought to explain reality by looking at `the cracks’. The idea was that in the few locations where `reality cracked’, we could find the true deepest esoteric ideas about the world we live within.The author often used the `miracles’ of Castanada’s `Don Juan’ (a Mexican Indian Sorcerer), the `miracles’ of Jesus in the bible, and `miracles’ such as walking across hot coals - as the `cracks’ to be examined.

Now, I will not ruin a great read - but - in a nut shell - `The Crack In The Cosmic Egg’ author - chose the concept of belief - as the `ultimate answer‘ - to `what makes our reality’. It was to be this `belief’ that allowed Castaneda to observe Don Juan’s other world - which was as REAL as ours. It was this `belief’ that allowed Jesus to walk on water and to manipulate the visual reality. Just as it was the `belief’ of the firewalkers - that allowed them to cross and not even have their robes or clothes affected.

Now, the concept that `other realities’ exist - is a powerful one. Religions, which still have a grip on the minds of many in humanity, are based on the concept. Scientists, have told us that `dimensional realities’ may exist. Shaman have sworn to it that special consensus realities exist; as have LSD users.

But, what examples exist of such realities that DON’T involve the religious visions, science findings and speculations, or occultish or drugged `states of mind’? Has `reality’ given us all clues to `the cosmic crack’? What kind of `clues’ exist that seem to show REAL Anomalous Realities (RAR)?

Well, I can think of several that I often like to `throw out there’ - as being - A Seam Of The Cosmic Bubble Of Real. And, to me, that `seam of real’ has at least several variations I’d like my readership to consider.

The first is the appearance of Doppelgangers into our reality(the most extreme case being that of Eastern Flight 401’s Pilot and Co-Pilot - which I have blogged about here http://theheavystuff.com/?p=17). For those that are new to the Doppelganger term - I’m using it to represent those cases where a `Dead’ Person - is seen in `Living Form’ in our reality.

Historical cases have included `immigrants’ who died while crossing the ocean - being seen in the flesh in the streets of where they lived in Europe (often at the time of death - but, afterwards too) - in addition to occasional `Civil War’ Doppelgangers that get reported from time to time. Certainly, these examples point to a reality that has anomalous cracks and which should be a subject of study.

The same can be said of what I call `shared subjective reals’.

One example is indeed, the shared realities that Castaneda is said to have `shared’ with Don Juan - Non-Ordinary Realities. Indeed, in the back of the first Castaneda book about Don Juan there is a section called `A Structural Analysis’ - which, Carlos uses to describe the attributes that formed that non-ordinary reality that he observed and experienced as a participant firsthand.

Indeed, this `ability’ to `go to a new landscape’ — to a new reality — also exists in nearly the exact state described by Charles Tart in his book `Altered State’ in a section called Mutual Hypnosis. Via a particular method of hypnosis - two or even more participants could enter into a `new mutually shared reality’. Certainly, these experiences must be surfing along one of the Cosmic Cracks too - don’t you think?

Now, obviously, the Doppelganger `crack’ seems to occur as an anomaly in our `outer mutual common consensus’ reality. Whereas, the Mutual Hypnosis `crack’ seems to occur as an anomaly of real within an `inner special consensus’ reality. But, both break thru - to provide a real experience - for the observer.

And, both are representative of of real anomalous realities that challenge the Cosmic Crack

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More links:
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
I Was Carlos Castaneda: The Afterlife Dialogues

Hello, and welcome to The Heavy Stuff (THS) - thanks for visiting today, I appreciate you hitting the link or your bookmark of my site. And, as you can see from today’s article title - I will be bringing forth a few of the `wow’ signals that have emerged as man has turned his fine tuned instruments to the universe and home to research the unknown.

Now, of course, my picture above suggests that one of the Wow Signals I am referring to is the famous one of August 15th, 1977 by The Big Ear radio telescope of Ohio State University - which lasted exactly 72 seconds (as it should have if it was extraterrestrial) and had the exact shape expected of a non-terrestrial signal.

You can read more about the OSU signal here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow_signal

But, as the title suggests - this post is about two `signals’ - again recorded by human seeking instruments - that may also qualify for a wow that you may not have heard about before this posting today. (Then again, my readers are so ahead of the game who knows.) And, the first signal was from our own solar system - Saturn to be exact.

Indeed, this link, just last month made me aware - Are Saturn Signals an Alien Communication? - http://ufos.about.com/b/2010/04/19/are-saturn-signals-an-alien-communication.htm of this YouTube video - Alien Speech? Found in NASA’s Saturn Radio Signal - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGeWBiLVn8g&feature=related . This `wow’ signal was captured by the Cassini craft as it flew past Saturn’s rings in July 2004 - and was recorded with radio and plasma wave detectors on the craft. These signals have been manipulated by the University of Iowa to bring them within human hearing range - and when they did - the man doing it was `completely astonished’ at hearing musical notes and (with imagination) humanlike sounds.

And, according to the YouTube video - NASA’s reaction to the file was “a most intriguing file, we do not know what to make of it.” ——- Now, anything on the internet, or YouTube, is subject to the big — yeah, sure, — response (appropriately) as video’s of `real aliens’ talking to planet Earth are also on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD9DXf3UnD4&feature=related - <– this one being almost laughable.

And, while the Saturn `signal’ brings us closer to home (Earth) - the next `unknown’ signal - was from our own planet’s most mysterious location - our ocean depths and what ultimately `may be down there’. This signal was detected by the U.S. Navy `spy’ sensors (looking for soviet subs) and - “While it bears the varying frequency hallmark of marine animals, it is far more powerful than the calls made by any creature known on Earth,” - http://edition.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/06/13/bloop/index.html .

The signal “The frequency of the sound meant it had to be much louder than any recognised animal noise, including that produced by the largest whales.” - could be one of the legendary sea monsters (giant squid or octopus) that have been reported on the high seas by fisherman and sailors from by-gone eras.

So, who knows, - but both are certainly - The Heavy Stuff.
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Hello, welcome to The Heavy Stuff (THS) - thanks for visiting my website today. If you are a regular to THS, you know that I enjoy speculating on outrageous things with outrageous ideas - often trying to bring to you uncommon thoughts about certain ideas or concepts. And, today, is not an exception.

Today’s example will involve taking a look at what has become a meme of sorts for those who have `worrisome alien dreams’ that involve the End Of Earth and humanity. You know, those apocalyptic visions of terror, death, running for ones life - and a general crumbling of sometimes an entire planets surface and more. The very stuff GREAT end of world movies are made of. Stuff about THE FUTURE! (As if, with the assumption that, the future exists and can be shown - which I personally doubt.)

Don’t worry; I won’t be the ultimate simpleton and simply tell you that those visions are indeed inspired by those same movies. Or, that the aliens that the `contactees’ encounter are simply versions of the same type of movies. OR, THAT THE `CONTACTEES’ ARE SIMPLY REPLAYING THE LITERAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE MANY GREAT WRITERS OF FICTION WHO HAVE CONSIDERED ALL THE SAME EVENTS. (Which ultimately is also possible.)

But, it will be close to that.

Because, here’s my thought(s) - my suggestion(s).

First, lets be outrageous and suggest that INDEED - some planets (if not tens of millions) with humanlike life that has evolved on them - HAVE MET WITH AN APOCATYPIC END. Be it from an asteroid crashing into their planet in an endtime fashion; or, be it from the ultimate destruction of a planet by the `intelligence’ there (like humans) via a war or destruction via an inadvertent use of science/technology.

Yes, the old - we blew up the planet - scenario.

So, please remember this assumption - someone - somewhere - somewhen — HAS experienced the Apocalyp0se Ending of Life. Indeed, the universe is SO huge beyond our comprehension that to assume that it HASN’T happened is almost idiotic. So, again, this HAS HAPPENED to `humanlike consciousnesses’ in the past.

So, if that IS the case - how about this idea as an alternative to the `I was abducted by aliens who showed me a film like vision of the end of the world’. Here it is.

First, one of the unproven but nearly universally accepted `anomalies’ of human consciousness is that `it is possible to share information’ ; also known as ESP. Such as Sylvia Brown `sharing’ views (yuck) from the `other side’ - sharing consciousness of another. Such as knowing who is calling on the phone before looking (they are sharing their consciousness or their space in a manner that you know); such as knowing someones NEXT word; even, such as knowing who will win the 5th race tomorrow at some race track. (which must be information shared from beyond with or without a human connection).

Some folks even claim the ability to `mind meld’ - and acquire all kinds of information about someone - either known to them or not known to them. ————– So, this `merging’ of consciousness - is NOT unique in ANY way to the whole esoteric community of thinkers/experiencers. And, it is using an extension of this - as the `twist’ to the whole alien abduction concept - that we get MY new idea on this.

Humans that `experience’ the Apocalypse Vision - are simply - tapping into `other real humanlike consciousnesses’ that have INDEED - experienced the end of their world. Their Earth. Their terrified final gasps of consciousness - THEIR visions of THEIR surroundings - as the world crumbles - perhaps even beneath their very feet.

THOSE bits of consciousness - assuming they exist or have existed - must be some of the MOST POWERFUL IMPRINTS ever made in a self-consciousness being(s). Not only that — who knows how many times this very scenario has played out over the last 13.7 billion years? (And, as absurd as it sounds - what if the `star’ that blew up about 7 billion years ago - that our Sun is composed of - had a planet, with intelligence,  to which that event happened - THOSE atoms - the atoms of the consciousness of the `humans’ on that doomed planet - ARE A PART OF OUR VERY COMPOSITION?)

So, while it IS possible IMO that `a few’ folks on planet Earth are indeed being - kidnapped/abducted - and `shown’ a vision of the future - Earth’s future - as a warning —————-> I’d personally, be just as likely to bet that MY `twist’ to this is correct - and that is - that consciousness of such events permeates the universe in such a manner that altered consciousness states in humans on Earth - can `receive’ or merge with - such real consciousness.

I await your comments.

If you liked this `original thought’ — recently I grouped 3 years of original thoughts of this blog here –> http://theheavystuff.com/?p=127 — you also may enjoy the books that made my mind have such strange thoughts http://theheavystuff.com/?p=128 - thanks for visiting today.

More Endtime Crappola Below.

Apostles, Prophets and the Coming Moves of God: God’s End-Time Plans for His Church and Planet Earth
Rapture: The End-Times Error That Leaves the Bible Behind

Hello and welcome to The Heavy Stuff (THS). On this blog I try to explore fringe ideas (what my ideas seem to be) and make projections about possible meanings. And, to that end, some particular thoughts have entered my mind regarding some `anomalies’ that have been reported on the internet surrounding the huge earthquake in Chile; - reports of orbs, ufo’s and even glowing entities. Here’s an example of the last - http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2010/03/chile-luminous-entity-spreads-panic.html.

Anyway, as I said, this incident was not the only anomalous thing reported near the time of the ground shaking events. But, it brings to my mind some `simple’ explanations for the actualization’s perhaps. As certainly, in the general area - literally that geographic region - more prayers (mind energy) were probably being intentionally directed locally and NON-locally to this location (spaces)  - than at any time in the recent past.

Now, any student of the paraNormal knows that `specialized thought’ - `specialized expectations’ - seems to be the `formula’ for experiencing/actualizing - non ordinary events. The `Bigfoot’ hunter goes into the forest and `hears’ the communicative wood taps. The `Ghost’ hunter - finds the electromagnetic influences they expect to find in a localized space. ——– All the way to the `space brother channeler’ who expects to be told ideas in their minds/heads that a space brother would say. And, in those localized `spaces’ events occur/actualize.

So, my `simple’ contention is that the actualization of Chilean anomalous events may have been due to a significant `excess’ in `energized for miracles’ space/spaces. Especially when enhanced with the probable strange electromagnetic Earth influences in the midst of the aftershocks. Perhaps, when that much Noosphere energy is about - the structures of perception can be changed too - (an idea I’ve already started a post for THS  this week - stay tuned).

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Hello, and welcome to The Heavy Stuff - I appreciate you visiting today. And, as you can see, today’s subject is once again - Carlos Castaneda related. The reason for this is because I recently finished  a book which claims to be based on secret knowledge shared by Don Juan - into the dreams of a man now called Lujan Matus - and shared with the world via his book in 2005 called `The Art Of Stalking Parallel Perception’ (subtitle - The Living Tapestry Of Lujan Matus).

Now, if you are in your 50’s or older - you may have some ideas about Carlos Castaneda the writer - and what became his guru status to a few - as his written worldview was challenged - by those who no longer believed he had real contact with an Indian Sorcorer called Don Juan(Juan Matus) as he says in his books - and that Don Juan’s `knowledge’ was all (nothing but) well thought out fiction by Castaneda.

But, the Carlos Castaneda - and, perhaps even the Don Juan aspect of his legacy - `still has legs’ as a `story’ and perhaps even more - including some mysterious things too- especially surrounding his personal life and death. Things even the 50-60 year olds who have read one of his books might not be aware of - and a fun high strangeness story to all of THS readers not familiar with these details.

As I said in a prior post - I believe all the Castaneda books to be fiction that involve Don Juan - EXCEPT perhaps - his first book -The Teachings of Don Juan. And, frankly, you will see in this post that it really doesn’t matter if Don Juan was real or a product of a grouping of Castaneda ideas. Because, to many, the gobbledygook - did make sense - and did present an image of a separate reality that could be / might be accessed; especially if in an altered hallucinating state.

However, quickly after the first two books - almost in anticipation of the coming drug wars and crack down on the hippies - the `drug’ connection of the book series - as a way to higher consciousness -quickly went into the background - nearly exiting the stories.

Instead, a methodology of `stalking awareness’  became the Castaneda/Don Juan focus/knowledge. This awareness stalking included specific body movements - which became one  of Casteneda’s later books - and developed into a remaining Castaneda legacy called Tensegity - a word made up and made famous by Buckminster Fuller (who described tensegrity as a combination of tensional integrity, the forces at work in a structure that is formed by a finite network of compression).

However, to those still following the embers of Castaneda’s ideas - Tensegity is “positions and movements of body and breath that were dreamt and stalked by men and women seers who lived in Mexico in ancient times, and taught to Carlos Castaneda, Florinda Donner-Grau, Taisha Abelar and Carol Tiggs by their teacher, don Juan Matus, a Yaqui Indian from Yuma, Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico, and the heir to a lineage of seers that originates in Mexico of ancient times”. Indeed, here’s a page to their current workshops with many testimonials - http://www.cleargreen.com/ - and, yes, evidently, enlightenment can be bought for a price.

Now, of course, `the body’ and `movements’  has been seen as a way to enlightenment for ages; and, is one of the waysother than mind enhancement. Ouspensky and Gurdijeff said there were four ways - one being the body.

And, frankly, as a juggler myself - I know that repetition of body movements is an excellent manner for awareness concentration/understanding. So, evidently, a surviving aspect of the legacy of Castaneda’s ideas - uses movement as a way to enlightenment with a mix of Don Juan ideas thrown in for good measure.

Now, as I posit in my title - Lujan Matus - can also be understood as an ember of the legacy of Don Juan the man of knowledge.

But first - a few words about Don Juan for those unfamiliar with CC. For a character front and center in the books - with tons of ideas of separate realities - Don Juan’s Wikipedia is under 500 words - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Juan_Matus – but - interestingly - “In their writings, Taisha Abelar, Florinda Donner-Grau and Lujan Matusalso included the character of don Juan Matus, although he went by different pseudonyms such as Mariano Aureliano. In all of these books don Juan Matus was a nagual who was leader of a group of practitioners of tradition of perceptual enhancement” - and, indeed, the Tensegity site said also that Don Juan personally `taught’ these women (and Carol Tiggs). And, it is these women - known as `the witches’ - who led one of the main elements of mystery to the whole saga - as I will get into shortly.

Indeed, these women have bigger bio’s in Wikipedia than Don Juan. First, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florinda_Donner Florinda Donner - born Regine Margarita Thal - eventually, she writes three books, one with Castaneda, - one of which is about South American rain-forest tribes that has been disputed as to being fiction too- and even marrys Castenada. — One of her books is called `Being-in-Dreaming: An Initiation into the Sorcerers’ World’ - she too emphasizing the controlled lucid dream state as Castaneda did (and Lujan Matus). Her final mystery? Has to be her disappearing/disappearance shortly after CC’s death in 1998. Indeed, she was NOT the only one to `disappear’ after CC died.

But, Donner was not Carlos’s only wife - he had married one of his longtime witches only two days later after Donner- Carol Tiggs - born named Kathleen Adair Pohlman (all of Castaneda’s inner female circle changed names, sometimes more than once - cut their hair short and dyed it blond) - she did NOT write a book and actually was known as breaking away from CC for sometime before joining his close knit group once again.

Another of the witches was `Taisha Abelar who along with Regine Thal, and Kathleen Pohlman, who would come to be known collectively as “the witches”‘ - She also wrote a book about her Don Juan experiences called ` The Sorcerer’s Crossing: A Woman’s Journey, also `left Los Angelos’  after CC’s death and hasn’t been heard from since.

Finally, we have the woman, witch, that was adopted by CC - April Partin. Who  sometime in late April Patricia Partin left Los Angeles, along with Florinda Donner-Grau, Taisha Abelar, Kylie Lundahl and Talia Bey, and was never heard from again. All of their telephone numbers were disconnected on the same day. Early in May Partin’s car was found abandoned in Death Valley’s remote Panamint Dunes.After the death of Castaneda, accounts started to come out about the cult-like activities taking place within Castaneda’s compound. In August 2003 Amy Wallace, who was at one time a sexual partner of Castaneda’s, published her book The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda, which provided the first real inside look into the cult that Castaneda had been creating.^{[4] Evidently, all of CC’s women cut their hair short and dyed it blond too.Another mystery of sorts was that CC was said to have died in April 1998 but it wasn’t reported for months - some speculated that CC and his witches simply vanished from the world together. Certainly that is part of the impression left.But, even with CC dead and Don Juan seemingly only a fictional character - the final embers of Don Juan’s knowledge was to be heard from one more time.}

^{This time, - it wouldn’t be from CC’s inner core of women followers - it would be in the DREAMS of Lujan Matus. (He also changed his name to this - one part Lujan was for his `dream maker’ being - the other - Matus - to honor Don Juans knowledge imparted in Lujan’s lucid dream  - separate reality - state. And, BTW, according to Lujan - Don Juan represents `intention’ in the stalking of awareness.)} 

^{Now, it would be very easy to dismiss the book written by Lujan Matus as utter BS - as some have dismissed ALL the books connected with CC and Don Juan in any manner as fiction. Indeed, I will not give you any final judgement on that issue. But, I only bought this book and read it because of the Don Juan connection; wondering if someone was claiming `current’ contact in some manner - wondering just what was the basis for the book to begin with.}

^{And, when I had the book in hand (given as a gift, never read excerpts or bookcover) and read the back cover - that Don Juan’s contact with Lujan would be via Lujan’s dreams - I had my doubts big time. After all, how could such an event occur - how could he remember it to write down in a waking state - etc. And, therefore, I wasn’t expecting much if anything of an esoteric nature.}

^{But, then, I began the book - and - immediately, instantly, I was impressed with the words and meanings being conveyed. Very impressed. Impressed to the point that I knew it was going to be one helluva read. This guy - Lujan - was either getting some special esoteric information from the great beyond - OR - had really really thought out a `structure of perception’ similar to what Castaneda described in his first book - and comprised the appendix of the book in outline form (some of the heaviest pages ever written).}

^{Perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised as he used these words on his back cover: “Upon entering this remarkable continuum of events the reader begins to be magically integrated, through the generation of internal imagery that bends the parameters of perception and invariably transforms consciousness itself” (my italic emphasis).Now, I will not try to reduce this book to a series of long passages that are incredible from the book - passages that do indeed seem to be providing real esoteric (secret) knowledge about perception, the abilities of perception,  and awareness of the mind. Nor will I try to show all the similarities between what CC wrote in his books as knowledge from DJ - and the knowledge supposedly given by him in Lujan’s dreams - as there is some overlap and enhancement.}

^{Now, after writing the books - Lujan Matus started a website called Parallel Perception. One link that I found very interesting was his post on `Dreaming Technique’  
http://parallelperception.blogspot.com/2007/05/dreaming-technique.html - nearly a direct offshoot of CC’s/DJ’s ideas for setting up a controlled lucid dream or a separate reality as it is touted. Another worthwhile post was discovering what Lujan Matus thinks about CC -}  http://parallelperception.blogspot.com/2007/04/labyrinth-of-carlos-castaneda.html 

And, like Cleargreen, he offers courses as basically a guru and healer; with HUGE promises, with  testimonials (but, guess what - none of those links work).

So, at least TWO forms of CC’s and DJ’s `teachings’ - still have A Fire Within. The embers of a legacy - and perhaps, with a path to knowledge and separate realities.

Thanks for your time and interest - interacting with my sidebar is greatly appreciated as are your comments.  

Other links of interest to this story:

http://www.parallelperception.com/
Being-in-Dreaming: An Initiation into the Sorcerers’ World (Harper Odyssey)
The Sorcerer’s Crossing: A Woman’s Journey (Compass)

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Hello, thanks for visiting The Heavy Stuff (THS) today. If you are a regular, I had to go to this new format-theme  to be able to maintain a sidebar on my posts that are by individual pages - most likely the manner that you arrived (via a link) today (meaning a link ending with a post number). That said, I like this look - new understated theme for `heavy’ ideas.

Ok, today’s post is literally to look - briefly - at my personal bookshelf - the books - so to say - that made my mind the way it is ( and that you read on THS). The reviews below are ones that I wrote years ago for my squidoo site - I’ve copy and pasted them here for you to get my sense of how `heavy’ these books are. And yes, they are in the order of the heaviest first .

Number One
The systematic analysis of the philosophy of Being - the book which `lays out’ what existentialism IS. Includes such amazing chapter titles as Being-In-Itself; The Ontological Proof, and The Origin of Nothingness. This is the book for you if you want to have even the smallest grasp on `Temporality’ or `Transcendence’. The paperback version is over 800 pages — get ready for the read of a lifetime. Heavy rating of 10+.

Number Two
Quite simply the BIBLE of phenomenology and consciousness thought. If you think you have thought about the `issues’ of mind and matter — think again — unless you have read this very very rare book. Husserl thought out the ideas of Phenomenology in the late 1800’s and to this very day you can find people meeting in groups to discuss these mammoth ideas. Personally, my FAVORITE `heavy’ book of alltime. Heavy Rating 10+

Number Three
Is this the heaviest book written in the last 50 years? I’d say it could be. What else could possibly be heavier than being the first person to actually `figure out’ all the most perplexing astronomy data — and then to — `explain it’ to the rest of the scientists in the world. Yes, this is the man who figured out the `problem’ with the BIG BANG — and thought of the solution. The solution was INFLATION. Those amazing moments next to creation that included the notion that `space’ can expand `quicker’ than the speed of light. Indeed, if Guth is right (and one experiment after another has confirmed inflation) the universe we live in is huge in a manner that you have probably never even considered. For example, you may know that the `edge’ of our VISIBLE universe is about 13.7 billion years away — however, BEYOND that `visible edge’ lies OUR SAME UNIVERSE — we simply can’t see it (and never will) — but it is there with stars and worlds just like `here’ in our visible portion. But, get this, that `unseen portion’ of our universe is TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS times the size of our `visible’ portion. Yes, you need this book — how can you say NO to the heaviest book of the 1900’s? Heavy Rating 10+.

Number Four
In the 1970’s a student at UCLA wrote of his meetings with an Indian medicine man and sorcerer. These meetings involved gaining the actual understanding of the sorcerer’s worldview. This worldview supposedly led Castaneda into a `separate reality’ on occasion. These separate realities of the sorcerer included everyday phenomena and entities which lived in the special reality. Other special realities included controlled lucid dreaming - often described by researchers as a different mind state. This is NOT a book you want to say that you’ve NEVER read - a must read selection. Heavy Rating 10+ (I’ve read at least 7-8 Carlos Books BTW - this was the best.)

Number Five
Like the ideas of Husserl, the ideas of Ouspensky and Gurdjeff also have people STILL TO THIS DAY forming groups to discuss how heavy the thoughts are. Indeed, they are heavy; some would say that this is the BEST consciousness book ever written — the most intense examination of `mind’ ever undertaken. If the book was to be `summed up’ in one sentence it would be `THE ONLY THING IS TO AWAKE’. Heavy Rating 10. (Like Castaneda, I’ve read several of Ouspensky’s books too.)

Number Six
Another very rare book — you’d NEVER run across this out of print in the store so here is your chance. If you have ever wondered about the many various `types of time’ — this is your book. Most interesting are the chapters devoted to the very idea of FREEWILL and DETERMINISM and their relation to time and dimensional time. Can any time be real that isn’t here now? This is the book if you want the speculative answers. Heavy Rating - 10.

Number Seven
Here’s my bow to religion on earth for humans — and, indeed, it’s very heavy. It seems non-attachment is a universal theme in a lot of esoteric thought — you won’t find a better writer on the subject than the late Alan Watts. This is Zen Buddhism at it’s very best. If you lean to the spirtitual side this might be for you. Heavy Rating - 10. (One of several Watts books I’ve devoured.)

Number Eight
Many folks feel that `Bucky’ Buckminster Fuller was the greatest thinker of the 1900’s. If you have never seen his world map without distortion - you haven’t seen the world in true proportion. Bucky was such a great thinker that a type of CARBON is named after him — is there a greater honor than that. You must be familiar with this book and some of his greatest ideas. Heavy Rating - 10.

Number Nine
A recent book which explores some `oddities’ in Utah in the mid 1990’s. Huge oddities. Of every type. That suggest that the multi-verse may be an answer for the unexplainable anomalies. Co-written by a TV reporter still active in Las Vegas, this is a well documented book. Very enjoyable and a fairly quick read for `heavy ideas’. Heavy Rating - 9+

Number Ten
This is a must book if you think you want to work on your own `consciousness’. Ouspensky’s Guru and the last of the wandering esoteric Masters. Great story. Heavy Rating - 9+ (Yes, this isn’t the only Gurdjieff book I’ve read.)

Number Eleven
Physics taken to the new limits of the 2000’s — this version saying that `time itself’ does not exist. This version says that only `space’ exists. And, that `that’ space — is `chosen’ via a method that compares one moment to another by selecting the `next space’ that is the `most similar’ with the least intrinsic difference from the previous `space’. Wonderfully heavy book by a renegade Physics writer. Heavy Rating - 10

Number Twelve
Further discussions of this `Hyperspace’ which seems to allow for every moment of time to be extended in a way. The way for space to be moved thru without time constraints. The actual answer to many anomalies perhaps. Hyperspace. You need to read more. Heavy Rating - 9+

Lastly, if you desire - you can see the last 7 of my heavy bookshelf at the two links below - and those too are with description.

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Hello, and welcome to The Heavy Stuff  (THS) - thanks for being inquisitive. Yes, as you can see from the title of this post - THS is about 100 esoteric posts old and just over 3 years on the calendar. And, as you may well know, THS has grown into a huge catalog of ideas that stretch from Time Travel to Doppelgangers to UFO’s to Consciousness Issues to Phenomenology and even more.

And, according to the stats of my host 1 and 1 - THS grew to 259,930 unique visitors in 2009, up from 195,854 in 08 and 72,223 in 07 (and 388 in 06) - and to over 419,000 page views in 09. Thanks so much for your reading support of esoteric ideas. Please continue to tell your friends that you have found a new blog with a whole lot of cool ideas to explore.

Now, with that all aside - let me first say - what you are probably saying - “this guy thinks he has ORIGINAL ideas? Give me a break.” — Ok, there, I said it. Now, let me try to fill a list up with just that, and, you be the judge. (I’m aware of Lennon or McCartney saying something to the effect that no ideas are original but just selected from what is available.)

Original Ideas

One of my more recent `original’ ideas was to blog about `Billion Year Old Entities’ — something that Greg Bishop at UFO Mystic said he had NEVER heard another speculate about before. I blogged about the possibility of such entities due to being tired of reading folks on various websites or forums make statements like `those aliens might be a hundred or a thousand years ahead of us’. Rarely do those folks even talk about beings being a million years more advanced. And that is what triggered my mind into thoughts about what BILLION year old entities might be like - http://theheavystuff.com/?p=118.

Another blog post that I’ve never read anywhere else is `IF The Government Discovered and Proved `Life After Death’ - would it be `disclosed’ to the public. (Well, have you ever read this elsewhere?) In this post I talk and speculate the reasons why such infomation - even if proved - might be withheld. http://theheavystuff.com/?p=104

Perhaps a little less original - but original in the sense of being talked about in ONE post - was my article titled `Aliens/Entities Objectified - Are There Four Types? - where I expanded the whole subject of entities to include what I see as ONLY four types - http://theheavystuff.com/?p=100.

Next - You know when something REALLY special happens - something rare that STICKS out and is instantly known and famous - like the Hudson River Jet Landing? — As far as I know - I was the only person to blog - How Could Hudson River Plane Crash Elation Not Have Been Picked Up By Even One Psychic? —– WELL? http://theheavystuff.com/?p=101

And, as far as I know and have EVER read - am I the only one to blog - Can The Collective Dead Of Humanity - Evolve? — And, this is NOT a small idea - it has lots of ramifications. A great read. http://theheavystuff.com/?p=91

And, how about a `collective dream appearing in space’ — like when I blogged Could An Oct.14th Alien Craft Display Be A Collective Lucid Dream Apprearing In Space? — anyone else? http://theheavystuff.com/?p=71

Or, have you EVER read anyone else blogging about Husserl? As in The Transformation of Ideas Through Temporal Characters - WELL? http://theheavystuff.com/?p=74

Or, have you EVER read someone imply that Might Alien Disclosure Mean Virtually Nothing? - HUH? Ever? http://theheavystuff.com/?p=68

And, who can you point out that has presented this idea? Have Chem-trails Stopped Global Warming? — I make a real good case for this - has anyone else? http://theheavystuff.com/?p=63

And, here is an idea I’ve covered more than once Could `camera’s’ Be Capturing - or Actualizing - a Virtual Reality? - is anyone else? http://theheavystuff.com/?p=60

Here’s another original idea I covered and should be a new lexicon - Does High Strangeness Overlap Strange Highness? - Get your Strange Highness in one place - right here - http://theheavystuff.com/?p=49

Or, have you ever read, anywhere, of someone suggesting Could the Human Population Level `Trip’ Cosmic Consciousness?- literally suggesting that a QUANTITATIVE answer may be behind an increase in consciousness - if it is occuring or to occur? Didn’t think so. http://theheavystuff.com/?p=47

Or, have you read someone that suggests that Doppelgangers are an escape from death itself? Anywhere? Pilot Doppelgangers - Escaping Death - (Doppelgangers are a favorite THS topic.) http://theheavystuff.com/?p=46

You also rarely read about anyone except Nick Redfern talking about Tulpas - but - even Nick doesn’t go this far - does he? Are Tulpas Everything Esoteric- Find out more about the Tulpa concept here - http://theheavystuff.com/?p=44

But, perhaps the one I am most proud of - my idea that the light seen at death is actually the SUN and an OBE/NDE - find that original stuff elsewhere? Going to the Light at Death - Part 3 - NOPE? http://theheavystuff.com/?p=36

Now, here is an idea I blogged about in 2007 and is NOW becoming more mainstream - Could Orbs be Dead Humans? - http://theheavystuff.com/?p=31

OR, have you ever - anywhere - heard or read someone talking or blogging about The Missing Space of Missing Time Incidents - Nope, only on THS do you find this kind of esoterica - http://theheavystuff.com/?p=25 (my first post that had over 1,000 hits in a day — 4,700 or so is the current most).

And, I’ll let you find out why these titles seem unique - The Six Horizons of Perception http://theheavystuff.com/?p=20 OR Did Houdini Escape Death? - http://theheavystuff.com/?p=18.

Now, hopefully, my mind is not played out - indeed I have 3 posts in reserve just waiting to explode including “Anomalous Realities - The Cosmic Crack” “The Possible Phenomenology Of Fortean Events And Anomalous Realities” and `Local AND Real - or - Realism OR Locality’? I hope you stick around until those become THS later in 2010 too.

I welcome your comments. OH, and PLEASE - go to my front page - unless you do - you don’t even register in my stats. And, on my front page you can see my last 15 posts on THS and the great blogroll for you to check out. Thanks again.

Hello, and welcome to The Heavy Stuff (THS) - thanks for having an interest in such an esoteric subject or for having an inquisitive mind out of the ordinary to most. I invite you to explore THS later after this article to read more esoteric posts you are sure to enjoy.

As you can see from today’s title - the subject is Doppelgangers - with a dictionary definition of: 1) a ghostly counterpart of a living person 2)a-double - 2)b - alter ego 2)c - a person with the same name as another. The definition is a good start, but, unfortunately, all definitions are not found in the dictionary - and - terms take on new meanings as `examples’ of doppelgangers - and what they might be - increases. You will find out what I mean by that in a moment.

Now, my life, perhaps like some of you out there - has had definition number 1 seemingly happen to them in some manner. Frankly, without too much of a deep mind review - I can think of two instances in my life of a variation on definition number 1.

I guess the purest form would have been a time when I walked into a place of business that I rented a business post office box. The folks in the shop were used to seeing me as I came in nearly daily and chatted while picking up my mail and making copies and using mailing services. And, one day I came in and the lady at the counter, who I knew well, looked at me astonished - almost a ghostly white in color (and I am not exaggerating) and said that a man `who looked exactly like me and who came in and left without a word’ (which she knew would be very odd) - had JUST been in the store a minute or two before myself’. I assured her it wasn’t me as I could tell she was a little shaken, but, it was a little unnerving.

It makes me wonder if somehow I had indeed projected an aspect of my space `ahead’ of me in a sense. That said, it doesn’t really fit definition number 1 because the `doppelganger’ didn’t have a ghostly form - it was a seemingly `living’ person. And, that said, this is the ONE AREA that we will find the definition of doppelganger is NOT complete. I will explain more shortly.

But, first, another time I had a seemingly personal `doppelganger’ event - that many many folks have  had - is when a complete stranger walks up to you (this has happened once to me) and tells you that they had to come up to you because you look so so much like Mr. Whoever. Indeed, one time while having a meal with my wife a woman walked up and said that and told me the name of her (I believe) dentist or foot doctor `who looked exactly like me’. Indeed, she was going to say hi until she realized she was wrong.

Now, once again, this doesn’t meet the definitions above - but - is the thing that most folks think or as a doppelganger experience. Indeed, when one is told the literal name of the person who looks exactly like oneself - it also is a little unnerving. That said, I should have looked up this guy and gotten a picture with him. Obviously, it is not unusual for folks to look like one another - just google `separated at birth’. And, most of us have been told we look like such and such person or celebrity. I guess this is indeed dictionary definition 2 - a double - except that our phenomenology based `reality’ will stretch that even more as you will read.

But, obviously, we are still a long way from the dictionary definition or the more esoteric side of the definition. Don’t worry - the woo woo factor is just around the corner.

So, lets finally get to the REAL definition number 1 - ghostly counterparts to living persons.

Now, perhaps unbelievably, my wife has proof in old family writings passed down to her now - from the 1800’s originally (it’s kind of a family diary started in the 1800’s and continuing from one person to another into the early 1900’s) that talked about her relatives doing EXACTLY that - exactly doppelganger definition 1. As, one of her relatives, on the voyage to America via boat - died - and around those same days of death on the ship (I have no confirmation if it was concurrent or not) - his doppelganger was seen in his hometown village in Europe.——- This, while in my own extended family - is not a single account — this is the number one definition for a reason - `ghostly’ doppelgangers, living in the flesh, have been seen in a bi-location space event - both as `ghosts’ and other times flesh and blood - as `the real double’.

Indeed, for the definition of doppelganger to actually be full and correct - it would say a doppelganger could be — a `living in the flesh double’ of a DEAD person.

Now, these `double’ `projections’ at death or near death also have their own nuances to flush out esoterically - as - some examples of `after death doppelgangers’ push the envelope about as far as any esoteric idea available to contemplate. Such as doppelgangers that seem to be filling out `intentions’ from the `other side’ with `real flesh doubles’.

Let me explain and perhaps turn you onto a great example if you are not aware (however, my regulars have read this before). I have posted before of one of the best known MODERN ERA cases of this `real flesh’ doppelganger event(s) happening - that of the Ghosts of Eastern Flight 401 of which a book and even a made for TV movie occurred. (If you hit the doppelganger tag at the bottom of this post you will find all my doppelganger posts but this is the one about the Eastern Flight 401 pilot doppelgangers  http://theheavystuff.com/?p=17   `titled - Going To The Light - Part 2′).

And once, a story about pilot and adventurer Steve Fossett surfaced that he had made a similar `in the flesh appearance’ to his wife http://theheavystuff.com/?p=46. The thing that `separates’ the `immigrant’ doppelganger events - and the pilot doppelganger events - is that the pilot events didn’t happen very close to the time of death but a significant time afterwards. Indeed, up to years, and even at impossible locations - such as on a flying jet at 35,000 feet.

Indeed, this `years after’ - months after - doppelgangers - brings to mind the one `days after’ possible doppelganger event that seemingly has changed history and certainly changed some peoples lives - such as - the reported `appearance’ of the in flesh Jesus - 3 days after his death.

However, even Jesus’s `in the flesh’ counterpart - was not a permanent feature of our common space reality and eventually vanished. Just as the pilot doppelgangers have been reported to - just as the immigrant doppelgangers did also during Bi-Location (in the case of time of death doppelgangers we may be talking of Simultaneous Bi-Location - one of the heaviest ideas in all esoterica).

Finally, to wrap up today’s post on doppelgangers - it is important to re-state that the Eastern 401 pilots and one would speculate Jesus - reappeared seemingly `upon their own intentions’ with an in the flesh `double’ - after death. The immigrant doppelgangers may have been more `projections of space’ (at death) oriented than - the `intentional’ spaces well after `death’.

BTW, I’ve written a `companion’ post to this right here - http://barfstew.blogspot.com/2010/01/doppelgangers-elvis-and-jesus-sightings.html. Check it out. Also, check out my new THE HEAVY STUFF food apron on this page on the sidebar on the front page.

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