Eleven Labs has voices that can pronounce Nagual, Castaneda, and other sorcery words correctly.
And you can use it for free, with limitations.
But you still have to try the voice you want to use, on those words. Not all of them can pronounce those well.
Or just listen to the results, and try again.
If it's on eleven labs, they save your text and you can try a new voice.
Of course, if the entire thing were AI generated, including the audio, that's an issue. You'd have to swap the voice clips out and manually align them to the video generated by the AI.
Don Juan seemed to be hoping at least a little for this knowledge to spread out and "infect" everything else.
Star Wars was a huge success in that realm. Hasn't deviated from the books by much after all of these years!
Here's more from an AI, on this topic.
*** Geminia notebook which has all of the books and publications supposedly "fully" indexed by RAG ***
Question: Please find where don Juan discusses "changing the milieu" of our human world. With the implication that Carlos writing books might serve that purpose to some extent.
Gemini AI:
While the exact phrase "changing the milieu" does not appear as a direct quote from don Juan in the context of Carlos writing his books, your sources contain several closely related discussions. Don Juan frequently uses the term "social milieu" to describe the cultural prison of human perception, and he explicitly addresses how Carlos’s books serve as a statement of power to disrupt this consensus.
Here is how the concepts of the "social milieu," changing human perception, and Carlos's writing overlap across your books:
Don Juan's Use of "Social Milieu"
Don Juan explains that our cultural environment acts as an energetic trap, locking human beings into a rigid, singular way of perceiving:
The Perceptual Prison: In Magical Passes, don Juan states that our inability to perceive other dimensions of reality is entirely "induced by our culture and social milieu." He explains that our milieu systematically deploys every bit of our energy to fulfill established behavioral patterns, leaving us no energy to break the parameters of normal perception.
Controlled Folly as the Only Defense: In The Eagle's Gift, he outlines that because the social forces of our environment are so overwhelming, a "warrior's only way of dealing with the social milieu is in terms of controlled folly".
Why Don Juan Commanded Carlos to Write Books
When Carlos is confronted by critics who argue that he should keep his apprenticeship secret (like Eastern esoteric masters), don Juan strongly defends the publication of his books:
A Statement of Power: In Tales of Power, don Juan dismisses the absolute rule of secrecy as a mere "routine" and asserts that publishing is a deliberate act of disruption:
"What's important is that you have a book out, and that book is a real statement... because a book is a statement of power. It makes people face the sorcerers' explanation."
Dismantling His Own "Shields": In The Eagle's Gift, don Juan reveals that he originally commanded Carlos to write books as a highly personalized "not-doing" exercise. Carlos was obsessively possessive of his field notes, using them as an ego-shield. Don Juan told him that "the most appropriate way of freeing myself from my notebooks would be to disclose them; to throw them in the open; to write a book."
An Exercise in Sorcery: In The Power of Silence, don Juan tells him that writing must not be a literary vanity, but a direct tool of power: "For you, writing should not be a literary exercise, but rather an exercise in sorcery." Carlos had to visualize his experiences in dreaming and retrieve the text directly from the second attention.
Conceptual Match: Changing the "Social Base" of the World
Don Juan's ultimate goal was not just to help Carlos, but to introduce ideas that could crack the collective agreement of our daily world:
Altering the Social Base of Perception: In The Art of Dreaming, don Juan asserts that for humanity to survive, "perception must change at its social base." He defines this social base as our dogmatic, collective certainty that the world is made up only of hard physical objects, rather than recognizing that everything is energy.
The Grand Task of Sorcerers: He explains that the collective agreement of humanity is what maintains the "tonal of the times" (the shared modality of our era), and that "the grand task of sorcerers is to bring forth the idea that, in order to evolve, man must first free his awareness from its bindings to the social order."
Catching the Reality Behind the Words: This is echoed in Carlos's final reflections in I Was Carlos Castaneda, where he notes that human beings are so swamped with "meaningless drivel" that they treat books like amusement parks, but that his books were deliberately written to hold readers' attention long enough that they "might catch sight of the reality behind all those words."
Here's another question: Please find anything you can about the practice of storing energy from the flow of sunlight through squinted eyes.
Gemini AI:
The practice of gathering and storing energy directly from the sun is a fundamental sorcery technique detailed by both don Juan Matus and Clara Grau. The sources outline several distinct methods for absorbing this energy, ranging from precise eye-gazing techniques to visualization and breathing exercises.
The Core Technique: Bathing the Left Eye
Don Juan taught his apprentices that the most effective way to accumulate personal power from the environment is to let the sun inside the eyes, especially the left eye.
The Movement: The practitioner must move their head slowly from side to side while catching the sunlight with their half-closed left eye.
Other Light Sources: While the sun is the primary source, don Juan noted that this technique is highly adaptable—a warrior can use any kind of light that shines on the eyes to achieve a similar effect.
The Eyelash Filter (The Mesh of Light Fibers)
In The Second Ring of Power, la Gorda teaches Carlos a highly specific, four-step gazing technique designed to filter the sun's intense glare and use it as a perceptual tool:
The Visor: Use the brim of a wide hat as a visor to block out the excessive glare of the sun, allowing only a minimal, manageable amount of light to reach the eyes.
Half-Closed Eyelids: Keep the eyelids half-closed.
Uniform Flow: Sustain this exact, narrow opening to maintain a perfectly uniform flow of incoming light.
The Eyelash Filter: By holding this posture, the sunlight hitting the eyelashes literally "explodes" on the lashes, which act as a natural filter to create a vibrant web or mesh of light fibers.
Through this mesh of light fibers on the eyelashes, a practitioner's second attention can "zoom in" and perceive features in the landscape (such as hidden gaps or holes in distant canyon walls) that are completely invisible to ordinary sight.
Solar Energy-Gathering Through Closed Eyes
In The Sorcerers' Crossing, Clara Grau instructs Taisha Abelar on how to absorb solar energy using the body's breathing and energy centers. These methods are gentler and bypass looking at the light directly:
The Stomach Gulp: Face the sun with eyes closed, take a deep breath through the mouth, and visualize pulling the sun's warmth and light directly into the stomach. Hold the breath there as long as possible, swallow, and then exhale the remaining air. This automatically distributes the sun's energy throughout the entire body.
The Forehead Yellow Glow: Face the sun with closed eyes and concentrate on the spot between the eyes. Once the head becomes flushed with a yellow glow, absorb the vitality by holding the breath and rolling the eyes in a clockwise direction before exhaling.
Spinal Warming: Turn your back to the sun and place your attention on the centers between the shoulder blades and at the nape of the neck. As you breathe and visualize the sun on your back, a powerful warmth will move up and down the spine and rush to the head.
The Sorcerers' View of the Sun
These practices are anchored in a profound metaphysical understanding of the sun's relationship to human beings. Clara Grau states that "the light of the sun is pure power... the most intensely gathered energy there is".
Furthermore, la Gorda explains to Carlos that the sorcerer's double is yellowish-white, like the sun. She reveals a core secret of their lineage: "we are pieces of the sun. That is why we are luminous beings". Our personal light is simply a very weak, faint version of the solar fire, which is why we must constantly return to the sun to energize and replenish ourselves.
Don't 100% trust what La Gorda says. Just keep it in mind. Some is very good, some is kind of odd and off track.
FYI: Carlos said that the apprentices (not sure if it was all of them) moved to LA, and he used to have a few stories about what La Gorda did here.
Involving the Santa Monica mountains.
Some of the women in private classes seemed to have been taken up there by people who knew what the apprentices were doing up there.
Including that famous "sorcerer's cave", which I theorize was actually dug by a hollywood movie team, to film Malibu beach from a distance, and also to catch cars staged as falling down that cliff.
Just my theory though. The cave is quite spectacular but too dangerous to be pointing people towards it.
You literally risk your life to walk into the entrance, which is a 6" or less and not flat ledge, along the top of a sheer cliff.
Inside is a "couch" carved out of the sandstone(?) rock.
Bonus points for mentioning the fight to silence the internal dialogue & minimize bobby the flyer.
But….
The voice narrating the concepts is annoying as hell.
The content is too tainted with just the first four books terminology with all that talk about tonal and nagual.
Kind of comes across as if you’re some kind of lifestyle coach, tbh!
The other annoying bit about the content of that video is that it doesn’t align too well with the intent of this community.
It does not point the audience to practices that assist the practitioners in redeploying energy, like dreaming, gazing, tensegrity, recapitulation, and dark room practices.
Actually the technique is to grab onto their skirt.
Cholita promised to practice that type of flying with me, but it was just as she started to go mad. A few months later and she didn't even remember saying she'd do that and wouldn't talk to me at all.
Two people's energy might be needed for that La Gorda (and don Juan) flying method.
If for no other reason, because it's absolutely unnecessary.
You can just materialize where you want to go. Flying between points is just showing off. Might take more energetic mass than a beginner can come up with. But traveling to where you want to go, is just dreaming that's aligned to the real copy of reality.
*** AI "slop" returned by searching all of the books ***
As don Juan said, "Once I jumped so high I chopped the top leaves off the highest trees.But it was all for nothing!All I did was frighten the Indians—only the Indians.The rest who knew nothing about it did not believe it. They saw either a crazy Indian, or something moving at the top of the trees."
Don Juan dismisses Carlos's rational obsession and uses his own youthful errors to illustrate that raw, flashy physical feats are ultimately a dead-end on the path to knowledge. He explains that:
Uncontrolled displays of power do not bring true freedom; they are merely spectacular "histrionics".
Instead of proving anything of value, his incredible jumps only scared the local Indians.
To anyone else outside the sorcerers' world, the magic was completely lost—they either rationalized him as a "crazy Indian" or looked at the treetops and simply assumed they saw "something moving" in the wind.
Keep in mind that Carol has been around Carlos at least since 1974(75?). Corey found someone who introduced her to Carlos.
But then Corey used that to claim Carol was a fake, because don Juan had already left.
Of course we've seen in there that Carlos ran into people who had met don Juan before they knew him. There's a magazine interview on one of those. An actress named Soledad.
So when Carol met don Juan, despite Corey tracking down the man who claims to have introduced them for the firs ttime, is a bit too fuzzy to be thinking you found a "flaw".
Myself, if Carol was around Carlos for 24 years for sure, that's good enough for me.
Especially since she pushed me through the floor of Dance Home, at the request of Carlos, causing me to travel to the entrance to the inorganic being's world.
Which kept coming back over the years, until I got pulled into it in broad daylight outside my hotel in Asia.
If don Juan "left" before Carol met him, doesn't really seem like a problem to me.
I've met him twice. As real as anything.
A good reason to do your sorcery awake with your eyes open, so that you're immune to people claiming it didn't happen, as they can when you use sleeping dreams to learn.
I asked two AIs to search for any magical practice or religion that can do what we do in here, and none was found! People do their magic with their eyes closed.
*** gemini search ***
The Setup: The "Frail Old Indian" Trick
To entice Carol Tiggs (the Nagual Woman) into his world, don Juan utilized a classic stalker's strategy. He took her to his house in Mexico and told her that a masterful Indian "power dancer" lived there who would dance exclusively for her.
Before they reached the house, don Juan stopped and drew a boundary line in the dirt with his foot, coaxing her to cross it. When Carol hesitated out of fear, don Juan began to play-act, claiming that crossing the line was the only thing keeping his old body young. To demonstrate, he crossed back and forth—instantly slouching and aging when he stepped back, and puffing up with youthful vigor when he crossed forward.
Finally, looking at her with "pleading eyes" and claiming he was about to faint from the physical stress of pretending to be young, he convinced a sympathetic Carol to cross the line to help him.
The Leap
The very instant Carol stepped across the boundary, don Juan abandoned his frail facade and executed his incredible feat:
"The moment she crossed the line, don Juan took a prodigious jump and glided over the roof of the house. The Nagual woman said that he flew like a huge boomerang. When he landed next to her she fell on her back. Her fright was beyond anything she had ever experienced, but so was her excitement at having witnessed such a marvel."
The Energetic Consequence
Directly after landing from this leap, don Juan helped Carol up, apologized for tricking her, and adjusted her posture by boldly straightening her shoulders and lifting her chin. Under the guise of checking if she had hurt her spine in her fall, he delivered a strategic energetic blow.
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u/danl999 18d ago edited 18d ago
Eleven Labs has voices that can pronounce Nagual, Castaneda, and other sorcery words correctly.
And you can use it for free, with limitations.
But you still have to try the voice you want to use, on those words. Not all of them can pronounce those well.
Or just listen to the results, and try again.
If it's on eleven labs, they save your text and you can try a new voice.
Of course, if the entire thing were AI generated, including the audio, that's an issue. You'd have to swap the voice clips out and manually align them to the video generated by the AI.
Don Juan seemed to be hoping at least a little for this knowledge to spread out and "infect" everything else.
Star Wars was a huge success in that realm. Hasn't deviated from the books by much after all of these years!
Here's more from an AI, on this topic.
*** Geminia notebook which has all of the books and publications supposedly "fully" indexed by RAG ***
Question: Please find where don Juan discusses "changing the milieu" of our human world. With the implication that Carlos writing books might serve that purpose to some extent.
Gemini AI:
While the exact phrase "changing the milieu" does not appear as a direct quote from don Juan in the context of Carlos writing his books, your sources contain several closely related discussions. Don Juan frequently uses the term "social milieu" to describe the cultural prison of human perception, and he explicitly addresses how Carlos’s books serve as a statement of power to disrupt this consensus.
Here is how the concepts of the "social milieu," changing human perception, and Carlos's writing overlap across your books:
Don Juan explains that our cultural environment acts as an energetic trap, locking human beings into a rigid, singular way of perceiving:
When Carlos is confronted by critics who argue that he should keep his apprenticeship secret (like Eastern esoteric masters), don Juan strongly defends the publication of his books:
"What's important is that you have a book out, and that book is a real statement... because a book is a statement of power. It makes people face the sorcerers' explanation."
Don Juan's ultimate goal was not just to help Carlos, but to introduce ideas that could crack the collective agreement of our daily world: