Introduction To The Forum

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Author, Carlos Castaneda, handed down to us a rich description of the path of knowledge, of the path that you or I would need to follow if we were to ever achieve the same for ourselves. He called this path the Path of a Warrior. This forum is my personal endeavor to discuss what tha has meant for me, and it is my invitation for you to do the same.

Castaneda described the need for The Path Of The Warrior this way:

The Warrior's Way
Carlos Castaneda | The Fire Within

“In order to offset the nefarious effect of dreaming, since they had no other option but to use it, the new seers developed a complex and rich system of behavior called the warrior’s way, or the warrior’s path.

With that system, the new seers fortified themselves and acquired the internal strength they needed to guide the shift of the assemblage point in dreams. Don Juan stressed that the strength he was talking about was not conviction alone. No one could have stronger convictions than the old seers, and yet they were weak to the core. Internal strength meant a sense of equanimity, almost indifference, a feeling of being at ease, but, above all, it meant a natural and profound bent for examination, for understanding. The new seers called all these traits of character sobriety.

"The conviction that the new seers have,” he continued, “is that a life of impeccability by itself leads unavoidably to a sense of sobriety, and this in turn leads to the movement of the assemblage point."

“I’ve said that the new seers believed that the assemblage point can be moved from within. They went one step further and maintained that impeccable men need no one to guide them, that by themselves, through saving their energy, they can do everything that seers do. All they need is a minimal chance, just to be cognizant of the possibilities that seers have unraveled.”