Senad Dizdarevic wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 8:27 am
I live in Europe, so the CC scene was far away. In those without internet, it was hard to get his books, let alone insider information.
When you know that your life was fully scripted in advance, even 100 and more years before your birth, then you know that "omens" are also fabricated.
In the DJ times, there were deciphering birds flying, presenting it as a good or bad omen flying to the south or to the north.
Today, people watch repeating numbers on their phones and digital clocks, guessing what 11:11 could mean.
The karmicons put some signs into our lives, especially at the big crossroads in life, to drive us in the right direction. Even if you don't see or understand them, you can't fail - you will execute their program and do exactly what is in your script.
You can read more about the preparation of humans from other planets for incarnations in Michael Duff Newton's Books. The karmicons pre-wrote it - like all books except mine - so there are many lies, but enough truth to get a good picture of their work.
There is also a very interesting short book, The Nine Steps: A Story of Birth and Rebirth by French authors Anne Givaudan and Daniel Meurois.
When I read Rebecca's statement that at the birth of a child, people cry on other planets, and when we die, they are happy, I knew that something was totally wrong with the story about incarnations as voluntary self-development in the "School of Life". Later, I learned that all incarnations are forced.
Speaking about signs, my book series are one of the best signs ever, as they present the truth about the Karmic Organization, and the fantastic future waiting for us.
My position is that of observer, from a philosophical and also ethnological and sociological position, of cultural trends. And of course I am interested in religion, the religious perspective, but primarily because I am interested in metaphysics. And my definition of metaphysics is rather simplistic: I see *the world* (i.e. Nature, the material and biological) as operating according to laws and processes that are 'mindless' and (from our perspective) absolutely cruel and unforgiving. Though like Don Señor Seeds I do notice that 'our world' is simultaneously amazingly beautiful and wondrous and like anyone I marvel at the fact that it exists. I.e. that there exists this *space* (
loka in Sanskrit) where, somehow or other, we appear and we take place. Similar to the view which you have emphasized, it is easy for me to speculate that just as our 'sphere' exists, that any number of other such spheres exist, and that beings with consciousness are ubiquitous in this Cosmos.
Metaphysics is a conceived-of or even imagined world that is superimposed over the actual world. I do not discount what is metaphysical as being unreal. In fact what is conceived of metaphysically determines everything in the human world. We are metaphysical beings.
When we consider *metaphysical pictures* we have a great deal to examine. The most primitive would be shamanistic perspectives and the picture of a man alone facing the terrible and terrifying world and relying on his wits and his strength to make his way through. In that circumstance man relies on 'signs and omens' and also spirits and demi-gods for success in the hunt.
That way of life (here in America) was explored a great deal in the 60s and 70s (and later) by post-Christians who became unmoored from their grounding in conventional, religious pictures. One has to take into consideration that with the so-called *death of god* (the killing of an unbelievable 'picture' of man, the world, the universe, being and all the rest) that it was quite natural, and inevitable, that people would be thrown back upon themselves and start to examine other 'pictures' and also tactics and techniques. Certainly CG Jung was a major player in exploring an entire ground that had been left behind, or been submerged and repressed, by the assault against everything 'pagan'. An entire intelligentsia in Europe recoiled back into themselves when the road forward as defined by the Christian picture (the *horizon* as Nietzsche put it) collapsed, which it certainly did. (CC took the *hunter's mentality' and turned it into an elaborate 'stalker's' philosophy.)
Castaneda is a peculiarly potent figure, and utterly and completely Californian, and to understand his advent one has to go back 150 years to specific currents that began to operate on the East Coast in the
Burned-over District. All the bizarre religious hybrids that later became parts-and-parcel of American 'belief' (and later of post-Christianity and post-belief) had their origin in a spiritual dissatisfaction. A burning quest for new territories, new ways and means, new outlooks. All of this is quite evident from a sociological perspective. So, suffice to say (I think this can easily be made obvious) that in California it all matured and flowered in amazing, weird and bizarre ways. Christian-based revisionism, occultism, astrology, chakras, yoga, shamanism, Taoism, Buddhism, vegetarianism, and then of course everything associated with sexual liberation and extreme free-thinking: this is the stuff of American radicalism. And even the 'cults' that have become more or less mainstreamed -- Pentecostalism for example -- arose from the impetus established in the Burnt-over District. Consider as well 'the Woodstock generation', the artistic and radical political motivations that developed in my parent's generation. All avenues opened up and no avenue (even Satanism) became viable and somehow worthy of exploration.
Castaneda was a most amazing operator within a *cultural context* that was completely Californian. You could place him alongside
The Source Family. When the Castanedan scene in LA fell to pieces I had the opportunity to examine it in some depth less by reading about it and more through direct contact with people who had been 'disciples' of CC. It is not hard to be fair in analyzing it: CC was involved in, and he created, a unique and bizarre 'spin' on the religious impetus. He melded philosophic concepts more peculiar to 20th century philosophy by placing the concepts in the pre-conquest and post-conquest world of 'Toltec seers'. This is not the place for a depth examination of this 'world' that CC created, and the cultish environment (so very LA) that he built, and which later imploded. The reason I mention any of this is because, if I had to be plain and direct, you are more or less imitating the paradigm that he employed. It is a mishmash of 'conceptual' pictures, combined with what I could call *genuine* (or in any case existent) spiritual practices, and you are creating a Picture that you then invite people to participate in.
One of the conversations I had with my dreamer friend "DL" touched on how people are *primed* by the fabulous book that then sets them up for a meeting with the Master. Take for example Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda:
Wiki wrote:Yogananda was among the first Indian religious teachers to settle in the US, and the first prominent Indian to be hosted in the White House (by President Calvin Coolidge in 1927); his early acclaim led to him being dubbed "the 20th century's first superstar guru" by the Los Angeles Times. Arriving in Boston in 1920, he embarked on a successful transcontinental speaking tour before settling in Los Angeles in 1925. For the next two and a half decades, he gained local fame and expanded his influence worldwide: he created a monastic order and trained disciples, went on teaching tours, bought properties for his organization in various California locales, and initiated thousands into Kriya Yoga. By 1952, SRF had over 100 centers in both India and the United States. As of 2012, they had groups in nearly every major American city. His "plain living and high thinking" principles attracted people from all backgrounds among his followers.
The book is filled to the brim with outrageous, over the top, fantastic stories of encounters with mysterious yogis in the 'imagined world' of mystical India. The book itself is an invitation to *enter* that imagined world and,
imaginally, to participate in it through vicarious projection. And once you have read the book, and once you have absorbed and integrated the possibilities that it offers (again on the imagined level) you are ready to jump in yourself. It is actually quite similar, if I may say so, to the Bible stories and more specifically to the Gospel stories. In the Gospels you are, without knowing it, the reader who sees and understand what no one in the Story sees and understands. You are invited in as a participant but as a seer. You absorb the 'truths' presented as if they are or were real.
CC took this to a whole other level. He was a total fraud as an anthropologist and his doctoral thesis was faked. But when his doctoral thesis was published, the imagined world he pictured was taken up by a California subculture and the possibility of using peyote, psilocybin mushrooms as a means to self-exploration, escape for the doldrums of the Postwar suburban wasteland, and the attraction of philosophical and spiritual perspectives of a totally outrageous sort, quite literally took hold of a large segment of a whole generation. And CC saw his opportunity. He was a sly fox and quite adept at manipulating academic pretension to present an entire imagined world of seers, Naguals, sorcerers, even energy vampires who, by borrowing energy, managed not to die and to potentially live forever.
I have been participating on this Philosophy Now forum for quite some time now and if it is not obvious my area of concern and interest is not philosophy at a granular, academic level, but rather the ways that our thought about the world we live in evolves. I am more interested in *the average man* and how his perceptions mold and change, and what influences he exposes himself to, and how this is expressed culture-wide, than I am in some specific philosopher of perspective. These threads that deal on religious concepts (and metaphysics) seem to be the ones that attract interactions. The reason seems evident to me: It has to do with the way that interpretations of Reality are molded, reformed, revisioned, tweaked, restructured ...
Your system is rather odd because in that world you have demonic powers (Karmicons and 'Flyers') but only a modified version of the angelical. You angelical entities are not non-physical beings made of another substance entirely, but rather actual people living on 'higher planets' involved (I gather) in a Cosmic Battle to win over human culture that, as in the Matrix, are captured, and perhaps cultivated for nefarious purposes, by entities that they do not conceive as actually existing. The World then is a sort of mirage or a false-front that must be penetrated by unique understanding (gnosis in fact). Yet you
play (if you permit the world) on the paranoid sense, or the shadow-sense, that such entities do in fact 'exist'. It is odd to me that you exclude *God* from the imagined world of your fantastic tale. However, I imagine that it fits culturally into an Eastern European post-Christian cultural world (?)
Agreed. 
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