Carlos Castaneda Quotes

And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.

Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.

Your energy and your awareness are directly connected. If your energies are intense, your awareness naturally grows and sharpens.

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.

We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.

The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

In truth we gaze but do not see, and hearken but do not hear; we eat and drink but do not taste. And there lies the difference between Jesus of Nazareth and ourselves. His senses were all continually made new, and the world to Him was always a new world.

We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.

You can't have a universe without the mind entering into it.

Rather, Spirit, and enlightement, has to be something that you are fully aware of right now. Something you are already looking at right now... We are all already looking directly at Spirit, we just don't recognize it. We have all the necessary cognition, but not the recognition.

Reality became for me a problem after my experience with LSD. Before, I had believed there was only one reality, the reality of everyday life. Just one true reality and the rest was imagination and was not real. But under the influence of LSD, I entered into realities which were as real and even more real than the one of everyday. And I thought about the nature of reality and I got some deeper insights.

Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.

Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)

The force fields of nature are force fields of consciousness. They are force fields of knowledge.

Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.

You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.

If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.

Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.

The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake.

The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.

My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you.

To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.

We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise.