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It seems to me, true, as if maybe you're just getting caught up in words(?). I am absolutely positive that Carlos not only mentioned that we are beings who are going to die, but also to live as though we are already dead, that way we have nothing to cling to and nothing to lose.

Hey Ensonar. Nice to hear from you.

Maybe. But words are so important, and yet not important at all. They describe, pathetically, real things, intent.

"Going to" is an intent of the future, the not now.
"Act as if" means that you're not!
"Live as though" means you're not when you are reading intent.

They still imply seperation. The intent behind the words is important. By intent, I don't mean one's personal intent, not Carlos' intent behind his words, but the intent that shapes reality when the word is spoken, consciously or unconsciously - the intent of the word itself.

So can we not be seperate from death?

I guess death is just like immortal - they have no meaning when you leave the context of that world. Death is only a thought, a label.

I'm lost. I have no reference.
Silence again.


Thank you both for talking with me. Maybe I don't belong here... maybe I'm not CC oriented. I thought I was. Maybe I am. Maybe it has evolved beyond what I expected.

What concerns me is the actual world, the world that is when the mind is not. So if Castaneda's system fits that I'm fine. If it doesn't, I have to throw it out. I can't adhere to second-hand knowledge or I become a believer instead of a realist, a man of action. So for me all the teachings have to be inventoried in this way - can I directly experience/perceive that, or is it a belief. And i have to discard beliefs to find what I truly am, what is essential and true.