Carlos Castaneda Adventure

Yesterday I picked up 'Tales of Power' by Carlos Castaneda. Awesome as all his works. (The Teachings of Don Juan, A Seperate Reality, Journey to Ixtlan, The Second Ring of Power, The Eagle's Gift, The Fire Within, The Power of Silence, The Wheel of Time, The Active Side of Infinity) Naturally, I'm filling my head with a block of total power conveyed in terms that are consistent with the my usual yet chronicled in story line filled with colorful metaphor and just plain awesome symbolism and creativity. In short it's a series of books that detail Carlos Castaneda's (an anthropology student) apprenticeship with Don Juan (A Nagual) over a period of years. It teaches the warrior's way, dealing with concepts such as 'self-importance' (where most people's greatest amount of energy is absorbed in the upholding of), 'petty tyrants,' 'luminous bodies,' 'allies,' the 'dream-bodies,' the 'tonal' vrs the 'nagual,' 'sorcerers,' 'seeing,' 'impeccability,'etc. Most of the work is precluded by the first major task of stopping the 'internal dialogue' which is basically the voice that yaps in your head all day. With this silence, or the absense of the screen or filter of the mind out of the way, the 'true' realilty comes into being. "The world is such and such and so and so only because we talk to ourselves about it's being such and such and so and so." Consistent with 'J. Krishnamurti' and his works such as 'The First and Last Freedom,' and countless others, all again, the understanding that the mind creates a sense of security by labeling and defining, and once set, tends to confine the world to that interpretation never really re-evaluating, or re-seeing, or even 'seeing' in the sense of viewing without interpretation or judgement of any kind. This throws us into the Jesus Christ of the 'Gospel of Thomas' and all the mystic in general, yet what am I doing but defining and catagorizing and basically what 'language' does, remembering Frederich Neitzsche said, all language is abstraction and the first fallacy. Having read most of Castaneda's books I myself, like I've done with Eckhart Tolle's books, 'Power of Now' and 'A New Earth,' basically have created mental constructs and mental idols/philosophic ways of shaping reality despite these book's intentions of escaping such methodology. Sorry, off on a tangent again. Point being, I'm reading 'Tales of Power' and now I'm running backwards, I'm doing my tricep push-downs at the gym on one leg (increases memory capacity while bringing thought into the muscle, and feeling into the mind), I'm running my 7 miles (increasing this number daily) while searching the landscape for thing's I've never seen before in my existence, I'm driving with my full attention in the rear-view windows only peripherally looking forward. I'm doing what I never do, breaking all patterns, and getting definite reasons for doing things, then doing the opposite. Actually, nothing new, just another revisited source of inspiration getting me to do what I do better. Or as Anthony Robbins states, "Most people know what to do, they just don't know how to get themselves to do it." Well, let me tell you, disciplined effort, consistenty applied, whoops, gotta do the opposite, lazy, do nothing, it don't matter.
I ran tonight with Gary Desclafani, world famous model, world's biggest fan of Dicky Betts and soon to be the replacement guitar player of the Allman Brothers. I ate at Chinese Restaurant, steamed chicken and broccoli, and other than that, only a protein bar and some baked turkey and plain green peas, and water and coffee. Again the Castaneda has my entire soft-wear focused on new things and so food has taken an insignificant role in my agendaless agenda. Times Square was tremendous, sunny, high 60's, it's 'Mothers' Day' and the lined up in all shapes and sizes to have mom's butt squeezed by Naked Cowboy. I did an interview with a major 'Travel Channel,' Tourist Attraction' type outfit out of Spain, Barcelona, and basically took all the attention away again from the 'Eddie Murphy' movie being shot near 'Planet Hollywood.'(have already been approached about being in it) This morning I trained at Atlantis Health and Fitness as usual, doing eliptical and chest, back, shoulders and abs. Spoke to Gaetano, an enlightened music producer with 4sight music productions, sparking with wonder and magic as we discussed and began execution of the take-over of Facebook. Gaetano is in San Diego transforming his physique into the work of art it was/is/will eternally be intended to be. Chicken and broccoli is the cure for every know illusion/ailment. "The body must be perfection before with will is a functioning unit." -Castaneda