The
writer Carlos Castaneda revealed that, besides himself, the nahual Don
Juan Matus had other apprentices, including: The fat Lady, Néstor, and
Pablito. And in his book 'The Eagle's Gift,' Castaneda recounted the following story:
« The Fat Lady told me about her experience with a mysterious stone:
"Something very strange happened to me in the ruins of Monte Alban, in Oaxaca.
I used to go walking around these ruins a lot, even though the nahual Don Juan told me not to set foot there.
I don't know why, but I loved this place. Every time I went to Oaxaca, I went there.
Since
women who walk alone are always bothered, I usually went with Pablito,
who's very daring. But once I went with Néstor and he saw a glint on the
ground. We dug a little and found a very strange stone that fit in the
palm of my hand. They had carved a neat hole in the stone.
I
felt very bold, I put my finger in the hole and realized that the stone
had been cut to be carried in the hand. Right then and there I began to
feel what the owner of that stone felt.
Its
owner had been a man of enormous size; I could feel that his hand was
twice the size of mine. He clung to that rock because his life depended
on it, and in the end, someone killed him.
His
terror horrified me. I could feel something approaching me, ready to
devour my flesh. That's what that man felt. He was a powerful man, but
someone even more powerful than him had captured him.
He
could sense that someone was after the owner of the stone. He could
feel his terror. Without a doubt, it was a very powerful sorcerer, and
whoever was after him not only wanted to kill him but also wanted to eat his flesh.
This
truly frightened me. At that moment I should have thrown the stone, but
this feeling I was experiencing was so new that I kept holding it in my
hand.
When
I finally let go, it was too late: something inside me had been
trapped. I had visions of men approaching, dressed in strange clothes. I
felt them biting me, tearing at the flesh of my legs with their teeth
and small, sharp knives.
That man, when they were killing him, clung to the stone so that he could gather all his concentration.
The
nagual said that the man's power shifted from his body to the stone; he
knew what he was doing and did not want his enemies to benefit by
devouring his flesh. »
(Chapter 1, extracts)
OBSERVATION
As usual, we don't know if this story told by Carlos Castaneda was really true or if it was a story invented by this writer.
But
esotericism explains that some people who have activated their
clairvoyance (consciously or unconsciously) can, simply by touching an
object, see the person who owns or created this object, or events or
places related to that person or object. This ability is called
psychometry.
So maybe the Fat Lady did psychometrically interpret this stone.
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