MY EXPERIENCE WITH CARLOS CASTANEDA'S MAGICAL PASES - TENSEGRITY

When Carlos Castaneda published his book "Magical Passes," also known as Tensegrity, in 1997, I was very interested in practicing it because at that time I was very involved in Chi-Kung, and also because I had heard amazing things about it.

For example, a colleague had told me that a friend of his practiced Tensegrity for six hours straight and at night he would see himself floating above his bed.

So I bought this book, but I soon discovered that the explanations it provided were not detailed enough, so I went to the Cleargreen office (the organization founded by Carlos Castaneda) to get more information.

There I discovered that they also sold videos, but they seemed very expensive, so I kept looking and found a group of Castaneda followers who practiced Tensegrity once a week in the city center.

I went to see them and I have rarely encountered such a sullen group of people: none of them greeted me, nor did they give me the slightest explanation, they simply began to perform their movements as if I did not exist and when they finished their sequence they left without even saying goodbye.

I followed the movements as best I could and didn't go back there because I was very disgusted by the harsh atmosphere in this place.

(And that is something I saw several times among Castaneda's followers: there's a lot of selfishness and insensitivity.)

The good thing about this excursion is that it helped me to better understand how the 'magic passes' were performed.

I practiced them a few times at home, but I felt "something unpleasant" that I can't describe, but it motivated me to stop practicing Tensegrity.

Later I read that the magic passes were transmitted by an ancient sorcerer who anchored himself and hid in the astral plane, and who is known as "the Death Defier".

For thousands of years, this sorcerer had traded a special energy developed by the nahuals in exchange for enhancing their abilities. But since Castaneda was the last nahual of his lineage, this sorcerer "gifted" the public with Tensegrity.

Several researchers (including myself) believe that this sorcerer revealed those 'magical passes' in order to energetically vampirize people who practice Tensegrity.

I can't say for sure, but at that time I had a very developed energy sensitivity and I suspect that the uncomfortable feeling I had was my body warning me that something was wrong with Tensegrity.