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Toltec Dreaming: Don Juan's Teachings on the Energy Body
A metaphysical instruction manual on the role of dreaming in the Toltec tradition
• Describes the energy body, its modes of perception, and how it produces dreaming
• Provides an outline of the dream gates showing how they correspond to the chakras
• Includes detailed instructions for awakening dreaming potential and for exercising and expanding the dreaming body--what to expect and how to respond
Toltec Dreaming explores the many aspects and levels of the dream-state, distinguishing ordinary dreaming from “dreaming awake,” a condition of heightened awareness through which the active dreamer ascends to the Dream of Transcendence. In this book, Ken Eagle Feather presents the history of dreaming’s place within the Toltec tradition and provides a practical how-to manual for achieving and maximizing dreaming potential.
The Toltec Way superimposes on the waking world the subtle physics of the dream world in order to create a conscious dreaming body, often referred to as an “out-of-body experience,” that can allow anyone to use dreaming as a vehicle to higher consciousness. Once the dreaming energies are fully awakened, unbounded conscious perception can come alive, whether one is in the world of dreams or in daily life. The author shows how to communicate while in the dreaming body and indicates what one may encounter in the dream. He also identifies barriers to dreaming and includes instructions for detaching the dream body from the waking ego. Filled with techniques that stimulate dreaming and the development of the dreaming body, this book will guide practitioners along the Toltec Way of the Dream.
• Describes the energy body, its modes of perception, and how it produces dreaming
• Provides an outline of the dream gates showing how they correspond to the chakras
• Includes detailed instructions for awakening dreaming potential and for exercising and expanding the dreaming body--what to expect and how to respond
Toltec Dreaming explores the many aspects and levels of the dream-state, distinguishing ordinary dreaming from “dreaming awake,” a condition of heightened awareness through which the active dreamer ascends to the Dream of Transcendence. In this book, Ken Eagle Feather presents the history of dreaming’s place within the Toltec tradition and provides a practical how-to manual for achieving and maximizing dreaming potential.
The Toltec Way superimposes on the waking world the subtle physics of the dream world in order to create a conscious dreaming body, often referred to as an “out-of-body experience,” that can allow anyone to use dreaming as a vehicle to higher consciousness. Once the dreaming energies are fully awakened, unbounded conscious perception can come alive, whether one is in the world of dreams or in daily life. The author shows how to communicate while in the dreaming body and indicates what one may encounter in the dream. He also identifies barriers to dreaming and includes instructions for detaching the dream body from the waking ego. Filled with techniques that stimulate dreaming and the development of the dreaming body, this book will guide practitioners along the Toltec Way of the Dream.
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272 pages, Paperback
First published June 11, 2007
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February 9, 2025
Ken Eagle Feather (a white guy really named Kenneth Smith) was deeply in the cult of Carlos Castaneda. Castaneda, who took far too many psychotropic drugs, duped the world for nearly 30 years by claiming to have learned a Great New Magical System That Will Save the Planet from an old Mexican he named Don Juan.
Problem was -- Don Juan never existed. Castaneda made up all of his best-selling "anthropological" books and lived live a freakin' king for the rest of his life.
Kenneth Smith is just another Castaneda. Only, he has barely any imagination, so he just regurgitates Casteneda. This book isn't even an original book -- it's an amalgam of not only all of Castaneda's books, but Smith's previous books. Some doodles, graphs and excruciating poetry by Smith's friend is included.
The book is mostly incomprehensible and mind-numbingly dull bullshit. It's filled with it's own jargon, unverified anecdotes and touches on just about every New Age concept ever spouted. However, it's written in such a poorly organized and garbled way that even Shirley McClain would call this crap.
And it constantly admonished you to "stop thinking."
It is, however, a very good book to help you get drowsy enough to fall asleep. That's the sole reason why I haven't thrown my copy into the recycling bin.
Has a cool cover, though, doesn't it?
Now, confession time -- why in fuck did I buy this book soon after the paperback was published in 2007?
At the time, I still considered myself Wiccan/Pagan. I'd only become one in 1999, and let's just say that my faith was fading fast, due to the concepts taught clearly being not true. I also was a freelance writer, and had a client who wanted stuff under the vague heading of "Relaxation" and another on alternative health. So, I bought this as a reference book.
Silly me.
By the way, both of those clients' websites suddenly disappeared a few years after I and many other wriers delivered our articles. Fortunately, I managed to get paid before the disappearances. Unfortunately, I wound up contributing to the dumbing down of the human species.
There were many things that led me to soon dump Wicca/Paganism for good, and that this book was such clear nonsense, yet was published as non-fiction, was one of them.
Problem was -- Don Juan never existed. Castaneda made up all of his best-selling "anthropological" books and lived live a freakin' king for the rest of his life.
Kenneth Smith is just another Castaneda. Only, he has barely any imagination, so he just regurgitates Casteneda. This book isn't even an original book -- it's an amalgam of not only all of Castaneda's books, but Smith's previous books. Some doodles, graphs and excruciating poetry by Smith's friend is included.
The book is mostly incomprehensible and mind-numbingly dull bullshit. It's filled with it's own jargon, unverified anecdotes and touches on just about every New Age concept ever spouted. However, it's written in such a poorly organized and garbled way that even Shirley McClain would call this crap.
And it constantly admonished you to "stop thinking."
It is, however, a very good book to help you get drowsy enough to fall asleep. That's the sole reason why I haven't thrown my copy into the recycling bin.
Has a cool cover, though, doesn't it?
Now, confession time -- why in fuck did I buy this book soon after the paperback was published in 2007?
At the time, I still considered myself Wiccan/Pagan. I'd only become one in 1999, and let's just say that my faith was fading fast, due to the concepts taught clearly being not true. I also was a freelance writer, and had a client who wanted stuff under the vague heading of "Relaxation" and another on alternative health. So, I bought this as a reference book.
Silly me.
By the way, both of those clients' websites suddenly disappeared a few years after I and many other wriers delivered our articles. Fortunately, I managed to get paid before the disappearances. Unfortunately, I wound up contributing to the dumbing down of the human species.
There were many things that led me to soon dump Wicca/Paganism for good, and that this book was such clear nonsense, yet was published as non-fiction, was one of them.
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