No one really knows if Castaneda was making it all up or not. Anthropologist, teacher and apprentice to Don Juan the old Mexican sorcerer, Carlos has much to say about us becoming aware of our capacity to do so much more than we have been able to allow ourselves to believe is possible.

I love to think back upon nine years of ‘being with woman’ through labour and at the point of birth. What an amazing sense of ‘being there’ and having nothing to add, what do i mean?  I have some experience which may or may not be helpful, she has the capacity for giving birth to new life, she HAS IT ALL!!

Nothing missing, complete, yes I assist, I speak words of hope and encouragement, I reflect and tell stories about the power of woman to ‘give birth’; I clear a path to the full expression of what SHE ALREADY HAS THE CAPACITY FOR.

‘The Journey To Ixtlan’ (a chronicle of Carlos’ path) has been an aid to me waking up.

Don is leading the anthropologist through the desert and the  light is fading, shadows that fall everywhere around encourage Carlos’ to fear, only a slight uneasiness but enough to focus his intention on what he is seeing or not seeing. ‘Listen’growls the Indian, ‘now, slowly look to you left, slowly, very slowly’.  Look he does and a chill rushes through his body and he wonders what was that flickering of movement?

‘Your death stalking you’  was all Don had to say.

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