http://www.metahistory.org/gnostique/gnosticastaneda/CCgnosis.php
In Castaneda’s final book, The Active Side of Infinity (1998), don Juan challenges Castaneda to reconcile man’s intelligence, demonstrated in so many achievements, with “the stupidity of his systems of beliefs... the stupidity of his contradictory behaviour.” Don Juan relates this blatant contradiction in human intelligence to what he calls “the topic of topics,” “the most serious topic in sorcery.” This topic is predation. To the horrified astonishment of his apprentice, the elder sorcerer explains how the human mind has been infiltrated by an alien intelligence:
According to don Juan, the sorcerers of ancient Mexico called the predator the flyer (italicised by Castaneda) “because it leaps through the air... It is a big shadow, impenetrably black, a black shadow that jumps through the air.” This description matches thousands of accounts of the bizarre jumping movements, sometimes sideways, executed by alien Greys who accost people at random. Fleeting black shadows are less often reported, but they play the major role in the long and detailed report of alien activity by John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies.
Gnostic writings contain descriptions of alien predators called Archons, Arkontai in Greek. The texts from Nag Hammadi describe them as heavy, elusive, shadowy creatures. The most common name for them is “beings of the likeness, shadow-creatures.” Could the Archons be compared to the “mud shadows” described by don Juan? This question raises the general issue of parallels between don Juan’s Central American Toltec shamanism and the shamanism of the Mystery Schools of ancient Europe. Let’s consider some of these parallels.
First, there is the matter of the influence of the predators or flyers on humanity. In The Active Side of Infinity, Don Juan tells Castaneda that “the predators give us their mind, which becomes our mind.” This alarming statement suggests an immediate parallel to Gnostic teachings. Gnostics, who directed the Mystery Schools of the Near East in antiquity, taught that the true mind of human beings, nous authenticos, is part of the cosmic intelligence that pervades nature, but due to the intrusion of the Archons, this “native mind” or "native genius" can be subverted and even occupied by another mind. They warned that the Archons invade the human psyche, they intrude mentally and psychologically, although they may also confront us physically as well. Their main impact, however, is in our mental syntax, in our paradigms and beliefs, exactly as don Juan says of the flyers.
Don Juan tells Castaneda that the predator’s mind is “a cheap model: economy strength, one size fits all.” This description fits the hive-mentality of the Archons. Sorcerers call this uniform alien mind “the foreign installation, which exists in you and in every other human being.” The foreign installation (italicized by Castaneda) pulls us out of our syntax. It deranges our indigenous abilities to organize the world according to the language proper to our species. The role of correct syntax in the sorcerer’s mastery of intent is one of the central factors in the later teachings of Don Juan. The sorcerer's concern for deviation of syntax, and consequent derouting of intent, parallels the importance of language and correct definition emphasized in Gnostic teaching. [We are so afraid of the "hive mind," and the irony is that most people are part of it! Language/beliefs... think politically correct terminology that sways our beliefs.]
Don Juan makes a number of statements pertinent to strategies against alien intrusion. He says that the sorcerers of ancient times “found out that if they taxed the flyers’ mind with inner silence, the foreign installation would flee, giving to any one of the practitioners involved in this maneouver the total certainty of the mind’s foreign origin.” In other words, the realization that another mind can operate in our minds only becomes fully clear and certain when the foreign mind has been exposed and expelled. Only then do we understand how “the real mind that belongs to us, the sum total of our experience, after a lifetime of domination has been rendered shy, insecure and shifty.” The “real mind” of Castaneda can be equated to the nous authenticos of the Gnostics. The main effect of the flyers upon our mind is seen in mental conditioning, brainwashing. This is also the main effect of Archontic intrusion.
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I stumbled upon this: http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0LEV0ESQapTqiEA86hXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMT...
TANATH ON ARCHONS (NHOUM DAL AKARAN) THE ARCHONS THAT WERE REFERRED TO BY THE GNOSTICS are the same ones as referred to by Robert M Stanley are what is known as the Nhoum dal Akaran, which in my language translates to "bane of the living! "They are synthetic beings that are highly malicious that feed on the energy of human consciousness, these are also the ones that sit on your chest ( aka "night hag") that leave you feeling TERRIFIED, but they are the NdalA! they are horribly negative and they can be destroyed, they are really not nice things at all. If you ground and centre and radiate your own inner light, that usually drives them off, still mind meditation will drive one off if already attached to your consciousness. They really cant stand still mind meditation, the more you do it the more yucky you taste to them! the more likely they are to move on and find somebody else, if you are capable of destroying them with your own light id say do so as it is not nice to leave them loose to go off onto someone else! THEY ARE INVOLVED IN CONTROLLING HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS IN THAT THEY TRY TO MANIPULATE PEPLE TO GENERATE NEGATIVE ENERGY. THEY ARE ALSO WORKING IN CONJUCTION WITH OTHER FORMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS THAT WANTS TO CONTROL US, SUCH AS THE REPTOIDS AND OTHER VARIOUS NEGATIVE SPECIES, THEY WORK OUT A PACT WITH THEM IN WHICH THEY WILL GO DO WHAT THE OTHER NEGATIVES WANT IN RETURN FOR HAVING FREE REIGN DOWN HERE TO GO DO WHAT THEY WANT. its sort of a I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine kind of evil pact.
There are many techniques to protection. The thing is finding the best one that works the best for oneself.
Okay. Well, the defense against Archonic intrusion is being able to master your ego and exist in stillness (like in meditation). Discipline your mind and they'll leave you alone.
I am reading it now Cheryl. I have read one of Castaneda's books just not the one that's listed above.
Did you read the part about Psychic Self-Defence?
Interesting.