- "The secret of the double is in the bubble of perception.
The cluster of feelings can be made to assemble instantly anywhere.
In other words, one can perceive the here and the there at once."
from Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda 
Tensegrity is the modern version of magical passes: movements and positions of body and breath discovered by men and women shamans who lived in Mexico in ancient times, and taught to Carlos Castaneda, Florinda Donner-Grau, Taisha Abelar and Carol Tiggs by their teacher, don Juan Matus, a Yaqui Indian from Sonora, Mexico and Yuma Arizona, and the heir to the lineage of those ancient shamans. The word Tensegrity was coined by architect and dreamer R. Buckminster Fuller, and is a combination of tension and integrity, which Carlos Castaneda saw as a perfect description of the driving forces of the magical passes, and of the way of being that don Juan Matus taught him: giving equal attention to all parts of our being, all aspects of our actions with others, all parts of the scene we are in, and how they interrelate.
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A Tensegrity® & Theater of Infinity® Workshop
The Alchemy of Masculine and Feminine
Practices developed by Carlos Castaneda
Chatres, France
June 30, July 1 and 2, 2017
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Historic workshops by Cleargreen in the UK :
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Theater of Infinity™
Workshop: London, November 2012
plus Excursion to Stonehenge and Glastonbury
"The grand task of seers is to bring forth the idea that, in order to evolve, man must first free his awareness from its bindings to the social order. Once awareness is free, intent will redirect it onto a new evolutionary path." Don Juan Matus, as quoted by Carlos Castaneda in The Art of Dreaming
Enhanced awareness is the jewel we discover by bringing a fresh perspective to our social interactions - our connection to the social order. The Theater of Infinity™ whether witnessed as a play or practiced as an interactive art, is one means of freeing our awareness.
It is an adaptation Carlos Castaneda made to an earlier form of theater that was introduced to the lineage of don Juan Matus by the nagual Elias Ulloa, and further refined by his student and don Juan's benefactor, the nagual Julian Osorio. It entails the use of the magical passes, the dreamt movements of their lineage, to perform a special kind of theater - one in which the actors try on various masks, and as they do so, come to see that their "usual" identities are also masks - clearing the way, if even for an instant, for them to become aware of their true identity as extensions of infinity itself, capable of intending how they want to live and be. In their play, as in life, they make a tour of awareness, a journey by which they and the universe becomes more aware of the vastness, multiplicity and mutability of themselves.
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- How a pandemic had unexpected results
The world is nature and nature is unpredictable. Who for instance predicted the Covid Epidemic?
Britain is a nation of fast food lovers. During the pandemic millions of people were deniewd access to their favourite beefburgers, fried chicken dinners, Chinese and Indian takeaways. The shops were shut and the nation was forbidden for venturing out. What was the result?
The takeaway foor delivery explosion is the answer. Hundreds of thousands of young people earning low wages took to the street delivering food, each covered by basic food delivery driver insurance - which they usually had to pay for themselves - and millions of people got into the habit of ordering a takeaway meal online then waiting for the knock on the door from the delivery driver. a multi BILLION pound industry sprung up, one that has continued to grow even after the pandemic ended!
Now, insteaDd of the norm being healthy food cooked at home many fanilies regularly eat fast food full of salt and preservatives, with lots of calories but little in the way of real nutrition.
Sadly it seems that the food delivery industry will continue to grow. The Insurance industry found another insurance product to swell their profits with. The effects on the nation's health of a diet of food delivered from mysterious kitchens has yet to be determined. More unexpected results, of an unexpected event.
Breaking the Speed Barrier
London, Saturday October 16th 2010
For the seers of don Juan's lineage, there is the cognition of modern man, and there is the cognition of the shamans of ancient Mexico. Don Juan considered these two to be entire worlds of everyday life which were intrinsically different from one another.
- Carlos Castaneda
According to the seers of ancient Mexico, the speed with which we do, think, react and interact, acts as a measure of cognition.
In many instances, the faster we go, the briefer the intake from our environment, the more mono-dimensional and tunneled become our thoughts, and the more fragmented becomes our cognition, leaving us in the end with energy that looks like fine, scattered particles of dust.
At another extreme, our habitual speed limits us in another way - we respond to our environment far too slowly; we 'miss the boat,' or hold things up; our energy becomes inert and stagnant, and we approach the events of our lives with a trepidation and tentativeness that impedes a decision of which direction to go.
According to seers, if we can learn to move with awareness - issues with 'fast' and 'slow' slip away, and we enter into the cognition of the seers of ancient Mexico as it applies to now, energetically experiencing a cohesion of being, which the students of don Juan refer to as Tensegrity.
In this one-day workshop, participants will practice Tensegrity - magical passes, or movements and breaths, that move us through differing speeds and rhythms, and self-inquiry exercises that help us identify who in our past gave us the 'green light' to speed up, or the 'red light' to slow down - all as an aid to breaking our current speed, whatever it is, that binds our cognition.
June 2008:
UK Workshop of Carlos Castaneda's Tensegrity called: Dare I Dream?...Yes!
Intending...requires imagination, discipline, purpose, and affection. In this case, to intend means that you get an unquestionable bodily knowledge that you are a dreamer. You feel you are a dreamer with all the cells of your body. -- The Art of Dreaming
"What do you want?" the nagual Carlos Castaneda asked a group of students gathered in a movement studio in Santa Monica.
"You've been recapitulating, reviewing your lives, for some time. You now have energy…energy to dream…So I'm asking you the same question don Juan asked me, the same question I asked each of you when I first met you: 'What is your heart's desire?'"
The students paused for a moment."I want to dream!" excitedly exclaimed one student
"Dream what?" asked the nagual.
"I want to be part of a collaborative team that builds a community," she said. "Where people can live well and they can… Well, I don't really know,” she suddenly hesitated, interrupting herself.. “It's a really big dream...I'd like it to be able to generate its own power, and have fruit trees and vegetable gardens, and lots of community space, a place where everyone can participate in decisions.”
"And?" questioned the nagual.
"And?" questioned the apprentice back. "Do I dare dream that?"
"Yes!" said the nagual laughing. "We get caught in our fear – fear that we are not enough; fear that others will say 'No'! And we keep our dreams small...We are far more accustomed to nightmaring than to dreaming!...Let’s brush this habit aside and practice a magical pass - The Singing Earth Serpent - a form designed to help us practice the art of specific dreaming…here and now, on this earth!"
The students spread themselves out in the room and began to move, following the movements of the nagual.
"What do you feel?" the nagual whispered after a lulling moment."That my insides are vibrating in tune with my outsides!" said one student
"I feel tingling in my cells," said another.
"...That we are all connected," said a third"You are feeling your essence," the nagual said, "which is intent itself, vibrating, alive, delicious! Intent is affectionate, the organizing web of the universe. From here you can track the trail of intent in your life, your moments of YES! and share them and follow others like them with purpose.
"I want to feel this way, all the time," one student said.
"A part of you, a part of everyone here, HAS been feeling this way your entire life!" the nagual said. "You just didn't know how to access it consistently – that flame of infinity inside, reaching out to touch and intermingle with the dreams of others – those that are like yours and those that are different – interacting with all that infinite diversity. Yes!"
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June 2007:
Cleargreen workshop: The First of a New Series on Dreaming:
“¿Cuál es tu pesadilla? What is your nightmare?”
“And what can he [a warrior] do to overcome fear?”
“The answer is very simple. He must not run away. He must defy his fear, and in spite of it he must take the next step in learning, and the next, and the next. He must be fully afraid, and yet he must not stop. That is the rule! And a moment will come when his first enemy retreats. The man begins to feel sure of himself. His intent becomes stronger. Learning is no longer a terrifying task.
— Don Juan Matus (The Teachings of don Juan)
Men and women seers who lived in Mexico in ancient times discovered and developed a system of movements and breaths that enabled those who practiced them to attain extraodinary states of well-being and awareness. This system became known as the magical passes, or by its more modern term -- Tensegrity.
Carlos Castaneda, an anthropologist by training, along with three female cohorts, became the beneficiaries of this knowledge. In a series of books, Carlos Castaneda described his encounter with don Juan Matus, a Yaqui Indian and leader of a party of seers, and the subsequent training and initiation into this unique body of knowledge which has been carefully preserved and handed down from generation to generation through a long line of seers.
In this workshop, the emphasis will be on dreaming, the awakening of perception outside of what we already know. Participants will practice magical passes and stalking exercises to identify what fears in everyday life hold our perception in place, stimulating us then to perceive beyond. This workshop will be taught by the direct apprentices of Carlos Castaneda .