When one reads the Amy Wallace ”revelations” about the Carlos Castaneda ”cult”, one notices that the whole thing is about the Tonal or external social self of Carlos Castaneda and not about the Nagual or internal Spirit self of Carlos Castaneda.  Amy Wallace discloses her stuck position of her assemblage point as a voluntary participant in mutual sexual exploitation of her Tonal with the Tonal of Carlos Castaneda.  Her book is a gossip sheet written by the Tonal for all superficial Tonals who have been or are into Carlos Castaneda.  She shows all the personal problems of someone “trapped in a cult”, but shows us nothing about the Nagual Way of the New Seers of Mexico.  She shows us that she tried the Recapitulation exercise, which she could not realize.  She appears to have had no access to Heightened Awareness, never learned effective Stalking or Dreaming, and never fathomed the meaning of Intent.

Amy Wallace’s book is not about Carlos Castaneda as the New Nagual, nor is it about the Ancient Way of the Naguals.  That Carlos Castaneda was a womanizer and a former C.I.A. assassin does not mean that his Teacher, Juan Matus or his Benefactor, Genaro Flores, were ridiculous, unreal or undeveloped people following a reprehensible path.  That Carlos was a flawed being does not mean his books reveal nothing of significant esoteric developments.  La Gorda was also a flawed being who died at Castaneda’s house in an intensely energetic fit of Tonal egomania that her Nagual/Spirit could not handle, but this colossal personal failure of hers does not mean her Spirit had made no progress at all.  When she reincarnates, she will do better next time.  The progress and development of any Nagual or Spirit cannot be judged by the brain centered social ego or Tonal, whether of Amy Wallace or any other well-known personage or self-appointed expert in the sociological field.  Only Naguals can see what is going on with Naguals.

The only sad thing about Carlos Castaneda’s personally intense fucking is that he did not know how to fully connect with Xoxonapo, the Death Defier, and learn how to go on fucking for three thousand years.  So now he must wander as a frustrated, unhappy ghost in the Bardo of Unhappy Ghosts, as the Tibetans describe it.  Robert Monroe also clearly describes what is called “the Pile” on the other side where deceased men and women, all very horny for one another, try to have sex with their appealing subtle bodies, their subtle doubles, but can never get the necessary physical sensations that require actual physical bodies.  The physical body dies, but desire is subtler and does not die.

The Amy Wallace book reveals a few of genuinely interesting details from the Nagual point of view, but those in spite of herself.  Amy Wallace will make money from her book and have all sorts of Tonal opportunities as a famous person, but she is nowhere in genuine spiritual development of any kind whatsoever, which is obvious to anyone who can see.  What is also amazing is that she was effectively stalked by Muni Alexander, Florinda Grau and Taisha Abelar, who managed to vacate the Cult Situation and retire into the Way of the Naguals in Mexico with the presiding genius of the Death Defier to guide them.  In the world of the Naguals, their story is not finished.  In the world of the Tonals, it is Amy Wallace’s story that is finished.  Everyone focuses the story they deserve.

Carlos Castaneda could not bring Amy Wallace into his inner world through fucking her and ordering her around.  That was his horny Tonal clouding his judgment.  More than once he would try to bring one of his girlfriends into direct connection with the Old Nagual, Juan Matus, and he was always refused.  Again and again that maneuver was rejected totally.  The full-blown Naguals never accept Volunteers.  Carlos was always trying to break that protocol.  Building up a cult of Volunteers rather than forming a Nagual Party of Spirit-Selected Beings was his fatal error.  When Amy Wallace describes to us her fellow Volunteers-of-the-cult, their obviously weak and selfish natures (cracked gourds) show us why the Nagual Rule about No Volunteers is valid and will always be valid.  An extremely interesting parallel to this rule comes out in Andre Tarkovsky’s film, Stalker.  Early in the film, the Stalker meets with Writer, who he has agreed to bring into The Zone.  Writer wants to bring a beautiful but shallow woman he had just met into The Zone as well.  The Stalker then simply tells the woman to go away.  The woman then goes off in an insulted huff.  Everything about sexually recruited volunteers is right there in that scene, if you want to really look at it.

What is most needed about Carlos Castaneda and the Way of the Naguals in a profound examination of The Definitive Journey, which has to do with the goal of Freedom and Full Awareness, which comes from Lighting the Fire From Within in order to “Dart past the Eagle to be free”.  This has been defined as a culmination of the Third Attention.  But according to ancient Buddhist sages of China, this is a pseudo-liberation where the Mind can maintain an higher dimensional Ego Position in the “Dead Void”.  They would say that even if a Nagual stays there in the Third Attention for “84,000 years” (a symbolic number, as Eighty-Four means Karmic Ego), sooner or later the Karmic Ego will have to come down out of that cosmic cul-de-sac and get physically reborn to learn to progress to the Fourth Attention and even the Fifth Attention.  Of course, Xoxonapo, the Death Defier, knows the Naguals are “prisoners of power” in the Third Attention.  For the average Tonal who has not got to the Nagual in the Second and Third Attentions, this ultimate overriding issue doesn’t even arise, but later it becomes incredibly large and decisive.  The Way of the Naguals is therefore only a transitional path, a bridge of sorts, between stupid normalcy of the physical social self and yet higher potentials significantly beyond the Naguals.  Real Freedom begins in the Fourth Attention, which is Divine.  Juan Matus and his party get an E-for-effort, but their result is not as final and eternal as they are convinced.  But someone like Amy Wallace or modern anti-cult sociologists would never have the slightest clue about what is really going on about Naguals.  For one thing, they are never going to meet the Death Defier, which is the key to the whole thing.