Modern man of technological, computerized society and dehumanizing over-government has developed a physically and mentally unhealthy and spiritually dead way of life that is occultly undeveloped and way behind shamanistic achievements of developed men and women who even to this day live closer to nature and all that is natural, alive and magical beyond all Western phony and pretentious seemingly “spiritual” socializing and endless attempts to do things in groups without genuine individuality outdoors or doing what I have called Voidwalking which has to do with direct, experiential exploring of the Energetic Unknown by leaving your over-civilized and artificial, mechanistic “normal” self behind you as you step into other worlds physically, mentally and spiritually with your total energy.

I am presenting a list of books here for anyone who wants to get a real foothold in what we can for now call Cosmic Nagual Shamanism for lack of a better term.

1. Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
2. Huge Beach, A Year In Lapland
3. Mircea Eliade, Shamanism
4. Michael Harner, The Way of the Shaman
5. Joan Halifax, Shamanic Voices
6. Black Elk, The Sacred Pipe
7. Brad Steiger, Medicine Power
8. Elizabeth B. Jenkins, Initiation
9. Martin Prechtel, Secrets of the Talking Jaguar
10. Martin Prechtel, Long Life, Honey In The Heart
11. Merilyn Tunneshende, Medicine Dream
12. Merilyn Tunneshende, Rainbow Serpent
13. Merilyn Tunneshende, Twilight Language of the Nagual
14. Carlos Castaneda, Journey To Ixtlan
15. Carlos Castaneda, Tales of Power
16. Carlos Castaneda, The Eagle’s Gift
17. Carlos Castaneda, The Fire From Within
18. Carlos Castaneda, The Power of Silence
19. Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming
20. Florinda Donner, Being-In-Dreaming
21. Taisha Abelar, The Sorcerers’ Crossing
22. Carlos Castaneda, The Active Side of Infinity
23. Carlos Castaneda, Magical Passes
24. Amy Wallace, Sorcerer’s Apprentice
25. Martin Goodman, I Was Carlos Castaneda
26. Carlos Castaneda, The Wheel of Time
    

The idea in all this is not that you become a Peruvian, a Mexican or an honorary member of some native tribe.  It’s about learning a set of principles for shifting out of unmagical normal life into magical non-normal life.  It is about you living a harmonious life of real Personal Power in tune with the Tao, Brahman and your own Godself in fact.  It is about directly exploring the Energetic Unknown that pervades the Omniverse.  A Cosmic Nagual Shaman does not belong to any tribe, nation, culture or even planet.  He radiates a Way Beyond like Kal Bhairav, Shiva as Time-Spanner.  The Cosmic Nagual Shaman has no special community or religion for you to join.  There is no standardized course for fees in becoming a Cosmic Nagual Shaman.  He might accept you as an apprentice, but that would be a matter so personal, weird and daunting that you would soon enough hate it and quit.  As a contemporary man or woman of the Time, you probably shouldn’t read these books because you will start imagining things and pretending you are something you are not, such as a teacher, healer, counselor or guide with a hyper-active dream life.  There are self-important social pretenders into Castaneda or tribal shaman things, just as there are those into Theosophy, Zen, Yoga or Sufism.  Also, the path of amateur do-it-yourself Nagual Shamanism is truly dangerous where it is not a silly social attracting or belonging trip.  One can become entrapped to one’s destruction in the realm of the Inorganic Beings through grabbing on to those entities (Fairy People) stupidly and greedily.  Being a direct experiencer is not necessarily a good thing if you are coming from the wrong place in yourself.  Some people get so heavy into any unusual phenomena they can get that they destroy their own soul or causal body through power-mongering escapism.  Every Path of Power has two sides and this has always been true.  There are even today bad shamans who ruin themselves through cursing people to make them sick or cause them losses.  Such ignorant self-destructive shamans, sorcerers or witches are fools.  Their demonic pride in their “power” is a mistaken power on a path of hellish future regret.  So do examine your motives in all this.  There are some things worse than being another silly pretender running courses or jabbering uselessly with other silly pretenders on the Web.  So, for you, all this is probably either useless or dangerous.  However, there are some rare souls who are compelled to answer a real Call of the Spirit along these lines.  They are the ones who will read the right books and do the right things about all this.  Such people with the right calling will have the right kind of courage and inner strength in this weird, dangerous path of Cosmic Nagual Shamanism.  There are some things farther out in the Universe than merely seeing UFOs or even personally encountering Extraterrestrials.  In fact, many Extraterrestrials fucking around with Earth People are themselves over-civilized and imprisoned spiritually in hyper-conformist and unmagical hi-tech lifestyles of an anti-shamanic nature.  All they have is technology to impress us with, but spiritually they lack genuine individual development.  Whole planets out there are spiritually stuck and cannot move their Assemblage Points, but they imagine they are “superior” races.  Try to understand this issue because it will become important in the near future as to the real quality of offered “rescue” on offer to spiritually weak and false fucked-up human beings of the wretched, evil planet Earth.  There are some technologically superior planets that are more spiritually deadended than the Earth precisely because they have nothing like Nagual Shamanism.

Now, since we have come this far, the more I think about you approaching Nagual Shamanism, the more I have to telepathically and intuitively see how stupid, smugly self-superior, selfish and emotionally disturbed you actually are, which means you have probably read too many Castaneda books already and which has all gone into the wrong part of your mind.  So please ignore all the books on this particular list, for it cannot possibly do anything good for you, given your contemporary occultly greedy nature.  But will you listen to this warning?  Hell no!  You think you are special and better, some sort of marvelous case with a need for miraculous intervention on your behalf.  And there are thousands, even millions like you.  Of course you probably can’t afford all these books anyway and would probably make your usual wrong random selections.  Also, even if you could get them all, you probably wouldn’t want to be that serious and deeply into the whole list and more.  Face it how social and distracted you actually are.  It is hard to imagine any subject your dull normalcy wouldn’t damage in some way.