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OTHER BOOKS BY CARLOS CASTANEDAThe Teachings of Don ]uanA Separate RealityJourney to IxtlanTales of PowerThe Second Ring of PowerThe Eagle's GiftThe Fire from WithinThe Power of SilenceThe Art of DreamingMAGICAL PASSESThe Practical Wisdom of the Shamans of Ancient MexicoCARLOS CASTANEDANote: To avoid the risk of injury, consult your physician before beginning this orany physical movement program. Special caution is advised to pregnant women toconsult a physician before practicing these movements. The instructions presentedare in no way intended as a substitute for medical counseling. The Author,Publisher, and Copyright Holder of this work disclaim any liability or loss inconnection with the movements described herein.Photographs by Photo Vision and Graphics, Van Nuys, CaliforniaThe two practitioners of Tensegrity demonstrating the magical passes are KylieLundahl and Miles Reid.MAGICAL PASSES. Copyright (c) 1998 by Laugan Productions. All rights reserved.Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used orreproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the caseof brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information,address HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022.HarperCollins books may be purchased for educational, business, or salespromotional use. For information please write: Special Markets Department,HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022.FIRST EDITIONDesigned by Jessica ShatanLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataCastaneda, CarlosMagical Passes : the practical wisdom of the Shamans of ancient Mexico / CarlosCastaneda : photographs by Photo Vision and Graphics in Van Nuys, California. -1st ed. p. cm.ISBN 0-06-017584-21. Shamanism - Mexico. 2. Exercise - Religious aspects. 3. Juan, Don, 1891-. 4. Castaneda, Carlos. 5. Mexico - Religion. 6. Indians of Mexico -Religion. I. Title. BF1622.M6C37 1998 97-2688498 99 00 01 02 +/KKH 10987654 U ITo every one of the practitioners of Tensegrity,who, by rallying their forces around it,have put me in touch with energetic formulationsthat were never available todon Juan Matus or the shamans of his lineage.
 
CONTENTSIntroduction 1
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Magical Passes 9
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Tensegrity 21
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Six Series of Tensegrity 29
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The First Series: The Series for Preparing Intent 37
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The First Group: Mashing Energy for Intent 40
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The Second Group: Stirring Up Energy for Intent 49
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The Third Group: Gathering Energy for Intent 58
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The Fourth Group: Breathing In the Energy of Intent 66
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The Second Series: The Series for the Womb 71
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The First Group: Magical Passes Belonging to Taisha Abelar 75
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The Second Group: A Magical Pass Directly Related to Florinda Donner-Grau 79
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The Third Group: Magical Passes That Have to Do Exclusively with Carol Figgs 81
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The Fourth Group: Magical Passes That Belong to the Blue Scout 84
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The Third Series: The Series of the Five Concerns: The Westwood Series 89
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The First Group: The Center for Decisions 90
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The Second Group: The Recapitulation 102
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The Third Group: Dreaming 115
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The Fourth Group: Inner Silence 127
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The Fourth Series: The Separation of the Left Body and the Right Body: The HeatSeries 139
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The First Group: Stirring Energy on the Left Body and theRifjht Body 143
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The Second Group: Mixing Energy from the Left Body and the Right Body 154
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The Third Group: Moving the Energy of the Left Body and the Right Body with theBreath 165
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The Fourth Group: The Predilection of the Left Body and the Right Body 172
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The Five Magical Passes for the Left Body 173
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The Three Magical Passes for the Right Body 187
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The Fifth Series: The Masculinity Series 194
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The First Group: Magical Passes in Which the Hands Are Moved in Unison but HeldSeparately 197
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The Second Group: The Magical Passes for Focusing Tendon Energy 204
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The Third Group: The Magical Passes for Building Endurance 210
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The Sixth Series: Devices Used in Conjunction with Specific Magical Passes 217
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The First Category 219
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The Second Category 224
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INTRODUCTIONDon Juan Matus, a master sorcerer, a nagual, as master sorcerers are called whenthey lead a group of other sorcerers, introduced me to the cognitive world ofshamans who lived in Mexico in ancient times. Don Juan Matus was an Indian who was
 
born in Yuma, Arizona. His father was a Yaqui Indian from Sonora, Mexico, and hismother was presumably a Yuma Indian from Arizona. Don Juan lived in Arizona untilhe was ten years old. He was then taken by his father to Sonora, Mexico, wherethey were caught in the endemic Yaqui wars against the Mexicans. His father waskilled, and as a ten-year-old child don Juan ended up in Southern Mexico, where hegrew up with relatives.At the age of twenty, he came in contact with a master sorcerer. His name wasJulian Osorio. He introduced don Juan into a lineage of sorcerers that waspurported to be twenty-five generations long. He was not an Indian at all, but theson of European immigrants to Mexico. Don Juan related to me that the nagualJulian had been an actor, and that he was a dashing person - a raconteur, a mime,adored by everybody, influential, commanding. In one of his theatrical tours tothe provinces, the actor Julian Osorio fell under the influence of another nagual,Elias Ulloa, who transmitted to him the knowledge of his lineage of sorcerers.Don Juan Matus, following the tradition of his lineage of shamans, taught somebodily movements which he called magical passes to his tour disciples: TaishaAbelar, Florinda Donner-Grau, Carol Figgs, and myself. He taught them to us in thesame spirit in which they had been for generations, with one notable departure: heeliminated the excessive ritual which had surrounded the teaching and performanceof those magical passes for generations. Don Juan's comments in this respect werethat ritual had lost its impetus as new generations of practitioners became moreinterested in efficiency and functionalism. He recommended to me, however, thatunder no circumstances should I talk about the magical passes with any of hisdisciples or with people in general. His reasons were that the magical passespertained exclusively to each person, and that their effect was so shattering, itwas better just to practice them without discussing them.Don Juan Matus taught me everything he knew about the sorcerers of his lineage. Hestated, asserted, affirmed, explained to me every nuance of his knowledge.Therefore, everything I say about the magical passes is a direct result of hisinstruction. The magical passes were not invented. They were discovered by theshamans of don Juan's lineage who lived in Mexico in ancient times, while theywere in shamanistic states of heightened awareness. The discovery of the magicalpasses was quite accidental. It began as very simple queries about the nature ofan incredible sensation of well-being that those shamans experienced in thosestates of heightened awareness when they held certain bodily positions, or whenthey moved their limbs in some specific manner. Their sensation of well-being hadbeen so intense that their drive to repeat those movements in their normalawareness became the focus of all their endeavors.By all appearances, they succeeded in their task, and found themselves thepossessors of a very complex series of movements that, when practiced, yieldedthem tremendous results in terms of mental and physical prowess. In fact, theresults of performing these movements were so dramatic that they called themmagical passes. They taught them for generations only to shaman initiates, on apersonal basis, following elaborate rituals and secret ceremonies.Don Juan Matus, in teaching the magical passes, departed radically from tradition.Such a departure forced don Juan to reformulate the pragmatic goal of the magicalpasses. He presented this goal to me not so much as the enhancement of mental andphysical balance, as it had been in the past, but as the practical possibility ofredeploying energy. He explained that such a departure was due to the influence ofthe two naguals who had preceded him.It was the belief of the sorcerers of don Juan's lineage that there is an inherentamount of energy existing in each one of us, an amount which is not subject to theonslaughts of outside forces for augmenting it or for decreasing it. They believedthat this quantity of energy was sufficient to accomplish something which thosesorcerers deemed to be the obsession of every man on Earth: breaking theparameters of normal perception. Don Juan Matus was convinced that our incapacityto break those parameters was induced by our culture and social milieu. Hemaintained t hat our culture and social milieu deployed every bit of our inherent
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