Hi CCC,
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They are very similar to a lot of the stuff on the AF website, (...)
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Maybe have a look at this and compare it to the AF stuff: they are talking about the very same thing I believe.
Could you provide some links and explanations as to why you think the material on the site you linked has anything to do with what actualism is on about? I browsed just a few random samples and I was hard pressed to find anything that could even be close to similar...
Here are just a few very obviously odd things I caught:
http://www.prismagems.com/castaneda/donjuan7.html:
The first truth about awareness is that the world out there is not really as we think it is. We think it is a world of objects and it's not.
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Perception is a condition of alignment; the emanations inside the cocoon become aligned with those outside that fit them. Alignment is what allows awareness to be cultivated by every living creature. Seers make these statements because they see living creatures as they really are: luminous beings that look like bubbles of whitish light.
http://www.prismagems.com/castaneda/donjuan2.html:
A man can go still further than that; a man can learn to see . Upon learning to see he no longer needs to live like a warrior, nor be a sorcerer. Upon learning to see a man becomes everything by becoming nothing. He, so to speak, vanishes and yet he's there. I would say that this is the time when a man can be or can get anything he desires. But he desires nothing, and instead of playing with his fellow men like they were toys, he meets them in the midst of their folly. The only difference between them is that a man who sees controls his folly, while his fellow men can't. A man who sees has no longer an active interest in his fellow men. Seeing has already detached him from absolutely everything he knew before.
http://www.prismagems.com/castaneda/donjuan12.html:
Inner silence is a peculiar state of being in which thoughts are canceled out and one can function from a level other than that of daily awareness. Inner silence means the suspension of the internal dialogue&endash;the perennial companion of thought&endash;and is therefore a state of profound quietude.
The old sorcerers called it inner silence because it is a state in which perception doesn't depend on the senses. What is at work during inner silence is another faculty that man has, the faculty that makes him a magical being, the very faculty that has been curtailed, not by man himself but by some extraneous influence.
Trent