Traces of predators

The idea may be disturbing: humanity is a docile herd, a source of energy for entities from another plane. This is what Don Juan, the Yaqui shaman who taught Carlos Castaneda, says:

"The ancient sorcerers of Mexico discovered that we have a companion for life: we harbor a predator that comes from the depths of the cosmos and has taken the reins of our lives. Human beings are its prisoners. The predator is our lord and master. He has made us docile and powerless. If we want to protest, he suppresses our protest. If we want to act independently, he demands that we refrain from doing so. (...)

All this time I have been trying to make you understand that something is holding us prisoner. We are really prisoners! (...) They have taken power because we are food for them, and they press us mercilessly because we are their food. (...)

The witch doctors believe that the predators have instilled in us our belief systems, our ideas of right and wrong and our social mores. They gave us greed, avarice and cowardice. It is the predators who make us complacent, routine and egomaniacal. 

In order to make us obedient, weak and docile, the predators have engaged in a prodigious maneuver - of course, prodigious from the point of view of a combat strategy. A horrible maneuver from the point of view of those who are subjected to it. They have given us their minds! Do you hear me? The predators have given us their minds, which have become our minds! The predators' minds are baroque, contradictory, morose and now filled with the fear of being discovered at any moment. I know that even if you have never suffered from hunger, you possess the anxiety of starvation, which is none other than the anxiety of the predator who fears that at any moment his maneuver may be discovered and his source of food denied. Through the mind, which is after all their mind, predators inject into the lives of human beings whatever suits them. In this way they guarantee themselves a margin of safety, a buffer against their fear. (...)

By playing on our self-consciousness, which is the only point of consciousness we have left, predators create eruptions of consciousness which they consume in a ruthless and predatory manner. They infuse us with debilitating problems that cause these eruptions of consciousness to erupt, and in this way they keep us alive so that they can feed on the energetic eruptions of our pseudo-concerns."

- Carlos Castaneda, "The active side of infinity".

If your reflex is to close this page and go and do something else, the spell is still very active.

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It will certainly remind you of something:

"The Matrix is everywhere - it's all around us - even now, in this room. You can see it when you look out the window or turn on the television. You can feel it when you go to work; when you go to church; when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been plastered over your eyes to blind you to the truth - that you are a slave. Like everyone else, you were born in captivity - born in a prison you can't feel or touch - a prison for your mind."

"The Matrix is a system, Neo. This system is our enemy. When you are in it and you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters - the minds of all those people we're trying to save.

You have to understand this: most of these people are not ready to be unplugged - and many of them are so inert and damaged - so dependent on the system that they will fight to defend it."

- Morpheus to Neo, The Matrix