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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9781893792043 Format: Box set, Color, NTSC ISBN: 1893792048 Label: Terra Manufacturer: Terra Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Terra Release Date: June 07, 1999 Running Time: 75 minutes Sales Rank: 33825 Studio: Terra Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Amazon.com: Are you feeling stifled? Indecisive? Perhaps the wisdom of the ancients can awaken your body to reveal new powers. Watch the body workers in Carlos Castaneda's Magical Passes: Unbending Intent and feel the power coursing through them; soon you'll be tracing these positions and movements yourself. Castaneda's teacher Don Juan Matus learned these martial art-like motions in dreams and passed them on to his apprentices as a means to achieving mastery over one's will, or "unbending intent." Now these instructions are made available on two videotapes showing clearly the precise movements and the theoretical benefits of each one. In time, you can perform each series with the same fluid grace Castaneda's disciples display, though to get the best results you may have to consult with an instructor. Simply watching the men and women slip, crouch, slide, and bounce is energizing, but following along can be a spiritual workout. --Rob Lightner
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Rating: - Profoundly Effective System of Movements
Freedom from suffering. Stopping the internal dialogue. Transcending your social conditioning. Awakening from the dream of the mind. Discovering inconceivable states of wellbeing. Say it however you want: Carlos Castaneda's Magical Passes will get you there, and quickly.
Here's the theory in a nutshell. Spiritual seekers usually reach the same deadend. They know that the mind is synonymous with resistance and suffering. The usual practices involving breathing, meditating, watching the thinker, going into the body, physical cleansing, practicing presence, etc. will get you TO the door, ... Read More
Rating: - magical movement
these exercises create a return of energy to vital centers. they are not difficult. don't be distracted by the practitioners on the tape. just learn the basic movements. do them at your own pace and let your body modify them if it wants to do so. done in the dark you will see or feel energy currents around you, especially around your hands. close your eyes and still see the energy flow. this tape covers just one chapter from the book of the same name.
Rating: - The best of the Tensegrity videos; matches the book
I learned some of the passes from official workshops and some from friends. There are slight variations among the practitioners, even from workshop to workshop. As the presentation of the passes evolved, the materials got better - CC's book, "Magical Passes", is pretty well written and organized, and these companion tapes allow you to actually do them - working just from the book is almost impossible.
It's not clear how the magical passes came into being. My personal theory is that CC was a visionary, did a lot of dream work, and was strongly influenced by Howard Lee, a chi gung practitioner ... Read More
Rating: - I LIKE THE TENSEGRITY VIDEOS BETTER
This is the companion video to Castaneda's book "The Magical Passes". While I think it is absolutely necessary to either attend a Tensegrity workshop or view a video of these movements to learn them, I really wasn't crazy about this video. I don't know if it's because some of the movements seem like they could be a part of a Chubby Checker video or if it's because of the extreme care that was taken to make everyone's outfits and hairstyles particularly androgynous. I just got the feeling that the original movements had been modified and simplified to make them more "acceptable" and that the modifications ... Read More
Rating: - Mandatory for examine magical passes
This two video cassettes explain movements from book Magical Passes by Carlos Castaneda.
My opinion is that without this cassete it is very hard to learn Tensegrity movements, because it is hard to find right tempo of movements, right intensity, and right way to move only from descriptions form the book.
I think that cassettes and the book give together good base to learn Tensegrity, but if you have to chose to buy cassettes or the book, I suggest to by cassettes.
The movements in this video are not the same as movements in the Tensegrity video set (except few of them). ... Read More
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