leap backward in time, or feel totally helpless in a frightening
situation no matter how hard you struggle to get out of it.
The saga of Carlos Casteneda's apprenticeship with Don Juan,
the Yaqui sorcerer who became his spiritual master, is basically
an education in learning how to navigate the subtle world, in which
Castenada portrays himself as full of anxiety and doubt.
In one episode Don Juan takes Castenada's hand, and together
they jump over a tall tree. Don Juan asks, What is the difference
between jumping over a tree as we just did, and jumping over a
tree in a dream? Then he answers his own question. In a dream,
you can comfortably jump over a tree because it's natural in the
dream world. You know that you are going to wake up, and when
you do - you realize that all the events in the dream were just
neural impulses in your brain. There was no "real" tree; you look
back on the whole dream world as an illusion.
The reason you can't jump over a tree in the physical world is that
you don't realize you can wake up. A sorcerer is someone who has
learned to wake up completely, so to him - jumping over a tree is
natural. It all happens as neural impulses in the brain. There is no
"real" tree. But if you buy into the tree being real, you must accept
the limitations of such a world.
From: Life After Death, The Burden of Proof by Deepak Chopra
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