Pardon me, but I think 'the art of dreaming' as a book, is on the dark side of the Toltec teachings...

too complex

Yes, and this is a big one I remember. Here it is:

"'The energy necessary to move the assemblage points of sorcerers comes from the realm of inorganic beings,' he said, as if he were hurrying to get it over with.

My heart nearly stopped. I felt a vertigo and had to stomp my feet on the ground not to faint.

'This is the truth,' don Juan went on, 'and the legacy of the old sorcerers to us. They have us pinned down to this day. This is the reason I don't like them. I resent having to dip into one source alone. Personally, I refuse to do it. And I have tried to steer you away from it. But with no success, because something pulls you to that world, like a magnet....'

'What can I do about it?' I asked.

'We can't have dealings with them,' he answered, ' and yet we can't stay away from them. My solution has been to take their energy but not give into their influence. This is known as the ultimate stalking. It is done by sustaining the unbending intent of freedom, even though no sorcerer knows what freedom really is.'"

Then he goes on, the energy required to move the AP, basically has to be borrowed.

But I do notice something don Juan says. And I wonder if anyone caught it before. He does not say you have to get the energy from the inorganic beings themselves. He says you get it from their realm. Now, of course, there could be energy taken from an IB, but I don't think it is totally necessary. The realm itself has energy and power in it. So using the realm itself, one can slip in and use the energy of it. At least, I would say so.

This should make sense, since don Juan was more concerned that Carlos see energy itself, energy in motion, more than interacting with the IBs themselves. Seeing is what he wanted him to do.

I'm just gonna put the whole page on here. I find this interesting what don Juan says to Carlos, about stalking the energy body. Now I am aware the dreaming body IS the energy body, it's basically the same deal. And I don't necessarily get too concerned energy, causal, and the like. Astral body. But I normally feel the energy body is ME. Now, I don't think don Juan is saying different to Carlos. But it is interesting how he says he has to stalk his own energy body. Course I guess we have to if we are going to shift the AP and fix it at a certain point. But this is an interesting dialog nonetheless.

I don't disagree but something happened during the coronavirus that had to do with man/human - not for good..... like the beginning of the end, literally or metaphorically......

I think the climate change came because of the evolution of technology..

I think we lost and are losing our connection with nature (steadily)

It's sometimes all messed together, together with the Eagle's plans...

God knows we are self destructive......