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## "The Eagle's Gift" - ©1981 by Carlos Castaneda

(Includes an English translation of ”The Six Explanatory Propositions” which were included in the Spanish language version of "The Eagle's Gift", but were never published in the English versions of the book.)

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The power that governs the destiny of all living beings is called the Eagle, not because it is an eagle or has anything to do with an eagle, but because it appears to the eye of the seer as an immeasurable jet-black eagle, standing erect as an eagle stands; its height reaching to infinity.

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### Contents

The Eagle's gift

- Prologue

- Part one: The Other Self

- 1. The Fixation of the Second Attention
- 2. 'Seeing' Together
- 3. Quasi Memories of the Other Self
- 4. Crossing the Boundaries of Affection
- 5. A Horde of Angry Sorcerers

- Part two: The Art of 'Dreaming'

- 6. Losing the Human Form
- 7. 'Dreaming' Together
- 8. The Right and the Left Side Awareness

- Part three: The Eagle's Gift

- 9. The Rule of the Nagual
- 10. The Nagual's Party of Warriors
- 11. The Nagual Woman
- 12. The 'Not-Doings' of Silvio Manuel
- 13. The Intricacies of Dreaming
- 14. Florinda
- 15. The Plumed Serpent

Six Explanatory Propositions

- Introduction
- 1. What we perceive as the world are the Eagle's emanations.
- 2. Attention is what makes us perceive the Eagle's emanations as the action of skimming.
- 3. The skimmings are made sense of by the first ring of power.
- 4. Intent is the force that moves the first ring of power.
- 5. The first ring of power can be stopped by a functional blocking of the capability of building skimmings.
- 6. The second attention.