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## "The Active Side of Infinity" - ©1998 by Carlos Castaneda

"The sorcerers' revolution," Don Juan continued, "is that they refuse to honor agreements in which they did not participate.

"Nobody ever asked me if I would consent to be eaten by beings of a different kind of awareness.

"My parents just brought me into this world to be food, like themselves..."

This book is dedicated to the two men who gave me the impetus and the tools to do anthropological fieldwork: Professor Clement Meighan and Professor Harold Garfinkel.

Following their suggestion, I plunged into a field situation from which I never emerged.

If I failed to fulfill the spirit of their teachings, so be it.

I couldn't help it.

A greater force, which shamans call 'infinity', swallowed me before I could formulate clear-cut social scientists' propositions.

-Carlos Castaneda

### Contents

- Syntax
- The Other Syntax
- Introduction

- A Tremor in the Air

- A Journey of Power
- The Intent of Infinity
- Who Was Don Juan Matus, Really

- The End of an Era

- The Deep Concerns of Everyday Life
- The View I Could Not Stand
- The Unavoidable Appointment
- The Breaking Point
- The Measurements of Cognition
- Saying Thank You

- Beyond Syntax

- The Usher
- The Interplay of Energy on the Horizon
- Journeys Through the Dark Sea of Awareness
- Inorganic Awareness
- The Clear View
- Mud Shadows

- Starting on the Definitive Journey

- The Jump into the Abyss
- The Return Trip