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This is a fascinating read, thank you. The visions of the Eagle really seem like what you would expect from a mastery of the cosmos from the perspective of a psychic, with the Eagle being Demiurge. Devoid of pneuma, the psychic traipses out to the edge of Demiurgic reality and find themselves in a false body sustained by external forces, trapped inside a looping self-contained world. I've seen similar things astral projecting around the edges of what I can reach, darkness looping in on itself, outer void that requires generation from the soul to continue outward into. I'm at a point where I'm beginning to feel the contours of the great Beast we live within, it is a living creature and it is not infinite in scope.

The establishment of the energy body mirrors the establishment of the rainbow body of Buddhist tantra traditions, though with vastly different mentalities and outlooks on the value of morality. There are other parallels that could be drawn between concepts like Alayavijnana and Eagle.

I find Castaneda's view on the sorcerer's mentality to be very... psychopathic and defeatist without morality. His outlook is stuck very low on the spiritual hierarchy of needs, stuck on survivalism. Buddhism is a cosmology for one devoid of pneuma, but the the Yaqui outlook is cosmology lacking even compassion and morality which to me are core constituents of a life worth living. I suppose that opinion stems stems from my choice of path as a warrior monk, not a warrior sorcerer. Either way, reading through this and cross references Castaneda to Buddhism, Gnosticism, and Neuroscience in DeepSeek R1 is fascinating.