Magical Passes

• Understand the theoretical basis of Tensegrity: what 'magical passes' are in the Toltec framework, why the original shamanic seers developed these specific movements, and what they understood to be the mechanism through which physical movement affects the configuration and quality of the luminous energy body
• Learn the specific groups of passes and what each is designed to do: the passes for the left side (enhancing the nagual's influence), for the right side (sharpening the tonal's precision), and for specific energy centres associated with different aspects of awareness and vitality
• Grasp the connection between physical movement and awareness: how the Toltec tradition understood the relationship between the quality of physical movement, the distribution of personal power in the energy body, and the capacity for the non-ordinary states of perception that constitute the warrior's ultimate aim
• Recognise how Magical Passes relates to the rest of Castaneda's work: how the physical practice it describes provides the somatic dimension of the warrior's path that the more narrative books address through conceptual teaching and dramatic experience
• Appreciate the historical context: how Castaneda's adaptation of the original shamanic passes into Tensegrity allowed them to be transmitted beyond the closed lineage context in which they had been preserved for generations — and what is gained and what may be lost in this adaptation