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Carlos Castaneda's Magical Passes: Unbending Intent | 
| Director: Peter Sasdy
Actors: Sandra Payne, John Paul, Donald Burton, Norman Eshley, John Carson
Studio: Terra
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 33230
Format: Box Set, Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 75 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 1893792048
UPC: 688457200534
EAN: 9781893792043
ASIN: 1893792048
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Release Date: June 7, 1999
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Are you feeling stifled? Indecisive? Perhaps the wisdom of the ancients can awaken your body to reveal new powers. Watch the body workers in Carlos Castaneda's Magical Passes: Unbending Intent and feel the power coursing through them; soon you'll be tracing these positions and movements yourself. Castaneda's teacher Don Juan Matus learned these martial art-like motions in dreams and passed them on to his apprentices as a means to achieving mastery over one's will, or "unbending intent." Now these instructions are made available on two videotapes showing clearly the precise movements and the theoretical benefits of each one. In time, you can perform each series with the same fluid grace Castaneda's disciples display, though to get the best results you may have to consult with an instructor. Simply watching the men and women slip, crouch, slide, and bounce is energizing, but following along can be a spiritual workout. --Rob Lightner
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 Practical wisdom in daily life that really works. August 3, 1999
72 out of 74 found this review helpful
This video is the companion to Carlos Castaneda's book Magical Passes: The Practical Wisdom of the Shamans of Ancient Mexico. It covers the first of the five parts depicted in the book, in addition to an alternative long form version of the movements strung together and an added Saber-tooth long form (very exciting and invigorating, by the way.) After a sophisticated intro of dragonflies landing on the opening logo, the video begins with a surreal setting of silhouettes against a sunset colored background, as narration briefly describes the source of these movements. The video then quickens the pace to a thorough rendition of the forms depicted from the book, in full, breathing color. With vibrant instructors and smart videography, the movements are easily digested and the viewer is given a substantial amount of lessons in little time. Not only are the movements demonstrated in an easy to follow format, but they really work. And there seems to be an undercurrent of awareness stirred in the body, strikingly similar to episodes read about. Not that the world flips fantastically, but rather, a subtle ignition of my facilities. For anyone looking for a practical way to feel good, I recommend this video. At first I was lured by it being a piece of the Castaneda collection. After seeing the video, I soon realized that it brought many aspects of what I enjoyed on an intellectual level to an intimate one, to which I could actually apply in daily living. All in all, a visually intriguing set of movements which offers dynamic yet simple strikes, breaths, and leg movements.
Profoundly Effective System of Movements March 4, 2005
S. Turner (Northern California United States)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Freedom from suffering. Stopping the internal dialogue. Transcending your social conditioning. Awakening from the dream of the mind. Discovering inconceivable states of wellbeing. Say it however you want: Carlos Castaneda's Magical Passes will get you there, and quickly.
Here's the theory in a nutshell. Spiritual seekers usually reach the same deadend. They know that the mind is synonymous with resistance and suffering. The usual practices involving breathing, meditating, watching the thinker, going into the body, physical cleansing, practicing presence, etc. will get you TO the door, but not THROUGH it. The masters and gurus then advise you to accept your unconsciousness as part of the "isness" of being and thereby transcend it. Does this work? Has it for you?
What if the the mind, the source of suffering, was only the expression of a more primary condition: the dispersal and misallignment of energy within the energetic and physical body? (Also the cause of most illness, disease, and ageing.)
Castaneda's "passes" address this issue with profound effectiveness by stirring up and redistrubting energy in the energetic body. Castaneda correctly states that belief, faith, or knowledge is not required to succeed. Simply do your best while practicing the movements and results will follow. The "passes" are powerful!
There are two sets of movements: the short form and the long form , The Sabre Tooth Tiger of Intent. (Powerful techniques have powerful names!) Practice the short form (37 movements) for 5-10 days before starting the long form. If you jump too quickly to the long form, you may like it so much that you may be tempted not to go back and perfect the short form which is an integral part of the long form. The short form itself produces noticeable shifts in awareness.
None of the movements is harder than jumping-jacks. The body is drawn in by the movements and enjoys the process. The mind may be doubtful, but the body likes it! The short form training takes about one half hour. The long form is condensed once perfected, and takes about fifteen minutes. There also seems to be a momentum dynamic at work here: practicing makes you more conscious and capapable, making your practices more effective making you more conscious... Apply yourself to correct execution for optimal results.
Note that there are three other "Tensegrity" videos that were produced prior to Magical Passes. Start here. This is the "perfected" version and will produce the smoothest transition. The "Magical Passes" book could also be useful further down the road. Other Castaneda books (I've read them all) are superflous to success with the passes, the best one being "Journey To Ixtlan".
The process of awakening consciousness can be a bit unpredictable. I recommend the purchase of the book "The Power Of Now" by Eckhart Tolle. It's an excellent roadmap of human consciousness and will provide the guidance you will need as liberated awareness awakens in you. Read it first. Note that it is possible when being involved with several spiritual practices to misattribute the results. This mistake cost me three years of continued suffering. It was the Passes, not Tolle, that got me through.
Carlos Castaneda's Magical Passes truly are a magical passageway to inconceivable states of awareness and wellbeing. Thank you Don Carlos.
Note: This is an instructional excercise video. There is very little conceptual content to be found on this DVD. No knowledge, no information, nothing for the mind to grasp: just do the movements. I thought the movements were ridiculous the first time I did them. Most reasonable people would think the same. In this case, reasonable thought doesn't define the potential for results.
 I LIKE THE TENSEGRITY VIDEOS BETTER April 13, 2002
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is the companion video to Castaneda's book "The Magical Passes". While I think it is absolutely necessary to either attend a Tensegrity workshop or view a video of these movements to learn them, I really wasn't crazy about this video. I don't know if it's because some of the movements seem like they could be a part of a Chubby Checker video or if it's because of the extreme care that was taken to make everyone's outfits and hairstyles particularly androgynous. I just got the feeling that the original movements had been modified and simplified to make them more "acceptable" and that the modifications attenuated the power of the movements. I think (but do not know for sure) that the Tensegrity videos present the movements in a form that more closely approximates the original movements.They just seem much more powerful than the movements presented in the Magical Passes book (although the hairdos and outfits are even more meticulously drab and androgynous than in the Magical Passes video). I definitely recommend getting the Magical Passes book for the content of the text. Also recommended: 1) Chakras (Patricia Mercier), 2) Shaman, Healer, Sage (Alberto Villoldo).
Mandatory for examine magical passes May 28, 2001
Alen Lovrencic (Varazdin, Croatia)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This two video cassettes explain movements from book Magical Passes by Carlos Castaneda. My opinion is that without this cassete it is very hard to learn Tensegrity movements, because it is hard to find righr tempo of movements, right intensity, and right way to move after all only from description form the book. I think that cassettes and book gives together good base to learn Tensegrity.
The best of the Tensegrity videos; matches the book June 25, 2002
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I learned some of the passes from official workshops and some from friends. There are slight variations among the practitioners, even from workshop to workshop. As the presentation of the passes evolved, the materials got better - CC's book, "Magical Passes", is pretty well written and organized, and these companion tapes allow you to actually do them - working just from the book is almost impossible.It's not clear how the magical passes came into being. My personal theory is that CC was a visionary, did a lot of dream work, and was strongly influenced by Howard Lee, a chi gung practitioner in L.A. But I would emphasize "visionary" - CC was creative in the best sense of the word. It's a waste of time trying to debunk the Don Juan mythos, when doing these passes creates such a deep sense of well being and provides an opportunity for "accumulating moments of silence," which is the key to stopping habitual behavior. CC's next to last book, the Wheel of Time, is also highly recommended. Some of the material in there is as good as any of the insights in the earlier books - and presented from the point of view of "abstract practice," suitable for urban practitioners, rather than the earlier "desert shamanism." If you get through these passes, I find the oddball passes in the first volume to be the most spooky. It's funny that the "spookier" passes were in the first volume, not in the fourth (this boxed set was the fourth to be released). I think CC was getting a better idea of what his audience, as opposed to his close personal students, could absorb and benefit the most from.
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