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them, should understand that these ideas have been propagated for the very purpose of making one vulnerable. But now is the “time” to learn that this is not enough. Just remember: there are forces “out there” that wish to see your project, and you, fail. You two have both previously felt the sting of these forces acutely. Anyone and everyone could be a portal of attack. Remember, they work through persons, they are not normally the persons themselves. Knowledge protects! So, we have some pretty strong warnings. But, did you catch the part about the “Grail Quest’? That is a powerful clue! “We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings are its prisoners. The predator is our lord and master. It has rendered us docile, helpless. If we want to protest, it suppresses our protest. If we want to act independently, it demands that we don’t do so. [...] “They took us over because we are food for them, and they squeeze us mercilessly because we are their sustenance. [...] “Think for a moment, and tell me how you would explain the contradiction between the intelligence of man the engineer and the stupidity of his systems of beliefs, or the stupidity of his contradictory behavior. Sorcerers believe that the predators have given us our systems of beliefs, our ideas of good and evil, our social mores. They are the ones who set up our hopes and expectations and dreams of success or failure. They have given us covetousness, greed, and cowardice. It is the predators who make us complacent, routinary and egomaniacal. [...] “In order to keep us obedient and meek and weak, the predators engaged themselves in a stupendous maneuver - stupendous of course, from the point of view of a fighting strategist. A horrendous maneuver from the point of view of those who suffer it. They gave us their mind! Do you hear me?! The predators give us their mind, which becomes our mind. The predators’ mind is baroque, contradictory, morose, filled with the fear of being discovered any minute now”. (The Active Side of Infinity, Carlos Castaneda, 1998; pp. 218- 220, excerpts) Q: (L) The Sumerian story of the creation of human beings involves a story where they say they killed a god and mixed his blood and parts to mix with mud and then planted it in these female “gestation” goddesses and that this is where the human race came from. Did someone actually kill a “god”, break his soul in pieces, and thereby make the human race? 293 High Strangeness — Part Three Don Juan said: What have the Cassiopaeans said about these very things? A: Symbolism and not correct event sequence. Q: (L) What was that story about? What was the real seed event?