Assemblage Point

This weekend while we were camping in Joshua Tree (National Park) a friend and I made a foray to far out dusty desert bookshop "Raven's Books", where I picked up a used copy of Carlos Castaneda's final novel "The Art Of Dreaming". Happily it has little to do with ingesting psychotropics. Instead it's focus is really the story of Castaneda learning the fine art of shifting his assemblage point and then using his dreams as a doorway to releasing his energy body into other worlds. The idea of an assemblage point has me thinking, if it's true, how other cultures might have discovered it differently through: ritual, meditation, alchemy, (etc. etc.) and entered other worlds different from those visited by the Toltec Naguals. I'd like to be able to self willingly shift my assemblage point...though the beauty of this world is enough for me, the idea of knowing more is compelling.

Assemblage Point
(Don't know if this info has anything to do with the Toltec meaning but it is at least "scientifically" interesting.)

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"And dreaming is the art of tempering the energy body, of making it supple and coherent by gradually exercising it".
Carlos Castaneda
The Art Of Dreaming
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This Image "Vision Quest" Elena Ray Copyright 2006