The Assemblage Point

Carlos Castaneda Through the Lens of Temporal Knot Theory

von Gilson Fais

740 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What if the reality we know is not the whole of the real, but the world our perception has learned to sustain?Carlos Castaneda unsettled generations of readers with an extraordinary proposition: the world we experience is not simply given to us. It is assembled through perception, stabilized by attention, and sustained by habits so deeply ingrained that we mistake them for the natural order of things.But what happens when that familiar order begins to falter? What lies beyond the limits of the world we have learned to recognize?In The Assemblage Point, Brazilian researcher Gilson Fais revisits Castaneda's most compelling ideas through the lens of Temporal Knot Theory, an original scientific and philosophical framework for investigating time, consciousness, and the projection of reality.The assemblage point, the luminous egg, the tonal and the nagual, dreaming, the second attention, Intent, and the art of seeing emerge as more than enigmatic elements of an esoteric vocabulary. They become conceptual instruments for exploring how consciousness organizes experience, how identity acquires continuity, and how the body, memory, and time participate in the formation of an inhabitable world.Moving between anthropology, philosophy, and theoretical physics, Fais develops a provocative interpretation: nothing stabilizes without coherence; nothing is perceived without a position from which to perceive it; no world becomes habitable without conditions that organize its appearance.Yet this book neither asks readers to accept Castaneda's extraordinary claims on faith nor dismisses his work because those claims remain unproven. It carefully distinguishes lived experience from interpretation, symbolic insight from historical evidence, and theoretical possibility from scientific demonstration.The result is an intellectual journey that preserves the unsettling power of Castaneda's work while subjecting its central questions to a new level of conceptual scrutiny.Beyond its dialogue with Castaneda, The Assemblage Point offers a way to reconsider ordinary reality itself: the seemingly unquestionable world of bodies, relationships, institutions, memory, and time. What makes that world appear so stable? What does it reveal, and what does it conceal? How much of what we call reality belongs to the real itself, and how much to the conditions through which we have learned to perceive it?This is not simply another book about Castaneda. It is an invitation to examine the architecture of the world we inhabit, and to discover how much remains open once reality ceases to seem self-evident.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175915878
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published