The Assemblage Point is our Essence

The Assemblage Point is discussed in various Carlos Castaneda books, and is stated in his books as the most crucial feature of the body.

The Assemblage Point is in reality our essence. Castaneda doesn’t specifically state that, because he wasn’t writing about the soul or spirit specifically, but that is clear from his Assemblage Point information.

The soul and essence sit inside the energy body but outside the physical body. The energy body appears as a luminous egg (as those who can perceive it, such as healers, always state). 

The Assemblage Point is a round spot of intense brilliance, the size of a tennis ball, permanently lodged inside the luminous egg (the energy body), about two feet back from the crest of a person’s right shoulder blade.

Castaneda says that the sorcerers saw that a spherical extra glow, slightly bigger than the Assemblage Point, always surrounds it, greatly intensifying the luminosity of the filaments passing directly through that glow. [This is the soul, surrounding/containing our essence/divine spark].  

The Assemblage Point makes us perceive, it is our consciousness, which is “assembled” there. Castaneda says that sorcerers saw that out of the millions of the universe’s luminous energy filaments passing through the entire luminous ball/egg (us), only a small number pass directly through the Assemblage Point, as would be expected as it is small compared with the whole luminous body, but these filaments link the soul and essence to the universe, beyond the body. 

The starting point is to understand that everything is energy. The whole universe is energy. And the essence of the universe resembles (so shamans say) incandescent threads stretching into infinity in every conceivable direction, luminous filaments that are conscious of themselves in ways impossible for the human mind to comprehend.

Because everything is energy, the energy body (the second body which surrounds the physical body) is far more important than the physical body, because (of course) it is pure energy, and can thus perform acts which are far beyond the possibilities of the physical body.

It is the main body we use to travel beyond the physical realm, and so it has to be kept healthy and not subject to attack (we live in a predator world). In any event, it holds our essence, which is all that ‘travels’ on death.

An important thing that the sorcerers saw, (which is critical as it is our soul and essence), was that the Assemblage Point of humans can dislodge itself from the position it is normally located. Perception and awareness changes with the extent of displacement.

On death, the essence moves (rather than simply shifting within the energy body) out of the human realm. We head on somewhere else. 

The glow of the Assemblage Point is absent from corpses and dim in people who are unconscious. The glow is awareness/consciousness {the soul/essence]. Displacement of the Assemblage Point outside the luminous ball meant that it was no longer in the human realm.

Our dreaming period (during REM dreaming) alters the Assemblage Point, changing our perception and allowing us to see new energy fields during that time. We can move to different ‘realities’, and different timelines too, perceiving people and things we don’t see in our daily human world we currently operate in. 

Dreaming may be an opportunity to be “free” (if only briefly) from our captured lives. Castaneda says freedom is the opportunity to “fly off into the infinity out there”. That’s what our goal should be – not to get stuck or trapped in this world anymore.

The Assemblage Point needs to have some flexibility of movement while we are alive, as a fixed position restricts knowledge beyond the world of physicality. However, through our programming and conditioning about what ‘reality’ is, the Assemblage Point becomes completely fixed. It only moves for the wrong reasons, like illness or trauma.

But the fixation of the point means we forget where we came from (and where we should return to) and what our purpose in coming here was. Children have a moveable Assemblage Point, which ‘fixes’ as time goes by. Our Soul and Essence become trapped. 

And this is significant. When a child enters this world, it is clear and pure of mind, unburdened by conditioning and programming. To exit from the world we entered, we should exit back to ‘source’, where we came from originally, in the same mental condition, clear and pure.

If we are not, then, as the Gnostics and so many other spiritual sources say, we are recycled back into the physical world again and not back to Source, where we started our existence as consciousness.

Other blogs have discussed mind clearance and detachment back to the child-level of purity. Jesus was clear about the exit path on death: Become like a child. By this he meant, “go back to the purity you had as a child”. Then no exit path back to Source will be blocked.

So learning how the Assemblage Point moves is vital. It will probably dictate where we head to on death.

20 June 2025