From: Hubert Mania (humania@t-online.de)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 09:15:59 MST
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> From: humania@t-online.de [mailto:humania@t-online.de]
>
> "I am aware of this with every word I write, but I have it under control,
> because I do it in the spirit of Carlos Castaneda's "controlled
foolishness"
> (retranslated from German, so I don`t know if it is the original term)"
>
> Uh, Carlos Castaneda as in 'The Teachings of Don Juan' 'Journey to Ixtlan'
> and 'Tales of Power'? Luminous Egg's? Chewing Peyote buttons?
>
> Michael Dickey
Yes, sure. You seem to be surprised. I had a youth that was not necessarily
dominated by natural sciences all the time. Castaneda was one of the *bad*
authors I have read - no: devoured - in a certain period of my life. Oh
sure, I know that he has probably made up his tales, that Don Juan did not
exist at all. So what? There was a great deal of wisdom in these stories,
archetypical arrangements that today might not look like to be the latest
upgrades to discoveries of neurophysiological research but a fairly decent
approximation to help your brain through the chaos of the magic forest next
door.
Chewing Peyote buttons opens a different tunnel of reality where strategies
like this "controlled foolishness" work excellent and might save you a lot
of troubles. One example of a controlled foolishness would be to polietly
say "Good morning, Mister Schittelgruber" with the very last strength
you feel in your vocal chords, though *you* are absolutely sure that this
is Adolf Hitler walking through the forest and talking with affection to
the violet mushrooms on the ground.
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