From: Dickey, Michael F (michael_f_dickey@groton.pfizer.com)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 10:32:05 MST
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From: 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?
>
"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. "
Surprised, yes, but probably not in the manner you think I am. I was quite
the fan of Castaneda in my pre subscription to Skeptical Inquirer and
Skeptic days, before my serious interest in science. My email sig for the
longest time was
"For me, there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path
that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge is to
traverse its full length. And there I travel looking, looking breathlessly
- Don Juan Matus"
To this day I still find this quote inspirational and valuable, even though
most (who don't know me well) would consider me a curmudgeoned fun spoiling
devoid of spirituality skeptic.
"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,"
I agree entirely, in fact I found Castaneda's philosophical musings through
Don Juan Matus so profound in my pseudoscience embroidled youth that my
common internet handle is in fact 'Matus' and I have been using it ever
since. You would be getting these emails from matus if not for the fact
that I subscribed from my work account. My home page is www.matus1976.com
So it is interesting for me to see that we both followed similar paths,
starting at some point reading a lot of Castaneda, and probably other new
agey psuedoscience bunk, and then for certain reasons were drawn to better
science, and then the extropian list. Yet despite these commonalities, we
differ so greatly on the IRAQ war question.
Anyhow, nice to see another Castaneda 'fan'
Michael Dickey
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