From: Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com)
Date: Sat Mar 01 2003 - 23:21:11 MST
Castaneda, I loved his writings in my youth. Alas, a little investigation
about real anthropology, shamans beliefs, etc. soon crumbled my faith in
him, and it was a good thing: we have to learn to be skeptical. But his
ideas are interesting, if you accept them as "Castaneda ideas", not Yaqui
traditions, and accept Don Juan as a metaphor of the inner guru or something
like that. Ok, robbing thousands of dollars to followers for teaching
aerobics was not very spiritual...
I applied for months his technique of "seeing his own hands in dreams", and
finally succeded to have one or two lucid dreams (seeing my hands, that
changed shape exactly as described in Castaneda books). So at least his
"dreaming techniques" are for real, or maybe our faith is powerful enough to
obtain some results even with fake techniques.
I was very amused of the struggle between the Castaneda inner circle and
others, like Marylinn (?) Tunnhesende (?), I was puzzled by the idea that
Tunnhesende could be the real Gorda. Anyone has some fresh news about the
Castanedians?
denic
> Uh, Carlos Castaneda as in 'The Teachings of Don Juan' 'Journey to Ixtlan'
> and 'Tales of Power'? Luminous Egg's? Chewing Peyote buttons?
>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.
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