That dingbat Indrek wonders why it matters whether CC's blather is "real or not." I'll tell you why. If I actually flew to the moon and met with actual alien space creatures it would be one of the most amazing stories of our times. But if I just made it up it would be just one more dull piece of science fiction. Thats why we separate fiction from nonfiction you dingbat.
Some people are still arguing, was this mysterious brujo (witch in spanish) Don Juan Matus real or not. Well, does that really matter so much? If so, why? Many people are so deeply blind and therefore they say that everyone who sees, is a abnormal. Usual people are unfortunately slaves of their mind and rational explenations. True and deep wisdom lives in every Don Juan's word and vision of life. I bet Don Juan is laughing at our stupid "arguments", that are meaningless and full of emptyness.
Truly historical. Only thru spiritual developement can one properly, correctly dicipher the man and his work. Beyond all the seeming contradiction, speculation, there is the truth. To begin the demystification, the "sorcerer's world" or his subject matter, or his books, was certainly larger than himself. The first error most people make is to lump the man & the work together; which is only natural since he wrote in first-person.
I don't like liars, plagarists, copy-cats...and he was all three and then some. He died of liver cancer for god's sake. If ANYONE was capable of 'escaping death' as he so ardently wrote about, Castaneda was the man, and HE DIED OF LIVER CANCER. He was A PETTY TYRANT. I fell for his stuff just like millions of others starting in the late 60's, but the evidence that he was just a small, brown, homely man (his words) and a mean and often sad cult-leader, is overwhelming.
I read Carlos' books beginning in the late 60s. I loved them, great reading. I decided to find my hand in my dreams and after a couple of months I was succesfull. It opened a new reality for me. One none would ever think possible.
Furthermore, CC"s books are/were more well written than any dozen Harry Potter Novels. And we see how popular they are, and followed also like a religion.
How does CC marrying his ADOPTED daughter qualify as polygamy? Explain this to me please.
Who cares? Does it have to read like a technical manual to be valid, or entertaining? His works ARE fiction, and are not in any way ever touted as anything BUT fiction. To take ANY religion too seriously is absurd, in the extreme. But hey, BILLIONS of people do, so what? Good luck with that. Look at Dianetics, a religion that could easily be STAR WARS(c) based. So what? CC was obviously NOT a serious Scientist, all you have to do is read The Teaching of Don Juan, and it's clear.
If it is all fiction, it makes him one hell of a story teller! The Teachings of Don Jaun helped me through a tumultuous time, when I was 15. I will always have a warm spot in my heart for Carlos, no matter what.
its funny how negative people look for negativity. ive learned lots of my self since i read his stuff. the books have lots of philsophy to make you a stronger being. idk why you would choose to care about how he lived. he made mistakes he was in the process of learning. and even if he used it to get laid who cares, its his burden. everybody thinks that they know everything about everybody else when they dont even know anything about themselves cuz they are worried about everybody else.
its funny how negative people look for negativity. ive learned lots of my self since i read his stuff. the books have lots of philsophy to make you a stronger being. idk why you would choose to care about how he lived. he made mistakes he was in the process of learning. and even if he used it to get laid who cares, its his burden. everybody thinks that they know everything about everybody else when they dont even know anything about themselves cuz they are worried about everybody else.
its funny how negative people look for negativity. ive learned lots of my self since i read his stuff. the books have lots of philsophy to make you a stronger being. idk why you would choose to care about how he lived. he made mistakes he was in the process of learning. and even if he used it to get laid who cares, its his burden. everybody thinks that they know everything about everybody else when they dont even know anything about themselves cuz they are worried about everybody else.
This is a terrific radio interview of Carlos Castaneda. What i find of a terrible gruesome taste is the video images of a human corpse being slowly sliced from head to bottom. Disgusting and gross video selection,' coming from a sickening mind.
Castaneda made all this stuff up. For instance, he says in the interview that Juan Matos is 69 years old. In one of his later books, he has Matos claiming to be over 300 years old. More than a little ridiculous.
@josephfrancisneri i noticed this as well. i wouldn't go so far as to insinuate that he was "making all this stuff up." that implies something less of his works, and disregards how valuable they are. he provides interesting knowledge, raising interesting questions, regardless of his source, "don juan" who for all we know could have been his imaginary friend in his head while he sat at ucla. my real interest is in his motives and intentions in sharing his work
Carlos Castaneda spent his last days watching war movies. His last words were: "WHO BOUGHT THIS FUCKING STUPID VIDEO!?" So much about his "impeccability".
The man was an amoral sex addict and a superb manipulator. Yet there was something, something... that made these strong and talented men women stay with him. Men kowtowed and served; women provided sexual favors. These people must have deemed worth it.
@cucka2 Ask the imprisoned followers of Charlie Manson. They now understand just how naive they were, how they were used by him. They admit that they gradually allowed him to make decisions and think for them.
There are concrete signs to look for when it comes to identifying cults: The followers are brainwashed into thinking the leader is divine and is the only path to salvation; followers are given new names; they are systematically isolated from family and friends; completely controlled.
check out my vid THE SYCHRONICITY OF ONENESS PART 7/9 *CARLOS CASTANEDA/THE ART OF DREAMING* (attached) and see how my synchronistic experiences fell directly into the book "the art of dreaming" in a beyond-coincidence way.
There is a truth in Castaneda's narration and in DOn Juan's teachings. However, they are not always simple to grasp at the first impact. You need time and patience to integrate themand then, should you be a true warrior, apply them in real life.: )
@mundoz79 Yes i agree with u. Don Juan teachings have to be assimilated slowly, and maybe it will take a lifetime to grasp many of his concepts or years of hard work and persistence to put them into practice. Chances are that many of us will try , but will succed only sligthly. But the warrior will always do his best to reach those aims, if only for a minute, for an hour or for some days.......And i also think that many concepts outlined in the books, are quite unreachable, although possible.
I happen to be a serious Buddhist. What I read from Carlos's book is really fascinating since the teaching of Dan Juan and the standard set up for true warrior really go well with the teaching of the Buddha. It just used another set of totally different conceptions to explain the ultimate truth, the emptiness for Buddhism, which I believe is the same for all of the long-lasting spiritual teachings, be it Dan Juan, Buddha, Confucius and Lao Zi.
j'ai regardé ressemant un reportage sur Françoise Hardy ou elle parlait de Carlos Castaneda j'aurais voulu comprendre dommage c'est parlé anglais je ne suis pas plus avancée
See and hear Carlos and Don Juan... in the trailer for DIABLERO, the legendary 1970's rock opera based on Castaneda's books. See it here, on youtube.com
In his books A Separate Reality and Journey to Ixtlan and The Eagles Gift, the important thing is to focus on what Don Juan says, collect all his sayings. The essence of the sorcery is encapsulated in these words by him: 'A warrior seeks a precise act that if repeated often enough sets up unbending intent, then one thing leads to another and the warrior realizes his full [magical] potential.' The key is 'precise': they are Precision Warriors. A movie would be excellent.
Sometime ago when I was reading the art of dreaming, I was working with a native american older woman, I didn't tell her that I was reading the book, but I was curious so I asked her if she had ever heard about controling your dreams, without looking at me, like nothing she answer yes any native american can do it it takes you about six months to do it, and thats exactly how long it took carlos, oviously he's books are based on facts thats a fact
I found CC in the age of 10. Has since been one of my heroes. Brilliant author, brilliant. I don't care if he made up Don Juan, I don't care if nothing that he described in his books really happened - it's all still true and it still touches me very deep.
There are a lot of misleading mistakes even lies but what is important is Don Jauns Voice
There are some missing pieces and it is our responsibility to fill them in. Quite wanting things to be done for you and except this gift of direction and add to it. Don Jaun was real
the question is weather Carlos was actually capable OF MAKING THE PHILOSOPHIC parts up ,which he couldn't ,which lends credibility to the surreal experiences. assessing it's validity takes the discipline of a theoretical physicist. You have to isolate the value of the knowledge which is pristine. But that takes guts and imagination. Castaneda is not for the weak of mind but the strong
LMAO! Do you have a PhD in something, devenator? (Meaning you have lost the ability to think for yourself.) "Assessing its' validity takes the discipline of a theoretical physicist." Uh, you cannot be serious! You are talking about Obamacare, not Don Juan's claims to the acquisition of energy to bypass the Big D. (Which is asinine.) Castaneda sought out Yaqui Indians about hallucinogenic drugs and was able to pick up enough PHILOSOPHICAL ideas, as well, as a core base for his thesis.
don juan lived fantastic adventures though left for dead early on in his journey.casteneda was a journalist anthropologist why shouldn't he die of liver cancer.that's respectable ainet it?
the people that don't believe casteneda are people who don't have the discipline to see how that world and this world truly work well together and verify eachother. Don hauns knowledge is pertinent to everything taking place today in a healthy positive way
@Boris82much Well if Carlos Castaneda is a fraud, please give me more of his frauds. But i tell u this: whatever u do in ur life (and i am not certainly diminishing ur achievements), it will be hard to reach the trascendental and magnificent legacy that he has given to millions of people all over the world and for generations to come. With all his true or apparent human contradictions he was chosen to reveal to many a new breathtaking dimension for human development and growth .
@otirudam I agree Castaneda had a special gift of expressing and communicating esoteric knowledge into understandable and relatable teachings- with the help of Don Juan of course ;)
@otirudam From one of those "millions of people" you cite, your comment is rare, refreshing & spot on; and as one whose imaginings were inspired by his writings relevant to a zone where the terms fact or fiction have no simple or direct application, I believe his words "merely mirrored the syntax of his mother tongue" are not generally understood in relation to our consensual "reality." Objections I've seen re: don Juan's age are in ignorance of what sufficient energy allows.
@Boris82much Please define "a warrior's death." You would be happier if the body was never found, but vaporized into the ether? The shared mystery of humans is that ordinarily they can never know another's experience, so the manner of the exit from the body has its own private reasons. Do you think that the Buddha's "death" from food poisoning negates his truths or teachings? Allowing your skepticism to spoil your wonder and stopping with the 4th book is regrettable. What of Amy's motives?
@zzinglish53 If you have read and studied Castaneda's books you should know what a warrior's death means. And I read all of his books, many times over. I started studying his story way back in the 60's, zz, cause we were all young and naive and terribly gullible. He literally lifted the material for his stuff from Timothy Leary, his own Catholic upbringing, the late 50's early sixties counter-culture movements, and anything Yaqui or Native Indians. Have you read Wallace's book?? I dare you.
@Boris82much Didn't say I didn't know what a warrior's death means, I just asked you to define it. As one who did imply loss of belief with the 4th book whatever made you read all the rest? I still believe in Santa Claus, and if you find yourself unable you've lost something important and in short supply. "If you should bump into wisdom it would advise you to sell your cleverness for enough to purchase bewilderment." I'll leave Amy for you & remain naive & gullibly open to the "impossible."
@zzinglish53 You don't just wake up one day and say you no longer believe in someone or something. It took a long time to be able to come to the truth about Castaneda...but I did as so many others have.
ZZ...can you travel out of your body? Can you project your awareness to other areas of consciousness--while you are in a conscious but relaxed state? Can you use energy to promote healing, open one's awareness? I can. Anyone can learn to do these things. I never learned any of it from Carlos.
@Boris82much As a matter of fact, once I did learn about the nature of consciousness and how we are all born with the innate ability to explore beyond the physical, that was when I realized beyond a shadow of a doubt that Castaneda made up most of his story. The fear alone that he promoted with his Catholic-like beliefs in death and demon-allies did so much damage. It's all a bunch of hooey and he pulled off a real fraud to get chicks, make dinero and be famous...and I hate being deceived.
@Boris82much Read Amy Wallace's book, the Sorcerer's Apprentice. If you are interested, read the Seth Material...Robert A. Monroe's 3 books, for starters. The whole idea is to stop believing the claims of others (especially when they write fairy tales) and to get your own answers, from your own experiences.
@Boris82much Thanks for the detailed reply sans personal jousting. I agree no one really "learns" anything but thru their inner being, but I bet you didn't learn anything on awareness from Amy Wallace either, except that the need to write runs in her family. I have all Monroe's books & read a little Amy online, but neither of us really KNOW which is truth beyond personal decision. I never felt damaged by descriptions of inorganic beings. And if don Juan never existed he does now and I'm glad.
@zzinglish53 Except, ZZ, I refuse to take seriously anyone who lies like he did. Castaneda lied about everything. He was never able to even do what he wrote of because it was never real or even achievable to begin with. And his most infamous *inorganic being*, who he adopted as his daughter and eventually bedded like all the other gullible women in his cult, committed suicide after his death. When does WTF-common sense kick in and admit that this guy was bad; just bad.
@wojnob87 if you read journey to ixtlan, Don Juan has erased his personal history. He does not reveal what he does to people. Castaneda sounds like he might know, but it might be something illegal or revealing it may be harmful to Don Juan in some way.
because Don Juan once made Carlos promise to never reveal any information of his personal life....Carlos was about to answer...but remembered his promise...so he stopped. What the hell does it matter what he did? In the books DJ mentione working on farms and as a seller of medicinal herbs. No great mystery there buddy
hmmm, it seems as though no one can pin down what really happened to Carlos, if his apprenticeship actually happened, when it happened....perhaps Carlos succeed in dropping his personal history.
anybody that hasread CC's books and call him a fraud simply are idiot's. There are tons of exercises one could have repeated and could easily have convinced oneself. One exercise comes to mind, and that is the placing of a mirror in water, but no one has the balls to actually delve into the unknown.
@robert552007 ....u are absolutely right. CC books and Don Juan Teachings are here to stay for good, and for centuries to come. And the great news is humanity has now a new perspective of the universe and how to deal with it in a different and deeper level. What we are talking about here is a wonderful free gospel and i hope a new religion is not born out of it. A terrible burocratic greedy institutionalized religion that scourges the world as the ones we have now. Hooray for CC!!!!!!!.
Richard de Mile in his books pointed out that the exercises in CC's books can be found in other religions which CC's has taken it from. According to de Mile he checked CC's library stack requests at the university & traced which exercises was pretty much taken from existing books that CC had taken out.
One can easily do that themselves. One can easily take Hindu yoga exercises. Give it a few modifications and slap a new label on it. eg 'Ancient Mohawk yoga'.
Will the Hindu yoga exercises not work despite it being given a different label? Of course it will. Why not?
Note: I have nothing against CC's in the terms of personal spiritual philosophy or literature merits. In terms of strict academics I would highly question it. No anthropologists specializing in S. W. studies that I know of accepts CC's work. In terms of spirituality I give a thumbs up. Cheers!
@robert552007 5 of the 6 female followers closest to Castaneda during his final yrs committed suicide after his death from liver cancer. He was also a polygamist who adopted and then married his wife/daughter. Castaneda's transparently derivative quasi-philosophy is so full of crank theories and false assumptions that it's amazing anyone still takes the stuff seriously. He wrote at a 5th grade level (think People and Us magazine articles) and damaged the very culture he claimed to "study"
the BBC documentary says they were never found. does that mean they committed suicide? the cause of hid "daughter"s death unknown. I smell the women were infiltrators, or who knows, he may have been too weak to do anything. C never claimed to be a shaman, just listen to this recording. he sounds humble, he knows his place. The BBC doc bends over backwards to prove he was a normal man like all of us, and shows the death certificate of an Aruna Castaneda (or A something Castaneda)
@intrarepeusadinspate so something very fishy about the doc; which shows two images of the goat's head by the way: just out of the blue. And the fact the the women disappeared, never to be found sounds like classic case of infiltration, disappearance. Where did they come from? Did they have families? C may have touched onto something someone didn't want out there, so they proceeded with their discreditation techniques. See how the hippie movement is portrayed in this doc (BBC):
i think there was said several times in those books that it doesn't really matter what you believe. so for some those books are unbelieveable nonsense and for some these are believeable nonsense. i was also 15 when i read those and tried to think of myself as a great future shaman too:). but i refused to admit that i am just a stupid animal so the plan didn't work:)
Castaneda, had a tremendous impact on me when I start it reading it in my teens. Today in my late 40's, his work now stands the test of time. It still works! Great wisdom!!
Carlos did meet shamans in the deserts - maybe not Don Juan per se. Reading his books in high school inspired me to investigate those substances and altered states. His books resonate a truth even if he didn't experience that truth in the field himself. The first 3 are still worth a read IMO.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I was recently thinking, "I'd like to play Carlos in a movie!" In fact, I could think of no-one better suited - though there's no real resemblance (is there ever?).
Then Carlos appeared to me in a dream - saying "Yes - you'd be good in the role!" Pretty weird - but is anyone working on a film?
@avs002 I have asked this question myself to Cleargreen and was told that it was someone's task to write the screenplay yet it has not, to my knowledge been done. My interest was in skimming the tales into a modern palatable version. Someone needs to play Carlos, can you vanish on cue?
The library stack requests at the University of California documented that Castaneda was sitting in the library when his journal said he was squatting in don Juan's hut. In fact, when Castaneda said he was participating in the traditional peyote ceremony, he was not only sitting in the library, but he was reading someone else's description of their experience of the peyote ceremony.
Richard De Mille wrote a book in 1976 documenting the Castaneda fraud in detail. Check it out for yourselves.
No, then what is the point? Belief in yet another lying con man? It is pretty popular to do that, I admit. Look at the Later Day Saints, for example. But what can you take away from something so corrupt?
"what is the point"??? lol, i take it u haven't read any of his books. and even if u did, u would do so from a negative standpoint. so "what's the point" in you asking --your question doesn't read genuine, you have already answered your question.
Actually, I read all of his books and got sucked in for awhile. But once I realized that everything he wrote was a huge lie and a con job designed to make Castaneda a multi-millionaire, I eventually realized that the whole new age movement was a fraud, just like Castaneda. So many people got sucked in and never escaped! It is one of the saddest things to happen in the 20th century. I am not surprised that you can't articulate the point of Castaneda because in the end there was none.
in that case i just got to remind u that his main points were about "reality being but a description among many", and "arrogance as the nemesis of humanity". The rest of his writings revolved around that.
but, let me put it this way: do u think Ionesco's "rhinoceros" need to be a true story in order to inspire u? who gives a fuck?
@Silverfox012345 I hear that bro. I too believed in Castenada's work for many years and eventually came to realize that his books and much of the human potential movement was based on this bloated sense of self that inspired greed and selfishness. The exact thing it had purpotedly set out to destroy.
If Ionesco wrote Rhinoceros as a documentary account of his personal experiences and it turned out to be a lie, then I would have nothing but disdain for Ionesco. If you are inspired by lies, then that is up to you. And as to arrogance who is more arrogant than Castaneda who passed off his lies, expecting the masses to believe they were true? Knowing that something is a deliberate lie meant to deceive and still believing it is the real nemesis of humanity. But it is what makes cults work.
The funny thing is, his main practice was destroying himself. What better way to get rid of the ego than to ruin your own credibility with intentional lies or impossible chronology?
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He said that he wasn't a writer when first endeavouring to convey his experiences with Don Juan. I think this is interesting. Also, Don Gennaro told him to write with his finger instead of a pen. It took years to teach Carlos the basics of shammanism, yet, the female disciples learned to shed their social facade very quickly....women always seem ready to run!
great book but now looking back I wonder if any of it was true. After his death found out one of his babes die out in the desert . Why did she go out there in middle of nowhere? Use to live out there. Not a forgiving place. makes no sence.
through this dude I've experienced complete new worlds and feeling ...thoughts werenm't thoughts until I read his books and then even after they were soo much more.
I cant hear the video here, but will comment on Carlos. He had the truth, almost the full truth. I 'stopped the world' shortly after reading his books in 1976.
Try to understand, the sorcery is about dreaming and stalking only: The Eagles Gift (the rule of the nagual). Both are techniques for finding the truth (becomming a "man of knowledge"). ie: becomming an actual normal person and not a phantom anymore: end Journey to Ixtlan. The warrior worships skill and precision, but phantoms wor.power.
You have to admit, the disappearance of the witches immediately following the death of Carlos was badass sorcery. I just hope they caught that Hale Bop comet!
AUTHOR'S (FINAL?) COMMENT: The "Great Deception" was that Carlos simply never took hallucinogens. Other people, who knew him at the time, bear this out.
I think, ultimately, everything stems from this. And those who tried to follow in his wake either did so, or imagined the consequences.
in doing that. And that problem keep on repeating, so, although you can get some new insights, i quitted using it because it had pretty much deterring effect. Peyote or shrooms would be interesting though, but all the entheogens that grow here are pretty much dangerous (mandrake etc).
no, he never used jimson weed (datura stramonium), he used datura inoxia. And even jimson weed cannot compare with mandrake root regarding the risk of death. It is the most lethal entheogen out there.
5:00 why wouldn't he was able to discuss how don Juan earned his life? that would be bery interesting to know
mmp11 2 days ago
I think it's fake too tho, he speaks about it just as he did in the book
IDM011 6 days ago
That dingbat Indrek wonders why it matters whether CC's blather is "real or not." I'll tell you why. If I actually flew to the moon and met with actual alien space creatures it would be one of the most amazing stories of our times. But if I just made it up it would be just one more dull piece of science fiction. Thats why we separate fiction from nonfiction you dingbat.
acebackwords 2 weeks ago
So many people live in fear. So many..
picazopablo 3 weeks ago
he was a froud!. the book was great but Don Huan never existed
smallpotatoes989 3 months ago
@smallpotatoes989 you are god so you know this.great .thanks god
yellow6100 1 month ago
@yellow6100 no problem.:) anything else. do you want me to turn wather in to wine, do you need some fish? Who s got fish? I got fish?
I can walk on water for you?
smallpotatoes989 1 month ago
@yellow6100 ha ha. ti si s hrvaške? kva je sosedo? Šta se radi tam dole?
smallpotatoes989 1 month ago
My great-grandfather was friend of castaneda and he told my mother that don juan didn't exist... CC is a great fiction writer.
And it totally matters if don juan existed or not, but if you want to trip and think you know now all the meaning of life go ahead... just be happy.
itsbarretoteacher 3 months ago
Some people are still arguing, was this mysterious brujo (witch in spanish) Don Juan Matus real or not. Well, does that really matter so much? If so, why? Many people are so deeply blind and therefore they say that everyone who sees, is a abnormal. Usual people are unfortunately slaves of their mind and rational explenations. True and deep wisdom lives in every Don Juan's word and vision of life. I bet Don Juan is laughing at our stupid "arguments", that are meaningless and full of emptyness.
IndrekValdek 4 months ago 9
@IndrekValdek The shaman knows who don juan was.
cybermental 1 week ago
Truly historical. Only thru spiritual developement can one properly, correctly dicipher the man and his work. Beyond all the seeming contradiction, speculation, there is the truth. To begin the demystification, the "sorcerer's world" or his subject matter, or his books, was certainly larger than himself. The first error most people make is to lump the man & the work together; which is only natural since he wrote in first-person.
TangleF50 4 months ago 2
This video is fantastic.
L00kng 5 months ago
Has anyone read the book "I was Carlos Castaneda" by Martin Goodman?
How do you explain it?
vinternatten 5 months ago
Don Juan speaks to all on the "path with heart" what a blessing!!
bigjimmyrocker 6 months ago
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I don't like liars, plagarists, copy-cats...and he was all three and then some. He died of liver cancer for god's sake. If ANYONE was capable of 'escaping death' as he so ardently wrote about, Castaneda was the man, and HE DIED OF LIVER CANCER. He was A PETTY TYRANT. I fell for his stuff just like millions of others starting in the late 60's, but the evidence that he was just a small, brown, homely man (his words) and a mean and often sad cult-leader, is overwhelming.
Boris82much 7 months ago
CC has made only one mistake, he was burned by the fire from outside, instead from within
drizenco 7 months ago
Fake. EVIDENT fake, guys.
drgdrf 7 months ago
I wonder what don Juan would have done if he had been challenged to a fight while walking in the marketplace with Carlos.
Velasca 8 months ago
@Velasca i wonder that 2
oldsilenthill1 5 months ago
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teched246 1 month ago
I read Carlos' books beginning in the late 60s. I loved them, great reading. I decided to find my hand in my dreams and after a couple of months I was succesfull. It opened a new reality for me. One none would ever think possible.
playhookie1 8 months ago 2
@playhookie1 Im drunk
teched246 1 month ago
Furthermore, CC"s books are/were more well written than any dozen Harry Potter Novels. And we see how popular they are, and followed also like a religion.
How does CC marrying his ADOPTED daughter qualify as polygamy? Explain this to me please.
xXdoctorXXGoNzOXx 9 months ago
Who cares? Does it have to read like a technical manual to be valid, or entertaining? His works ARE fiction, and are not in any way ever touted as anything BUT fiction. To take ANY religion too seriously is absurd, in the extreme. But hey, BILLIONS of people do, so what? Good luck with that. Look at Dianetics, a religion that could easily be STAR WARS(c) based. So what? CC was obviously NOT a serious Scientist, all you have to do is read The Teaching of Don Juan, and it's clear.
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SovietIlyich 10 months ago
If it is all fiction, it makes him one hell of a story teller! The Teachings of Don Jaun helped me through a tumultuous time, when I was 15. I will always have a warm spot in my heart for Carlos, no matter what.
Bbinloved 11 months ago
hello. Very interesting. please in spanish, subtitulos
mimor 1 year ago
The 20th century produced more educated idiots unlike anyone prior in the history of the human race.
Boris82much 1 year ago 4
its funny how negative people look for negativity. ive learned lots of my self since i read his stuff. the books have lots of philsophy to make you a stronger being. idk why you would choose to care about how he lived. he made mistakes he was in the process of learning. and even if he used it to get laid who cares, its his burden. everybody thinks that they know everything about everybody else when they dont even know anything about themselves cuz they are worried about everybody else.
sgsux 1 year ago 2
@sgsux Interesting response. Trying to dig out any gems of value here is difficult yet they do exist. However the ending hints at ugliness.
charlesfrith 1 year ago
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its funny how negative people look for negativity. ive learned lots of my self since i read his stuff. the books have lots of philsophy to make you a stronger being. idk why you would choose to care about how he lived. he made mistakes he was in the process of learning. and even if he used it to get laid who cares, its his burden. everybody thinks that they know everything about everybody else when they dont even know anything about themselves cuz they are worried about everybody else.
sgsux 1 year ago
its funny how negative people look for negativity. ive learned lots of my self since i read his stuff. the books have lots of philsophy to make you a stronger being. idk why you would choose to care about how he lived. he made mistakes he was in the process of learning. and even if he used it to get laid who cares, its his burden. everybody thinks that they know everything about everybody else when they dont even know anything about themselves cuz they are worried about everybody else.
sgsux 1 year ago
bla bla bla.....bla..listen to see-see to listen
apostolis7771able 1 year ago
This is a terrific radio interview of Carlos Castaneda. What i find of a terrible gruesome taste is the video images of a human corpse being slowly sliced from head to bottom. Disgusting and gross video selection,' coming from a sickening mind.
otirudam 1 year ago
Castaneda made all this stuff up. For instance, he says in the interview that Juan Matos is 69 years old. In one of his later books, he has Matos claiming to be over 300 years old. More than a little ridiculous.
josephfrancisneri 1 year ago
@josephfrancisneri i noticed this as well. i wouldn't go so far as to insinuate that he was "making all this stuff up." that implies something less of his works, and disregards how valuable they are. he provides interesting knowledge, raising interesting questions, regardless of his source, "don juan" who for all we know could have been his imaginary friend in his head while he sat at ucla. my real interest is in his motives and intentions in sharing his work
blackdragonwhitelion 1 year ago
Carlos Castaneda spent his last days watching war movies. His last words were: "WHO BOUGHT THIS FUCKING STUPID VIDEO!?" So much about his "impeccability".
drizenco 1 year ago
The man was an amoral sex addict and a superb manipulator. Yet there was something, something... that made these strong and talented men women stay with him. Men kowtowed and served; women provided sexual favors. These people must have deemed worth it.
What was it?
cucka2 1 year ago
@cucka2 Ask the imprisoned followers of Charlie Manson. They now understand just how naive they were, how they were used by him. They admit that they gradually allowed him to make decisions and think for them.
There are concrete signs to look for when it comes to identifying cults: The followers are brainwashed into thinking the leader is divine and is the only path to salvation; followers are given new names; they are systematically isolated from family and friends; completely controlled.
Boris82much 1 year ago
check out my vid THE SYCHRONICITY OF ONENESS PART 7/9 *CARLOS CASTANEDA/THE ART OF DREAMING* (attached) and see how my synchronistic experiences fell directly into the book "the art of dreaming" in a beyond-coincidence way.
real good stuff.
God Bless
DNAJ82 1 year ago
My Space has highestprecision
inertialcapacity 1 year ago
There is a truth in Castaneda's narration and in DOn Juan's teachings. However, they are not always simple to grasp at the first impact. You need time and patience to integrate themand then, should you be a true warrior, apply them in real life.: )
mundoz79 1 year ago
@mundoz79 Yes i agree with u. Don Juan teachings have to be assimilated slowly, and maybe it will take a lifetime to grasp many of his concepts or years of hard work and persistence to put them into practice. Chances are that many of us will try , but will succed only sligthly. But the warrior will always do his best to reach those aims, if only for a minute, for an hour or for some days.......And i also think that many concepts outlined in the books, are quite unreachable, although possible.
otirudam 1 year ago
I happen to be a serious Buddhist. What I read from Carlos's book is really fascinating since the teaching of Dan Juan and the standard set up for true warrior really go well with the teaching of the Buddha. It just used another set of totally different conceptions to explain the ultimate truth, the emptiness for Buddhism, which I believe is the same for all of the long-lasting spiritual teachings, be it Dan Juan, Buddha, Confucius and Lao Zi.
issaacxu 1 year ago
j'ai regardé ressemant un reportage sur Françoise Hardy ou elle parlait de Carlos Castaneda j'aurais voulu comprendre dommage c'est parlé anglais je ne suis pas plus avancée
laviedevantmoi1 1 year ago
See and hear Carlos and Don Juan... in the trailer for DIABLERO, the legendary 1970's rock opera based on Castaneda's books. See it here, on youtube.com
nikalou1 1 year ago
In his books A Separate Reality and Journey to Ixtlan and The Eagles Gift, the important thing is to focus on what Don Juan says, collect all his sayings. The essence of the sorcery is encapsulated in these words by him: 'A warrior seeks a precise act that if repeated often enough sets up unbending intent, then one thing leads to another and the warrior realizes his full [magical] potential.' The key is 'precise': they are Precision Warriors. A movie would be excellent.
inertialcapacity 1 year ago
I have no doubt they are true
ArtofDreaming1 1 year ago
Hiki it touches you because it is true. even if it isn't true it is great but it is true!!!
ArtofDreaming1 1 year ago
Sometime ago when I was reading the art of dreaming, I was working with a native american older woman, I didn't tell her that I was reading the book, but I was curious so I asked her if she had ever heard about controling your dreams, without looking at me, like nothing she answer yes any native american can do it it takes you about six months to do it, and thats exactly how long it took carlos, oviously he's books are based on facts thats a fact
joeul7 1 year ago
I found CC in the age of 10. Has since been one of my heroes. Brilliant author, brilliant. I don't care if he made up Don Juan, I don't care if nothing that he described in his books really happened - it's all still true and it still touches me very deep.
HikiLuoma 1 year ago
yeah, i read separate reality and things just werent the same any more
Ghengisfritzmeister 1 year ago
es grandioso y muy importante poder escucharlo!!!!!!!!!AMAIZING
monikmba 1 year ago
Don Jaun was the Isaac Newtons of warriors
To think you could easily comprehend what he meant is arrogant. But I for one know it is true
ArtofDreaming1 1 year ago
There are a lot of misleading mistakes even lies but what is important is Don Jauns Voice
There are some missing pieces and it is our responsibility to fill them in. Quite wanting things to be done for you and except this gift of direction and add to it. Don Jaun was real
ArtofDreaming1 1 year ago
the question is weather Carlos was actually capable OF MAKING THE PHILOSOPHIC parts up ,which he couldn't ,which lends credibility to the surreal experiences. assessing it's validity takes the discipline of a theoretical physicist. You have to isolate the value of the knowledge which is pristine. But that takes guts and imagination. Castaneda is not for the weak of mind but the strong
devenator 1 year ago
LMAO! Do you have a PhD in something, devenator? (Meaning you have lost the ability to think for yourself.) "Assessing its' validity takes the discipline of a theoretical physicist." Uh, you cannot be serious! You are talking about Obamacare, not Don Juan's claims to the acquisition of energy to bypass the Big D. (Which is asinine.) Castaneda sought out Yaqui Indians about hallucinogenic drugs and was able to pick up enough PHILOSOPHICAL ideas, as well, as a core base for his thesis.
Boris82much 1 year ago
don juan lived fantastic adventures though left for dead early on in his journey.casteneda was a journalist anthropologist why shouldn't he die of liver cancer.that's respectable ainet it?
mickalene 1 year ago
great man
babaktrippy 1 year ago
the people that don't believe casteneda are people who don't have the discipline to see how that world and this world truly work well together and verify eachother. Don hauns knowledge is pertinent to everything taking place today in a healthy positive way
ArtofDreaming1 1 year ago 2
exactly, i see it the same way
hallobaaaby 1 year ago
Read Amy Wallace's book, The Sorcerer's Apprentice. She was one of his many 'witches' for over 20 years.
Why didn't Castaneda die a warrior's death? He died of liver cancer. Why did the Blue Scout and several 'witches' commit suicide after he died?
I'm from the 60's. I believed Castaneda. When his 4th book was published a bunch of warning bells went off and I now know he was an utter fraud.
Boris82much 1 year ago
@Boris82much Well if Carlos Castaneda is a fraud, please give me more of his frauds. But i tell u this: whatever u do in ur life (and i am not certainly diminishing ur achievements), it will be hard to reach the trascendental and magnificent legacy that he has given to millions of people all over the world and for generations to come. With all his true or apparent human contradictions he was chosen to reveal to many a new breathtaking dimension for human development and growth .
otirudam 1 year ago
@otirudam I agree Castaneda had a special gift of expressing and communicating esoteric knowledge into understandable and relatable teachings- with the help of Don Juan of course ;)
FletcherHabit 1 year ago
@otirudam From one of those "millions of people" you cite, your comment is rare, refreshing & spot on; and as one whose imaginings were inspired by his writings relevant to a zone where the terms fact or fiction have no simple or direct application, I believe his words "merely mirrored the syntax of his mother tongue" are not generally understood in relation to our consensual "reality." Objections I've seen re: don Juan's age are in ignorance of what sufficient energy allows.
Namaste'
zzinglish53 1 year ago
@otirudam Oh please. Spoken like a true cult member.
Boris82much 1 year ago
@Boris82much Please define "a warrior's death." You would be happier if the body was never found, but vaporized into the ether? The shared mystery of humans is that ordinarily they can never know another's experience, so the manner of the exit from the body has its own private reasons. Do you think that the Buddha's "death" from food poisoning negates his truths or teachings? Allowing your skepticism to spoil your wonder and stopping with the 4th book is regrettable. What of Amy's motives?
zzinglish53 1 year ago
@zzinglish53 If you have read and studied Castaneda's books you should know what a warrior's death means. And I read all of his books, many times over. I started studying his story way back in the 60's, zz, cause we were all young and naive and terribly gullible. He literally lifted the material for his stuff from Timothy Leary, his own Catholic upbringing, the late 50's early sixties counter-culture movements, and anything Yaqui or Native Indians. Have you read Wallace's book?? I dare you.
Boris82much 1 year ago
@Boris82much Didn't say I didn't know what a warrior's death means, I just asked you to define it. As one who did imply loss of belief with the 4th book whatever made you read all the rest? I still believe in Santa Claus, and if you find yourself unable you've lost something important and in short supply. "If you should bump into wisdom it would advise you to sell your cleverness for enough to purchase bewilderment." I'll leave Amy for you & remain naive & gullibly open to the "impossible."
zzinglish53 1 year ago
@zzinglish53 You don't just wake up one day and say you no longer believe in someone or something. It took a long time to be able to come to the truth about Castaneda...but I did as so many others have.
ZZ...can you travel out of your body? Can you project your awareness to other areas of consciousness--while you are in a conscious but relaxed state? Can you use energy to promote healing, open one's awareness? I can. Anyone can learn to do these things. I never learned any of it from Carlos.
Boris82much 1 year ago
@Boris82much As a matter of fact, once I did learn about the nature of consciousness and how we are all born with the innate ability to explore beyond the physical, that was when I realized beyond a shadow of a doubt that Castaneda made up most of his story. The fear alone that he promoted with his Catholic-like beliefs in death and demon-allies did so much damage. It's all a bunch of hooey and he pulled off a real fraud to get chicks, make dinero and be famous...and I hate being deceived.
Boris82much 1 year ago
@Boris82much Read Amy Wallace's book, the Sorcerer's Apprentice. If you are interested, read the Seth Material...Robert A. Monroe's 3 books, for starters. The whole idea is to stop believing the claims of others (especially when they write fairy tales) and to get your own answers, from your own experiences.
Boris82much 1 year ago
@Boris82much Thanks for the detailed reply sans personal jousting. I agree no one really "learns" anything but thru their inner being, but I bet you didn't learn anything on awareness from Amy Wallace either, except that the need to write runs in her family. I have all Monroe's books & read a little Amy online, but neither of us really KNOW which is truth beyond personal decision. I never felt damaged by descriptions of inorganic beings. And if don Juan never existed he does now and I'm glad.
zzinglish53 1 year ago
@zzinglish53 Except, ZZ, I refuse to take seriously anyone who lies like he did. Castaneda lied about everything. He was never able to even do what he wrote of because it was never real or even achievable to begin with. And his most infamous *inorganic being*, who he adopted as his daughter and eventually bedded like all the other gullible women in his cult, committed suicide after his death. When does WTF-common sense kick in and admit that this guy was bad; just bad.
Boris82much 1 year ago
@Boris82much ....you are just a poor man spiritually.
otirudam 1 year ago
Same thing happened to me when I joined the Northern Soul scene.
xwsftassell 1 year ago
"What's the point?" The answer is YES.
greenthumbguy1 1 year ago
Fascinating.
Maryann :)
MaryannMunroe1 2 years ago
So why couldn't CC talk about Don Juans source of income (4:37) ....seems like a valid question. Do I smell bullshit?
wojnob87 2 years ago
@wojnob87 if you read journey to ixtlan, Don Juan has erased his personal history. He does not reveal what he does to people. Castaneda sounds like he might know, but it might be something illegal or revealing it may be harmful to Don Juan in some way.
missdilettante 2 years ago
because Don Juan once made Carlos promise to never reveal any information of his personal life....Carlos was about to answer...but remembered his promise...so he stopped. What the hell does it matter what he did? In the books DJ mentione working on farms and as a seller of medicinal herbs. No great mystery there buddy
MermaidMystery 1 year ago
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BrianBaxterSmith 1 year ago
Cool...thanks
wojnob87 1 year ago
to hear Carlos gives me trust to follow the warriors path till the end
485548 2 years ago
hmmm, it seems as though no one can pin down what really happened to Carlos, if his apprenticeship actually happened, when it happened....perhaps Carlos succeed in dropping his personal history.
faranby 2 years ago
anybody that hasread CC's books and call him a fraud simply are idiot's. There are tons of exercises one could have repeated and could easily have convinced oneself. One exercise comes to mind, and that is the placing of a mirror in water, but no one has the balls to actually delve into the unknown.
robert552007 2 years ago 15
@robert552007 ....u are absolutely right. CC books and Don Juan Teachings are here to stay for good, and for centuries to come. And the great news is humanity has now a new perspective of the universe and how to deal with it in a different and deeper level. What we are talking about here is a wonderful free gospel and i hope a new religion is not born out of it. A terrible burocratic greedy institutionalized religion that scourges the world as the ones we have now. Hooray for CC!!!!!!!.
otirudam 1 year ago
@robert552007
Richard de Mile in his books pointed out that the exercises in CC's books can be found in other religions which CC's has taken it from. According to de Mile he checked CC's library stack requests at the university & traced which exercises was pretty much taken from existing books that CC had taken out.
One can easily do that themselves. One can easily take Hindu yoga exercises. Give it a few modifications and slap a new label on it. eg 'Ancient Mohawk yoga'.
1NX9 1 year ago
@1NX9
Will the Hindu yoga exercises not work despite it being given a different label? Of course it will. Why not?
Note: I have nothing against CC's in the terms of personal spiritual philosophy or literature merits. In terms of strict academics I would highly question it. No anthropologists specializing in S. W. studies that I know of accepts CC's work. In terms of spirituality I give a thumbs up. Cheers!
1NX9 1 year ago
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1Heretic 9 months ago
@1Heretic
Dont get me wrong from a literature spiritual point of view I have nothing against Castenada.
Good read still.
1NX9 9 months ago
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1Heretic 9 months ago
@robert552007 5 of the 6 female followers closest to Castaneda during his final yrs committed suicide after his death from liver cancer. He was also a polygamist who adopted and then married his wife/daughter. Castaneda's transparently derivative quasi-philosophy is so full of crank theories and false assumptions that it's amazing anyone still takes the stuff seriously. He wrote at a 5th grade level (think People and Us magazine articles) and damaged the very culture he claimed to "study"
ritter89 10 months ago
@ritter89
the BBC documentary says they were never found. does that mean they committed suicide? the cause of hid "daughter"s death unknown. I smell the women were infiltrators, or who knows, he may have been too weak to do anything. C never claimed to be a shaman, just listen to this recording. he sounds humble, he knows his place. The BBC doc bends over backwards to prove he was a normal man like all of us, and shows the death certificate of an Aruna Castaneda (or A something Castaneda)
intrarepeusadinspate 9 months ago
@intrarepeusadinspate so something very fishy about the doc; which shows two images of the goat's head by the way: just out of the blue. And the fact the the women disappeared, never to be found sounds like classic case of infiltration, disappearance. Where did they come from? Did they have families? C may have touched onto something someone didn't want out there, so they proceeded with their discreditation techniques. See how the hippie movement is portrayed in this doc (BBC):
intrarepeusadinspate 9 months ago
@robert552007
His books are awesome!
and, its "idiots", not "idiot's".
Also, how do you speak for everyone, when you say "no one has the balls to..." ?
Perhaps those that do, don't exactly display their talents on youtube! Gwahaha
-Just some friendly sport. You can take it.
MattSpon 5 months ago
i think there was said several times in those books that it doesn't really matter what you believe. so for some those books are unbelieveable nonsense and for some these are believeable nonsense. i was also 15 when i read those and tried to think of myself as a great future shaman too:). but i refused to admit that i am just a stupid animal so the plan didn't work:)
dziis6s 2 years ago 2
i was 15 years old when i started reading books from carlos castaneda and i love him still. he´s my idol.
konjunktion26 2 years ago 15
Castaneda, had a tremendous impact on me when I start it reading it in my teens. Today in my late 40's, his work now stands the test of time. It still works! Great wisdom!!
Great posting!
methodplusmind 2 years ago 3
Carlos did meet shamans in the deserts - maybe not Don Juan per se. Reading his books in high school inspired me to investigate those substances and altered states. His books resonate a truth even if he didn't experience that truth in the field himself. The first 3 are still worth a read IMO.
deadsnoopy1 2 years ago 3
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I was recently thinking, "I'd like to play Carlos in a movie!" In fact, I could think of no-one better suited - though there's no real resemblance (is there ever?).
Then Carlos appeared to me in a dream - saying "Yes - you'd be good in the role!" Pretty weird - but is anyone working on a film?
avs002 2 years ago 5
alejandro jodorowsky was once talking about doing a carlos castaneda/don juan film, however for some reason i don't think he ever did
luridoptics 1 year ago
@avs002 I have asked this question myself to Cleargreen and was told that it was someone's task to write the screenplay yet it has not, to my knowledge been done. My interest was in skimming the tales into a modern palatable version. Someone needs to play Carlos, can you vanish on cue?
WillBradleyRomine 1 year ago
@avs002 Do 30 seconds on a web cam. I'll tell you if you've nailed him.
charlesfrith 1 year ago
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silenciopoder 1 year ago
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silenciopoder 1 year ago
@avs002
i heard by a seer that johny depp was suppose to play him in a film years ago
...but it never went thru
3lank 6 months ago
@avs002
Isn't that great?! You're a star! In your own head! You're gonna change the world!!!
MattSpon 5 months ago
Not sure about you but I never care to hear lies from liars.
That's the point for me.
If he's lying I despise him, for I despise deceivers.
Peace All.
and
End Time.
camiller3754 2 years ago
The library stack requests at the University of California documented that Castaneda was sitting in the library when his journal said he was squatting in don Juan's hut. In fact, when Castaneda said he was participating in the traditional peyote ceremony, he was not only sitting in the library, but he was reading someone else's description of their experience of the peyote ceremony.
Richard De Mille wrote a book in 1976 documenting the Castaneda fraud in detail. Check it out for yourselves.
Silverfox012345 2 years ago
who cares if his stories are true or not? that's not the point.
jum401 2 years ago 4
No, then what is the point? Belief in yet another lying con man? It is pretty popular to do that, I admit. Look at the Later Day Saints, for example. But what can you take away from something so corrupt?
Silverfox012345 2 years ago
"what is the point"??? lol, i take it u haven't read any of his books. and even if u did, u would do so from a negative standpoint. so "what's the point" in you asking --your question doesn't read genuine, you have already answered your question.
jum401 2 years ago
Actually, I read all of his books and got sucked in for awhile. But once I realized that everything he wrote was a huge lie and a con job designed to make Castaneda a multi-millionaire, I eventually realized that the whole new age movement was a fraud, just like Castaneda. So many people got sucked in and never escaped! It is one of the saddest things to happen in the 20th century. I am not surprised that you can't articulate the point of Castaneda because in the end there was none.
Silverfox012345 2 years ago
in that case i just got to remind u that his main points were about "reality being but a description among many", and "arrogance as the nemesis of humanity". The rest of his writings revolved around that.
but, let me put it this way: do u think Ionesco's "rhinoceros" need to be a true story in order to inspire u? who gives a fuck?
jum401 2 years ago 2
@Silverfox012345 I hear that bro. I too believed in Castenada's work for many years and eventually came to realize that his books and much of the human potential movement was based on this bloated sense of self that inspired greed and selfishness. The exact thing it had purpotedly set out to destroy.
Paulmancieri67 2 years ago
its not a cult, governments dont like other practitioners : )
djskipd 2 years ago
If Ionesco wrote Rhinoceros as a documentary account of his personal experiences and it turned out to be a lie, then I would have nothing but disdain for Ionesco. If you are inspired by lies, then that is up to you. And as to arrogance who is more arrogant than Castaneda who passed off his lies, expecting the masses to believe they were true? Knowing that something is a deliberate lie meant to deceive and still believing it is the real nemesis of humanity. But it is what makes cults work.
Silverfox012345 2 years ago
The funny thing is, his main practice was destroying himself. What better way to get rid of the ego than to ruin your own credibility with intentional lies or impossible chronology?
mrkurt13 2 years ago 4
Media like people to think Castaneda as a suicidal cult so as to make the average men think his writings are useless and bullshit.
Anyone who has taken learning as a hardship will know whether Castaneda is just another average man or a true warrior.
ose90 2 years ago 4
wow is this real????
glasnykiss 2 years ago
Yes it is really him!
doctalee 2 years ago
It seems incredible to me to listen to the voice of Carlos if one assumes that it lives or lived in the anonymity
pormispistolas100 2 years ago
101/100 ;) sublime persona
sanchezdot 2 years ago
WOW !
subatomicllove 2 years ago
this i very....,but..REally...very Fake...ppl.....u now that??or not
KaoLaay 2 years ago
pllzz..rplmy
KaoLaay 2 years ago
please....if somebody..can help here....
u read the books?
right ppl?
can aNYBODY..?experience that..?and.. im serius..on mush?..and lsd? guys..i did..and much more..like...dreams..stuff.. .. ..telepathy..etc......real..very...¬!understnd
??
KaoLaay 2 years ago
thank you for this, I never thought i would here Carlos's voice.
legolas27100 2 years ago
Thank-you greatly for this. Very lovely. I think I heard the interviewer identify himself as Theodore Roszak, correct?
blues4pablo 2 years ago
Correct
RaisingKundalini 2 years ago
He said that he wasn't a writer when first endeavouring to convey his experiences with Don Juan. I think this is interesting. Also, Don Gennaro told him to write with his finger instead of a pen. It took years to teach Carlos the basics of shammanism, yet, the female disciples learned to shed their social facade very quickly....women always seem ready to run!
quidseeker 2 years ago 2
Very interestig recording. Is it possible to get the complete one?
Thanks a lot
melusina65 2 years ago 2
You can buy it on eBay. Search for 'Carlos Castaneda shaman a rare interview CD'. It will be there the next 62 hours.
RaisingKundalini 2 years ago
I've uploaded this 37 minutes lasting interview from 1969 in four parts.
RaisingKundalini 2 years ago
great book but now looking back I wonder if any of it was true. After his death found out one of his babes die out in the desert . Why did she go out there in middle of nowhere? Use to live out there. Not a forgiving place. makes no sence.
BlueRoseRocketBand2 2 years ago
I read all his books -very interesting.Its a shame many people view him as a fiction writer or worse.Nomatter what u believe it is an awsome concept
daveevegas 2 years ago 3
through this dude I've experienced complete new worlds and feeling ...thoughts werenm't thoughts until I read his books and then even after they were soo much more.
dmiller913 2 years ago 2
Please Translate this in German or Russian! Please!
BigBuddha3 2 years ago
genius,castaneda is a real hero,his books woke me up from a huge dream and now im free
jewishmansjew 2 years ago 2
"I don´t have the mechanics".... I guess he finally made it after all
TheDuendeg 2 years ago
I´s nice to hear him
TheDuendeg 2 years ago
subtitles in spanish please
puchenko73 2 years ago
I flew once it was scary.
Hegemonia20 2 years ago
I cant hear the video here, but will comment on Carlos. He had the truth, almost the full truth. I 'stopped the world' shortly after reading his books in 1976.
Try to understand, the sorcery is about dreaming and stalking only: The Eagles Gift (the rule of the nagual). Both are techniques for finding the truth (becomming a "man of knowledge"). ie: becomming an actual normal person and not a phantom anymore: end Journey to Ixtlan. The warrior worships skill and precision, but phantoms wor.power.
inertialcapacity 2 years ago
AMAZING!
javierhvenegas 2 years ago
YES
youtootambien 2 years ago
Is this true? Is really Castaneda's voice?
javierhvenegas 2 years ago
YES IT'S THE TRUE VOICE
youtootambien 2 years ago
Could you post the entire 45 minute interview in parts?
elcapiten 2 years ago
You have to admit, the disappearance of the witches immediately following the death of Carlos was badass sorcery. I just hope they caught that Hale Bop comet!
jaime1635 2 years ago
Carlos was a true genius. This interview bears it out.
jaime1635 2 years ago
No offense, but CC refused photos and recordings of himself. (From his own master's teachings) Is this for real?
IJJRGCTM 2 years ago
Datura is the most beautiful plant. It smells heavenly.
phillydog17 2 years ago
AUTHOR: For everyone (since I haven't heard of this ANYWHERE)...
The 'Jimson (Devil's) Weed analogy goes logically further. The 'Devil' is the psychedelic experience itself - as is its opposite.
But even that's trite - your basic Heaven and Hell are just psychedelic spin-outs.
avs002 2 years ago
AUTHOR'S (FINAL?) COMMENT: The "Great Deception" was that Carlos simply never took hallucinogens. Other people, who knew him at the time, bear this out.
I think, ultimately, everything stems from this. And those who tried to follow in his wake either did so, or imagined the consequences.
avs002 2 years ago
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Has anyone noticed the parallels between the subjects being discussed and the current slide/s?
avs002 2 years ago
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Carlos Casteneda learnt truth telling from his mentor O.J Simpson.........true story.
machinesexdeath 2 years ago
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headsupjg 2 years ago
I don't care...
It's entertaining.
Mbk606 2 years ago
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headsupjg 2 years ago
I don't know, but I enjoy my assumption that it is.
Mbk606 2 years ago
I read all 8 of his book years ago and finally know how his
voice sound. But according to don juan teaching, he is
suppose to erase his personal history that includes tape
recorder and pictures. Anyway his books are good, its full
of adventures.
TheIxtlan 2 years ago
Hi!can you post the full interview on you tube?i would like to thank for it!and to deal this rare carlos interview with us!
TAZJIM 2 years ago 2
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in doing that. And that problem keep on repeating, so, although you can get some new insights, i quitted using it because it had pretty much deterring effect. Peyote or shrooms would be interesting though, but all the entheogens that grow here are pretty much dangerous (mandrake etc).
nyalarhotep 2 years ago
lol...
and CC's where not?
Artorioux 2 years ago
not even nearly as dangerous.
nyalarhotep 2 years ago
that assumption is incorrect...naming one, to substantiate my point, jimson weed...
One other thing, I wish to mention the result vary based on user...(lol < like a bad info. mercial)
Artorioux 2 years ago
no, he never used jimson weed (datura stramonium), he used datura inoxia. And even jimson weed cannot compare with mandrake root regarding the risk of death. It is the most lethal entheogen out there.
nyalarhotep 2 years ago 3
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I don't really want to enter the debate, other than obliquely...
Please check the latest video response (MH, ML). for some interesting (and quite real) connections.... mine.
As for CC,.. well whose opinion is open to changing???