Anyone into Carlos Castaneda?

Yeah right! I remember Carlos mentioning in one of the books (I forget which, but one of the early ones) that Don Juan would never allow himself to be photographed.

 

I only found one once, but it was really wierd... hehe

 

What, a picture of Don Juan? Where? How?

 

I know I know, but still it's just hard sometimes to read through when every other sentence is: He laughed so hard..................... you know what I mean? That was all I meant.

 

I googled it, and i think i found a very close respresentation but it was very strange.. It was really small, but the look the man was giving almost had a twinkle of knowing like that i imagine Don Juan having.

 

OMG! i can't believe you said that!! lol
nah i'm only giving you shit, to each their own. i find enumerous humor in reading these writings, and when don juan and don Genero are laughing their asses off, at Carlos usually, so am i i'm laughing my ass off sitting here right now just thinking about how funny it is how much to what great extremeties these two dudes are going to embetter humanity through this dude...they hav impernutable patience with carlitos, never giving up on him and always watching over him. carlitos is sooooo damn funny he just doesn't know it most the time (unless his double steps in to play), and thats why hes' so funny. Thas why they are laughing
Ah man. It's like Juan says...These teaching are exclusivley for warriors of knoledge. If you do not have the warrior mentality encrypted into your mindset when you are readin the book , you will not therefore Be really reading the book. IF You put yourself there going along on the journey with carlitos with empathy and compassion, as you should see all things, and see him as a person on the quest for Knoledge intertwined in the fates of others...and how one day can bring about all the change if you only inquire....yoou are a warrior and so am i my brother, and were discovering this again too after so many battles, we are here now to become enlightened. this is the path set before us. Will we walk down it, with heart?

 

just makin friendly conversation

 

well whats the link??

 

Ow sorry James, i see this thread has bled dry a bit, a shame since Castaneda is indeed a very interesting subject.

btw i too find it very amusing reading don juan's laughkicks
to me it sort of shows that laughing is always a good way to handle things...you know?

did anyone ever read the one about the magical passes?
i believe it was called "Magical Passes"
anyway Tensegrity
I once attended a 2 day seminar in Amsterdam, with people from Cleargreen coming over and showing the moves.

 

his don juan book was the first drug book i ever read pretty interesting stuff

 

i wouldn't take that googled picture very serius, Don Juan wouldn't let any sound or image recording be made of him.

I also believe i once saw don juan, it was the funiest thing, i was walking down a street one day, and when i walked past a theater there was a poster hangin there announcing the play Don Juan, just across on a bensh was was this old indian, dressed in a suit. he smiled at me.
I know this is wierd just something that went through my head at the time.
why would he be?
later i read in one of castanedas books that the last time he thought he saw don juan was in a crowd.
Just something in the eye of the beholder i think.
like some people see jezus of angels

 

I read several of his books when I was younger, including Power of Silence; however, after multitudes of walks in the woods with attempts to focus and refocus on the aura of all things around me, I gave up. The books were interesting, even though they didn't ultimately connect with me.

 

i love his books, don juan would have been an amazing person to meet and learn from, many of my friends from mexico have his books in spanish

 

I am new to Castaneda, but I really enjoyed "The Active Side of Infinity". There are so many mysteries that we haven't explored! I wonder about that guy who became water. Has anyone started to make a warrior album?

I just got "Journey to Ixtlan", but I haven't started it yet.

 

i just finished reading my first book by him "a separate reality"
so his 2nd book?

pretty good read, and interesting stuff, but i dunno if i "believe it"

my friend read most of this book on two acid trips, and he told me i had to read it, after we had a very weird night on 2ce

a gnat came by as i was finishing the book today
and later i was lying on my bed, and the "gap" in my stomach felt like it was open. scary stuff

 

Love his stuff...way too much.

 

Read them years ago.
They caused a great deal of thinking and investigation on my part, a lot of questioning about the world and "reality". The books led to a long journey of investigating into the world of the metaphysical.

 

Thanks for this thread, tempted me enough to try a book of him

 

I got about 75 pages into journey to ixtlan and came to realize, that I didn't believe what he was writting anymore. I finished it but the farther I got the less and less into it I got.

 

castaneda is a complete phony

this has been known since the books started coming out

best read as fiction . . . and don't kill yourself like some of his followers did . . .