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Journey to ixtlan

The title of this book is taken from an allegory that is recounted to Castaneda by his "benefactor" who is known to Carlos as Don Genaro Genaro Flores , a close friend of his teacher don Juan Matus. After the work of "stopping", his changed perspective leaves him little in common with ordinary people, who now seem no more substantial to him than "phantoms". The point of the story is that a man of knowledge, or sorcerer, is a changed being, or a Human closer to his true state of Being, and for that reason he can never truly go "home" to his old lifestyle again. In Journey to Ixtlan Castaneda essentially reevaluates the teachings up to that point. He discusses information that was apparently missing from the first two books regarding stopping the world which previously he had only regarded as a metaphor. He also finds that psychotropic plants , knowledge of which was a significant part of his apprenticeship to Yaqui shaman don Juan Matus, are not as important in the world view as he had previously thought. In the introduction he writes:. My basic assumption in both books has been that the articulation points in learning to be a sorcerer were the states of nonordinary reality produced by the ingestion of psychotropic plants My perception of the world through the effects of those psychotropics had been so bizarre and impressive that I was forced to assume that such states were the only avenue to communicating and learning what Don Juan was attempting to teach me. That assumption was erroneous. In the book don Juan takes Carlos on these various degrees of apprenticeship , in response to what he believes are signals from the phenomenological world, "The decision as to who can be a warrior and who can only be a hunter is not up to us. That decision is in the realm of the powers that guide men.

He must let each of his acts be his last battle on earth. Not so much in The Teachings, but went off the charts in A Separate Reality journey to ixtlan peaked in Journey to Ixtlan, which to me had the foundational conceptional focus points that form a solid basis for Independence-of-Being. The book takes an almost hypnotic hold on the reader, just as don Juan does on Carlos.

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Account Options Ieiet. Carlos Castaneda. The dazzling, fantastic work that concludes the teachings of the Yaqui sorcerer, Don Juan. Castaneda is an anthropologist, a mystic, a poet and a marvelously gifted author whose books have sold phenomenally well. Reaffirmations from the World Around Us. Studies in Cross-cultural Psychology, 1. Par autoru Every aspect of Carlos Castaneda's life, from his literary credibility and marital history to his place of birth and circumstances of death, are shrouded in mystery. Born Carlos Aranha, Castaneda graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles in the mids, and soon after he published the first of eight best-selling novels detailing his purported apprenticeship with a Yaqui Indian wizard named Don Juan Matus. Little is known about Castaneda's personal life. He was briefly married to Margaret Runyan in

Journey to ixtlan

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In his later years, Carlos Castaneda became the leader of his own cult, something of a Jim Jones figure, a man who apparently induced several women to kill themselves just after Carlos himself died. Immense nostalgia invades my thoughts. In my opinion I don't care wether the stories are bogus or true. If you are looking for anthropology about Yaqui indians, Toltec shamans, Mexican brujos, etc. Don Juan encapsulates the entire message of Tolle's book in two sentences: ". As a result, he both feared and gravitated toward his shamanic mentor, eventually forging a true friendship. I saw that religion - and indeed the morality of the workplace - is a sham without practical and edgy ethical discernment. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Ahora que estoy tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento, quisiera llorar, quisiera reir de sentimiento. Castaneda, as the researcher, placed himself at the center of his book, writing it from the point of view of his own reactions rather than laying out an ethnography. He listened attentively but I could not figure out whether he was just being agreeable or genuinely concerned until I noticed that he was trying to hide a smile. I would spend my time not-doing. Gary Beauregard Bottomley. The book is well-expressed, though the content is difficult to grasp. As Castaneda wrote more books, they became more fantastic, until even his most ardent supporters had to agree he'd left the world of anthropology for some sort of science fiction or fantasy.

The title of this book is taken from an allegory that is recounted to Castaneda by his "benefactor" who is known to Carlos as Don Genaro Genaro Flores , a close friend of his teacher don Juan Matus.

The book explores the teachings of Yaqui Indian shaman Don Juan Matus, with whom Castaneda began an intense, philosophical apprenticeship while on assignment for an anthropological study. No matter what he does, he must first know why he is doing it, and then must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them. I would read with a red pen, underlining what was of value, and could be applied, copying out those underlinings into large notebooks. While still skeptical, he agreed to apprentice with him, if only to understand the ins and outs of his pseudoscience. Yeah, well while in the workplace I invented hard and fast methods of doing just that, and as the stress peaked, worked harder and harder on it. I would spend my time not-doing. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior. They were new wave, new age anthropology, and an often dry academic discipline was given new life by this careful, almost childlike transcription of field notes. In the book don Juan takes Carlos on these various degrees of apprenticeship , in response to what he believes are signals from the phenomenological world, "The decision as to who can be a warrior and who can only be a hunter is not up to us. That's nonsense! Of course, like everyone, I inhabit them nightly and remember them under the rubric of dreaming. An immense amount of pettiness is dropped if your death makes a gesture to you, or if you catch a glimpse of it, or if you just have the feeling that your companion is there watching you.