10-28-2014, 12:14 AM
POSTED IN THE SUSTAINED REACTION CASTANEDA LEGACY FORUM:
"Something happened today that has motivated me to create this post. I'll quote part of what happened from my blog:
"...After speaking with the representative I now feel it all comes down to what we choose to believe. No matter where you may go on the Internet there are all sorts of conflicting opinions on many diverse subjects. We have to weigh out the evidence and finally decide...WHAT WE CHOOSE TO BELIEVE because we cannot be absolutely certain about the things we have not personally verified.
My conversation with the Grandio SO representative has been very enlightening for me. What he taught me has wider ramifications that just the Grandio SO product. It expands to encompass EVERYTHING I choose to believe in life; religion, politics, GMO, fluoride, etc, etc, etc...."
To see the rest click on my profile. The link to my blog is in my website section.
What prompted me to create this post is that what I learned today most definitely applies to the lessons of Castaneda's don Juan. I remember Corey Donovan saying how Victor Sanchez was really "down to Earth", when he finally met him. I challenged Corey on that by saying something like: 'How can you say Victor Sanchez is down to Earth when he believes in much, if not most, of the lessons of don Juan???' I don't remember Corey Donovan making any worthwhile reply as he obviously could not.
Victor Sanchez and I have at least one thing in common: From the lessons of Castaneda's don Juan we can only comment on what we have applied and what we have found to actually work. As for the rest, it is left to whatever you may choose to believe AND THAT IS NOT NECESSARILY A FACT!!
Let me give you a concrete example of what I mean here: Atheists, like Richard Dawkins, are absolutely certain the THEORY of evolution is a fact. Like or not a THEORY is not a FACT no matter how you may try to justify it, period!!!! I've pointed out over and over, to atheists, that for the THEORY of evolution to be a fact science must irrefutably establish, SCIENTIFICALLY, with repeatable experiments that consciousness and awareness can evolve naturally from inanimate matter for no life could have possibly have survived the "big bang". Has science done so? NO, THEY HAVEN'T! Are they getting close to doing so? NO THEY ARE NOT!!!
This being the case all speculations about evolution are just that: SPECULATIONS not FACTS!!!
The atheists refuse to see this just as you Castaneda skeptics refuse to realize that your speculations, from your comfy chairs, about the lessons of don Juan are just that: SPECULATIONS not FACTS!
Just the other day I was at my most powerful Power Spot where I spent the whole day and gave an over 4 hour performance in the hopeless hope of temporarily pacifying Mother Nature's rage against the human race. This is where I was:
The real magic of the lessons of don Juan can only happen if you have disciplined yourself enough to silence your internal dialogue and if you are on good terms with Mother Nature in general. If you are NOT on good terms with the plants and nature, in general, you can expect no special help from The Spirit. This goes far beyond books and philosophies. It goes to the very heart of DIRECT EMPIRICAL EXPERIENCE, of which you Castaneda skeptics tend to have very little. You postulate from your computer chairs without doing any field work, as Victor Sanchez has done. Then to top it off you come off as though what you CHOOSE TO BELIEVE is absolute fact, not unlike the Richard Dawkins types.
Well, I'm here to say that I CONTINUE to verify that MOST of what don Juan taught, with regards to nature, is indeed valid. I will NOT deny my empirical experiences to satisfy to idle speculations of armchair skeptics. Only a fool would!"
"Something happened today that has motivated me to create this post. I'll quote part of what happened from my blog:
"...After speaking with the representative I now feel it all comes down to what we choose to believe. No matter where you may go on the Internet there are all sorts of conflicting opinions on many diverse subjects. We have to weigh out the evidence and finally decide...WHAT WE CHOOSE TO BELIEVE because we cannot be absolutely certain about the things we have not personally verified.
My conversation with the Grandio SO representative has been very enlightening for me. What he taught me has wider ramifications that just the Grandio SO product. It expands to encompass EVERYTHING I choose to believe in life; religion, politics, GMO, fluoride, etc, etc, etc...."
To see the rest click on my profile. The link to my blog is in my website section.
What prompted me to create this post is that what I learned today most definitely applies to the lessons of Castaneda's don Juan. I remember Corey Donovan saying how Victor Sanchez was really "down to Earth", when he finally met him. I challenged Corey on that by saying something like: 'How can you say Victor Sanchez is down to Earth when he believes in much, if not most, of the lessons of don Juan???' I don't remember Corey Donovan making any worthwhile reply as he obviously could not.
Victor Sanchez and I have at least one thing in common: From the lessons of Castaneda's don Juan we can only comment on what we have applied and what we have found to actually work. As for the rest, it is left to whatever you may choose to believe AND THAT IS NOT NECESSARILY A FACT!!
Let me give you a concrete example of what I mean here: Atheists, like Richard Dawkins, are absolutely certain the THEORY of evolution is a fact. Like or not a THEORY is not a FACT no matter how you may try to justify it, period!!!! I've pointed out over and over, to atheists, that for the THEORY of evolution to be a fact science must irrefutably establish, SCIENTIFICALLY, with repeatable experiments that consciousness and awareness can evolve naturally from inanimate matter for no life could have possibly have survived the "big bang". Has science done so? NO, THEY HAVEN'T! Are they getting close to doing so? NO THEY ARE NOT!!!
This being the case all speculations about evolution are just that: SPECULATIONS not FACTS!!!
The atheists refuse to see this just as you Castaneda skeptics refuse to realize that your speculations, from your comfy chairs, about the lessons of don Juan are just that: SPECULATIONS not FACTS!
Just the other day I was at my most powerful Power Spot where I spent the whole day and gave an over 4 hour performance in the hopeless hope of temporarily pacifying Mother Nature's rage against the human race. This is where I was:
The real magic of the lessons of don Juan can only happen if you have disciplined yourself enough to silence your internal dialogue and if you are on good terms with Mother Nature in general. If you are NOT on good terms with the plants and nature, in general, you can expect no special help from The Spirit. This goes far beyond books and philosophies. It goes to the very heart of DIRECT EMPIRICAL EXPERIENCE, of which you Castaneda skeptics tend to have very little. You postulate from your computer chairs without doing any field work, as Victor Sanchez has done. Then to top it off you come off as though what you CHOOSE TO BELIEVE is absolute fact, not unlike the Richard Dawkins types.
Well, I'm here to say that I CONTINUE to verify that MOST of what don Juan taught, with regards to nature, is indeed valid. I will NOT deny my empirical experiences to satisfy to idle speculations of armchair skeptics. Only a fool would!"