10-18-2011, 12:00 AM
Thanks Phe. With all due respect, however, I am still going to place my trust in the people I have spoken to from those various backgrounds over anything published on the internet...hope you can understand. I will also continue to contend that Castaneda did not use the word nahualli in his books and that the link between the two words is a human construction. While I am sure that you did your research, I doubt that you spoke to native speakers to verify if what you were reading was true or bore any resembelence to the truth. It might not seem like it, and you may feel that I am being nit picky, but there is a freedom in accepting responsibility for having made a false connection or attributing a meaning that wasn't there...having found that freedom I am now protective of my own tendency to slip into making false connections or giving meanings. I also wish to acknowledge Wolf's answer to the question about what the word meant to him which has nothing to do with anything else that has been raised in an attempt to sidetrack and derail the conversation. It seems to be a frequent problem in these forums and I wish I could find Lujan's response that I read the other day about the effect it has.