09-08-2011, 12:01 AM
INTRODUCTION:
This Topic thread is dedicated to Jeremy Donovan (Talking Brujo Dog) and Flyboy: Wesley Dodds (Guy Gardner)
In case any of you are curious, I made a decision that everything in life I am frustrated about has it's roots in weaknesses within my character. My frustrations in life are not "THEIR FAULT". Through empirical testing, I KNOW FOR A FACT that the stronger I become in all good and wonderful ways the easier and more fun life automatically becomes.
Since my old days posting in SR I have put in about 1000 grueling workouts and have now become so muscular that I absolutely MUST stop using heavy weights to workout or I will become too big to hide my muscles under a loose shirt. I now use specialized exercises for developing joint strength on state of the art gym machines. The thing is that even though I am using light weights on these incredibly advanced workout machines, focusing upon developing greater joint strength, my muscles are responding as though I am using heavy weights. It's truly unbelievable! This is not supposed to be happening. So the big problem with me is I am an expert on how to get bigger and a novice on how to become as excited about the project of developing a personal Zumba inspired cardio martial arts workout that focuses primarily on my body from the waist down. Oh, I'm getting there with powerful 'windmill-like' spinning kicks in both directions and rapid fire super-fast jab-like kicks that move with machine gun-like speed.
Still, I have learned that bodybuilding and cardio training can be diametrically opposed because in bodybuilding you tend to move slow and in cardio workouts you tend to move fast. Bridging the gap is proving to be quite a challenge indeed, but I have hope. Last night I made a discovery that has revolutionized my whole view of the cardio aspects of my workouts. Someone pissed me off at the gym and suddenly I was able to move lightning fast. I suddenly remembered a quote of Bruce Lee in which he said that his secret was controlled and focused anger. In a flash of a moment I finally understood what he meant! Quite exciting except...in my excitement I overdid it a bit and slightly pulled some muscles.
The poor suckers who are into martial arts because they were initially afraid of being beaten up, thanks to their colored belts, now have to be registered with the police department and are afraid to hit anyone least they go to jail. Ironic, is it not? You start because of fear and, for all your work, you end up in fear.
I am not into belts and, out of guilt for wasting wood, no longer break boards with my hands. Besides, I've heard too many stories of martial arts "masters" who can no longer so much as type on a computer because their hands are swollen with arthritis. They may have broken many bricks and boards in their lifetimes, but it's obvious that the bricks and boards were not defeated eventually defeated them.
I've learned that whether one wins or loses is determined by the mysterious force of Intent that brings all things into being. Calling this force "God" and thinking you understand it because of the name you placed on it and reading some book with a beginning and an end is ridiculous! However, if the Universe wants you to win NO ONE can defeat you. If the Universe wants you to lose nothing you can do will keep you from losing, period! So the greatest martial artist is the one who inspires the Universe to fight on his behalf. Anyone who would defeat such a martial artist has to defeat the Entire Universe first. Hey, good luck with that!
Well, enough about myself, right?
Castaneda's don Juan was all about attaining true freedom. The Castaneda's Legacy Forum is so shackled with rules and regulations that "freedom" is not something that comes to mind as I post here. Since I am probably still allowed only one post a day this is going to be a very long post. I have returned to tie up some loose ends regarding the SR forum. After I have done my best to resolve certain issues I don't intend to post here anymore. I don't respond well to be shackled by rules and regulations. All the best of you have received PMs from me so you know where to find me by clicking in my registered name and examining the "About Me" section of my YUKU profile. If you choose to see what I have written great. If not, equally great. I'm not trying to sell you anything and I don't need your validation to feel 'right with the world'. Since this is going to be a very long post I have decided to divide it up into different parts. If you choose to then please refer to the particular parts you are addressing. Thank you
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PART 1
The core of the people who post here are certain Castaneda was a fraud and made don Juan up. Really now! So, Castaneda was able to trick the EXPERTS in the UCLA anthropology department into giving him a Ph. D, with his third book: Journey To Ixtlan? Really now! YOU know better than the anthropology experts at UCLA about such things? What are your credentials? Are you even officially qualified enough to officially judge how many legs there are on a cockroach? I doubt it. Two bestselling books were published before Castaneda's third book Journey To Ixtlan. There was plenty of time for detractors to say that Castaneda was telling don Juan philosophy before he purportedly met the shaman. Plenty of time indeed! I've read someone here sharing some hearsay about Castaneda making up some sort of Tonto character in order to try and pick up chicks. Why should anyone believe this story to be true? Convincing YOU hack wannabe anthropologists is one thing. Successfully convincing the anthropology experts at UCLA is something else entirely. I would imagine we should have no argument about this fact. Am I correct? I mean, compared to the anthropology department experts of UCLA you people don't know sh*t about anthropology and should not consider yourselves to be greater experts in such matters, right? RIGHT!
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PART 2
Earlier today I was talking to a friend about the skeptics of the world as I was waiting to watch the new movie Apollo 18:
http://apollo18movie.net/
I was saying how the skeptics are killjoys and how they love to sabotage people's happiness and take all the magic out of life. Nothing is miraculous to the atheist skeptic and, if he has his way, the atheist skeptic will make ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that YOU are less successful in life than he is. Whether he talks about God or Carlos Castaneda or Jesus or Krishna or anyone else the staunch, close-minded skeptic sees only a flat, non-mysterious, black & white reality. I've seen staunch, closed-minded skeptics write things like either all religions are true or they are all false. The staunch close-minded skeptic is too ignorant to realize that, instead of just black & white, the world is made up of infinite shades of gray.
"It's like I always say ... they can't all be right. But they could all be wrong..."
Jeremy Talking Dog
MY COMMENT:
Or they can all be right in some ways and wrong in others. Couldn't think up the third option on your own, eh Jeremy? Glad I could help
I've seen **** skeptics absolutely certain that Carlos Castaneda made the don Juan character up without realizing what they are implying. Either don Juan was an actual personage or Carlos Castaneda was one of the greatest modern writers who has ever lived. His books helped to jump-start an entire spiritual movement. Not even Mark Twain can make such a claim. Hey, you say Castaneda lied. Well, Mark Twain lied as well yet his characters did NOT share so much as a hint of as great wisdom as Castaneda's don Juan did! It is obvious that the people who knew Castaneda, when he wrote his first few books, KNEW he was honestly portraying himself as a bumbling fool who could NEVER create the don Juan philosophy on his own. If this were not the case people would have been screaming fraud from the very first book! Any wise person can evaluate this for himself if he really thinks about it.
So this Apollo 18 movie, coupled with the slew of alien movies that have come out recently, are a real kick in the crotch to the bland, staunch, closed-minded skeptics who blindly believe whatever the government has to say about such matters. Oh, they have been properly brainwashed alright. I would go so far as to say 'religiously' brainwashed in the strictest definition of the word. Such people have been laughing about the possibility of UFO aliens for many years. I doubt they are laughing as hard about the subject as they used to since this book has been published:
UFO (Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go ON The Record):
http://www.amazon.com/UFO...id=1315039266&sr=1-1
Yes, the staunch, close-minded skeptics are soon to find they have been 'dead' WRONG about UFOs all along! When the aliens finally get here I wouldn't be surprised if they eat the UFO skeptics first!
Serves them right to be 'served' up on a bloody platter!!
Ya know. I've been saying things like this for years and as of August 20th 2011, I believe, Nasa has been linked to stating:
"Extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) "could attack and kill us, enslave us, or potentially even eat us. ETI could attack us out of selfishness or out of a more altruistic desire to protect the galaxy from us. We might be a threat to the galaxy just as we are a threat to our home planet," it warns."
Read more:
http://www.foxnews.com/sc...st-claims/#ixzz1WsTM0Rlw
MY COMMENT:
Of course, Nasa officially denies it. What would you expect from them? Truth? Don't bet on it!
Here is supposed footage of the Apollo 20 mission:
http://www.youtube.com/wa..._Wbs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/wa...amdY&feature=related
The close-minded skeptic automatically says it's fake and says there was no Apollo 20 mission because Nasa says there wasn't. On the other hand, I am experienced enough to know that the government lies to the people any time it chooses to and that we should not be dumb enough to blindly believe ANYTHING the government or THEIR media tells us. I say that if faked, it is very well made and must have cost a lot of money to make. Who made any profits from this faking? No one that I know of. By now someone should have come forward in the hopes of being hired by Spielberg or George Lucas. So, they spent all the money to fake this, didn't make a dime off of it and didn't bother to tell the world that they were the ones who faked it? Sounds extremely ridiculous to me. Then again...I don't know for a fact ANY NEITHER DO ANY OF YOU so don't pretend you do, okay? Thanks
About the Purported Apollo 20 Mission:
http://www.angelismarriti.../Apollo20-TheFootage.htm
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PART 3
I've been forced into a position where I treat ANY information that may cross my path as fiction UNLESS I can personally verify it for myself. Yes that includes the evening news as well as Castaneda's works and all religious books held as holy and sacred by the brainwashed masses. As far as I am concerned ALL truly wise people will agree with me on this point. So, as far as I am concerned, Castaneda's works are works of fiction no matter who says what to the contrary. The only truly real things about the lessons of don Juan, or anyone else for that matter, are what actually works from the philosophies to better my life. The only things about don Juan's lessons that are of real value are the teachings that actually work to better my life! So, arguing back and forth whether or not don Juan actually existed is pointless and an endeavor for fools who don't care about bettering their lives.
My friend told me of a Martin Lawrence stand-up comedy routine where Martin said something like:
"Critics can't do sh*t. That's why they have to talk about YOUR sh*t!"
Oh yes indeed!
Closed-minded skeptic bastards! Of course, I'm talking about "THEM", not you. Thank the godless God "THEY" are not here reading this so that we can express ourselves freely.
I say that the wise live with their beliefs in a 'fluid' state; like water that always immediately adjusts to its container. I strive to immediately adjust to the container of truth. I have no qualms WHATSOEVER about tossing aside something I once believed in if it no longer serves me. The staunch religious and the blind skeptics are incapable of doing this. They have already made up their minds and are determined that nothing can or will change it. Who cares if DNA tests prove the Book of Mormon false when it says that the Native American Indians actually came from Israel? Mormonism is not going to let a little thing like truth interrupt their successful religion. All the UFO evidence in the world is not going to change the view of the Jehovah's Witnesses that there is no other life in the universe because it doesn't say there is in the Bible. What do they care about evidence to the contrary of their beliefs, right? It's the same basic thing with the staunch, closed-minded skeptics. They have already made up their minds and nothing is going to change it. You can talk until you are blue in the face or write until your fingers fall off. It won't make any difference either with the blind religious or the blind skeptics.
In my view, the 'true believers' and the 'non-believers' are existing on opposite polarized ends of idiocy. The wise treat EVERYTHING they hear as fiction until they personally verify it as true.
Then we have groups like 'The Flat Earth Society' who are certain the Earth is flat, period! Well, I say they should prove the positive of their assertions. Find the edge of the flat Earth and prove to the world, beyond all shadow of doubt, that the Earth is flat or just shut the hell up, you idiots! The same goes for you true believers in Castaneda or any other philosophy you have not personally verified as true. Prove that Jesus said everything attributed to Him and did every miracle attributed to him in the Bible or STOP THREATENING PEOPLE WITH DAMNATION FOR NOT BLINDLY BELIEVING! If God loves me and will throw me into eternal miserable damnation if I don't return His love then I say emphatically that God is insane and desperately needs Carl Jung psychological counseling because God obviously doesn't have a clue what real love is.
You can't make bones for a jellyfish and you can't make true wisdom for a blind skeptic or the blind religious who can't see past their supposed holy books. It's like they're feet are set in stone and so will they remain...until the UFO aliens eat them whole; minus the stone. One thing is for certain: If your feet are set in stone you won't be running far.
It is said that Einstein was so dead set against the breakthrough discoveries of quantum physicists, during his lifetime, that he has been quoted as saying something to the effect of: "God does not play with dice with the universe!" To which a famous quantum physicist of the time responded with: "Stop telling God what to do!" So, the truth is the truth whether Einstein wants to believe it or not. Those who treat the works of Einstein, or Castaneda for that matter, as infallible and inerrant are indeed **** fools. I remember reading of a person who had meticulously labeled the works of Carlos Castaneda into chapters and verses, similar to the Bible and Castaneda publicly ridiculed her to no end!
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PART 4
To Senor Wenceslao
I was alive when Castaneda's first book came out and eagerly bought his next books especially because I was living in the city and they took me away to marvelous natural vistas of incredible beauty. I searched for similar material to read and was frustrated because I found NOTHING on the book market. So don't come telling me that the information imparted by Castaneda's don Juan was readily available back then. You probably weren't even alive so how the hell would you know! The success of Castaneda's books paved the way for similar material to be released on the book market and it took YEARS before similar material finally became available. So don't come telling me that the information was readily available before Castaneda came along. You may be able to fool people who are younger than you, but chances are I'm old enough to be your father...Luke.
THERE WAS NO NEW AGE MOVEMENT BEFORE CASTANEDA CAME ALONG!!
Now, if you are wise, you can see echos of don Juan's teachings all over the New Age world. Don Juan was talking about "the lines of the world" before ANYONE I had heard of was talking about the energetic "ley lines" on the Earth! Now they talk about ley lines as though Castaneda's don Juan had nothing whatsoever to do with the initial revelation to modern man.
Mark Twain's books did nothing much to advance the spirit of the human race. Oh, he told great classic stories, but in his stories remember that the Native American Indian was the BAD GUY!!!!!
*The closest thing I could find at the time was a famous Native American book that was called: Black Elk Speaks. That was NOTHING like the information about awareness and Intent revealed by don Juan and contained in the works of Castaneda.
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MY COMMENTARY:
Well, so far I can see people going back and forth about calling each other names. Senior Wenceslao made some interesting counterpoint commentary. Widget brought up the premise that began part 1 of this post. Jeremy Donovan Talking Dog is silently hiding along with Flyboy Guy Gardener. If I am expecting them to openly admit my view of this Castaneda situation is the correct view it looks like I can expect a very, very long wait for that to happen.
As far as I am concerned this is fiction until I can personally verify it. However...
Carlos Castaneda Before don Juan:
http://wanderling.tripod.com/castaneda_donjuan.html
This Topic thread is dedicated to Jeremy Donovan (Talking Brujo Dog) and Flyboy: Wesley Dodds (Guy Gardner)
In case any of you are curious, I made a decision that everything in life I am frustrated about has it's roots in weaknesses within my character. My frustrations in life are not "THEIR FAULT". Through empirical testing, I KNOW FOR A FACT that the stronger I become in all good and wonderful ways the easier and more fun life automatically becomes.
Since my old days posting in SR I have put in about 1000 grueling workouts and have now become so muscular that I absolutely MUST stop using heavy weights to workout or I will become too big to hide my muscles under a loose shirt. I now use specialized exercises for developing joint strength on state of the art gym machines. The thing is that even though I am using light weights on these incredibly advanced workout machines, focusing upon developing greater joint strength, my muscles are responding as though I am using heavy weights. It's truly unbelievable! This is not supposed to be happening. So the big problem with me is I am an expert on how to get bigger and a novice on how to become as excited about the project of developing a personal Zumba inspired cardio martial arts workout that focuses primarily on my body from the waist down. Oh, I'm getting there with powerful 'windmill-like' spinning kicks in both directions and rapid fire super-fast jab-like kicks that move with machine gun-like speed.
Still, I have learned that bodybuilding and cardio training can be diametrically opposed because in bodybuilding you tend to move slow and in cardio workouts you tend to move fast. Bridging the gap is proving to be quite a challenge indeed, but I have hope. Last night I made a discovery that has revolutionized my whole view of the cardio aspects of my workouts. Someone pissed me off at the gym and suddenly I was able to move lightning fast. I suddenly remembered a quote of Bruce Lee in which he said that his secret was controlled and focused anger. In a flash of a moment I finally understood what he meant! Quite exciting except...in my excitement I overdid it a bit and slightly pulled some muscles.
The poor suckers who are into martial arts because they were initially afraid of being beaten up, thanks to their colored belts, now have to be registered with the police department and are afraid to hit anyone least they go to jail. Ironic, is it not? You start because of fear and, for all your work, you end up in fear.
I am not into belts and, out of guilt for wasting wood, no longer break boards with my hands. Besides, I've heard too many stories of martial arts "masters" who can no longer so much as type on a computer because their hands are swollen with arthritis. They may have broken many bricks and boards in their lifetimes, but it's obvious that the bricks and boards were not defeated eventually defeated them.
I've learned that whether one wins or loses is determined by the mysterious force of Intent that brings all things into being. Calling this force "God" and thinking you understand it because of the name you placed on it and reading some book with a beginning and an end is ridiculous! However, if the Universe wants you to win NO ONE can defeat you. If the Universe wants you to lose nothing you can do will keep you from losing, period! So the greatest martial artist is the one who inspires the Universe to fight on his behalf. Anyone who would defeat such a martial artist has to defeat the Entire Universe first. Hey, good luck with that!
Well, enough about myself, right?
Castaneda's don Juan was all about attaining true freedom. The Castaneda's Legacy Forum is so shackled with rules and regulations that "freedom" is not something that comes to mind as I post here. Since I am probably still allowed only one post a day this is going to be a very long post. I have returned to tie up some loose ends regarding the SR forum. After I have done my best to resolve certain issues I don't intend to post here anymore. I don't respond well to be shackled by rules and regulations. All the best of you have received PMs from me so you know where to find me by clicking in my registered name and examining the "About Me" section of my YUKU profile. If you choose to see what I have written great. If not, equally great. I'm not trying to sell you anything and I don't need your validation to feel 'right with the world'. Since this is going to be a very long post I have decided to divide it up into different parts. If you choose to then please refer to the particular parts you are addressing. Thank you
_________________________________________________________
PART 1
The core of the people who post here are certain Castaneda was a fraud and made don Juan up. Really now! So, Castaneda was able to trick the EXPERTS in the UCLA anthropology department into giving him a Ph. D, with his third book: Journey To Ixtlan? Really now! YOU know better than the anthropology experts at UCLA about such things? What are your credentials? Are you even officially qualified enough to officially judge how many legs there are on a cockroach? I doubt it. Two bestselling books were published before Castaneda's third book Journey To Ixtlan. There was plenty of time for detractors to say that Castaneda was telling don Juan philosophy before he purportedly met the shaman. Plenty of time indeed! I've read someone here sharing some hearsay about Castaneda making up some sort of Tonto character in order to try and pick up chicks. Why should anyone believe this story to be true? Convincing YOU hack wannabe anthropologists is one thing. Successfully convincing the anthropology experts at UCLA is something else entirely. I would imagine we should have no argument about this fact. Am I correct? I mean, compared to the anthropology department experts of UCLA you people don't know sh*t about anthropology and should not consider yourselves to be greater experts in such matters, right? RIGHT!
_________________________________________________________
PART 2
Earlier today I was talking to a friend about the skeptics of the world as I was waiting to watch the new movie Apollo 18:
http://apollo18movie.net/
I was saying how the skeptics are killjoys and how they love to sabotage people's happiness and take all the magic out of life. Nothing is miraculous to the atheist skeptic and, if he has his way, the atheist skeptic will make ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that YOU are less successful in life than he is. Whether he talks about God or Carlos Castaneda or Jesus or Krishna or anyone else the staunch, close-minded skeptic sees only a flat, non-mysterious, black & white reality. I've seen staunch, closed-minded skeptics write things like either all religions are true or they are all false. The staunch close-minded skeptic is too ignorant to realize that, instead of just black & white, the world is made up of infinite shades of gray.
"It's like I always say ... they can't all be right. But they could all be wrong..."
Jeremy Talking Dog
MY COMMENT:
Or they can all be right in some ways and wrong in others. Couldn't think up the third option on your own, eh Jeremy? Glad I could help
I've seen **** skeptics absolutely certain that Carlos Castaneda made the don Juan character up without realizing what they are implying. Either don Juan was an actual personage or Carlos Castaneda was one of the greatest modern writers who has ever lived. His books helped to jump-start an entire spiritual movement. Not even Mark Twain can make such a claim. Hey, you say Castaneda lied. Well, Mark Twain lied as well yet his characters did NOT share so much as a hint of as great wisdom as Castaneda's don Juan did! It is obvious that the people who knew Castaneda, when he wrote his first few books, KNEW he was honestly portraying himself as a bumbling fool who could NEVER create the don Juan philosophy on his own. If this were not the case people would have been screaming fraud from the very first book! Any wise person can evaluate this for himself if he really thinks about it.
So this Apollo 18 movie, coupled with the slew of alien movies that have come out recently, are a real kick in the crotch to the bland, staunch, closed-minded skeptics who blindly believe whatever the government has to say about such matters. Oh, they have been properly brainwashed alright. I would go so far as to say 'religiously' brainwashed in the strictest definition of the word. Such people have been laughing about the possibility of UFO aliens for many years. I doubt they are laughing as hard about the subject as they used to since this book has been published:
UFO (Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go ON The Record):
http://www.amazon.com/UFO...id=1315039266&sr=1-1
Yes, the staunch, close-minded skeptics are soon to find they have been 'dead' WRONG about UFOs all along! When the aliens finally get here I wouldn't be surprised if they eat the UFO skeptics first!
Serves them right to be 'served' up on a bloody platter!!
Ya know. I've been saying things like this for years and as of August 20th 2011, I believe, Nasa has been linked to stating:
"Extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) "could attack and kill us, enslave us, or potentially even eat us. ETI could attack us out of selfishness or out of a more altruistic desire to protect the galaxy from us. We might be a threat to the galaxy just as we are a threat to our home planet," it warns."
Read more:
http://www.foxnews.com/sc...st-claims/#ixzz1WsTM0Rlw
MY COMMENT:
Of course, Nasa officially denies it. What would you expect from them? Truth? Don't bet on it!
Here is supposed footage of the Apollo 20 mission:
http://www.youtube.com/wa..._Wbs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/wa...amdY&feature=related
The close-minded skeptic automatically says it's fake and says there was no Apollo 20 mission because Nasa says there wasn't. On the other hand, I am experienced enough to know that the government lies to the people any time it chooses to and that we should not be dumb enough to blindly believe ANYTHING the government or THEIR media tells us. I say that if faked, it is very well made and must have cost a lot of money to make. Who made any profits from this faking? No one that I know of. By now someone should have come forward in the hopes of being hired by Spielberg or George Lucas. So, they spent all the money to fake this, didn't make a dime off of it and didn't bother to tell the world that they were the ones who faked it? Sounds extremely ridiculous to me. Then again...I don't know for a fact ANY NEITHER DO ANY OF YOU so don't pretend you do, okay? Thanks
About the Purported Apollo 20 Mission:
http://www.angelismarriti.../Apollo20-TheFootage.htm
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PART 3
I've been forced into a position where I treat ANY information that may cross my path as fiction UNLESS I can personally verify it for myself. Yes that includes the evening news as well as Castaneda's works and all religious books held as holy and sacred by the brainwashed masses. As far as I am concerned ALL truly wise people will agree with me on this point. So, as far as I am concerned, Castaneda's works are works of fiction no matter who says what to the contrary. The only truly real things about the lessons of don Juan, or anyone else for that matter, are what actually works from the philosophies to better my life. The only things about don Juan's lessons that are of real value are the teachings that actually work to better my life! So, arguing back and forth whether or not don Juan actually existed is pointless and an endeavor for fools who don't care about bettering their lives.
My friend told me of a Martin Lawrence stand-up comedy routine where Martin said something like:
"Critics can't do sh*t. That's why they have to talk about YOUR sh*t!"
Oh yes indeed!
Closed-minded skeptic bastards! Of course, I'm talking about "THEM", not you. Thank the godless God "THEY" are not here reading this so that we can express ourselves freely.
I say that the wise live with their beliefs in a 'fluid' state; like water that always immediately adjusts to its container. I strive to immediately adjust to the container of truth. I have no qualms WHATSOEVER about tossing aside something I once believed in if it no longer serves me. The staunch religious and the blind skeptics are incapable of doing this. They have already made up their minds and are determined that nothing can or will change it. Who cares if DNA tests prove the Book of Mormon false when it says that the Native American Indians actually came from Israel? Mormonism is not going to let a little thing like truth interrupt their successful religion. All the UFO evidence in the world is not going to change the view of the Jehovah's Witnesses that there is no other life in the universe because it doesn't say there is in the Bible. What do they care about evidence to the contrary of their beliefs, right? It's the same basic thing with the staunch, closed-minded skeptics. They have already made up their minds and nothing is going to change it. You can talk until you are blue in the face or write until your fingers fall off. It won't make any difference either with the blind religious or the blind skeptics.
In my view, the 'true believers' and the 'non-believers' are existing on opposite polarized ends of idiocy. The wise treat EVERYTHING they hear as fiction until they personally verify it as true.
Then we have groups like 'The Flat Earth Society' who are certain the Earth is flat, period! Well, I say they should prove the positive of their assertions. Find the edge of the flat Earth and prove to the world, beyond all shadow of doubt, that the Earth is flat or just shut the hell up, you idiots! The same goes for you true believers in Castaneda or any other philosophy you have not personally verified as true. Prove that Jesus said everything attributed to Him and did every miracle attributed to him in the Bible or STOP THREATENING PEOPLE WITH DAMNATION FOR NOT BLINDLY BELIEVING! If God loves me and will throw me into eternal miserable damnation if I don't return His love then I say emphatically that God is insane and desperately needs Carl Jung psychological counseling because God obviously doesn't have a clue what real love is.
You can't make bones for a jellyfish and you can't make true wisdom for a blind skeptic or the blind religious who can't see past their supposed holy books. It's like they're feet are set in stone and so will they remain...until the UFO aliens eat them whole; minus the stone. One thing is for certain: If your feet are set in stone you won't be running far.
It is said that Einstein was so dead set against the breakthrough discoveries of quantum physicists, during his lifetime, that he has been quoted as saying something to the effect of: "God does not play with dice with the universe!" To which a famous quantum physicist of the time responded with: "Stop telling God what to do!" So, the truth is the truth whether Einstein wants to believe it or not. Those who treat the works of Einstein, or Castaneda for that matter, as infallible and inerrant are indeed **** fools. I remember reading of a person who had meticulously labeled the works of Carlos Castaneda into chapters and verses, similar to the Bible and Castaneda publicly ridiculed her to no end!
_____________________________________________
PART 4
To Senor Wenceslao
I was alive when Castaneda's first book came out and eagerly bought his next books especially because I was living in the city and they took me away to marvelous natural vistas of incredible beauty. I searched for similar material to read and was frustrated because I found NOTHING on the book market. So don't come telling me that the information imparted by Castaneda's don Juan was readily available back then. You probably weren't even alive so how the hell would you know! The success of Castaneda's books paved the way for similar material to be released on the book market and it took YEARS before similar material finally became available. So don't come telling me that the information was readily available before Castaneda came along. You may be able to fool people who are younger than you, but chances are I'm old enough to be your father...Luke.
THERE WAS NO NEW AGE MOVEMENT BEFORE CASTANEDA CAME ALONG!!
Now, if you are wise, you can see echos of don Juan's teachings all over the New Age world. Don Juan was talking about "the lines of the world" before ANYONE I had heard of was talking about the energetic "ley lines" on the Earth! Now they talk about ley lines as though Castaneda's don Juan had nothing whatsoever to do with the initial revelation to modern man.
Mark Twain's books did nothing much to advance the spirit of the human race. Oh, he told great classic stories, but in his stories remember that the Native American Indian was the BAD GUY!!!!!
*The closest thing I could find at the time was a famous Native American book that was called: Black Elk Speaks. That was NOTHING like the information about awareness and Intent revealed by don Juan and contained in the works of Castaneda.
________________________________________
MY COMMENTARY:
Well, so far I can see people going back and forth about calling each other names. Senior Wenceslao made some interesting counterpoint commentary. Widget brought up the premise that began part 1 of this post. Jeremy Donovan Talking Dog is silently hiding along with Flyboy Guy Gardener. If I am expecting them to openly admit my view of this Castaneda situation is the correct view it looks like I can expect a very, very long wait for that to happen.
As far as I am concerned this is fiction until I can personally verify it. However...
Carlos Castaneda Before don Juan:
http://wanderling.tripod.com/castaneda_donjuan.html