09-22-2011, 12:03 AM
AQUAMAN WROTE:
"If you would read Richard De Mille, you will notice these anthro professors were embarassed and became evasive after the truth came out."
MY RESPONSE:
It never ceases to amaze me how the ignorant can go from blindly believing Carlos Castaneda to blindly believing this Demille character. Have YOU personally verified everything Demille was pushing? Did Demille's book make the New York Times bestseller list? Do you really believe those professors who helped Carlos Castaneda with his book NEVER saw ANY of Castaneda's field notes? Get a clue, dude! Demille is a bring down and I venture that NOTHING Demille has written about Carlos Castaneda will EVER be remembered as the lessons of don Juan will. The raving initial reviews of Castaneda's books by Time Magazine and others had to do with the lessons of don Juan and Castaneda's magical writing style that transported us to magical desert vistas where we learned that the world is an unfathomable mystery instead of just a string of imposed mundane chores that MUST be done. The lessons of don Juan can stand on their own. If Castaneda created don Juan he was, quite simply, a literary genius! If he was able to use his created works to trick the EXPERTS at UCLA into giving him a Ph. D then Carlos Castaneda should indeed be in the Guinness Book of World Records because I have NEVER heard of an anthropology student, from another country, pulling off such a stunt and tricking the experts of a major American university so thoroughly!
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THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT:
Don Juan taught that there is a point of awareness that assembles the world we personally perceive. I've learned from experience that something mysterious 'within' us does indeed assemble our world view and that world view is predicated by our moods. On a day when I feel pessimistic and hopeless I assemble a very different world than on the days when I feel strong and filled with joyous excitement to be alive. Those worlds may look the same, but they are COMPLETELY different.
I've learned how to 'see' through my direct associations with Mother Nature and I've learned that there are many different ways to 'see'. There is a type of photography in which the camera can photograph the basic types of energy spheres that don Juan spoke about and don Juan was speaking about 'seeing' people in such a manner LONG BEFORE kirlian photography became commonly known.
KIRLIAN PHOTOGRAPHY AURA IMAGES:
http://www.google.com/sea...amp;biw=1600&bih=769
Castaneda's don Juan was talking about 'the lines of the world' LONG BEFORE I ever heard of "ley lines"
ABOUT LEY LINES:
http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/leylines.htm
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Since I am chiefly concerned with bettering my life and I treat all books as fiction while assuming that supposedly non-fiction books have LESS FICTON than complete fiction books it doesn't matter to me AT ALL whether or not Castaneda's don Juan actually existed. I say this only matters to those who have no interest in bettering their miserable lives. To those who have no interesting in bettering their miserable lives their chief concern is to negatively criticize and crush people's hope and sense of wide-eyed wonder.
Demille should have done research and written a book about there not actually being a Jesus and how the New Testament writers were hoaxers. Oh, he could have done it! I've read there is quite a bit of evidence out there that Jesus never actually existed. Why didn't he? I mean, the guy was obviously a miserable person who wanted to make others equally miserable with his works. Demille wanted to strip the magic out of life that don Juan gave to the world we live in. Demille should have written a book claiming that the New Testament Biblical writers were a bunch of hoaxers and that Jesus never actually existed!
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Through my dealings with Mother Nature I have personally verified much, if not most, of what Castaneda's don Juan taught. The world of Nature is indeed Sentient, Alive & Magical if it chooses to be and a warrior can 'see' the magical reality of Mother Nature. My chief goal is to consistently assemble a world in which I can entertain, pacify and help to heal the Spirit of Mother Earth. I have faith that I can continue to assemble a world where this inconceivable premise is indeed a dependable fact. I have 'seen' tremendous success through my efforts and I am excited by the fact that I will assemble even more powerful magical perceptions of Nature as my life unfolds.
Castaneda's don Juan has helped to inspire the manifestation of my dream. People like Demille inspire NO GREAT THING!! Those who blindly believe Demille are even WORSE than those who blindly believed Castaneda.
If you are wise you will no longer blindly believe ANYTHING ANYONE says or presents unless YOU PERSONALLY verify it to be true. If you refuse to do this you deserve whatever hell may come upon you as a result.
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ON VICTOR SANCHEZ
"But who is Victor Sanchez? According to the book jacket, he:
has lived for fifteen years with indigenous peoples of Mexico who, hidden in the mountains, have kept alive the spiritual path of the ancient Toltecs. His work among them has not been as an academic investigator, but instead as a participant dedicated to the preservation and continuation of their tradition. He gives workshops worldwide on the techniques described in this book.
Book jackets may be notoriously inaccurate and prone to exaggeration, but based on the quality and detail of the exercises which form the core of this book, it seems likely that Sanchez is the genuine article. Not, necessarily, that Sanchez is a shaman who can leap into alternate universes with a single bound and change himself into a crow at will, but rather, that Sanchez understands the nature of magic and magical transformation, that he has understood and learned how to teach others how to focus and change their modes of attention and consciousness, and that he has an excellent grasp on the mysterious and what it takes to full bodily encounter it as a "warrior."
"Warrior," of course, is a term of art in the "donjuanist" worldview, and the book follows the precepts outlined in Castaneda's eight books (to date) quite closely. As for the issue of whether don Juan truly existed, Sanchez writes that:
Personally, I am not particularly interested if the ideas came from don Juan or from Castaneda. The fact is they exist and - most important - they work. Putting these teachings into practice reveals that in each one of us there lies hidden another awareness - the awareness of the other self - which opens unlimited possibilities of perception and experience. This is what is really significant. Therefore, throughout the ensuing pages, I will refer to Carlos Castaneda and to don Juan interchangeably as the creators or bearers of a complex system of knowledge. That is how they present themselves to us: together, in the same work, the binomial Castaneda/don Juan inviting us to penetrate into their mysterious world. Thus, I abstain from commenting on something that is totally out of my reach - namely, to affirm or deny the existence of someone whom I've never seen, a matter that seems irrelevant."
http://www.enlightenment....ia/bookrevs/sanchez.html
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JUXTAPOSING VIEWPOINTS
MY VIEW:
If Carlos Castaneda created don Juan, created a string of New York Times bestseller books, made the cover of Time Magazine and tricked the anthropology experts at UCLA into giving him a Ph. D that is amazing! It is the work of a super-genius!! If don Juan actually existed that's nice, but nowhere near as amazing as if Castaneda made the whole thing up, period. I say all who are wise will agree with me. That is my view.
JEREMY DONOVAN TBD's VIEW:
Is that there is nothing amazing about the situation whatsoever. Anyone could have made don Juan up and accomplished the same things Castaneda did. He was a fraud and Jeremy KNOWS who deserves a Ph. D in anthropology and who does not and JEREMY KNOWS Castaneda did not deserve a Ph. D even though Jeremy has NO QUALIFICATIONS WHATSOEVER to make such an assessment.
*I say that Jeremy's views are narcissistic-ally deranged. He went from a Castaneda TB to a Demille TB. Reality has forced me into a position where I no longer blindly believe ANYONE on ANY SUBJECT unless I personally verify it for myself, period! And if history has taught you 'sane' people in this forum anything you should openly agree with me in this matter.
The insane blindly believe books to be infallibly and inerrantly true. ANY people who blindly believe ANY books to be infallibly and inerrantly true just because someone says so are indeed insane; and I say there are WAY TOO MANY such insane people alive in the world today!
"If you would read Richard De Mille, you will notice these anthro professors were embarassed and became evasive after the truth came out."
MY RESPONSE:
It never ceases to amaze me how the ignorant can go from blindly believing Carlos Castaneda to blindly believing this Demille character. Have YOU personally verified everything Demille was pushing? Did Demille's book make the New York Times bestseller list? Do you really believe those professors who helped Carlos Castaneda with his book NEVER saw ANY of Castaneda's field notes? Get a clue, dude! Demille is a bring down and I venture that NOTHING Demille has written about Carlos Castaneda will EVER be remembered as the lessons of don Juan will. The raving initial reviews of Castaneda's books by Time Magazine and others had to do with the lessons of don Juan and Castaneda's magical writing style that transported us to magical desert vistas where we learned that the world is an unfathomable mystery instead of just a string of imposed mundane chores that MUST be done. The lessons of don Juan can stand on their own. If Castaneda created don Juan he was, quite simply, a literary genius! If he was able to use his created works to trick the EXPERTS at UCLA into giving him a Ph. D then Carlos Castaneda should indeed be in the Guinness Book of World Records because I have NEVER heard of an anthropology student, from another country, pulling off such a stunt and tricking the experts of a major American university so thoroughly!
___________________________________
THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT:
Don Juan taught that there is a point of awareness that assembles the world we personally perceive. I've learned from experience that something mysterious 'within' us does indeed assemble our world view and that world view is predicated by our moods. On a day when I feel pessimistic and hopeless I assemble a very different world than on the days when I feel strong and filled with joyous excitement to be alive. Those worlds may look the same, but they are COMPLETELY different.
I've learned how to 'see' through my direct associations with Mother Nature and I've learned that there are many different ways to 'see'. There is a type of photography in which the camera can photograph the basic types of energy spheres that don Juan spoke about and don Juan was speaking about 'seeing' people in such a manner LONG BEFORE kirlian photography became commonly known.
KIRLIAN PHOTOGRAPHY AURA IMAGES:
http://www.google.com/sea...amp;biw=1600&bih=769
Castaneda's don Juan was talking about 'the lines of the world' LONG BEFORE I ever heard of "ley lines"
ABOUT LEY LINES:
http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/leylines.htm
_______________________________________
Since I am chiefly concerned with bettering my life and I treat all books as fiction while assuming that supposedly non-fiction books have LESS FICTON than complete fiction books it doesn't matter to me AT ALL whether or not Castaneda's don Juan actually existed. I say this only matters to those who have no interest in bettering their miserable lives. To those who have no interesting in bettering their miserable lives their chief concern is to negatively criticize and crush people's hope and sense of wide-eyed wonder.
Demille should have done research and written a book about there not actually being a Jesus and how the New Testament writers were hoaxers. Oh, he could have done it! I've read there is quite a bit of evidence out there that Jesus never actually existed. Why didn't he? I mean, the guy was obviously a miserable person who wanted to make others equally miserable with his works. Demille wanted to strip the magic out of life that don Juan gave to the world we live in. Demille should have written a book claiming that the New Testament Biblical writers were a bunch of hoaxers and that Jesus never actually existed!
_______________________________________
Through my dealings with Mother Nature I have personally verified much, if not most, of what Castaneda's don Juan taught. The world of Nature is indeed Sentient, Alive & Magical if it chooses to be and a warrior can 'see' the magical reality of Mother Nature. My chief goal is to consistently assemble a world in which I can entertain, pacify and help to heal the Spirit of Mother Earth. I have faith that I can continue to assemble a world where this inconceivable premise is indeed a dependable fact. I have 'seen' tremendous success through my efforts and I am excited by the fact that I will assemble even more powerful magical perceptions of Nature as my life unfolds.
Castaneda's don Juan has helped to inspire the manifestation of my dream. People like Demille inspire NO GREAT THING!! Those who blindly believe Demille are even WORSE than those who blindly believed Castaneda.
If you are wise you will no longer blindly believe ANYTHING ANYONE says or presents unless YOU PERSONALLY verify it to be true. If you refuse to do this you deserve whatever hell may come upon you as a result.
______________________________________
ON VICTOR SANCHEZ
"But who is Victor Sanchez? According to the book jacket, he:
has lived for fifteen years with indigenous peoples of Mexico who, hidden in the mountains, have kept alive the spiritual path of the ancient Toltecs. His work among them has not been as an academic investigator, but instead as a participant dedicated to the preservation and continuation of their tradition. He gives workshops worldwide on the techniques described in this book.
Book jackets may be notoriously inaccurate and prone to exaggeration, but based on the quality and detail of the exercises which form the core of this book, it seems likely that Sanchez is the genuine article. Not, necessarily, that Sanchez is a shaman who can leap into alternate universes with a single bound and change himself into a crow at will, but rather, that Sanchez understands the nature of magic and magical transformation, that he has understood and learned how to teach others how to focus and change their modes of attention and consciousness, and that he has an excellent grasp on the mysterious and what it takes to full bodily encounter it as a "warrior."
"Warrior," of course, is a term of art in the "donjuanist" worldview, and the book follows the precepts outlined in Castaneda's eight books (to date) quite closely. As for the issue of whether don Juan truly existed, Sanchez writes that:
Personally, I am not particularly interested if the ideas came from don Juan or from Castaneda. The fact is they exist and - most important - they work. Putting these teachings into practice reveals that in each one of us there lies hidden another awareness - the awareness of the other self - which opens unlimited possibilities of perception and experience. This is what is really significant. Therefore, throughout the ensuing pages, I will refer to Carlos Castaneda and to don Juan interchangeably as the creators or bearers of a complex system of knowledge. That is how they present themselves to us: together, in the same work, the binomial Castaneda/don Juan inviting us to penetrate into their mysterious world. Thus, I abstain from commenting on something that is totally out of my reach - namely, to affirm or deny the existence of someone whom I've never seen, a matter that seems irrelevant."
http://www.enlightenment....ia/bookrevs/sanchez.html
______________________________________
JUXTAPOSING VIEWPOINTS
MY VIEW:
If Carlos Castaneda created don Juan, created a string of New York Times bestseller books, made the cover of Time Magazine and tricked the anthropology experts at UCLA into giving him a Ph. D that is amazing! It is the work of a super-genius!! If don Juan actually existed that's nice, but nowhere near as amazing as if Castaneda made the whole thing up, period. I say all who are wise will agree with me. That is my view.
JEREMY DONOVAN TBD's VIEW:
Is that there is nothing amazing about the situation whatsoever. Anyone could have made don Juan up and accomplished the same things Castaneda did. He was a fraud and Jeremy KNOWS who deserves a Ph. D in anthropology and who does not and JEREMY KNOWS Castaneda did not deserve a Ph. D even though Jeremy has NO QUALIFICATIONS WHATSOEVER to make such an assessment.
*I say that Jeremy's views are narcissistic-ally deranged. He went from a Castaneda TB to a Demille TB. Reality has forced me into a position where I no longer blindly believe ANYONE on ANY SUBJECT unless I personally verify it for myself, period! And if history has taught you 'sane' people in this forum anything you should openly agree with me in this matter.
The insane blindly believe books to be infallibly and inerrantly true. ANY people who blindly believe ANY books to be infallibly and inerrantly true just because someone says so are indeed insane; and I say there are WAY TOO MANY such insane people alive in the world today!