09-22-2011, 12:03 AM
The Teachings of don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge - 1968 by Carlos Castaneda Intro
Acknowledgements
"I wish to express profound gratitude to Professor Clement Meighan, who started and set the course of my anthropological fieldwork; to Professor Harold Garfinkel, who gave me the model and the spirit of exhaustive inquiry; to Professor Robert Edgerton, who criticized my work from its beginning; to Professors William Bright and Pedro Carrasco for their criticisms and encouragement; and to Professor Lawrence Watson for his invaluable help in the clarification of my analysis. Finally, I am grateful to Mrs Grace Stimson and Mr F. A. Guilford for their assistance in preparing the manuscript."
- Carlos Castaneda
ABOUT DEMILLE:
"in 1976 when Richard de Mille published Castaneda's Journey: The Power and the Allegory, in which he argues, "Logical or chronological errors in the narrative constitute the best evidence that Castaneda's books are works of fiction. If no one has discovered these errors before, the reason must be that no one has listed the events of the first three books in sequence. Once that has been done, the errors are unmistakable."[12] On these showings de Mille asserts, The Teachings of Don Juan and Journey to Ixtlan cannot both be factual reports.[13] (De Mille was forced to produce a further edited volume in 1980, in which he withdrew some previously published criticism: De Mille had asserted that mushrooms did not grow in the Sonora desert, which was wrong, and his publishers edited out this criticism in the 1980 volume)."
"...In The Power and the Allegory, De Mille compared The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge with Castaneda's library stack requests at the University of California. The stack requests documented that he was sitting in the library when allegedly his journal said he was squatting in Don Juan's hut. One discovery that de Mille alleges to have made in his examination of the stack requests was that when Castaneda was alleged to have said that he was participating in the traditional peyote ceremony—the least fantastic episode of drug use—he was sitting in the UCLA library and he was reading someone else's description of their experience of the peyote ceremony...."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Castaneda
MY COMMENT:
So these university professors didn't have so much as a clue that instead of being in the desert with don Juan Carlos Castaneda was actually sitting in the UCLA library??? And you TB idiots just blindly believe DeMille, right? Hey, we all make mistakes. Memory is not something the wise should blindly trust. Of course their are errors in the writings of Carlos Castaneda. Unless the writers are absolutely perfect, we can trust, there are errors in ALL written works!
I have little doubt that you TB knuckleheads most probably blindly believed DeMille when he originally stated that mushrooms did not grow in the Sonora desert. I have little to no doubt that you just blindly believed it. Why? Because TB knuckleheads tend to blindly believe whatever they feel like blindly believing. If I wasn't here to challenge Guy Gardner on his lying claim about don Juan 'stalking' being a rip off and perversion of Taoist teachings I have little doubt that you TB knuckleheads would have just blindly believed it!
YOU PEOPLE REALLY NEED TO GET A CLUE! If you are truly wise you will adopt my view in that unless you personally verify what ANYONE tells you it is fiction, period! From what I have studied, neither Jesus nor the Buddha ever wrote down their teachings. There is even doubt whether or not the supposed apostles of Jesus actually wrote the four Gospels. From my studies, it was about 100 years after the alleged Buddha died that the teachings of the Buddha were written down by someone who talked to devote Buddhist monks and wrote down what THEY SAID the Buddha had said. Yet the knuckleheads of today quote the Buddha, Jesus, Krishna and whoever as though those people actually said what was attributed to them. Crazy bastards will even blow themselves up to prove their faith in the written words!
So...
There is no real proof that don Juan existed as Carlos Castaneda said he did
There is no real proof that Jesus actually existed as the Bible says He did
There is no real proof that the Buddha actually existed as Buddhist doctrine said he did
There is no real proof that Krishna...do I really need to continue because I could make a very, very long list this way
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COMMENT:
I keep posting this at the end of my posts to remind the coward Jeremy Donovan TBD that he has not directly addressed this matter yet. When he finally gets back from his second trip to Greece, with Guy Gardner, chances are we will all finally see his response to this:
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!
* And the complaining losers in this forum continue to ignore the fact that I have proven I 'walk my talk' by drastically curtailing my insults. Yes, I still do some insulting of Knuckleheaded idiots, but if you are honest you will have to admit that I have made a DRASTIC improvement! If you critical my posts were honest you would openly admit this and congratulate me. Since you who are critical of my posts are LOSERS you ignore the good and harp on the perceived bad. So, if there is no perceived bad in my posts you just ignore them. Why? BECAUSE YOU ARE LOSERS, THAT'S WHY!!!!
Acknowledgements
"I wish to express profound gratitude to Professor Clement Meighan, who started and set the course of my anthropological fieldwork; to Professor Harold Garfinkel, who gave me the model and the spirit of exhaustive inquiry; to Professor Robert Edgerton, who criticized my work from its beginning; to Professors William Bright and Pedro Carrasco for their criticisms and encouragement; and to Professor Lawrence Watson for his invaluable help in the clarification of my analysis. Finally, I am grateful to Mrs Grace Stimson and Mr F. A. Guilford for their assistance in preparing the manuscript."
- Carlos Castaneda
ABOUT DEMILLE:
"in 1976 when Richard de Mille published Castaneda's Journey: The Power and the Allegory, in which he argues, "Logical or chronological errors in the narrative constitute the best evidence that Castaneda's books are works of fiction. If no one has discovered these errors before, the reason must be that no one has listed the events of the first three books in sequence. Once that has been done, the errors are unmistakable."[12] On these showings de Mille asserts, The Teachings of Don Juan and Journey to Ixtlan cannot both be factual reports.[13] (De Mille was forced to produce a further edited volume in 1980, in which he withdrew some previously published criticism: De Mille had asserted that mushrooms did not grow in the Sonora desert, which was wrong, and his publishers edited out this criticism in the 1980 volume)."
"...In The Power and the Allegory, De Mille compared The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge with Castaneda's library stack requests at the University of California. The stack requests documented that he was sitting in the library when allegedly his journal said he was squatting in Don Juan's hut. One discovery that de Mille alleges to have made in his examination of the stack requests was that when Castaneda was alleged to have said that he was participating in the traditional peyote ceremony—the least fantastic episode of drug use—he was sitting in the UCLA library and he was reading someone else's description of their experience of the peyote ceremony...."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Castaneda
MY COMMENT:
So these university professors didn't have so much as a clue that instead of being in the desert with don Juan Carlos Castaneda was actually sitting in the UCLA library??? And you TB idiots just blindly believe DeMille, right? Hey, we all make mistakes. Memory is not something the wise should blindly trust. Of course their are errors in the writings of Carlos Castaneda. Unless the writers are absolutely perfect, we can trust, there are errors in ALL written works!
I have little doubt that you TB knuckleheads most probably blindly believed DeMille when he originally stated that mushrooms did not grow in the Sonora desert. I have little to no doubt that you just blindly believed it. Why? Because TB knuckleheads tend to blindly believe whatever they feel like blindly believing. If I wasn't here to challenge Guy Gardner on his lying claim about don Juan 'stalking' being a rip off and perversion of Taoist teachings I have little doubt that you TB knuckleheads would have just blindly believed it!
YOU PEOPLE REALLY NEED TO GET A CLUE! If you are truly wise you will adopt my view in that unless you personally verify what ANYONE tells you it is fiction, period! From what I have studied, neither Jesus nor the Buddha ever wrote down their teachings. There is even doubt whether or not the supposed apostles of Jesus actually wrote the four Gospels. From my studies, it was about 100 years after the alleged Buddha died that the teachings of the Buddha were written down by someone who talked to devote Buddhist monks and wrote down what THEY SAID the Buddha had said. Yet the knuckleheads of today quote the Buddha, Jesus, Krishna and whoever as though those people actually said what was attributed to them. Crazy bastards will even blow themselves up to prove their faith in the written words!
So...
There is no real proof that don Juan existed as Carlos Castaneda said he did
There is no real proof that Jesus actually existed as the Bible says He did
There is no real proof that the Buddha actually existed as Buddhist doctrine said he did
There is no real proof that Krishna...do I really need to continue because I could make a very, very long list this way
______________________________________
COMMENT:
I keep posting this at the end of my posts to remind the coward Jeremy Donovan TBD that he has not directly addressed this matter yet. When he finally gets back from his second trip to Greece, with Guy Gardner, chances are we will all finally see his response to this:
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!
* And the complaining losers in this forum continue to ignore the fact that I have proven I 'walk my talk' by drastically curtailing my insults. Yes, I still do some insulting of Knuckleheaded idiots, but if you are honest you will have to admit that I have made a DRASTIC improvement! If you critical my posts were honest you would openly admit this and congratulate me. Since you who are critical of my posts are LOSERS you ignore the good and harp on the perceived bad. So, if there is no perceived bad in my posts you just ignore them. Why? BECAUSE YOU ARE LOSERS, THAT'S WHY!!!!