10-03-2011, 12:03 AM
Listening to Castaneda's voice I can 'see' that he is a person who lies whenever he feels he can get away with it. I believe there was a don Juan, but I also now believe MORE STRONGLY THAN EVER that Carlos Castaneda used TREMENDOUS creative literary license in order to embellish the don Juan character to the point where maybe 50% of everything he wrote about don Juan was fiction. This would be a great way to keep don Juan hidden. People would be looking for a much more interesting person than the actual don Juan. It would make it very easy for the real don Juan to act like and **** Indian and throw people off the scent if they ever went looking for him. So, I believe Castaneda lied like crazy in order to protect don Juan, and eventually got lost in his lies.
I wouldn't be surprised if about 50% of every book Castaneda wrote was pure fiction.
I wouldn't be surprised if about 50% of every book Castaneda wrote was pure fiction.