04-11-2011, 12:00 AM
It is the tendency of people to have little to no real appreciation for a free gift of knowledge. In order to evoke essential appreciation for important knowledge I feel the imparters of important knowledge should charge for what they teach just as any tutor charges for what he or she teaches. Those who expect a free ride from the Spirit of Intent will most certainly accomplish little to nothing worth accomplishing.
Don Juan did not charge Castaneda for his teachings because Castaneda wanted to pay don Juan so that he could manipulate him by making him subservient through payment. That would have been detrimental to all don Juan was doing. Castaneda made payments in other ways like driving don Juan around and buying him groceries and, I would imagine, other ways not shared in his writings.
Yes, I feel certain don Juan was an actual personage. No one was crying 'fraud' until Castaneda wrote Tales of Power and purportedly jumped physically from a cliff in Mexico and found himself back in Los Angeles apparently...car and all. What does this say? It says that Carlos Castaneda was accurately portraying himself as a person. He was not a person who could have made the don Juan philosophy up on his own and fool all those college professors into giving him a Ph.D. That's what it says!
Don Juan did not charge Castaneda for his teachings because Castaneda wanted to pay don Juan so that he could manipulate him by making him subservient through payment. That would have been detrimental to all don Juan was doing. Castaneda made payments in other ways like driving don Juan around and buying him groceries and, I would imagine, other ways not shared in his writings.
Yes, I feel certain don Juan was an actual personage. No one was crying 'fraud' until Castaneda wrote Tales of Power and purportedly jumped physically from a cliff in Mexico and found himself back in Los Angeles apparently...car and all. What does this say? It says that Carlos Castaneda was accurately portraying himself as a person. He was not a person who could have made the don Juan philosophy up on his own and fool all those college professors into giving him a Ph.D. That's what it says!