02-23-2011, 12:02 AM
Yes, Lex as I see it we do have to maintain a certain faith in the
validity of what CC wrote, if we cannot do this...goodnight
nurse...there is no foundation upon which to proceed. NL
NL this really has been a point I have been trying to drive home for awhile now. This foundation which you speak of which as you say requires a "certain faith" I would say requires understanding. I believe a lot of what CC was talking about but when I listen to what people are saying in Castaneda type forums at times I wonder if we have read the same CC books. Perhaps it is just a matter of no foundation so people do not know how to proceed. So we end up with this interpreting of CC's stuff through a lens of whatever type of spirituality we are favoring that day.
I understand the confusion and predicament. We have a CC community that loved CC's books but don't know how to plug in. After all the books said we need a nagual and a party all dictated by the rule etc. The dilemma, no one can volunteer. So what do the majority of believers do who have not been found by a nagual party and inducted into that party. So we have these hybrid Castaneda communities, next best thing I guess. However the hybrid communities seem to diverge at will into a freeform new age dreaming club, while all the time lending credence to the legacy of CC. Christians did the same with message of Jesus and became devotional instead of praxis oriented. But talk to Christians and they will swear they are following Jesus lol.
Now I don't have a problem with this as long as it is understood or admitted that this is indeed what is happening or something similar to it.
This is probably a whole new thread.
validity of what CC wrote, if we cannot do this...goodnight
nurse...there is no foundation upon which to proceed. NL
NL this really has been a point I have been trying to drive home for awhile now. This foundation which you speak of which as you say requires a "certain faith" I would say requires understanding. I believe a lot of what CC was talking about but when I listen to what people are saying in Castaneda type forums at times I wonder if we have read the same CC books. Perhaps it is just a matter of no foundation so people do not know how to proceed. So we end up with this interpreting of CC's stuff through a lens of whatever type of spirituality we are favoring that day.
I understand the confusion and predicament. We have a CC community that loved CC's books but don't know how to plug in. After all the books said we need a nagual and a party all dictated by the rule etc. The dilemma, no one can volunteer. So what do the majority of believers do who have not been found by a nagual party and inducted into that party. So we have these hybrid Castaneda communities, next best thing I guess. However the hybrid communities seem to diverge at will into a freeform new age dreaming club, while all the time lending credence to the legacy of CC. Christians did the same with message of Jesus and became devotional instead of praxis oriented. But talk to Christians and they will swear they are following Jesus lol.
Now I don't have a problem with this as long as it is understood or admitted that this is indeed what is happening or something similar to it.
This is probably a whole new thread.