02-26-2017, 12:00 AM
well, it's not for everybody, that's for sure.
But on the example that you brought up - dreaming. Let me try to show you something...
Dreaming - I approach it as an extended hobby. Imagine, amazing dreams and experiences, learning opportunities and tryouts/practice ground for bettering my skills, personality etc. Most people have some kind of a hobby, but theirs takes time away from things during the day. My dreaming hobby uses the time I already have for said activity anyway (everybody has to sleep, I have to sleep and I sleep whether I decide to utilize the sleep time for something productive or not). Kinda like if someone would make a hobby out of their bathroom activities. Everyone needs to poop . So, if I make pooping into an art and enjoy myself immensely and learn something useful for my out of the bathroom life in the process - then why the hell would I find anything wrong with that? And, if this is the case that I benefit, then what does it matter to me that another pooper (even if he was the one who inspired me to give it a try) was a poop fraud? and maybe never pooped a proper poop in his life?
Boredom is not a very useful setting to have. It takes a big junk of magic away from our lives. I hope you find the magic around you. It is everywhere, you do not need to follow Castaneda's teachings to see it and interact with it...
(I actually find CC's teachings miss something very important. And it might be why people fail so often when they try to learn only from the black and white pages of his books. I don't think CC claimed that one can reach the very courageous goals of his books' protagonists just by reading and following what he has written. But of course, you do not say that is all you did, so I am not so much responding to you here as I am just making a general statement of what I have discovered over the years.)
But on the example that you brought up - dreaming. Let me try to show you something...
Dreaming - I approach it as an extended hobby. Imagine, amazing dreams and experiences, learning opportunities and tryouts/practice ground for bettering my skills, personality etc. Most people have some kind of a hobby, but theirs takes time away from things during the day. My dreaming hobby uses the time I already have for said activity anyway (everybody has to sleep, I have to sleep and I sleep whether I decide to utilize the sleep time for something productive or not). Kinda like if someone would make a hobby out of their bathroom activities. Everyone needs to poop . So, if I make pooping into an art and enjoy myself immensely and learn something useful for my out of the bathroom life in the process - then why the hell would I find anything wrong with that? And, if this is the case that I benefit, then what does it matter to me that another pooper (even if he was the one who inspired me to give it a try) was a poop fraud? and maybe never pooped a proper poop in his life?
Boredom is not a very useful setting to have. It takes a big junk of magic away from our lives. I hope you find the magic around you. It is everywhere, you do not need to follow Castaneda's teachings to see it and interact with it...
(I actually find CC's teachings miss something very important. And it might be why people fail so often when they try to learn only from the black and white pages of his books. I don't think CC claimed that one can reach the very courageous goals of his books' protagonists just by reading and following what he has written. But of course, you do not say that is all you did, so I am not so much responding to you here as I am just making a general statement of what I have discovered over the years.)