06-14-2012, 12:00 AM
Gonzo wrote:
@QS -
Can you provide some examples of where something like the double is described in other teachings/traditions?
Just about any competent book on shamanism will bring it up. STart with Michael Harner. Arnold Mindell also discusses it in The Shaman's Body. There are dozens if not hundreds of examples. Limiting yourself to what Castaneda said is just... well... limiting yourself. It's also important to remember that CC painted himself as a so-called 3-pronged nagual, which means he was "missing" a vital aspect of the nagual's energy body. That's why (imo) he had to be set up with an extant "nagual woman". I can go into this in depth, but I doubt anybody is really insterested, which is okay, too.
Of course, Carlos was trickster, and as you well know, I personally believe don Juan WAS Carlos's double. Whether Carlos ever consciously knew that or not... who's to say? Don Juan was to Carlos what Orlando is to me. *shrugs* The double moves in mysterious ways... heh.
@QS -
Can you provide some examples of where something like the double is described in other teachings/traditions?
Just about any competent book on shamanism will bring it up. STart with Michael Harner. Arnold Mindell also discusses it in The Shaman's Body. There are dozens if not hundreds of examples. Limiting yourself to what Castaneda said is just... well... limiting yourself. It's also important to remember that CC painted himself as a so-called 3-pronged nagual, which means he was "missing" a vital aspect of the nagual's energy body. That's why (imo) he had to be set up with an extant "nagual woman". I can go into this in depth, but I doubt anybody is really insterested, which is okay, too.
Of course, Carlos was trickster, and as you well know, I personally believe don Juan WAS Carlos's double. Whether Carlos ever consciously knew that or not... who's to say? Don Juan was to Carlos what Orlando is to me. *shrugs* The double moves in mysterious ways... heh.