Carlos Castaneda

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LOL You are wasting your time, Scout. You're missing out on the irony here...the essence of coyote lesson. You're focusing on peripheral aspects and missing the essence. It's Castaneda chasing the coyote to try to find the cigarettes it took from him. He followed the footprints....the scat trail...until the cigarettes didn't matter anymore. You see? You're digging in the sand for clues...following footprints and dried scat with bits of rabbit hair in it. Who has time for that bullshit? Get to the heart of the matter. Don Juan said that cultivating inner silence is the whole of nagualism....it accomplishes everything. It saves energy and then the rising surplus of energy couple with sustained silence unravels every mystery. This is at the essence of every spiritual path that's worth a damn out there, from my perspective. You've got a gripe with the subterfuge inherent in the coyote path? Castaneda's stories? Fine, then go find something that works for you. Make up your own, if everything else rubs your fur the wrong way. It hardly matters in the end. But all this focusing on peripherally pettiness is like chewing off your own foot even though there's no trap trapping it.