05-26-2012, 12:00 AM
It is highly probable that Castaneda has merely compiled the books from various sources, that would mean there was no Don Juan lineage of sorcerers and the compilation is a spiritual fantasy.
The author Richard DeMille, but also Timothy Leary in Flashbacks (peruviano Carlos Aranas behaviour, Arana was trying it on Leary), Margaret Runyan (former wife; the couples favourite wine "Mateus", the source for Juan Matus surname), Amy Wallace, and Richard Jennings (Sustained Action) provide accounts on that.
A compilation of various ethnographic, spiritual and philosophical sources does not mean that the compiled features are gnoseologically invalid, e.g. lucid dreaming, psychedelic drugs and also the compiled/plagiarised philosophical ideas concerning death, tonal/nagual etc.
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A further debate on this topic with NLW, Quantum Shaman, Songbird, Senear, seesaw, and possibly Dreamways or any other "active member" i.e. a person with developed lucid dreaming abilities (Jinn dreaming = sorcery) is an option. This the lucid dreaming domain.
The other domain for bona fide inquiry is Ayahuasca shamanism.
These two domains, lucid dreaming and ayahuasca, are the cognitive instruments in order to get data. The cognitive unit is here the energy body capable of out of body experience (OBE) as a "real" OBE (real world/real time) or the OBE in the non-material sphere.
The author Richard DeMille, but also Timothy Leary in Flashbacks (peruviano Carlos Aranas behaviour, Arana was trying it on Leary), Margaret Runyan (former wife; the couples favourite wine "Mateus", the source for Juan Matus surname), Amy Wallace, and Richard Jennings (Sustained Action) provide accounts on that.
A compilation of various ethnographic, spiritual and philosophical sources does not mean that the compiled features are gnoseologically invalid, e.g. lucid dreaming, psychedelic drugs and also the compiled/plagiarised philosophical ideas concerning death, tonal/nagual etc.
--- Add on note:
A further debate on this topic with NLW, Quantum Shaman, Songbird, Senear, seesaw, and possibly Dreamways or any other "active member" i.e. a person with developed lucid dreaming abilities (Jinn dreaming = sorcery) is an option. This the lucid dreaming domain.
The other domain for bona fide inquiry is Ayahuasca shamanism.
These two domains, lucid dreaming and ayahuasca, are the cognitive instruments in order to get data. The cognitive unit is here the energy body capable of out of body experience (OBE) as a "real" OBE (real world/real time) or the OBE in the non-material sphere.