03-08-2008, 12:00 AM
I met Castaneda and he was not a fraud.
Let's define the term "fraud" as a person that intentionally deludes, misleads, cheats or steals from other people.
That was not Carlos.
Castaneda was a damn good storyteller!
He was a Coyote, a Heyoka, who knew how to lie well. With people like that, they themselves never know which end is up.
But I think he was deadly serious in his intent. He gift was his writing and his supreme wit.
One of my other teachers, Gurdjieff, was an extreme paradox as well. It's tough for us "mere mortals" to judge beings of another order.
They do things that make sense to them and to "Objective Reality", while to us the actions appear contradictory, random and chaotic.
When we demand a rational explanation we get stony silence. For them, the explanations are yesterdays news.
Don Juan only gave explanations as pointing out instructions to a ripened awareness.
Let's define the term "fraud" as a person that intentionally deludes, misleads, cheats or steals from other people.
That was not Carlos.
Castaneda was a damn good storyteller!
He was a Coyote, a Heyoka, who knew how to lie well. With people like that, they themselves never know which end is up.
But I think he was deadly serious in his intent. He gift was his writing and his supreme wit.
One of my other teachers, Gurdjieff, was an extreme paradox as well. It's tough for us "mere mortals" to judge beings of another order.
They do things that make sense to them and to "Objective Reality", while to us the actions appear contradictory, random and chaotic.
When we demand a rational explanation we get stony silence. For them, the explanations are yesterdays news.
Don Juan only gave explanations as pointing out instructions to a ripened awareness.