08-20-2008, 12:00 AM
grandspeculator
wrote:
But I'll grant you a thing: Yes, without Castaneda, we would not know squat about the nagual path.
But then again... writing his books was his particular intent or the intent of the spirit?
Well, you only have two choices here, either just follow the spirit or try to unravel the spirit. I don't think that anyone could be as
effective as Castaneda was without just going with it. The level of fear that Castaneda had instilled in Howard Lee was just amazing. At the time, I
didn't understand what was going on, so I was profoundly disapointed in Howard. The spirit did make sure that everything turned out the way it was
supposed to, but, it just seemed like Howard was a total chicken-****-coward and fraud when he expressed his true feelings about the death defier. I thought,
how can a kung fu grand master be afraid of a ghost?
wrote:
But I'll grant you a thing: Yes, without Castaneda, we would not know squat about the nagual path.
But then again... writing his books was his particular intent or the intent of the spirit?
Well, you only have two choices here, either just follow the spirit or try to unravel the spirit. I don't think that anyone could be as
effective as Castaneda was without just going with it. The level of fear that Castaneda had instilled in Howard Lee was just amazing. At the time, I
didn't understand what was going on, so I was profoundly disapointed in Howard. The spirit did make sure that everything turned out the way it was
supposed to, but, it just seemed like Howard was a total chicken-****-coward and fraud when he expressed his true feelings about the death defier. I thought,
how can a kung fu grand master be afraid of a ghost?