11-25-2011, 12:00 AM
quantumshaman wrote
iamond Unicorn wrote:
Seriously if you found out truly that Castaneda lied about everything and there was no 'don Juan', you would not look at 'Nagualism' quite in the same way...It really doesn't matter what Castaneda said or did, what was lies and what is truth. If I found out that everything he ever said was a lie, it would not invalidate my own experiences.
It wouldn't invalidate your experiences but it would change your view of the 'knowledge' in Castaneda's books, and depending how much one based their world-view paradigm on those books, it could matter a lot.
I just read Dan Milman of the Peaceful Warrior series admitted that his 'teacher' Socrates was not real, but was a composite of teachers and wisdom he had read and learned, Socrates did not really jump to the top of the roof, or do other magical things that Dan wrote about.
How would that make you feel if you believed and trusted that Dan was telling the truth and you based some of your life on what was written in his books? Would you feel a little cheated or betrayed?
It could potentially change drastically how you look at those 'teachings' depending how 'into' them you were ...
iamond Unicorn wrote:Seriously if you found out truly that Castaneda lied about everything and there was no 'don Juan', you would not look at 'Nagualism' quite in the same way...It really doesn't matter what Castaneda said or did, what was lies and what is truth. If I found out that everything he ever said was a lie, it would not invalidate my own experiences.
It wouldn't invalidate your experiences but it would change your view of the 'knowledge' in Castaneda's books, and depending how much one based their world-view paradigm on those books, it could matter a lot.
I just read Dan Milman of the Peaceful Warrior series admitted that his 'teacher' Socrates was not real, but was a composite of teachers and wisdom he had read and learned, Socrates did not really jump to the top of the roof, or do other magical things that Dan wrote about.
How would that make you feel if you believed and trusted that Dan was telling the truth and you based some of your life on what was written in his books? Would you feel a little cheated or betrayed?
It could potentially change drastically how you look at those 'teachings' depending how 'into' them you were ...