11-28-2011, 12:01 AM
Diamond Unicorn wrote:It would make a difference...
If the book is fiction then Carlos lied claiming it was real, and who wants to 'believe' such books?
I mean Star Wars and Jedi are awesome cool and inspiring but we know the movies and books are fiction and the producers did not try to pass them off as being real life events...
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...
Well...since you mention it, I think I would look at it in exactly the same way as I do now...a bunch of con-men (and women) making **** up trying to sell books and seats in classes and trying to make names for themselves.
The methodology of getting duped follows a basic structure...the first being taking things to mean more than they do.
Castaneda had some knowledge. The knowledge was useful to a number of people. Castaneda wrapped that knowledge in a fantasy story in the same way that all the authors before (and after) him have done...because this is just what authors do. The first lie the con-men and women tell you in that their knowledge came from somewhere else...and if you believe that then they have a bridge to sell you. So one eventually learns to separate the two and ignore the story saving the knowledge.
If the book is fiction then Carlos lied claiming it was real, and who wants to 'believe' such books?
I mean Star Wars and Jedi are awesome cool and inspiring but we know the movies and books are fiction and the producers did not try to pass them off as being real life events...
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...
Well...since you mention it, I think I would look at it in exactly the same way as I do now...a bunch of con-men (and women) making **** up trying to sell books and seats in classes and trying to make names for themselves.
The methodology of getting duped follows a basic structure...the first being taking things to mean more than they do.
Castaneda had some knowledge. The knowledge was useful to a number of people. Castaneda wrapped that knowledge in a fantasy story in the same way that all the authors before (and after) him have done...because this is just what authors do. The first lie the con-men and women tell you in that their knowledge came from somewhere else...and if you believe that then they have a bridge to sell you. So one eventually learns to separate the two and ignore the story saving the knowledge.