11-28-2011, 12:01 AM
^ Adding to that, I wanted to add that people tend to con themselves. My main interest in sorting out the essential common experiences shared in NDEs there is alot of story people add to their experience. Although it has the same effect in misdirecting one, it is done benignly...as their effort to make sense of what happened. I see the same usefulness in stripping those recountings of the story and getting to the basic elements. I dont think that Castaneda made up a story to hurt people or take advantage of them...I think he sincerely wanted to get his knowledge out there. I see nothing wrong with that.