Which Carlos Castaneda, and who is "La Aguila"?

[SSilhouette]

I guess I should rephrase the statement/question I made:
Abe, what significance do you assign to this alleged other marriage of Castaneda's? Does the possibility that he was married multiple times skew your interpretation of what he wrote about?

[HerbaMatey]

Abe: Prove to me you are not stuck in your head by talking about your body. Thank you.

[Abramelin]

SSilhouette,
I don't even know it's the same Carlos Castaneda! But I think it's a hell of a coincidence that another Carlos Castaneda married in the same year, 1960. And that this guy married that woman in Lima, the same city that the 'other one' had lived in for so many years.
But IF this is the same guy, why would it skew my interpretation of what he wrote about? It must have happened (just) before he met Don Juan for the first time, right?

Abe.

[Abramelin]

Herb, man, I loooove my body!
What do you want me to say about it?
Abe.

[HerbaMatey]

What can it do?

[SSilhouette]

I think I see where you're going with that Abe. It doesn't really matter what happens before a person's spiritual transformation. For that matter, we're all boobs before introspection anyway. I was talking with someone the other day about their kid who is in his 20's. He's butting heads with people, headstrong, certain he knows all there is to know about life. I offered that if I met myself at 21 at the age I'm at now, I'd think I was a supreme ****. But of course then I was CERTAIN that I was at the apex of wisdom!
Ah the remedy of time. It doesn't always equal wisdom. And the funny thing is now that I know the miles I've come, I know the miles I have yet to go; and that at 60, if I should be lucky enough to reach that age, I'll think I was a knucklehead at 40.
How unusual or usual of a sirname is "Castaneda" anyway in South America? Carlos is like "John" in the english-speaking world. So if Castaneda is not unusual, then certainly it would be quite possible for several, maybe even scores of "Carlos Castanedas" to be in Peru at any given moment??

[Abramelin]

"Castaneda" is not a common surname in South America, not as common as "Romero" for instance.
Scores of "Castanedas" marrying in Lima in 1960? I don't think so.
Abe.

[Abramelin]

Oh, and they both dated a Chinese girl ("Wensjoe" sounds very Chinese):
From: sustainedaction.org/Chron..._years.htm

Prelude to don Juan: Castaneda's Early Years

1951 Castaneda meets Dolores, a young Chinese-Peruvian girl. He proposes marriage and she becomes pregnant. She tells him about her pregnancy about a month before he leaves the country. He continues to write her letters until 1955. (de Mille, p. 383.)

A question could be: was De Mille right about Castaneda's chronology?

[SSilhouette]

It's funny how common the common man is. His chronology looks like scores of men I've known: they'll say anything to get laid, they fudge on certain details to make certain things happen, or to appear a certain way and they lie outright sometimes when in a pinch. They get women pregnant and then leave them. They boast, brag and puff-up when the situation begs for it. Their egos rule their lives and they expect, without asking, that everyone understand and abide by this premise...
How does this affect my interpretation (assuming DeMille got it right, and assuming Runyan's own inconsistencies and latent jealousy aren't coloring the portrait)? Well, as I've always said: Castaneda is either a gifted descriptive writer who embellished his ordinary contacts with some sorcerer-types to make dry field notes more fluid to read-- more colorful, or he's one of the most gifted fictional writers around.
In any event, by sheer accident or instruction, he got the lucid dreaming and developing the Double right. I've got a dozen people telling me so. So I can't automatically discount the other aspects of sorcery he's written about.

[Abramelin]

As Sid likes to say: "A Shared Post":

Did a bit of searching through the Reminiscing Rooms, and found out that:
La/El Aguila is the name of a bakery (mentioned by different posters several times in different months), but also the nickname of some poster:
www.lmtonline.com/locator...march.html

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Whatever happened to Colonol Hines?
La Aguila
Laredo, USA - Tuesday, March 06, 2001 at 13:46:29 (CST)
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to el aguila,col.hein passed away a few years back,he was a good man,people from mhs still remember him.
la guera
laredo, tx USA - Tuesday, March 06, 2001 at 16:47:18 (CST)
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I dont think its don Juan Matus looking for his old army buddies..

EDIT: Another entry to prove we can forget about La Aguila:
www.lmtonline.com/locator...ember.html
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Anybody want to remember Vietnam? The 60s war, the music and the politics. No? You should if you want to go into Iraq. How does the Rem room vote, for or against attacking Iraq?
La Aguila
Laredo, USA - Tuesday, December 03, 2002 at 16:11:03 (CST)
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