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Tiger Beer
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 Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:27 am Post subject: Carlos Castaneda and teachings of Don Juan: Fact or Fiction? |
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SuperFly
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Location: In the doghouse
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:56 am Post subject: |
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| Man it's been years since I read that series. |
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Merlyn
Joined: 08 Dec 2004
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:26 am Post subject: |
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| Fiction. I thought that was common knowledge now. Rigth up there with the Celestine Prophesy. Doesn't mean they weren't interesting to read and there was nothing good in them though. |
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mole
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Location: Act III
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:46 am Post subject: |
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| Fiction. I thought that was common knowledge now. Rigth up there with the Celestine Prophesy. Doesn't mean they weren't interesting to read and there was nothing good in them though. |
Say it isn't so. My world has been based on these works.
I don't read much, either. Maybe the odd Agatha Christie or Tony Hillerman mystery. |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:11 am Post subject: |
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| Fiction. Lord god, what next? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:54 am Post subject: |
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| Utter and complete fiction. |
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re:cursive
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 5:25 am Post subject: |
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Fiction.
Still...interesting stuff that seemed relevant at a certain period of my life. |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:04 am Post subject: |
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| Utter and complete fiction. |
Mmm... perhaps not. I'm sure a lot of the more basic bits were fairly clsoe to real experiences. The lights shooting out and being used to hop over gorges, well.... |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| EFLtrainer wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Utter and complete fiction. |
Mmm... perhaps not. I'm sure a lot of the more basic bits were fairly clsoe to real experiences. The lights shooting out and being used to hop over gorges, well.... |
C'mon. I could sit down, make up someone like Don Juan, and just hammer out a woo woo book. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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Stormy
Joined: 10 Jan 2008
Location: Here & there
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| Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Fiction. Lord god, what next? |
Sure. Next you'll be trying to convince us that the Blair Witch Project was fiction too! |
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yoja
Joined: 30 May 2008
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Remember, you're here @ Dave's, asking the jaded, cynical expats in Korea. It doesn't matter what the topic is.
Fact or fiction--surely that's a rhetorical question.
I heart you guys, really I do. |
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Omkara
Joined: 18 Feb 2006
Location: USA
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I loved the books. Now I love them even more. The fact that I took them as true in my early twenties, and now know them to be false, gives me an insight into reality that I otherwise could not have had.
Thanks for the lies, Casteneda! Yes, even the lies lead to the truth!
In the beginning was the word. . . |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Omkara wrote: |
I loved the books. Now I love them even more. The fact that I took them as true in my early twenties, and now know them to be false, gives me an insight into reality that I otherwise could not have had.
Thanks for the lies, Casteneda! Yes, even the lies lead to the truth!
In the beginning was the word. . . |
From what I gather, a lot of Castenada's work IS gained from other spiritual sources. For example, the description of the 'aura' that the shamans see is from India, the exercises for spiritual energy is like 'tai chi', so there are quite a few interesting things all tied into Castenada's 'work'.
I guess that is what made it so interesting, as from different religions, people can see these things being true, and therefore felt the Toltecs must have tapped into this same 'universal' spirtual laws of nature.
So it might all have been fiction-writing, but being that much of it IS based on anthropological studies and real religious practicies, does still make it quite interesting. |
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