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Re: Carlos Castaneda. [Re: extreme]
    #20848244 - 11/16/14 10:20 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

I always have trouble answering this.  The first four books have the meat of the teachings.  Number three and four are mind blowing.  Number one sets the stage and is fairly uninteresting compared to the rest but IMO you need that background to understand fully what is happening.  I'll say this.  In the books CC fell into this adventure ass backwards. He thought something was happening when it was really something quite different. This begins to dawn on him by the second book.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

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Re: Carlos Castaneda. [Re: Icelander]
    #20849086 - 11/17/14 05:07 AM (8 years, 4 months ago)

stopping the world is interesting.
suspension
it is a lot like being stoned

stopping time


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Re: Carlos Castaneda. [Re: redgreenvines]
    #20849128 - 11/17/14 05:37 AM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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redgreenvines said:
stopping the world is interesting.
suspension
it is a lot like being stoned

stopping time



not necessarily stoned
but beautiful


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Re: Carlos Castaneda. [Re: redgreenvines]
    #20849239 - 11/17/14 06:46 AM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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redgreenvines said:
stopping the world is interesting.
suspension
it is a lot like being stoned

stopping time



Zactly,  Some of this can be used as a metaphor for important aspects of your personal journey.  I always connected it also to realizing that I am controlled by culture.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
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Re: Carlos Castaneda. [Re: Icelander]
    #20850516 - 11/17/14 01:05 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)



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Re: Carlos Castaneda. [Re: extreme]
    #20850987 - 11/17/14 02:46 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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If I were to start with a Castaneda book, which one should I read first?  Which one is the best?  Is there an "order" to them?



Read them in order.  I believe the first one is A Separate Reality; a Yaqui Way of Knowledge.  And don't get put off by the first 50 pages or so which I seem to recall being boring as fuck.


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Re: Carlos Castaneda. [Re: zappaisgod]
    #20851445 - 11/17/14 04:03 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

The first one is "The Teachings of Don Juan.  Then A Separate Reality.  Then Journey to Ixtlan. Then Tales of Power.


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Re: Carlos Castaneda. [Re: Icelander]
    #20851634 - 11/17/14 04:41 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

It's been a long time.  Do you agree that they should be read in order?


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Re: Carlos Castaneda. [Re: Icelander]
    #20851642 - 11/17/14 04:42 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

You guys would probably like Don Miguel Ruiz. It's "Toltec" wizdoms without all the mumbo jumbo. I love Peter Coyote's readings of both authors.


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Re: Carlos Castaneda. [Re: zappaisgod]
    #20851843 - 11/17/14 05:23 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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It's been a long time.  Do you agree that they should be read in order?



Yeah, I said so earlier.


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC


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Re: Carlos Castaneda. [Re: Middleman]
    #20851846 - 11/17/14 05:23 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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Rev. Morton said:
You guys would probably like Don Miguel Ruiz. It's "Toltec" wizdoms without all the mumbo jumbo. I love Peter Coyote's readings of both authors.




I read it.  I'll always stick with CC.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: Carlos Castaneda. [Re: Icelander]
    #20852104 - 11/17/14 06:11 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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I'll always stick with OC.



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