…fog had been coming all day, in and out in the garden. And it was. And we genuflect here, God love him. To Carlos Castaneda, it was that very strange time of day. Which only lasts a few minutes between daytime and nighttime. The crack between the…

…followed the Dodgers, but then it all began to slide in this certain direction, and he is no longer recognizable to himself. Carlos Castaneda has Don Juan say, you must lose your personal history? Well, I don't know whether Don Juan is a real person or…

…a memory of it that they could discuss with the gang is you confront your soul, you somehow meet the double a la Carlos Castaneda, God forbid, but you actually come up against a being which as you interact with this being, it dawns on you who it…

…forms of life or something coherent, protoplasmic things. And I always think of that incident. I think it's in the second Carlos Castaneda novel where the thing comes near him in the sagebrush, and he's so horrified that he throws himself on the ground,…

…will rise from beneath sea. But small violations of natural law are very important in the real world. Not if you're Carlos Castaneda or something. But in my world, even small violations of physics get real celebration around the dinner table. Also, they…

…do do these things. Anybody who spends time with shaman will become aware not of spectacular magic, not of, you know, Carlos Castaneda style dances in the waterfalls and appearing 500 miles away from where you started ten minutes later. But a very subtle…

…I began, I've been researching shamanism all my life. I was into lots of things when I was younger, and then I read Carlos Castaneda books when I was 18, which made a big impression. And I began researching shamanism, and I went through a phase in my…

…the room didn't know it happened because for them, it occupied microsecond. But this thing that was, you know, in Carlos Castaneda, who, God knows, is not the world's most reliable reporter on these things. Nevertheless, there is this thing about stopping…

…true. They behave as though it's a story. And so somehow what we're dealing with here is clashes of epistemic values. The Carlos Castaneda phenomenon was a good example. Half the people who want to talk about Castaneda want to talk about is it true or…

…with here is clashes of epistemic values. The Carlos Castaneda phenomenon was a good example. Half the people who want to talk about Castaneda want to talk about is it true or not, or was this guy some kind of a charlatan? The other half says, what…