…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…

…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…

…makes them very elusive for science. And so it's been ignored except for instance in the popular literature where you get Carlos Castaneda or someone is trying to say something about these drugs that violates our normal conception of what they are even…

…if you've read the teachings of don Juan but there's an instance in there where this entity, mescalito holds up his hand and Castaneda sees his whole past a past incident in his life in the hand. And supposedly if this stuff has an empirical validity,…

…had been sitting and I stood up and my knees were knocking together and I felt very sick and I was on the sounds like Carlos Castaneda always sick at his stomach, and I I was just standing on. This rock at the edge of the river just saying you know…

…to find what works and then just put the metal to the floor. What do you think about the sorcery techniques in the Carlos Castaneda books as as being a way to apprehend psychedelic space, sort of like a model of thinking about this stuff? So the…

…a way to apprehend psychedelic space, sort of like a model of thinking about this stuff? So the question is what about the Carlos Castaneda model for dealing with this? Well I think you know every signal has noise and the trick is to separate the noise…

…Well I think you know every signal has noise and the trick is to separate the noise from the signal. The technique I use with Castaneda is the further back you go the better it gets and the first book is genius and and you know I would recommend that…

…he 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…

…and hence probably closer to the truth. The truth is generous, you may be sure. Yeah I've come in contact with Carlos Castaneda, One of his last two books. They describe consciousness as god more or less, or whatever your word for collective consciousness…

…They are extreme they are confusatory and extremely unpredictable and very unpleasant. Any of you who've graduated through the Carlos Castaneda books know the respect that was paid to these solanaceous plants especially in the first book. They are not…

…it was to be and it bordered, you know on the uncanny. And this is what the feats of super balancing that are in Carlos Castaneda tricks on waterfalls and that kind of thing. This is where you say: you know what I can do, I can do almost anything…

…the 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 world…

…They are extreme they are confusatory and extremely unpredictable and very unpleasant. Any of you who've graduated through the Carlos Castaneda books know the respect that was paid to these solanaceous plants especially in the first book. They are not…

…the nazi truth serum all of these things are in these, and those of you who have read the early books of Carlos Castaneda, There's a lot in there about gypsum weed this well these are not indoles, these are tropanes and they are psychoactive and…

…conservative position on my part. The actual amount of data is nil on this question. What do you think of don Juan and Carlos Castaneda? You mentioned it a bit. Well I only have an opinion. You know I just have an opinion. I paid attention fairly…

…I only have an opinion. You know I just have an opinion. I paid attention fairly closely. I read Richard Demille's book Carlos Castaneda the power of the allegory. I read this new book called I can't remember who wrote it but it's called Carlos Castaneda…

…Castaneda the power of the allegory. I read this new book called I can't remember who wrote it but it's called Carlos Castaneda Academic opportunism in the psychedelic sixties. I have not heard what these women are saying that are going around. I…

…to don Juan and a religion will be in place about this great teacher who arose and fell in the mid 20th century. And Carlos Castaneda is the Paul to don Juan the Christ, but I don't believe it's to be read as literal truth. I mean I can't buy…

…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…

…he followed the dodgers, but then it all began to slide in a 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…

…and to feel and to integrate. This is what makes it so exciting and, for some people, so perilous. Have you read the Carlos Castaneda books? And what do you think about them? I have read them. I think the first one was brilliant. I believe after that…

…means. I mean, did Proust make up a la recherche de Tim Perdue? He recalled, he adumbrated, he embellished. I think what Castaneda was not completely straightforward about in his later books was most of these altered states cannot be achieved any way other…

…happening they actually do these things. Anybody who spends time with shamans will become aware not of spectacular magic, not of Carlos Castaneda style dances in the waterfalls and appearing 500 miles away from where you started 10 minutes later but a very…

…a very radical break with reality and you either have to believe it or not believe it and I'm thinking of Carlos Castaneda, Whitley Streber, I mean after all proctological examinations carried out in your bedroom by gray faced aliens from another world…

…this is a true story it is to the best of my ability, unembellished, but it argues that guys like streber and Castaneda Actually do have their finger on something. It is rare to violate the laws of physics and Universal Expectation based on experience…

…the room didn't know it happened because for them it occupied a 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 the…

…scopolamine. Scopolamine is, along with l hyalcyamine and other things, the active ingredient in ginseng weed which, because of Carlos Castaneda and the practices of brujería in Mexico is well known as a psychoactive plant. It certainly is psychoactive whether…

…people and talks about it and just throws out the gauntlet to orthodox anthropology and he's no true believer. This is no Carlos Castaneda this is somebody very few of us here would actually be comfortable with because you can tell this guy is abrasive,…

…magnetic attraction for us we want to explore it, it draws us out of ourselves. And yet there are also realms that and Castaneda talks about that in one of his last books that are not only unknown but unknowable unknowable in principle we will never…

…and to feel and to integrate. This is what makes it so exciting and for some people so perilous. Have you read the Carlos Castaneda books and what do you think about them? I have read them. I think the first one was brilliant. I believe after that…

…means. I mean did Proust make up a la recherche de Tim Perdue? He recalled, he adumbrated, he embellished. I think what Castaneda was not completely straightforward about in his later books was most of these altered states cannot be achieved any way other…

…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…

…the shamans and not shamans had experiences where they did encounter beings that talked to them and gave a message, and Castaneda talked about it, lin Andrews talked about the little nymphs of the water, and other Indians have basically, even through their…

…well so the entire, you see the attitude, it's a naive attitude to quest it's the attitude of the ingenue, the fool, the Castaneda figure seeks. Once you reach the psychedelic plateau, the tool has been placed in your hands now. Now you have to figure…

…the sick. That's what it's about not these wild, grandiose technicolor scenarios. My god you can read 14 000 pages of Carlos Castaneda and nobody ever cures anybody of anything. It's all happening in this other dimension so it all comes down to pretty…

…a wave mechanical way of looking at things but this is very it comes close almost to some of the ravings of Carlos Castaneda you know that there's a way of shifting perception and processing information and then you see that you know people are…