Carlos Castaneda, A Yaqui Way Of Knowledge

[pinkyslayer]

Anyone here ever heard of or read any books by Castaneda? He was an anthropology student who was studying traditional Mexican/Indian use of entheogens and travelled to Mexico to meet a man who knew a lot about it named Don Juan. Anyways, this guy turns out to be this mystic guru hallucinogenic plants/spirituality expert, and Castaneda lives with him for like 2 years and takes a ton of shrooms and datura and mescaline and records all of his trips and what Don Juan taught him. He wrote like, 5 books I think from it, I've read three of them I think, and theyre incredibly interesting. My English teacher actually gave them to me. Y'all need to check it out.

[Coelho]

I did read some of them, and liked all of them very much!
He did write about 10 books. I did read the 5 first ones and the last one, and they are amazing indeed! They are among the best books i ever read in my entire life.
There is also other members of cann.com who did read it... try to search castaneda in the forums, or look at:

http://boards.cannabis.com/cannabis-com-lounge/58515-what-your-thoughts-carlos-castaneda.html

Also, there is a site where all the "teachings" of all the books were compiled, so you can read them all, even without having the books. Look at:

Carlos Castaneda's don Juan's Teachings (http://www.prismagems.com/castaneda)

And enjoy... :thumbsup:

[Esoteric416]

Casteneda = Trancenednce
Read them all and remember Mescalito doesn't like anybody calling him peyote.

[Coelho]

BTW, to anyone interested, i can post links to PDFs of any of Castanedas books.

[TurnyBright]

I heard somewhere that Castenada was full of shit an that it was all fiction. Not that I'm claiming this, I just heard it.