Thanks for showing us the way, Carlos!

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	• Fire from Within Carlos Castaneda Washington Square Press, 1991 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 24 reviews view larger image
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Thanks for showing us the way, Carlos!

I have always felt that there is something more to life (and death). I'm sure that there are beings capable of cheating death. However, the only thing that you can take with you is your awareness. Most of us don't have a clue about the possibilities of man. I have turned my life around with these beliefs. I probably won't be much of a snack for the Eagle. But I will enjoy a better life than most. Thanks agian, Carlos, for giving up your normal life so that you could help a few of us see the light! You had to stay behind to document a very important way of life. Fiction? I think NOT!

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A classic text on awareness

I have read this book at least 15 times, finding it to be a classic of spirituality, both ancient and modern. Unlike Castaneda's earlier works, FFW is the first in which the structure of Don Juan's teaching methods becomes clear. Hence FFW reads like a textbook of stories about advanced spiritual practice. It is a curious hallmark of Castaneda's work that, as with a sitcom, the reader often feels he knows more, and might have made better judgements, than the lead character. But the tasks are transformations of essence, not of mind or feeling, so Carlos' lack of comprehension is irrelevant. What counts is his ability to handle the excercises of transcendance. Many important questions remain unresolved, such as whether the quest for immortality (freedom) is merely another form of materialism, or just how different Don Juan's brand of transcendance is from other paths to spiritual development. IMHO, the scene in which Carlos and Don Juan visit the tomb of the ancient sorcerers, ghouls who have remained alive for 2000 years, and then laugh it off, is one of the finest moments in all of Western Literature.

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By far Castaneda's best

The fire from within gives a structured view of the machinations of the universe and the force that gives and takes away awareness...the "eagle"

Rich in concepts; thought provoking...
Comparitive Ranking of CC's books I have read
(1=best)

1 Fire from within
2 Power of silence
3 Art of dreaming
4 Tales of power
5 The teachings of don juan
6 journey to ixtlan
7 The eagles gift
8 The second ring of power

Another level of the onion

Carlos Castaneda continues a new round of explicating and evoking his apprenticeship with Don Juan, a Yaqui Indian who has attained the highest possible level of development possible to man by becoming a man of knowledge or a seer. He continues to present his transcendent vision to Carlos who continues to pit his puny rationality with less and less conviction as he is overwhelmed by one experience after the other of a separate reality and to the inescapable fact that the human socialized idea of the world is just that, an idea, which we live in and which comforts us but also imprisons our awareness and bores us to death, when it's not making us miserable. As the I Ching says (another transcendent book), "Prisons must not become dwelling places."

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