Who cares if it's not a real antrhopological analysis?

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	• Teachings of Don Juan Carlos Castaneda Pocket Books, 1974 average customer review:based on 94 reviews
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Who cares if it's not a real antrhopological analysis?

People seem to think that this story is terrible only because it is fictional. Just because Carlos Castaneda pretended it was real does not make it a bad story. If anyone's ever read "The Dice Man" by Luke Rhinehart they'll know that it is supposed to be a first hand account by Rhinehart but in reality it is fiction and so is the name Luke Rhinehart which is only a pen name. Still the book is amazing. I think that the people who hate this book are the people who were actually duped into thinking it was a real story and now since they feel so foolish they are mad at Carlos Castaneda for "lying" to them. It's rediculous. This book is amazing because the story is amazing. It's a work of fiction but an amazing one at that. Plus, if people thought it might be a true story I find that impressive. I suggest this book, it is amazing.

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Experiments in syncretism and applied allegory

"In the course of Castaneda's books, the reader may begin to doubt the existence of the Indian Don Juan, and many other things besides. But that has no importance. So much the better if the books are a syncretism rather than an ethnographic study, and the protocol of an experiment rather than an account of an initiation" (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, pp 161-162).

Why not think of this as an experiment, or a literary lab report? Castaneda's project is to transform threads from Nietzsche and Gurdjieff and folk life into practice. In what way did he turn into a crow? It's for you, dear reader, to decode Castaneda's testimony. I like this kind of reading, myself; the genre of experiment and sly reporting I find quite rewarding. You just can't take it literally. (It's a dumb idea to assume the literal reading of any book is the best reading of all books.)

Other extremely valuable volumes in this clever genre include: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (Gurdjieff), Matrix of Mystery (H.V. Guenther), Creative Meditation and Multidimensional Consciousness (Govinda), A Thousand Plateaus (quoted above), and most importantly Tarthang Tulku's Time Space Knowledge series and the Shambhala books of Chogyam Trungpa.

Homage to Sukhasiddhi and all true teachers.

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Worth the Read

Not, understandably for everyone, but an American Classic by now. If you haven't at least read ONE Don Juan book, you are missing something. Truth or fiction... who cares? Why classify it? Kept me reading to the end.

The First of many Great Castaneda Books

This is the first of the many Carlos Castaneda Books. I was first introduced by my father to Carlos Castaneda's books when I was only 5 years old. I had always heard of the Naguales and the powers they have. This is a great introduction to another form of thinking and consciousness that others have that the every day human does not. If you are in to metaphyiscal things, this is a great book for enlightment.

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