"Jorney to Ixtlan" - the basics for becoming a warrior

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	• Journey to Ixtlan Carlos Castaneda Bodley Head Limited, 1973 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 49 reviews
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highly recommended

You can never go home again...

The question with regard to Carlos Casteneda is this: If we accept the premise that this book is largely fiction, does that in turn trivialize the message he is trying to impart? Just what is his message? If the message is that the world is full of witches, sorcerers, irridescent coyotes, allies, and phantoms, then the answer must be an unqualfied "yes". These entities are no more real, and have no more importance than angels and miracles, zombies, ghosts, or anything else whose existence cannot be objectively observed. However, despite the cult that has grown up around these writings, I don't think this is what Casteneda had in mind. Don Juan warned against being trapped in the world of sorcery, just as he did against getting trapped in the world of everyday concerns. It was when Carlos, the character, realized that he and the dung beetle were on even terms, even though their sensory worlds were profoundly different, that he was finally able to "stop the world". The warrior, says don Juan, takes responsibility for his life, and interacts with every event as if it is his last. Moreover, once one makes the transition to the path of knowledge, one can never go back. "Ixtlan" is by definition childhood's home that one can never return to. These are timeless and profound concepts, that transcend the venue of leaping shadows and bridges in the fog.

Casteneda is an unusual writer, and his insistence on portraying his character as an annoying whiner gets a little wearing after a while. The two messages I found in this work - that the world is much more than appears, and that it is important not to sleepwalk through our lives - these concepts never wear thin for me. And the observation that our modern man can learn these lessons from a superstitious old Yaqui is endlessly gratifying to me.

There are many ways to get to the place that Casteneda is trying to show us, and therefore I can't place this volume in the "must read" category. But the concepts have value, and you won't regret the effort in getting to the last page.

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A Classic of Modern Spirituality

This is a life-changing book and a spiritual classic (I rarely give ANYTHING 5 stars) but someone ought to mention that there is a certain amount of controversy about the accuracy of Castaneda's Don Juan series. Researcher Richard de Mille is probably the most even-handed of the critics and The_Don_Juan_Papers is worth a read, though some of the criticisms are merely carping small-mindedness.

Regardless of your attitude toward Castaneda's (or Don Juan's!)literal accuracy the series, of which Journey_to_Ixtlan is the best, presents a coherent and engaging spiritual existentialism. A Must Read!!!

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"Jorney to Ixtlan" - the basics for becoming a warrior

This 3rd book of Castaneda`s is an essential part for every person sincerely interested in being impeccable and preserving his/her own energy for dreaming,recapitulating etc. Without observing strictly the premises of the warrior`s way stated in this book there is no need to read more of Carlos - one will never reach the state of awareness and the level of energy of "los nueves videntes". To stop the world is very difficult and responsible task(the most difficult we take on in our life, that is for sure.) And last of all I must state people`s way of regarding the books of Castaneda as an intriguing works on anthropology and nothing more is terrible. But I think it was the Spirit`s will writing those books and the Spirit`s will is only for a few chosen people to understand and make use of them - for the others they are just meaningless scribbles as it must be.

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The greatest scientific hoax since the piltdown man

This book should be in the pseudoanthropology section and is a classic of the genre. My title above is a quote from Marcello Truzzi's evaluation. Journey to Ixtlan was the third in the series and formed the basis of a doctoral disertation that incredibly was awarded a degree by UCLA department of anthropology, thereby reclassifying that department as the school of literary fantasy studies. For a full evaluation of Carlos Cesar Arena Castaneda see Martin Gardner's notes of a fringe watcher 'Carlos Castaneda and New Age Anthropology' in Skeptical Enquirer Vol 23, No.5 pp13-15; 1999. Never the less read as fantasy/philosophy the book is good value. the fact that it virtually founded a New Age religion is evidence for Gordon Wasson's theory that drug induced hallucinations produced by what he called entheogens are at the basis of many religions ancient and modern.

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