Was it all fake?
2006-07-13 09:37:48 · 5 answers · asked by LMO 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
When people bring Carlos Castaneda or Alan Watts it brings up for me shades of the sixties when everyone (cool) was seeking to become impeccable warriors and trying to uplift mankind by developing an evolutionary means of biochemically inducing a pathway to super-consciousness. What was it "A Fire Within" when Carlos finds out that Indian spiritual elders do not need chemicals means to travel astrally or access the spirit realms. That drugs work because they exactly match or induce the production of chemical already in our systems and are the lazy mans way to achieve higher realms of consciousness and one that keeps the user chained to a chemical reaction. Thereby they are a physical pathway that is ineffective for most spiritual or magical work Don Juan finally tells him that he had needed those drugs only to pull his head out of his *** (wake up) and nothing else.
2006-07-13 10:06:35 · answer #1 · answered by rcabrave 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't think it was a fake. There are small truths within those writings. I don't say that it's all true, but it's not all fake either. Like Tolkien, and many others, there is a thread of truth to his works. They may be part truths and certainly embellished, but they are not fake.
Example: the Eight ways of seeing, I understand the concepts and have actually used the process in my life.
2006-07-13 16:44:10 · answer #2 · answered by Carlton73 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I went to kindergarden with a kid name carlos castañeda
2006-07-13 16:42:12 · answer #3 · answered by ABC 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the question is , what Carlos Castaneda would think of us?Nothing is fake if you have a faith
2006-07-13 16:41:08 · answer #4 · answered by Oleg B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was just searching for the meaning of life and avoiding existential loneliness.
2006-07-13 17:09:28 · answer #5 · answered by mochi.girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋