Thread: castaneda sorcery

I did have a copy of, 'The Teachings of Don Carlos: Practical Applications of the Works of Carlos Castaneda' by Victor Sanchez

A thoroughly excellent workbook of all the Toltecs' practices as outlined in the works of Casteneda, but it isn't my spiritual path...

Originally Posted by soreal

Do we have any Castaneda type sorcery dreamers here? Id like to hear experiences about inorganic beings, other worlds, seeing energy etc and especially if anyone has used the fixation of the second attnetion for worldy power.

I do that kind of stuff, so if you look at things I have posted or threads I have started you may find some of it interesting. Personally somewhere around the fourth book Castaneda started making the story up. The early stuff about the luminesant body and dreaming is more or less an adaptation of Yogic knowledge, then he had to keep selling books, so he made up more and more details. Just my opinion.

From personal experience i have verified some parts of his knowledge. I have no trouble accepting that its all true, but without getting locked into having strong opinions about it. Ill check out some of your posts cheers.

Here are two epic threads by Sorcer that you missed:

http://www.dreamviews.com/f12/techni...deavor-121183/
http://www.dreamviews.com/f19/dream-...l-life-121181/

Originally Posted by soreal

From personal experience i have verified some parts of his knowledge. I have no trouble accepting that its all true, but without getting locked into having strong opinions about it. Ill check out some of your posts cheers.

Some of it is true and very useful. I read all of his stuff, up until "The Eagle's Gift" then I lost intrest. The first book is clearly the kind of experience that he would likely have visiting a Toltec Sorcerer. The next couple expand on idea and is straight forward. His later books woould have taken place during a time in his life, when his wife and friends, would have noticed him traveling to Mexico, but he did not. I could be wrong, but two and two do not seem to equal four, when people try to determine if he really spent more time with Daun Jaun. In the end he makes up (opinion) a devise for getting around that. He tells that he recieved the more advanced knowledge during the early visits, but is just then remembering it, do to levels of awareness changing. It is all interesting, but I personally feel the details about Naguals and so on are invented. Harmless I suppose if anyone takes a fiction author as only being willing to write about truth.