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About to finish this book, I think it deserves a heartfelt recommendation.

The imagery of the interplay between benefactor and apprentice is perhaps the best iconography of one's journey to knowledge I've ever seen - the psychedelic sequences don't need any more praise then they contain themselves.

The structural and analysis is interesting in its trying to construct a structure for a method of learning alien to the Western one, though Castaneda underestimates the role of volition and aim in the rituals described. They're interestingly similar to chaos magic in that respect.

I know there are strong doubts on the veridicity of the informations contained in this book, but I feel it's worthy enough even if as a work of fiction.

>> No.9294514

It was fun when I was 20 and on drugs.

>> No.9294523

>>9294491

>veridicity

I knew I should've stopped reading six sentences ago but I just had to keep going.

>> No.9294540

>>9294523
What, is the word offensive or is it the concept?

>> No.9294551
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9294551

>>9294491
i read it

do you dream

>> No.9295285

>>9294540
veracity

>> No.9295332

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlI2gvSjJ4Q

Don't waste your time on a crazy new age con-artist

>> No.9295379

>>9295285
What, it's a perfectly fine word to use there.

>> No.9295397

>>9295332
instead waste your time on a korean tootpick crafting forum.

>> No.9296799

Bump

>> No.9296933

>new age bullshit
>chaos magic

>>>/x/

>> No.9297009

i think there are better ways to realize everything is mind.

that one is quite cheap. but i guess that it does the job anyway, and that is all that matters.

and yeah, it is pure fiction, its been proved. but that is irrelevant, your mind makes it real.

>> No.9297015

Castaneda was a narcissistic fraud. Don juan never existed.

>> No.9297022

>>9297015
he did exist. but it was some old mexican failed shaman.

castaneda wrote about, not what he found but about what he was looking for. the deception of reality only made him write more fantastically.

>> No.9297029

>>9297022
He didn't exist.
It was entirely made up