Anyone Read The Teachings Of Don Juan By Carlos Castenada

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  1. #1 Tokesmith, Jun 18, 2014
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    These books are very interesting and I want to see if any other blades have read it. If you haven't it's about a anthropologist who became a student of a Yaqui Indian. Won't tell you the rest but the teacher uses psychedelics as a tool to expand the authors mind. Apparently because he was to attached to this reality to learn without them.

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  2. What would you like to know. I have read them all

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  3. what did you think of them? Are the others worth buying? And how credible do you think he was?


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  4. What are you interested in when it comes to don Juan. If its the spiritual aspect then I would recommend you finishing the whole series, but if you are interested in the hallucinogens aspect then I would recommend a whole different world of books for you!

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  5. I'm more interested in the spiritual aspect of it. But I'll take any suggestions on the hallucinogenic books.


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  6. Then definitely finish the series. There are even a couple newer ones. On the other, I would check out Jim dekorne, and Jonathon ott. Enjoy.

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  7. I've read them all. I'm still unsure if all this actually happened though.
     
  8. sounds like a good read. i'll have to add it to my list of books to read.
     
  9. That's what I was wondering. He made a little tribe or something of his own and had a few followers who kept with it after he died. One of them disappeared then 9 years later they found her dead in the woods. Not dead for 9 years but a recent death so she survived for awhile. In the book Don Juan said that if the spirits caused your death it would look like a accident. They determined her cause of death was a accident.


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  10. Anthropology is a field that I was interested in when younger but never pursued it due to the headache of a change in course. Can you give one example of what exactly he learnt in regards to taking psychedelics?
     
  11. He learned to use various plants to help become a "man of knowledge".
     

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