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Carlos Castaneda
Literary Review: ‘A Separate Reality’ by Carlos Castaneda
In ‘A Separate Reality’ Carlos Castaneda begins by attempting to reasonably objectify the combined group experience of Peyote, the perception of Mescalito, the embodiment of the peyote cactus. He tries to explain it in terms of what he calls “manipulating social cues” as a method of agreement between those people involved in a Peyote session. … Continue reading
Literary Review: ‘The teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui way of knowledge’ by Carlos Castaneda
Every so often a book comes along that has the power to divide people, not because it has gone out of its way to be contentious, but because the prose itself has such a powerful effect on those who read it. Carlos Castaneda’s first book ‘The teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui way of knowledge’, originally … Continue reading
