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	Carlos Castaneda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carlos Castaneda, previously Castañeda, (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was an author of a controversial series of books that claimed to describe his training in traditional Native American shamanism (ancient sorcery of the Toltec people).
		As Castaneda was very elusive, and because his works were taken up by young people at a time when mystical and shamanic traditions were in fashion, many professionals cast doubt on the authenticity of contents of his works.
		Castaneda documentary film A site created by the producer/director of a movie documenting the life and ideas of Carlos Castaneda, which was originally scheduled for release early 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carlos_Castaneda (3935 words)

	Carlos Castaneda
		Carlos Castaneda was a best-selling author of a number of books centering on a Mexican Yaqui shaman's pharmacologically induced visions.
		Castaneda's books are full of stories of magic, sorcery, and out-of-body experiences.
		Castaneda claims that he met Don Juan in 1960 at a bus station in Nogales, Arizona.
	www.skepdic.com /castaneda.html (401 words)

	PCL - History of PCL - Carlos Eduardo Castañeda
		Carlos E. Castañeda played a central role in the early development of the Benson Latin American Collection, which is considered one of the world's foremost repositories of Latin American materials.
		Carlos Castañeda was born in Camargo, Mexico, in 1896.
		Carlos Castañeda was an associate professor of Spanish at the College of William and Mary from 1923 to 1927.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /pcl/history/castaneda.html (480 words)

	The Informant and Carlos Castaneda
		Castaneda had been told by a fellow colleague he sometimes refers to as Bill in his writings and sometimes leaves unnamed that the old man was an expert on medicinal plants and such, not unlike the informant.
		Castaneda, who most likely at the time was not at peer level and not seen or perceived as much more than a LOWLY undergraduate student by "those experienced social scientists," felt there was nothing left to do except take their seasoned advice and leave Arizona for Los Angeles.
		His uncle was glad, regardless of how Castaneda may have presented it in his books and the public, that at least some or part of the information and knowledge he carried with him was not going to be simply lost forever to the winds and the rocks and sand of the desert.
	www.angelfire.com /electronic/awakening101/carlos.html (6623 words)

	Temple of Dreams - Carlos Castaneda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Castaneda claimed that dreams are a gateway into a magical realm of separate realities, otherworldly beings and sorcery.
		He said one Buddhist master he went to visit became so upset when told that Carlos Castaneda was at the door that he tripped on his sandals coming down the stairs, struck his head on the marble floor of the foyer, and died on the spot.
		I also came away from those lectures feeling that Carlos Castaneda's passionate quest for magical powers and transcendence was a vanity, little different from the far more common quest, the pursuit of riches and fame.
	www.templeofdreams.com /castaned.html (721 words)

	Carlos Castaneda Speaks, An interview by Keith Thompson
		Magazine: New Age Journal Issue: March/April 1994 Title: Carlos Castaneda Speaks, An interview by Keith Thompson Author: Keith Thompson Literary agents are paid to hype their clients, but when the agent for Carlos Castaneda claimed that he was offering me "the interview of a lifetime," it was hard to disagree.
		Castaneda has responded to the bestowal of these conflicting ID tags with something like ironic amusement, as though he were an audience member enjoying the spectacle of a Chekhov comedy in which he himself may or may not be a character.
		Castaneda's presentation, writes Richard de Mille in Castaneda's Journey, "appeals to the reader's hunger for myth, magic, ancient wisdom, true reality, self-improvement, other worlds, or imaginary playmates." Appropriately, the Castaneda I encountered was a study in contrasts.
	www.holysmoke.org /fem/fem0427.htm (5132 words)

	Erowid Library : Carlos Castaneda Review
		His teacher, Castaneda asserts, was born in 1891, and suffered in the diaspora of the Yaquis all over Mexico from the 1890s until the 1910 revolution.
		Recalls Professor Meighan: "Carlos was the type of student a teacher waits for." Sociology professor Harold Garfinkel, one of the fathers of ethnomethodology, gave Castaneda constant stimulus and harsh criticism.
		Whether Carlos Castaneda is, as some leading scholars think, a major figure in an evolution of anthropology or only a brilliant novelist with unique knowledge of the desert and Indian lore, his work is to be reckoned with.
	www.erowid.org /library/reviews/review_carlos_castaneda1.shtml (5496 words)

	CARLOS CASTANEDA: The Shaman and the Power of the Omen
		Carlos Castaneda was a controversial author of a series of books based on a Yaqui Indian spiritual elder from Sonora, Mexico, he calls Don Juan Matus, said to be a shaman-sorcerer who had studied under a Diablero.
		Castaneda was going to collect medicinal plants from all over the desert and have them properly identified by the UCLA Botanical Garden, then describe why and how the Indians of the southwest used them.
		There, Castaneda met with a number of extremely seasoned anthropologists, one of whom, according to discussions with my uncle was thought to be Edward H. Spicer, a professor who had written a great deal about the Yaqui Indians of Arizona as well as those of Sonora, Mexico.
	sped2work.tripod.com /omen.html (4100 words)

	Introduction
		Castaneda was a self-styled shaman and "Nagual," who claimed to have been the inheritor of a specific sorceric lineage spanning 27 generations, of which he was assertedly the last, and final, leader.
		Information that has come to light since Castaneda's death has especially cast extreme doubt on the validity of stories he told and wrote about regarding the origin of others in his group who were also claimed to have been involved with don Juan and his party.
		The use of the term "the Witches" to relate to the three women Castaneda was eventually to claim had also been disciples of don Juan seems to date to the early nineties, when books by two of these women purporting to describe their experiences with don Juan and his party were published.
	www.sustainedaction.org /intro.htm (694 words)

	WHO are DON JUAN MATUS and CARLOS CASTANEDA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Carlos Castaneda becomes disciple of don Juan, and that interaction is described in Carlos Castaneda's 9 books.
		In the rule of the tradition is said that she had to left the world with the old group (don Juan's) and to be like lighthouse for the new group and to give them hope and purpose to reach her.
		Two more books from Carlos Castaneda were published: 'The Wheel of Time: The Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe', and 'The Active Side of Infinity'.
	www.avalon.net /~vreloto/who.html (596 words)

	CARLOS CASTANEDA: BEST OF THE CASTANEDA INTERNET SITES
		Castaneda's teacher Don Juan Matus is described as being a powerful Yaqui Indian shaman-sorcerer who learned his art under the direct auspices of a Diablero.
		Not one bit of what Castaneda has presented to the world would have unfolded the way it did without Castaneda's positive acceptance and eventual follow through from the suggestion of his colleague to go on the Road Trip.
		Even though the initial introduction between Carlos Castaneda and Don Juan Matus in the bus station in Nogalas changes in minor respects between the various Don Juan books there is a major common theme that runs throughout ALL of them that does NOT change.
	wanderling.tripod.com /castaneda.html (666 words)

	Biography of Carlos Castaneda
		Carlos Ce'sar Arana Castaneda was born on Christmas Day 1925 in Sao Paolo, Brazil or Cajamarca, Peru (accounts conflict).
		Castaneda suggested his mother died when he was seven and he was raised by his father, a professor of literature; however, it appears that his father was actually a goldsmith and his mother died when he was 24.
		In 1997 Castaneda launched a law suit against his ex-wife, Margaret Runyon Castaneda, over her book, 'A Magical Journey with Carlos Castaneda.' This was dropped when Castaneda died.
	www.biogs.com /famous/castaneda.html (332 words)

	Stivale, Narratives and Metanarratives: Carlos Castaneda's 'Textual-Becomings' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Castaneda also records the scene in which don Juan asks Castaneda if he has his hand in his pocket to play with his "whanger." In fact, Castaneda was "taking notes on a minute pad inside the enormous pockets of my windbreaker.
		Castaneda continues to insist on this reliability, though -- the books are "a true account" of don Juan's teachings (1987: vii), he repeats in volume 8, and in introducing volume 9, Castaneda situates his enterprise fully within the field of anthropology.
		Castaneda's decision to end the secrecy surrounding the "magical passes" is based on yet another implicit claim to reliability, "naturally, the corollary of my conviction [argued by don Juan] that I am indeed the end of don Juan's lineage.It became inconceivable to me that I should carry secrets that were not even mine" (1997: 8).
	www.langlab.wayne.edu /CStivale/StivalePapers/CarlosC.html (3763 words)

	Amazon.com: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge: Books: Carlos Castaneda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Castaneda was specifically interested in peyote, a plant that gives its users hallicinations and mixes the senses in strange ways, and which LSD was meant to be a chemical reproduction of.
		Castaneda, during his course of study with don Juan Matus, Yaqui man of knowledge, learned to move into nonordinary reality, and experience not only magical events, but also that the ways of knowledge and power are difficult and dangerous.
		And Castaneda was not, during his course of study, interested in converting anyone to the way of power or knowledge; rather, he was documenting the use of drugs as a means to access nonordinary reality, and showing us that reality is not what it seems.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671600419?v=glance (2275 words)

	AboutFilm.com - Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer (2004)
		According to Castaneda, this shaman, Don Juan Matus, taught him to set aside the conventional modes of interpreting reality that we are taught since birth, and to perceive and even manipulate the flowing energy of the universe.
		Castaneda, whose first writings earned him a doctorate in anthropology from UCLA, purported to be a “Nagual,” an intermediary to the unknown, and offered classes in perceiving “non-ordinary reality” until his death in 1998.
		Though Castaneda was greedy, hungry, and insecure, as one person says, most of the interviewees ultimately defend him, agreeing that he was a seeker with “impeccable intent” and that he never claimed to be free of the weaknesses and compulsions of our world.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/c/carloscastaneda.htm (1275 words)

	Four Yogas bookstore - Carlos Castaneda, Jung, Nagual don juan, toltec, shaman
		Castaneda is one of the most fascinating occultists of the past 100 years.
		Castaneda's teacher Don Juan Matus learned these martial art-like motions in dreams and passed them on to his apprentices as a means to achieving mastery over one's will, or "unbending intent." Now these instructions are made available on two videotapes showing clearly the precise movements and the theoretical benefits of each one.
		Castaneda himself explains in a supplemental preface that Abelar was trained as a ``stalker''--as opposed to a ``dreamer'': no drugs, but an exercise called the ``recapitulation,'' in which Abelar had to liberate herself from every imprisoning memory and attachment.
	www.fouryogas.com /2naguals.htm (2568 words)

	CARLOS CASTANEDA: Timeline
		Castaneda enrolled in a spring quarter class at UCLA called "Methods in Field Archaeology" taught by Professor Clement Meighan, one of Castaneda's first introductions into Shamanism.
		Castaneda met the informant in the desert southwest during the spring.
		Castaneda met Don Juan Matus in a bus depot in Nogales, Arizona, during the summer.
	www.angelfire.com /electronic/awakening101/timeline.html (744 words)

	The Straight Dope: Did Carlos Castaneda hallucinate that stuff in the Don Juan books or make it up?
		The student, Carlos Castaneda, strikes up a friendship with the old man, who eventually reveals himself to be a Yaqui Indian sorcerer.
		Don Juan decides to make Castaneda his apprentice and teach him the ways of a "man of knowledge." This consists mainly of giving cryptic answers to Castaneda's naive questions and instructing him in the use of hallucinogenic plants--peyote, jimsonweed, and a mushroom possibly containing psilocybin.
		Journalists discovered that Castaneda was a habitual teller of tall tales who, among other things, falsified his family background and his place and date of birth.
	www.straightdope.com /columns/020621.html (856 words)

	Carlos Castaneda - The Trickster of Truths (pt. 1)
		Carlos told her this was also the name of a bad witch-woman who was his enemy.
		In response, she informed Castaneda that Leary was a good man under her protection, and sent Carlos on his way.
		Wasson and Castaneda biographer, Richard De Mille, though both admirers of Castaneda's work, were equally critical of it's veracity, particularly in regards to the inconsistent use of language throughout.
	www.excludedmiddle.com /castaneda.htm (1128 words)

	Castaneda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Castaneda is a surname which may refer to the following people.
		Alfonso Castaneda, a fifth class municipality in the Phillipine province of Nueva Vizcaya.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Castaneda (97 words)

	The Teachings of don Juan by Carlos Castaneda, An Evolution of Consciousness Review by Bobby Matherne
		Carlos Castaneda, under the tutelage of don Juan, takes us through that moment of twilight, through that crack in the universe between daylight and dark into a world not merely other than our own, but of an entirely different order of reality.
		The last event Carlos describes in the book is an episode of intense fear after which Carlos said that he would resist the first enemy of a man of knowledge, fear.
		Having removed this last barrier, Carlos goes on after this book to write a new book in which this idea of a separate reality is raised to the title of the book.
	www.doyletics.com /art/donjuan.htm (1025 words)

	Salon Newsreal \| A Yankee way of knowledge
		Carlos Castaneda, whoever he was, is dead -- whatever that is.
		As a matter of fact, the last time I thought about Carlos Castaneda, after the previous years I hadn't thought about him, was at a party in Mill Valley, Calif., in the early '80s.
		Maybe he was the genuine Castaneda, acting like a con man to teach us a lesson, and the two women were spiritual guides from a separate reality.
	www.salon.com /news/1998/06/24news.html (965 words)

	Amazon.com: The Active Side of Infinity: Books: Carlos Castaneda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Castaneda undertook this somewhat autobiographical record of memories and experiences during his famous apprenticeship to don Juan, the Yaqui Indian who tutored him in the ways of shamanism.
		Reading Castaneda's account of don Juan's preparation for the "definitive journey" of death will likely be a poignant experience for Castaneda's fans, who may see the writing of the book as the author's preparation for his own departure.
		Castaneda had been a close 'literary friend', a quasi-spiritual companion who, through his many books, made me aware that all things are indeed possible.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/006092960X?v=glance (1900 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Religion and Spirituality: Shamanism: Castaneda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Carlos Castaneda - Enigma of a Sorcerer: Cinema Shamanism - Award Winning Film In Theaters Spring 2004: former pupils of Carlos Castaneda discuss his metaphysics, tensegrity, shamanism and the sorcerer's world.
		Carlos Castaneda is, well, y'know, like maybe - A short article on the questions surrounding the work of Castaneda.
		The Informant and Carlos Castaneda - Before Castaneda met Don Juan he met a mysterious bio-searcher in the desert that showed him the use of Datura and other hallucinogens.
	dmoz.org /Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Shamanism/Castaneda (831 words)

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