you're supposed to tell us that it's fiction.
Carlos Casteneda made it fairly clear after about 3 books. Anyone who didn't figure it out by then wasn't paying attention. LIke they were on drugs or something.
yes Carlos Castaneda was a fiction.
read it, and tell me how stuff was possible like jumping off a mountain top and not remembering what happened but . . . just picking it all back up in a flash back at the start of volume IV.
you didn't see it as a piece of literature?
I stopped reading science fiction and started reading 'social science fiction' which is what Castaneda 's style is.
It's science fiction in the realm of anthropology.
He was a clowned up glow-shill, is that what you are trying to say, who was able to fool a lot of people?
If that's what you mean, I agree.
Like if you could walk along the edge of the sky or turn into a crow and fly a thousand miles in the blink of an eye, why would you need to be a tenured professor at a public college?
and have TA's and give lectures, and have yoga classes that you call part of it . . . (one of his final books was a book of yoga poses).
how would you know?
maybe I'm such a master of it all your idiots always think I'm a rube?
that is not true. Some may.
but what Castaneda wrote was obvious fiction.
he was not a shaman, he was a fraud, is what I conjecture. Or he wouldn't have come back. It would have ended at book three when he took the leap. (my friend pointed that out to me back then, and I have to agree).
most pepole stopped reading them then, knowing they were fake. I figure it was better than comic books or Fat Fredies Cat stoner mags, so I read it like it was science fiction.
a demon isn't going to give you an honest answer, anon.
everyone does the asking who is wise of themselves or . . . of the spirits and anjels who will give you a useful answer.
That is called prayer by some.
Helpful for you to ponder is the idea that we hear from the wise: 'suffice it to the day the evil there in'
I assume you have the wisdom to know the origin of that, and also what it means.