Carlos Castaneda Casualties- An Interview With Amy Wallace 2004

[DNA]

I'm a huge fan of the books by Carlos Castaneda. But, there is a lot of BS involved with that whole thing. This interview helps to point some of this out.






2004-Magical Blend Magazine-Amy Wallace (http://aquakeys.com/toltec/2004-magical-blend-magazine-amy-wallace-interview)

[RMorgan]

Hi there,

Well, I think I´ve read most of his books when I was a teenager. He was a really good writer.

Anyway, I never saw any reason for interpreting his books as non-fictional. They´re just books, after all.

I never knew the guy and never met anyone who knew him. I also don´t know the woman who wrote the above article.

So, it´s beyond my scope to come to the conclusion if his books are definitively fiction or not. Whenever you come to a conclusion strictly based on other person´s words, specially persons you don´t even know, then you´re giving up your power of choice.

At least I had a good time reading his books back then; I never really incorporate his "teachings" into my belief system.

I always try to stay unbiased when reading anything related to the occult because it´s close to impossible to verify the veracity/validity of such kind of information.

Anyway, why do we always feel forced to choose if a piece of information is truth or not? Nowadays I´d rather stay neutral regarding most kind of information (except for the blatantly misleading), thus making every bit of information useful in different ways.

Raf.

[Mike]

i'm a huge fan as well DNA, despite the BS.

thanks for the link. i also highly recommend 'a magical journey with carlos casteneda' by margaret runyan (ex-wife). interesting book. separates the truth from the fiction.

[delfine]

I once talked to a shaman who knew both Carlos Castaneda and Don Juan. He told me that Don Juans real (indian) name was "two bears".
So apparently he´s not a fictitious character. For what it´s worth...

[Wookie]

I have learnt allot from Castaneda. Fantastic stories and an over the top life. Two perspectives that may have never entered my perception if not for Don Juan.

Peaceful Journeys Wookie

[Camilo]

As with every writer, you should take what resonates with you and discard the rest with no judgement on your part, nor taking what others say.

[Arrowwind]

I once talked to a shaman who knew both Carlos Castaneda and Don Juan. He told me that Don Juans real (indian) name was "two bears".
So apparently he´s not a fictitious character. For what it´s worth...

I thought Don Gennero was Two Bears. I have a rather large, numbered print from the Artist who painted him... a student himself in that lineage of students/teachers

To understand that either of these men is not fictional is important so the works of Castenada never fall into the realms of absolute fantasy. The Shamanic Path is a mysterous walk. Few, if any, can look from the outside and understand what is going on on the inside.
Harley Swiftdeer studied with Two Bears Wilson aka Don Gennero. Through this lineage I had never actually heard that Don Juan was a real person, as in 'ordinary reality' real.

Here: "medicine chief of the Navajo nation, Tom "Two Bears" Wilson. Two Bears’ remarkable powers were revealed by Carlos Castaneda in his series of books in which he portrayed Two Bears as Don Gennaro. Swiftdeer studied with this teacher for 15 years, until Two Bears died. Later, he continued working with Hyemeyohst Storm, a Cheyenne and author of Seven Arrows."

http://www.context.org/iclib/ic16/reagan/

Don Genaro was Tom 'Two Bears' Wilson, Navajo Medicine Man and former President of the Navajo Native American Church, as revealed by Harley Swiftdeer Reagan (http://www.whale.to/b/swiftdeer_h.html), and pictured, in his autobiography. Swiftdeer was his apprentice.

Navaho Blessed BeautyWay Prayer

Great Spirit, may we walk in Beauty.
May Beauty be above us so that we dream of Beauty.
May Beauty be in front of us so that we are led by Beauty.
May Beauty be to the left of us so that we may receive Beauty.
May Beauty be to the right of us so that we may give out Beauty.
May Beauty be behind us so that those who come after us may see Beauty.
May Beauty be inside us so that we might become Beauty.
Great Spirit, may we walk in Beauty.

as taught to Harley SwiftDeer Reagan by Grandfather Tom Two Bears Wilson, President of Navaho Native American Church ___________________________________________

[Mike]

I once talked to a shaman who knew both Carlos Castaneda and Don Juan. He told me that Don Juans real (indian) name was "two bears".
So apparently he´s not a fictitious character. For what it´s worth...

more please;)

[Tangri]

Hi there,

Well, I think I´ve read most of his books when I was a teenager. He was a really good writer.

Anyway, I never saw any reason for interpreting his books as non-fictional. They´re just books, after all.

I never knew the guy and never met anyone who knew him. I also don´t know the woman who wrote the above article.

So, it´s beyond my scope to come to the conclusion if his books are definitively fiction or not. Whenever you come to a conclusion strictly based on other person´s words, specially persons you don´t even know, then you´re giving up your power of choice.

At least I had a good time reading his books back then; I never really incorporate his "teachings" into my belief system.

I always try to stay unbiased when reading anything related to the occult because it´s close to impossible to verify the veracity/validity of such kind of information.

Anyway, why do we always feel forced to choose if a piece of information is truth or not? Nowadays I´d rather stay neutral regarding most kind of information (except for the blatantly misleading), thus making every bit of information useful in different ways.

Raf.

I think that woman is his former wife. She has a personal conflict with him even after his death. I read all of books of Castaneda. His successors made a fortune from him.

[bram]

Those who dwell in the egoic mind have always been keen to discredit castenada by ''proving'' that the experiences described in the books cannot be true. However, all of CC's boooks resonate with truth from cover to cover. This lady plumbs new depths by dwelling on his reported inability to maintain an erection, and then stating that she doesn't want to mention this!!

For the many of us who see the truth in castenada's writings, Don Juan and Don Genaro are more real than many events of our daily lives. For those who want to discredit, be my guest, discredit away. Its what the ego loves to do.............

[DNA]

I once talked to a shaman who knew both Carlos Castaneda and Don Juan. He told me that Don Juans real (indian) name was "two bears".
So apparently he´s not a fictitious character. For what it´s worth...

I thought Don Gennero was Two Bears. I have a rather large, numbered print from the Artist who painted him... a student himself in that lineage of students/teachers


Don Genaro was Tom 'Two Bears' Wilson, Navajo Medicine Man and former President of the Navajo Native American Church, as revealed by Harley Swiftdeer Reagan (http://www.whale.to/b/swiftdeer_h.html), and pictured, in his autobiography. Swiftdeer was his apprentice.





This is funny. I met Harley Swiftdeer and his group in 1993. They were pretty cool, I did some martial arts sessions with Harley and I did a sweat lodge with them. I liked them, until it started getting wierd. I was like 20 at the time and I will just boil it down to brass tacks. After meeting me half a dozen times, they invited me to their inner circle kind of thing.

I will be honest, I didn't dig the vibe. Everyone would open mouth kiss everyone all the time. I learned that this is because the inner circle is basically a sexual free for all thing. I'm not judging it, I just wasn't comfortable with this and I stopped going.

[DNA]

Those who dwell in the egoic mind have always been keen to discredit castenada by ''proving'' that the experiences described in the books cannot be true. However, all of CC's boooks resonate with truth from cover to cover. This lady plumbs new depths by dwelling on his reported inability to maintain an erection, and then stating that she doesn't want to mention this!!

For the many of us who see the truth in castenada's writings, Don Juan and Don Genaro are more real than many events of our daily lives. For those who want to discredit, be my guest, discredit away. Its what the ego loves to do.............

I will attest that Castaneda's techniques for silencing the internal dialogue, and his open eye meditations work. They absolutely work.
Did his stories need fantastical claims in order to capture the imaginations and attention of his readers? Maybe
You could argue it's the whole deal with coyote medicine.
Some artists use lies to convey the truth sort of thing.



I will say this.
I met Florinda Donner and Taisha Abelar, along with a contingent of their folks at a retreat in northern Arizona, either 93' or 94'.
I was a full scale Castaneda believer.
Yea, I will admit that now, it's kind of hard to admit, but yea, I was a full scale believer.
I believed the whole sha-bang. Every part of what he wrote.
That is extroidinarilly embarrasing to admit, but there you go.

It was this meeting of Florinda Donner and Taisha Abelar that broke the spell for me.
I've got a built in lie detector, it's a curse but in some instances it is pretty cool.
After meeting Florinda Donner by far the leader of this group, I knew for a fact she was lying.
And Taisha Abelar had little to no personal power. Taisha Abelar was over weight and taking all of her cues from Florinda Donner.

This was difficult to contend with, it was a coming to terms moment for me, and it tought me a valuable lesson in guillibility.
I think Amy Wallace is very brave and I personally thank her for coming out and stating what she is stating.
She is helping folks and opening their eyes to the reality of the situation in my opinion.

[Kimberley]

I was introduced to Carlos and Don Juan in the late 70's and read every book until Carlos died in 1998.. I it think it was...

Then I hooked into Don Miguel Ruiz, a still living Toltec nagual, in 1998 via his first book "The Four Agreements". I finally got to interview Don Miguel last week after trying to get an interview with him for years... I will post it soon.

The writings of Carlos were instrumental in my spiritual growth and I have since re read the first few books... I was amazed at how re reading the books confirmed my own growth and path of awakening to knowing who I am!...

THe teachings of Don Juan were and are paramount in my training.

So therefore the dissing of the OP article/interview do not resonate with me.

Much love!

[Arrowwind]

I will be honest, I didn't dig the vibe. Everyone would open mouth kiss everyone all the time. I learned that this is because the inner circle is basically a sexual free for all thing. I'm not judging it, I just wasn't comfortable with this and I stopped going.

Yes, there is that aspect at his lodge. I am aware of it.
and people who fear their sexuality or think that it has to be perpetually controlled, either theirs or anyone elses will have huge issues with it.

But this sexual abandon ... for lack of a better word, is not found in all the lodges. I studied for several years at the Blue Thunder Lodge in Denton Texas with an advanced student of Harleys'. Never once did this go on....
I think part of Harleys personal Karma is working through the sexuality teachings. Some people need that, and most probably do not. You are given the sexuality teachings in Book form so to speak, more really in an oral speaking tradition. You do with them what you will but you are required to understand your sexuality to advance on the path. your blockages, your fears, your programing, your traumas, your abuse, and anything that would keep you from being a fully orgasmic person must all be delt with to be free, to be a warrior, to find your enlightenment.

Once you go through that fire of learning then you find that open sexuality is for you, or not.... out of for the first time, free choice. It is not required that you participate in open sexuality if you dont want to. Nothing is forced. You find from your own accord your truth and go about finding your healing. It requires the silencing of the ringings in your head of all the tyrrants, all the brainwashing, all the fear programs that have hit you since the day you were born into our repressive controlling society regarding ones sexuality.

There are celebate types in the lodges as well as fully commited married people.

But the lodges are like a swirling cauldron. Freedom mixed with dicipline upon those who dont really know their true selves so a lot of caos and catharsis and spiritual rebirth then finally forming pure intent in direction. Personally it is one of the most amazing schools I have every attended.

I think Harley feels that our repression in our sexuality, our kundalini force, our inability to control it, to master it, to channel it, is one of the hugest downfalls resulting from of our repression put upon us through conventional religions, you know, those religons pushed upon Native Americans when the white man came.

Though it you are suppose to learn what true morals are, what moving from the heart is, how to have a deep and profound relationship, not dictated by shoulds and false rules and laws.

Before the white man came there were no venerial diseases. Sexuality was quite open. Remember how the spanish conqistidors spoke of how women were given to them? Well I would bet that women were not given to them. Women chose to go for sexuality was not a sin, it was a pathway to pleasure and comfort and connectedness with those people around you. In the same vein, homosexulaity was also considered just a part of routine life in many tribes.

In fact I think if someone really wanted to walk a Don Juan type of path you could find no better guidance than through the 4 Lodges (red lodge, black lodge, white lodge and yellow lodge) and special trainings through the students of Swiftdeer. Their home logdes are scattered aroun the nation and in Europe.

[DNA]

My take on sexuality is really simple. Some folks devolop a strong bond quickly, and others are like energetic teflon and can have repeated sex with many partners and for the most part form no bond, no cords.

For each their own, but I have to say that from what Amy Wallace is saying, and from what I saw at Harley Swiftdeer's sweet medicine lodge, it seems a classic male dominated version of sexuality here. I don't agree that Native Americans carried out this life style. Monogomy isn't some sort of European form of repressed sexuality. It is based on the idea that sex creates real sexual bonds between two people, these bonds are as real as our physical body, cords if you will.
Again, I have met folks who do not form these attachments, but they do not ussually experience the true depths a relationship has to offer and it would make sense that they would want to participate in a life style like this. To each their own. I don't think one needs to validate it by constituting it was a cultural practice, it is what it is.

[Arrowwind]

My take on sexuality is really simple. Some folks devolop a strong bond quickly, and others are like energetic teflon and can have repeated sex with many partners and for the most part form no bond, no cords.

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To each their own. And I did not say that monogamy did not happen in Native American culture nor did I say that monogamy is a repressed European form of sexuality. Read again.

But millions if not billions have suffered by false judgement, beatings, invoking of shame, women thrown out of the house for being pregnant, false modesty,
incest, rape, and anything you can think of under the 'christian' domain in their control of sexuality. Remember catholic women are requried to produce children historically. Puritan women were not permitted to show pleasure during sex. For many women sex has been a terrifying event under the rule of their husbands according to Chrisitan dictates. Many women could not even talk of mensturation, even amongst themselves and if they tried to take any control over conception they could be burned as a witch or thrown out of the church.

Many people who have 'teflon' sexuality really have deep sexual issues... preventing them from having a deep relationships.

As I said, I did not experience what happened over at Harleys.. but I do know a good bit about their sexuality teachings. In general I think that they are good.

[DNA]

I respect what your saying here Arrowwind, and if any of this proved to be good for you and or folks you have met more power to them.
But as for myself I found it kind of creepy.
Just my take.

[Arrowwind]

Well as you said. Your take on sexuallity is really simple.

[Daughter of Time]

Regardless of the BS which some seem to find, I'm a huge fan of Castaneda's books also. They were the first I read which pointed to a reality which was outside my frame of reference.
Initially, they read like fiction, but eventually the spoke more and more loudly to me, at a level that no books had spoken to me before. Whenever I meet someone who mentions and likes Castaneda's books, we always end up connecting as this means we understand different realities than what is experienced in the average life.

[Fred Steeves]

I always try to stay unbiased when reading anything related to the occult because it´s close to impossible to verify the veracity/validity of such kind of information.


Hi Raf, looking back on the years I was voraciously devouring books, it was like a free for all of trying on new clothes, or new shoes. Something strikes the eye, try it on, check out how it looks in the mirror, walk around a bit, you know the deal. And you know what? It was fun too! (LOL)

I think by the time I joined Avalon I was "wearing" just about ALL of those ideas and concepts, all at the same time. http://nexus.2012info.ca/forum/images/smilies/newadditions/laugh.gif But then it got kind of hot shortly after, and it was hard to move about freely as well, so it was time to start shedding some layers. Most of those ideas and concepts went straight to the burn pile, but not Castaneda's writings, along with a couple of select others. Regardless of how full of bullspit Castaneda may have been, the warrior's way teachings are that pair of shoes that fit naturally and comfortably. It's not just a concept any more, I try to live it.

So I think that's a good test of whether a book has validity or not, try it on and see how it feels.

[The23rdman]

Castaneda's books (the first six, at least) were the beginning of my journey as a conscious being and I believed them as gospel for years. I learnt to do walking meditations and trust my inner self to keep me safe whilst walking with crossed eye through town and across roads. When I had my spontaneous awakening the key lessons I learnt were almost verbatim The Four Agreements too.

[delfine]

I once talked to a shaman who knew both Carlos Castaneda and Don Juan. He told me that Don Juans real (indian) name was "two bears".
So apparently he´s not a fictitious character. For what it´s worth...

more please;)

Well...:) this conversation goes back 25 years. I was devouring the books of Castaneda and an indian shaman visited the city I lived in, and I told him that
I very much wanted to meet Don Juan sometime. He said that it wasn´t impossible, but I would have to be prepared to be tested before. They did´nt
just allow people in like that. He also said that he found Castaneda to be "strange". But he wouldn´t elaborate on that.
That´s all.

[DeDukshyn]

"I'd like to emphasize that the way we look at things, our favorite view points, our favorite concepts, the images that we use to describe reality to ourselves, our religions, our belief systems, and our politics are of no more eternal significance than the color of the clothes we wear from day to day.

If these things help us become more loving, conscious people, if they help us become more aware of the miraculous nature of the planetary life that surrounds us, and if they help us to be more creative, then they're good. I don't care what continent they come from, what cultures they're steeped in or what beliefs they involve. If they help us do those things, they're positive." -- Ken Carey

[onawah]

I was deeply affected, and I will say quickened, by Castaneda's books, which helped keep me together during some very difficult years.
Whether the books were fiction or not, they were inspired, and there was profound truth in them which spoke deeply to many people.
Tolkein's books were classified as fiction, but they also contained so much truth that they are considered sacred by many, and for all we know, the histories they related may have been true of some other world, or of some other time on our world.
Castenada's books described a separate reality, that of the shaman; we have very little experience of describing that reality in words, but somehow he conveyed the essence of that reality and taught many people something of how to access other realities, and that is what counts.
He opened a door for us that had previously been inaccessible.
I always felt that Don Juan was a reincarnation or aspect of the father of the Tibetan lineage, Padmasambhava in essence, or at least, very similar to that seminal soul.
I place the books among the great classics of our time; whether we can find a category to fit them into or not is irrelevant.

[DNA]

This is another top notch story on the non-sacred reality of Carlos Castaneda.

THE DARK LEGACY OF CARLOS CASTANEDA (http://www.salon.com/2007/04/12/castaneda/)

[DNA]

Well as you said. Your take on sexuallity is really simple.

Well maybe what is being taught on your end of things is different than this. But this article gives a decent description of the kind of shannanigans I saw.

The followers of Harley Swift Deer Reagan call him a lot of things – a sex guru, a shaman, a Cherokee, a patriot. His critics have more colorful names for him. (http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2002-06-13/news/sacred-orgasm/)


Also, and I've lived in this same area for 20 years now. I have lived my whole young life here. I've partied here, raved, participated in some crazy stuff, I'm no prude I just don't need folks to call something spiritual when it isn't.

I've met three women since my experience I mentioned earlier with the deer tribe and they told me the deer tribe enouraged them to participate in prostitution: because on one hand, it enabled the women to pay for the quite expensive apprenticeship programs. The cost for a single seminar is some where in the $500 -$1000 range, call it whatever lodge you like. Also, the women who were enouraged to participate in prostitution were encouraged to bring, ahem, other ladies of the evening to said events. Such women could be proportadly used to grease the machinary of these "Quodoshka" work shops.


Bottom line, I look at the deertribe as offering aging folks the chance to participate in some group sex and what not while calling it something it is not.
I don't give a crap if middle age crisis folks want to get down and dirty, more power to you, but this is just not spirituality in my opinion.

[DNA]

To each their own. And I did not say that monogamy did not happen in Native American culture nor did I say that monogamy is a repressed European form of sexuality. Read again.

This was pretty close but you can split hairs if you want to.


I think Harley feels that our repression in our sexuality, our kundalini force, our inability to control it, to master it, to channel it, is one of the hugest downfalls resulting from of our repression put upon us through conventional religions, you know, those religons pushed upon Native Americans when the white man came.




But millions if not billions have suffered by false judgement, beatings, invoking of shame, women thrown out of the house for being pregnant, false modesty,
incest, rape, and anything you can think of under the 'christian' domain in their control of sexuality. Remember catholic women are requried to produce children historically. Puritan women were not permitted to show pleasure during sex. For many women sex has been a terrifying event under the rule of their husbands according to Chrisitan dictates. Many women could not even talk of mensturation, even amongst themselves and if they tried to take any control over conception they could be burned as a witch or thrown out of the church.


And Aztecs ripped men's beating hearts out and the Annazasi sent cannibals to eat whole villages.
It doesn't mean all native american culture is representitive of this. Just as such with your white culture references.

This is a discussian it doesn't need to be tit for tat. There doesn't have to be a winner of an argument here. For that matter there does not need to be an argument.

I'm not attacking you, I'm giving you my first hand experiential data.

This data may in fact paint the deer tribe in a poor light, but that has nothing to do with you.

Unless you personally identify with the tribe to the point you consider youself a member, and as ironic as it sounds, in this case you should practice what the tribe calls "detachment", as they have managed to take it from the Castaneda books.


Many people who have 'teflon' sexuality really have deep sexual issues... preventing them from having a deep relationships.

As I said, I did not experience what happened over at Harleys.. but I do know a good bit about their sexuality teachings. In general I think that they are good.

My teflon statement had nothing to do with folks who have suffered some kind of phsyical or sexual trauma in their life.

I have never once ventured into the realm of the deer tribe offerring up solutions for people with physical or mental based traumas in this way.
But since you are hinting that this is one of their redeeming qualities I will simply say these folks should not in any way be trusted in this capacity, in my opinion they are more likely to take advantage of such wounds and exploit them.

This can be found here (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=2735.0)


One of the central Deer Tribe people, selling faux ceremony and as involved in abuse as Harley Reagan is. Moved to Frauds.

ILW is discussed here in probably the most extended expose of the Deer Tribe.
http://anonym.to?http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2002-06-13/news/sacred-orgasm (http://anonym.to/?http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2002-06-13/news/sacred-orgasm)

I was the one who went to the Phoenix New Times and urged them to do a story, and was interviewed by them. Earlier I'd called up the ad that ILW had in the local paper, asking about her "Cherokee sex seminar." I spoke to her, a very flaky woman with a whiny voice. (Think Sally Struthers.) And at their seminar, I and a couple friends went to protest. It was in a very wealthy home in Scottsdale. We handed out flyers as people entered, until she and her German bodyguards intervened. They seemed to be telling people entering we were terrorists or something, because the participants all got very scared. One of the German bodyguards tried to enter the car of a Native woman protester. We scared him off by taking his photo. And they called the police on us. But the cops actually praised us for knowing how to hold a lawful protest.

Then the cops entered the seminar to see if any laws were being broken. A participant told us later they had hurriedly hidden the marijuana and literature mentioning prostitution (excuse me, "sex surrogates") before the cops went in. The same participants tried to leave and demanded a refund once they found out the seminar was basically roleplay dressing up as Indians and putting objects up your anus as a group. They were told they could not get a refund until after they took part, and later told that refunds were solely at the discretion of the seminar holders. Basically you are not getting your money back, ever. I think it was $2000 each, or $3000 a couple. Maybe a dozen people had been lured in. It was sad to see, because some of them had such lost looks, the kind one sees at recovery or 12 step or survivors of sexual abuse meetings.

Interesting note: One of the "teachers" listed is "Porsche Lynn." an old time porn star today working as a professional dominatrix and a devoted Deer Tribe member who trained in that militia of theirs. You can't make stuff like this up.

Nut Tmu-Ankh Butterfly probably needs her own thread. A "Nubian-Khamite priestess and orgasmic alkamist." http://newagefraud.org/smf/Smileys/default/rolleyes.gif




And apparently no Native American Tribe in the United States approves of Harley Swiftdeer, in fact the tribes routinely protest his establishments because of how much they disagree with what he is doing.

From the Native American Times Newspaper: Exposing The Fake Medicine Men and Women (http://www.powwows.com/gathering/archive/index.php?t-30327.html)

One fake shaman, Harley Swift Deer Regan, became very vocal in his threats.
He had just been featured in an HBO Special called “Real Sex” in which he
allegedly revealed the sex secrets of the Cherokee people. Then Principle Chief
of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller, protested the lack of authenticity
of this show to HBO executives demanding a retraction of the shows contents.
Of course, that never happened.

[Falcor]

without knowing much about energy or any of the carlos castaneda books, i tapped into my energy body through 'dreaming' probably around a year ago. i was actually speaking to friends on this forum about how i believed i had some major blockages in my root/sacral chakra. for whatever reason, that intent followed me into my dream when i took a nap later that day

in my dream, i meditated deeply into my root. i experienced a major movement of energy and woke up immediately. i knew it was real because my root and everything in my legs and feet were just full of energy.....something i had never felt before. i wasnt just imagining energy moving up through me anymore, it was now real

a few months down the road after that, my kundalini awakened........ and what a road that has been lol.

about 4 months ago a friend of mine from highschool that i havent spoke to in years came out of nowhere to recommend the books. he swore by them, so i gave them a try. i am currently reading the art of dreaming. i would recommend for those who are into OBEs, lucid dreaming, etc etc. its an easy way to go in and verify things for yourself

now i have conscious dreams on a regular basis, but am still having trouble with the whole remembering thing. trying to stay diligent.....if there are any experienced 'dreamers' on this board, please message me. i would love to chat with you :)

much love

[gini]

Scribe of Carlos Castaneda - Nyei Murez---M4bFRjVzdD0
26,060 views May 19, 2020 Guru Viking Interview Series
In this interview I am joined by Nyei Murez, personal student and scribe of best-selling author and nagual sorcerer Carlos Castaneda.

We discuss who Castaneda was, and Nyei gives a detailed history of his lineage up to the present day.

We find out how Nyei first met Castaneda, and explore her intensive course of study and training under his personal guidance.

We learn about Castaneda’s writing process, including stories of Nyei’s close collaboration with him on several best selling books.

Nyei also talks on the nature of power, and shares insights into the current geo-political situation.

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https://www.guruviking.com/ep50-nyei-...

Audio version of this podcast also available on iTunes and Stitcher – search ‘Guru Viking Podcast’.

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Topics include:

0:00 - Intro
0:45 - Meeting Carlos Castaneda and Florinda Donner
20:21 - The history of the lineage
49:38 - Nyei’s training with Carlos Castaneda and Florinda Donner
57:46 - Why did Nyei call Nyei a ‘genius’ + change in teaching style
1:01:54 - Time as a chacmool or ‘fierce guardian’
1:05:30 - The purpose behind Nyei’s training
1:13:52 - Castaneda’s writing process and Nyei’s time as his scribe
1:24:15 - Scanning people energetically
1:33:31 - More on writing with Castaneda
1:48:08 - The death of Carlos Castaneda
1:59:25 - Castaneda’s widespread influence in today’s culture
2:1428 - Insights on the nature of power
2:22:38 - Nyei on the pandemic and immunity
2:30:31 - Nyei’s current work

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Check out my 2nd interview with Nyei:
- https://www.guruviking.com/ep54-nyei-...

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- www.creationinflow.com

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´The Secret of Carlos Castaneda´. - -dssxleeIYgs. - -Feb 2, 2024
´Carlos Castaneda (1925-1998) is often called the "godfather" of the human potential movement. His name and life are surrounded by many contradictions, fictions and legends. This film feature Castaneda's closest apprentices as well as major experts in modern spiritually oriented psychology who lift the veil on the greatest mystery of his life: the stormy search of how to become real.´