I am writing about Carlos Castaneda out of nostalgia for a period long gone. Know more:
The TeachingsWho can forget Castaneda’s first encounter with the peyote, a tiny cactus that contains psychoactive alkaloids, which affects the brain and induces hallucination. In a session, he ingested seven peyote buttons and then it happened: “I turned around to look for Don Juan, but I could not distinguish anything or anyone. All I was capable of seeing was the dog becoming iridescent, an intense light radiated from his body.
Within that state, Castaneda became the dog: “I looked at the dog and his mane was like mine. A supreme happiness filled my whole body, and we ran together toward a sort of yellow warmth that came from some indefinite place. And there we played. We played and wrestled until I knew his wishes and he knew mine.”
Then, he was back to reality: “The passage from my normal state had taken place almost without my realizing it: I was aware; my thoughts and feelings were a corollary of that awareness; and the passing was smooth and clear. But this second change, the awakening to serious, sober consciousness, was genuinely shocking. I had forgotten I was a man!” Castaneda would close this long passage with the most singular experience: “The sadness of such an irreconcilable situation was so intense that I wept.
Many readers of that period cried over Erich Segal’s A Love Story . I, all of seventeen years of age, wept at that moment with Castaneda without a hallucinogenic drug.was written by Walter Goldschmidt who would later be famous for his work on anthropology and public policies. Academics, particularly anthropologists, would doubt the veracity of the data presented by Castaneda but the foreword was clear: “This book is both ethnography and allegory.
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