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    Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan
    Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan
    Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan
    Audiobook10 hours

    Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan

    Written by Carlos Castaneda

    Narrated by Luis Moreno

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    With The Teachings of Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda chronicled a journey of enlightenment under the tutelage of Yaqui Indian guru don Juan. Having sold more than eight million copies of his books around the world, Castaneda inspires countless readers with his rich and awareness-expanding experiences.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateNov 5, 2010
    ISBN9781449836993
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    Carlos Castaneda

    Born in 1925 in Peru, anthropologist Carlos Castaneda wrote a total of fifteen books, which sold eight million copies worldwide and were published in seventeen different languages. In his writing, Castaneda describes the teaching of don Juan, a Yaqui sorcerer and shaman. His works helped define the 1960's and usher in the New Age movement. Even after his death in 1998, his books continue to inspire and influence his many devoted fans.

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    • 3/5
      Entertaining like the first in the series. Luis Moreno’s narration of this audio book is fantastic. Very dynamic.
    • 5/5
      All I can say is I'm hooked and I can see so many similarities with things we have actually given name to nowadays(2022), still there are a lot of things that are a mystery to me. I simply love it!
    • 4/5
      Brilliant book absolutely amazing i love it, so much to learn
    • 3/5
      the narration is good, but sometimes the audio cuts and then skips a second or two and leaves you wondering if you missed anything.
    • 5/5
      I read a biography (The life and teachings of Carlos Castaneda) of Castaneda previously and was rather put off about him, since it turned out he was by no means a pleasant character. I thus did not plan to read any more of his books. But then I found this one and thought I would try it.I didn’t find it as good as some of the other books. Don Juan, the Yaqui Indian who was training Carlos to be a sorcerer, or whatever, kept getting him to do such strange, complicated, and, according to what Don Juan said, deadly dangerous, things that it was difficult to find rhyme or reason in them.And Carlos did not seem to get anything out of it at all.Previously, Carlos was wanting information about plants, especially peyote, which is a hallucinogenic cactus.Carlos was a student of anthropology interested in medicinal plants but was also extremely curious about Don Juan. His eyes shone “with a light of their own”.They became friends. But Carlos was interested in “academic knowledge that transcends experience” whereas Don Juan talked about direct knowledge of the world.Don Juan tells Carlos he must “feel everything, otherwise the world loses its sense”.Don Juan tells him that Carlos shuts off the world around him and clings to his arguments: therefore all he has are problems.Don Juan calls peyote “Mescalito” and said Mescalito taught “the right way of life”, He regarded jimson weed and the mushrooms as powers of a different sort. He called them “allies” and said a sorcerer “drew his strength from manipulating an ally”. The power contained in the mushroom was Don Juan’s personal ally, and he called it “smoke” or “little smoke”.Carlos began to lose the certainty that “the reality of everyday life is something we can take for granted”.Don Juan’s premise was that a light, amenable disposition was needed in order to understand the impact and strangeness of the knowledge he was teaching Carlos.“To be a man of knowledge one needs to be light and fluid.”Don Juan tried to teach Carlos to “see”. “Looking” was the ordinary way of perceiving the world, while “seeing” entailed a complex process by which a man of knowledge perceives the “essence” of the things of the world.Smoking the mixture was indispensable for “seeing”.Part One of the book is called “The Preliminaries of Seeing” and Part Two “The Task of Seeing”.Don Juan tells Carlos that “the little smoke” will help him to “see” men as fibres of light.Don Juan had a sense of drama, and humour.Many things Don Juan says seem cryptic. Carlos keeps asking him to explain what he means. Don Juan tells about “controlled folly”.Nothing one does is important. “Controlled folly” is very much like “seeing”; it is something you cannot think about.In order to become a man of knowledge one must be a warrior. “One must strive without giving up --- until one “sees”., only to realize then that nothing matters.”He records everything that occurs in great detail, including the exact dates on which they occur. He describes everything accurately, pedantically.I found the book absolutely readable, though didn’t feel I really understood everything, perhaps nothing. Don Juan’s world was a different one from ours and his knowledge a different sort of knowledge.But if the world of sorcery. “seeing” and becoming a man of knowledge interest you, then read the book. I’m not sure, but I think it was Castaneda’s second book. Happy reading!
    • 5/5
      Read the entire series of Castenda books in my early college years and they were really inspirational to me. The concept of alternate ways of thinking and separate realities were novel to me at the time. I have always meant to return to them. I like the mixture of a deeper hidden message and that of the light tale of the medicine man that runs through the pages.
    • 3/5
      This adventerous meditation explores the spiritual ways of an Yaqui Indian sorceror in Mexico. Castaneda's writing is eloquently simple while conveying his ideas and experiences throughout the very mindful narrative. Good humors are prevelant while at the same time trying to take the sorcerors guidance with a serious and transcendental point of view. The peyote use alludes to a more naturalist era, almost pre-psychedelic, yet very much covering some of the same terrain of the enlightened mindscape. I recommend reading this book in one sitting, on a warm afternoon while roasting under the unfiltered sun.