Don't really care about the 'de-bunkers', K. The power of the information offered stands anyway. I Archived Message
Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym on January 24, 2020, 4:51 am, in reply to "Charlie Chestnut..."
take the view that I wasn't in the Sonoran Desert in the 1960s, so I don't know what really happened there - any more than the derivative tribe of 'it stands to reason' de-bunkers, who also weren't there, know.
The main point is that the doctrines handled by Castaneda - however he came by them - stand up well when compared to the well-attested weltanschauungs of other mystical traditions about the basic nature of reality; springing, I believe, from other closely-similar direct raw experiences of like kind which underlie all of these wisdom traditions. Treating Carlos as if he really knew some deep truths about this certainly works for me, anyway. I quite agree, though, that his statements about what he knew may well be unadmitted novels, rather than direct reportage of events. The ideas still stand up anyway.Yeah, maybe he was a tale-spinner. He still knew a thing or two about his subject. What he wrote tallies with my experience, and that of many others. Can't say more than that with any justified certainty.