Re: Don't really care about the 'de-bunkers', K. The power of the information offered stands anyway. I Archived Message
Posted by Sinister Burt on January 24, 2020, 1:03 pm, in reply to "Don't really care about the 'de-bunkers', K. The power of the information offered stands anyway. I "
I agree that the ideas can have value regardless of their exact origin, but it does still make a difference to me how i think about them whether they're actually imparted by a shaman or made up by charlie chestnut. And to the degree they're made up, it does seem to be disrespectful to the actual yaqui and/or huichol that he was supposedly celebrating. I started to lose interest after tales of power and journey to ixtlan anyway - the later books when he seemed to be conveniently finding new memories of donjuan to a deadline just felt much less interesting and worthwhile. I later found out that he'd actually written his hareem of girlfriends/wives into the plot in these new recovered memories (remember the witches?). And it sounded like he got pretty culty and narcissistic once he got famous - more of a knob than a nagual - according to this bbc hatchet job anyway. I still enjoyed the first several books though.
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