I read his first five books and loved them. I was " searching " for
truth in the mystical realm. I am sorry he died of cancer.
Carlos Casteneda was a fraud. He admitted to making up the stories
in his books.
He told great stories about mumbo-jumbo.
Joshua2
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Nicky Molloy wrote:
>
> Carlos Castaneda
> Writer, Sorcerer and Man of Mystery Dies at Age 72
> by Michael Peter Langevin
> June 19, 1998
> http://magical.eden.com/readingroom/castaneda.html
>
> I know now that human beings are creatures of awareness, involved in an
> evolutionary journey of awareness, being indeed unknown to themselves,
> filled to the brim with incredible resources that are never used.
> - Carlos Castaneda
>
> It has been reported by Carlos Castaneda's lawyer and executor of his
> estate, Deborah Drooz, that he died of liver cancer at his home in Westwood,
> California, on April 27, 1998. Reasons why his death was not revealed in a
> timely fashion is still unclear. The Los Angeles Times quoted Ms. Drooz's
> explanation: "He always made sure people did not take his picture or record
> his voice. He didn't like the spotlight. Knowing that, I didn't take it upon
> myself to issue a press release."
>
> Castaneda was obscure even about such matters as his birth. According to
> immigration records, he was born December 25, 1925, in Cajamarca, Peru, but
> other sources show he was born December 25, 1931 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He
> leaves behind a will, due to be probated in Los Angeles next month and a
> birth certificate fraught with dubious infomation. The few people who would
> benefit from his copyrights were told of his death, Drooz said, but none of
> them chose to alert the media.
>
> Angelica Denas, the doctor who attended Castaneda in his final days, refused
> to discuss her secretive patient, as did his former editors and public
> relations associates. Ex-wife, Margret Runyan Castenada, wrote in her
> memoirs, A Magical Journey with Carlos Castaneda, "The secret to the
> Castaneda mystique is based on the fact his closest friends aren't sure who
> he is."
>
> Carlos Castaneda became a household name and cultural icon to millions of
> baby boomers in the late sixties and seventies for his remarkable accounts
> of his tutelage under Yaqui "sorcerer" don Juan Matus. His first book, The
> Teachings of don Juan, was written as a master's thesis when Castaneda was
> an undergraduate anthropology student at UCLA. Published in 1968, the book's
> intimate details of "nonordinary realities" struck a chord with a youth
> movement for whom hallucinogens were a sacrament and materialism and
> colonialism were regarded as proof of a morally bankrupt government. The
> book, with its indiginous anti-hero and drug-induced epiphanies, became a
> bestseller, and the elusive Castaneda gained a worldwide following among
> those looking for alternatives to Western spirituality and materialism.
>
> Throughout the seventies and eighties, Castaneda continued to define Toltec
> sorcery in such books as A Separate Reality, Journey to Ixtlan, Tales of
> Power, and The Eagle's Gift. During this period, Castaneda's fierce
> insistence on privacy and anomymity was demonstrated when the only
> photographs he allowed for a Time magazine interview showed his hand
> covering his face. Following his last book, The Art of Dreaming, published
> in 1994, Castaneda surprised his fans by appearing in public at a number of
> seminars on "Tensegrity," a series of body movement excercises designed to
> facilitate entrance into nonordinary reality.
>
> If Castaneda's fans were legion, so were his critics, many of whom regarded
> his secrecy and intentional misinformation campaigns as proof of fraud. But
> though the factual accuracy of his accounts may have been the subject of
> heated debate, those who were moved by the passion and poetry of his writing
> showed little concern about what they regarded as academic nit-picking.
> Afterall, Castaneda was writing about realities the dominant culture denied
> existed, so criticism of his methods hardly seemed relevant. In an interview
> published in Magical Blend magazine in 1986, Castaneda suggested that it was
> impossible to judge his work from an objective stance, since "ordinary
> perception doesn't tell us the truth at all. The art of the wizard consists
> of destroy[ing] perceptive prejudices." Even when questioning his veracity,
> few critics could deny author Joyce Carol Oats' assesment of his books as
> "remarkable works of art."
>
> In its obituary, the Los Angeles Times called Castaneda the "God Father of
> the New Age," reflecting the author's own claim to having started a
> revolution of spirit. And, indeed, it's hard to find a New Age celebrity who
> won't admit to having been influenced by Castaneda's powerful prose and
> paradigm-busting philosophy. The gift he gave to a generation disillusioned
> by official lying, such as fabricated Viet Nam body counts, was hope-hope
> for freedom and a release from the mind-numbing materialism that passed
> itself off as the only reality.
>
> The Toltec perspective that Castaneda popularized has turned into a
> publishing boom, with new books by various authors coming out each season,
> many of whom also claim to have studied with don Juan Matus. It is an irony
> that Castaneda publicly disavowed these authors' claims that the Yaqui
> sorcerer returned from death to tutor them in the ways of Toltec sorcery,
> for it is they who will continue the Castaneda mystique. At the heart of
> Toltec teaching is the belief that death can be transcended, that the "man
> of knowledge" can pass into other realms with awareness intact and even, as
> they say of don Juan, return to teach others. Can it be doubted, then, that
> similar tales of Castaneda sightings can be far away?
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