Remember Carlos Castenada, anyone?

[BikeWriter]

Inquiring minds want to know!

[amerikat]

1. I have heard that these lyrics are about Don Jaun Matus

They say there's a place down in Mexico

Where a man can fly over mountains and hills

And he don't need an airplane or some kind of engine

And he never will

Now you know it's a meaningless question

To ask if those stories are right

'Cause what matters most if the feeling

You get when you're hypnotized

[BikeWriter]

2. That does apply to what I recall of the books, Amerikat.

[amerikat]

5. Great books. 70's were a time of real revolution

Expanding minds. How the hell did we end up with the world turned up side down? and pubs running the show?

[BikeWriter]

8. I read the books avidly, though I was not into the drug scene.

I can relate to the mind expansion.

[Floogeldy]

3. Need Peyote

;)

[BikeWriter]

4. Hee hee hee! I suspected that. Religious purposes only, of course.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. Other...

Fuck him.

All the damn 'shrooms and buttons I did and I NEVER got a book deal.

And I saw more shit than he imagined. (I think I saw it, anyway...)

[BikeWriter]

9. Yeah, but could you fly?

:shrug:

[TreasonousBastard]

10. Damn sure thought I could.

[BikeWriter]

12. ROFLMFBO!

[WCGreen]

13. Combine Morphine and Adavan....

And I saw Drew Carey running the Rapture in Spanish.....

Books, Carlos....

I don't need no stinkin' books....

Although I did read them....

[BikeWriter]

20. Lol! You learned to fly sans lessons, huh?

[WCGreen]

21. Except I was on a hospital bed.....

It made the stay more entertaining, but, the straps and the tubes and all the other rigamoroll I could have done without....

I did fly though... what ever tid bit of reality I zeroed in on became my world for a while....

[BikeWriter]

23. Damn, no wonder you did it out of body, with all that holding you.

[WCGreen]

24. My doc came in everyday to see me....

He would ask me things....

When he asked me who was president and I replied "The Ass Hole"....

He smiles, squeezed my hand and said, "you're getting better....."

[BikeWriter]

27. ROFL! Good doctor!

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Didn't he play first base

for Colorado a couple years ago?

Or was it Arizona? Or the White Sox? Or Cleveland? :shrug:

Or was he a pitcher?




Or maybe he played hockey.

[BikeWriter]

11. Uh, I don't think so...

[bridgit]

14. he was the subject on many a day & night during a back pack trip...

to the southern tip of mexico, as well as one of my brother, Willy's, fav authors

[BikeWriter]

15. We used to discuss the books all night long over drinks, and...

other refreshments.

[bridgit]

17. my bro met him & did a little 'time' with him, has/had 2 of his books...

signed by him :-)

[BikeWriter]

19. That's very cool. I would love to have met him.

[Spider Jerusalem]

16. Yeah...he was exposed as a fraud, you know...

cribbed a lot of his stuff from the work of real anthropologists, and made most of the rest up.

[BikeWriter]

18. He must have been a quick study then, my ex thought him genuine...

...and she studied under a medicine man on a reservation.

[uppityperson]

22. and then he jumped....

gee, wonder if he survived, guess I'll have to buy book #? First few were good, during my young adult yrs. I wonder how they are now? Have you read any recently? :hi:

[BikeWriter]

26. It was years ago...

The ex had experienced similar experiences to Castenada with her tribal Shaman. She presented the books to me as real, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading them.

[trackfan]

25. I read and loved the books

I think they are made up out of whole cloth though - even the drug experience. He just found his writing niche and was very good at it.

[BikeWriter]

28. I enjoyed them. It was like a ride to alien places without a ship.

[Elidor]

29. That was some whacked out shit

Although there are pieces, here and there, of a very interesting cosmology, if you can sift through stuff like shooting arrows at imaginary enemies come to devour you. The Dark Ocean of Awareness is an awesome bit.

[BikeWriter]

30. Whacked out shit is one way of describing it, yes.

[seaglass]

31. My boyfriend and I were really into Castenada books back in the

70s.

It's funny you mention it because I had to keep a journal for my Religion class this semester and I was just thinking of a time when I was trying to travel in my sleep and had a OOBE. I didn't actually travel, just floated in the corner of my room but I definitely believe(d) it was possible. And no, I was not doing drugs.

[BikeWriter]

32. I've floated right through the attic of my house before...

Yes, I remember the books well.

[wildhorses]

33. could you please explain to me the difference between

"some" and "a few" :shrug:

[BikeWriter]

34. Okay, but first you have to have some a few drinks. :-)