[muawiyah]

Carlos Castaneda's description of Juan's Yaqui experience was pretty much the same as that being reported with drugs that suppressed brain activity.

Is this simply a more formal scientific review of this far older discussion?

[ansel12]

It has been so many years since I speed read that book on a 30 minute bus ride that I couldn’t say.

[hinckley buzzard]

Carlos Casteneda was a fraud. He wrote his books as a lark beginning when he was a student at UCLA, pretending to have been mentored by an old Yaqui Indian in Mexico. He made a lot of hay out of them, including a degree in anthropology(of course). The books are a hoax, fictional. I knew Yaqui Indians in Tucson. They laughed at him. Think Ward Churchill, the mail order boxtop Indian from Colorado. Another bad joke on a university that deserves ridicule.

[Pelham]

Keep in mind that Carlos Castaneda invented Don Juan out of whole cloth.

“Don Juan” must have appeared to Carlos among the stacks of the UCLA library since their records show that’s where he was when his books claim he was in the desert eating peyote with the Yaquis. He got his knowledge from reading the accounts of others.