Separate Reality
Conversations With Don Juan

We read and we read, and then, we encounter, well, A Separate Reality. Much depends on how we read. If we're too immersed in story, we miss the More, if we're to concerned with artificial criteria of evaluation, we miss the Value, if we're too bubbled in our cocoon-of-self we miss the Usefulness. Wi......more

Second Don Juan book. A little weaker than the first. Plus, there are hints of Hindu and Buddhist philosophy re-packaged as native American wisdom. Old wine in new [age] skins... But instead of reading these as the non-fiction they are marketed as, I am reading them as fantasies. That said, I love t......more

You can either view Castaneda's work as extremely well written psychedelic fiction prose or you can view it as a collection of vital truths that will help you live a better life. Either way you would be right in my opinion, and the fact that it is all most likely completely made up only makes the fi......more

This is the volume following Castaneda's revised doctoral dissertation, 'The Teachings of Don Juan' (1968), and preceding 'Journey to Ixtlan' (1972). The three were eventually issued as a cloth trilogy. I started the series in paperback, but found the trilogy soon after and purchased it, probably at......more

Don Juan had once told me that a man of knowledge had predilections. I asked him to explain his statement. "My predilection is to see," he said. "What do you mean by that?" "I like to see" he said, "because only by seeing can a man of knowledge know." "What kind of things do you see?" "Everything." "But I......more