The Active Side of Infinity

Name: The Active Side of Infinity
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Carlos Castaneda
ISBN: 9781980007968

Author: Carlos Castaneda

Narrator: Luis Moreno

Unabridged: 10 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/10/2018

Categories: Nonfiction, Body, Mind, & Spirit, Social Science, Native American Studies

Synopsis

"Ordinarily, events that change our path are impersonal affairs, and yet extremely personal. My teacher, don Juan Matsus, said this is guiding me as his apprentice to collect what I considered to be the memorable events of my life.. Don Juan described the total goal of the shamanistic knowledge that he handled as the preparation for facing the definitive journey: the journey that every human being has to take at the end of his life. He said that what modern man referred to vaguely as life after death was, for those shamans, a concrete region filled to capacity with practical affairs of a different order than the practical affairs of daily life, yet bearing a similar functional practicality. Don Juan considered that to collect the memorable in their lives was, for shamans, the preparation for their entrance into that concrete region, which they called the active side of infinity." In this book written immediately before his death, anthropologist and shaman Carlos Castaneda gives us his most autobiographical and intimately revealing work ever, the fruit of a lifetime of experience and perhaps the most moving volume in his oeuvre.

Reviews

Goodreads review by J.L.

Most of what is presented in one of Castaneda's later works, The Active Side of Infinity, had already been incorporated into earlier works like The Teachings of Don Juan or Journey to Ixtlan. What is different, despite the esoteric title, is that this work is not so much about sorcery or being a sha......more

Goodreads review by Ron

I clicked to review this book from the choices of writings by Casteneda, but really I'm "reviewing" all his books, especially the several early ones I read with great fear and fascination when they first came out. I never really got into the debate over whether they were "real" or not. To me, they w......more

Goodreads review by NEMO

what i find most incredible about Castaneda's works is that feedback from people mainly centers on if he even existed, if Don Juan is real, etc. it's like finding a planet of starving people, offering them not only a tomato, but the seeds and teaching folk how to grow them. then the starving masses ex......more

Goodreads review by Noah

This book had an immediate effect on me. After he describes the process of collecting memorable events, the recapitulation, and perhaps the part about assessing to whom you are indebted, I woke up one morning with an event from high school in my mind. It had only taken 19 years, but I finally unders......more