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Anthropologist Carlos Cesar Arana Castaneda (December 25, 1925-April 27, 1998)

Artist Illustration of Carlos Castaneda

Seeing and Taking Castaneda Seriously

According to scholar Benjamin Epstein in his 1996 Psychology Today journal article and interview with Anthropologist Carlos Castaneda, he was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Christmas Day in 1931, but immigration records show an earlier date of December 25, 1925 in Cajamarca, Peru. He was educated at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and earned his B.A. in 1962 and his Ph.D. in 1970. Carlos Castaneda was a controversial author of a series of books that recounted his training in traditional Native American Shamanism. The Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness founded in 1984 by Joseph Long states: "Castaneda, aquiring fame from his publications with the academically respectable publishers Simon and Shuster, arguably, with the exception of Margaret Mead, was the only junior scholar whose name was know to the general public" Stephen A. Swartz. This was a reflection of a controversy, fueled by envy and quite possibly contempt, that is still present today, that of the teachings of Don Juan Matus "exposed a world view of an aspect of human consciousness independent of time and space and susceptable to control" and that there is an "interconnection between all life forms, and to be properly understood the human connection and spirituality it must mature" Stephen A. Swartz.

Paths to Explanation

*Short Plot Summary
Journey to Ixtlan: the Lessons of Don Juan

Themes

Analysis and Application

*Language and the Metaphysical

*Negative Mysticism and the Postmodern

*The Sourcerers Last Trick: Self Knowledge

Remarks

Correspondance and Controversy

Criticisms

Reviews

Major Works

Books:
The Teachings of Don Juan:A Yaqui Way of Knowledge (1968)
A Seperate Reality (1971)
Journey to Ixtlan (1972)
Tales of Power (1974)
The Second Ring of Power (1977)
The Eagle's Gift (1981)
The Fire From Within (1984)
The Power of Silence (1984)
The Art of Dreaming (1994)
Magical Passes (1998)
The Active Side of Infinity (1998)
Sorcerer's Apprentice (2001)
The Wheel of Time (2001)

Websites and Referenced Materials

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Educational level: this is a tertiary (university) resource.

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 =='''Seeing and Taking Castaneda Seriously'''==
-According to scholar Benjamin Epstein in his 1996 Psychology Today journal article and interview with Anthropologist Carlos Castaneda, he was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Christmas Day in 1931, but immigration records show an earlier date of December 25, 1925 in Cajamarca, Peru. He moved to the United States in the early 1950s and became a naturalized citizen in 1957. He was educated at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and earned his B.A. in 1962 and his Ph.D. in 1970. Carlos Castaneda was a controversial author of a series of books that recounted his training in traditional Native American Shamanism. The Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness founded in 1984 by Joseph Long states: "Castaneda, aquiring fame from his publications with the academically respectable publishers Simon and Shuster, arguably, with the exception of Margaret Mead, was the only junior scholar whose name was know to the general public" [http://www.sacaaa.org/Boulders_in_the_Stream.pdf Stephen A. Swartz]. This was a reflection of a controversy, fueled by envy and quite possibly contempt, that is still present today, that of the teachings of Don Juan Matus "exposed a world view of an aspect of human consciousness independent of time and space and susceptable to control" and that there is an "interconnection between all life forms, and to be properly understood the human connection and spirituality it must mature" [http://www.sacaaa.org/Boulders_in_the_Stream.pdf Stephen A. Swartz].
+According to scholar Benjamin Epstein in his 1996 Psychology Today journal article and interview with Anthropologist Carlos Castaneda, he was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Christmas Day in 1931, but immigration records show an earlier date of December 25, 1925 in Cajamarca, Peru. He was educated at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and earned his B.A. in 1962 and his Ph.D. in 1970. Carlos Castaneda was a controversial author of a series of books that recounted his training in traditional Native American Shamanism. The Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness founded in 1984 by Joseph Long states: "Castaneda, aquiring fame from his publications with the academically respectable publishers Simon and Shuster, arguably, with the exception of Margaret Mead, was the only junior scholar whose name was know to the general public" [http://www.sacaaa.org/Boulders_in_the_Stream.pdf Stephen A. Swartz]. This was a reflection of a controversy, fueled by envy and quite possibly contempt, that is still present today, that of the teachings of Don Juan Matus "exposed a world view of an aspect of human consciousness independent of time and space and susceptable to control" and that there is an "interconnection between all life forms, and to be properly understood the human connection and spirituality it must mature" [http://www.sacaaa.org/Boulders_in_the_Stream.pdf Stephen A. Swartz].
 ==Paths to Explanation==

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