You Only Live Twice - Details Magazineby Bruce Wagner : Details magazine. With his vision of a separate reality, Carlos Castaneda transfixed a.
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In a rare. interview, the legendary sorcerer talks to Bruce Wagner about don Juan, freedom. Carlos Castaneda doesn't live here anymore. After years of rigorous. He is. an empty man, a funnel, a teller of tales and stories; not really a man at all. He is the. last nagual, the cork in a centuries- -- old lineage of sorcerers whose triumph.
With the release of his ninth. The Art of Dreaming, he has surfaced- -- for a moment, and in his way. COMMON SENSE KILLSMy name is Carlos Castaneda. I would like you to do something today. I would. like you to suspend judgment. Please: don't come here armed with .
MUST READ - To help you prepare for US Visa Interview, here are the sample F1 Visa Interview Questions and Answers. If your dream is to study in the US, all starts. By Bruce Wagner : Details magazine. With his vision of a separate reality, Carlos Castaneda transfixed a generation. In a rare interview, the legendary sorcerer talks. Was James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces" an ex-junkie's con job, part of a proud literary tradition, or just the standard hype of an increasingly embattled.
Don't come that way. It's. useless. Today I want to ask you, just for an hour, to open yourself to the.
I'm going to present. Don't listen like honor students.
I've spoken to. honor students before; they're dead and arrogant. Common sense and.
We hold onto them with our teeth- -- that's the. I have not been available. I don't go and talk to people. For a moment, I'm here. A. month, maybe two . We're not insular, not just now. We. cannot be that way.
We have an indebtedness to pay to those who took the. We inherited this knowledge; don Juan told.
We want you to see there are weird, pragmatic options. I get exotic enjoyment at observing such. It is for my eyes only. I'm not needy; I don't need. I need you like I need a hole in the head. But I am a voyager, a. I navigate- -- out there.
I would like others to have the possibility. THIS WAY OUTThe navigator has spoken before groups in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and.
Florinda Donner- Grau, Taisha Abelar, and Carol Tiggs- -- have. In the last two years, Donner- Grau's and Abelar's books (in. Castaneda and their tutelage under don Juan Matus) have. Being- in- Dreaming and The Sorcerer's Crossing. The accounts of these two women are a phenomenological mother. They are also a. windfall, for never have readers of Castaneda had access to such direct. I am merely the Filipino chauffeur.
Donner- Grau. describes the collective consensus of these works as . One is struck by the.
The players, all Ph. D.'s from. UCLA's department of anthropology, are stupendous methodologists whose. I live this life: There is no gap between what I. I do. I am not here to pull your chain, or to be entertaining. What I. am going to talk about today are not my opinions- -- they are those of don Juan. Matus, the Mexican Indian who showed me this other world.
So don't be. offended! Juan Matus presented me with a working system backed by twenty. Without him I would be an old man, a book.
See, we always leave a. Did you know. it's in paperback? It's just been translated into. Russian. It's too cold . I gotta go to the.
While in. Arizona researching the medicinal properties of plants, he met a Yaqui Indian. The young fieldworker offered five dollars an hour for the. Juan Matus, his picturesque guide. The usher refused.
In payment for his services, don Juan. Castaneda's . Since then, he. A. title for the work might be The Disappearance of Carlos Castaneda. We. associate it with medieval absurdities: ritual, evil. I like 'warriorism' or. That's what sorcerers do they navigate.
Those strands formed . The sorcerers call the. It was not merely an apelike. Then what held. it back? The sorcerers' idea is we are entombed by social upbringing, tricked.
We go to. graves denying we are magical beings; our agenda is to service the ego. Before we know it, the battle is over- -- we die squalidly. Self. Don Juan Matus made an intriguing proposition: What. Castaneda redeployed his troops?
Would he gain enough energy to see a crack in the. And if he did, might he go through? The old Indian had hooked him on. For now, anyway- -- in private homes, ballet studios. They make pilgrimages from the world over: icons of New.
Awareness past, present, and future, energy groupies, shrinks and shamans. Deadheads, drummers, debunkers and lucid dreamers, scholars. Some will write books about him; the lazier ones, chapters. Others. will give seminars- -- that is, for a fee.
That's the. numinous finesse, he wrests savage tales of freedom and power like scarves. Ask me anything! What would you. What. was in it for them? THE ENORMOUS DOORThere is someone who goes into me unknown and waits for us to join her. She was with us, then vanished. Her. disappearance lasted ten years.
Where she went is inconceivable. It does not. yield to rationality. So please suspend judgment! We were going to have. COMMON SENSE KILLSCarol Tiggs went away. She was not living in the mountains of New Mexico, I. One day I was giving a lecture at the Phoenix Bookstore and she.
My heart jumped out of my shirt fomp fomp fomp. I kept talking. I took her outside. She became cagey and started. She had only vague recollections. She made jokes. There's a huge entry where I can hook you to. Her return gave us a new ring of power; she brought with. That's why we. are available at this moment.
Someone was introduced to Carol Tiggs at a. Lightning coming out of my tits?? Tell us his age and. Avedon take the picture.
Hasn't anyone told him that privacy is dead? In exchange for our total. There are things one would like to know- -- . Like where does he live? What did he think of. Sinatra's Duets? What has he done with the egregious profits from his books?
Was that really him. Michael Jordan and Edmund White at uptown Barneys? In the '7. 0s, a photo appeared in a. Time cover story (only the eyes were visible)- -- when the magazine learned the. Carlos. Castaneda was Margaret Mead. He has no interest in.
Bentleys, no ranches of turbaned devotees. Paris Vogue. There will be no Castaneda Institute, no Center.
Advanced Sorcery Studies, no Academy of Dreaming- -- no infomercials. Tantric sex. There will be no biographies and there will be no.
When he's invited to lecture, Castaneda receives no fee and offers to. The gate is usually a few dollars, to cover rental of the. I've tried to present an option- -- that awareness can be a medium for. I haven't been so convincing; they think I'm. If I were tall and handsome, things might be different- -- they. Big Daddy. People say, 'You're lying.' How could I be lying? I don't want anything from.
We'd like there to be consensus that there are. If there's consensus to grow wings then there'll be. With consensus comes mass; with mass there will be movement. If the sovereign social order. Their startling, epochal intent is to. Juan did twenty years before: as sheer energy.
Sorcerers call this somersault . After I became . He scared the living daylights out of. He was not what he pretended to be- -- he asked me to bed. That I'm. able to understand perfection, yet cannot attain my beliefs?
I am imperfect but. I told him: . And they live to. Millions of dollars go. I went to see he. I stood. Was she doing it to impress me?
I cannot be. shocked. Later, I cornered her in the kitchen.
Never to be alone.? Never to be alone? How horrendous. That's a shitty secret.
Either. one is true, yes! The ape is. insane, but also exquisite. Don Juan was a frigging ape- -- but he was in. He left the world, intact.
He became energy; he burned. Do you. want to live like your father? The answer was. .
How that haunted me. CRITICAL MASSI met with Castaneda and .
They're attractive and vibrantly youthful. The women. dress unobtrusively, with a touch of casual chic. You wouldn't notice them in a.
The. ad for Drambuie seemed particularly hideous: Inevitably, no matter how much. In one way or another, one day we become our parents. Instead. of resisting this notion, we invite you to celebrate this rite of passage with. Don Juan was laughing in his grave - -- or out of it, which.
Where was he anyway? The same place. Carol Tiggs came back from? If that were so, did that mean the old nagual was. In The Fire From Within Castaneda wrote that don. Juan and his party evanesced sometime in 1. It all seemed. clear when I was reading the books.
I searched my notes. I'd scrawled . Impatiently, I riffled through The Power of Silence, The Eagle's Gift. Journey to Ixtlan. Though there was much throughout I didn't understand, the. Why couldn't I hold any of it.
I let my mind drift. I thought about Donner- Grau and the Japanese monkeys. When I'd spoken to her on the phone.
Imo. Every anthropology student. Imo, the famous macaque. One day Imo spontaneously washed. Anthropologists might call this . He smiled broadly, shook my hand, and sat down.
I was. about to bring up the monkeys when he began to weep. The forehead crinkled. Soon he was gasping like a grouper. His lower lip twitched, wet and electrified. His arm. unfurled toward me, the hand palsied and trembling- -- then it opened like a. Little Shop of Horrors, as if to receive alms. He bore down on me in needy supplication.
So routinary, so weak. Masturbatory. We are sublime, but. We. cannot grab our window of opportunity, our 'cubic centimeter of chance.' How. We're too busy holding onto Mommy's hand.
Thinking how wonderful. We are not unique! The scenarios of our. Fuck it, we say. We are the ultimate cynics. That's how we live! In a gutter of warm shit. What have they done to.
That's what don Juan used to say. He used to ask me, 'How's the carrot?'. What do you mean?' 'The carrot they shoved up your ass.' I was terribly. That's when he said, 'Be grateful they. We don't want to leave- -- we hate to say goodbye. And we. worry- -- ooo- fa, how we worry- -- twenty- six hours a day!
And what do you. think we worry about? What's in it for me? What's gonna happen to me? Such. egomania! So horrendous.
But fascinating! There are studies; nothing will make him drop that seed. The hand will. cling even after you hack off the arm- -- we die holding onto mierda. That cannot be; That's too. We have to learn how to let go. We collect memories and paste. Broadway show ten years ago. We die holding. onto souvenirs.
To be a sorcerer is to have the energy, curiosity, and guts to. We must see ourselves as beings who are going to die.
Once you. accept that, worlds open up for you. But to embrace this definition, you must.