Sense of live

Carlos Castaneda

The Wheel of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico – In this book, Castaneda reveals a compelling new view of his apprenticeship with don Juan Matus, a Yaqui shaman from Sonora, Mexico. The book itself is a collection of quotations personally selected by the author from his body of work, and illuminated by his new commentaries. Accessible to both longtime readers and those just discovering Castaneda’s work, The Wheel of Time provides a powerful synthesis of what don Juan called the warriors’ way, a synthesis that radiates through the author’s own lifetime and beyond. What shows through in the quotations is the wheel of time. For the shamans of don Juan’s lineage, time was like a wheel composed of endless grooves, each of which extended infinitely. For them, our world of everyday life was but one such groove, and it was possible for them to literally jump grooves and enter entire new worlds of activity, other layers of time’to such an extent that the purpose of their movement can be felt even in our day.
This is a collection of wisdom gathered from North American natives. It is just as profound as the more well-known eastern paths (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism). Central is the image of the Warrior: one that sees, not just looks, one whose intentions and goals are clear. They look for the stable and constant, they are not interested in the fleeting. A Warrior is similar to a Nietschzean superhuman in that the striving is a goal in itself; whenver a goal is achieved the Warrior does not dwell but moves on. All actions must be firmly rooted in reality.
As in all paths of wisdom there are seeming contradictions: Warriors should understand what is really going on around them, but should not be lost in introspection. Maybe it is so that a Warrior must have the ability to extract the important from the important.

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Books of Carlos Castaneda

Carlos Castaneda