1968 The Teachings of Don Juan - (Summer 1960 to October 1965.) 1971 A Separate Reality - (April 1968 to October 1970.) 1972 Journey to Ixtlan - (Summer 1960 to May 1971.) 1974 Tales of Power - (Autumn 1971 to the 'Final Meeting' with Don Juan in 1973.) 1977 The Second Ring of Power - (Meeting his fellow apprentices after the 'Final Meeting'.) 1981 The Eagle's Gift - (Continuing with his fellow apprentices; and then alone with La Gorda.) 1984 The Fire From Within - (Second Attention' teachings through to the 'Final Meeting' in 1973.) 1987 The Power of Silence - (The 'Abstract Cores' of Don Juan's lessons.) 1993 The Art of Dreaming - (Review of Don Juan's lessons in dreaming.) 1998 Magical Passes - (Body movements for breaking the barriers of normal perception.) 1998 The Wheel of Time - (Selected quotations from the first 8 books.) 1999 The Active Side of Infinity - (Memorable events of his life.)
I appreciate you posting these professionally read versions. Castaneda was as in DEAD from pancreatic cancer a shyster. A con man. Too bad he screwed so many people 😪
Read The Sorcerers Apprentice dude. I was an impressionable kid once. Sewing up the eyes of a lizard with a thorn the size of a pencil. POPPYCOCK! ONE LIE MEANS ALL LIES
When I lose my way, I touch base with Castaneda's first 4 books. Fact or fiction, they help. Thanks to whoever is responsible for letting these be posted here.
Watchful Eagleson I recommend you read Marielalero an Argentinian author who channels all the information. She is in tune with what Castañeda learned from Don Juan Matus but in a different manner. This is, if you speak spanish, or italian. Love and laughs on your journey.
@@asdeluzwho is he/she channeling? A dead person? Or what? The only thing is channeling is not 100% accurate, so I'd never trust that. I listen to Don Juan bc much of what he says is common knowledge in Mexico, it's info passed down thru family, traditions, etc. In my ranch/pueblo we know of this and people actually go hunting for brujos who turn into animals (they are a Nahual), when they kill the animal, it turns back into a human, then they know the identity of the human, it could be a neighbor, person people knew or had seen. This is seen more in ranches, small cities, more remote areas. They also look out for big huge birds, those are seen and hunted for especially in the Sierra Madre of Mexico.
My mom hit the ceiling when my brother gave this book @ thirteen. She said, "what are doing giving her this book, my God, don't give her any ideas! I loved it then and I love it now, more than ever! I'm 65 and gone on retreat where we participated in a 3day ayahuaska ceremony. It completely changed who I thought I was! Psychedelics are now being used here in Oregon under therapy purposes. Big Pharma isn't happy...
@@JoseRamirez-xs5lq I haven’t done it but I’m in a place where it’s not convenient to do it and if I was on the fence about real possibility of going I would take it. Just want to encourage you based on many stories I’ve listened to. Look up some of Aubrey Marcus videos on it. I would go with a prepared heart and mind of humility and trust in the healing of anything that comes up that needs healed within, surrender to the experience and in the words of Matias De Stefano tell the spirit or ayahuasca that you will not resist at all within your cellular and you are here to do the work. Of course the purging effect and idea of an ego-death feeling so much like a real-death of the persona during the experience is daunting but trust in your spirit and be thankful for whatever you are ready to see. Hope this helps, I am speaking without any experience but one day I think it will be presented to me in life as well! Integrate the knowledge and live a life of love wherever you have been placed in life. 🖤🤙🏼✌🏼
The trilogy of Carlos Casteneda absolutely changed my perception of this reality we call life. Undeniably the greatest journey I have been on in this life
@@drummerboy1390how can anyone know for sure whether or not it was fiction or not? the things described in his books are accurate accounts of animistic cultures from the Americas to Asia. even if he just compiled information from UCLA's library, the information in his books are not garbage.
@@drummerboy1390i used to hate fiction (and i am very logically minded) until i discovered part of the reality of this world. Through the studies of psychology, chemistry, and epigenetics its very clear to me that everything has interconnection. Think about where your thoughts come from? If you have english internal dialogue its because you were first taught in english. Everything is constantly influencing each other while you are influencing the world. No matter how small you are in this world you have very powerful influence as you have in fact the ability to change the entire system. They call that the butterfly effect and also this falls under the mirror principle of the microcosm and macrocosm relationship. Everything in life is symbolic. Numbers and labels are symbols representing things. So when you read fiction or even look at the world through your local perspective; there will be symbols that only mean something to you regarding your local consciousness. . . . that is if you pay attention. Numerology is real but it does not work like most people think as if you were to get something accurate the outcome will alter due to the idea of quantum entanglement were if you look at one side of the quantum entangled particles, the other side will change as well. So when you read fiction; do not read it as just a story; look at it with a different lense. Most people would describe that lense as a spiritual lense but this is very vague. I say look at it through a symbolic lense and with your local perspective and local information center (subconsious) try to decode the messages you read in it. Symbols are in everything so once you realize this you will be mind blown to what you can figure out. We are creatures of habit so when we do something first thats alien to us, do not expect to be good at it first. With practice you can get good at this. I study the occult and im shocked i have not found this book yet even though i found all the other obscure alchemy books. From my studies the idea i have is that your heart is very significant and i find it more significant than our brain. Every practice ive read about mentions your center or heart; also the common thing i find is practices around mountains or something emulating that geometry like a pyramid structure.
I was introduced to this first of Castaneda's book in 1974. What a trip. Have read them all twice, the last time being about 25 years ago. Am listening to the audio books this time around.
I read several of his books back in the 70s. A lot of them were rehashed ( pardon the pun) versions of his first major bestseller. However the stories have stayed with me all these years....and here I am again, listening this time.
I only just read these in 1971, when I was 16. I'd already experimented with Marijuana by then, and i was eager for information about other drugs, particularly psychedelics. Much to my teenage suprise, I found myself fascinated with Don Juan's lessons, and Carlos insight and perceptions. I worked hard with myself trying to become an impeccable warrior, and had some fleeting success until the realities of life in rural Illinois came crashing in. The pressures of adulthood, and some familial responsabilities forced me to push my personal journey to a back burner. Since I have recently retired, I've rediscovered thedesire to understand and master, as much as I can, these practices.
Ah, the hippy life... including a mind also liberated from non-sense, to linger in such Sensibility. One notices a readiness, suddenly dancing about in the open, right here as if this immediacy of things as they are is kindly sharing the moment while the music motions such Silence.
Much the same journey for me mate. Realities dualities got in the way of an impeccable journey but now I've got the opportunity to get back on the path and coming to grips with the four enemies of man/woman. May you find what's for you and may your journey be an impeccable one.
Back in the 70s when I was 14 I started reading the Don Juan books. My older brother had the first three books which were all that had been published at that point. I read them all ravenously. I enjoyed the narration format especially, the format of personal narrative, which to this day is my favorite writing style, whether I’m reading something or writing it myself. On another note, in 1973 Fleetwood Mac released an album titled Mystery To Me, which I purchased and listened to extensively. One track was titled Hypnotized, and there are some lyrics that seem to refer to Don Juan : They say there’s a place down in Mexico where a man can fly over mountains and hills. He don’t need an airplane or some kind of engine, and he never will…
If you are reading this, continue with your path of being a warrior. Get rid of your ego and self importance. for too long I have been fake, trying to be someone I wasn't. Self actualization my friends. Love is the strongest
When I was about 8-9 yrs old I picked up two books from Don Carlos Castañeda from my aunt’s private books she had hidden. Started reading one of them. I was told a good catholic child could not be allowed to read such books. My aunt was a nun. And my grandmother a medicine Women, and my uncles brujos! Many, many years later, I am listening now and thinking…you can delay an event but you can’t stop destiny. 😂 😂
I bought this book in 1979 because a friend suggested for me to read. It was mind blowing and we talked about it. Very entertaining. Listening to it today bring back those memories. Real or not is a magical journey.
As a seeker I tried reading his books and they didn't make any sense to me and I put it down and left it alone for years...then one day it slid in front of me and I picked it up and reread it and it made perfect sense,,,many things have happened to me since I first gained the understanding of what he said,,,many allies have made their presence and offers to become friends yet I always refused,,,then other powers made their offers and they were accepted...life is no longer the same...Don Juan taught sorcery and my path is one that is much higher and escapes the traps of this plane...but I was sorely tempted many times to accept what he taught...there are higher paths that I strongly recommend...the mysterys are often the same just interpreted differently
The fact that the jesuits were a great influence on the minds/ perspectives and intents surrounding them. I am cautious of following others in the first place.
I loved these books as a teenager in the 70s. I didnt care if it was fantasy, and had zero interest in drugs. I loved his descriptions of the desert landscape and creatures. Some of it still moves me to tears, like Don Juan recalling the d--th of his son. I still don't care how much was fact or fiction. Wonderful books.
If nobody is important, then why does anyone care if someone else gets angry? Wouldn't you find yourself to be important if you have the audacity to tell others to "calm down"? 🤔
@@amyrenee1361 Thats not the moral of the message. The moral of the message is that in any given situation you are not more important than what is presented to you. If you were surviving out in the wilderness and you got angry at every little query instead of adapting you would die. Anger is the same as indulgence. Its useless and a luxury only afforded to people who are not in balance with their environment.
I first found this work in the first year of community college after my ets from the army. A massive perspective shift and interesting lifelong path resulted from reading one book.
This is an extraordinary story. The only way I can relate is with my own experiences with astral projection. I also realize that anything involving the death of the ego as a means to journey is a discipline much like a martial art there are certain steps that must be taken to achieve a certain goal and the skill to elevate to the following level.
They're 2 books in my life that open me to benefits of sorrow and joy and my "life". This one and Way of the Peaceful Warrior. Required reading at any age.
When I was around 12 I knew some older dudes way into CC's books Trying to see One guy almost moved to the desert/ Mexico I just read and reread for the great stories and beautiful writing
I read some of these books longer ago than I can remember. But finding myself in total darkness and on Strange Land I remembered the power walk and raising my feet high I drove forward knowing I could overcome any obstacle. It had worked in the past. I stepped over a small cliff and landed on my face, I looked up into the face of a very large gnarly dog. I told him, don't laugh at me! And by the time I got to My Feet Again he had disappeared. I went back into the house and told of what I had seen. No one had a dog but there was supposed to be a big one roaming around and fighting people. I guess I scared the hell out of that dog it. I'm taking a break at the beginning of chapter 3. And you remembering what I read in the past
I didn't knew that this book is this long. I listened to a 2 hour 30 mins version 6 months ago. Now I'll listen to this whole things. I find it very fascinating
I really hope you are aware of the other ten books equally as long and so much more fascinating that compared to journey to ixtlan, for example, this is just 10 hours of dumb drug use.
@@Bradley_UA That's why I read these books in the first place . Came for that , stayed for the philosophy. Eat a schroom , maybe you'll learn something .
@@Bradley_UA not dumb. I liked how Don Juan explained it later to Carlos: "When you came to me, you were so thick you needed to use lots of drugs to get out of it and open up a little."
I didn't know either, I only had the thin edition in paper form, and now when I searched for it as audio, i found that (that's the 2 and half hour one, I assume) first, and then I looked at this one and was surprised to see it's 9 hours.
This is the first book I listened to that I actually could follow along with and not get bored or zone out thinking about multiple things at once an not having to rewind it to hear what was said..I wish I had new what I know now about tripping on a hallucinogen I looked at it as just getting high but now I understand that there is more to it then just getting high and having a good time..
6:41:22 That “COME HERE” was fantastically done in my opinion. I don’t know rather or not that effect behind the voice was organic or inserted after reading, but it really gave me the feeling of a movie being narrated in my head.
I Started with tales of power and began dreaming almost instantly. The nagual is well known in mexico, and as I young child I remember seeing a "nagual" what they call a possessed animal. But it's full of superstition because of the European persecution of the natives beliefs to convert them into pegan worshipers. That's what really got me searching the real meaning of a nagual. Now I know we all have a nagual and tonal. And it cannot possibly be demonic or evil.
The art of dreaming is a favorite ... the dream within the dream while being aware your dreaming yet trying to remember your dreaming quite the rabbit hole !
Book cover artists were usually called on to produce sometimes many covers a week just to make a decent wage which might explain why the crow's feet are the wrong way round. Unless it's an in-joke. Thanks uploader by the way. Edit: Luis Moreno's narration is brilliant throughout, though he deserves a special medal for reading through the tortuous second part of the book in which Carlos breaks down the process he had gone through up to that point in his painstaking technical systematic way, a predilection that later is joked about in the following books.
I can See lots of comments here about the author being a fraud and his books nothing but nonsense, perhaps his writings may be just fiction and Don Juan may have never existed. Regardless anyone who has had contact with these indigenous beliefs can recognize common elements and the value that they bear to the people who abide by this belief system, the power to bring peace to people and offer them ways out of their own erroneous thinking, their problems and sufferings through storytelling is indeed pure magic, and those who undervalue it are missing the point of it all
I’m Yaqui, and Carlos Castaneda created Don Juan. When people find out I’m Yaqui, they often light up and enthuse that they’ve read Castaneda. When I tell them the truth, that he never existed, they look like I just kicked their favorite dog. The things he wrote here do not match with Yaqui customs and culture. Enjoy the books if you wish, but know that these books are crafted fiction, and Don Juan is a fictional character that doesn’t reflect Yaqui spiritual beliefs. When these books were written the internet didn’t exist, and hippy drug culture and gurus were all the rage, and he could get away with choosing an “obscure” tribe to attribute his stories to. Today we would call that appropriation, then he called it anthropology.
fwiw, Juan said that being a Yaqi was incidental, being Yaqi had nothing to do with his being a "man of knowledge" of his lineage. as I remember the books, the connection between the Yaqi and Juan's abilities was Carlos's own supposition despite Juan's words. ❤ edit: we're/are the Yaqi obscure? I grew up as an Anglo in Pennsylvania but have heard of the Yaqi from more than one source over the years other than Castaneda's books.
@@john-ic5pz I read the first book out of curiosity years ago, and I don’t remember where he said his “knowledge” came from. I think if he stated or implied that this knowledge was unrelated to his being Yaqui then, that is somewhat disingenuous, as 1-The subtitle of the book is, “A Yaqui way of knowledge,” and 2-This type of “knowledge” also doesn’t reflect on most of the other types of spiritual beliefs in the region. Remember, this predates the internet etc. At the time of Castaneda’s writing we were definitely a more obscure tribe as compared to, say, Navajo, Sioux, Aztec or Cherokee. The books did bring a certain notoriety. In my personal experience almost everyone who has known about my tribe, upon asking me where I “come from,” sole knowledge about Yaquis was Don Juan. I’ve never had a single person know anything else about Yaqui culture. (I am excluding those who live in the immediate area of pueblos etc.) Do they know any Yaqui spiritual beliefs, language, or other notables from Yaqui history? Sadly, no.
I heard about this years ago, it is I suppose possible that Don Juan existed but that Castaneda altered / obscured his ethnic details to protect his teacher's actual cultural heritage. As you say this was long before the internet so for most westerners calling out one tribe rather than another would have made little difference to them. It must though be rather tiresome for the one thing people to "know" about your tribe be completely bogus. I am interested though did you enjoy the story otherwise? And is there anything that you would recommend by way of reading about your own culture??
Back in the day I tried reading these books because all my cool friends were. Seemed an attempt to spiritualize drug-seeker meeting drug guru with lots of manipulation on both sides. I put it down, destined to be uncool my entire life. Listened to this and still don't get it, but thanks for making it available.
Hi there, I myself had no inttention on doing any kind of drug since I found an idea that helped a lot really a lot and more than expected to push my whole self into understanding on why the mind behaves like a random crazy emotional beign, and that idea I found is in the book from Castaneda called The Active Side of Infinite, specifically chapter 8. Wow, what I found there helped like nothing else before, well of course I believe on how the power of belief makes miracles
Peter Coyote 🐺 does an exceptional job here. All his voice narrations of Carlos' books are exceptional. Enjoy. 'We are all just walking each other home'. ~Ramm Das
If one chews grapefruit while chewing peyote one cannot taste anything but the grapefruit and it is quit pleasant tasting.The grapefruit completely takes away any bitterness one experiences .😊.But beware of doors that may open up that stay open for awhile.😮
Yes I read the books learned tensegrity for years. Until Castaneda's girl friend of many years wrote a book called "Sorcerer's Aprentice" her name is Amy Wallace
After doing ayahuasca I can confirm that plants do have spirit, and they are teachers. Though it’s impossible to believe before going through a ceremony.
did you ever try to stop the world? breath meditation also stops the internal dialogue in our heads and many amazing things are possible from that state, some of which I've experienced, others I've seen first hand and others verified by a handful of "shamans",for lack of a better word, during my ten year search for traditional knowledge of all kinds in SE Asia & Oceana. ❤
hmmm.... only smokable mushrooms i know of that gives effects is amanita muscaria, psilocybin does not stick to the mucus smoking it would be useless, makes me wonder what this smoking blend really was.
thank you thank you thank you. i was looking for the audio books. love the readings by Moreno. Can you please put all the audio books if you have. i am sure they will get flagged but i will try download them as fast as i can. again, this is awesome.
@@ronalddaub9740 I am a Auditory learner. Also helps me practice concentrate on the words. Also , I play it on the big screen tv and turn on close captions.
There are better ways than "medicine" to find your guide. He explains in the beginning if knowledge is what you're actually looking for. Your mind is a tool, not a master. Medicine allows your mind to become your master
I was reading the 5th or 6th book of the series and i realized the book had to have been written by someone else. The whole tone was wrong. The style. I threw it away. Its amazing how much cache a person can use based just upon a fancy name. If he'd used Dick Smith i doubt anyone would have read it.
Somewhere between Tales and Second Ring, I realized Carlos was just making it up. I'm sure he had some very interesting experiences, and he turned those experiences into a stories, then into books. The stories were fun, but not more relevant to my life than Perls or Ram Das or Watts. When you follow gurus, you lose. Create your own reality.
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1968 The Teachings of Don Juan - (Summer 1960 to October 1965.)
1971 A Separate Reality - (April 1968 to October 1970.)
1972 Journey to Ixtlan - (Summer 1960 to May 1971.)
1974 Tales of Power - (Autumn 1971 to the 'Final Meeting' with Don Juan in 1973.)
1977 The Second Ring of Power - (Meeting his fellow apprentices after the 'Final Meeting'.)
1981 The Eagle's Gift - (Continuing with his fellow apprentices; and then alone with La Gorda.)
1984 The Fire From Within - (Second Attention' teachings through to the 'Final Meeting' in 1973.)
1987 The Power of Silence - (The 'Abstract Cores' of Don Juan's lessons.)
1993 The Art of Dreaming - (Review of Don Juan's lessons in dreaming.)
1998 Magical Passes - (Body movements for breaking the barriers of normal perception.)
1998 The Wheel of Time - (Selected quotations from the first 8 books.)
1999 The Active Side of Infinity - (Memorable events of his life.)
I appreciate you posting these professionally read versions. Castaneda was as in DEAD from pancreatic cancer a shyster. A con man. Too bad he screwed so many people 😪
@@elgato9534 The only shyster con man here is you. Just listen to yourself. You're carrying wayyy too much self importance. 😪
Sigh... before you get mad at me read The Sorcerers Apprentice. If you can take the truth. I was a dummy once too.
Read The Sorcerers Apprentice dude. I was an impressionable kid once. Sewing up the eyes of a lizard with a thorn the size of a pencil. POPPYCOCK! ONE LIE MEANS ALL LIES
@@elgato9534 WHo said anything about being mad? Im just pointing out the truth lol
When I lose my way, I touch base with Castaneda's first 4 books. Fact or fiction, they help. Thanks to whoever is responsible for letting these be posted here.
Sounds like a perfect way to check in with yourself.
Kind of like a mini tune - up 🤗
I've only gotten to the third book, may I ask why you "only" read the first 4?
Watchful Eagleson I recommend you read Marielalero an Argentinian author who channels all the information. She is in tune with what Castañeda learned from Don Juan Matus but in a different manner. This is, if you speak spanish, or italian. Love and laughs on your journey.
@@asdeluzwho is he/she channeling? A dead person? Or what? The only thing is channeling is not 100% accurate, so I'd never trust that. I listen to Don Juan bc much of what he says is common knowledge in Mexico, it's info passed down thru family, traditions, etc. In my ranch/pueblo we know of this and people actually go hunting for brujos who turn into animals (they are a Nahual), when they kill the animal, it turns back into a human, then they know the identity of the human, it could be a neighbor, person people knew or had seen. This is seen more in ranches, small cities, more remote areas. They also look out for big huge birds, those are seen and hunted for especially in the Sierra Madre of Mexico.
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My mom hit the ceiling when my brother gave this book @ thirteen. She said, "what are doing giving her this book, my God, don't give her any ideas! I loved it then and I love it now, more than ever! I'm 65 and gone on retreat where we participated in a 3day ayahuaska ceremony. It completely changed who I thought I was! Psychedelics are now being used here in Oregon under therapy purposes. Big Pharma isn't happy...
I'm interested in the details of the retreat
Where?
How much $?
Was the ceremony done in a traditional way?
@@KRSNALOKO813 They have these retreats everywhere...from Central America through all of S.America...
Just do your research and be careful,..
How was the ceremony?? I'm on the fence.
@@JoseRamirez-xs5lq I haven’t done it but I’m in a place where it’s not convenient to do it and if I was on the fence about real possibility of going I would take it. Just want to encourage you based on many stories I’ve listened to. Look up some of Aubrey Marcus videos on it. I would go with a prepared heart and mind of humility and trust in the healing of anything that comes up that needs healed within, surrender to the experience and in the words of Matias De Stefano tell the spirit or ayahuasca that you will not resist at all within your cellular and you are here to do the work. Of course the purging effect and idea of an ego-death feeling so much like a real-death of the persona during the experience is daunting but trust in your spirit and be thankful for whatever you are ready to see. Hope this helps, I am speaking without any experience but one day I think it will be presented to me in life as well! Integrate the knowledge and live a life of love wherever you have been placed in life. 🖤🤙🏼✌🏼
@@KRSNALOKO813 GOOGLE
I never go searching for these types of books they somehow find me
Same and weird AF
The trilogy of Carlos Casteneda absolutely changed my perception of this reality we call life. Undeniably the greatest journey I have been on in this life
He wrote much more than 3 books. 12 if I remember correctly.
All fiction.
@@drummerboy1390how can anyone know for sure whether or not it was fiction or not?
the things described in his books are accurate accounts of animistic cultures from the Americas to Asia. even if he just compiled information from UCLA's library, the information in his books are not garbage.
@@drummerboy1390i used to hate fiction (and i am very logically minded) until i discovered part of the reality of this world. Through the studies of psychology, chemistry, and epigenetics its very clear to me that everything has interconnection.
Think about where your thoughts come from? If you have english internal dialogue its because you were first taught in english. Everything is constantly influencing each other while you are influencing the world. No matter how small you are in this world you have very powerful influence as you have in fact the ability to change the entire system. They call that the butterfly effect and also this falls under the mirror principle of the microcosm and macrocosm relationship.
Everything in life is symbolic. Numbers and labels are symbols representing things.
So when you read fiction or even look at the world through your local perspective; there will be symbols that only mean something to you regarding your local consciousness. . . . that is if you pay attention.
Numerology is real but it does not work like most people think as if you were to get something accurate the outcome will alter due to the idea of quantum entanglement were if you look at one side of the quantum entangled particles, the other side will change as well.
So when you read fiction; do not read it as just a story; look at it with a different lense. Most people would describe that lense as a spiritual lense but this is very vague. I say look at it through a symbolic lense and with your local perspective and local information center (subconsious) try to decode the messages you read in it.
Symbols are in everything so once you realize this you will be mind blown to what you can figure out. We are creatures of habit so when we do something first thats alien to us, do not expect to be good at it first. With practice you can get good at this.
I study the occult and im shocked i have not found this book yet even though i found all the other obscure alchemy books.
From my studies the idea i have is that your heart is very significant and i find it more significant than our brain. Every practice ive read about mentions your center or heart; also the common thing i find is practices around mountains or something emulating that geometry like a pyramid structure.
@@drummerboy1390 The whole point of the teaching is-to awaken to the realization that reality is a kind of fiction. I take it you learned well :)
Raise your hand if you read this back in the day....
This is the first time I've ever heard of it, but I'm happy to have found it.
2005 for me at 15
I was 15. 1975 and working in a public library. I shelved Journey to Ixtlan, and discovered the trilogy. These books changed my life forever.
I was introduced to this first of Castaneda's book in 1974. What a trip. Have read them all twice, the last time being about 25 years ago. Am listening to the audio books this time around.
I read several of his books back in the 70s. A lot of them were rehashed ( pardon the pun) versions of his first major bestseller. However the stories have stayed with me all these years....and here I am again, listening this time.
I only just read these in 1971, when I was 16. I'd already experimented with Marijuana by then, and i was eager for information about other drugs, particularly psychedelics. Much to my teenage suprise, I found myself fascinated with Don Juan's lessons, and Carlos insight and perceptions.
I worked hard with myself trying to become an impeccable warrior, and had some fleeting success until the realities of life in rural Illinois came crashing in.
The pressures of adulthood, and some familial responsabilities forced me to push my personal journey to a back burner.
Since I have recently retired, I've rediscovered thedesire to understand and master, as much as I can, these practices.
Ah, the hippy life... including a mind also liberated from non-sense, to linger in such Sensibility. One notices a readiness, suddenly dancing about in the open, right here as if this immediacy of things as they are is kindly sharing the moment while the music motions such Silence.
Much the same journey for me mate.
Realities dualities got in the way of an impeccable journey but now I've got the opportunity to get back on the path and coming to grips with the four enemies of man/woman.
May you find what's for you and may your journey be an impeccable one.
Back in the 70s when I was 14 I started reading the Don Juan books. My older brother had the first three books which were all that had been published at that point. I read them all ravenously. I enjoyed the narration format especially, the format of personal narrative, which to this day is my favorite writing style, whether I’m reading something or writing it myself.
On another note, in 1973 Fleetwood Mac released an album titled Mystery To Me, which I purchased and listened to extensively. One track was titled Hypnotized, and there are some lyrics that seem to refer to Don Juan :
They say there’s a place down in Mexico where a man can fly over mountains and hills. He don’t need an airplane or some kind of engine, and he never will…
If you are reading this, continue with your path of being a warrior. Get rid of your ego and self importance. for too long I have been fake, trying to be someone I wasn't. Self actualization my friends. Love is the strongest
Aho
@Rob even in Tales of Power, Don Juan was quoted saying "I am a stockholder" (that too in a custom suit).
@@tinyrockyplanet8953thank you
My mom gave me this book at a very young age too. She had the complete series. Consumed them. It has been a strong foundation in my life's direction.
This is, IMO, by far the most useful of the Castaneda books. Extremely worthwhile book.
When I was about 8-9 yrs old I picked up two books from Don Carlos Castañeda from my aunt’s private books she had hidden. Started reading one of them. I was told a good catholic child could not be allowed to read such books. My aunt was a nun. And my grandmother a medicine Women, and my uncles brujos! Many, many years later, I am listening now and thinking…you can delay an event but you can’t stop destiny. 😂 😂
Lol she was a nun but she secretly read Castaneda 😆 😶🌫️
😮
Yeah oops sorry for that 🎉🎉😅
I love this 40 years later
Me too
I lived those books in the mountains of Mexico
xD same. im only rereading it 18 year later
but taht would be having self importance
and now narcisitic about braging that i notice my self importance
I bought this book in 1979 because a friend suggested for me to read. It was mind blowing and we talked about it. Very entertaining. Listening to it today bring back those memories. Real or not is a magical journey.
As a seeker I tried reading his books and they didn't make any sense to me and I put it down and left it alone for years...then one day it slid in front of me and I picked it up and reread it and it made perfect sense,,,many things have happened to me since I first gained the understanding of what he said,,,many allies have made their presence and offers to become friends yet I always refused,,,then other powers made their offers and they were accepted...life is no longer the same...Don Juan taught sorcery and my path is one that is much higher and escapes the traps of this plane...but I was sorely tempted many times to accept what he taught...there are higher paths that I strongly recommend...the mysterys are often the same just interpreted differently
Yes, I think I understand higher path possibilities. Feel free to share a hint of these higher paths…like a book. ;)
@@mariosarmiento3063 'kabbalah magick and the great work of self transformation' by Lyam Thomas Christopher
The fact that the jesuits were a great influence on the minds/ perspectives and intents surrounding them. I am cautious of following others in the first place.
Can I email you or something?
What a treasure you are for this. Thank you.
I loved these books as a teenager in the 70s. I didnt care if it was fantasy, and had zero interest in drugs. I loved his descriptions of the desert landscape and creatures. Some of it still moves me to tears, like Don Juan recalling the d--th of his son. I still don't care how much was fact or fiction. Wonderful books.
Hell yes exclamation point I'm listening to it over
Read his series years ago, some more then once. They lay tattered in a cupboard now. Listening to them is a special treat.
"The root of all anger is self-importance." That kinda made me get over myself when I first read this.
'It takes as much enery to be happy as it does to be unhappy'.................this one got me!
Anger is regret.
If nobody is important, then why does anyone care if someone else gets angry? Wouldn't you find yourself to be important if you have the audacity to tell others to "calm down"? 🤔
@@amyrenee1361 Thats not the moral of the message. The moral of the message is that in any given situation you are not more important than what is presented to you. If you were surviving out in the wilderness and you got angry at every little query instead of adapting you would die. Anger is the same as indulgence. Its useless and a luxury only afforded to people who are not in balance with their environment.
" The root of all stupidity is gullibility ".......
thank you for offering this. a book for the ages.....
Thanks for posting his books, much appreciated
For me, Castaneda was my favorite when I got lost and didn't know where I was or what I was doing. Great writer.
I read them all, gained a lot of Knowledge, and still use it today.
Been following these beautiful philosophies since the 70’s.
I read this at thirteen. I believe it changed the direction of my life.
I believe this is the best explanation for reality (ordinary & non-ordinary)
Agreed
I first found this work in the first year of community college after my ets from the army. A massive perspective shift and interesting lifelong path resulted from reading one book.
This is an extraordinary story. The only way I can relate is with my own experiences with astral projection. I also realize that anything involving the death of the ego as a means to journey is a discipline much like a martial art there are certain steps that must be taken to achieve a certain goal and the skill to elevate to the following level.
They're 2 books in my life that open me to benefits of sorrow and joy and my "life".
This one and Way of the Peaceful Warrior.
Required reading at any age.
When I was around 12 I knew some older dudes way into CC's books
Trying to see
One guy almost moved to the desert/ Mexico
I just read and reread for the great stories and beautiful writing
00:00 Introduction
31:04 Part 1 the teachings
51:22 Chapter 2
1:35:31 Chapter 3
2:51:44 Chapter 4
I read some of these books longer ago than I can remember. But finding myself in total darkness and on Strange Land I remembered the power walk and raising my feet high I drove forward knowing I could overcome any obstacle. It had worked in the past. I stepped over a small cliff and landed on my face, I looked up into the face of a very large gnarly dog. I told him, don't laugh at me! And by the time I got to My Feet Again he had disappeared. I went back into the house and told of what I had seen. No one had a dog but there was supposed to be a big one roaming around and fighting people. I guess I scared the hell out of that dog it. I'm taking a break at the beginning of chapter 3. And you remembering what I read in the past
Gennaro giggles
Thank you so much for posting these. Happy voyages
Thank you so much , you did a great job, I really appreciate what you do .🙏
Amazing audiobook. I read IT in paperback version for ca 2 decades ago and I enhoyed it even more npw. Tanken you❤
Just discovered this. So wonderful.
I didn't knew that this book is this long. I listened to a 2 hour 30 mins version 6 months ago.
Now I'll listen to this whole things. I find it very fascinating
I really hope you are aware of the other ten books equally as long and so much more fascinating that compared to journey to ixtlan, for example, this is just 10 hours of dumb drug use.
@@Bradley_UA That's why I read these books in the first place .
Came for that , stayed for the philosophy.
Eat a schroom , maybe you'll learn something .
@@marvymarier8988 not having to eat shrooms is literally the point.
@@Bradley_UA not dumb.
I liked how Don Juan explained it later to Carlos: "When you came to me, you were so thick you needed to use lots of drugs to get out of it and open up a little."
I didn't know either, I only had the thin edition in paper form, and now when I searched for it as audio, i found that (that's the 2 and half hour one, I assume) first, and then I looked at this one and was surprised to see it's 9 hours.
This is the first book I listened to that I actually could follow along with and not get bored or zone out thinking about multiple things at once an not having to rewind it to hear what was said..I wish I had new what I know now about tripping on a hallucinogen I looked at it as just getting high but now I understand that there is more to it then just getting high and having a good time..
read it back in the late 70s, very enlightening
6:41:22
That “COME HERE” was fantastically done in my opinion. I don’t know rather or not that effect behind the voice was organic or inserted after reading, but it really gave me the feeling of a movie being narrated in my head.
Thank you very much for the sharing.
started with journey to ixtlan by recommendation if my old HS art teacher and first mentor in life! coming back for more now.
Hmmm this is where I stopped listening because it became convoluted. Still good don’t get me wrong but the core is in the first 2-3
@@Cure_E_Osity what is the order?
@@Digitalpapii oh I rechecked journey is #3. This is the first one we’re commenting on then ‘a separate reality’
I didn’t dive deeper.
Good stuff
@@Cure_E_Osity thanks my friend!
I Started with tales of power and began dreaming almost instantly. The nagual is well known in mexico, and as I young child I remember seeing a "nagual" what they call a possessed animal. But it's full of superstition because of the European persecution of the natives beliefs to convert them into pegan worshipers. That's what really got me searching the real meaning of a nagual. Now I know we all have a nagual and tonal. And it cannot possibly be demonic or evil.
The art of dreaming is a favorite ... the dream within the dream while being aware your dreaming yet trying to remember your dreaming quite the rabbit hole !
New sub, thank to the recommendation of this book, thanks from Belgium!
Book cover artists were usually called on to produce sometimes many covers a week just to make a decent wage which might explain why the crow's feet are the wrong way round. Unless it's an in-joke. Thanks uploader by the way. Edit: Luis Moreno's narration is brilliant throughout, though he deserves a special medal for reading through the tortuous second part of the book in which Carlos breaks down the process he had gone through up to that point in his painstaking technical systematic way, a predilection that later is joked about in the following books.
The picture presented, the feet are not backward. Go look at photos. Thsy are normal.
I can See lots of comments here about the author being a fraud and his books nothing but nonsense, perhaps his writings may be just fiction and Don Juan may have never existed. Regardless anyone who has had contact with these indigenous beliefs can recognize common elements and the value that they bear to the people who abide by this belief system, the power to bring peace to people and offer them ways out of their own erroneous thinking, their problems and sufferings through storytelling is indeed pure magic, and those who undervalue it are missing the point of it all
Castaneda's details of the Datura experience coincide quite well with Terence McKenna's details of the experience .
Loved this book. Read it and a few others of his in about 1979, 1980. Indeed all those pinned above.
Great reading man
I’m Yaqui, and Carlos Castaneda created Don Juan. When people find out I’m Yaqui, they often light up and enthuse that they’ve read Castaneda. When I tell them the truth, that he never existed, they look like I just kicked their favorite dog. The things he wrote here do not match with Yaqui customs and culture. Enjoy the books if you wish, but know that these books are crafted fiction, and Don Juan is a fictional character that doesn’t reflect Yaqui spiritual beliefs. When these books were written the internet didn’t exist, and hippy drug culture and gurus were all the rage, and he could get away with choosing an “obscure” tribe to attribute his stories to. Today we would call that appropriation, then he called it anthropology.
fwiw, Juan said that being a Yaqi was incidental, being Yaqi had nothing to do with his being a "man of knowledge" of his lineage.
as I remember the books, the connection between the Yaqi and Juan's abilities was Carlos's own supposition despite Juan's words.
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we're/are the Yaqi obscure? I grew up as an Anglo in Pennsylvania but have heard of the Yaqi from more than one source over the years other than Castaneda's books.
@@john-ic5pz I read the first book out of curiosity years ago, and I don’t remember where he said his “knowledge” came from. I think if he stated or implied that this knowledge was unrelated to his being Yaqui then, that is somewhat disingenuous, as 1-The subtitle of the book is, “A Yaqui way of knowledge,” and 2-This type of “knowledge” also doesn’t reflect on most of the other types of spiritual beliefs in the region. Remember, this predates the internet etc. At the time of Castaneda’s writing we were definitely a more obscure tribe as compared to, say, Navajo, Sioux, Aztec or Cherokee. The books did bring a certain notoriety. In my personal experience almost everyone who has known about my tribe, upon asking me where I “come from,” sole knowledge about Yaquis was Don Juan. I’ve never had a single person know anything else about Yaqui culture. (I am excluding those who live in the immediate area of pueblos etc.) Do they know any Yaqui spiritual beliefs, language, or other notables from Yaqui history? Sadly, no.
That comment needs to be highlighted
I heard about this years ago, it is I suppose possible that Don Juan existed but that Castaneda altered / obscured his ethnic details to protect his teacher's actual cultural heritage. As you say this was long before the internet so for most westerners calling out one tribe rather than another would have made little difference to them. It must though be rather tiresome for the one thing people to "know" about your tribe be completely bogus. I am interested though did you enjoy the story otherwise? And is there anything that you would recommend by way of reading about your own culture??
@@figneutron90Would you rather be unknown?
This is narrated very well buy a good voice with good inflection and the characters can be told, one from another.
Truths like death.
Thanks to Castaneda. Greetings to my brothers, by perception, from Athens and I wish them to always fly high.
Up to 5hr 19min... definitely a true story! ❤
Thank you
I don't know how I got this book, I've had it for 30+ years.
And it's within arms reach right now.
Muchas gracias
Our presence in this life is brief. This book is about what was before, and what's after.
these books are about Presence, period. (no internal dialogue = fully Present in the moment)
Read decades ago .....still Treasure the Warrior quotes🙏🏻
Back in the day I tried reading these books because all my cool friends were. Seemed an attempt to spiritualize drug-seeker meeting drug guru with lots of manipulation on both sides. I put it down, destined to be uncool my entire life. Listened to this and still don't get it, but thanks for making it available.
Hi there, I myself had no inttention on doing any kind of drug since I found an idea that helped a lot really a lot and more than expected to push my whole self into understanding on why the mind behaves like a random crazy emotional beign, and that idea I found is in the book from Castaneda called The Active Side of Infinite, specifically chapter 8. Wow, what I found there helped like nothing else before, well of course I believe on how the power of belief makes miracles
What a long strange trip it's been!
I was thinking about this last night..I never read him..
Profound, profound words, listen to it, all is there.
...IBF (I benefactor) was one of the two nicknames I used to use when I was 20 years old, when Internet has just arrived, in 1999-2000.
Nice recording, I like the voice. Because I couldn't listen if the voice wasn't a match for the book
Peter Coyote 🐺 does an exceptional job here. All his voice narrations of Carlos' books are exceptional. Enjoy.
'We are all just walking each other home'.
~Ramm Das
If one chews grapefruit while chewing peyote one cannot taste anything but the grapefruit and it is quit pleasant tasting.The grapefruit completely takes away any bitterness one experiences .😊.But beware of doors that may open up that stay open for awhile.😮
Never really considered grapefruit pleasant tasting though 😅
Im a 90s baby and i went to my moms village and the old mexican ladies would cure people with praying with kernals. And hominy. And it makes sense now
With salvia, i was out of body looking at the room from the perspective of the light sensor in the room. I could seem myself from birds eye view.
I was sent from a podcast called cults I got to Amit what a good book will listen/read again
'We are all just walking each other home'.
~Ramm Das
Mumbo Jumbo. Read all these in the early 80’s.
31:06 Part 1 The Teachings
Chapter 1
Carlos cantstopfraudingyaall
Yes I read the books learned tensegrity for years. Until Castaneda's girl friend of many years wrote a book called "Sorcerer's Aprentice" her name is Amy Wallace
How did she stayed alive
As the great P T Barnum pointed out : There never has been and never will be a shortage of Rubes ..! ( 130,000 hits on this ?? Proves he was right ! )
reminds me of the last words my grandfather ever said to me
"Stop kicking the fecking ladder you little asshole!"
Sounds like a good story. 👍
2:41:27 A man of knowledge
After doing ayahuasca I can confirm that plants do have spirit, and they are teachers. Though it’s impossible to believe before going through a ceremony.
The true Brujo / Bruja is the one that introduced these books to me..
Thankyou
Interesting but weird story. Good writing.
2:38:00 Saturday, 8 April 1962 - "The Four Enemies"
" Journey to Ixtlan " have an audiobook on here?
Read this when it first came out, I was 18 then and viewed it as entertainment not to be taken seriously. I feel the same way now at 71.
did you ever try to stop the world?
breath meditation also stops the internal dialogue in our heads and many amazing things are possible from that state, some of which I've experienced, others I've seen first hand and others verified by a handful of "shamans",for lack of a better word, during my ten year search for traditional knowledge of all kinds in SE Asia & Oceana.
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Why are you here?
So many times Don Juan gives me Mr. Lahey "I am the liquor" vibes 😅
Those poor lizards
DO SOMEBODY STILL REMEMBER TUESDAY LOBSANG RAMPA?
ME!! I was 20.....I think it was the first time I had come across reincarnation and thought it was rather weird......
Tibetan astral traveller.
I do 50 yrs ago!!!
Phenomenal book. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
@7:00:01 Part 2 A Structural Analysis
hmmm.... only smokable mushrooms i know of that gives effects is amanita muscaria, psilocybin does not stick to the mucus smoking it would be useless, makes me wonder what this smoking blend really was.
All the field notes are at the end of the book
My grandmother is Yaqui
thank you thank you thank you. i was looking for the audio books. love the readings by Moreno.
Can you please put all the audio books if you have. i am sure they will get flagged but i will try download them as fast as i can. again, this is awesome.
I've been listening to them to several of them a day off and on some I read and some I never did read
@@ronalddaub9740 I am a Auditory learner. Also helps me practice concentrate on the words. Also , I play it on the big screen tv and turn on close captions.
Is this world around me wrought of a substance other than my thought lives it by my sense alone or by an essence of it's on
There are better ways than "medicine" to find your guide. He explains in the beginning if knowledge is what you're actually looking for. Your mind is a tool, not a master. Medicine allows your mind to become your master
CARLOS CASTAÑEDA " Mescaline Quest of Knowledge"
I was reading the 5th or 6th book of the series and i realized the book had to have been written by someone else. The whole tone was wrong. The style. I threw it away. Its amazing how much cache a person can use based just upon a fancy name. If he'd used Dick Smith i doubt anyone would have read it.
..the books are a work of fiction. Letting the plants drive the bus is fascination. The Language of Consciousness is the only truth. I am...
Man this is it 😎
Somewhere between Tales and Second Ring, I realized Carlos was just making it up. I'm sure he had some very interesting experiences, and he turned those experiences into a stories, then into books. The stories were fun, but not more relevant to my life than Perls or Ram Das or Watts. When you follow gurus, you lose. Create your own reality.
SoyTribu interviewed the real Don Juan in Baja.
Thanks for uploading. ... do u think don juan would enjoy the company of tom browns grey wolf mentor ?
i thought it was stalking wolf?
@R Richards it is Stalking Wolf...or Grandfather.