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Carlos Castaneda, cuyo nombre original era Carlos César Salvador Arana Castañeda , fue un antropólogo y escritor peruano naturalizado estadounidense, autor de una serie de libros que describirían su entrenamiento en un tipo particular de nahualismo tradicional mesoamericano, al cual él se refería como una forma muy antigua y olvidada. Dichos libros y el propio Castaneda, quien en escasas ocasiones hablaba en público acerca de su obra o de sí mismo, son objeto de mucha controversia.

Sus partidarios afirman que sus libros son veraces en su contenido, o que al menos constituyen obras de valor antropológico. Sus críticos señalan por el contrario que sus libros son una farsa, trabajos de ficción, y que no son verificables como obras de antropología, al contrario de lo que el autor afirmaba. Harris, De Mille y otros fundamentan errores en cuanto a las tradiciones yaquis, y De Mille muestra varias ocasiones en las cuales las fechas de los libros de Castaneda afirman que estuvo con Don Juan en México, cuando en realidad estaba en la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles.

Dicho antropólogo y escritor aseguraba haberse convertido en un chamán nagual tolteca tras un intenso entrenamiento de modificación de la conciencia y su percepción, que incluía el uso ritual de enteógenos en una primera etapa; a posterior este tipo de sustancias fueron innecesarias, e incluso nocivas, sobre todo para su estómago, según sus propias palabras.

Sus libros, que tienen un carácter sincrético ya que son mezcla de autobiografía, alucinógenos, rituales toltecas, misticismo y religión, han tenido un tremendo éxito de ventas, tanto que hoy en día son traducidos a los más variados idiomas del mundo.

Sus primeros libros están ligados a la psicodelia y la contracultura de fines de los años 60 y 70. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. diciembre 1925 – 27. abril 1998
Carlos Castaneda: 104 citas5 Me gusta

Frases célebres de Carlos Castaneda

“Añadió que nada en este mundo era un regalo: todo cuanto hubiera que aprender debía aprenderse por el camino difícil.”

Carlos Castaneda libro Las enseñanzas de Don Juan

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

“No tienes que hacer nada para caer bien o mal. O te acepta o te tira de lado.”

Carlos Castaneda libro Las enseñanzas de Don Juan

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

“¡la claridad! Esa claridad de mente, tan difícil de obtener, dispersa el miedo, pero también ciega.
"Fuerza al hombre a no dudar nunca de sí. Le da la seguridad de que puede hacer cuanto se le antoje, porque todo lo ve con claridad. Y tiene valor porque tiene claridad, y no se detiene en nada porque tiene claridad. Pero todo eso es un error; es como si viera algo claro pero incompleto. Si el hombre se rinde a esa ilusión de poder, ha sucumbido a su segundo enemigo y será torpe para aprender. Se apurará cuando debía ser paciente, o será paciente cuando debería apurarse. Y tonteará con el aprendizaje, hasta que termine incapaz de aprender nada más.”

Carlos Castaneda libro Las enseñanzas de Don Juan

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

“Ningún camino lleva a ninguna parte, pero uno tiene corazón y el otro no. Uno hace gozoso el viaje; mientras lo sigas, eres uno con él. El otro te hará maldecir la vida. Uno te hace fuerte, el otro te debilita.”

Carlos Castaneda libro Las enseñanzas de Don Juan

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Fuente: Las enseñanzas de Don Juan: una forma yaqui de conocimiento.

“Poco sabía yo en ese tiempo que don Juan no me estaba dando solamente una descripción intelectual atractiva; me estaba describiendo algo que él llamaba un hecho energético. Para él, los hechos energéticos eran las conclusiones a las que él y los otros chamanes de su linaje llegaron a involucrarse en una función que llamaban ver: el acto de percibir energía directamente como fluye del universo.”

Carlos Castaneda libro Las enseñanzas de Don Juan

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

“La idea de que las interpretaciones perceptuales que configuran el mundo tienen un fluir es congruente con el hecho de que corren sin interrupción y rara vez, o nunca, se ponen en tela de juicio. De hecho, la realidad del mundo que conocemos se da a tal grado por sentada que la premisa básica de la brujería, la de que nuestra realidad es apenas una de muchas descripciones, difícilmente podría tomarse como una proposición seria.”

Carlos Castaneda Una realidad aparte

Una realidad aparte (1971)

Carlos Castaneda: Frases en inglés

“A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Journey to Ixtlan" (Chapter 8)

“For an average man, the world is weird because if he's not bored with it, he's at odds with it. For a warrior, the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable. A warrior must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous time.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Journey to Ixtlan" (Chapter 8)

“A warrior-hunter deals intimately with his world, and yet he is inaccessible to that same world. He taps it lightly, stays for as long as he needs to, and then swiftly moves away, leaving hardly a mark.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Journey to Ixtlan" (Chapter 8)

“A warrior must learn to be available and unavailable at the precise turn of the read. It is useless for a warrior to be unwittingly available at all times, as it is useless for him to hide when everybody knows that he is hiding.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Journey to Ixtlan" (Chapter 8)

“Whenever a warrior decides to do something he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Journey to Ixtlan" (Chapter 8)

“As long as man feels that he is the most important thing in the world, he cannot really appreciate the world around him. He is like a horse with blinders; all he sees is himself, apart from everything else.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Journey to Ixtlan" (Chapter 8)

“When nothing is for sure we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind that to behave as though we knew everything.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Journey to Ixtlan" (Chapter 8)

“One shouldn't worry about taking pictures or making tape recordings. Those are superfluities of sedate lives. One should worry about the spirit, which is always receding.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Journey to Ixtlan" (Chapter 8)

“Denying oneself is an indulgence. The indulgence of denying is by far the worst; it forces us to believe that we are doing great things, when in effect we are only fixed within ourselves.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

“A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of his acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

“An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A warrior likes, that's all. He likes whatever or whomever he wants for the hell of it.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

“There's no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim, and everything is equal.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

“A warrior may choose to remain totally impassive and never act, and behave as if being impassive really mattered to him; he would be rightfully true at that too, because that would also be his controlled folly.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

“A warrior has no honor, no dignity, no family, no name, no country; he has only life to be lived, and under these circumstances, his only tie to his fellow men is his controlled folly.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

“A warrior chooses a path with heart, any path with heart, and follows it; and then he rejoices and laughs. He knows because he "sees" that his life will be over altogether too soon. He "sees" that nothing is more important that anything else.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

“A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

“A warrior must know first that his acts are useless, and yet, he must proceed as if he didn't know it. That's a shaman's "controlled folly."”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

“Death is everywhere. It may be the headlights of a car on a hilltop in the distance behind. They may remain visible for a while, and disappear into the darkness as if they had been scooped away; only to appear on another hilltop, and then disappear again.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

“The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think before making any decision, but once he makes it, he goes on his way, free from worries or thoughts; there will be a million other decisions still awaiting him. That's the warriors' way.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

“To ask what function the allies have is like asking what we men do in the world. We are here, that's all. And the allies are here like us; and maybe they were here before us.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

“A warrior never worries about his fear. Instead, he thinks about the wonders of "seeing" the flow of energy! The rest is frills, unimportant frills.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

“When a warrior learns to "see" he "sees" that a man is a luminous egg whether he's a beggar or a king and there's no way to change anything; or rather, what could be changed in that luminous egg? What?”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

“A warrior knows that he is only a man. His only regret is that his life is so short that he can't grab onto all the things that he would like to. But for him, this is not an issue; it's only a pity. Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

“A man has four natural enemies: fear, clarity, power, and old age. Fear, clarity and power can be overcome, but not old age. Its effect can be postponed, but it can never be overcome.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan (Chapter 4)

“All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. However, a path without a heart is never enjoyable. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy - it does not make a warrior work at liking it; it makes for a joyful journey; as long as a man follows it, he is one with it.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan (Chapter 4)

“There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: Does this path have a heart?”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan (Chapter 4)

“To be angry at people means that one considers their acts to be important. It is imperative to cease to feel that way. The acts of men cannot be important enough to offset our only viable alternative: our unchangeable encounter with infinity.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan (Chapter 4)

“Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever has to be learned must be learned the hard way.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan (Chapter 4)

“Power rests on the kind of knowledge that one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless? They will not prepare us for our unavoidable encounter with the unknown.”

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Carlos Castaneda libro The Wheel of Time

Fuente: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan (Chapter 4)

“We unwittingly focus on fear and distrust, as if those were the only possible options available to us, while all along we have the alternative of deliberately centering our attention on the opposite, the mystery, the wonder of what is happening to us.”

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Carlos Castaneda

Fuente: The Eagle's Gift, (1981)

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