Frases de Carlos Castaneda
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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
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Frases célebres de Carlos Castaneda

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

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

Carlos Castaneda: Frases en inglés

“The things that people do cannot under any conditions be more important than the world. And thus a warrior treats the world as an endless mystery and what people do as an endless folly.”

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 seer "sees" that every man is in touch with everything else, not through his hands, but through a bunch of long fibers that shoot out in all directions from the center of his abdomen. Those fibers join a man to his surroundings; they keep his balance; they give him stability.”

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)

“Warriors speak of shamanism as a magical, mysterious bird which has paused in its flight for a moment in order to give man hope and purpose; warriors live under the wind of that bird, which they call the "bird of wisdom," the "bird of freedom."”

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 Power of Silence" (Chapter 18)

“When a man embarks on the warriors' path he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary life has been left forever behind. The means of the ordinary world are no longer a buffer for him; and he must adopt a new way of life if he is going to survive.”

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 average man is either victorious or defeated and, depending on that, he becomes a persecutor or a victim. These two conditions are prevalent as long as one does not "see." "Seeing" dispels the illusion of victory, or defeat, or suffering.”

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 eyes of man can perform two functions: one is "seeing" energy at large as it flows in the universe and the other is "looking at things in this world." Neither of these functions is better than the other; however to train the eyes only to look is a shameful and unnecessary loss.”

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)

“Those are the lights on the head of death. Death puts them on like a hat and then shoots off on a gallop, gaining on us, getting closer and closer. Sometimes it turns off its lights. But death never stops.”

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)

“Dwelling upon the self too much produces a terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue makes him cease to see the marvels all around him.”

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)

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