Or...Castaneda is pretty esoteric. While there is direct application, I think you have to absorb a lot before you can distill it down.
On the topic of Castaneda, let's delve a little deeper. What have you read and what have you gotten out of it?
The Art Of Dreaming was the first thing of his I read, and naturally I found it fascinating. Some of the techniques make a lot of sense, but what strikes me is that he's mapped one of many paths through the non-physical, but done so in great detail. There are so many ideas out there that explain or hint at other paths, but even the most advanced "explorers" tend to accept their path as is rather than examining how and why it worked. And those that have tend to take a pessimistic outlook so they are charted out over great lengths of time. I wonder if other paths could be identified, mapped and correlated. And whether, by doing so, some distillation might emerge that could fuse the most effective parts into a potent new whole.
That's where Castaneda sends my thinking. What about you?
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