Start Reading Journey To Ixtlan: The Lessons Of Don Juan Put Together By Carlos Castaneda Formatted As Bound Copy
رفتن به عالم بالا یا ابعاد فراتر بوسیله مواد مخدر یا توهم زا که در این کتاب شدیدا مستقیم بهش اشاره میشه هیچ چیز باارزشی نداره.
هی تاکید براینکه انسان چیز خاصی نیستم زیاد قشنگ نیست البته به جز اون قسمت که به کارلوس میگه:به گل بگو معذرت میخوام که تورو میکنم و مطمئن باش که من خودم تا چند وقت دیگه خوراک تو میشم پس با تو برابرم.
کلا هدف این کتاب خیلی مشخص نیست و نظم خاصی هم نداره.
در طول داستان قهرمان هیچ کدوم از حرف های ارشدش رو قبول نداره و همچنین انتهای داستان بازهم بعد از ده سال راهی رو که اون بهش معرفی میکنه نمیره. که البته من بهش حق میدم و اگر جای اون بودم هیچوقت کسی مثل دون خوان رو به ارشدی نمیپذیرفتم. شما هر روز با هم بودید تا آنجا که جز ملال احساسی برای هم نداشتید. اینطور نیست I find all of Castanedas books unique, fascinating and engrossing, and this one is no exception,
We are told about how Carlos met Juan Matus in a bus station in Arizona, and that this was the start of a tenyear apprenticeship.
Carlos first learns about the importance of erasing ones personal history since this makes us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people, One can erase personal history by not revealing what one really does, and by leaving everyone who knows one well, A fog will thus be built up around oneself,
It is also important to lose selfimportance, In another book it is explained that in order to “dream” we need energy, and selfimportance uses much energy, so therefore it is best to rid ourselves of it in order to preserve as much energy as possible.
Carlos also learns that death is our eternal companion and our most important adviser, and is always to our left, at an arms length away.
Awareness of our impending death helps us to “drop the cursed pettiness that belongs to men that live their lives as if death will never tap them.
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We must take responsibility for all that we do, we must know why we are doing things, no matter what, and then must proceed with our actions without having doubts or remorse about them.
Don Juan seems to be able to read Carloss mind and knows about things that happened in his childhood and youth without having been told of them.
Carlos tells Don Juan that they are equals, while in actual fact he feels that as a sophisticated university student he is superior to him, who is an Indian.
He is dumbfounded when the latter informs him that they are not equals “I am a hunter and a warrior, and you are a pimp, ”
The world is a mysterious place, especially in the twilight, The wind can follow one, make one tired or even kill one, It is looking for Carlos, Carlos learns about being inaccessible, He has previously made himself too available, especially in his relationship with a particular “blond girl”, One must make sure not to squeeze ones world out of shape, but instead tap lightly, stay for as long as one needs to, and then swiftly move away leaving hardly a mark.
A hunter should know the routines of his prey and, most importantly, have no routines oneself, Carlos himself eats lunch every single day at twelve oclock, as Don Juan keeps pointing out,
These are but a few of the topics that Don Juan teaches Carlos about, He also learns about becoming accessible to power, experiences a battle of power and learns about a warriors last stand, He learns the gait of power and the tricky art of notdoing,
Finally, he learns about the ring of power and meets a dangerous, “worthy” opponent, a sorceress going by the name of La Catalina,
Towards the end Carlos meets Don Genaro, another powerful sorcerer, and he and Don Juan make Carloss car disappear into thin air,
Carlos is sent out into the mountains by himself and “stops the world”, He has a conversation with a coyote who speaks both English and Spanish !, Carlos sees “the lines of the world”,
We understand that Carlos time with Don Juan has come to an end, since it is time for the latter to leave this world.
Carlos sadness is overwhelming, and so is that of the reader,
This is an amazing book, The information/knowledge presented is fascinating and absorbing, Castaneda presents the information in great, satisfying detail, The book is wellexpressed, though the content is difficult to grasp, Carlos himself makes no secret of the fact that he finds it nigh impossible to understand Don Juans “concepts and methods” since “the units of his description were alien and incompatible with those of my own”.
I am really going to miss reading this authors works when Ive got through them all, but luckily I still have many left to
read.
The “separate reality” portrayed in these books is quite different from our daily reality, so it is an amazing journey for the reader to delve into these books and access this other reality, or world.
I strongly recommend that you read this mindexpanding book! "When one does not have a person history," he explained, "nothing that one says can be taken for a lie.
Your trouble is that you have to explain everything to everybody, compulsively, and at the same time you want to keep the fresh newness of what you do.
Well, since you can't be excited after explaining everything you have done, you lie in order to keep going, "
"From now on," he said," you must simply show people whatever you care to show them, but without ever telling exactly how you've done it.
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"You see," he went on, "we only have two alternatives: we either take everything for sure and real, or we don't, If we follow the first, we end up bored to death with ourselves and with the world, If we follow the second and erase personal history, we create a fog around us, a very exciting and mysterious state in which nobody knows where the rabbit will pop out, not even ourselves.
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"Death is the only wise adviser that we have, "
"The thing to do when you're impatient, is to turn to your left and ask advice of your death, " p
"He said the only thing that counted was action, acting instead of talking, " p
"When a man 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 first know why he is doing it, and then must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.
" pThis is the third volume of the trilogy including 'The Teachings of Don Juan' and 'A Separate Reality', I read all three, one after the other, while working at the Chicago Women's Athletic Club during the summer between college and seminary,
Although it appears to be the case that Castaneda, the author, fabricated some of the material appearing in his accounts, including that of his doctoral dissertation which begins the series, it also appears to be the case that he knows a good deal about altered states of consciousness.
While the books may misrepresent the Yaqui Nation and so be bad anthropology, they remain important and worth reading,
I've classed this volume as psychology one could also, legitimately, class them as religion or as fiction because so much of its content has to do with what we conventionally call "altered states" and relegate to psychologists.
What is interesting about Castaneda, however, is that, for him, it is not so much a drugdisordered state of mind creating hallucinations as an entry into other worlds.
In other words, the other worlds are realindeed, they are truer in the sense of being more meaningful than the quotidian routines of our normal lives.
Phenomenologically, this is certainly the case to many, whether they experience nonordinary realities through the use of drugs, spiritual exercise or because such things happen to them, either occasionally or regularly.
Years of campfire tales about extraordinary experiences have led me to begin to intentionally ask people about such things and I've found it remarkable how ordinary nonordinary states are.
This raises questions about the typical approach of psychologists and philosophers to such mattersand as regards the kind of society which would put its members in such a Procrustean bed that they'd be disposed to discount their lived experience in order to fit in.
I myself have experienced "other worlds" on a number of occasions, Of course, like everyone, I inhabit them nightly and remember them under the rubric of dreaming, Beyond that, however, I've had a couple of auditions hearing voices which weren't coming from anyone another in the room would have heard, a rather unpleasant hallucinatory episode and at least two induced breakthroughs to domains radically different than this one I'm typing inall of which felt realerthanreal.
Beyond that, the usual psychedelic experienceand I've had scoresat least suggests these other worlds, worlds like those described by Castaneda, although one is not entirely thrust into them and out of this one.
عرفان سرخپوستی از انواع عرفان های طبیعت گرا یا ابتدایی است. بسیاری از مولفه های ادیان ابتدایی , در این عرفان یافت می شود. این عرفان دارای پیشینه ای قدیمی در حوزه قبایل سرخ پوستی ست.
کاستاندا خود را شاگرد مرشدی به نام دون خوان معرفی میکند و حاصل رابطه استاد و شاگردی تعالیمیست که در کتاب آمده.
میان این دو دوستی عمیقی برقرار می شود و دون خوان هم خود را شخصی معرفی میکند که دارای معرفت عظیمی ست و توانایی درک و مشاهده چیزهایی را دارد که دریافت معمولی ما قادر به درک و مشاهده آن نیست
از نظر دون خوان ما در یک حباب ادراک هستیم. این حبابی است که به هنگام تولد و پس از آن به دور ما کشیده میشود ما در تمام عمر درون این حبابیم و هر چه میبینیم بازتاب ماست.
انسان ها با دو حلقه اقتدار محصورند : یکی منطق و دگری توصیفاتی ست که برای ما از دنیا کرده اند و همین جا صحیح و غلط و زشت و زیبا و باید و نباید ها شکل می گیرد
در عرفان کاساندرا عقل به عنوان فضل و کمال معرفی نمیشود بلکه مانع رسیدن سالک به حقیقت ناب عرفانی ست و سالک باید جنون اختیاری یعنی شیوه ای برای بی اهمیت دانستن همه چیز داشته باشد و و و . .
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