Carlos Castaneda

In A Separate Reality, Castaneda resumes his apprenticeship, determined to go deeper still into Don Juan's world of mystical sensation and perception, to learn to see beyond the surface realities of life, partly with the aid of drugs but finally and essentially through a supremely difficult and demanding effort of will.

"In this haunting and deeply personal book, Carlos Castaneda takes the reader into the very heart of sorcery, challenging both imagination and reason ... Castaneda emerges, for the first time, as ... a sorcerous leader"--Cover.

For over 40 years, Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan has inspired audiences to expand their world view beyond traditional Western forms. Originally published as Castaneda's master's thesis in anthropology, Teachings documents Castaneda's supposed apprenticeship with a Yaqui Indian sorcerer, don Juan Matus. Dividing the work into two sections, Castaneda begins by describing don Juan's philosophies, then continues with his own reflections....

World-renowned bestselling author Carlos Castaneda's Selection of his writings on the shamans of ancient Mexico. Originally drawn to Yaqui Indian spiritual leader don Juan Matus for his knowledge of mind-altering plants, bestselling author Carlos Castaneda soon immersed himself in the sorcerer's magical world entirely. Ten years after his first encounter with the shaman, Castaneda examines his field notes and comes to understand what don Juan knew...

The author of The Teachings of Don Juan reveals the spiritual adventures that can be attained through dreams, describing his own journeys into new worlds by using ancient, powerful techniques.

For us to perceive any of the worlds that exist beside our own, not only do we have to covet them but we need to have sufficient energy to seize them. In this revolutionary book, Carlos Castaneda offers readers the key to this energetic conditioning for the first time, revealing a series of body positions and physical movements that enabled various sorcerers, and their apprentices, to navigate their own sorceric journeys. By sharing this centuries-old...

Castanada relays his experiences being challenged by his mentor on his perception of the world and all living things in it.

Contra todas las apariencias, vivimos una época de una enorme vitalidad. Todas las semanas, prestigiosas revistas informan sobre investigaciones, inventos y descubrimientos de punta. Alrededor del mundo, son cada vez más numerosos los eventos científicos y académicos que presentan resultados de investigaciones para crear y fortalecer redes. En las ciencias y en las artes existe un gran número de personas apasionadas por el conocimiento, la creatividad,...

Pensar no es un acto que suceda naturalmente. No es un punto de partida, sino un punto de llegada. Este libro aborda el fenómeno del pensar como acto creativo, revolucionario. Cuando pensamos rompemos los límites de la razón, destruimos las categorías, es decir, no pensamos bajo una única y rígida lógica. Pensamos de múltiples formas simultáneamente; por ejemplo, podemos pensar en paralelo y de manera distribuida; hacemos saltos de pensamiento,...

La ciencia es la forma de racionalidad determinante debido a sus consecuencias a gran escala. Vivimos actualmente varias revoluciones en la ciencia y este libro se ocupa de una de ellas: la teoría de la información, que implica aspectos como la Internet, las redes sociales, la web 3.0 y 4.0, la inteligencia artificial y varios más. El problema de base de este texto es presentar y discutir sumariamente la revolución de la información y sus conexiones...