Carlos Castaneda Livres

En écrivant Le Voyage définitif, j'ai suivi les instructions de don Juan qui voulait me voir constituer une sorte d'album, une collection de souvenirs mémorables. Selon lui, la connaissance chamanique avait pour dessein ultime de nous préparer à affronter le " voyage définitif ", celui que doit faire chacun de nous au terme de sa vie. Ce que l'homme moderne, disait-il, désigne sous la vague expression de " vie après la mort " était pour ces chamans une existence concrète débordant d'activités pratiques, certes différentes de celles de notre vie habituelle, mais tout aussi pragmatiques et fonctionnelles. Se remémorer les épisodes importants de leur vie les préparaient à aborder ces contrées nouvelles qu'ils appelaient le " côté actif de l'infini ". Carlos Castaneda.

Depuis sa rencontre avec le maître Juan Matus, l'étudiant en ethnologie Castaneda a parcouru un long chemin à travers le temps et l'espace. Ce voyage vers la tierce attention était jusqu'ici jalonné d'expériences vécues par le disciple, telles que retracées par Castaneda. Avec cet ouvrage, l'apprenti devenu maître prend du recul sur son parcours, intégrant contradictions et incertitudes. Don Juan n'est plus un maître isolé, mais un maillon d'une chaîne, un nagual parmi d'autres, choisi pour constituer un clan de guerriers et transmettre une tradition ancienne, le don de l'Aigle. Castaneda se demande s'il sera à la hauteur des attentes de Don Juan et s'il pourra, comme lui, rassembler son clan et les conduire vers la liberté. Ce nouvel opus lui permet d'expliciter les techniques et méthodes présentées précédemment. À travers des thèmes récurrents, ce qui semblait obscur s'éclaire, et des fils divergents se croisent. Avec un talent de narration qui le place parmi les grands auteurs épiques, Castaneda fait de cet ouvrage la clé de voûte de son œuvre, enrichissant ainsi la compréhension de son parcours initiatique.

Carlos Castaneda livre la quintessence de l'enseignement que don Juan, sorcier Yaqui du Mexique, lui prodigua, l'exacte nature de son initiation à la pratique et au projet du chamanisme moderne : la recherche d'une totale liberté spirituelle et terrestre. On y découvrira comment, dans la conscience et l'usage des rêves, existe un chemin vers d'autres mondes conjoints au nôtre

Carlos Castaneda takes the reader into the very heart of sorcery, challenging both imagination and reason, shaking the very foundations of our belief in what is "natural" and "logical."The Power of Silence is Castaneda's most astonishing book to date—a brilliant flash of knowledge that illuminates the far reaches of the human mind. Through don Juan's mesmerizing stories, the true meaning of sorcery and magic is finally revealed. Honed in the desert of Sonora, the visions of don Juan give us the vital secrets of belief and self-realization that are transcendental and valid for us all. It is Castaneda's unique genius to show us that all wisdom, strength, and power lie within ourselves—unleashed with marvelous energy and imaginative force in the teachings of don Juan—and in the writings of his famous pupil, Carlos Castaneda

Each of Carlos Castaneda's books is a tantalizing burst of illumination into the depths of our deepest mysteries, like a sudden flash of light, like a burst of lightning over the desert at night, which shows us a world that is both alien & totally familiar--the landscape of our dreams. Fire from Within is the author's most brilliant thought-provoking & unusual book, one in which Castaneda, under the tutelage of don Juan & his disciples, at last constructs, from the teachings of don Juan & his own experiences, a stunning portrait of the "sorcerer's world" that is crystal-clear & dizzying in its implications.

A practical guide to Castaneda's techniques as taught to him by the shamans of Ancient Mexico. For the first time he brings us the profound and practical applications of the wisdom of Don Juan Matus.

"In this astonishing, luminous and terrifying work, Carlos Castaneda at last completes the long journey into the world of sorcery that began with his now-legendary meeting with don Juan ... In a sense, Castaneda's three earlier books, each of them the story of a triumphant and daring journey into the unknown, have been merely the long pereparation for Tales of Power, in which don Juan's task of educating Castaneea, of making him 'a man of knowledge' and 'a man of power, ' is brought to an unexpected conclusion in a series of dazzling tricks, visions and lessons, ending in an explanation which is at once an initiation and a deeply moving farewell"--Cover.

In Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Castaneda introduces readers to this new approach for the first time and explores, as he comes to experience it himself, his own final voyage into the teachings of don Juan, sharing with us what it is like to truly "stop the world" and perceive reality on his own terms. Originally drawn to Yaqui Indian spiritual leader don Juan Matus for his knowledge of mind-altering plants, bestselling author Carlos Castaneda 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 all along--that these plants are merely a means to understanding the alternative realities that one cannot fully embrace on one's own.

"A man of knowledge is free...he has no honor, no dignity, no family, no home, no country, but only life to be lived." --don Juan In 1961 a young anthropologist subjected himself to an extraordinary apprenticeship to bring back a fascinating glimpse of a Yaqui Indian's world of "non-ordinary reality" & the difficult and dangerous road a person must travel to become "a man of knowledge." Yet on the bring of that world, challenging to all that we believe, he drew back. Then in 1968, Carlos Castaneda returned to Mexico, to don Juan & his hallucinogenic drugs, & to a world of experience no one from our Western civilization had ever entered before.