Path: ultra.sonic.net!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.kjsl.com!news.new-york.net!newspeer1.nac.net!netnews.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!solomon.io.com!news-feeds.jump.net!nntp2.dejanews.com!nnrp1.dejanews.com!not-for-mail From: ixtlan_thataway@my-dejanews.com Newsgroups: alt.magick.tantra,alt.meditation.transcendental Subject: Re: Dueling approaches (was Re: Dueling male egos (was Re: Our Lil Buddy)) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:53:41 GMT Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion Lines: 27 Message-ID: <7c611g$nsn$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> References: <19990310110151.15946.qmail@nym.alias.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.247.100.130 X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Mar 10 14:53:41 1999 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 USKIHSVTWEBPRX3, 1.0 x17.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 208.247.100.130 Xref: ultra.sonic.net alt.magick.tantra:8371 alt.meditation.transcendental:40549 In article <19990310110151.15946.qmail@nym.alias.net>, NgWings wrote: > T. C. Mits wrote: > >> I thought Castaneda was shown to be a highly imaginitive con artist >> (not to speak ill of the departed, of course)? > > This is a popular myth based on sloppy research. I agree which is why I brought up his name in this discussion. My faculty advisor met with Castaneda many times at UCLA and in Sonora in the early days and got to see his case notes and other documentation. He has no doubt that the books are honest renderings of Mr. Castaneda's experiences. The charges of fraud tend to come from anthropologists who never leave their offices. They were offended that he left the security and distance of the academic world and actually imersed himself in the culture and practices he was writing about. I think there are paralels between this controversy and the discussion at hand. There is a difference between writing about something one has personally experienced such as W. Y. Evans-Wentz did and writing about something one has only read about. The former approach brings a credability to the work that is missing in the latter. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own