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Summary: good fiction, with limited amount of Don Juan's teachings.
Review: This book is obviously fictional, but a good story. It includes a few actual methods for creating and controlling dreams, but is by no means a good instructional manual on the subject.
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Summary: Ever expanding perception
Review: This book is practical in many respects. If you are interested in dreaming more consciously, Castenada gives some useful step by step instructions for developing this awareness, beginning with looking at your hands whenever possible as a trigger to alert you that you are in a dream. He describes different levels of dreaming and how a dreamer must pass certain "tests" to cross these gateways to a more advanced state of dreaming. The experiences are intruiging and might be hard for some folks to believe. That's okay; it's healthy to question. If you consider the possibility that what Castenada recounts may indeed be reality (or some form of reality), it has some exciting and yet frightening implications. I personally feel this book is for serious dreaming enthusiasts only, and even then, it's not for everyone. If you can read it with an open mind, go for it.
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Summary: it's the most enlightening book on dreams i'd ever read!!
Review: This has been the most enlightening book on dreams that i have ever come in contact with. I have learned more in this one book than i had ever in 15 years of school. Thank you Carlos!
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Summary: Astonishing panorama of infinity!
Review: This is definitely the most valuable book that i've ever read. Along with other books by C.Castaneda The Art of Dreaming showed me the way to knowledge, but in the way that perfectly fits me! I would describe you what i've learned, but i'm afraid there're no words to explain everything... just read it...
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Summary: It's difficult for me to know how to read Castaneda.
Review: This is the second Castaneda book that I've picked up. I honestly probably wouldn't have picked up a second except that I've been doing some research on dreaming and it was recommended to me. He certainly has created an interesting world and world-view around dreaming. I give him a lot of credit for that. I have no basis at all to base the truth of what he's writing, and I guess that truth isn't really the point as much as that he's trying to make you think or relate his own experiences. I'm really not sure what it's all about. I didn't find it useful as a research source, and I unfortunately didn't find it particularly well-written either. I'd probably give it even less stars, but I think that it's fairly clear that I'm the wrong reader to try and judge it.
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Summary: Dreaming Procedures are clearer than ever
Review: Well written book on how to dream step by step. The process regarded is long {possibly some 10-15 years}, but if you follow it and survive the benefits will pay off. Attaining the energy body according to Don Juan means total change in our lives for good and our ability to deal with this world will improve tremendously. Maybe there are no limits in enhancing the energy body or maybe there are - you can be sure in one thing - whatever you do and achieve in that direction will be positive as long as you don`t deviate from the warrior`s path. I feel that with this book and the rest of his Carlos gives us the greatest possible gift - the way of improving out perception and extending our energy level to unknown margins. I am deeply grateful to him for this.
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Summary: Hugely overrated.....
Review: When I bought this book, I was fully aware that it is a fiction, but I still hoped for some kind of amazing revelation, etc....because I have read so much about Carlos Castaneda and his "ground- breaking" books. All reviews cry about how brilliant this book is, and this and that... and IT IS NOTHING OF A SORT! It is hugely OVERRATED! It is a not a bad fiction from a writer, who knows his craft, but there is nothing either ground-breaking or credible about this book.
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Summary: Read with an open mind
Review: Whether you enjoy this book or not, very much depends on your beliefs & disposition. If you hold the belief that everything is energy, that beings exist in other realms & through dreaming practices you may be able to access those realms, then read this book. If you are a rationalist, leave well alone. This book does not have any hidden messages about the meaning of life to convey & is not meant to be a brilliant work of fiction. As the title very clearly states, it is the art of dreaming & the dreaming practices it details are possible. However, like any piece of writing on experience that cannot be rationally explained, it may be hard for readers without any 'out of this world' or 'out of body' experience to believe its contents. Read it with an open mind.
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Summary: contradictions and evasions abound
Review: Within the first chapter, I was left with the feeling of Carlos evading questions and the character that is supposed to be don Juan contradicting things he had supposedly said. The dialogue is very convenient and doesn't give me much impression of a real conversation. I rate this author just above the ridiculous Konstantinos. This is not a book about dreaming. It is rather a writing that relates how one man "sees" stars and is making big money off them.
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