Tales of Power

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Summary: THIS IS THE BEST BOOK EVER,PERIOD!!!
Review: This book not only changed my perception of reality, it changed my life. As I read Castaneda my dreams became more lucid, i could see Aura's(luminous eggshells) more clearly. My overall development which would have taken leap years were stricken ahead with commanding force due to this book, i cannot accentuate how powerful this book was in the formation and view of my reality and present state of mind, all that one would this is this book and Tool's Aenima(the greatest 78 minutes of music available on earth) as a solid foundation to begin exploring themselves and the other dimensions available.On the matter of Castaneda's work being fiction or reality;I remember a friend having a debate with another human about this piece of work,his answer was that it didn't matter if Castaneda made this all up,the overwheming power is enough to bring you to tears...and thats all that really matters anyway.

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Summary: Very powerful
Review: This is an amazing book, by far the best of the entire series. The writing is beautiful, and the book grabs you into the story. If you are kind of iffy about Castaneda, read this book. Even if you don't believe the truth of what he is saying, you can't help but be affected by it's beauty

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Summary: Don't Bother Reading Beyond This One
Review: This is the last of the Castenada books that I bothered reading, and I was thrilled with it. It documents the extraordinary conclusion of Castenada's apprenticeship with don Juan and as such, should have ended here. But like a blockbuster movie with interminable bad sequels, Castenada continued to crank out increasingly lousy permutations of the don Juan teachings theme that degenerated into obfuscation and just plain silliness. Lost was the focus and tautness of the earlier works. As Robert Graves once observed, the story of an ugly duckling who becomes a swan is far more interesting than the story of a swan, formerly an ugly duckling. Castenada should have stopped here, master of a path with heart bequeathed to him by the Yacqui old ones and a thousands-of-years old oral tradition. He chose instead to create a don Juan franchise with Tensegrity workshops and other such nonsense available at your local New Age emporium. Only Castenada diehards will want to read much beyond Tales Of Power. The books written after this shows a Carlos Castenada more in pursuit of a fat bank account then a Shaman's power and knowledge.