I don't wish to be the bearer of bad news but if  Carlos Castaneda is a hero of 
yours you might want to watch this BBC documentary "What happens when 
anthropology goes bad? The last in this series of great yarns from the world of 
anthropology is a story of sex, drugs and a long-lost body in the desert."

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXl95ZaYe3Q 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXl95ZaYe3Q

 

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote:

 They don't call Native Americans "Indians" for nothing, since they all came 
from Asia in the first place. Go figure.
 

According to what I've read, a recent study of a 40,000 year old skeleton from  
China "showed that early modern humans present in the Beijing area 40,000 y ago 
were related to the ancestors of many present-day Asians as well as Native 
Americans." 

 So, what is a shaman anyway?

 

 A shaman is anybody who contacts a spirit world while in an altered state of 
consciousness. 
 

 The idea is based  on the notion that the visible world is of the senses is 
pervaded by invisible forces or spirits which affect the lives of living 
people. Shamans can reach altered states of consciousness in order to encounter 
and interact with the spirit world and channel transcendental energies.
 

 "For me there is only the traveling on the paths that have heart, on any path 
that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge for me 
is to traverse its full length. And there I travel—looking, looking, 
breathlessly." - Don Juan Matus
 
 

 Only known photography of Don Juan Matus:

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

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