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: