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The Active Side of Infinity
by Carlos Castaneda
from Harper Perennial

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Fantasy or truth?
  This is the fifth Carlos Castenada book I have read. Like the others, it was a gripping read from start to finish. Casteneda was truly a gifted writer. How else do you explain his ability to write so convincingly about ethereal matters? I am, however, left with one nagging question: Was it real? If so, then we as humans are really in the dark, living as we do in our world of concepts, constructs and perceptions. If he made it all up then all I can say is, what a storyteller! One thing is certain: Reading... more info

• The predator's mind
  Active side of infinity is one of the last books written by Castaneda and it is the book were Don Juan finally reveal what the predator is. Instead of giving unperfect summaries and explanations here is a most revealing excerpt :
  "I want to appeal to your analytical mind," don Juan said. "Think for a moment, and tell me how you would explain the contradiction between man the engineer and the stupidity of his systems of beliefs, or the stupidity of his contradictory behavior. Sorcerers believe that the... more info

• predator
  What a great book!. My heart started thumping in horror when it came to the point of predator and flyers. Castenada's book has his own class of unimaginable spiritual adventures , but this goes beyond all of that.
  

• To Carlos, with gratitude
  Carlos Castaneda was one of the most controversial writers of the twentieth century. Some in academia branded him a fraud for claiming his stories were biographical rather than fiction, while lauding him as a great novelist for exposing a mass audience to otherwise inaccessible philosophical abstractions they claimed were largely plagiarized. Each of his works is a piece of a larger puzzle, which makes it impossible to critique any one book without addressing the larger context into which it fits.
  His... more info

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