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Tales of Power
by Carlos Castaneda

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• Enthralling book, but only until you realize it was all fantasy
  That might not come from reading this book alone, as it is the fourth most believable of the series. When I was a student, I like many others I know who will confess to having read a Castaneda book or two when pressed, went through a couple of years of Castanedism, reading the 8 classics 2 - 3 times each, and even the later four, quite different books a couple of times. Being someone who likes to give the benefit of the doubt until conclusive evidence proves otherwise, I must admit to only getting... more info

• Hey you like Carlos or you don't!
  I haven't read all his things but I read his mind unless it's he reading mine! You either have a head for this stuff or you do not. I really enjoyed the few books of his I have read.

• 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

• The Entire Teachings In One Volume
  If you could only choose to read one of Carlos' books, this has to be the one. For those who aren't familiar with the books, this is the sixth. The first three, expected by most readers at the time of publication to be a "trilogy", describe the first several years of Castaneda's apprenticeship to a native nagual, or shaman in Sonora and other parts of Mexico.
  In the first volume Carlos describes the weird rituals and exercises that his teacher puts him through as he trains him in the ways of his line... more info

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