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The Art Of Dreaming [Paperback]

Carlos Castaneda
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In bestsellers like A Separate Reality and Journey to Ixtlan , Castaneda recounted his purported adventures with Mexican Yaqui Indian sorcerer don Juan Matus. Here he tells how, under don Juan's tutelage, he gained control over his dreams and used dreaming as a launching pad to a pervasive but unseen realm of ancestral spiritual forces, good and evil. He goes through tunnels, enters into the consciousness of trees, meets scouts, emissaries and form-changing blobs of energy. Aided by don Juan's companions and fellow apprentices, Castaneda penetrates a realm of "inorganic beings" who set traps for him and attack him, as if to illustrate don Juan's teaching that consciousness is compelled to grow through life-or-death confrontations. For believers, Castaneda's quest offers a tantalizing glimpse of alternate worlds beyond the rational parameters of our mundane reality.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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The eighth--and one hopes the last--book about Castaneda's apprenticeship with the Yaqui Indian sorcerer Don Juan Matus. By now, Castaneda's bestselling engine is running on empty, at least to judge by this lackluster entry, which adds fuel to the argument that the Don Juan books are fiction and that their author has passed his creative prime. Gone is the vivid sense of wonder as Don Juan escorts Castaneda into a new world of mystery and magic; gone the crisp presentation of esoteric ideas; gone the crackling tension between teacher and student. What remains is a token representation of Don Juan, guffawing at Castaneda or smacking him on the back, and a cloud of confused teachings about the world of dreams. Taking control of one's dreams, says Don Juan, is the key to a sorcerer's power. But what kind of sorcerer? Don Juan makes a distinction between the ancients, who manipulated the world for personal power, and moderns--such as himself--who ``search for freedom.'' Castaneda must thread his way between these two opposing camps, balancing his thirst for truth and his personal ambition. In so doing, he passes through three ``gates of dreaming'': becoming aware of falling asleep; waking from one dream into another; seeing yourself asleep. Castaneda barges through these portals in his typically bumbling fashion, all the while communicating with--and being used by--``inorganic beings'' that look like thin tree trunks and give the sorcerers their secret knowledge. His journey ends with a perilous confrontation with a ``death defier,'' a Methuselah-like male sorcerer in the guise of a woman. Castaneda is rescued from this and other dangerous encounters by his fellow apprentice, the beautiful Carol Tiggs, who at book's close vanishes into the world of dreaming. Will Castaneda rescue her in the next volume, playing Orpheus to her Eurydice? Tune in, if you care. The Art of Dozing is more like it. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Only Lucid Dreamers Can Understand This Book, Jan 29 2002
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Renato Bellu (Haddonfield, New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: The Art Of Dreaming (Paperback)
A lucid dream is a dream in which during the course of the dream you realize that "it's just a dream." You don't, however, wake up. You stay asleep and in the REM state. You experience vivid and tangible sensations while fully aware that your "real" body is, in fact, fast asleep and quite still on your bed. You are, in a manner of speaking, in two places at once. It is a most profound experience. It is a scientifically documented human experience (see Stephen LaBerge's books). It is also an extremely rare and difficult experience to attain often and for extensive durations (30 to 45 minutes would be a long time). Most people who have experienced lucidity have only had a few minutes of it. Many only become "semi-lucid" in that they are not fully conscious of their waking mind's intentions, plans, personal information, etc., since they are quickly swept back into the dreaming consciousness after their initial realization by the overwhelmingly vivid sensory experience and their irresitable emotional reactions to it. For the rare individual who has seriously attempted to attain a high level of lucidity and who has had to look the spectre of madness in the face to do it, Castaneda's book is one of only a handful of books that talks about lucid dreaming with any real depth. There are dozens of books on dreaming and even on lucid dreaming specifically which talk about dreaming as something we can harness to serve our waking life's goals; such an approach is naive and in truth dangerous because it trivializes the subject. Castaneda's book is a sobering antidote to these watered-down self-help books. Whether The Art of Dreaming is an actual or fictionalized account I cannot say. However, I believe Castaneda had extensively delved into altered states of consciousness and is telling us that the lucid dream state is of utmost importance in the spirtual practices he has followed. Carlos is recounting Don Juan's teaching methodology. The methodology is not a logical exposition of the entire subject matter. It is a series of "tricks," such as the riddles used by a Zen Master, which the teacher uses to prod the student toward spiritual realizations. The student is instructed on all the workings of a grave and serious system and given classifications, rules, laws of how the system operates, things to look out for, etc. The teacher knows the system he describes is only a description of reality and not the reality itself. He is describing a mythical world but insisting to the student it is all very real, because it is the only way he can push the student to awareness, enlightenment, eternal life. This spiritual quest is what this book is really about. During this quest the line between fantasy and reality becomes blurred as it must. The Art of Dreaming is NOT mere entertainment (although I personally found it very entertaining). It is not factual. It is a profound spiritual work. But, as one other reviewer pointed out, you need to live it (to some extent) in order to begin to understand it. My advice is this: Have two dozen 30 minute in duration lucid dreams (if you can, yes that is a challenge) and then re-read the book; until then, withhold your judgement.
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5.0 out of 5 stars What is the Matrix?, Sep 9 2008
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B. Noorduin "The Crazy Dutchman" (Toronto, ON Canada) - See all my reviews
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A fellow Kung Fu / Qigong student lent me this book a few weeks ago and I just finished it. Having much experience in lucid dreaming is definitely helpful and I took this as a guide to alleviate dreaming experience as lucid dreaming tends to get boring on its own. Well this book definitely did its job from that perspective. Techniques such as the twin position is very powerful indeed (sofar very blurry but radically different experience). I'll buy it and read it again for sure.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Eye Opener, Aug 31 2005
Ce commentaire est de: The Art Of Dreaming (Paperback)
This book at the very least will give you another life. A life of vivid dreams, new experiences and lucidity. This book holds great lessons, humour, suspense and some fear. It matters not if you believe that all the events have happened, the lessons are true. After all the world was flat, right? Even if you do not read any of Carlos' other great works, you will still gain much insight on the art of dreaming. However this book, along with The Journey to Ixtlan, has inspired me to buy all of his works. I emplore the open-minded individual to attain a copy of this book and see the benifits for yourself. It is truely a masterpiece.
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