oop! here's another one!
http://www.castaneda.com/english/interviews/witches.htm
oop!
http://www.spiritualrealist.com/MINDFIRE/CASTANEDA%20TAISHA%20INT%201.asp
quote from there(interesting? "observation?"):
quote:
HE: And um, and he seemed like one of the most wonderful characters in the book. Tell me about Manfred a little bit.
TA: Yes. Manfred was, and is because his awareness is still...
HE: A dog?
TA: ...in existence. No, he succeeded in going with don Juan's party. He was an old sorcerer that tried to make the crossing.
and the story continues!
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quote:
Manfred was a sorcerer that was trapped at a dream position which was the energy formation of a dog. He had enough energy at the moment of death or dissolution to get into this form of a dog so that he would not be... So his awareness would not totally be lost. So it was like an escape route that he used and of course he was profoundly one of the tragic cases because his awareness was so keen but his physical form was so limited and he would rage and rage. But on an energetic...
While I loved Castaneda's 4 first books and liked a little less the 5 others (I really don't think the 10th book "Active Side of Infinity" was writen by him; the style and content is soooo different), I don't really like Castaneda's followers...
Taisha Abelar, of the Toltec tradition, discusses Intent, sorcery, emotions, astral travel, lucid dreaming . . . in short all the stuff we like to talk about! Check it out.
http://www.nagual.net/ixtlan/interviews/kvmr-ta.html