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Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998)

Carlos Castaneda, dubbed "godfather of the New Age movement," was born in Peru and came to the United States in 1951, originally hoping to make it as a sculptor. He worked a series of odd jobs and took classes in philosophy, literature and creative writing. While a graduate student in anthropology at UCLA... See full bio »

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2004 Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer (documentary)
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Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer -- History, speculation, experimental footage, and even animation is all used to explore the impact of Carlos Castaneda's teachings of perceiving non-ordinary reality.
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As an anthropologist, reality of consensus is only a very small segment of the total range of what we could feel as real. If we could learn to code reality or stimuli the way a shaman does, perhaps we could elongate our range of what we call real to a different interpretation. But the only way we have to code it is as hallucination. Madness. We cannot conceive that one could do it. See more »

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Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 103-104. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. See more »

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