Letters to the Editor
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"modern supremacy" and the singer or the song?
Is it better to "fight the argument not the person"? Think about L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology, or Werner Erhardt and EST. Or Gurdieff's hardass tactics and his interesting philosophy: somewhat close to Castaneda's, as I gather from the literature.
Robert Marshall has addressed to some degree the dangers of the person not living up to the philosophy -- if Castaneda "walked his walk", that would be one thing, but he was the usual thing: another "Do as I preach, not as I say" kind of guy, it would seem. Which takes a whole lot of punch out of his words; the manner of his death alone takes the rug out from under the whole system. I've read some of Carlos' books, and according to these texts, a sorcerer, or a nagual, was not supposed to check out from liver cancer and diabetes, eating pastries as Amy Wallace posted. Unless he was a failure, and there's some proof that somebody else "ascended". Since his guru, don Juan, is a fictional character, he doesn't count!
And what the heck is "modern supremacy"? Is that what those leaden devotee paragraphs are meant to denounce? "Sumpremacy" of what? And who, or what, is "modern"? Whoever wrote that needs to take a semantics class or a writing class.
Maybe its a Buddhist tract that supresses "monkey mind" through sheer boredom.