BORDER CROSSINGS : A PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

ON CARLOS CASTANEDA'S PATH OF KNOWLEDGE  

(Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts #8)

By Donald Lee Williams

Published by Inner City Books , Toronto Ontario Canada 1981

This book is a soft cover in near fine condition with 153 pages.

A unique book on Jungian Psychology with a look at the writings of Castaneda.

A thorough psychological interpretation of the Don Juan novels, bringing Castaneda's spiritual journey down to earth.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Cardinal Points

Dramatis Personae  

Don Juan: Fact or Fiction  

The Approach  

1. Beginning Images

Where All Ladders Start  

The Warrior's Vocation

The Enemies of Knowledge  

The Average Man, the Hunter, the Warrior, and the Seer  

Four Visions of the Path of Knowledge  

The Method of Teaching  

2.  The Way of the Hunter

Hunting as a Psychological Attitude

Shamans and Hunters  

Hunters, Routines and Complexes  

Accessible and Inaccessible  

Hunting and Being Hunted  

The Magical Deer  

3. The Way of the Warrior

Mescalito  

The Devil's Weed  

The Little Smoke  

La Catalina  

The Impeccable Warrior

Dreaming and Active Imagination

4.  The Way of the Seer

Forms of Seeing  

The Guardian  

The Luminous Egg and the Will  

Controlled Folly  

5. Shamanic Flight

The Tonal and the Nagual  

The Ally  

The Leap into the Nagual  

The Double  

6. Trials and Revelations

Without a Guide  

The Roots of the Devil's Weed  

Donna Soledad's Floor  

Don Juan's Design  

Women and the Wind  

Menstruation: Door to the Other World  

The Stem, the Leaves, the Flowers and the Seeds  

Reclaiming One's Edge  

Don Juan and Don Genaro Are Waiting

Healing the Split  

Conclusion  

Postscript  

Notes

Glossary of Jungian Terms  

Bibliography  

Index

Excerpt from Introduction

In the summer of 1960, Carlos Castaneda, a graduate student in anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles, met a "white-haired old Indian" named don Juan Matus, a brujo or sorcerer. Carlos Castaneda's pursuit of information from don Juan eventually became a pursuit of experience and authentic knowledge.

Now, twenty years and five books . later, Carlos is a fully fledged initiate into don Juan's "path of knowledge," and the account of his experience has found more readers than any other contemporary work in the psychological and spiritual tradition.

Clearly, Carlos Castaneda's remarkable apprenticeship to don Juan both enlivens and unsettles the Western imagination.

Our psychological landscape has been touched and altered by Castaneda's stories, and it will continue to be touched for many years. His stories are fresh rain to our parched imaginations.

But despite the enormous fascination with Castaneda's work over the past twelve years, no one has examined the images of his experience in psychological detail. What wounds of the psyche do those images offer to heal? To what infections, perhaps, do they make us vulnerable? How are we to understand the unfolding images of don Juan's world so that we may integrate his vision into our urban lives honorably and without shallow imitation? This book is an attempt to answer these questions.

THE DON JUAN PAPERS : FURTHER CASTANEDA CONTROVERSIES

Edited by Richard de Mille

Published by iUniverse , Lincoln , Nebraska 2001

This book is a soft cover in very good condition (small ink stain corner bottom edge - not affecting the text)

with 532 pages with black and white illustrations.

"In 44 chapters (39 of which have not been published before) some thirty scholars and laymen celebrate or bemoan Castaneda's influence on social science, philosophy, education, psychotherapy, religion, literature, library science, and private lives."

CONTENTS

1. The Art of Stalking Castaneda by  Richard de Mille  

I. Seduction of the Sophisticates

2. The Shaman of Academe  by  Richard de Mille   

3. The Authenticity of Castaneda  by  Mary Douglas       

4. A Yaqui Way of Kidding  by   Jane Holden Kelley      

5. Roasting Rabbits in Tularemia or The Lion, the Witch, and the Horned Toad  by Hans Sebald   

6. Validity is not Authenticity: Distinguishing Two Components of Truth  by Richard de Mille     

7. Ethnomethodallegory: Garfinkeling in the Wilderness by Richard de Mille   

8. Realities Loved and Unloved  by Tobias Schneebaum           

9. Chimera of the Upper Amazon by Robert L. Carneiro           

10. Cataloging Castaneda by Sanford Berman         

11. Publishing the Factoids  by Richard de Mille     

12. Uclanthropus Piltdunides Castanedae by Richard de Mille          

13. Sonoragate or Tales of Folly by Richard de Mille      

II. Insult and Argument

14. Castaneda and His Apologists: A Dual Mystical Fantasy by Agehananda Bharati

15. I Come to Praise Carios, Not to Bury don Juan by Philip Staniford.

16. Don Juan on Balance by Stan Wilk           

17. Science as Religion by Richard de Mille   

18. Seeing and Seeing Through Castaneda by Richard de Mille and Daniel Noel          

19. Religion as Science by Bob Gover, Richard de Mille, and Paul Christoffers 

20. R. de Mille Doesn't Exist by Erin Matson          

21. The Guru by Kenneth Minogue        

22. The Invisibility of Scientific Scorn by Stephen O. Murray

III. Spun by the Ally

23. Fictions of Art and of Science or Does it Matter Whether don Juan Really Exists? by Paul Riesman          

24. Castaneda and Parapsychology  by Richard Reichbart           

25. Seven Years with don Juan by Neil Erickson    

26. Tell it to the Toltecs  by Richard de Mille

IV. Carlos in the Realms of Discourse

28. Sergeant Castaneda and the photos of don Juan: Transforming the Special Consensus by Richard de Mille     

28. Carlos and the Toltec Devils by Douglass McFerran           

29. If don Juan did not Exist, It would be Necessary to Invent Him by Stephen J. Reno     

30. Learning by Not-Doing: An Uncanny Curriculum by Richard de Mille          

31. Reading Journey to Ixtlan by Carl R. V. Brown         

32. Chicanos in the Web of Spider Trickster by Bruce-Novoa        

33. Going Back to Ixtlan  by Jean W. Cox    

34. Parabolist's Progress by Lynn Luria-Sukenick          

35. Epistemallegory: I fly, therefore by Richard de Mille                    

36. From Two Worlds to One by Richard McDermott     

37. Plato's Hierarchy of Visions: Hallucinatory, Sensate, and Paradigmatic by Carl A. P. Ruck     

38. The Cactus Couch of Doctor Matus or The Psycho-Path with Heart by Richard de Mille   

V. Understanding Castaneda

39. Worthy Opponent by Richard de Mille     

40. Allegory is not Ethnobotany: Analyzing Castaneda's Letter to R. Gordon Wasson and Carlos's Spanish Fieldnotes  by Richard de Mille 

41. Almost We Cannot Speak About It  by Ramon Medina Silva       

42. Conversations with Yoawima  by Richard de Mille interviews Barbara Myerhoff      

43. A Portrait of the Allegorist by Richard de Mille

VI. Appendices

44. Alleglossary           

45. Notes                      

46. References                      

Index                   

Corrections and Notes Added in 2000                      

Annotated References Added in 2000

ILLUSTRATIONS

Carlos Castaneda in 1965              

Categories of Truthfulness            

Soul Catcher                         

Bow Drum                            

Letter from Erin Matson to RdeM                            

Walking the Plank

Journey to Erickson

Three Faces of Carlos           

Don Juan's Drawing     

Spider- Trickster          

The Catalina, a Charming Hotel    

If-Ifer Wades      

Feeling the Power of the Ocean      

La Catalina, a Worthy Opponent    

Carlos Arana as a Child        

Carlos Arana as a Youth     

The Editor

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