Showing posts with label carlos castaneda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label carlos castaneda. Show all posts

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Journey to "existence"


I finished reading the book"Journey to Ixtlan"to the end.
This story is written so crafty and details are vivid, it can be read without getting tired.
For my English skill, the style of expression is too redundant. It took four days for me to read it.
Only on my own viewpoint,not always
authorized,Heidegger(German philosopher ;existentialism) is closely similar to the way of the thinking of this book.
I thought the difference between "doing" and "not doing"is similar
to Heidegger's term;"sein in der welt"(being in the world).Depending on his philosophy, Human being exists in the tool system and Nature is inevitably looked to as a raw material.
In the scene of this novel, mood of fog ,rock and mountains impressed me. Because it reminded me Mt Osore in Japan. Famous female shaman (channeling) are doing their spiritual activity there.
Talking with coyote , it was "Stopping the World" , I thought the climax of this story was easy a little.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Please stop the world !


















(nikon d70;common buzzard)

I threw many books away recently. I would get rid of a certain English book which I got for nothing and remained to be unread.
This book's author was "Carlos Castaneda" I didn't know the name at all. Before getting rid of this, I decided to read it a little.(JOURNEY TO IXITRAN)

I search "Carlos Castaneda"by wikipedia, and I discovered it recommended by "Sinichi Nakazawa" Who was The Most influence person in the spiritual boom in Japan. Now Many Japanese people remember his name with "Shoko Asahara".
I have no interest in so called"New Age"and "Spiritual". So whether Castaneda's story was a fiction or not ,either will do for me.
Subjective ego has been philosophical problem since modern age, and Metamorphosis of ego is a commonplace theme today too.