The Eagle's Gift
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (602 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0671230875 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 316 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Praise for the groundbreaking work of bestselling author Carlos Castaneda "Extraordinary in every sense of the word." (The New York Times)"An unparalleled breakthrough Remarkable (Los Angeles Times)"Hypnotic reading." (Chigago tribune)"It is impossible to view the world in quite the same way." (Chicago Tribune)"Excquisite Stunning Fresh, unexpected visions with the logic of dreams." (Detroit Free Press)"Taken together Castaneda's books form a work among the best that the science of anthropology has produce." (The New York Times Book Review)
Carlos Castaneda takes the reader into the very heart of sorcery, challenging both imagination and reason, shaking the very foundations of our belief in what is "natural" and "logical." His landscape is full of terrors and mysterious forces, as sharply etched as a flash of lightning on the deserts and mountains where don Juan takes him to pursue the sorcerer's knowledge--the knowledge that it is the Eagle that gives us, at our births, a spark of awareness, that it expects to reclaim at the end of our lives and which the sorcerer, through his discipline, fights to retain. Castaneda describes how don Juan and his party, left this world--"the warriors of don Juan's party had caught me for an eternal instant, before they vanished into the total light, before the Eagle let them go through"--and how he, himself, upon witnessing such a sight, jumped into the abyss.
. His works helped define the 1960's and usher in the New Age movement. Born in 1925 in Peru, anthropologist Carlos Castaneda wrote a total of 15 books, which sold 8 million copies worldwide and were published in 17 different languages. In his writing, Castaneda describes the teaching of Don Juan, a Yaqui sorcerer and shaman. Even after his mysterious death in California in1998, his books continue to inspire and influence his many devoted fans
Five Stars fave!!. The Scary Eagle I was a big fan of Castaneda when his first books came out. I was in college then. Two years ago, I set out to read all of his books, first to last, in order. I highly recommend that exercise.This was one of the better Castaneda books. It's always dicey to write about Castaneda and the "r" word: did this really happen?I am inclined to s. JF said absurd and not absurd. of course to any everday rational person, the world of castenda is absurd. how could it be otherwise? nevertheless, read this book with disbelief suspended, and its a great read. for those who have persevered through the previous volumes of carlos' introduction to the ways of 'power', now comes the nub of the argument. the heart of the