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In reply to the discussion: Reality Has Endorsed Bernie Sanders [View all]comradebillyboy
(10,560 posts)79. A Separate Reality
A Separate Reality: Further Conversations With Don Juan is a book written by anthropologist/author Carlos Castaneda, published in 1971, concerning the events that took place during his apprenticeship with a Yaqui Indian Sorcerer, Don Juan Matus, between 1960 and 1965.
In the book Castaneda continues his description of his apprenticeship under the tutelage of Don Juan. As in his previous book, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, Castaneda describes the experiences he has with Don Juan while under the influence of the psychotropic plants that Don Juan offered him, peyote (Lophophora williamsii) and a smokable mixture of what Castaneda believed to be, among other plants, dried mushroom of the genus Psilocybe. The main focus of the book centered on Don Juan's attempts at getting Carlos to See, a practice best described as, in Castaneda's own words, "perceiving energy directly as it flows through the universe".
The book contains an introduction, an epilogue and two separate parts. Part One, "The Preliminaries of 'Seeing'", describes his re-initiation into the apprenticeship from which he withdrew in late 1965, and also describes his introduction to another brujo (sorcerer) named Don Genaro. Part Two, "The Task of 'Seeing'", elaborates on the mental processes involved with Seeing, and begins with Castaneda realizing that the plants are a necessary tool to arrive at Seeing.
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This Has Been Another Episode Of Lame Comments From No One In Particular, Sir
The Magistrate
Mar 2020
#1
Most Bernie supporters ADD value to America, "Bernie Bro" trolls prefer to SUBTRACT and destroy
LVZ
Mar 2020
#42
It's not helpful if one prefers a health care system based on profit over the public good.
Uncle Joe
Mar 2020
#11
Well Sir it's not that I doubt your sincerity, just your level of motivation.
Uncle Joe
Mar 2020
#30
No one has EVER demonstrated that we have a health care "system" (a misnomer) that is based....
George II
Mar 2020
#48
As my favorite comedian, George Carlin, would say - a one-armed man in a rowboat.
George II
Mar 2020
#49
Do you mean the crossroads where Bernie doesn't receive the presidential nomination?
TexasTowelie
Mar 2020
#13
community health clinics are financed by an amendment to the aca that bernie wrote and pushed thru
questionseverything
Mar 2020
#52
i am suggestting don't bring up senate votes records if your candidate's record is lacking
questionseverything
Apr 2020
#90
i am not telling you what to post but its dishonest of you to want to dis bernies senate record and
questionseverything
Apr 2020
#99
Wrong, "every other country" did NOT do that a long time ago. How's it working in Italy and the UK?
George II
Mar 2020
#50
Other countries started a long time ago.... from scratch... when health care cost much less
ehrnst
Mar 2020
#65
The author of this piece called Hillary a "genteel, insidious bigot" in Jul '16
mathematic
Mar 2020
#18
Just because she is an an African-American academic, does not make her words correct.
sheshe2
Mar 2020
#63
Reality sidelines Bernie. He doesn't need to sit on the bench inhopes of being put back in the game.
UncleNoel
Mar 2020
#59