The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of
Mexico Their Thoughts About Life
Death And The Universe by Carlos
Castaneda
Compilation Book
WORLD-RENOWNED BESTSELLING AUTHOR CARLOS
CASTANEDAS SELECTION OF HIS WRITINGS ON THE SHAMANS OF
ANCIENT MEXICO
Near the end of his life, Carlos Castaneda gathered together and
reviewed his seminal works on his training as a shaman initiate, recorded
in a literary career that spans over thirty years. The result is this
groundbreaking collection of quotations -- the essence of Carlos
Castaneda, drawn from his landmark volumes including The Teachings of
Don Juan, Journey to Ixtlan, A Separate Reality, and Tales of Power.
Enhanced with an introduction and original commentary by the author, this

powerful work illuminates the shamans life as never before. Castanedas
words explore how the ancient shamans could literally touch and direct the
wheel of time -- a profound yet pragmatic tradition that can be felt even in
our day.
Personal Review: The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico
Their Thoughts About Life Death And The Universe by Carlos
Castaneda
This book is a distillation of all of Castaneda's work providing purported
quotes from the Yaqui Sorcerer Don Juan. Much has been spoken about
Castaneda's life and his body of work. Many assert that his books are
fiction, with no basis in authentic wisdom teachings. Others describe
Castaneda in mythological language, and compare him to spiritual
teachers in other traditions.
My interest in the work follows a life long association working with
indigenous peoples, and living among them; Castaneda's propositions
comport with the teachings I learned among indigenous people still living in
their original ways.
Tom Brown the author has taught these same methods for years at his
wilderness school. So we have other sources that share a confluence in
the wisdom.
Perhaps Don Juan is a composite figure, who was used as a symbol to
convey the teachings Castaneda wished to impart. Who can say for sure?
All I know is the wisdom is congruent with the teachings I've learned over a
twenty year period traveling the world and entering deeply into these
cultures and native ways, and learning from Tom Brown.
The book contains brief quotes about sorcery from a Toltec perspective:
meaning the quotes attributed to Don Juan form a relevant body of
knowledge on energy. And definitive practices for attaining the life of what
Castaneda and Don Juan refer to as the life of a warrior.
The goal of working with energy is to manifest certain qualities like living
with impeccable character. Stalking awareness; or meditating continuously
on the way our minds works to control your dysfunctional thought patterns;
along with propositions for using our intent to dream.
Don Juan advised this as a necessary precondition for the sake of
controlling the thought process, and what he referred to as "stopping the
world." What he meant by these propositions is to create a paranormal
doorway allowing us to see energy in its full provocative dance, void of any
cultural interpretations whatsoever.
Along with the recognition that we are dreaming in every moment, we will
manifest our vibrational energy into our own experiences with every

thought we think, or word we speak; if we consequently desire to change
outmoded and dysfunctional character traits, we need to first get a handle
on our thinking, which is shaped by cultural glosses, and social
conditioning.
The aim of living life from a toltec perspective is therefore a full time
activity, much like the Buddhist concept of walking-the-razors edge to
ascertain total freedom from the thinking mind.
In this place, we are no longer engaged with routines of contemporary
value. This work takes one to the edge of personal boundaries, with the
aim of throwing us off our ego game, stopping the world, and seeing.
Seeing with a capital S. In this altered state of awareness we glimpse the
unknown or void, without our social safety nets. (A good metaphor for what
I speak might be the Michael Douglas film, The Game.) After we cross this
threshold, our practice unfolds in an entirely new way; we are free to live
"exuberantly" where we are the authors of our lives not beholden to social
norms, conditioning, or collective emasculation.
When we are no longer under the yoke of bondage, the world we were
given by cultural forces is transformed; our life then goes forward under an
entirely new praxis, without the attendant concerns of an ordinary person.
Once we have crossed the threshold, we have transcended our cultural
indoctrination, made up of false and meaningless glosses, each intended
to keep us in bondage and disempowered.
This is the difference between a warrior and an average person:
essentially, the warrior has opted to take the red pill, if I might use a
contemporary metaphor from the film the Matrix.
No longer under the illusions created by culture or our collective
conditioning, we are free to create our own lives anew.
The quotes (or sayings) in the book offer us another doorway to
contemplate a different set of propositions, and ways of being-in-the-world.
Follow these propositions, and your life may never be the same again.
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