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    <body><![CDATA[anthropology or fabrication?  doesn't matter--can't be too much carpe diem literature and this is excellent--i've loved page 88 for many decades-- ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was  hard to follow, I found myself asking wether or not what was being read was actually occuring or if it was part of a story.  I still enjoyed it, the book has the potential to open a mind and explore different dimensions outside of this world.  I really think I would have captured more...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53550084">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the volume following Castaneda's revised doctoral dissertation, The Teachings of Don Juan (1968), and preceding Journey to Ixtlan (1972).  The three were eventually issued as a cloth trilogy.  I started the series in paperback, but found the trilogy soon after and purchased it, probably at S...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54494091">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The second book in the Don Juan series delves deeper into the world dealing with peyote a power plant.  This is probably the most favorable in my opinion of all the Castaneda books I've read thus far.  For some reason I've been reading his books backwards in accordance to their release dates going f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32182917">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[2009.0409-2009.0409<br/>In connections to <em>Lost (TV show; 2004)</em> 5 stars at 50%, (the reason i read the book).<br/>For Literary merit 3 stars as 25%<br/>For interesting ideas and general'creepiness' 5 stars out of 25%<br/><br/>5 stars[50%:] + 3 stars[25%:]+ 5 stars[25%:]= 4.25 stars[100%:] (round...]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In this book, Castaneda resumes his apprenticeship, determined   to go deeper still into don Juan's world, to learn to  see beyond the   surface realities of life. He continues his dialogue with don Juan,   intuitive, wise, demanding, and fierce in his struggle to see and know   beyond the vision of ordinary men; and himself, a man of courage and   intelligence who submits himself to don Juan's teaching, to enter into   another world as a participant rather than an observer. A Separate   Reality is a work that is at once the discovery of a hitherto   unrecorded body of wisdom and knowledge and the story of a remarkable   and shattering personal experience.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am going to give the same review to all the Carlos Castaneda books I read in that series, simply because they are all outstanding.  I was lucky to come across Castaneda very early on my magickal path.  My spells and rituals have always relied on the power of intent, and I have found no better educ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6235415">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A an outsider-turned-apprentice's look into native Mexican Indian (Yaqui) spirituality, which involves heavy use of psychedelic drugs (mainly peyote and mushrooms).  Most of the book is fun to read, especially the passages where the narrator is having a really psychedelic experience--yet, I didn't r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3619479">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In this book, Castaneda resumes his apprenticeship, determined   to go deeper still into don Juan's world, to learn to  see beyond the   surface realities of life. He continues his dialogue with don Juan,   intuitive, wise, demanding, and fierce in his struggle to see and know   beyond the vision of ordinary men; and himself, a man of courage and   intelligence who submits himself to don Juan's teaching, to enter into   another world as a participant rather than an observer. A Separate   Reality is a work that is at once the discovery of a hitherto   unrecorded body of wisdom and knowledge and the story of a remarkable   and shattering personal experience.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book as a teenage on the recommendation of my then boyfriend.  I remember parts of the book were very interesting and other parts that made no sense to me.  It could have been my age and maturity and I have often thought of reading it again.  It just never seems to reach the top of the s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60718860">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In this book, Castaneda resumes his apprenticeship, determined   to go deeper still into don Juan's world, to learn to  see beyond the   surface realities of life. He continues his dialogue with don Juan,   intuitive, wise, demanding, and fierce in his struggle to see and know   beyond the vision of ordinary men; and himself, a man of courage and   intelligence who submits himself to don Juan's teaching, to enter into   another world as a participant rather than an observer. A Separate   Reality is a work that is at once the discovery of a hitherto   unrecorded body of wisdom and knowledge and the story of a remarkable   and shattering personal experience.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A bit slower moving than The Teaching's of Don Juan, but just as interesting and insightful. It talks about some different ideas, mainly the preoccupation with the rational and logical and how that must be dissolved in order to truly &quot;see&quot;.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I must clarify: after reading this book and enjoying it so much i found more about carlos castaneda and realized that i didn't want to mess with the good thing i had- i decided that was that and i wouldn't read any of his other books. in a separate reality castaneda successfully crafted a tenuous de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16699980">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In this book, Castaneda resumes his apprenticeship, determined   to go deeper still into don Juan's world, to learn to  see beyond the   surface realities of life. He continues his dialogue with don Juan,   intuitive, wise, demanding, and fierce in his struggle to see and know   beyond the vision of ordinary men; and himself, a man of courage and   intelligence who submits himself to don Juan's teaching, to enter into   another world as a participant rather than an observer. A Separate   Reality is a work that is at once the discovery of a hitherto   unrecorded body of wisdom and knowledge and the story of a remarkable   and shattering personal experience.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well... this is the Carlos Castaneda that mainly revolves around drugs. Carlos is one of those really irritating people who doesn't really listen to anything he's being told. After tens years of apprenticeship I would think his character would grow and change... but that hasn't happened. I know it d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55405684">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;A Separate Reality&quot; was in my opinion better than &quot;The Teachings Of Don Juan&quot;; however, it builds upon concepts and situations presented in that book, so I wouldn't recommend starting with this one.  Not as much psychotropic-experience material in this one, but this is because C...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13695006">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;A man of knowledge is free...he has no honor, no dignity, no family, no home, no country, but only life to be lived.&quot;<p>--don Juan<p>In 1961 a young anthropologist subjected himself to an extraordinary apprenticeship to bring back a fascinating glimpse of a Yaqui Indian's world of &quot;non-ordinary reality&quot; and the difficult and dangerous road a man must travel to become &quot;a man of knowledge.&quot; Yet on the bring of that world, challenging to all that we believe, he drew back.<p>Then in 1968, Carlos Castaneda returned to Mexico, to don Juan and his hallucinogenic drugs, and to a world of experience no man from our Western civilization had ever entered before.<p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[otro de los libros que ayudaron a forjar la personita que salia de la infancia para entrar en el mundo de la adolescencia...<br/>maravilloso en esa epoca.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In this book, Castaneda resumes his apprenticeship, determined   to go deeper still into don Juan's world, to learn to  see beyond the   surface realities of life. He continues his dialogue with don Juan,   intuitive, wise, demanding, and fierce in his struggle to see and know   beyond the vision of ordinary men; and himself, a man of courage and   intelligence who submits himself to don Juan's teaching, to enter into   another world as a participant rather than an observer. A Separate   Reality is a work that is at once the discovery of a hitherto   unrecorded body of wisdom and knowledge and the story of a remarkable   and shattering personal experience.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting insight to sorcery but not in the way most of us think about it. Involves the use of a lot of drugs which could be a turn off for some.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Pathetic attempt to restart a failed pseudo-philosophy by tapping into the &quot;virtual reality&quot; craze of the late 80's/early 90's.  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In this book, Castaneda resumes his apprenticeship, determined   to go deeper still into don Juan's world, to learn to  see beyond the   surface realities of life. He continues his dialogue with don Juan,   intuitive, wise, demanding, and fierce in his struggle to see and know   beyond the vision of ordinary men; and himself, a man of courage and   intelligence who submits himself to don Juan's teaching, to enter into   another world as a participant rather than an observer. A Separate   Reality is a work that is at once the discovery of a hitherto   unrecorded body of wisdom and knowledge and the story of a remarkable   and shattering personal experience.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite the controversy surrounding this book I found it to be a worthwhile trip.  Not the most engaging writing style.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an awesome book! For the most part, I couldn't stop reading it. In a different nutshell, <em>A Separate Reality</em> deals with the Yaquian indian perspective on the phenomenal world. Here, <em>seeing</em> the world as 'it really is' entails a perceptual mode of experiencing reality through non-ordinary mean...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2085254">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This one changed my life and gave me the words for what I believed in already]]></body>
    
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