Explorations IV

Critiques of Castaneda's Philosophy

• 1999 First Annual Sustained Action Convention, by GS
• A Menagerie of Points: Alleged Energy Structures, by DW
• Assemblage Point and Flyers: A Critical Analysis, by DW
• Assemblage Point, Dreaming and Memories, by DW
• Castaneda and Psychic Research
• Castaneda Meets Muktananda . . . and generates a whole lot of questions about don Juan's 'departure' and the 'apprenticeships' of Florinda, et al., by CD
• Castaneda's 'Specialness Disease', by DW
• Celibacy: Comparing Castaneda and Gurdjieff, by CD
• Centers of Energy: Or, Believe This, by DW
• Compassion for the Remaining Staff at Cleargreen: The Difficulties of Emerging from a Cult, by CD
• Culture Watch: One Man's Guru Is Another Man's Fraud, or Worse, October 21, 2001 Newday article, by SM
• Early Book Inconsistencies, by JD
• Erasing Personal Integrity and other ‘Sorceric Techniques’, by DW
• Inorganic Life, by DW
• Metafiction? Castaneda maintained ‘I invented Nothing', by CD
• More on the Placebo Effect, by JD
• Native American Elders' Reactions to Castaneda and 'don Juan', by LZ & SM
• Nogales Bus Depot Encounter, by GC
• Ode to an Artist, by RS
• On the need to explore new avenues, by DW
• Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny, by DW
• Recapitulation Reappraised: A conversation from the Sustained Action Mailing List
• Science and Sorcery, by DW
• Story Inconsistencies, by DW
• Syntax of the Mother Tongue, by JD
• Additional Thoughts on Syntax of the Mother Tongue, by LB
• The Best Explanations Available? by DW
• The Core Myths are Intertwined with the Practices, by DW
• The Gnat and the Sphinx: Just Literary Cousins?, by RS
• The Non-Guru of the Non-Cult, by DW
• The Placebo Effect: Why Various Techniques 'Work', by DW
• 'There Will be No Scandals,' by DW
• Too Many Lies, by DW
• True Believers believe in ‘Energy’, by DL
• When Myths Break Down: An Observation on Language, by LB
• Yaqui Women Excerpt re Castaneda, by LZ

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