- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: William Morrow & Company; Reprint edition (July 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 006092554X
- ISBN-13: 978-0060925543
- Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 14.4 x 1.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 926,441 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Plus, get an extra £5 Gift Certificate when you trade in books worth £10 or more before June 30, 2012. Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. |
Product details |
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
‘Castaneda has become one of the godfathers of the New Age movement… He is addressing the central issues of our time.’ LOS ANGELES TIMES
‘Carlos Castaneda is one of the most profound and influential thinkers of this century. His insights are paving the direction for the future evolution of human consciousness. We should all be deeply indebted to him.’ DEEPAK CHOPRA
‘We are incredibly fortunate to have Carlos Castaneda’s books… One can’t exaggerate the significance of what he has done.’ NEW YORK TIMES
‘It’s impossible to view the world in quite the same way after reading him…If Castaneda is correct, there is another world, a sometimes beautiful and sometimes frightening world, right before our eyes at the moment- if only we could see.’ CHICAGO TRIBUNE
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.Product Description
Carlos Castaneda was one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the 20th century. In this stunning new jacket edition of his bestselling book, he takes the reader on an amazing journey of the soul via the teachings of the great sorcerer don Juan and reveals that there are worlds existing within our own that can be visited through dreams.
The Art of Dreaming is an extraordinary and exciting adventure of the psyche unlike any other, which takes the reader on an amazing journey of the soul via the teachings of the great sorcerer, don Juan.
Carlos Castaneda reveals that, like the layers of an onion, there are worlds existing within our own that can be visited through dreams.
Using powerful ancient techniques to alter his state of consciousness, Castaneda travels into new worlds and encounters remarkable but dangerous beings; he conjoins energy bodies with another dreamer in order to dream and explore together, and thus acquires new knowledge and understanding.
Castaneda’s compelling writing enables the reader to participate fully in his eye-opening and thrilling discoveries and explorations.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
First Sentence
"Don Juan stressed, time and time again, that everything he was teaching me had been envisioned and worked out by men he referred to as sorcerers of antiquity." Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
"Don Juan stressed, time and time again, that everything he was teaching me had been envisioned and worked out by men he referred to as sorcerers of antiquity." Read the first page
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample PagesConcordance
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've read Casteneda's books for close on 35 years. I'm certain they are 'fiction', or lets say a tale based on some kind of fact. And I have to state I'm unhappy to see the development of the New Age, with it's wishy washy thinking and it's 'Harry Potter' sensationalism. And of course I'm unhappy to see Casteneda dragged into that bag, because I think association with the New Age stuff debases Casteneda.
I smile at the irony then, of my, if not 'believing' then TRUSTING Carlos Casteneda implicitly. I think he's pretty much on the money. It's a gut feeling. Years ago I found my hands in a dream, just like Casteneda describes, and so I began Lucid Dreaming. This practice has changed me more than any other single event or experience I've had. It's one thing to read this stuff and speculate, another to actually have the experiences pretty much as he describes for oneself. I'm a rational person, I could say he programmed my dreams but the truth is I had similar experiences of non everyday reality from when I was a child and one childhood and pre linguistic memory in particular predicates my trusting him.
I have picked the books up and been skeptical time after time. Not only did I read the damning critiques of Richard de Mille (who's actually rather kind to Carlos)I just struggled with my own doubts as to the validity of what I experienced. Pretty much like Carlos himself!. The trouble with the critiques is that they all treat the works as being flawed because Carlos wasn't in Mexico on the date he says he was blah blah blah, they are concerned with tiny empirical details but they never examine WHAT he says, they never actually look at his or don Juans 'explanations' (I don't feel right calling then his 'metaphysics'). If you are already a lucid dreamer and haven't read this book, then it's worth doing so because you'll recognise the 'landscape'. If you're not already a dreamer then this book may be a threshold for you.
Eitherway, all his books make wonderful reading. Even if you just take them as a story, they are entertaining, well written and insightful in many revealing ways. If on the otherhand you wake up one night looking at your hands, then realise you're in a dream, or if you dream you 'wake up' back in the very same hospital ward coming round from an operation you had back in 1970, only to wonder if the life you thought you had lived from that date on has all been a dream while you were under the anaesthetic, then you realise you live in a Universe that is suddenly larger, richer and more complex than the one you left behind.
Ha ha ha Casteneda has this effect upon you, and I for one am profoundly glad I've stuck with him.
I smile at the irony then, of my, if not 'believing' then TRUSTING Carlos Casteneda implicitly. I think he's pretty much on the money. It's a gut feeling. Years ago I found my hands in a dream, just like Casteneda describes, and so I began Lucid Dreaming. This practice has changed me more than any other single event or experience I've had. It's one thing to read this stuff and speculate, another to actually have the experiences pretty much as he describes for oneself. I'm a rational person, I could say he programmed my dreams but the truth is I had similar experiences of non everyday reality from when I was a child and one childhood and pre linguistic memory in particular predicates my trusting him.
I have picked the books up and been skeptical time after time. Not only did I read the damning critiques of Richard de Mille (who's actually rather kind to Carlos)I just struggled with my own doubts as to the validity of what I experienced. Pretty much like Carlos himself!. The trouble with the critiques is that they all treat the works as being flawed because Carlos wasn't in Mexico on the date he says he was blah blah blah, they are concerned with tiny empirical details but they never examine WHAT he says, they never actually look at his or don Juans 'explanations' (I don't feel right calling then his 'metaphysics'). If you are already a lucid dreamer and haven't read this book, then it's worth doing so because you'll recognise the 'landscape'. If you're not already a dreamer then this book may be a threshold for you.
Eitherway, all his books make wonderful reading. Even if you just take them as a story, they are entertaining, well written and insightful in many revealing ways. If on the otherhand you wake up one night looking at your hands, then realise you're in a dream, or if you dream you 'wake up' back in the very same hospital ward coming round from an operation you had back in 1970, only to wonder if the life you thought you had lived from that date on has all been a dream while you were under the anaesthetic, then you realise you live in a Universe that is suddenly larger, richer and more complex than the one you left behind.
Ha ha ha Casteneda has this effect upon you, and I for one am profoundly glad I've stuck with him.
56 of 61 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I came to this book from an interest in lucid dreaming (becoming aware that you are dreaming while you are dreaming) and am also a long time fan of Castaneda. The book gave me some specific techniques to use in my dreaming practice, which is what I wanted. The early chapters were slow to get going, but as usual by the end of a Castaneda book I had entered his world and felt closer to those worlds that seem to be just beyond my everyday experience. Some chapters were hard to take, describing dream experiences that I found incredible or I simply did not want to believe them. I hope they are metaphorical descriptions, but as with so much of Castaneda the joy is wondering whether his descriptions of shamanic practices are real or not.
If you are new to Castaneda, then I think there are better works, and I would personally recommend his first books. If you have read Castaneda before (and like him) and are interested in dreaming techniques then this book has good coverage of the area. If you just want to get into lucid dreaming I would recommend Dreaming Realities by John Overdurf and Julie Silverthorn as a much more explicit book of techniques to use.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Each of Castanedas' books are more awesome than the one proceeding. They are taking you on a journey. Each book takes you deeper into the whole essence of the magical/spiritual journey which Castenada was traveling, often going back over the same time period as covered in previous books but on a deeper level. like peeling away the layers of an onion. Castaneda is sometimes accused of having fabricated what he writes about, if this were true and he really was capable of making up such profound stories, containing such wisdom and spiritual awareness, then he would be of possibly greater genius than having experienced it, and his books equally worth reading. This book, for myself has been the best yet, but I thought that about all the others as I read them. (I recommend reading them all in the correct order to build up the full picture of what he's communicating). The Art of Dreaming, for the first time presents Castaneda as an awesome guy, experiencing things which even the great Don Yuan had not encountered. In the previous books he can come over as a bit stupid and slow to pick up on things, asking what seem dumb questions, although I think this may be his way of helping us to grasp the huge concepts he deals with. These books are too profound to really describe in a review, they have to be read. I would like to say everyone should read this and all of his books, but I believe there is a right time for everthing. Books don't come better than this. (in my opinion!)
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Intriguing but not transcendant!
This book is interesting, and it gave me a better insight into what dreams mean and how they are perceived by Shamans as other realities which are created through intention by... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Nathan Strange
Tha Art of Dreaming
I fell asleep!! ha ha. No, if you like Casteneada then you will like this. I am reading them again after 30 odd years and can now see where he has got many of his ideas. Read more
Published on 14 May 2010 by D. A. Harber
A Hidden Meaning in Castaneda's Books
The stories about sorcerers who are determined to outwit death and to `merge with the intent of infinity,' as related in the several books by Carlos Castaneda, could be said to be... Read more
Published on 14 Nov 2009 by Eyrie
A dream in a dream
Carlos Casteneda's books are entertaining and this is no exception. As we laugh at his exploits we begin to laugh at ourselves. Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2006 by Mr. Thomas Llewellyn
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Books > History > North America > Native Americans
- Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Thought & Practice > New Age
- Books > Religion & Spirituality > New Age > Earth-Based Religions > Shamanism
- Books > Religion & Spirituality > New Age > Occult > Shamanism
- Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences > Multicultural Studies > Indigenous Peoples
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
