Eriksson, Jörgen I | THE ACTIVE SIDE OF INFINITY : CASTANEDA AND SHAMANISM : Castaneda and shamanism

Boken analyserar shamanismen i Castanedas verk och erbjuder insikter från en nordisk shamanisk tradition.

• Utforskar Castaneda och shamanismens djup.

• Textanalys med 40 års erfarenhet av shamanism.

• Häftat band, utgiven 2020.

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Bindning: Häftat band

Bokförlag: Norrshaman
ISBN: 9789163990779

Omfång: 92
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2020-01-27

Originaltitel: Oändlighetens aktiva sida: Castaneda och shamanismen

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Castaneda's 12 books on his apprenticeship with the Yaqui sorcerer Juan Matus contain fabulous stories but most of all an abundance of shamanic wisdom. According to Jörgen I Eriksson, who has worked in the Nordic shamanic tradition for 40 years, Castaneda’s works represent deep shamanism from which present-day students of shamanism has much to learn. But it is necessary to keep Castaneda at arm’s length. In this book Eriksson tries to extract the very best of Castaneda and in a way liberate Castaneda from Castaneda. Although Castaneda himself always refused to be described as a shaman I don’t hesitate about categorizing him in that way, especially when considering the impact that his books have had and still have. He was not working as a healer but he fulfilled and developed other aspects of the shaman’s traditional role, foremost as a spiritual inspirer and wisdom keeper. Furthermore he had a special way of writing that in itself can be characterized as shamanic. Reading Castaneda is mind expanding; the reading in itself might induce an altered state of consciousness. Castaneda didn’t write about shamanism, he wrote shamanism. When entering Castaneda’s world a certain precaution and a critical distance is recommendable and my book is an attempt at de-mystifying and de-dramatizing Castaneda, putting him into a comprehensive shamanic context. The books in their entirety however contain fantastic life wisdom and many possible entrances to shamanism and Dreamtime. Every new reading seems to open up new perspectives into an almost inexhaustible source. We owe Castaneda many thanks for making this magnificent path of knowledge available to the world. From a plain literary perspective Castaneda does fit well into the Latin American magical realism as one of its most enthralling authors. My book is a textual analysis of Castaneda based on my own experiences of 40 years of shamanic work in the Nordic tradition. My ambition is to provide a guide into Castaneda’s authorship that offers a grand adventure to the patient reader. My hope is that it might work as a manual and a guide to some of the gateways into Dreamtime.

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