Word: castaneda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Truth reveals its secrets only to those who search for it, and no one will ever corner the market. Each age produces its own men of destiny who recognize their role and play their inevitable part in the gigantic cosmic drama that is life. Bless Castaneda [March 5] and his kind! May their number increase! Perhaps they will lead us out of the wilderness of this plane and into that which is our true home, or at least alert those unaware that more is happening to many who are ready than has been reported by the media of every description...
...Comfort (3) ¶5-1'm O.K., You're O.K., Harris (5) ¶6-All Creatures Great and Small, Herriot (7) ¶7-' 'Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye, O'Donnell, Powers, McCarthy (8) ¶8-Journey to Ixtlan, Castaneda (6) ¶9-The Implosion Conspiracy, Nizer ¶10-Soldier, Lieut. Colonel Anthony B. Herbert, U.S.A. (ret.) with James T. Wooten...
...Atkins' Diet Revolution, Atkins (1) 2-The Best and the Brightest, Halberstam (2) 3-The Joy of Sex, Comfort (4) 4-Harry S. Truman, Truman (3) 5-I'm O.K., You're O.K., Harris (5) 6-Journey to Ixtlan, Castaneda (7) 7-All Creatures Great and Small, Herriot (8) 8-"Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,&#quot;O'Donnell, Powers, McCarthy (6) 9-The Manipulated Man, Vilar (10) 10-Soldier, Lieut. Colonel Anthony B. Herbert, U.S.A. (ret.) with James T. Wooten
...take as reality, as well as their notions of the world's rational possibilities, is determined by consensus, in effect by a social contract that varies from culture to culture. Through history, the road has been hard for any person who questions its fine print?especially if, like Castaneda, he tries to persuade others to accept his vision...
Anthropology by its nature deals with different descriptions, and hence literally with separate realities, within different cultures. As Castaneda's colleague Edmund Carpenter of Adelphi College notes, "Native people have many separate realities. They believe in a multiverse, or a biverse, but not a universe as we do." Yet even this much scholarly relativism is indigestible for many people who like to reassure themselves that there is only one world and that the "validity" of a culture's interpretations can and should be measured only against this norm. Any myth, they would say, can conveniently be seen as an embryonic...