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Community Reviews. In The Second Ring, Carlos has his own appointment with power. But Don Juan has provided a worthy partner called La Gorda, another former apprentice, whose training is more complete than his own. Together they become a classic detective team in the phantasmagoric world of the Nagual.

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For those who have been following the adventures of Carlos Castaneda into the esoteric knowledge practiced by the Mexican don Juan, I'll run over the plot of the new book.

Don Juan has gone to some other world, and the emphasis turns now tu his women disciples. Carlos drives to see dofia Soledad (Madame Solitude). It turns out she is not beneficent. Don Juan, she says, advised her to kill Carlos by stealing his luminosity and, so by her soul‐eating, rise closer to the spiritual world. She tries. Her enormous demonic dog at one point starts chew up the upholstery of Carlos's small car while he is up on the roof. Later, Carlos's double comes out his head; he is not a mild‐mannered scholar but super‐male authority figure. He hits doha Soledad on the forehead and almost kills her. The other four women disciples now arrive — Josefine, Rosa, Lidia and the Fat Girl (La Gorda). They want to gobble his power too, but Carlos wins. He and the girls then have some encounters with other‐worldly beings, and some Hobbit stuff enters: “I felt a pang of terror in the pit my stomach . . . there were four of them and they were entities, as real as anything in the world.” Two male disciples arrive, and there is a long conversation among the males who debate whether or not at the end of the last book they all jumped into the abyss. The four women disciples reappear and after more encounters with great snuffing animals and much intellectual conversation, all five practice power gazing.

Whether there is a don Juan or not, Castaneda's five books embody a myth. The myth, broken into statements, says: You can gain power by picking the brains of men in cultures more primitive than ours. To gain power Western people have to reject all the perceptions of reason. No work on your shadow, or dependent side, is necessary. The male does not have to develop his feminine side, and relations with women are not important. But, as Blake would say, the contraries of these four statements are true, namely: 1. Only by reaching to the work of a more highly articulated culture can your own interior energy come forth. 2. The rational structure of our culture is a form of energy. The student goes through it, not around it. 3. No dependent person can make progress. 4. Spiritual instruction without the presence of women is worthless.

Don Juan's teaching of a Californian (Castaneda) couldn't possibly work anyway because the whole experience of grounding is missing. No one can ground on someone else's land. Inside, the Westerner has ground through Western culture, either present or past. By his second book, it was clear that Castaneda was making up the conversations. It's a hoax. Joyce Carol Oates noticed it in 1972, and Weston LaBarre, the most distinguished researcher in the peyote field, called Castaneda a charlatan without mincing around. Castaneda as a novelist has the right to try a long novel in parts with an imaginary Mexican shaman as a hero, why not? Anthropologists are the ones embarrassed. The Anthropology Department at U.C.L.A. gave Castaneda a Doctorate in 1973 for “Journey Ixtlan,” the most faked of all his books.

There is something charming and good‐natured about Castaneda's mass‐paperback instruction. He doesn't insist on himself, as some Asian gurus do, but cancels himself, even going so far as to present himself as stupid. He has an interest in ideas, though he doesn't live them. In between books, he ransacks the work of genuine researchers like Michael Harner, Weston LaBarre, George Foster, Heinrich Kliiver, Mircea Eliade, Gordon Wasson and George Gurdjieff, and dishes out a sample goulash with new vegetables, standing behind the counter of what Turngpa Rinpoche accurately calls the spiritual supermarket. Richard de Mille wrote a book called “Castaneda's Journey “ last year that documented Castaneda's thefts, and that should satisfy anyone still in doubt. Castaneda good‐naturedly gives the capitalist college students what they want — fantasies of gaining power without becoming more compassionate or more honest. Ne•uda had a vague sense that the United States as a nation longed for exactly that sort of power, and Chile found out what it was like when we found our “power spot.” Castaneda's little essay in the first book on the four enemies of power was lovely and still is. Good little lectures are scattered around all his books. His not‐doing is a harmless rephrasing of Taoist ideas. His “tonalnagual” concept, which describes the gap between the ordinary world and a mysterious nonverbal world, owes a lot to the work of split‐brain researchers in rational laboratories and to sophisticates like Robert Ornstein. He then attributed these ideas to an American slangspeaking Mexican native. But his finding of these ideas shows good taste. What I don't like so well is the air of regression that surrounds the language.

The attitude that surrounds all of Castaneda's teaching is the attitude of the pre‐genital stage, the stage Freud identified as the anal. The absence of women in the first four books is striking. There is not a single thinking woman, and not one woman at all lovable in the way the frolicsome men are. Genital energy is not felt anywhere. Richard de Mille makes the startling suggestion that Castaneda's books are derived from George MacDonald's pro-Christian fantasies, published in the 1890's. MacDonald's “ Phantastes”and “Lilith” were reprinted in 1969 with an introduction by C.S. Lewis. MacDonald and his student C.S. Lewis wrote their fantasies in the pregenital stage, the anal stage, disguised in C.S. Lewis's case as Christian morality, a disguise, which Wilhelm Reich would say is transparent. C.S. Lewis is just as afraid of genitality as Castaneda, and toward the end of his life C.S. Lewis's profound hatred of women began to come

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So what is curious in Castaneda is that teaching created by men and women climbing a powerful spiritual stair, or by men and women living in a joyful genital stage, are presented in the language of the anal stage. Naturally this shows in content, where no one ever goes off behind the bushes without being noticed. But the regression shows most clearly in Or: poor vocabulary, the thin texture of language, the poverty of metaphor, the monotonous way people talk, the tawdriness of image. The use of cliches deadens all of Castaneda's teaching.

There is a cult instruction available in the man‐woman stage, which Freud called the genital, and among its teachers are the earliest author of Tristan and Isolde and the Sufis. When an Englishman regresses, he goes to the Middle Ages, to chivalry and Hobbit crusades; when an American regresses, he goes to Mexico. Castaneda drives to the anal stage. As his books go on, Castaneda learns more and more interesting ideas, but the regression deepens. I had- the oddest sense in reading “The Second Ring of Power” that I was not in a house in Mexico at all, but in a kindergarten, that the “little sisters” (the four women) are his companions in kindergarten and dona Soledad the Witch is his kindergarten teacher: “Don Juan said that in view of my total lack of control over the forces which decide my destiny, my only possible freedom in that ravine consisted in my tying my shoe laces impeccably.” Here's a passage where La Gorda, “the fat fe• male sorceress, is scaring away a humping, huffing creature from the other world by scattering volleys of sparks from her fingers: “He whispered her order three or four times with increasing urgency. He must have realized I did not know what he wanted, for she squatted again and showed that she was urinating in her hands. stared at her dumbfounded as she made her urine fly like reddish sparks.

“My mind went blank. I did not know what was more absorbing, the sight La Gorda was creating with her urine, or the wheezing of the approaching entity. I could not decide on which of the two stimuli to focus my at tention; both were enthralling.

“'Quickly! Do it in your hands!’ “ La Gorda grumbled between her teeth.”

The metaphors, like “dumbfounded,” are all dead.

In “The Second Ring of Power,” all the women are frightful, empty and powermad: Dona Soledad wants to kill Castaneda and steal his “luminosity.” All are greedy. Sexual scenes, usually involving a woman lying heavily on top of Carlos, or he on her, contain horror always. People who offer to present occult information cheaply, in fantasy form, probably have this anti‐female material in their psyche also, and as you read Castaneda's books you are absorbing the anti-female stuff, even though St. Rad xe4 crack tool. Paul is not present. ■

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