{"id":145,"date":"2011-12-10T00:36:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T00:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/?p=145"},"modified":"2011-12-10T00:36:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T00:36:28","slug":"carlos-castaneda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/12\/10\/carlos-castaneda\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Castaneda"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as grounds for regret but as a living challenge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The quote is from Carlos Castaneda; I found it on <a href=\"http:\/\/thetoltecpath.wordpress.com\/castaneda-quotes\/\">The Toltec Path<\/a> website. I read two or three of Castaneda&#8217;s books when I was much younger, his second book &#8216;The Journey to Ixtlan&#8217; is the one that turned me on to him. Castaneda presents himself as a student of anthropology who becomes the apprentice to a Yaquai sorcerer called Don Juan who teaches him &#8216;the way of the warrior&#8217; using hallucinogenic plants to shift his perception of reality and teachings about the way of the warrior to help him deal with any reality. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dJz2VI_SqoQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Castaneda has been accused of making up the story of his adventures with Don Juan. But for me that&#8217;s not important. I was never very interested in the story. What interests me is the aphorisms that appear in the story and that constitute Castaneda&#8217;s teaching. I do not know where these aphorisms come from, but they are profound. They light the path to enlightenment and are worth meditating on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as grounds for regret but as a living challenge. The quote is from Carlos Castaneda; I found it on The Toltec Path website. I read two or three of Castaneda&#8217;s books&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/12\/10\/carlos-castaneda\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,35],"tags":[117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}