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BarkellWH
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 RE: Building two under influence of ... (in reply to Richard Jernigan)
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They may have been fraudulent, but they were really entertaining, and his "research" got him a PhD from UCLA. RNJ
There is a Yaqui Indian community called Guadalupe just south of and adjacent to Tempe, Arizona. My parents and I used to go watch their Easter ceremonies, which are still performed today, a combination of native Yaqui culture and Christianity.
When Castaneda's books came out in the late 1960s and '70s, it was a time when many young people were embracing the idea of an "alternative reality" to be experienced with LSD, mushrooms, peyote, and the like. I think Castaneda was riding that wave with his so-called "research" under the supposed tutelage of the Yaqui "shaman" Don Juan.
Many scholars criticized his works at the time they came out as being fiction. He was challenged by scholars, but never really defended himself, leading to further speculation that his works were fraudulent as anthropology. And some scholars of Yaqui culture pointed out that Don Juan had no vocabulary possessed by actual Yaqui shamans or priests.
Yeah, it was fun at the time and filled a certain "zeitgeist," but in 1973, Time magazine probably summed it up best, describing Castaneda as "an enigma wrapped in a mystery wrapped in a tortilla." And that UCLA awarded him a PhD based on his so-called "research" just demonstrates how easily taken in universities were at that time by the "zeitgeist."
Bill
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Date Feb. 20 2021 13:58:31
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Richard Jernigan
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RE: Building two under influence of ... (in reply to estebanana)
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ORIGINAL: estebanana
the sound port hole actually indicates this is a very carefully designed giant bong.
Be careful with that thing.
One of my best friends went through a very rough patch in life. Among many bad things that happened to him, his father pressured him strongly to take up the family business, for which my friend was totally unsuited, and then died. Among all the other bad stuff, about the only thing my friend had going for him was that his wonderful wife stuck with him.
A few years later, when things had smoothed out a good deal, he was talking over what had gone wrong for him. I said, "Some people said you were smoking a little too much weed."
He replied, "From my point of view, I was barely able to smoke enough."
RNJ
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Date Feb. 22 2021 19:42:41
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Richard Jernigan
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RE: Building two under influence of ... (in reply to BarkellWH)
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And some scholars of Yaqui culture pointed out that Don Juan had no vocabulary possessed by actual Yaqui shamans or priests.
It's been a very long time since I read Castaneda, but I recollect he had a dodge for this. It was claimed, either by Don Juan or by Carlito, that Don Juan's "knowledge" actually came from the Toltecs.
This was a safe bet, because even the Aztecs didn't know who, or exactly where the Toltecs had been, just that there were some important religious beliefs attributed to them. For example Quetzalcoatl, the flying serpent of Mexico, turned up as Kukulkan in Mayan country in late pre-Columbian times, while the Toltec story said he had disappeared to the east and would return from there. The Aztecs assumed the Toltecs had something to do with the huge city of Teotihuacan, which had been abandoned for 450 years when the Aztecs showed up in the Valley of Mexico and started raising hell there.
I don't remember any of the Aztecs' (Mexicas') Toltec stories turning up in Castaneda. You have to give him credit for originality. 
RNJ
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Date Feb. 23 2021 1:11:16
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RobF
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RE: Building two under influence of ... (in reply to estebanana)
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Cool saw, it looks like it’s easily 50 years old, if not quite a bit more. I’d be a little worried about the cat, though, maybe there’s something that can be done about covering the lower portion of the drive wheels and belt. But animals are smarter about these things than we give them credit for, so probably a non-issue.
I’ve been experiencing the sideways photo issue, too. I use an iPad and I thought it was due to resizing the pictures when attaching them. But I found if I edited the picture and rotated it 180, closed it then re-edited to rotate it a further 180 back to normal, for some reason the attachment then happens without a hitch. No idea why, however.
P.S. I love how the saw looks so elegant and refined from the front, but step around back and you’d think you’ve walked into a scene from Chaplin’s ‘Modern Times’, lol.
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Date Feb. 24 2021 4:52:35
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