Reasons, rules and the ring of experience: Reading our world into Carlos Castaneda's works [Book Review]

Human Studies 2 (1):31 - 46 (1979)
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Don Juan said that my body was disappearing and only my head was going to remain, and in such a condition the only way to stay awake and move around was by becoming a crow ... He ordered me to straighten up my head and put it on my chin. He said that in the chin were the crow's legs. He commanded me to feel the legs and observe that they were coming out slowly. He then said ... that the tail would come out of my neck. He ordered me to extend the tail like a fan, and to feel how it swept the floor ...I had no difficulty whatsoever eliciting the corresponding sensations to each one of his commands. I had the perception of growing bird's legs, which were weak and wobbly at first. I felt the tail coming out of the back of my neck and wings out of my cheekbones. .

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Understanding a Primitive Society.H. O. Mounce - 1973 - Philosophy 48 (186):347 - 362.
Does Don Juan really fly?Laurence Foss - 1973 - Philosophy of Science 40 (2):298-316.

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