08-12-2019, 11:32 AM
(08-11-2019, 04:32 PM)flofrog Wrote: Interesting Diana, about Casataneda. I feel very much like you, I liked his books, mostly 'Journey To Ixtlan' which really resonated with my imagination. I am not either a fan of his, and I liked less the later books but ' Journey to Ixtlan" just mesmerized me with its beauty and poetry.
I really look, same as you, at what resonates or not, and find as I get older that even though I tried and read as much as I could on buddhism, practicing it, and hinduism and metaphysics in general, few come now to the level of love that I feel for the Ra material. It is so true that as each of us is unique, we shall resonate to specific things in our own way.
"Journey to Ixtlan" is one of my favorites and I have probably read that one the most times. It is full of practical information and exercises that address the limiting nature of self-absorption and self-pity. I just love that book, and find its practical value very high. I agree that some of the later stuff was more obscure, but still so interesting.
We all do find what we need when we need it. I think it is a case of harmonics. We are at any point tuned (or out of tune) in some complicated way like an orchestra, and we encounter another orchestra with similar instruments and pitch and cohesion, and the harmonics become a synergistic meeting. Perhaps much in the way a social memory complex is formed.