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Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing! I've come across the word "nagual" via Carlos Castaneda's works (I've only read the first one myself but a friend is a big fan). I recently started listening to the audio version of the Red Book by C.G. Jung, and it also hit me that Jung's interpersonal journeys were probably something quite similar to what Castaneda engaged in when he wrote his books. Also, the Australian Aborigines refer to "dreamtime" as being the time and space (or state?) when the world was created.
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RedTailHawk 3mo ago

Jung and Castaneda both have a place in my research library.

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Jung wrote about the psychology of kundalini yoga.

Castaneda was either representing the Nagualist tradition using fiction or non-fiction. I've heard arguments in both directions.

Star Wars is fiction yet the cosmology it contains is startlingly accurate, which, given that Lucas was a protege of Joseph Campbell, makes a lot of sense.

It's like Evey Hammond's father was quoted as having said in V for Vendetta about how artists use lies to tell the truth, so even if Don Juan was fabricated entirely, based on someone, or was actually a real dude, doesn't even matter because the archetypes offer us guidance either way.

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