Journey to the Secret Realm of the Soul

Author: Carlos Castaneda (USA)
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: I am so far from the sky where I was born, an endless nostalgia invades my thoughts. Now I am so lonely and sorrowful, like a leaf in the wind. Sometimes I want to sob, sometimes I want to laugh, with a heart full of longing. A life of civilization or culture is like being raised in a pigsty, and the "wilderness" requires a person to become a hunter—not a metaphor, but an action to break free from the domestication of civilization or culture. The modern hunter knows how to restrain desires, does not rely on the sustenance of status, can break free from status at any time, and roams the world at ease. They live by "spiritual virtues." Warriors who devour blood and beasts that lick their own wounds are all important virtues of the modern wilderness.