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Title: The Toltec Path of Recapitulation: Healing Your Past to Free Your Soul by Victor Sanchez ISBN: 1-879181-60-6 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: 15 July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Nothing New
Comment: This book was recommended to me by a friend. I was told it was worth the buck, but after reading it, I cannot express how disappointed I am from having spent 15$ on it PLUS shipping.
Carlos Castaneda as well as Taisha Abelar have already emphasized and explained in great length the reasons why should one recapitulate and the procedures for a succesful recapitulation. In this book by Sanchez, I do not find anything new to add to these techniques, nothing. Some of the drawings reminded me of those that appear in books for 3rd grade, as the explanations were obvious, these drawings appeared to me almost ridiculous (how hard is it to figure out the following: inhale moving your head from left to right and exhale from right to left. Do we need a picture for that!? please..).
Another difference between the authors mentioned above and Sanchez's book is that this book is filled to the brim with personal experiences from others, and a lot of claims that lack evidence and proper back-up.
If you have read Castaneda et all, you are not missing anything by not reading this book.
Rating: 1
Summary: a big disappointment
Comment: Prior to purchasing this book I was told it would be the best 10 bucks ever spend. Boy do I wish that was true. Turns out it was 10 bucks, not even counting the shipping, thrown away!
After the book had arrived I took a quick cursory glance at its content and two facts jumped into plain view:
- the ridiculous large space between each line
- the pseudo-scientific drawings that are laughable
On the backcover there is a picture of Victor, looking like a man whose entire posture radiates the self-importance that Don Juan warns us for. A very bad omen.
So, when I started reading the book I already had a bad feeling about it. Still, I decided to give Victor a chance and to suspend judgement.
In the intro Victor puts his self-importance on display by shamelessly bragging about his "accomplishements". About how he travelled all over the globe giving workshops. His entire presentation of himself indicating that as far as Victor is concerned this alone qualifies him as being justified to assume the status of "One Who Is In The Know When It Comes To Nagualism". Knowledge that he is about to reveal in the coming chapters.
I can be very short about what Victor reveals in those coming chapters: absolutely nothing that the attentive reader of the Carlos Castaneda books didn't already know. Which I found shocking as I was so naive as to think that to write a book on a topic that has already been written on is only impeccable / justifiable when the author can add something new to what has already been said.
Also, I do not find Victor's stories of "moments of revelation" that participants of his recapitulation workshops had, remotely interesting or original as Carlos Castaneda already provided ample examples of spontaneous recollections evoked via recapitulation in his own books. I doubt anyone will. Yet, Victor generously uses these "illustrating" stories throughout the book. Undoubtedly to use them as cheap filling.
Another strategy he follows to fill up the book, a book that with normal space would have been substantially thinner, is the usage of the above mentioned pseudo-scientific drawings.
An example: Victor tells the reader how to recapitulate: inhale as your head moves to the left, the inhalation ends when you look over your left shoulder. As the head moves to the right exhale untill you look over your right shoulder. Easy to understand, right? Victor disagrees. So he provides a caricature drawing of a head facing forward and with an arrow to the left. That is to help the reader who has trouble finding his / her left. Beside that drawing is another drawing, one with a head looking over the left shoulder and an arrow to the right. Redundant is a word that comes to mind.
The drawings in conjunction with Victor's habit of addressing the reader as if they are incapable of rational thought, leaves one no choice but to conclude that Victor intended his book not for warriors, but for imbecils.
Another soure point is Victor's habit of never substantiating up his claims.
An example: according to Victor it is possible to procreate and not have a hole in your luminous sphere for each child that you fathered / conceived. Something that is in direct conflict with what Don Juan claims to be the case. Which I have no problem with, but I do expect a bit more from Victor than just claiming that and then cheerfully move on to something else. Next he tells how he himself has fathered children and assures us that he has no holes in his luminous sphere. Again, without backing it up, except that he has "seen" no holes. Taking into consideration that Victor fails to provide even one "seeing" experience I am sceptic about his ability to "see", leaving me with no alternative but to conclude that Victor's "seeing" is more wishfull thinking than actual "seeing", and that Victor is into some serious denial when it comes to the fact that he is incomplete / has a luminous sphere that has a hole in it for each of the children he fathered.
Another claim of Victor that leaves one most unsatisfied is his claim that celibacy, advocated by Don Juan and the warriors of his lineage, is not necessary on the grounds of sex being necessary or else mankind would become extint! Someone should tell Victor to wake up and smell the roses. Its not exactly that we are living in a world with 6 billion warriors, right? As Don Juan stated so clearly: warriors leave procreation to the non-warriors. Clearly Victor doesn't fall in the first category.
As already stated, the book minus the pseudo-scientific drawings, the overkill of "illustrating stories" of what participants of Victor's workshops experienced during their recapitulation, and the ridiculous large space, would have left about 20 pages. Which leaves me as a reader with the strong impression that Victor used all that as a strategy designed to give those 20 pages the appearance of a real book of normal length, when in fact he had no such thing to begin with.
It looks to me like Victor needed some cash and / or attenion and decided to write another book, regardless of the fact that he didn't have the material for one, at least not for a quality book, and as a result wrote this piece of junk. As a result he joined the merchants of the new millenium, not the warriors of the millenium.
Rating: 1
Summary: a waste of good money
Comment: Prior to purchasing this book I was told it would be the best 10 bucks ever spend. Boy do I wish that was true. Turns out it was 10 bucks, not even counting the shipping, thrown away!
After the book had arrived I took a quick cursory glance at its content and two facts jumped into plain view:
- the ridiculous large space between each line
- the pseudo-scientific drawings that are laughable
On the backcover there is a picture of Victor, looking like a man whose entire posture radiates the self-importance that Don Juan warns us for. A very bad omen.
So, when I started reading the book I already had a bad feeling about it. Still, I decided to give Victor a chance and to suspend judgement.
In the intro Victor puts his self-importance on display by shamelessly bragging about his "accomplishements". About how he travelled all over the globe giving workshops. His entire presentation of himself indicating that as far as Victor is concerned this alone qualifies him as being justified to assume the status of "One Who Is In The Know When It Comes To Nagualism". Knowledge that he is about to reveal in the coming chapters.
I can be very short about what Victor reveals in those coming chapters: absolutely nothing that the attentive reader of the Carlos Castaneda books didn't already know. Which I found shocking as I was so naive as to think that to write a book on a topic that has already been written on is only impeccable / justifiable when the author can add something new to what has already been said.
Also, I do not find Victor's stories of "moments of revelation" that participants of his recapitulation workshops had, remotely interesting or original as Carlos Castaneda already provided ample examples of spontaneous recollections evoked via recapitulation in his own books. I doubt anyone will. Yet, Victor generously uses these "illustrating" stories throughout the book. Undoubtedly to use them as cheap filling.
Another strategy he follows to fill up the book, a book that with normal space would have been substantially thinner, is the usage of the above mentioned pseudo-scientific drawings.
An example: Victor tells the reader how to recapitulate: inhale as your head moves to the left, the inhalation ends when you look over your left shoulder. As the head moves to the right exhale untill you look over your right shoulder. Easy to understand, right? Victor disagrees. So he provides a caricature drawing of a head facing forward and with an arrow to the left. That is to help the reader who has trouble finding his / her left. Beside that drawing is another drawing, one with a head looking over the left shoulder and an arrow to the right. Redundant is a word that comes to mind.
The drawings in conjunction with Victor's habit of addressing the reader as if they are incapable of rational thought, leaves one no choice but to conclude that Victor intended his book not for warriors, but for imbecils.
Another soure point is Victor's habit of never substantiating up his claims.
An example: according to Victor it is possible to procreate and not have a hole in your luminous sphere for each child that you fathered / conceived. Something that is in direct conflict with what Don Juan claims to be the case. Which I have no problem with, but I do expect a bit more from Victor than just claiming that and then cheerfully move on to something else. Next he tells how he himself has fathered children and assures us that he has no holes in his luminous sphere. Again, without backing it up, except that he has "seen" no holes. Taking into consideration that Victor fails to provide even one "seeing" experience I am sceptic about his ability to "see", leaving me with no alternative but to conclude that Victor's "seeing" is more wishfull thinking than actual "seeing", and that Victor is into some serious denial when it comes to the fact that he is incomplete / has a luminous sphere that has a hole in it for each of the children he fathered.
Another claim of Victor that leaves one most unsatisfied is his claim that celibacy, advocated by Don Juan and the warriors of his lineage, is not necessary on the grounds of sex being necessary or else mankind would become extint! Someone should tell Victor to wake up and smell the roses. Its not exactly that we are living in a world with 6 billion warriors, right? As Don Juan stated so clearly: warriors leave procreation to the non-warriors. Clearly Victor doesn't fall in the first category.
As already stated, the book minus the pseudo-scientific drawings, the overkill of "illustrating stories" of what participants of Victor's workshops experienced during their recapitulation, and the ridiculous large space, would have left about 20 pages. Which leaves me as a reader with the strong impression that Victor used all that as a strategy designed to give those 20 pages the appearance of a real book of normal length, when in fact he had no such thing to begin with.
It looks to me like Victor needed some cash and / or attenion and decided to write another book, regardless of the fact that he didn't have the material for one, at least not for a quality book, and as a result wrote this piece of junk. As a result he joined the merchants of the new millenium, not the warriors of the millenium.
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Title: The Teachings of Don Carlos: Practical Applications of the Works of Carlos Castaneda by Victor Sanchez, Robert Nelson ISBN: 1879181231 Publisher: Bear & Co Pub. Date: May, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Toltecs of the New Millennium by Victor Sanchez, Robert Nelson ISBN: 1879181355 Publisher: Bear & Co Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Sorcerers' Crossing by Taisha Abelar, Carlos Castaneda ISBN: 0140193669 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Don Juan and the Art of Sexual Energy: The Rainbow Serpent of the Toltecs by Merilyn Tunneshende ISBN: 1879181630 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: 15 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Witch's Dream: A Healer's Way of Knowledge by Florinda Donner-Grau, Carlos Castaneda ISBN: 0140195319 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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