I don’t subscribe to Castenada’s ideas as I said, he was a bit delusional to me…

Castaneda wrote about the concept of "erasing personal history" and advised his associates to sever ties with their family. Sometime in either 1977 or 1978 Patricia and Mark visited Patricia's mother and that was the last contact she had with her family for almost twenty years.^[3]

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…although the motives for erasing or rather documenting one’s own history before embarking on a career in writing, acting or singing is certainly necessary.

His dream ideas seem quite confusing to me, not clear about what he is doing…