"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it." - Goethe

azure wrote... >> Goethe > > Interesting Term ### - that's just the guys name : Johann Wolfgang Goethe... the quote of which was kinda being pointed towards jeremy actually in the sense that he's always looking for where castaneda got/pinched some and/or most of his stuff? point being most of cc's ideas are as old as the hills in one form or another, added to which it's fairly common knowledge that cc was interested in/investigated certain branches of philosophy... the way he wove them all into another idea altogether in order to capture people's imagination (and active participation hehe;) being nothing less than brilliant from a literary pov :) smile, ever read the lob sam rampa series azure? such really imaginative stuff, so well written & well loved by millions, really convincing... and turned out to be just a plumber from the north of england or something didn't he? (lol, people always love a good yarn :)