looking for audio books

u/Tannereast 2019-08-18 02:55 UTC 2 points

hey anyone know where I can listen to the audio books? I cna only find the first one on YouTube and really enjoy listening to them while at the gym. any help would be awesom,
thanks have a good one!

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u/TechnoMagical_Intent 2 points 2019-08-18 13:58

I don't know if the files in this playlist are spoken voiced or computer voiced, but they look to be long enough and they're actually in order:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSZ3JUwNuY4eXUJobuG4A8aFRWUJuEEdY

If you live in the USA and have a card/account at your local library you can go to overdrive and download/stream the first three books as audiobooks. Overdrive has an app for smartphones and uses your library card # as login. Some libraries have additional free audiobook services.

But I think only the first three, and the last two, books published are available as official human voiced audiobooks, at least according to audible.com. Overdrive has the first three.

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u/Tannereast 1 points 2019-08-18 18:15

hey thanks so much! will deff be checking this out. hope you have a good one

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u/danl999 5 points 2019-08-18 20:28

Too bad. It's the middle books (the ones before he was dying) that have the best point of view of things.

Too much of the earlier books might make someone stick eagle feathers in their cap, and carry around a medicine bag.

However, they do have one benefit. They're filled with techniques, all dressed up in Sunday clothes.

And when you can see, you'll realize the Sunday finest does in fact help a tiny bit. Not much, but you can't entirely write it off.

It comes down to this: You have to DO something. That's what we are. What we do.

One doing probably isn't any more meaningful than another. If reality be known.

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u/danl999 6 points 2019-08-18 19:34

Here's some advice.

Although Carlos told us not to read the books anymore (Cholita verifies that, he even repeated it in places she could visit, where I had no access), in your case, saturate yourself with them.

Then when you practice, you'll tend to select things to emphasize that make sense from the point of view of the books.

In other words, dare I say it? The books teach you what to intend. Without the same intent as Carlos, you might sort of end up like a Zen master, making fun of the little drummer boy standing on his hands.

As if it were something to ignore. (Shinzen Young).

Everyone I know of from the Sunday private classes failed. Gave up. Never got silent. Never understood what the second attention is, the assemblage point, and that there are deeper levels of internal silence.

But in classes, they all had the right things happen.

They just didn't have the right emphasis in their mind, to tell them they're going in the right direction.

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u/formulalife 2 points 2019-08-21 05:21

Audible via Amazon. The first 3 are the the best. Narrated by Louis Moreño

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u/TechnoMagical_Intent 1 points 2019-08-21 14:16

The ones I listened to years ago were narrated by Peter Coyote. Probably MP3's someone created from CD's. I guess I'm a bit nostalgic.

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u/formulalife 1 points 2019-08-21 14:18

He also narrated all the Don Miguel Ruiz' books. He is has a great voice. Try the ones on Amazon. Love them

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u/TechnoMagical_Intent 2 points 2020-01-23 21:45

Just finished the Wiki audio page, it lists all the books that have been voiced by Luis Moreno as of January 23, 2020...with active links to all of them. Both Amazon & Audible:

Castaneda Wiki - Audiobooks Page

He's grown on me, and I now like his voice just as much as Peter Coyote's!

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u/Tannereast 1 points 2020-01-23 21:58

thanks!

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Booklist

Carlos Castaneda's books in chronological order:

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge (1968)
A Separate Reality: Further Conversations With Don Juan (1971)
Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan (1972)
Tales of Power (1974)
The Second Ring of Power (1977)
The Eagle's Gift (1981)
The Fire From Within (1984)
The Power of Silence: Further Lessons of Don Juan (1987)
The Art of Dreaming (1993)
Magical Passes: The Practical Wisdom of the Shamans of Ancient Mexico (Jan. 20, 1998)
The Wheel of Time: The Shamans Of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death And The Universe (Jun. 1, 1998)
The Active Side of Infinity (Sep. 1, 1998)

Florinda Donner's books:

Shabono: A Visit to a Remote and Magical World in the South American Rain Forest (1982)
The Witch's Dream: A Healer's Way of Knowledge (1985)
Being-in-Dreaming: An Initiation into the Sorcerers' World (1991)

Taisha Abelar's book:

The Sorcerer's Crossing: A Woman's Journey (1992)
Unpublished Manuscript - Stalking With The Double (restored version) (March, 1996) - file includes a link to the original scanned version, older file links