REQUEST - does anyone in L.A. like libraries and feel like doing a bit of digging?

General Knowledge u/TechnoMagical_Intent 2021-09-29 17:24 UTC 12 points

There are two missing articles from the list of referenced Magazine Interviews that we have collated from online sources (including Nagualist Newsletter, who outsourced requests for publications of interest in the mid-1990's).

People did a good job of finding copies of most of them back in the day, skipping the ones that were harder to find. Several of those have since been located, or are currently being acquired, but a few are likely lost to time as there are no known publicly available sources for either physical copies or digitized versions.

But these two are likely accessible to someone living in Los Angeles:

• Carlos Castaneda the Witch of Westwood. Michael Ventura. L.A. Weekly. October 4-10, 1985.

• Castaneda Postscript. Michael Ventura. L.A. Weekly. November 15-21, 1985.

If you live in the Los Angeles area, and are close to a larger library that has a microfiche room, it would be great if you could find a few hours to spare and track down (and make copies of!) these articles, so that the community can get a sense of things in the mid-1980's, which were a bit of a desert as far as press from Carlos is concerned.

source - http://sustainedaction.org/_nagualist/_NNL5/publications.htm

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u/TechnoMagical_Intent 2 points 2021-09-29 17:26

The other two articles that are likely impossible to find:

• Being-In-Dreaming. Body, Mind & Spirit #6, November 1992 - No full version of this exists, just a few paragraphs that Corey Donovan put into his Chronology Pages. Can barely even confirm the publication existed, much less find this interview with Florinda.

• Searching for Carlos Castaneda. Rick Fields. New Age Journal. June 1985. (nothing available...)

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u/danl999 2 points 2021-09-29 18:07

Google started a project to digitize everything.

I hope they've kept that up.

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u/AUMGUASIVA 3 points 2021-09-30 01:54

I'll try tomorrow.

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u/millirahmstrudel 2 points 2021-10-01 22:27

hello everyone,

i'm new here and i haven't tried darkroom practice yet - so most of the time i'm just reading here.

i found possible sources of some of the old magazine articles and created a reddit account, so that i can post the links here. unfortunately the la weekly articles are behind a paywall (\~20$ for a single month) and at the moment for some reason i can't login or create a new account at archive.org and see the "Searching for Carlos Castaneda" article.

LA Weekly 10 Oct 1985, "Carlos Castaneda, the Witch of Westwood", page 12

https://www.newspapers.com/image/578853232/?terms=%22witch%20of%20westwood%22&match=1

LA Weekly 21 Nov 1985, "Castaneda Postscript", page 12

https://www.newspapers.com/image/578860994/?terms=Castaneda&match=1

New Age Journal 1986-06, "Searching for Carlos Castaneda", page 48

https://archive.org/details/sim_whole-living-body-soul-in-balance_1985-06

printed version at Morris County Library, 30 East Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ 07981 | 973-285-6930, https://mclib.info

found pdf with available magazines: https://mclib.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Magazine-List-160301.pdf

"TITLE: NEW AGE JOURNAL

ISSN: 0746-3618

TITLE CHANGES: Title varies as New Journal (11/1974) and New Age (3/76-9/83)

HOLDINGS: Nov. 1974- current

MISSING: Nov./Dec. 1975; Oct. 1981; Dec. 1982; Feb.-May, Sept.-Dec. 1983; Sept/Oct 1989; Jan/Feb, Nov./Dec. 1990; July/Aug. 1991; Sept.-Dec. 1993; Nov./Dec. 1994; Jan.-Apr., July-Oct. 1995; Mar./Apr., July-Dec. 1996

NOTES:CATALOGED:"

i couldn't even find a picture of the cover of the "Body, Mind & Spirit" #6, november 1992, magazine. just found this short info:

Body, Mind & Spirit Magazine

New title for former Psychic Guide Magazine, adopted with the November/December 1987 issue. The title reflected the broad identification of editor Paul Zuromski with the New Age movement. Address: Box 701, Providence, RI 02901.

from https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/body-mind-spirit-magazines-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/body-mind-spirit-magazine

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u/millirahmstrudel 2 points 2021-10-01 22:45

ok, i saved the text of my comment and i'll wait then. maybe a moderator can manually switch my comment online?

thanks,
millirahmstrudel

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u/TechnoMagical_Intent 1 points 2021-10-02 15:33

Working Wiki pages for the LA Weekly articles. The blocks of text will have to be broke-up into paragraphs again:

https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/magazine_interviews/la_weekly_oct_1985

https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/magazine_interviews/la_weekly_nov_1985

And for the New Age Journal. June 1985:

https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/magazine_interviews/new_age_journal_1985

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u/TechnoMagical_Intent 1 points 2021-10-02 11:50

FANTASTIC! The LA Weekly pages on newspapers.com, have an apparent workaround to access the actual OCR'd text of the article, so no paywall is absolutely needed unless you really want to see the scans of the original paper.

But we just want the text for the Wiki and the compendium file. Referencing those pages as the source is fine.

And it looks like that New Age Journal issue can be borrowed for an hour. I'll give that a go later and see if I can make some high res screen shots or type it up in that time.

😎

And yea, that Body, Mind & Spirit magazine had a ridiculously low circulation, apparently.

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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