“If a warrior is to succeed in anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.”
“The internal dialogue is what grounds people in their daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such or so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue.”
Don Juan Matus, from Tales of Power
“Once inner silence is attained, everything is possible. The way to stop talking to ourselves is to use exactly the same method used to teach us to talk to ourselves; we were taught compulsively and unwaveringly, and this is the way we must stop it: compulsively and unwaveringly.”
Don Juan Matus, from The Fire From Within
I have all the Carlos Castaneda books up to “The eagle’s Gift” wonderful stuff, 
I found the later ones after that very different indeed different writing style as well, almost as if they were written by a different person. What do you think
Richard
Hi Richard. Yes I agree. I believe that when the later books were written dear Carlos had “remembered himself”, if you will. He had indeed become another. He no longer identified himself as a student of anthropology. He had become a warrior and a nagual. I don’t think it was another person who wrote them. There are too many similar points of his particular mental process that shine through all of his books.
Alan
Yes I agree with that but the writing is quite unprofessional in fact downright bad in some of the later books, maybe you are right he had become more childlike
Richard
I was addicted to Castaneda for many years, and “stopping the internal dialogue” was the best thing that ever happened to me before AYP!
Me too! I used to roll up the pages and smoke 'em! 
Didn’t we all 
we were all looking for that formula for the little smoke weren’t we only castaneda fans will understand that he he 
Richard