Estusha
Grinberg is the daughter of the famous scientific and parapsychologist Jacobo
Grinberg, who was a friend of Carlos Castaneda for a time, and in an
interview she said the following about Castaneda:
« My
father started working with Carlos Castaneda and his group, but he
witnessed things that he disliked a lot. For example, my father told me
that there was a woman with a son, and at one point my father got very
angry with Castaneda because Castaneda told at this woman that if she wanted to be
in his group, she had to detach herself from her son, she had to leave him.
But
there was no one else to care for the child; the child's father wasn't
taking responsibility, and that meant abandoning the child. But
Castaneda didn't care; for him, the woman had no choice but to detach
herself from her son.
That
drove my father crazy because one of the things he emphasized all the
time was that the initiatory path is the path of the heart, not the path of the power,
and that Castaneda was sinking into the path of power, but that was not what Don Juan had taught him.
Don
Juan taught Castaneda the path of the heart, which as my father used
to say, "is the true path, one must not deviate from
the path of the heart. »
VIDEO
In this video you can see Estusha Grinberg saying what I transcribed above in Spanish at minutes 4:00 to 4:55 and 11:55 to 12:30.
OBSERVATIONS
Other
people have also mentioned that Carlos Castaneda had no empathy or
sensitivity and told his followers that if they wanted to be part of his
inner circle they had to completely detach themselves from their past.
But
the highest masters point out that while sacrifices must be made
to travel the initiatory path, the humans also have karmic commitments
and the path of the heart must be paramount.
The
worst part is that Castaneda demanded this of his disciples, making
them believe that it was an inexorable requirement to ascend to
liberation, but in reality what Castaneda was doing was trapping his
followers in the sect he had created.
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