They had two children together: Miko Castaneda Brando ( born 1961 ) and Rebecca Brando ( born 1966 ).

* January 22 Enron executive Maureen Castaneda states that Enron had been shredding documents in its Houston headquarters the previous week.

Gurdjieff is said to have had a strong influence on many modern mystics, artists, writers, and thinkers, including Osho ( Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ), Frank Lloyd Wright, Keith Jarrett, George Russell ( composer ), Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Fripp, Jacob Needleman, John Shirley, Carlos Castaneda, Dennis Lewis, Peter Brook, Kate Bush, P. L. Travers, Robert S de Ropp, Walter Inglis Anderson, Jean Toomer, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Louis Pauwels, James Moore and Abdullah Isa Neil Dougan.

Regardless of whether don Juan is a fictional character, or an actual human subject of study in Castaneda's books, Juan tells Carlos ( the personage representing Castaneda ) that he is a brujo ( Spanish for sorcerer or medicine man ); a sort of healer, sorcerer or shaman, who had inherited ( presumably through a lineage of teachers ) an ancient Mesoamerican practice for vastly enhancing one's awareness of, and interaction with, the energies of the Earth and its assorted beings.

The term " Toltec " is used in the works of writer Carlos Castaneda to denote a person who was recruited into a band of sorcerors with a tradition that had its origin in the Native American culture of that name.

According to the book The Teachings of Don Juan Matus, a Mexican shaman by the name of Don Juan Matus, who had taught his student Carlos Castaneda, the book's author, about the true nature of the physical universe and how intense concentration can summon, apport, and even materialize objects out of thin air.

The club returned to the first division in 1986 under the leadership of goalkeeper Jean Castaneda who had remained with the club, despite its current financial state.

After first meeting Castaneda in Rome in October 1984, Fellini drafted a treatment with Pinelli titled Viaggio a Tulun.

* Recapitulation ( Castaneda ), a spiritual practice appearing first in the writings of Carlos Castaneda and later in those of Miguel Ángel Ruiz, Victor Sanchez and others

Matus is described as a Yaqui Indian to whom Castaneda was first introduced at a bus depot in Yuma, Arizona in the early 1960s.

Interestingly, none of the ferocious detractors review the techniques and their effectiveness, but instead concentrate on whether Castaneda has been entirely truthful, despite his open admission in the opening pages of the first book that he lied shamelessly to the Nagual Juan.

According to the preface of the first edition, reprinted in subsequent editions, Capra struggled to reconcile theoretical physics and Eastern mysticism and was at first " helped on my way by ' power plants '" or psychedelics, with the first experience " so overwhelming that I burst into tears, at the same time, not unlike Castaneda, pouring out my impressions to a piece of paper.

More than a decade later, in 1959, the Congress of the Philippines approved House Bill 1006, jointly sponsored by Congressmen Constancio Castaneda and Jose Roy, converting Tarlac Trade School into Tarlac School of Arts and Trades ( TSAT ); with Mr. Espinosa also becoming its first Superintendent.

Sanchez's first book, The Teachings of Don Carlos: Practical Applications of the Works of Carlos Castaneda ( 1995 ), provides in-depth techniques and commentary on a path of " self-growth " based on the wisdom of the Toltec descendants.

*" Carioca " – sung by Alice Gentle, Movita Castaneda and Etta Moten, danced by Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and the chorus ; this is notable for being Astaire and Rogers ' first dance together ; they dance with their foreheads touching.

Long fascinated by Carlos Castaneda ’ s The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, Fellini accompanied the Peruvian author on a journey to the Yucatán to assess the feasibility of a film.

The general election, which took place on April 10, 2011, Toledo won 15. 62 % of the vote putting him behind leftist former army officer Ollanta Humala ( with 31. 75 %), Keiko Fujimori, daughter of the former president ( with 23. 5 %), and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski ( with 18. 52 %), and ahead of Luis Castaneda ( with 9. 84 %).

Don Juan Matus is a major figure in the series of books on Nagual ' Sorcery ' by Carlos Castaneda.

The Knowledge is passed on to Castaneda by means of actual experiences, simple exercises and much patience on the part of both which ends in further transforming both characters ' view of the world.

The nagual Juan described the Toltecs to Castaneda as a guild of sorcerors that began in Southern Mexico 10, 000 years ago, originally based on harnessing the changes of perception and perspective brought about by working with power plants.

Castaneda recounts that he was recruited in 1960, and paints a word-picture of the methods and concepts in the guise of conversations with his teacher, who he calls Don Juan in the series of 14 books he wrote on the subject.

It was said that Castaneda was able to materialize a living squirrel on the palm of Don Juan's hand based on the latter's instruction.

Core shamanism does not hold a fixed belief system, but instead focuses on the practice of shamanic journeying and may on an individual basis integrate indigenous shamanism, the teachings of Carlos Castaneda and other spiritualities.

His approach in this book is bringing the proposals of Castaneda down to the earth focusing on those parts of Castaneda's book that can be applied in everyday life and used for personal development.

Sanchez was sued by Castaneda for infringement of copyright after including an eagle, desert, and other iconography on the covers of his books similar to that used by Castaneda.

Seven months later, Nick Boone and Anthony Castaneda, having arrived at what is now called the " Captain Nemo " solution to the book, travelled to Tennessee Pass in Colorado and dug up a vial on National Forest Service land near the 10th Mountain Division ( United States ) military memorial.

The episode was pitched as early as the third season by George Meyer, who was interested in an episode based on the books of Carlos Castaneda.

The main plot of the episode is based on the works of Carlos Castaneda, with some of the Native American imagery being similar to that used in the film Dances with Wolves.

Brucella is isolated from a blood culture on Castaneda medium.

After leaving MDO in 2001, Curtis signed on to play Nico Castaneda in the American soap opera Guiding Light, appearing in 86 episodes throughout the season.

Producer Alberto Grimaldi, prepared to buy film rights to all of Castaneda ’ s work, then paid for pre-production research taking Fellini and his entourage from Rome to Los Angeles and the jungles of Mexico in October 1985.

In recent years, the tea has been popularized by Wade Davis ( The Serpent and The Rainbow ), English novelist Martin Goodman in I Was Carlos Castaneda, Chilean novelist Isabel Allende, writer Kira Salak, author Jeremy Narby ( The Cosmic Serpent ), author Jay Griffiths (" Wild: An Elemental Journey "), and radio personality Robin Quivers.

In 1960, Brando married Movita Castaneda, a Mexican-American actress seven years his senior ; they were divorced in 1962.

John Castaneda, a family friend for 30 years, was quoted as saying " I feel so bad.

Castaneda, et al revised the Taylor Anxiety Scale for use with children.

Reliability and validation work with the Children's Anxiety Scale by Castaneda, et al demonstrated results closely similar to the findings with the adult scale.

When Castaneda inexplicably disappeared and the project fell through, Fellini ’ s mystico-shamanic adventures were scripted with Pinelli and serialized in Corriere della Sera in May 1986.

He was involved at the time with Movita Castaneda and was having a parallel relationship with Rita Moreno.

In 1970, Carlos made his professional debut with a 2 round knockout win over Luis Castaneda in Cuernavaca.

* Mexican Odyssey: The Brothers holiday in Mexico, are thrown in jail and escape with the help of shaman Don Longjuan, in a partial spoof of the Carlos Castaneda books.

* Carlos Castaneda – A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan

He turns out to be a ' Man of Knowledge ' who imparts much of his wisdom and clarity through his ' connection ' with Castaneda.

Carlos Castaneda never claimed Juan Matus to be a shaman and yet the actual existence of don Juan has been disputed by a handful of critics who claim his practices and beliefs are inconsistent with his alleged identification as a Yaqui shaman.