Osho on Reading Castandeda: first read Gurdjieff

Castaneda in 1949

See

http://www.messagefrommasters.com/Psychic-World/carlos_castaneda.htm

Osho on Castandeda

‘First you should read ALL AND EVERYTHING of George Gurdjieff and then you can read Carlos Castaneda’s books. It is a very difficult training to read Gurdjieff; in fact no more than a few dozen people exist in the world who have read his book ALL AND EVERYTHING completely. It is difficult. It is a one thousand-page book and Gurdjieff is a master of hiding things. He goes on saying irrelevant things, useless things, spinning tales within tales — hundreds of pages and then one line of truth, but it is worth seeking, it is a diamond. A hundred pages of rubbish, but then comes a diamond — it is worth it.

If you can find the diamonds in Gurdjieff it will be a great training for you. And then you can find in Carlos Castaneda what is true and what is not true. Otherwise you can become a victim of a fiction’.

quoted from:
http://www.messagefrommasters.com/ message from masters site

See also The John Robert Colombo page for a Review of Patterson on Castaneda.