Reviews for "I Was Carlos Castaneda" by Martin Goodman

Such narrow, narrow confines we live in. Every so often, one of us primates escapes these dimensions, as Martin Goodman did. All we can do is rattle the bars and look after him as he runs into the hills. We wait for his letters home. ~ Susan Salter Reynolds, The Los Angeles Times

A marvelous book with rich teachings that particularly touch the heart of death -- and, thus, life itself. ~ Thom Hartmann, author, "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight"

From the Pyrenees to the Amazon rainforest, Martin Goodman vividly describes Castaneda's most powerful and important teachings-the nature of the journey beyond death. ~ Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., author of "Shaman, Healer, Sage" and "Dance of the Four Winds"

The Old Trickster has done it again! Having stirred up a storm of controversy and speculation in his lifetime with his astonishing tales of sorcerers and shamans, Castaneda now makes a posthumous appearance in Martin Goodman's story. But now Goodman plays the role of bewildered student, to Carlos' amused and provocative pronouncements. ~ Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., author of "The Unfolding Self"

This is an absorbing tale, which succeeds at entertaining while it informs. Goodman, writing with warmth and humor, has woven a story of a modern day shaman's apprentice, cast adrift amid the turbulent outer zones of consensus reality before returning once again to solid ground. It is a delightful read, and I recommend it highly. ~ Charles S. Grob, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine

In the beginning, I thought this was a book of metafiction or magical realism. It is something else entirely: a discussion between new friends, a dreamy travelogue, a teaching. It is a magical mystery tour in humility, truth, death, betrayal, forgiveness, the envelopment of nature, written as clearly and powerfully as a French Pyrenees river where Goodman and Castaneda stop to swim and talk. ~ Karla Kuban, author of "Marchlands"

Carlos Castaneda lives! Martin Goodman is a mystic, poet and superb storyteller, and with his rare combination of gifts he has brought the legendary sorcerer's apprentice to vivid life in this enchanting tale about life and death, truth and illusion, fate and freedom. ~ John Horgan, author of "The End of Science"

To invite someone like Carlos Castaneda into one's life, especially when he's dead, is asking for it. Martin Goodman, who barely escaped death in Amazonas, gets the full treatment from the old master and learns a thing or two to his own and the reader's advantage. To Castaneda's, too: I reckon he's in better form than ever before. ~ Francis Huxley, author of "The Way of the Sacred"