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Carlos Castaneda, the Shamanic Messiah of the 1970s, Was also a Con Man, Plagiarist and Manipulative Cult Leader

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By Don Lattin
| TRANSCEND
Don Lattin | Messiahs I Have Known | TRANSCEND Media Service 22 Jun 2026 – Back in the early 1970s, when I was an undergrad at UC Berkeley, it was hard to find a bookshelf that didn’t have a beat-up copy of the “Teachings of Don Juan” tucked between the cinder blocks. Carlos Castaneda, an anthropology student at UCLA, had an incredible story to tell about his peyote-fueled adventures with an old Indian sorcerer he met at a bus depot on the Mexican border.
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Revealing Statistics Question If Psychedelics Truly Impact Religious Beliefs

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By Don Lattin
| Lucid News
We used to have an expression in the newspaper business that may shed light on other realms of life: “Too much checking ruins a great story.” At first glance, you might think you’ve stumbled onto some great truth – or at least some noteworthy trend based on what we used to call “the power of three.” That’s the old trick of starting a newspaper story with three anecdotes that suddenly illustrate a “growing trend.” Further reporting and a little reflection, however, often reveal a more nuanced...
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A long strange trip from early Christianity to the Grateful Dead's Haight-Ashbury days

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By Don Lattin
| Religion News Service Verified
(RNS) — The moment I saw the title of Thomas Coogan’s new book, “Deadheads and Christians: You Will Know Them by Their Love,” I knew exactly what he was up to. Maybe it’s because I spent my career covering religion for daily newspapers in San Francisco. The city had long been the mind-bending mecca for the spiritual counterculture of the baby boom generation, with rock music, particularly the Grateful Dead’s trippy, open-ended jams, furnishing the liturgical soundscape.
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