Castaneda has been lying on my shelf for years. Should I read it?

>>9918426
There are beautiful and really emotionally uncanny, haunting descriptions of (God, I hate to say it because of every faggot on /lit/ who feels obliged to say "DUDE WEED LMAO HAVE FUN FRYING YOUR BRAIN DUDE" whenever someone mentions psychs or drugs) drug trips on peyote and jimsonweed and mushrooms and stuff. Also some really weird and strangely touching shamanistic beliefs, and the constant interplay between Don Juan's coolness and lucidity and Castaneda's own self-admitted histrionicity, insincerity, and inability to grasp certain concepts is weirdly satisfying and touching as well; the books, if nothing else, are the most complete admissions of humility I've ever read.

Warning though, the more you read Castaneda the harder it becomes not to believe that he was writing bullshit at times, or even during all of it (i.e. that Don Juan doesn't exist). But this is bullshit that has, so to speak, a certain odd resonance to it, and some kernels of truth in it to be sifted out. I've even had the weird sensation at some times that Castaneda was an alias, or something other than what he was pretending to be, and purposely disseminating esoteric/mystical information on behalf of some group (a Native American shaman or group of shamans he found?) in a veiled form.

If nothing else, no one can deny that the themes it presents of always remembering one's death, of taking responsibility for one's actions, etc., are well presented and are meaningful.

>>9918426
He's been lying for years too.