Carlos Castaneda’s Death – Cause and Date

The novelist Carlos Castaneda died at the age of 72. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

A Peruvian-born mystic, shaman, and author, he is best known for his work, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge. The book details his apprenticeship to a Yaqui Indian Sorcerer. His other works include The Eagle’s Gift, The Art of Dreaming, and The Active Side of Infinity.

He married Regina Thal (Florinda Donner-Grau) in Las Vegas in September of 1993. His other female companions and followers included Maryann Simko (Taisha Abelar) and Kathleen Pohlman (Carol Tiggs).

On April 27, 1998, he died of liver cancer at his home in Los Angeles, said Deborah Drooz, an entertainment lawyer, friend of Mr. Castaneda, and executor of his estate. She said he had suffered from the illness for at least ten months. After his death, his body was cremated, and the remains were sent to Mexico, she added.

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior’s spirit. It takes power to do that.

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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

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Leave Jesus on the cross. He’s very happy there!

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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.