FoundbutnotCaught said:This thread is the first thread I've read here, and I'm impressed by the analysis given, so I had to join. I threw away Theun's books after reading them, but didn't fully understand his or Castaneda's motives until reading this thread. This made it apparent that they got their useful ideas from other people or introspection, but then put the ideas into a format of a spiritual tradition so they would be given authority by others.
Laura said:We had a few discussions about Gurdjieff - podcasts on sott.net - that you might find interesting.
axj said:So Theun Mares died a few years ago and according to someone who was in his group, he was poisoned by one of the attendants of his workshop in Slovakia. Also, not long before this incident, he decided not to go ahead with that "Game of Life" computer game he was working on - the reason he gave was that no-one was interested in it.
dant said:search: "Theun Mares" 2011
_http://www.toltec-foundation.org/aboutTheun.asp
search: "Theun Mares" "Game of Life"
_http://sustainedreaction.yuku.com/topic/6548
rosygyro:
well he got poisoned in slovakia didnt he?
someone turned up at the retreat behaved like a nasty tumbler and ended theuns path with an isotope or whatever,,
russians, slovakian mafia whoever, for whatever reason,
maybe just to see the spear fall out of his hand.
_http://sorcery.yuku.com/topic/4508#.UrdY7tJDuGM
Honesty counts in matters of spirit and by spirit I mean sincerity and deeper truth. Toltec teachings - being based upon false origins are lacking from the start when it comes to truthfulness. The root is tainted. Trying to use them to assert a greater truth creates a short circuit. So the result turns out to be neither spiritual or therapeutic.
_http://sustainedreaction.yuku.com/topic/6548/Theun-Mares-19522011?page=2#.UrdVH9JDuGM