Citing these and other difficulties of Evryali, pianist-composer Marc Couroux compares the performer to the "warrior" from Carlos Castaneda's books: when confronted with the piece, one must remain "lucid" and choose "which aspects of the piece are essential and must be preserved", and which must be sacrificed.
Scepticism about the latest manifestations of modern art has been a constant in his work, derived from existentialism of his thinking and his interest in authors like Camus, Borges, Cioran, and shamanism of Carlos Castaneda and of course the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez.
Later, in Paris he learned of Carlos Castaneda, a Peruvian-born American anthropologist and author, which led Marin to pursue his indigenous roots, prompting him to return to Mexico.
In Dreams of Sumatra it is mentioned that his previous adventures have been published - Carlos Castaneda style.
Carlos Santana | Juan Carlos I of Spain | William Carlos Williams | San Carlos | Carlos Menem | Don Carlos | Wendy Carlos | Roberto Carlos | Carlos the Jackal | Carlos Sastre | Carlos Gardel | Carlos | San Carlos Water | Carlos Saura | Roman Catholic Diocese of San Carlos de Ancud | John Carlos | Carlos Fuentes | San Carlos de Bariloche | Carlos Monzón | Carlos I of Portugal | University of San Carlos | San Carlos, Falkland Islands | Carlos III | Roberto Carlos (singer) | Carlos Zingaro | Carlos Vives | Carlos Varela | Carlos Queiroz | Carlos P. Romulo | Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala |
Cleargreen Incorporated is a for profit corporation founded by Carlos Castaneda in order to promote Tensegrity, a group of movements that he said had been passed down by 25 generations of Toltec shamans.
The second is in part a sequential biography, and was written near the end of his life; a significant dimension of its content is his very personal evaluation of the characters and contributions of Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Madame Ouspensky, John G. Bennett (another direct disciple of Gurdjieff), Gerald Heard, Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary, Stephen Gaskin, Alan Watts, Carlos Castaneda, and other figures serving as teachers of those engaged in spiritual quests.
Martin J. Goodman: I was Carlos Castañeda: The Afterlife Dialogues (2001 New York) Three Rivers Press.
Winds of Nagual (1985): A Musical Fable on the Writings of Carlos Castaneda (1985) 25'
In the spiritual Carlos Castaneda's book Journey to Ixtlan that was released in 1972 there is a chapter "Assume Responsibility."