ANGELES -- They were an unlikely couple, the Latin American immigrant and the West Virginia divorcee whose paths crossed in mid-1950s Los Angeles. But, by Margaret Runyan Castaneda's account, she and Carlos Castaneda were kindred spirits whose time...

"Much of the Castaneda mystique is based on the fact that even his closest friends aren't sure who he is," Margaret wrote in her 1996 book, "A Magical Journey with Carlos Castaneda." Margaret, who has died at 90, said she believed that Don Juan was an...

Or just enjoying a nice, um, smoke? Growing up in the suburbs of Boston, and raised on secular Judaism, Cocoa Puffs and Gilligan’s Island, Peter Bebergal found himself on a quest. A spiritual quest that, as a teen, led him through comic books, Dungeons...

Castaneda. Timothy Leary. Daniel Pinchbeck…mopey Ted Mosby? Josh Radnor, he of How I Met Your Mother and that movie no one saw that kind of looked like Garden State, looks to join the literary titans of tripping with a memoir slated for an April release.

Carlos Castaneda explained his supernatural experiences among the Yaqui of the Sonora Desert by saying that if people agree that something is real, it becomes real. He said the role of sorcerers is to create a 'special consensus" that makes the...

Therefore, pick a path with heart!” For those unfamiliar with the idea behind the Winter Resolution, it is not so much of a directional call but rather a call for direction. Given the length of time certain intermarket relationships have been in a...