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Burning with the Fire from Within is our goal right? Total freedom. Carlos didn't do it, after all, all any of us got is a chance to have a chance.

I've heard this thought kicked around for years, and it's understandable; Carlos is said ot have died of liver cancer.

But I do recall Cleargreen posting a statement on their website for a short while after Carlos' "death" was made public. On the sustained action website, I found the main point of that statement...

June 22, 1998 - Cleargreen  website puts up Cleargreenââ?¬â?¢s official statement, which includes the following assertion: "For don Juan, the warrior was a being . . . who embarks, when the time comes, on a definitive journey of awareness, ââ?¬Ë?crossing over to total freedom.ââ?¬â?¢ Don Juan described this option to his apprentice: ââ?¬Ë?ââ?¬Â¦warriors can keep their awareness, which is ordinarily relinquished, at the moment of dying. At the moment of crossing, the body in its entirety is kindled with knowledge. Every cell at once becomes aware of itself and also aware of the totality of the body.ââ?¬â?¢

Carlos Castaneda left the world the same way that his teacher, don Juan Matus did: with full awareness. The cognition of our world of everyday life does not provide for a description of a phenomenon such as this. So in keeping with the terms of legalities and record keeping that the world of everyday life requires, Carlos Castaneda was declared to have died."

Now of course everyone will believe whatever they want to believe, but I just thought it's worth mentioning that Cleargreen did actually address this issue at one point.