“CARLOS CASTANEDA: I have come to understand sorcery in terms of Talcott Parsons’ idea of glosses. A gloss is a total system of perception and language. For instance, this room is a gloss. We have lumped together a series of isolated perceptions—floor, ceiling, window, lights, rugs, etc.—to make a totality. But we had to be taught… Continue reading Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and Castaneda’s Tales of Power: Whisperings of the Nagual