Introduction to the Dialogs

The dialogs present a person referred to, in his words, as a facilitator.  In my personal dealings with him, both via email exchanges (the second set of dialogs), and face to face, I learned of myself and of those things within myself prohibiting me from achieving my goal of enlightenment.  His name is Michael King and he remains available for anyone wishing to contact him.  Email me at gonzo1461@gmail.com and I'll forward your request to him.  

The works of Castaneda and the concepts presented therein serve as the basis for all of the connections here. Michael found the original web site of the editor of the first dialogs doing a web search for Castaneda.

Within the dialogs, questioners comments are preceded by various initials and a colon. Michael's comments are preceded by M: . Introductory remarks and commentary are in italics.

Names have been changed and other minimal editing of personal data has been done to preserve privacy.

A minimum of editing has been applied which will preserve misspellings, questionable word usages and grammar. These are real exchanges, culled from Michael's extensive files.

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Dialog 1 - the 'original' Michael Dialogs

The first dialog was originally posted on the web in the late '90's. The author and editor requested his name and personal references be removed. He is referred to as 'X' throughout. The dialog begins with initial email contact between him and Michael. Later, several others establish email contact and at one point group email exchanges occur. The sequences are a bit choppy, however, these dialogs were the basis of many others establishing contact with Michael, including the editor of this site.

Dialog 2 - my email exchanges

The second dialog is comprised of my initial exchanges with Michael beginning in September of 2000 up through the end of December 2000. I found the original dialogs doing a web search for 'Castaneda'. At this point in my life, at the age of 59, I was on the verge of giving up ever achieving any spiritual goals. When I encountered Michael via the dialogs I decided to give it one last try. 'X' opted to forward my initial email to Michael and to my amazement, Michael responded.

Dialog 3 - my partner's email exchanges

The third dialog is comprised of my long time "significant other's" exchanges with Michael covering roughly the same time period as the second dialog.