The Castaneda Sorcery Forum
The Sorcery Lineage of Don Juan Matus & Carlos Castaneda
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Archival & Migration
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Why was this done?
Over the last few years, community discussion platforms like Reddit have steadily restricted access to their own data: 2023 API pricing changes, the 2025 Responsible Builder Policy that ended self-service developer access, and the shutdown of unauthenticated .json endpoints in May 2026. Years of practice, discussion, and hard-won insight had come to depend on platforms like Reddit that could gate or wall off that record at any time. Preserving that community information somewhere the community could rely on felt less like a preference and more like a necessity.
Where the archived content comes from
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Why it matters
Over many years, the online Castaneda community built something rare: a place where serious practice takes precedence over intellectual debate, academic analysis, and speculation. This site exists to keep that record intact and accessible for generations to come, so that those who arrive after us have the same chance to be pulled by the intent of the sorcerers of Ancient Mexico.
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brilliant!
just leaving my foorprints
, thanks techno! Happy to be there.
