Comments on “The Selling of the Senoi”

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It is always pleasing to me to get the ethnographic record straight, albeit of course disconcerting that it need be gotten straight in the first place! Thus I applaud the work of Faraday and Wren—Lewis. I am sure that their work will join De Mille’s in revealing Castaneda or Carneiro’s exposure of Cordova—Rios and Lamb Wizard of the Upper Amazon. But I do have a question concerning methodology. Please understand that in regard to the Senoi and dreams, I am neutral. I’ve taken no “Senoi workshops,” nor have I read Stewart’s dissertation nor the offshoot literature.