'Carlos Castaneda' was a writer who inspired the hippies ( and others) with tales of mysticism, via his character 'Don Juan,' a Mexican Indian shaman. We know now that much of Castaneda's work is fabricated, yet this does not mean that Castaneda was entirely wrong ( even a broken clock is correct twice a day).

He borrowed a concept from Gurdjeiff, the great rascal sage from Armenia during the early half of the 20th century....We are deprived of spiritual wisdom due to the malign influence of the Moon...unseen entities 'eat' our' soul', bit by bit...depriving us of insight into ultimate truths.

This is true, in a way that will one day astound the world. Soviet probes left mirrors on the Moon's surface- the way radio and light rays bounce off these mirrors indicate that the mass of the Moon is far less than what it should be, considering it's size. Our astronauts were puzzled as to why the Moon seemed to ring loudly when objects were dropped on it's surface...