The Teachings of Don Juan: 30th Anniversary Edition: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, the Original Teachings - Hardcover

Castaneda, Carlos

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520217551 ISBN 13: 9780520217553

Publisher: University of California Press, 1998

Synopsis

Thirty years ago the University of California Press published an unusual manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda. "The Teachings of Don Juan" initiated a generation of seekers dissatisfied with the limitations of the Western worldview. Castaneda's now classic book remains controversial for the alternative way of seeing that it presents and the revolution in cognition it demands. In a series of fascinating dialogues, Castaneda sets forth his partial initiation with don Juan Matus, a Yaqui Indian shaman from the state of Sonora, Mexico. He describes don Juan's perception and mastery of the "non-ordinary reality" and how peyote along with other plants sacred to the Mexican Indians were used as gateways to the mysteries of "dread," "clarity," and "power.""The Teachings of Don Juan" is the story of a remarkable journey that has left an indelible impression on the life of more than a million readers around the world. "For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length. And there I travel, looking, looking breathlessly." - Don Juan. 'Carlos Castaneda, under the tutelage of don Juan, takes us through the moment of twilight, through the crack in the universe between daylight and dark into a world not merely other than our own, but of an entirely different order of reality' - Walter Goldschmidt, from the Foreword.

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Review:

"It's impossible to view the world in quite the same way after reading him. . . . If Castaneda is correct, there is another world, a sometimes beautiful and sometimes frightening world, right before our eyes at this moment--if only we could see."--"Chicago Tribune

About the Author:

Carlos Castaneda is the author of several other books, most recently Magical Passes: The Practical Wisdom of the Shamans of Ancient Mexico (1998).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0520217551
• ISBN 13: 9780520217553
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232