Reise nach Ixtlan: Die Lehre des Don Juan

Castaneda, Carlos

ISBN 10: 3596218098 ISBN 13: 9783596218097

Publisher: FISCHER Taschenbuch, 1976

Synopsis

With the "Journey to Ixtlan," American anthropologist Carlos Castaneda - he died in 1998 - ended the unusual account of his ten-year apprenticeship with the Native American medicine man and wizard Don Juan Matus, who led him to a world beyond the rationality and reality of our Western civilization. While at the heart of the first two cycles of his teachings "The Teachings of Don Juan" and "Another Reality" were still the attempts to fathom under the guidance of his old shaman and friend the mysterious world of Yaqui wizards with the help of psychotropic plants to become a "men of knowledge", so it is now his efforts in jj New ReNew ReReReRe- and levels of consciousness of the "other reality" without penetrating any aids. He learns to walk the fascinating and arduous path of a "man of power," where "power" does not mean power over other people, but "power" or "energy." He learns to "see" the world, i.e. to learn not only to look, and he eventually learns the greatest art of a brujo - "stopping the world". "His story," the New York Times writes, "unfolds with a narrative power unique to anthropologists. Your setting - from the glittering lava masses of the Mexican desert to the barren interior of the dilapidated hut Don Juans - wins reality. It is a world as detailed as Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Castaneda knows how to let his readers participate immediately - the pressures of mysterious winds and the trembling of leaves at dusk, the hunter's peculiar vigilance to smells and sounds, the barren Native American life, the tart aroma of tequila, and the disgustingly fibrous taste of peyote, all of which comes alive. It is a wonderfully representative frame, and despite all the ghostly sinister of the events that play out in it."

If you want to read the books of Carlos Castaneda, the following order is recommended:
Introducing "The Work of Infinity" and then "The Teachings of Don Juan", "Another Reality", "Journey to Ixtlan", "The Ring of Power", "The Second Ring of Power", "The Art of Stalking", "The Fire from Within", "The Power of Silence" and finally "The Art of Dreaming" and "Tensegrity".

Edition details

• Publisher: FISCHER Taschenbuch
• Publication date: 1976
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3596218098
• ISBN 13: 9783596218097
• Binding: Pocket Book
• Number of pages: 252