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Carlos Castaneda Journey to Ixtlan - Castaneda wrote twelve books and several academic articles detailing his experiences with the Yaqui Indians indigenous to parts of Central Mexico.
His first three books, The Teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui way of knowledge, A Separate Reality and Journey to Ixtlan were written while Castaneda was an anthropology student at UCLA.
Castaneda wrote these books as if they were his research log describing his apprenticeship with a traditional shaman identified as Don Juan Matus.
Castaneda was awarded his bachelor's and doctoral degrees for the work described in these books.
His work has been criticized by academics, and is seen as highly suspect in terms of strict anthropological fieldwork. Many have tried to corroborate Castaneda's stories with his own personal history and that of his fellow apprentices. Contradictory evidence suggests Castaneda wrote in the traditional allegorical style of the storyteller (ethnopoetics) common to many native Indian cultures. Perhaps the most highly contested aspects of his work are the descriptions of the use of psychotropic plants as a means to induce altered states of awareness.
In Castaneda's first two books, he describes the Yaqui way of knowledge requiring the use of powerful indigenous plants, such as peyote and datura. In his third book, Journey to Ixtlan, he reverses his emphasis on 'power plants'. He states that Don Juan used them on Castaneda to demonstrate that experiences outside those known in day-to-day life are real and tangible. Castaneda later disavowed all use of drugs for these purposes, stating they could in-alterably damage the luminous ball (energy body) or physical body. -- courtesy of Wikipedia
CONDITION: Hard cover, Simon & Schuster Edition - not true first/first for this book but a solid vintage collectible, wear to DJ - we will add a mylar cover for winning bidder, light to moderate overall use, underlining in pencil first few chapters of book
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