the teachings of don juan by carlos castaneda

Even after his mysterious death in California in1998, his books continue to inspire and influence his many devoted fans. His works helped define the 1960s and usher in the New Age movement. He was very intrigued by the mass of knowledge these indigenous. In his writing, Castaneda describes the teaching of Don Juan, a Yaqui sorcerer and shaman. He said that what modern man referred to vaguely as life after death was, for those shamans, a concrete region filled to capacity with practical affairs of a different order than the practical affairs of daily life, yet bearing a similar functional practicality.ĭon Juan considered that to collect the memorable events in their lives was, for shamans, the preparation for their entrance into that concrete region, which they called the active side of infinity. Carlos Castaneda is interested in one person in particular among this tribe, don Juan Matus. My teacher, don Juan Matsus, said this in guiding me as his apprentice to collect what I considered to be the memorable events of my life….Don Juan described the total goal of the shamanistic knowledge that he handled as the preparation for facing the definitive journey: the journey that every human being has to take at the end of his life.

'Ordinarily, events that change our path are impersonal affairs, and yet extremely personal. Castaneda's now classic book remains controversial for the alternative way of seeing that it presents and the revolution in cognition it demands. The Teachings of Don Juan enthralled a generation of seekers dissatisfied with the limitations of the Western worldview. 'For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart. In this book written immediately before his death, anthropologist and shaman Carlos Castaneda gives us his most autobiographical and intimately revealing work ever, the fruit of a lifetime of experience and perhaps the most moving volume in his oeuvre. In 1968 University of California Press published an unusual manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda. The teachings of don Juan is the story of a remarkable journey: the first awesome steps on the road to becoming a 'man of knowledge' - the road that continues with A Separate Reality and Journey to Ixtlan.

The teachings of don juan by carlos castaneda