![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge was published in 1968 and quickly became a best-seller.With its eloquent descriptions of 'non-ordinary reality,' it proved particularly popular with American youth disillusioned with the Vietnam War. Here, in the high mountains and in the bright arid desert, Castaneda reaches for power in a series of startling encounters with the unknown-a confrontation with death and the past in the form of an albino falcon, with the twilight wind, with a flesh-and-blood mountain lion, with a mountain fog-and learns the techniques, the concentration, the compassion of the hunter, the man who is "without routines, free, fluid." It is about an alleged apprenticeship to the Yaqui 'shaman,' Don Juan. This volume shows the reader the means by which a "man of power" sees, as opposed to merely looking, and how by his concentrated "seeing" he can, indeed must, "stop the world." In it, Carlos Castaneda describes the lessons, the omens, the exercises of the will and body, the arduous trials and tests, the simple yet mysterious demonstrations, the extraordinary visions and experiences by which don Juan, his mentor and friend, prepares him for the task of perceiving things as they are, instead of describing them by the words, conventions and standards of conventional, a priori ideas and language. Journey to Ixtlan (The Teachings of Don Juan 3), Carlos Castaneda Journey to Ixtlan is the third book by Carlos Castaneda, published as a work of non-fiction by Simon & Schuster in 1972. ![]()
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