9780520217577-0520217578-The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9780520217577
ISBN-10: 0520217578
Edition: First Edition, With a new commentary by the author
Author: Carlos Castaneda
Publication date: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback 232 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780520217577
ISBN-10: 0520217578
Edition: First Edition, With a new commentary by the author
Author: Carlos Castaneda
Publication date: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback 232 pages

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The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge (ISBN-13: 9780520217577 and ISBN-10: 0520217578), written by authors Carlos Castaneda, was published by University of California Press in 1998. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Native American (Americas History, Cultural, Anthropology) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Native American books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.55.

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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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