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CARLOS CASTANEDA
(Expert # 16)s Castaneda Quick FactsAreas: Reality; Viewing the World; Mysticism; Magical Passes
ellers: “The TeMain
est-S achings of Don Juan” (over 10 million copies
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sold); “Journey to Ixtlan”; “A Separate Reality”; “The
Art of Dreaming”
e: Author; Anthropologist
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arlos eda, Ph.D. was the author of The Teachings of Don Juan and 11
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ia from Sonora, Mexico. Don Juan was a nagual or leader of a group
a omen shamans who
g te student in anthropology at UCLA seeking a native expert on medicinal
nt of the American Southwest when he met don Juan in Yuma, Arizona. His
uide became his teacher, and Castaneda’s books chronicle his transformation
fr tudent to shaman apprentice.
his initiation via hallucinogenic plants was a cultural keystone of the 60s,
izing the hearts and minds of a generation and spurring a breakthrough in
pological research, Dr. Castaneda later eschewed the use of those plants,
ng alternate methods to break the bound
eve that one could most effectively access “separate realities” through the
ci line of self-examination and physical movements he called Tensegrity.D staneda’s readers number millions w
c uous print in 17 languages. His first book, The Teachings of Don Juan: A
u Way of Knowledge, appeared in 1968 and was an immediate best-seller. Dr.
eda maintained that shamanism is an evolutionary journey of return—to the
s and the freedom to perceive not only t
e hing else that is humanly possible: “the known, the unknown, and the
n wable.”