Yet Castaneda uses no drugs in Journey to Ixtlan indeed, the climactic scene occurs in the absence of Don Juan. The miracles he witnesses are more spectacular than ever. Although written in the same plodding, comically earnest style, it indicates that Castaneda has graduated from academic reporter to spiritual disciple and has planted himself in the supernatural world of Don Juan. His latest book, Journey to Ixtlan, shows how far an anthropology student from Los Angeles can come in eleven years. The strain of two contradictory realities briefly put Castaneda in a mental hospital. Under the guidance of the aged Don Juan, Castaneda's experiments with hallucinogenic plants initiated him into a world of "nonordinary reality." In his second book, A Separate Reality, Castaneda witnessed even stranger miracles which could not be explained simply by the use of psychoactive substances. His 11-year apprenticeship to the Yaqui sorcerer Don Juan is over.Ĭarlos Castaneda wrote his first book, The Teachings of Don Juan, as an anthropology student investigating the use of medicinal plants by Indians.
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