Journey to ixtlan

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Journey to ixtlan

Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book. Carlos Castaneda. Loading interface About the author. Carlos Castaneda books 2, followers. Carlos Castaneda was an Latin-American author. Starting with The Teachings of Don Juan in , Castaneda wrote a series of books that describe his training in shamanism, particularly with a group whose lineage descended from the Toltecs. The books, narrated in the first person, relate his experiences under the tutelage of a man that Castaneda claimed was a Yaqui "Man of Knowledge" named don Juan Matus. His 12 books have sold more than 28 million copies in 17 languages.

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The title of this book is taken from an allegory that is recounted to Castaneda by his "benefactor" who is known to Carlos as Don Genaro Genaro Flores , a close friend of his teacher don Juan Matus. After the work of "stopping", his changed perspective leaves him little in common with ordinary people, who now seem no more substantial to him than "phantoms". The point of the story is that a man of knowledge, or sorcerer, is a changed being, or a Human closer to his true state of Being, and for that reason he can never truly go "home" to his old lifestyle again. In Journey to Ixtlan Castaneda essentially reevaluates the teachings up to that point. He discusses information that was apparently missing from the first two books regarding stopping the world which previously he had only regarded as a metaphor. He also finds that psychotropic plants , knowledge of which was a significant part of his apprenticeship to Yaqui shaman don Juan Matus, are not as important in the world view as he had previously thought.

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Journey to ixtlan

Trade Paperback. Born in in Peru, anthropologist Carlos Castaneda wrote a total of fifteen books, which sold eight million copies worldwide and were published in seventeen different languages. In his writing, Castaneda describes the teaching of don Juan, a Yaqui sorcerer and shaman. His works helped define the 's and usher in the New Age movement. Even after his death in , his books continue to inspire and influence his many devoted fans.

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David And Goliath. On the other hand it gave me insight into how some people see alternate realities and how ordinary cause and effect are seen much differently by some people. We did not speak for a long while. Yet he is scorned by the very academics who once lionized him as revitalizing their profession. Furthermore, Carlos Castaneda consistently claimed this set of books to be true. A hunter should know the routines of his prey and, most importantly, have no routines oneself. On the other hand, if you have no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with your acts. Beyond that, however, I've had a couple of auditions hearing voices which weren't coming from anyone another in the room would have heard , a rather unpleasant hallucinatory episode and at least two induced breakthroughs to domains radically different than this one I'm typing in--all of which felt realer-than-real. Now that I am so alone and sad like a leaf in the wind, sometimes I want to weep, sometimes I want to laugh with longing. For HE then showed me a way to do it without the props of drugs or alcohol. At times the book seemed to flow in a similar way as a strange dream, without the linearity of time.

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You might be pleasantly surprised at what you can accomplish. You're so damn important that you can afford to leave if things don't go your way. That dishonesty, and the consequent inaccuracies added to the body of anthropological work, and to the subject of metaphysics, has to be considered when reviewing Journey to Ixtlan or Castaenda's other works in the series. They may. From Tales of Power on, I give the books five stars. It is classified as a book of nonfiction, and it is written as a first person account as to what Carlos says he experienced. On the other hand it gave me insight into how some people see alternate realities and how ordinary cause and effect are seen much differently by some people. Which goes to show Someone Upstairs was still looking out after me, and… That led me to something big. What is interesting about Castaneda, however, is that, for him, it is not so much a drug-disordered state of mind creating hallucinations as an entry into other worlds. I also found myself laughing out loud at various times throughout this book. This book moved me. Sorry, John! If he succeeds in his hunting he becomes a man of knowledge.