by Carlos Castaneda · Rizzoli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788817064019
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Carlos Castaneda recounts his philosophical apprenticeship under the guidance of a Yaqui Indian named Juan Matus, a shaman with a magnetic personality, and accompanies us along an initiatory path that leads to the unexplored regions of our interiority. Through the description of the ritual practices in use among the lineage of don Juan, Castaneda teaches us to abandon Western canons of thought and to undertake a path of inner knowledge and research.
Carlos Castaneda was a Peruvian-American writer, trained as an anthropologist. Starting in 1968, Castaneda published a series of books that describe alleged training in shamanism that he received under the tutelage of a Yaqui "Man of Knowledge" named Don Juan Matus. While Castaneda's work was accepted as factual by many when the books were first published, the character of Don Juan and the training he described is now generally considered to be fabricated and to have little relation to the actual cultural practices of the Yaqui. Castaneda's early writings featuring Don Juan were bestsellers with the general public, and are considered to be a significant influence on neoshamanism and the New Age movement more broadly.
