by Carlos Castaneda · Fondo de Cultura Economica de Espana, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437501062
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«Las enseñanzas de Don Juan» is the anthropological essay by Carlos Castaneda, published by Fondo de Cultura Económica de España, S.L. in paperback, 304 pages, in Spanish.
The anthropologist Carlos Castaneda recounts in the first person his apprenticeship with the Yaqui shaman don Juan Matus in northwestern Mexico. Through dialogues and the experience with sacred plants such as peyote, he explores teachings on perception, non-ordinary reality, and traditional knowledge linked to indigenous wisdom.
First volume of the series «Las enseñanzas de Don Juan»; the original English work was published in 1968. With a foreword by Octavio Paz and translation by Juan Tovar.
A work of interest for those seeking to approach anthropology, spirituality, and philosophy, and for readers of nonfiction classics.
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.
