by Carlos Castaneda · Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070324910
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«Le Voyage à Ixtlan» is the initiatory account by Carlos Castaneda, published by Gallimard in paperback (340 pages, in French).
The author recounts in the first person how don Juan Matus, a Yaqui shaman, subjects his consciousness to an intense process of deconditioning to make him see the world from another perspective. Between the rebellion, skepticism and anguish of the neophyte, the initiation lasts about ten years and ends in an illumination that closes the account.
«Le Voyage à Ixtlan» is the third installment of the series The Teachings of Don Juan, whose original title, published in 1972, is Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan.
For readers interested in shamanism, spirituality, anthropology and philosophy.
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.
