by Carlos Castaneda · BUR Biblioteca Univ. Rizzoli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788817127516
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«L'isola del Tonal» is Carlos Castaneda's spiritual account of the Yaqui shaman don Juan Matus, published by BUR in paperback, in Italian.
A university professor of ethnology spends a decade learning the arts of the Yaqui shamans; what he believes to be a deception turns out to be a teaching technique to break his ordinary perception. In the concluding phase of the apprenticeship, Castaneda presents the duality between the tonal, the world of the known, and the nagual, the ineffable, and synthesizes don Juan's lessons.
Fourth volume in the series «The Teachings of Don Juan». Original title: «Tales of Power» (1974). Work of 393 pages.
For readers interested in Carlos Castaneda, shamanism, and spiritual literature.
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.
