by Carlos Castaneda · Tapa dura · ISBN 9780713993790
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«The Wheel of Time» is Carlos Castaneda's essay on the shamans of ancient Mexico, published by Allen Lane in hardcover (288 pages, in English).
Selection of writings by Carlos Castaneda on the shamans of ancient Mexico and their thoughts about life, death and the universe. The author evokes his apprenticeship with the Yaqui shaman don Juan Matus and argues that mind-altering plants were a door, not an end, to alternative realities; the journey culminates in «stopping the world» and perceiving reality on its own terms.
Eleventh title in the series The Teachings of Don Juan; 1999 edition, originally published in 1998.
For those interested in shamanism, spirituality and anthropology, as well as in the work of Carlos Castaneda.
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.
