by Carlos Castaneda · BUR Biblioteca Univ. Rizzoli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788817064736
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«Una realtà separata. Nuove conversazioni con don Juan» is Carlos Castaneda's essay on shamanic wisdom, published by BUR Biblioteca Univ. Rizzoli in paperback (309 pages, in Italian).
Castaneda recounts his return in 1968 with the Yaqui shaman don Juan Matus to resume the initiatory process he had interrupted years earlier. In that experience he distinguishes between «mirar», the ordinary perception of reality, and «ver», a form of knowledge that captures the essence of things and the energy of the universe. He also describes the use of sacred plants as a path for man's encounter with the infinite, within a critique of the Western vision.
It is the author's second book; the collection is BUR Best BUR.
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.
