The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
About This Book
The book that launched one of the most controversial and influential spiritual series of the 20th century. Castaneda — then a UCLA anthropology student — records his apprenticeship under don Juan Matus, a Yaqui Indian sorcerer from Sonora, Mexico. The teachings involve the use of psychotropic plants as tools for shifting awareness, and a radical view of reality as an assemblage of luminous emanations that human perception normally edits into a rigid picture. Whether read as anthropology or allegory, it permanently altered how millions of readers understood the nature of perception and reality.
What You'll Learn
Ordinary perception is not a direct experience of reality but a learned, socially conditioned interpretation of a far richer field of awareness. The "warrior's path" involves breaking through the fixed habit of ordinary perception through direct disciplined practice rather than belief. The world of everyday experience is one of several possible worlds available to a human being who has mastered attention.
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