Castaneda prepared a report on his experience that was accepted as his master's thesis by UCLA in 1964… A blend of anthropology, allegory, and fantasy, it struck the exact note for the period with its validation of drugs as a ritual element of an ancient and spiritual culture the counterculture of the period embraced it wholeheartedly" (ANB). His four-year apprenticeship included contact with other native holy men and the use of several local psychotropic plants, including peyote and hallucinogenic mushrooms. As he subsequently reported, while waiting in a bus station in Arizona he met Juan Matus, an elderly Yaqui Indian shaman who agreed to instruct him in the principles and methods of Yaqui sorcery and introduce him to an alternative perception of reality. Funded in part by the anthropology department, he traveled to the Mexico-Arizona border the next year to study the medicinal use of plants by the local Indians. "In 1959 Castaneda entered the University of California at Los Angeles, where he studied anthropology. $975.įirst edition of one of the most influential books on modern shamanism, in rare first-state dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Octavo, original grey cloth, original dust jacket. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.
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