Journey to Ixtlan The Lessons of Don Juan Carlos Castaneda Hardcover Book 1972

Description: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Notable Features:This is a hardcover book with the dust jacket. About the Book:This book and the lessons Castaneda has given us represent an awesome marvel, a vision of the world that is both a literary masterpiece and the gateway to a new and more profound way of thinking about our- selves, of living our own lives. Poet, scientist, adventurer, triumphant victor over his own fears, Carlos Castaneda has written in Journey to Ixtlan a book that is destined, like its predecessors, to be an enduring classic. Journey to Ixtlan is the record of Castaneda's initiation into the mysteries of sorcery-of becoming a man of knowledge" at the hands of one of the most remarkable personalities ever to emerge from anthropological investigation-Don Juan, the Yaqui brujo (sorcerer). Don Juan's profound insight into the nature of things and his deep, disturbing knowledge of human nature made The Teachings of Don Juan and A Separate Reality immediate classics. His brooding, powerful and vivid presence has haunted, perplexed and illuminated the lives of several hundred thousand readers.The two previous books were concerned with the use of hallucinogens in Don Juan's sorcery and recorded Castaneda's experiences, sometimes searing and terrifying, as he underwent the long and arduous apprenticeship of becoming a "man of knowledge." This new volume transcends these experiences to show the reader the means by which a "man of power" sees, as op- posed to merely looking, and how by his concentrated "seeing" he can, indeed must, "stop the world." In it, Castaneda describes the lessons, the omens, the exercises of the will and body, the arduous trials and tests,the simple yet mysterious demonstrations, the extraordinary visions and experiences by which Don Juan, a demanding mentor and friend, prepares the author for the task of perceiving things as they are, instead of describing them by the words, conventions and standards of conventional, received ideas and language. Here, in the high mountains and in the bright arid desert, Castaneda reaches for power in a series of startling encounters with the unknown-a confrontation with death and the past in the form of an albino falcon, with the twilight wind that is really power, with a flesh-and- blood mountain lion that Don Juan attracts by using Castaneda as the bait in a test of courage, with a mountain fog that brings visions and terror-and learns the techniques, the concentration, the compassion of the hunter, the man who is "without routines, free, fluid, unpredictable," finding in the world around him the power that he has learned to see, use and control.About the Author/Editor:Carlos Castaneda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was an American anthropologist and writer. Starting in 1968, he wrote a series of books about his training in shamanism, which he said he learned from a Yaqui "Man of Knowledge" named don Juan Matus. When the books first came out, many people believed they were true, but today, most consider the training he wrote about to be fictional.His first three books—The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, A Separate Reality, and Journey to Ixtlan—were written while he was a student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he earned both his bachelor's and doctoral degrees based on the work in these books.By the time of his death in 1998, Castaneda's books had sold over eight million copies and were translated into 17 languages.Condition:There is foxing along the edge of the book. There are some scuff marks on the dust cover. Some discoloration on the inside covers. Shipping and Return InformationI am happy to combine shipping. I ship daily for fast delivery.Books are wrapped in paper, bubble wrapped and most are mailed in a bubble mailer while others are mailed in boxes.Postcards and photographs are bagged and mailed in a rigid cardboard envelope.Magazines are bagged, boarded and mailed in a rigid flat lay cardboard envelope. Artwork is bagged and mailed flat between two pieces of cardboard. I offer free, no questions asked returns.

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