by Carlos Castaneda · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070328031
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«Histoires de pouvoir» is Carlos Castaneda's shamanic learning account, published by Gallimard in paperback (386 pages, in French).
Set in urban Mexican settings, the book shows don Juan Matus guiding Castaneda in city clothes to shake the limits of reason and lead him to live as a «guerrero». The experiences the apprentice cannot explain bring him closer to the condition of a «man of knowledge», while his master reveals the path of the sorcerers.
Fourth installment of the series «The Teachings of Don Juan»; original in English «Tales of Power» (1974). French edition translated by Carmen Bernand, in the Folio Essais collection.
For readers interested in shamanism, philosophy, and spirituality, and for those who follow Carlos Castaneda's series.
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.
