by Carlos Castaneda · Fondo de Cultura Económica · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789681662356
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The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge is the first book by anthropologist Carlos Castaneda, published in 1968. In it, Castaneda narrates the first stage of his apprenticeship to become a "man of knowledge" under the guidance of a Yaqui sorcerer named Don Juan Matus. Through various experiences, Don Juan introduces his disciple to an extraordinary reality, challenging conventional thought patterns and based on the ancestral wisdom transmitted by the teacher. The book explores themes such as perception, reality, consciousness, and the power of sacred plants in Yaqui culture.
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.
