by Carlos Castaneda · BUR Rizzoli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788817258173
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«Tensegrità» is Carlos Castaneda's essay on the «magical movements» of the shamans of ancient Mexico, published by BUR Rizzoli in paperback.
Tensegrity, a term combining tension and integrity, designates a set of bodily and breathing movements of the shamans of ancient Mexico. Castaneda presents them as magical passes that redistribute vital energy, reduce inner dialogue and foster inner silence, and includes 486 illustrated exercises for practice.
Italian edition of 1999, with 297 pages. Originally published as «Magical Passes: The Practical Wisdom of the Shamans of Ancient Mexico» in 1997.
For readers interested in spirituality, shamanic traditions and bodily practices of self-knowledge.
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.
