by Carlos Castaneda · FCE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437501390
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«Viaje a Ixtlán» is the initiatory account by Carlos Castaneda with the Yaqui sorcerer don Juan, published by FCE in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
Castaneda returns to his early encounters with don Juan, the Yaqui sorcerer, and recounts the harsh physical and mental disciplines that prepare him for a decisive act of power: stopping the world and suspending ordinary perception. The journey to Ixtlán of the title symbolises the warrior's life, free, fluid and impeccable.
Third instalment of the series Las enseñanzas de don Juan. Work originally published in 1972; this Spanish-language edition, issued in 1975, belongs to Colección Popular 143.
For those interested in shamanism, anthropology and spiritual literature.
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.
