Journey to ixtlan

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Journey to ixtlan

The title of this book is taken from an allegory that is recounted to Castaneda by his "benefactor" who is known to Carlos as Don Genaro Genaro Flores , a close friend of his teacher don Juan Matus. After the work of "stopping", his changed perspective leaves him little in common with ordinary people, who now seem no more substantial to him than "phantoms". The point of the story is that a man of knowledge, or sorcerer, is a changed being, or a Human closer to his true state of Being, and for that reason he can never truly go "home" to his old lifestyle again. In Journey to Ixtlan Castaneda essentially reevaluates the teachings up to that point. He discusses information that was apparently missing from the first two books regarding stopping the world which previously he had only regarded as a metaphor. He also finds that psychotropic plants , knowledge of which was a significant part of his apprenticeship to Yaqui shaman don Juan Matus, are not as important in the world view as he had previously thought. In the introduction he writes:. My basic assumption in both books has been that the articulation points in learning to be a sorcerer were the states of nonordinary reality produced by the ingestion of psychotropic plants My perception of the world through the effects of those psychotropics had been so bizarre and impressive that I was forced to assume that such states were the only avenue to communicating and learning what Don Juan was attempting to teach me. That assumption was erroneous. In the book don Juan takes Carlos on these various degrees of apprenticeship , in response to what he believes are signals from the phenomenological world, "The decision as to who can be a warrior and who can only be a hunter is not up to us.

My basic assumption in both books has been that the articulation points in learning to be a sorcerer were the states of nonordinary reality produced by the ingestion of psychotropic plants

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Account Options Ieiet. Carlos Castaneda. The dazzling, fantastic work that concludes the teachings of the Yaqui sorcerer, Don Juan. Castaneda is an anthropologist, a mystic, a poet and a marvelously gifted author whose books have sold phenomenally well. Reaffirmations from the World Around Us.

Journey to ixtlan

Trade Paperback. Born in in Peru, anthropologist Carlos Castaneda wrote a total of fifteen books, which sold eight million copies worldwide and were published in seventeen different languages. In his writing, Castaneda describes the teaching of don Juan, a Yaqui sorcerer and shaman.

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I realize that he has downplayed the drug taking in this book, but he still alludes to it throughout the book. The book can be a good passageway to realize that the world is more than our rationalistic eyes are used to conceive. That must be changed! In a sense, Castaneda is a throwback to the 18'th century, when there was a convention of presenting fiction as though it were factual travel writing; think of Swift and Defoe. Carlos cannot break away from don Juan, no matter how irrational, even crazy, he seems, and neither can we. This and its follow-up book Tales of Power changed my life when I read them in my mids I have, little by little, created a fog around me and my life. These are but a few of the topics that Don Juan teaches Carlos about. I would be making car engines stop dead at my will. Ever wondered if the Wind itself could be an animated thing roaming around the world,interacting and playing with those who percieve him? In this book, he attempts to convince readers that alternative realities do exist, validating the methods of knowledge-making utilized by the shamanic cultures with which he has been in contact. If so, some people who want to gain confidence in themselves might find the alternate perspectives in this book thought provoking.

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On the other hand it gave me insight into how some people see alternate realities and how ordinary cause and effect are seen much differently by some people. If you have no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with your acts. Pedro LF. A SuperSummary Plot Summary provides a quick, full synopsis of a text. Don Juan encapsulates the entire message of Tolle's book in two sentences: ". For example, a heightened sense of awareness brought on by silence, or observation, or exertion, or viewing nature such as sunrise, sunset, thunderstorms or night time in a wilderness setting. Continue your reading experience SuperSummary Plot Summaries provide a quick, full synopsis of a text. The only problem with all this is that the books turned out to be fraudulent. Beyond that, however, I've had a couple of auditions hearing voices which weren't coming from anyone another in the room would have heard , a rather unpleasant hallucinatory episode and at least two induced breakthroughs to domains radically different than this one I'm typing in--all of which felt realer-than-real. Ahora que estoy tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento, quisiera llorar, quisiera reir de sentimiento. Author 1 book 12 followers. Erik Graff. Daniel Stafford. In later books, Juan describes that there are only so many kinds of men, and that Genaro is a man of action. At times the book seemed to flow in a similar way as a strange dream, without the linearity of time.