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Don juan and the yaqui way of knowledge
Don juan and the yaqui way of knowledge






The 30th-anniversary edition, published by the University of California Press in 1998, contains commentary by Castaneda not present in the original edition. The second, A Structural Analysis, is an attempt, Castaneda says, at "disclos the internal cohesion and the cogency of don Juan’s Teachings." "little smoke" a smoked powder containing Psilocybe mexicana). "Devil's Weed" Jimson weed), and turning into a blackbird using " humito" (lit. He speaks of his encounters with Mescalito (a teaching spirit inhabiting all peyote plants), divination with lizards and flying using the " yerba del diablo" (lit. The first section, The Teachings, is a first-person narrative that documents Castaneda's initial interactions with don Juan. It purports to document the events that took place during an apprenticeship with a self-proclaimed Yaqui Indian Sorcerer, don Juan Matus from Sonora, Mexico between 19. It was written by Carlos Castaneda and submitted as his Master's thesis in the school of Anthropology. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge was published by the University of California Press in 1968 as a work of anthropology, though it is now widely considered a work of fiction.








Don juan and the yaqui way of knowledge