Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan

Carlos Castaneda

ISBN 10: 0671213997 / ISBN 13: 9780671213992

Published by Simon & Schuster, 1973

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1st edition with small ex lib markings.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1700244939055

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671213997
• ISBN 13: 9780671213992
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This volume shows the reader the means by which a "man of power" sees, as opposed to merely looking, and how by his concentrated "seeing" he can, indeed must, "stop the world." In it, Carlos Castaneda describes the lessons, the omens, the exercises of the will and body, the arduous trials and tests, the simple yet mysterious demonstrations, the extraordinary visions and experiences by which don Juan, his mentor and friend, prepares him for the task of perceiving things as they are, instead of describing them by the words, conventions and standards of conventional, a priori ideas and language. Here, in the high mountains and in the bright arid desert, Castaneda reaches for power in a series of startling encounters with the unknown--a confrontation with death and the past in the form of an albino falcon, with the twilight wind, with a flesh-and-blood mountain lion, with a mountain fog--and learns the techniques, the concentration, the compassion of the hunter, the man who is "without routines, free, fluid."

About the Author

Born in 1925 in Peru, anthropologist Carlos Castaneda wrote a total of 15 books, which sold 8 million copies worldwide and were published in 17 different languages. In his writing, Castaneda describes the teaching of Don Juan, a Yaqui sorcerer and shaman. His works helped define the 1960's and usher in the New Age movement. Even after his mysterious death in California in1998, his books continue to inspire and influence his many devoted fans.