Journey to Ixtlan

, #3

Paperback, 272 pages

English language

Published Jan. 31, 1991 by Washington Square Press.

ISBN:
978-0-671-73246-2
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Journey to Ixtlan is the third book by Carlos Castaneda, published as a work of nonfiction by Simon & Schuster in 1972. It is about an apprenticeship to the Yaqui shaman, Don Juan.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. "Ixtlan" turns out to be a metaphorical hometown (or 'place', 'position of being') to which the "sorcerer" or warrior or man of knowledge is drawn to return, trying to get home. 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 …

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even if there was a demon turned to be an Indian prophet/old idiot - the very description of ideas / postulates as presented by Juan - they all lack clarity / single vector.
Even though considering his identity to be real we should blame Castaneda for fucked-up storytelling and complete lack of self-reflection

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