Word: genaro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morning we got up at 4:30 to go and see a ranch in north San Diego County. Genaro Zavalo formerly a farmworker, but then a full time organizer for the union, led us there. We went to see the living conditions. It was really bad. You hear about it but when you see it, it makes an incredible impression. The ranch was called Oceanview Ranch. The workers lived in the forests at the edge of the fields. Most were from Tijuana, but Oceanview was about 80 miles from the border so they can't commute everyday...
...Guatemala City when Genaro Castro was jolted awake by the thunderously loud rumble of buckling earth and masonry. Grabbing his terrified and screaming child, he stumbled over the shifting floor of his adobe house to the door. A pressure beyond his frantic strength held it shut. While he was still grappling with the door, the front wall of his home crashed outward into the street, leaving Castro and his son standing exposed but unharmed. They had just survived one of the century's most destructive natural disasters...
...Journey to Ixtlan," the final and most crucial section, serves as a challenge. It is very short and consists mainly of a story by Don Genaro, Don Juan's fellow sorcerer, about winning his ally. After being spun like a top by the ally, but triumphing, Don Genaro tried to return to Ixtlan where he had a home, family and friends, but he could not reach his destination. He has still not reached it. Human beings, with the exception of Don Juan, are phantoms to Don Genaro now. Don Juan tells Castaneda that when he gains an ally, he will...
...phase, but it will not be Castaneda's last book. Unless Castaneda abandons the path of knowledge, there will be a book about taming his ally and confronting La Catalina. It's difficult to imagine that Don Juan will not also reappear--at strategic moments, no doubt. Perhaps Don Genaro, who is even more awesome than Don Juan, will become Castaneda's benefactor. Perhaps Castaneda will become a man of knowledge, take on an apprentice himself (in an urban setting?), and someday we'll have The Teachings of Carlos Castaneda. Or maybe he'll just stay in Los Angeles...
...storyteller. The account of his apprenticeship to Don Juan, with grueling desert marches and arduous disciplines, apparitions and struggles in fog and bright sunlight, as well as some mind-wrenching magic tricks, makes hypnotic reading. Don Juan and his friend, a fiercely mischievous old Mazatec Indian brujo named Don Genaro, are credited with making Castaneda's parked, locked car vanish and then materialize again from, of all things...