Word: ixtlan
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...Journey to Ixtlan, Castaneda...
JOURNEY TO IXTLAN by CARLOS CASTANEDA 315 pages. Simon & Schuster...
Indefatigably, and to the vast amusement of his old mentor, Castaneda scribbled down nearly every transaction and experience he had with Don Juan. The notes have resulted in three books: The Teachings of Don Juan (1968), A Separate Reality (1971), and now Journey to Ixtlan. As anthropological documents, they are already classics; no explorer has worked more lucidly at the very edge than Castaneda, describing a system of power and magic terrifyingly alien to his own culture. It is a world in which men can change into crows. Power objects and spirit allies operate inconsistently. There are iridescent talking coyotes...
Mind Wrenching. Yet neither the peyote spirit Mescalito nor psilocybe mushrooms can guarantee the sorcerer's survival. That depends on his "impeccable will"; and Castaneda's third and finest book, Journey to Ixtlan, describes the forging of that will, as Don Juan-without drugs -communicates the lessons of the warrior's power to his obstinately Cartesian student in the bright burnt mountains and lava gorges of Mexico...