Word: juan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME correspondents in Italy dug for proof of Castaneda's residence some 20 years ago in Milan, reporters in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro sought to trace his early years in South America. Correspondent Bernard Diederich visited known witchcraft centers in rural Mexico in search of Don Juan, and Sandra Burton herself traveled south of the border seeking the shaman. In New York, Reporter-Researcher Patricia Beckert interviewed Castaneda's friends and fellow anthropologists...
...leave before I'm left," announced Brigitte Bardot, who at 38 has had three husbands and more than her share of boy friends. This time she was talking to L'Express about leaving the screen. "I have been in the business for 20 years. If Don Juan is not my last film, it is my next to last." And after the last one? "I don't want to age badly, to be sad because I have a wrinkle or a white hair. So at 40 I am going to retire to a farm." At first she expects...
...Yaqui. The book was The Teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui Way of Knowledge (1968). With its sequels, A Separate Reality (1971) and the current Journey to Ixtlan (1972), it has made U.S. cult figures of its author and subject ? an anthropologist named Carlos Castaneda and a mysterious old Yaqui Indian from Sonora called Juan Matus. In essence, Castaneda's books are the story of how a European rationalist was initiated into the practice of Indian sorcery. They cover a span of ten years, during which, under the weird, taxing and sometimes comic tutelage of Don Juan, a young...
...tens of thousands of readers, young and old, the first meeting of Castaneda with Juan Matus?which took place in 1960 in a dusty Arizona bus depot near the Mexican border?is a better-known literary event than the encounter of Dante and Beatrice beside the Arno. For Don Juan's teachings have reached print at precisely the moment when more Americans than ever before are disposed to consider "non-rational" approaches to reality. This
Turn the situation around, Castaneda argues, and there is your typical Western anthropologist in the field. Yet a "very simple" alternative exists: the crux of anthropology is acquisition of real membership. "It's a hell of a lot of work," he says, explaining the years he spent with Don Juan. "What Don Juan did with me was simply this: he was making his sorcery membership available, handing down the necessary steps." Professor Michael Harner of The New School for Social Research, a friend of Castaneda's and an authority on shamanism, explains: "Most anthropologists only give the result. Instead...