Word: matus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nearly half of the 1,600 high school students immediately asked for help. Says School Psychologist Abe Matus, who saw 50 youngsters: "There was a sense of helplessness and anger at the dead boys-'How could they do this to me?'' But Matus feels that the healing process has already taken hold. "If a kid is in trouble, word now gets back to us. A lot of trust between faculty and students has been built up." Many of the youngsters seemed to need assurance that they would not kill themselves. Says School Social Worker Robert Klopfer: "Even...
...poor Indian." The ways of exploiting him appear to be infinite. One hopes that Juan Matus' sorcery will provide him with the necessities of life while his apprentice watches the money roll...
...latest child guru off a chartered jet from Bombay. The acupuncturist now shares the limelight with Marcus Welby, M.D., and his needles are seen to work?nobody knows why. However, with Castaneda's increasing fame have come increasing doubts. Don Juan has no other verifiable witness, and Juan Matus is nearly as common a name among the Yaqui Indians as John Smith farther north. Is Castaneda real? If so, did he invent Don Juan? Is Castaneda just putting on the straight world...
...they are anthropology, a specific and truthful account of an aspect of Mexican Indian culture as shown by the speech and actions of one person, a shaman named Juan Matus. That proof hinges on the credibility of Don Juan as a being and Carlos Castaneda as a witness. Yet there is no corroboration?beyond Castaneda's writings-that Don Juan did what he is said to have done, and very little that he exists...
...very least, though, it is clear that "Juan Matus" is a pseudonym used to protect his teacher's privacy. The need to be inaccessible and elusive is a central theme in the books. Time and again Don Juan urges Castaneda to emulate him and free