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JOURNEY TO IXTLAN by Carlos Castaneda. The third and best book about the wisdom and magic of the Yaqui Indian Sorcerer Don Juan Matus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: A Selection of the Year's Best Books | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

...year-old anthropologist named Carlos Castaneda was poking about on a field trip in the Southwest, researching his thesis on medicinal plants used by local Indians. In an Arizona border town, while waiting for a bus, he met an old Yaqui Indian from northwest Mexico, Don Juan Matus. Don Juan was an exceptionally powerful "man of knowledge": a brujo, or sorcerer. Over the next ten years, Castaneda became his apprentice, as Don Juan initiated him into increasingly mysterious and alarming states of "non-ordinary reality" through the systematic use of three hallucinogenic plants: peyote, Jimson weed and psilocybe mushrooms. Thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sorcerer's Apprentice | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

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