Word: mescalito
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...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 and monstrous guardians in the form of hundred-foot-high gnats, and over all one feels the benevolent peyote spirit, Mescalito...
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...
...velvet dress and great big eyes. And a guy named Rufus who has left his wife and child in Maine and wants to go to New Mexico to look for Don Juan, who was the peyote man in a look. Rufus wants to be a crow. To fly with mescalito. I had forgotten how sensible the vision was. And the private language that it is all woven...