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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...
...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...
...conventional descriptions of the world shutting off his unconscious flow of interpretations-inhabits a frightening place, full of omens and nameless entities, some hostile, others benevolent. His posture, Don Juan insists, must be that of "a warrior"-agile, perfectly disciplined, capable of acting with "controlled abandon." In the Yaqui sorcerer's system, drugs help in approaching this state by breaking the crust of ordinary perception and revealing the baffling dimensions of experience the sorcerer must deal with...
...than he had Will Penny, and cheered with a 900 per cent black audience as Jim Brown made passionate love to Raquel Welch. Fernando Lamas, looking almost as good as he did in all those Esther Williams pictures, made a great slimy villain bent on exterminating all those nice Yaqui Indians, and the magnificent Miss Welch doesn't act so bad either...
Amazon Triumphant. It may be a 90-degree climb. In her latest film, 100 Rifles, she plays a Yaqui Indian temptress romanced by a U.S. lawman (Jim Brown). Her accent, like her blouse, keeps slipping; her emotional range is strictly Mount Rushmore. Yet she provides the torpid western with its most convincing scene. Under a water tower, showering in a shirt, she stops a train dead in its tracks. 100 Rifles makes it official: Raquel wet and draped is sexier than most actresses nude and dry. Along the way, audiences can review Raquel's entire body of work...