The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowedge by Carlos Castenada

Forty years ago the University of California Press published this unusual manuscript detailing Carlos Castaneda's apprenticeship with the warrior-shaman Don Juan. This text initiated a generation of seekers dissatisfied with the limitations of the Western worldview. Now a classic, Castenada's book remains controversial for the alternative worldview it presents and for the revolution in cognition it demands. Whether read as ethnographic fact or creative fiction, it is the story of a remarkable journey that has impacted the life of more than a million readers around the world.