![]() ![]() ![]() His most renowned books are his earliest and include The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge (1968), A Separate Reality (1971) and Journey to Ixtlan (1972). While an anthropology student, he wrote three books documenting his experiences as an apprentice to a self-proclaimed Yaqui Indian sorcerer, or ‘Man of Knowledge’ – also referred to as a “diablero” (or black sorcerer). ![]() He received his PhD in anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1973. During his training in shamanism, Castaneda speaks of encounters with “Mescalito”, a teaching spirit inhabiting all peyote plants, as well as how to actively enter the state of dreaming where it is possible to break “reality” and enhance awareness and interaction with the universe and all its “beings”.Ĭastaneda’s books about Don Juan’s teachings have sold more than 28 million copies worldwide.īelow, we explore the story of Carlos Castaneda and Don Juan, including who they were, as well the teachings of Castaneda’s best-selling book, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.īorn in Peru in 1925, Carlos Castaneda moved to the USA in the early ’50s. Originally published in 1968, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by American author and anthropologist Carlos Castaneda is the first in a series of books Castaneda wrote, documenting his apprenticeship with self-proclaimed Yaqui Indian Sorcerer, Don Juan Matus. ![]()
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