The Wheel of time : : the Shamans of ancient Mexico, their thoughts about life, death and the universe

Dr. Carlos Castaneda is an anthropologist, and he was an apprentice of don Juan Matus, a Mexican Indian shaman. Carlos Castaneda's new book, The Wheel of Time, is a collection of quotes, drawn from eight of the books that he wrote about the classical training of a shaman initiate, a training he underwent for thirteen years under the guidance of don Juan Matus. Don Juan Matus endeavored to usher Carlos Castaneda into the world of the shamans of ancient Mexico - the founders of his lineage of shamans. His claim was that his shamanistic world was ruled by another system of cognition, different than the cognition that rules our daily world. According to what Carlos Castaneda found out in the course of his apprenticeship, the world of the shamans of ancient Mexico was indeed ruled by a system of cognition vastly different than our own. Upon examining the quotations of The Wheel of Time , Carlos Castaneda realized that there was nothing extemporaneous about the way don Juan Matus had guided him, although at the time, his instruction seemed to have been carried out on the spur of the moment. Rather, his training was carried out following a covert impulse determined by a tradition that was set in motion by the shamans who lived in Mexico thousands of years ago. World-renowned bestselling author Carlos Castaneda's Selection of his wrtings on the shamans of ancient Mexico. Originally drawn to Yaqui Indian spiritual leader don Juan Matus for his knowledge of mind-altering plants, bestselling author Carlos Castaneda soon immersed himself in the sorcerer’s magical world entirely. Ten years after his first encounter with the shaman, Castaneda examines his field notes and comes to understand what don Juan knew all along—that these plants are merely a means to understanding the alternative realities that one cannot fully embrace on one’s own. In Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Castaneda introduces readers to this new approach for the first time and explores, as he comes to experience it himself, his own final voyage into the teachings of don Juan, sharing with us what it is like to truly “stop the world” and perceive reality on his own terms. "A collection of quotes, drawn from eight of the books that [Castaneda] wrote about the classical training of a shaman initiate, a training he underwent for thirteen years under the guidance of don Juan Matus."--Jacket Power rests on the kind of knowledge that one holds.