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Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan
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| Part No: | 0671732463 |
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- ISBN13: 9780671732462
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This volume shows the reader the means by which a "man of power" sees, as opposed to merely looking, and how by his concentrated "seeing" he can, indeed must, "stop the world." In it, Carlos Castaneda describes the lessons, the omens, the exercises of the will and body, the arduous trials and tests, the simple yet mysterious demonstrations, the extraordinary visions and experiences by which don Juan, his mentor and friend, prepares him for the task of perceiving things as they are, instead of describing them by the words, conventions and standards of conventional, a priori ideas and language. Here, in the high mountains and in the bright arid desert, Castaneda reaches for power in a series of startling encounters with the unknown--a confrontation with death and the past in the form of an albino falcon, with the twilight wind, with a flesh-and-blood mountain lion, with a mountain fog--and learns the techniques, the concentration, the compassion of the hunter, the man who is "without routines, free, fluid."
| Did not speak to me, prefer "Peaceful Warrior" series | 2010-08-20 | 2 / 5 |
| How to write a review about a book that does not speak to you? Difficult. While I liked "The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge" (at least the first part) somehow "Journey to Ixtlan" did not speak to me at all. It came across as boring, meaningless walking and dialogues in desert without wisdom revealing to me.
I certainly preferred the whole Dan Millman's "Peaceful Warrior" series with spiritual wisdom weaved into interesting adventures. |
| Carlos Castaneda | 2010-07-06 | 4 / 5 |
| | An old book, still relevant; metaphors applicable to all walks of and stages of life. |
| The Best Place to Start | 2010-06-23 | 4 / 5 |
| I have read all the Castaneda books, and I think this is the best one to start with. In his first one, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, Carlos is focused on the peyote/mescaline. By his own admission, he didn't really understood the drugs were just a tool - and an unnecessary one for most people - for opening his awareness. In this book, he instead focuses on what Don Juan actually taught him, and presents it in a very structured, accessible fashion. The somewhat rigid presentation of the 'lessons' keeps it from being a favorite of mine - I prefer the 'story' or even parable structure of Tales of Power, and The Power of Silence: Further Lessons of don Juan, but this is still a great place to start overall.
As for the controversies surrounding Castaneda and the existence or not of Don Juan, who cares? These are powerful books, either way. Read them as truth, read them as fiction, it doesn't matter. |
| As Buddhist allegory... | 2010-05-30 | 5 / 5 |
| I'm an atheist and a big fan of Buddhism. Since I'm certain (in the negative) about rebirth, karma, and all things supernatural, I've wrestled with how some key Buddhist teachings might apply to my atheist worldview. This book gave me a vivid, irreverent, and inspiring vision that has influenced my thought and practice.
No-self, non-ego, non-attachment, dropping the story, awareness, death as an advisor, and living in the present are a few themes that Buddhism shares with Don Juan in Ixtlan. Not that Ixtlan is a Buddhist teaching, or that Buddhism is summed up by Ixtlan, or vice versa - that's absolutely not the case. But thinking about the teachings and character of Don Juan (irreverent, hilarious, appreciative, and incredibly down to earth and real) has made my Buddhist practice more real.
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| Screwed me up for 10 years | 2010-05-24 | 5 / 5 |
| | I read and re-read this book many times in my early 20's. I took mushrooms and wandered around the woods of Canada alone. I had magnificent revelations - but my life was a disaster. I followed the instructions and crafted my life around personal responsibility. My life was still a disaster. The quality of the writing here is fantastic. Even though this is likely a philosophical treatise and not a true account, the writing is so compelling that an impressionable young mind (like mine was) is likely to swallow it all hook, line and sinker. Readwe beware! I finally turned my life around in my 30s and became successful. I still love Casteneda as a writer. He should be studied as a master of his craft. |
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