Seeing Castaneda
SAM KEEN: As I followed don Juan through your three books, I suspected, at times, that he was the creation of Carlos Castaneda.
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SAM KEEN: As I followed don Juan through your three books, I suspected, at times, that he was the creation of Carlos Castaneda.
Bruce Wagner : With his vision of a separate reality, Carlos Castaneda transfixed a generation. In a rare interview, the legendary sorcerer talks to Bruce Wagner about don Juan, freedom, dreaming, and death-and the funny things that happen on the way to infinity.
by Clair Baron: More than thirty years ago, as an anthropologist doing fieldwork among the Yaqui Indians in the state of Sonora, Mexico, Carlos Castaneda met a Mexican Indian shamannamed don Juan Matus…
by Michael Brenan: Dreaming was once an extraordinary affair for me…
by Benjamin Epstein: One of the most elusive figures of modern times, Castaneda recently materialized, to great surprise, at a small conference in Anaheim, California. Reporter Benjamin Epstein was on hand to score a coup…
by Théun Mares: It is hardly surprising that the word Toltec should be associated in some people’s minds with Mesoamerican practices of sorcery and shamanism…
by Keith Thompson: Literary agents are paid to hype their clients, but when the agent for Carlos Castaneda claimed that he was offering me “the interview of a lifetime,” it was hard to disagree…
I’m Jane Hellisoe of the University of California press, and I have here today, Carlos Castaneda, author of The Teachings of Don Juan.