About this title: JOURNEY TO IXTLAN is the third book in Castaneda's series of books on don Juan, and many of his readers consider it their favorite. It follows A SEPARATE REALITY.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780671496685ISBN:0671496689
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Touchstone
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780671216399ISBN:0671216392
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"I am still undecided on how i feel about this read, but i did enjoy some parts of the novel and the overall idea that Castaneda was writing about. His style is very long and dry- the writing was hard for me to get into."
"It's a fact that for more than five years of my life I've read nothing else but Castaneda's books. I've been to most of his seminars (and I don't live exactly nearby), I bought his t-shirts and pamphlets, I practiced Tensegrity, etc, etc.
What did I get out of that experience? I most certainly not regret it. I think that the eternal question "Did Carlos really meet Don Juan?" is misguided. He probably didn't. "Don Juan" is most certainly not a single person but an amalgam of different stories about different people. So what? It doesn't matter. Just re-trace the man's (I mean CC's) grandiose path. He was a poor immigrant, he was always an outsider, he was never really accepted by blond women or academic cycles, but he did have a fertile imagination (as well as access to a good library). Other people too have fertile imaginations. They write a book or two and then go to the supermarket to buy milk. That's not good enough for Carlos. He dreamt up a myth, became in the process a celebrity and a millionaire and then, completely unexpectedly and unnecessarily, he proceeded to embody the myth he had created and live it.
Call it egomania, call it what you will, I'm sure that sooner or later Carlos will be accepted for what he is: a genius, who dared to travel alone and by foot where other people pass by car or airplane.
"Interesting book if you're drawn to alternatives, so to speak. But then I read the Wikipedia page about him, and I began to wonder. At least the ideas were a bit inspiring."
"This is the third volume of the trilogy including The Teachings of Don Juan and A Separate Reality. I read all three, one after the other, while working at the Chicago Womens' Athletic Club during the summer between college and seminary.
Although it appears to be the case that Castaneda, the author, fabricated some of the material appearing in his accounts, including that of his doctoral dissertation which begins the series, it also appears to be the case that he knows a good deal about altered states of consciousness. While the books may misrepresent the Yaqui Nation and so be bad anthropology, they remain important and worth reading.
I've classed the volumes as psychology because so much of their content has to do with what we conventionally call "altered states" and relegate to psychologists. What is interesting about Castaneda, however, is that, for him, it is not so much a drug-disordered state of mind creating hallucinations as an entry into other worlds. In other words, the other worlds are real--indeed, they are truer in the sense of being more meaningful than the quotidian routines of our normal lives.
Phenomenologically, this is certainly the case to many, whether they experience non-ordinary realities through the use of drugs, spiritual exercise or because such things happen to them, either occasionally or regularly. Years of campfire tales about extraordinary experiences have led me to begin to intentionally ask people about such things and I've found it remarkable how ordinary non-ordinary states are. This raises questions about the typical approach of psychologists and philosophers to such matters--and as regards the kind of society which would put its members in such a Procrustean bed that they'd be disposed to discount their lived experience in order to fit in.
I myself have experienced "other worlds" on a number of occasions. Of course, like everyone, I inhabit them nightly and remember them under the rubric of dreaming. Beyond that, however, I've had a couple of auditions (hearing voices which weren't coming from anyone another in the room would have heard), a rather unpleasant hallucinatory episode and at least two induced breakthroughs to domains radically different than this one I'm typing in--all of which felt realer-than-real. Beyond that, the usual psychedelic experience--and I've had scores--at least suggests these other worlds, worlds like those described by Castaneda, although one is not entirely thrust into them and out of this one."
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