"Ordinarily, events that change our path are impersonal affairs, and yet extremely personal. My teacher, don Juan Matsus, said this is guiding me as his apprentice to collect what I considered to be the memorable events of my life.... Don Juan described the total goal of the shamanistic knowledge that he handled as the preparation for facing the definitive journey: the journey that every human being has to take at the end of his life. He said that what modern man referred to vaguely as life after death was, for those shamans, a concrete region filled to capacity with practical affairs of a different order than the practical affairs of daily life, yet bearing a similar functional practicality. Don Juan considered that to collect the memorable in their lives was, for shamans, the preparation for their entrance into that concrete region, which they called the active side of infinity."
In this book written immediately before his death, anthropologist and shaman Carlos Castaneda gives us his most autobiographical and intimately revealing work ever, the fruit of a lifetime of experience and perhaps the most moving volume in his oeuvre.
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 'The definitive and revealing overview of Carlos Castaneda's experiences with don Juan [Matus]', a 'Yaqui Indian shaman from Sonora, Mexico'. First British Edn., 1999; blue boards; titling blocked in gilt (very bright) to spine; xi+[i]+272pp. Spine very lightly crushed at top, but very clean/bright; book ever-so slightly wrung over, but boards very clean/crisp/bright; page edges slightly tanned, but pages very clean/crisp/bright; dj. complete/crisp and very clean/bright. No inscriptions. VG- in VG+ unclipped dj. PRICE INCLUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING. Hardback. Seller Inventory # 26303