Podcasts that mention 📚 The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda

Now, a lot of people are probably familiar with the Don Juan books, right? So Carlos Castaneda, these are like 1960s; they come out chronicle of mystical self-exploration that are kind of one of the inciting incidents of the New Age movement.

The 'Don Juan books' are mentioned as significant works by Carlos Castaneda, influential in the New Age movement. The mentioned title is clarified to be 'The Teachings of Don Juan', representing a mystical journey of self-exploration from the 1960s.

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Castaneda was this Peruvian writer who comes to the United States and gets a doctorate in anthropology from the University of California, and he writes three books starting with the teachings of Don Juan, which he claims are a faithful representation of his apprenticeship of a traditional shaman of the Yaqui people in northern Mexico.

The host mentions 'The Teachings of Don Juan' as the first book by Carlos Castaneda, describing it as part of his claimed apprenticeship experiences with a Yaqui shaman.

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but like um one of them actually said that he was reading a book uh the teachings of Don Juan um and had uh which you know that definitely is probably the you know if you're gonna point to a book that could be maybe the beginning and um he said he he was awake he was sleeping at night

Ryan Bethea recounts a friend's experience with a shadow figure, linking it to the friend reading this book.

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and about the same time I discovered the teachings of Don Juan which my my brother gave to me for my 18th birthday and although much in there is probably fiction those two books gave me complementary perspective The teachings of Don Juan was the ethnographic lands through which you could use look at the use of psychedelics

Dennis mentions discovering this book, given to him by his brother, and how it provided an ethnographic perspective on psychedelics.

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