The Teachings of Don Juan

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

“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”