Peruvian-American author (1925-1998)
An anthropologist who turned invented shamanic encounters with a Yaqui sorcerer named Don Juan into bestselling books—then retreated into seclusion with a group of female followers he called his "witches," five of whom vanished after his death.
Carlos Castaneda was born in Peru on December 25, 1925, and trained as an anthropologist at UCLA, where he began publishing accounts of his apprenticeship under Don Juan Matus, a Yaqui "Man of Knowledge." The first three books—The Teachings of Don Juan, A Separate Reality, and Journey to Ixtlan—earned him both undergraduate and doctoral degrees and became bestsellers that shaped the New Age movement, though the figure of Don Juan is now widely regarded as fabricated. As questions about the veracity of his work mounted in the early 1970s, Castaneda withdrew from public life and surrounded himse…
Sourced, dated quotes from Carlos Castaneda
This series of specially selected quotations was gathered from the first eight books that I wrote about the world of the shamans of ancient Mexico.
There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: Does this path have a heart?... All paths are the same: they lead nowhere.
Power rests on the kind of knowledge that one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless? They will not prepare us for our unavoidable encounter with the unknown.
Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever has to be learned must be learned the hard way.
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.
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