a book
Journey to Ixtlan
Carlos Castaneda · 1991 · 268 pages
The third book in a series recording Castaneda's initiation into the mysteries of sorcery under the guidance of the Yaqui Indian, don Juan. It reveals how Castaneda learns the wisdom of the hunter - he who is "without routines, free, fluid, unpredictable".
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Robert Greene
“Basically what it’s about is the author is an anthropology student at UCLA named Carlos Castaneda and he goes to study indigenous Indian practices. He comes upon this Yaki Indian named Don Juan who kind of initiates him in all of the ways of his indigenous culture, and it includes eventually ingesting peyote and learning to become a crow… All these weird things that you think, ‘wow that’s too weird,’ but a lot of it is the stuff that’s all about power. It’s all about controlling yourself, it’s all about confronting your mortality, it’s all about becoming this great warrior in life.”↗