Description

Carlos Castaneda was a hugely influential explorer of personal development, fringe consciousness and non-ordinary states. He is sometimes said to be the founder of the New Age movement. Through a series of ten books, he explored the path to becoming what he called a ‘sorcerer’ or a ‘person of knowledge’. He claimed (probably falsely) to have been taught the gnostic tradition of the Yaqui Indians by an old shaman called Don Juan Matus. Separate Reality is the second book in the series. Don Juan teaches Castaneda to develop the necessary mental faculties to journey into knowledge – faculties of humility, openness, clarity, frugality and good humour. There is an audiobook version here: