Carlos Castaneda takes the reader into the very heart of sorcery,
challenging both imagination and reason, shaking the very foundations of
our belief in what is "natural" and "logical."
In 1961, a young anthropologist subjected himself to an extraordinary
apprenticeship with Yaqui Indian spiritual leader don Juan Matus to
bring back a fascinating glimpse of a Yaqui Indian's world of
"non-ordinary reality" and the difficult and dangerous road a man must
travel to become "a man of knowledge." Yet on the bring of that world,
challenging to all that we believe, he drew back. Then in 1968, Carlos
Castaneda returned to Mexico, to don Juan and his hallucinogenic drugs,
and to a world of experience no man from our Western civilization had
ever entered before.