![]() ![]() Carlos Castaneda's works have sold more than 8 million copies in 17 languages. The term has been used by anthropologists to mean a shaman or sorcerer who is capable of shapeshifting, or changing to an animal form, and also to mean the form to which such a person might shift.Ĭastaneda's works contain descriptions of paranormal or magical experiences, several psychological techniques, Toltec magic rituals, shamanism and experiences with psychoactive drugs (e.g. ![]() He also used the term "nagual" to signify that which is unknowable, neither known nor knowable implying that, for his party of seers, don Juan was a connection in some way to that unknowable. He claimed to have inherited from don Juan the position of nagual, or leader of a party of seers. Castaneda's experiences with Don Juan allegedly inspired the works for which he is known. ![]() ![]() Carlos Castaneda, previously Castaneda, (December 25, 1925- April 27, 1998) was an author of a controversial series of books that claimed to describe his training in traditional Native American shamanism (ancient Toltec sorcery).Ĭastaneda claimed to have met a Yaqui shaman named Don Juan Matus in 1960. ![]()
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