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"Don Juan taught that to proceed on a path with heart required a warrior’s spirit." Gary S. Toub

Carlos Castaneda and Don Juan

"In 1960, Carlos Castaneda was a graduate student in anthropology at UCLA. For his master's thesis, he was studying medicinal plants used by Native Americans of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

That summer, he was with a friend gathering specimens and information about the plants. As they waited for a bus in the intense heat of an Arizona border town, Carlos' friend recognized a 70-year-old, deeply wrinkled, white haired man. This was the eccentric old yerbero (a person who gathers and sells medicinal herbs) he had heard about.

He was said to be very learned about plants, especially peyote. The old man was Juan Matus, or don Juan, a Yaqui brujo, a "medicine man, curer, witch, sorcerer, person with extraordinary powers" (Castaneda, Teachings, p.14). "

Gary S. Toub, Ph.D, Stopping the World: Psychological Reflections on the Teachings of Don Juan, Jungian analyst Gary Toub reviews Carlos Castaneda's classic The Teachings of Don Juan. http://www.cgjungpage.org

Carlos Castaneda

"According to immigration records, revealed by Time magazine, Carlos Castaneda was born in Cajamarca, Peru, the son of César Arana Burungaray, a goldsmith, and Susan Castaneda Navoa. The family moved to Lima in 1948 and Castaneda entered the Colegio Nacional de Nuestra Señora de Guadelupe. After graduation he studied painting and sculpture at the National School of Fine Arts. Castaneda has claimed that he was born at São Paulo, Brazil, into a well-known family of Italian descent. He also claimed that was ten years younger - when he was born his mother was 15 and father 17 - he later became professor of literature. Castaneda was raised by his grandparents in the isolated Brazilian outback. He was then placed in a Buenos Aires boarding school. At the age of fifteen or sixteen he moved to the United States (in some sources in 1951). He settled with a foster family in Los Angeles. After graduating from Hollywood High School he studied parapsychology at Los Angeles City College from 1955 to 1959, and entered the University of California in Los Angeles to study anthropology. In 1959 he became an American citizen and took the name Castaneda - his father's surname was Aranha. According to some sources he married in 1960 an American woman who was 14 years older. Their marriage lasted only for some months although they separated officially in 1973. Later Castaneda's close friend was Florinda Donner, who met Castaneda in the 1970s. Her book, Being-in-Dreaming: An Initiation into the Sorcerer's World, appeared in 1991. Castaneda and Donner married in 1993. "

"To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics, is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all." (Castaneda in an interview)

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/castane.htm

"Carlos Castaneda (previously Castañeda) was born in Peru on December 25, 1925 and died in Los Angeles on April 27, 1998. "

" Cajamarca, Peru "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Castaneda#Biography

"A warrior chooses a path with heart, any path with heart, and follows it; and then he rejoices and laughs. He knows because he sees that his life will be over altogether too soon. He sees that nothing is more important than anything else.

A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he’s clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything."

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carlos_Castaneda

The Teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui way of knowledge, A Separate Reality and Journey to Ixtlan

http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Carlos_Castaneda

http://www.sustainedaction.org/

Florinda Donner-Grau,

Taisha Abelar

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Carol Tiggs