Carlos Castaneda was the author of the bestselling books, including the acknowledged classic The Teaching of
Don Juan and most recently The Art of Dreaming and Magical Passes. He departed on his definitive journey in 1998.
Review
"Carlos Castaneda was one of the most profound and influential thinkers of this century. His insights paved
the way for the future evolution of human consciousness. We are all deeply indebted to him."
-- Deepak Chopra
"We are incredibly fortunate to have Carlos Castaneda1s books...One can't exaggerate the significance of
what he has done."
-- New York Times
"Castaneda' s sanity lends to even the most lurid experiences the force of data. It compels us to believe
that don Juan is one of the most extraordinary figures in anthropological literature, a neolithic sage. It helps
us to accept, from the continent we stole, a mysterious gift of wisdom."
-- Life
"It's impossible to view the world in quite the same way after reading him...If Castaneda is correct, there
is another world, a sometimes beautiful and sometimes frightening world, right before our eyes at this moment--if
only we could see."
-- Chicago Tribune
Submitted by the Publisher, March, 2002
Summary
"Ordinarily, events that change our path are impersonal affairs, and yet extremely personal. My teacher,
don Juan Matsus, said this is guiding me as his apprentice to collect what I considered to be the memorable events
of my life�. Don Juan described the total goal of the shamanistic knowledge that he handled as the preparation
for facing the definitive journey: the journey that every human being has to take at the end of his life.
He said that what modern man referred to vaguely as life after death was, for those shamans, a concrete region
filled to capacity with practical affairs of a different order than the practical affairs of daily life, yet bearing
a similar functional practicality. Don Juan considered that to collect the memorable in their lives was, for shamans,
the preparation for their entrance into that concrete region, which they called the active side of infinity."
In this book written immediately before his death, anthropologist and shaman Carlos Castaneda gives us his most
autobiographical and intimately revealing work ever, the fruit of a lifetime of experience and perhaps the most
moving volume in his oeuvre.
