num_pages: 315
description: This volume shows the reader the means by which a "man of power" sees, as opposed to merely looking, &amp; how by his concentrated "seeing" he can, indeed must, "stop the world." In it, Carlos Castaneda describes the lessons, the omens, the exercises of the will &amp; body, the arduous trials &amp; tests, the simple yet mysterious demonstrations, the extraordinary visions &amp; experiences by which don Juan, his mentor &amp; friend, prepares him for the task of perceiving things as they are, instead of describing them by the words, conventions &amp; standards of a priori ideas &amp; language. Here, in the high mountains &amp; in the bright arid desert, Castaneda reaches for power in a series of startling encounters with the unknown--a confrontation with death &amp; the past in the form of an albino falcon, with the twilight wind, with a flesh-&amp;-blood mountain lion, with a mountain fog--&amp; learns the techniques, the concentration, the compassion of the hunter, the man who is "without routines, free, fluid."
language: English
title: Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan
titlecomplete: Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan
characters: Don Juan Matus
genres: Anthropology, Fiction, Religion, Mysticism, Philosophy, Spirituality, Psychology, Novels, Fantasy, New Age
ratings_count: 12630
places: Mexico
series: The Teachings of Don Juan
publisher: Simon & Schuster