num_pages: 246
description: Decades ago the University of California Press published a remarkable manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda. The Teachings of Don Juan initiated a generation of seekers dissatisfied with the limitations of the Western worldview. Castaneda's now classic book remains controversial for the alternative way of seeing that it presents &amp; the revolution in cognition it demands. In a series of fascinating dialogs, Castaneda sets forth his partial initiation with don Juan Matus, a Yaqui Indian shaman from the state of Sonora, Mexico. He describes Don Juan's perception &amp; mastery of the "non-ordinary reality" &amp; how peyote &amp; other plants sacred to the Mexican Indians were used as gateways to the mysteries of "dread," "clarity" &amp; "power".
language: Portuguese
title: A Erva Do Diabo: Os Ensinamentos de Dom Juan
titlecomplete: A Erva Do Diabo: Os Ensinamentos de Dom Juan
genres: Classics, Mysticism, Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, Spirituality, New Age, Biography, Nonfiction, Anthropology
ratings_count: 42032
series: The Teachings of Don Juan
publisher: Record