Some say he was a breakthrough academic and visionary shaman.
Others say he was a sham.
Either way, Carlos Castaneda shaped a generation of mystical thinkers and magic mushroom eaters.
In 1968, at the height of the psychedelic age, Castaneda published The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge , the first of twelve books describing his apprenticeship to an Indian shaman, and his journeys to the separate reality of the sorcerers' worlds.
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