YES!!!

 

Carl Castaneda has now made it into my top 5 authors. I highly recommend his books, although I'm only on my 3rd. Journey to Ixtlan is mindblowing, I hope whoever has some spare time picks this one up!

 

Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan

Well thanks for the recommendation...

I'll look out for it ... has anyone read Stone Junction by Jim Dodge?

 

That is very highly recommended - everyone I've told to read it has loved it...

Namesake

by

Jhumpa Lahiri

Thx JekuRot! I'll be sure and read that one. I just finished The Frog King by Adam something-or-other and was looking for something else :)

What's the book about?

Namesake?--it's about the immigrant experience in the U.S. :-)

Ingram

The dazzling, fantastic work that concludes the teachings of the Yaqui sorcerer, Don Juan. Castaneda is an anthropologist, a mystic, a poet and a marvelously gifted author whose books have sold phenomenally well. "One can't exaggerate the significance of what Carlos Castaneda has done."--The New York Times.

 

 

Book Description

This volume shows the reader the means by which a "man of power" sees, as opposed to merely looking, and 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 and body, the arduous trials and tests, the simple yet mysterious demonstrations, the extraordinary visions and experiences by which don Juan, his mentor and friend, prepares him for the task of perceiving things as they are, instead of describing them by the words, conventions and standards of conventional, a priori ideas and language. Here, in the high mountains and in the bright arid desert, Castaneda reaches for power in a series of startling encounters with the unknown--a confrontation with death and the past in the form of an albino falcon, with the twilight wind, with a flesh-and-blood mountain lion, with a mountain fog--and learns the techniques, the concentration, the compassion of the hunter, the man who is "without routines, free, fluid."

 

I would like to describe what I took from the book, though I have a problem with telling the best parts & giving away important details when I'm overly excited about something.

 

Let me just say this.. the best part of this book is it's completely NON fiction. It's a real journal from Carlos's apprenticeship with don Juan.

 

EXCELLENT!!! OMG OMG OMG.

 

Thanks for the other book recommendations all. I wrote them down on my list. Problem is my list is [------------------- This Long -------------------]