Journey to Ixtlan
1973
- don juan (personnage légendaire)
- drogas alucinógenas y experiencias religiosas
- hallucinogenic drugs
- hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience
- hallucinogènes et expérience religieuse
- religion
- religion and mythology
- religion et mythologie
- religión
- shamanism
The story
Record of Castaneda's initiation into the mysteries of sorcery as revealed by his mentor and friend Don Juan.
What it’s like
Dry, sun-scorched desert afternoons and long stretches of plain talk, with the prose of a field notebook: short declarative sentences, flat observation, and sudden flashes of the uncanny that arrive without fanfare. The sensory world is the Sonoran desert, with its creosote and dust, the glare off bare hardpan, the rattle of dry washes and the heat that makes everything shimmer, while the nights bring a bare, watchful stillness. Little is decorated; the mood is measured, deliberately unhurried, and often slightly disorienting, as though the reader is being asked to keep a steady eye on what is ordinary and wait for it to shift. The register is contemplative and quietly unsettling rather than lurid, with a mentor who teases, scolds and withholds in equal measure, and a narrator who moves from skepticism toward a shaky, humbled openness. Hallucinogenic episodes appear, but the drug content is more reflective than graphic, and the book contains no gore or sexual content, though its sense of unease builds. Best suited to slow afternoon reading, long journeys, or readers drawn to anthropology, desert landscapes and questions about perception, reality and what counts as knowing.
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