The second ring of power
1977
- indians of mexico
- magie
- religión
- tovenarij
- mitología
- anthropologists
- religion
- drogas alucinógenas y experiencia religiosa
- indios de mexico
- yaquis
The story
"Carlos Castaneda's extraordinary journey into the world of sorcery ... he takes the reader into a sorceric experience so intense, so terrifying, and so profoundly disturbing that it can only be described as a brilliant assault on every preconceived notion of life that is don Juan's remarkable legacy to his apprentice"--Cover.
What it’s like
Dry, dusty Sonoran desert heat sits under a spare, reportorial prose voice: a young apprentice's field notes, flat and precise, that keep turning abruptly strange. Long stretches of terse dialogue with an old desert teacher in sun-bleached hills and cramped ochre-lit rooms give way to sudden, vivid hallucinatory passages where edges blur and the ground seems to shift. The mood is unsettled and watchful, a cool, clinical curiosity bending into quiet dread, best suited to a late evening alone or a long, unhurried read in a dim room. Pacing is deliberate and repetitive, building toward jolts of disorientation rather than action. Violence is minimal; the intensity is psychological and perceptual, with frightening visions and unease rather than gore, and no sexual content. The emotional arc follows a skeptical outsider slowly losing his footing under a demanding mentor's instruction. It suits readers drawn to anthropology-tinged mysticism, altered states, and the uncanny, especially those who want a challenging, slow-burn read rather than something gentle or comforting.
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