ANALYSIS WORK "THE TEACHINGS OF DON JUAN" by VICTOR GARCIA "Don Juan Matus"
have on their hands "The Teachings of Don Juan" by Carlos Castaneda, it's like having the key to enter another world. This another mental world which is unexplored and that allows us to know from the bottom.
The chance meeting of Castaneda, an anthropologist by profession, with an old shaman, part of the Yaqui Indians of Sonora, Mexico. Arouses the interest of the anthropologist to know the behavior and philosophy, who on, Don Juan Matus, will become your "Master" and benefactor, putting it in the ancient secrets of how to interpret the Yaqui shaman life.
The story, told step by step leads you to experience situations not imagined, that are produced by the "Peyote", the "Gunslinger" and another for its hallucinogenic plants, elegidas por don Juan para pasar de los estadios ordinarios del pensamiento a los no ordinarios de la mente humana.
También, ésta relación, nos muestra las diferencias entre una sociedad, occidental y cristiana, la nuestra, donde las bases son: El individualismo, la competencia desleal y la esclavitud que nos someten los dogmas.
En contraposición a la sociedad del Chaman Yaqui, donde promueven el conocimiento a trabés de la libertad de pensamiento, alejándose de los acondicionamientos que a nosotros nos impone la sociedad de consumo.
En paralelo, don Juan, no deja de destacar a su protegido, que el efecto producido por la ingesta de los alucinógenos, será distinto en cada uno, por pertenecer a dos different cultures, with the result, unique and personal.
The philosophy expressed by the Mexican Indian was always reflected in the care and courage to live and live in clarity. "Pages 106-107. Where he speaks of the way forward and says: _ I can say that in my life I have traveled long roads, long, but I'm not anywhere. Now it makes sense to question my benefactor. Do you have heart this way? If you have the road is good, otherwise it is useless. No road leads to nowhere, but one has a heart the other does not. One makes the trip enjoyable, while you continue, you are one with him. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong, the other weakens you.
addition, the large use of metaphors by the "Master, Shaman, Warlock" Yaqui culture in quantity and quality, we leave to readers without a corner to squint, allowing them themselves without the need for lucinógeno trance.
Dedication to explain the effects of selected plants, as it were, a reporter Castaneda makes authentic, truthful, without falling into the romantic and not put an opinion. Let the reader to rejoice in the experience and make your own assessment.
Much of the book, towards the end, is dedicated to detailing the method used and the outcome of the investigation. This is required for interpretation, advanced knowledge of human thought, what we do know, that word refers to the management thought the information we receive and accumulate. That is, everything that makes our brains, whether ethnic, religious, or social sector we belong to, whether in ordinary state of consciousness or not, lives in us and nothing is external. The proof
all hallucinogenic trances results referred to in "The Teachings of Don Juan" belong to the everyday, even those that are listed "in potential."
This reading material is recommended for those who like a good story and know even more intricate ways the human brain in a remarkable experience, between an anthropologist and a shaman. Victor Alberto Garcia
01/11/2008
