In regard to understanding Yaqui Shamen (and to some degree shamen throughout North and South America), Carlos Casteneda did all of us a favor in many ways.
To me personally, what he wrote about was not about herbs of various kinds that Don Juan (actual name Don Jose because I had a friend who actually knew him).
So, because he was both a writer and a student who looked at things from an anthropological point of view what Carlos Casteneda wrote was most important I believe from a Cultural Anthropology point of view.
For people interested in what human beings are at core it is also an important study into the discoveries of Yaqui shamen and other shamen around the world.
I think to get hung up only on the herbs that Casteneda used at Don Juan's request is to miss the whole point I believe of what is happening here.
Don Juan mentions that Casteneda is so pedantic and materialistic that this was the only way that Don Juan saw that he could teach someone so "Blockheaded" and caught by studious pedantic notions of the world.
So, though Casteneda was open to learning from Don Juan he couldn't have learned anything (because of his solid materialistic state of mind) anything that Don Juan actually wanted to teach him without Don Juan giving him herbal remedies.
Most of the teachings of Shamen around the world come from times of starvation, being attacked physically and psychically being attacked from all sides. So, the path of the warrior is a very fearful path but also the path of the warrior who can potentially survive anything that comes in life.
People who are so materialistic that they think everything is contained in little neat boxes of life and knowledge are very vulnerable to those who understand just how fluid all life is both physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
So, even though the fear place that Don Juan sort of comes from I don't personally find useful most of the time, it must be considered for anyone who doesn't live safe in a home with police and protections of various kinds. So, possibly the people that would find Don Juan's teachings the most useful are people who don't have a home and have to be on the move like homeless people or tribal people around the world.
Though people who live in houses all over the world might access this kind of consciousness while camping or traveling or hiking, most of the time what Don Juan teaches might not be very useful living in an apartment or home in a Suburban or urban area. But, anytime you leave those areas much of what he teaches then is very useful in order to survive anything you encounter in the wilderness around the world.
For example, if I'm hiking in the wilderness over uneven terrain often I stick my fingers out and visualize energy like walking sticks coming out to stabilize me as I walk in the dark over uneven terrain in the wilderness. There are many things like this that I learned. Another thing I did in the 1970s was to look at my hands while dreaming at night while asleep like he recommended. But, I couldn't figure out why my hands glowed fluorescent green in my dream. This didn't make any sense to me at all while dreaming. As I perfected consciously manifesting my dreams both sleeping and waking I found I was more in control of what happened in my life and I was safer and didn't have to deal with people threatening my life ever or very seldom like once in 10 or 20 years or something like that. Now, I am able to engineer never being threatened by anyone ever because I have continued to develop as an adept, a bodhisattva and as a shaman. So, when I travel worldwide now I usually feel safe wherever I go because if I sense trouble I can usually avoid it miles away before it happens. So, your very survival ongoing comes from being more aware of all these kinds of things. Being materialistic alone only helps in one set of ways and leaves you vulnerable to all other useful ways of perceiving reality.
Also, if you like studying about Cultural Anthropology one book not to miss is:
"The Varieties of Religious Experience" by William James written in 1902
which describes some of the varieties of religious experience worldwide up to that time. Since most varieties of religious experience that existed then are no longer around now it is especially interesting to see what people did worldwide before Radio and Television and Newspapers and other books and writings homogenized our group experience worldwide into something else entirely.
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This article is about the philosopher and psychologist. For other people with the same name, see William James (disambiguation).
William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist who had trained as a physician. He was the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.[2]William James Born January 11, 1842
New York City, New YorkDied August 26, 1910 (aged 68)
Tamworth, New HampshireEra 19th/20th century philosophy Region Western Philosophy School Pragmatism Main interests Pragmatism, psychology, philosophy of religion, epistemology, meaning Alma mater Harvard University Notable ideas The Will to Believe Doctrine, the pragmatic theory of truth, radical empiricism, James–Lange theory of emotion, psychologist's fallacy
James wrote influential books on pragmatism, psychology, educational psychology, the psychology of religious experience, and mysticism. He was the brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James. In the summer of 1878, William James married Alice Gibbens.
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Carlos Castaneda
Author
Carlos
Arana Castaneda was a Peruvian-American author and student of
anthropology.
Starting with The Teachings of Don Juan in 1968, Castaneda wrote a
series of books that describe his alleged training in shamanism. Wikipedia
Born: December 25, 1925, Cajamarca, Peru
Died: April 27, 1998, Los Angeles, CA
Spouse: Florinda Donner (m. 1993–1998)
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