![]() Or, if you prefer to say it like that, in your conversion as a sorcerer. ![]() Those plants that interested the young man so much -data, psilocybe, peyote- were key tools in his learning, based (if we read the 10 field notebooks he wrote between 19) in the weakening of his rational side in favor of a more sensitive to its intuitive side. Several visits from Castaneda to Don Juan (who lived in the Mexican desert of Sonora) crystallized in a deep friendship, and this, some time later, in a student-teacher relationship. In that station, the first meeting between the young man was going to take place, Carlos Castaneda, and an old Indian of the Yaqui Mexican ethnicity who would turn out to be a deep connoisseur of the properties of the plants and fungi of the region It could be called -all this is legend- Juan Matus. It was the summer of 1960 and a student of Latin American anthropology-Cajamarca, Peru, although recently nationalized American-was traveling on a bus from the company Greyhound a journey from Los Angeles and destination in Nogales, in the Arizona desert. ![]()
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