The Teachings of Don Juan

A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

By: Carlos Castaneda

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher's summary

For over 40 years, Carlos Castaneda’s The Teachings of Don Juan has inspired audiences to expand their world view beyond traditional Western forms. Originally published as Castaneda’s master’s thesis in anthropology, Teachings documents Castaneda’s supposed apprenticeship with a Yaqui Indian sorcerer, don Juan Matus. Dividing the work into two sections, Castaneda begins by describing don Juan’s philosophies, then continues with his own reflections.

©1969; 1996 Regents of the University of California; Carlos Castaneda (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC

Critic reviews

"It's impossible to view the world in quite the same way after reading him.... If Castaneda is correct, there is another world, a sometimes beautiful and sometimes frightening world, right before our eyes at this moment - if only we could see." ( Chicago Tribune)

I can't belive I've waited so long...

I can't believe I've waited so long to read or listen to this book! Let the adventure begin!

Fantasy or Reality

The Holy Bible is like that. But Carlos Castaneda is a world you can touch and be a part of as the story unfolds.

great story

What does Luis Moreno bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Mr. Moreno gives a great reading of this story. I am happy with his narration.

Carlos Castaneda Genius

I read the series many years ago and was delighted to find Audible had it to enjoy without the commitment of picking up a book and dedicating the time to enjoy the story
I will pass these down to my grandsons hopefully they will enjoy the teachings as much as I have
I still live my life as a warrior everyday as a result of these teachings

enlightenment

exceptionally great a must read if you open your mind it will charge your life

A Wonderful Introduction!

There is a lot of information in this book to digest. I will read it again and again as a primer into a view of reality inclusive of experiences beyond everyday shared life. I look forward to entering this realm including a dimension beyond our ordinary reality. I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking to peer into life beyond the daily experiences shared in common.

The Teachings of Don Juan

I was very fortunate to have actually met the author. This was sometime in the late seventies or early eighties. I was living with my teacher, who was a native american medicine person. When this odd sort of person just showed up one day and stayed for... somewhere around one or two weeks. He would always sit away from the main group and simply watch, listen, and write. I do not wish to elaborate here, but I have to say that the personal experiences I had when I would notice him were enough to make me believe that Mr. Castaneda did indeed have a spiritual gift and that he had also received some very real training. He ended up leaving a notebook behind when he left and I did read what he had written. One page included an unpublished declaration of release, by Don Juan. To this very day, I still use it!

Amazing!

This book influenced me as a college student but now I am going over it a second time a whole new meaning has emerged

This book is life changing in so many ways

Like a real life Harry Potter or lion witch and wardrobe this book finds the sacred in the mundane and shows a magical dimension previously lost

I cannot recommend this book enough, even to simply share a perspective that is never heard

interesting, but I was looking for more details

Would you try another book from Carlos Castaneda and/or Luis Moreno?

I might try one more only because of recommendation from a friend

Would you recommend The Teachings of Don Juan to your friends? Why or why not?

I wouldn't recommend this book since one cannot replicate any of the experiences.

What three words best describe Luis Moreno’s voice?

flat and boring

Did The Teachings of Don Juan inspire you to do anything?

no

Any additional comments?

dissappointed

Masterpiece

This is a very old book, that I wanted to read for such a long time it was written when I was just a kid, and my father used to have it and read a few things about it to me, a few years later now married my husband has this book too and urged me to start reading when I started my spiritual path that was more than 13 years ago now, after so many deviating I finally had the time to pick this magnificent masterpiece.

This is the story of Carlos Castañeda his experience with Don Juan and the magical plants of peyote as well as the psilocybin mushrooms, a mushroom that I know very well as my father lives at the mountain in Oaxaca where these mushrooms always grow between May and July.

Carlos embarks on an investigation about magical plants such as peyote, a plant that is very sacred and important in some of the parts of Mexico, especially where the shamans and brujos live. don Carlos really didn't know what was going to happen under this investigation but Don Juan really took him on a journey that he will never forget and that will make him grow so much as a person as well as a spiritual being.

Many of the stories Carlos narrates in his book are hard to understand and believe, but only when you come across these experiences from peyote and mushrooms you will understand what he meant and the symbology these two magical plants bring to the person who ingests them.

Don Carlos and Don Juan explain in this book how these are sacred things that are never to be taken lightly this is always something that has to be done with the guidance of someone who really knows what is doing, this is not a getaway drug, this requires so much matureness and evolution of the soul.

The teachings of Don Juan illustrate the many astral travels and experiences Carlos had during those years with the amazing teachings and knowledge of don Juan. many will sound very weird and even magical but as I mentioned before it is a realm that is not understood in a regular state of mind.

The narrations by Luis Moreno were great I really enjoy how he brought so much to the story and the book

After many years I'm very glad I was finally able to read this amazing experience, but I'm glad it took me so much time to get into it because now I understand in a better way what this book is all about.