The Washington Post, August 24th, 2003
SORCEROR'S APPRENTICE My Life with Carlos Castaneda By Amy Wallace Frog, Ltd. 440 pp. $26 Carlos Castaneda's books have been a pop-cultural phenomenon since the late '60s. His 1968 UCLA anthropology dissertation, "The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge," was seized upon by Simon & Schuster and turned into a mass-market sensation. It and a continual series of sequels became standard accoutrements for those yearning to exhibit their interest in a mystical world of awareness beyond the bland boredom of middle-class American existence. His books' tales of learning from a Mexican shama...
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