Carlos Castaneda
Born on Christmas Day 1925 in Brazil, died on June 19, 1998, he became famous in 1968 with the publication of his master’s thesis, devoted to a mystical stay in the desert of Arizona and Mexico. The book, entitled The Devil’s Weed and the Little Smoke (The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge) recounts his meeting with a shaman, an old Mexican Yaqui Indian sorcerer, Juan Matus, who initiated him into an ancient occult world more than 2,000 years old...