Of course, it marks the beginning of the author’s adventures with don Juan and takes place between 1960-1965. The piece was written by the author as his Master’s thesis and published as a work of anthropology in 1968 by the University of California Press. We will go through these Carlos Castaneda books in order of publication and our first piece will be the one that changed the author’s life, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge. Some of the biggest arguments are that the author does not seem to possess a lot of knowledge of the tribe’s language even though he spent a lot of time with them and that he never encountered dangers in his journey. Some critics even published multiple books to prove Castaneda wrong. The best Carlos Castaneda series is signed non-fiction by the publisher but there are still arguments on whether don Juan was a real person or the author just made him up.
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