Carlos Castaneda
Né(e): December 25, 1925 – Cajamarca, Cajamarca, Peru
Carlos Castaneda was a Peruvian-born American writer and anthropologist best known for The Teachings of Don Juan and a series of bestselling books on shamanism, altered states, and Yaqui-inspired spirituality. His work sold millions of copies and was translated widely, while also drawing enduring controversy over its factual and ethnographic credibility.
Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur
Carlos Castaneda became one of the most enigmatic literary figures of the late twentieth century. Born in Cajamarca, Peru, on December 25, 1925, he later moved to the United States in 1951 and studied anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1973. Even the outline of his early life remained unstable, because he gave conflicting autobiographical accounts and deliberately encouraged uncertainty about his origins. According to his own narrative, the decisive turning point came in the early 1960s, when fieldwork on medicinal plants led him to Don Juan Matus, the Yaqui teacher whose lessons became the basis of his books. By 1965 he was back in Los Angeles, shaping those experiences into prose that blurred ethnography, memoir, and metaphysical instruction. ((https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carlos-Castaneda))
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"Castaneda is a brilliant, self-mocking and ... truthful storyteller"
— TIME ((
"Carlos Castaneda was considered a father of the New Age movement"
— Britannica ((
"Taken together, Castaneda's books form a work among the best that the science of anthropology has produced"
— The New York Times Book Review ((
"Whether Carlos Castaneda is ... a major figure in anthropology or a brilliant novelist, his work is to be reckoned with"
— TIME ((
"Anthropologist-turned-New Age celebrity author Carlos Castaneda was a fraud and a cult leader, but also a powerful writer"
— Publishers Weekly ((
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— Deepak Chopra ((
"Carlos Castaneda, the self-proclaimed "sorcerer" and best-selling author ... once fascinated the world"
— Los Angeles Times ((
"Castaneda appears as captivating as Don Juan himself-a principal architect of modern pop spirituality"
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"The Teachings of Don Juan made Don Juan a household name and Castaneda a cultural icon"
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