![]() ![]() ![]() However, it wasn't Peyote but actually the plant Sacred Datura - known throughout the desert southwest as jimsonweed - that played the primary role in his early experiences into other realities - including, it must be said, his most famous and most oft cited experience where he turned into a crow and flew.Īs opposed to the general reading public however, the majority of Castaneda critics, that is, those who are considered - at least in the judgement of their own exaulted opinions - specialists in the area or "in the know," usually strike their emphasis on Castaneda's use or non-use of Datura rather than on any comments regarding Peyote. When it comes to the use of drugs and hallucinogens most people associate Carlos Castaneda with Peyote. I became acquainted with every work available, and when I felt I was ready I went back to Arizona."ĬARLOS CASTANEDA, Journey to Ixtlan (1972), in preparation for his first meeting with Don Juan following their initial bus station encounter six months earlier. "I prepared myself for six months, after that first meeting, reading up on the uses of peyote among the American Indians, especially about the peyote cult of the Indians of the Plains. ![]()
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