“The trouble with us is that we are attached to our own personal history. We are attached to our own way of doing things, to our own likes and dislikes.”

About Carlos Castaneda

Author • American

Carlos Castaneda was a Peruvian-American author who gained international fame for his series of books detailing his alleged apprenticeship with a Yaqui shaman named Don Juan Matus. He earned his Ph.D. in anthropology...

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