Carlos Castaneda Carlos César Salvador Arana Castaneda

Carlos Castaneda

Carlos (César Salvador Arana) Castaneda Author of the best-seller books about shamanism and unusial cognitive system

Mystical biography - Writer didn’t like to give an interview. - He refused to be photographed categorically. - C. Castaneda even denied he was married, and Margaret Ranian asserted she was his wife.

Biography 25 25 Decemder, 1925, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Childhood at USA - Milan, Academy elegant arts Milan, Academy of of elegant arts - Los Angeles, City College, courses of of literature, journalism and psychology - The Psychoanalyst’s assistant journalism and psychology - The University of assistant • The Psychoanalyst’s California, anthropologist • The University of California, anthropologist • •

Working with Don Juan 1960, visit to Mexico fo his study of cactus Peyot Meeting with Don Juan Matus, a Yaqui Indian Don Juan is Carlos’ preseptor The book «The Teachings of Don Juan» The Bachelor’s and doctoral degrees for this work

The Late Years 1977 – 1997: the rest of the books from the seria about Don Juan’s teachings An isolation from society Living with the group of several women – his followers or lovers 27 April, 1998 - Death

The Teachings of Don Juan Change in perseption The world as an energy Different ways of «seeing» and a lot of variants of contact with the reality The point of assembling The harm of the feeling of your own importance The cognitive system