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''Journey to Ixtlan'' is the third book by Carlos Castaneda, published as a work of non-fiction by Simon & Schuster in 1972.〔Castaneda, Carlos. ''Journey to Ixtlan.'' New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972.〕 It is about an alleged apprenticeship to the Yaqui "shaman," Don Juan.〔Andrei A. Znamenski, “General Introduction: Adventures of the Metaphor: shamanism and shamanism studies,” Shamanism: Critical Concepts in Sociology, ed. Andrei A. Znamenski, (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004), xlv-xlvi.〕 The title of this book is taken from an allegory that is recounted to Castaneda by his "benefactor" who is known to Carlos as Don Genaro ( Genaro Flores ), a close friend of his teacher don Juan Matus. "Ixtlan" turns out to be a metaphorical hometown ( or Place / Position of Being ) to which the "sorcerer" or warrior or man of knowledge without reason or thoughts is drawn to return. This is because his elevated perspective leaves him little in common with ordinary people, who now seem no more substantial to him than "phantoms." The point of the story is that a man of knowledge, or sorcerer, is a changed being, or a Human closer to his true state of Being, and for that reason he can never truly go "home" to his old lifestyle again. In ''Journey to Ixtlan'' Castaneda essentially reevaluates the teachings up to that point. He discusses information that was apparently missing from the first two books regarding stopping the world which previously he had only regarded as a metaphor. He also finds that psychotropic plants, knowledge of which was a significant part of his apprenticeship to Yaqui shaman don Juan Matus, are not as important in the world view as he had previously thought. In the introduction he writes: My basic assumption in both books has been that the articulation points in learning to be a sorcerer were the states of nonordinary reality produced by the ingestion of psychotropic plants... In the book don Juan takes Carlos on these various degrees of apprenticeship, in response to what he believes are signals from the phenomenological world, "The decision as to who can be a warrior and who can only be a hunter is not up to us. That decision is in the realm of the powers that guide men."〔''Journey to Ixtlan'', p107〕 The book shows a progression between different states of learning, from hunter, to warrior, to man of knowledge or sorcerer, the difference said to be one of skill level and the type of thing hunted, "...a warrior is an impeccable hunter that hunts power. If he succeeds in his hunting he becomes a man of knowledge."〔''Journey to Ixtlan'', p123〕 Throughout the book Castaneda portrays himself as skeptical and reserved in his explanations of the phenomena at hand, but by the end of the book Castaneda's rationalist worldview is seen to be breaking down in the face of an onslaught of experiences that he is unable to explain logically. ==See also== * Castaneda Bibliography * Carlos Castaneda 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Journey to Ixtlan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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