Re: Carlos Casteneda

Stephen Wray (stevew@news.comp.vuw.ac.nz)
31 Mar 1995 00:20:03 GMT

> When I was in college I knew a couple of people who specialized in studying
> the Yaqui in Mexico. Much of what Castaneda said in his first book rang
> true to what they had told me years before.
>
> After that the books diverged more and more from the picture they had given
> me of the Yaqui.

Well, this would seem to fit Don Juan's "own" statements about himself --
he explicitly told Carlos that his views were not typical of Yaqui indians.