The Sorcerer's Crossing - (Compass) by Taisha Abelar (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>While traveling in Mexico, Abelar became involved with a group of sorcerers and began a rigorous physical and mental training process designed to enable her to breach the limits of ordinary perception. This book details that process and reveals the responsibilities and perils that face a woman sorcerer.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Some twenty years ago, anthropologist <b>Carlos Castaneda</b> electrified millions of readers by describing his initiation--under the Yaqui Indian <i>brujo</i> <b>Don Juan</b>--into an alternate reality. Now <b>Taisha Abelar</b>, who was taught by the female members of Don Juan's group, recounts her own crossing in this arresting book.<br><p>While traveling in Mexico, Abelar became involved with a group of sorcerers and began a rigorous physical and mental training process designed to enable her to breach the limits of ordinary perception. <b>The Sorcerers Crossing</b> details that process, giving us a highly practical sense of the responsibilities and perils that face a woman sorcerer. Abelar's enthralling story is invaluable as a virtual sorcerers manual, as anthropology, and as a provocative work of women's spirituality.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Taisha Abelar</b> is an American writer and anthropologist, and a former associate of the shaman and author Carlos Castaneda, also known as Don Juan. She wrote about her experiences in <i>The Sorcerer's Crossing: A Woman's Journey</i>. <p/><b>Carlos Castaneda</b> was a graduate student in anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, gathering information on various medicinal herbs used by the Indians in Sonora, Mexico, when he met the old Yaqui Indian Don Juan. His first book, <i>The Teachings of Don Juan</i>, was the story of the first period the two men spent together as master and pupil. This was followed by the other volumes in the series, <i>A Separate Reality</i>, <i>Journey to Ixtlan</i>, <i>Tales of Power</i>, <i>The Second Ring of Power</i>, and <i>The Eagle's Gift</i>, all of which are published by Penguin. He also wrote the <i>Art of Dreaming</i> (1993).
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