| By Martin Solares, published in SELF Magazine, 1994, Mexico. According to reports from Octavio Paz, José Agustín, Jaime Garcia Terres, Juan Tovar, several intellectuals who remain anonymous and Carlos Castaneda.En 1976, the hippie culture was still in full swing with his slogans of peace and love , his interest in Zen Buddhism and techniques to achieve enlightenment, when generalized interest of young Americans by the psychedelic experience and began to publish the first scientific work on hallucinogenic mushrooms and the books of Tolkien spoke of great and unexpected worlds ; appearing twelve years after The Lord of the Rings, ten years after On the Road, a young Latino finished writing a report that would allow graduating as an anthropologist at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). It was the third version, third. The previous two had been dismissed on the advice of their teachers. One of them, Professor Harold Garfinkel, Ethnomethodology pioneer in this university, made a simple observation that contributed invaluable in shaping the style of the young tesista: while aspire to earn the title of anthropologist, the student should record their findings " direct and detailed manner, avoiding subjectivity that attempts to explain what happened: avoiding appear. The writing of this third version had taken several years during which he had to work as a taxi driver and messenger, among other jobs similares.Quizás never suspected that the results of their report would impress more than one student in California Unviersidad. Perhaps Anaïs Nin never imagined that public would be interested to see this work published, and even believed that the prestigious publishing house would print the UCLA Teachings of Don Juan, forcing it to disappear after the name of Carlos Castaneda.CRONICAS OF A WITCH IN MEXICO1970 : The millionaire publisher Simon & Schuster seeks to buy reprint rights to the thesis of a young anthropologist who has become a bestseller. Meanwhile, in Mexico, an even younger writer tries to convince Joaquin Diez-Canedo you publish this argument in the editorial Joaquin Mortiz. The writer named José Agustín Ramírez and then know that the thesis in anthropology was recommending that took several months to sell an average of 16 thousand copies a week in the Unidos.Don Joachim and not remember why not publish the thesis in anthropology the editorial office, and at that time "so many books coming ..." 1971: Unlike Diez-Canedo, Jaime Garcia Terres, editorial advisor entonses Economic Culture Fund, it comes in contact with the director of UCLA, August Frug, and reasonable buys thousand dollars for the rights of the thesis for publication in Castilian. Garcia Terres, a pioneer in the interest for the study of hallucinogenic mushrooms, decided that the first edition of The Teachings of Don Juan in Castilian occur which should be whole, and the cover charge to Leonora Carrington, the introduction to Octavio Paz and translation Juan Tovar, the latter on the recommendation of Ten-Canedo.1972: Castaneda travels to Mexico to meet her enthusiastic publisher in the Economic Culture Fund, and presented to several employees of the institution: Alba Red public relations director of the editorial, Adolfo Castanon, the translator Juan Tovar and his wife, Elsa Cross. José Agustín also meets and begins with him one of his most enduring friendships with a Mexican. It feels so pleased with the work of Garcia Terres that facilitates their publication in Castilian following works, including A Separate Reality and Journey to Ixtlan, which had recently appeared in the American Union, with a lag of several months and immediately become bestsellers.1973: Time magazine enterprising unsuccessfully-a worldwide research, particularly fierce in Mexico, where its reporters combing several states of the republic for evidence of the existence of Don Juan. In its issue of March 5 of that year, Time published an interview with Castaneda and the only known photographs of him: a close-up of his eyes and whole body image of someone who, leaning on a desk biblionteca UCLA Read a book and covered his face with a hat paja.1974: Carrying a copy of Tales of Power, his fourth book published in the United States, Castaneda made a trip to Mexico during which assists a meal that your friends will offer in house and Alba Vicente Rojo. He is accompanied by three women who presented as his wife, sister and sister. According to descriptions, it could be your partner, Florinda Donner -A Venezuelan novelist whom many taken by Swedish-, the writer also Taisha and learning his girlfriend, Carol Tiggs, respectively. During this visit to Mexico, Castaneda also sympathize with Hector Manjarrez and Fernando Benítez. A friend of Garcia Terres going to look at the Hotel Camino Real and is registered under the nobre "Carlos Castaneda" 1975: Returns to Mexico. Visit José Agustín and Jorge Fons, accompanied by Juan Tovar. From this year, his next stop books published in the Economic Culture Fund, due largely to his friend Jaime Garcia Terres, then deputy director of the editorial, leaving the institution. During this period and until the end of 1976, visit the Federal District on several occasions, one of whom is interviewed about sex and witchcraft for men's magazine El.1981: Upon learning that José Agustín translate to El Don del Aguila Castilian commissioned by Editorial Diana, Castaneda called to say hello and maintains a telephone contact with the writer. When the book is presented in the capital of the republic, few months later, Castaneda attended incognito to the event, and, standing in the audience, grins and shakes hands with a dumbfounded José Agustín on the stand. When three years later appears in The Fire Within Mexico, announces its participation Castaneda in a couple of presentations to be carried out in the library of Daniel Cosio Villegas Economic Culture Fund, and the CUC. From both exits to feel besieged by cameras. Some amateur photographers insist on that night several of his rolls out for a biography velados.APUNTES NO AUTORIZADACarlos Castaneda turns 27 in 1995. The person behind that name will celebrate its 60th birthday on 25 December that year. The first is a pseudonym, the latter a doctorate in anthropology from Brazil that had its first esturios in Argentina, took a course in fine arts in Italy and finally entered the Unversity of California. Both claim to have been initiated into witchcraft by a Yaqui Indian named Juan Matus. The two had completed their training over three vast sessions: from 1961 to 1965, from 1968 to 1973 and from June of that year, the month in which Don Juan died to date. 1974 was still possible to find teaching students of anthropology at the University of California, and was often heard how the latter aimed at him and said to each other "Hey, that's Castaneda", as they walked through the halls of the university . If you look from afar, writes José Agustín, Carlos Castaneda and Carlos Cesar Aranha Castaneda surprised by its resemblance to the actor Peter Lorre, but close is less than average height, complexion, dark complexion, curly hair, and physiognomy mestiza "he recalls Juan Tovar. You can not put it in a racial type specific because it could come from any Latin American country except Mexico, because, as agreed several interviewees, "there is something in his profile and not Mexican." Nor would it be easy to attribute a source to analyze his accent, he speaks English like a gringo, easily used words of Portuguese and English usually runs a ubiquitous, with expressions from various parts of the continent, such as "Kiko and Kako", "San whore" or "son of a flute." For a novelist who insisted not to be identified, Castaneda always behaved in public as if ised a performance, dropping red herrings af in creating a wall of fog around their identity. It is possible that the words in Portuguese muro.Según are part of Mexican intellectuals who have tried, the author of The Teachings of Don Juan usually cancel commitments unexpectedly-sometimes by Florinda Donner, arguing sudden illness or unavoidable obligations. All emphasize his ability to relate to people and great sympathy. Several agree that it has never provided your address and phone their friends, at most the number of a PO Box in Los Angeles or data his literary agent in charge. Likes to call their friends at all hours of the night, but hangs up if an answering machine answers. Sometimes said to be in a city when it is actually in another. Whenever he decides the time and place for interviews, and no wonder planted to stop a person if the looks of it does not seem reliable. Does not encourage anyone to use drugs and was not seen drinking wine, marijuana or other soft drinks bottles. Karate practice daily. Wears conservative clothing, usually in autumn colors. Not enrolled in any public association. It may take several months to respond to messages from the editors of any country. Bored to find more sinister objects within the letters he sent several years ago ceased to thoroughly check your mail. It was not always witnessed by the writer Carlos Castaneda.Como Florinda Donner in Being in the Dreaming, a susu most recent books, his learning partner also lived under the names of Jose Cortez and Isidoro Baltazar, the first of which corresponded to undocumented worker alleged that the couple who worked at a coffee shop in California as a dishwasher also wrote a libro.TAXONOMIA OF CASTANEDITASUna visit to Coyoacán esoteric bookstores reveals an interesting variety of books that discuss, refer or even continue the saga of Don Juan and Carlos Castaneda. Taisha and Florinda Donner-who lived his apprenticeship as a witch along with Castaneda, have written about such experiences. Less talented than the others, there are several novels "inspired" in the saga of Don Juan, and also sold. Among the serious studies about Castaneda stand Castaneda Test-an anthology of escritorres Americans on the topic-and almost inconseguible Castaneda's Journey, by journalist Richard de Mille, the same as Juan Tovar wanted to translate to the Fondo de Cultura Economica but Garcia Terrés "is not encouraged." De Mille presented a well documented report seeks to reveal the private life of Don Juan Matus apprenticed. Despite of Richard de Mille and other tests to Castaneda, some buyers of these books not only view them as a literary proposal, but Mexico vital.En Castaneda's followers are among the most diverse. The vast majority do not and never has been attending practice sessions where exercises varied. One writer, after four years of knowing him and sympathize revealed that assists me for five to a kind of esoteric workshop, which declined to give further details. His teacher is someone who claims to know other line naguales Castaneda. And whatever you have seen there is very astonished man of letters. Federico Fellini recalled that after they make known their intentions to film Teachings Don Juan, received several death threats. And a number of Mexican intellectuals who requested anonymity recalled that some of the most enthusiastic lectoers Castaneda were people professionally engaged in witchcraft, advisors esoteric Mexican VIPs, bodyguards and other workers who tend to abuse of brute force. Given this, several of my interviewees suggested me not delve into that aspect of the investigation. And I did not. But while working on the intellectual part of the story, got an unexpected an address in Los Angeles, so I called a friend from Los Angeles Times and asked him to go to the upmarket residential area of \u200b\u200bWestwood, near of Universal Studios. Once there, he stopped at the guard booth, pressed a button and asked for "Mr. Carlos Castaneda" by going to the video camera watching him from the techo.EN NAGUALPara THE ADDRESS OF 1991, Castaneda's books reached 257 authorized editions worldwide, photocopied circulating in countries of the Far East and the United States alone had sold eight million copies. Simon & Schuster, Penguin Books and Gallimard are some of the editorials that have broadcast his work. In Mexico, each of his books published in editorial Diana (The Gift of the Eagle, The Fire Within and The Power of Silence) has spent about 250 thousand copies, while sales and reprints of up to 20 thousand books of The Teachings of Don Juan, A Separate Reality, Journey to Ixtlan Tales of Power and the Economic Culture Fund as comparable to become a bestselling authors such as Octavio Paz or Carlos Fuentes, and only less than Francisco Rojas González, Juan Rulfo and Mariano Azuela, the latter above 500 thousand copies vendidos.Según Fausto Rosales, his editor at Diana, the amount that Castaneda received editorial concept advances is not to be scared, "especially if you think that authors like Carl Sagan ever receive tens of millions of dollars for the rights of one of his books." Rosales, that has Castaneda treaty, insists that money is an unimportant issue for the writer, and it does not live as a millonario.Una visit, on the pretext that it is "within his department revealed a collection of more than 260 copies of his work published in different languages, a picture painted by the daughter of Jaime Garcia Terres, books by poets such as San Juan De La Cruz, César Vallejo and Dylan Thomas, a receipt from the Master Charge credit card, a book by Florinda Donner dedicated "to the aranha that takes me on his back, and two cars in the garage, pick up a cream and a brown four puertas.Castaneda Ford, who has not lost its athleticism, now used short hair is completely gray. Says one of her neighbors that "if you are 60 you will not be noticed." And not everyone knows who he is. Something has to see that Castaneda has rejected the offer of one million dollars that American Express was to announce your credit card for just 15 seconds. Owes something to its strict decision not to allow his films bring to cinema, "not to see Quinn Antohny making Don Juan", and their increasingly remote appearances. Still struggling with poor translations of his books into English, and acostrumbra disappear for a few months each time you publish a new book, alarming his seguidores.En Once, he says, he simply took a small suitcase called a taxi to the airport in Los Angeles and walked through the halls hata he felt the call of one of the airlines. He and Florinda Donner uan began several weeks visit to Asia. When asked if someone gets completely invented what happens in his books, jibs immediately: "I could not have invented Don Juan Matus", and claims that his books were written by a complex merger process that seeks to "set the assemblage point to get to see again the facts that one seeks relatar.En Mexico, most intellectuals agree on three things: 1) They appreciate that Castaneda's books are so well written and respect him as a writer, 2) as Octavio Paz said, less interested in the mystery surrounding the identity of Castaneda "the enigmas proposed by his work", and 3) highlight their ability to work with images. Jaime Garcia Terres insists he has never used the word "fraud" to refer to the writer: "Have you ever told a man who gave in to his imagination, which is very respectable and creative" Juan Tovar agreed that Castaneda is living the myth that building, "and we built" and is convinced that his stories or tales of power are, like Borges's theology, a branch of fantastic literature, each new most accomplished book narratively than its predecessor and "harder to swallow as a document." Along the same lines, José Agustín, who has not disdained to speak or write the theme rather than tiredness, believes the author of The Art of Dreaming and The Second Ring of Power "is a fascinating path of human development and exploration serious, honest and intelligent in many real possibilities of the human mind, and that his "autobiography sui generis' worth anthropological, philosophical, psychological, esoteric and literary. When at last my friend at the entrance to the residential area of \u200b\u200bWestwood received a response The silence was broken by a woman's voice spoke a single word: "No.There that was it. |
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