The Wheel of Time. Conversations with Carlos Castaneda

"The Wheel of Time" is the most recent, final book by Carlos Castaneda. It is a book about the wisdom of the shamans of ancient Mexico, about life, death, and our place in the Universe. "Soon Infinity will consume me, - writes the author, - and I want to prepare for it."
May the concentrated wisdom of don Juan help You on Your path. This book is imbued with Power.
The book is supplemented with two of the most interesting published conversations between Carlos and a writer and journalist. From them, you will learn a little more about the author of the most amazing books of the 20th century.
Carlos Castaneda
Carlos Castaneda can confidently be considered one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century. The only verifiable information about him is that he is the author of ten bestselling books and the founder of the "Cleargreen" company, which now owns the rights to Castaneda's creative legacy. Everything else is little more than speculation, if not outright conjecture.
Castaneda meticulously preserved the "mystery of his identity," rarely gave interviews, and categorically refused to be photographed (however, by happenstance, several photographs of Castaneda do exist). He even denied that he had ever been married, although Margaret Runyan, the author of a memoir about this person, claims that Castaneda was her husband. In other words, the true biography of Carlos Castaneda was known only to him; the fate of all others is to try to reconstruct it.
Carlos Cesar Arana Castaneda (presumably, this is his full name) was born on December 25, 1925, in São Paulo, Brazil. In 1951, he emigrated to the USA, and in 1960, an event occurred that fundamentally changed the life of Carlos Castaneda and thousands of his followers - Castaneda, then a student at the University of California, who came to Mexico for "field notes" for his thesis, met don Juan Matus, an Indian from the Yaqui tribe. Don Juan became Castaneda's spiritual teacher and for twelve years imparted to him the esoteric knowledge of his tribe.
With don Juan's permission, Castaneda began to record his words; thus was born the first of Carlos Castaneda's world-renowned books - "The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge," published in 1968. This book instantly became a bestseller - as did the subsequent nine. All of them are recordings of conversations between don Juan and Castaneda, and the chain of events in them ends in 1973 when don Juan mysteriously disappeared - "vanished like mist."
Legend has it that Castaneda himself left our world in a similar manner - as if he dissolved into the air. A less poetic version of the obituary reports that he died on April 27, 1998, from liver cancer, and that after cremation, Castaneda's ashes were, according to his will, sent to Mexico.