Volume 12, Number 11 · June 5, 1969
High School
By Edmund R. Leach
The Teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui Way of Knowledge
by Carlos Castaneda
Ballantine, 276 pp., $.95 (paper)
Mysticism is in fashion. Just at the moment nothing brings in the bread more easily than a careful description of the horrors and delights of hippydom, pot, LSD, St. Teresa, or what have you. So any book of this sort invites caution. The general tone is Coleridge-de Quincey by Rousseau out of eighteenth-century Gothik:
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