Carlos Castaneda wrote many Great Books about the Brujo Don Juan Mateus, a Yaqui Indian. He taught a different view of the world using medicinal plants and reality-stretching exercises.

The first book is called "The Teachings of Don Juan:  A Yaqui Way of Knowledge". It's a Classic anthropological study of Mexican Indians. Required reading in freshman cultural-anthropology at Chico State in 1973... The people in the book used the teachings to learn how to run thru the desert at full speed it total darkness using power from an "ally" that looked like a moth... Hence the images of men running... and Moths.  They were also able to travel instantly from one place to another... 

Often in these books, Carlos and Juan do things that are absolutely impossible... If you believe the traditional view of reality... However, the first set 

on the path of knowledge is to "question reality".

The book "Tales of Power" has many images in it that I used to make this animation... Like "finding your hands while dreaming": a way to take control of your dreams and use them to learn. 

https://www.amazon.com/Carlos-Castaneda/e/B000APXVFG

Carlos Castaneda wrote of "seeing" people as luminous eggs... with bolts of power connecting their midsections to the world around them.

I'm re-reading all those books again... a worthwhile use of my time... The Teachings of Don Juan starts the series... A Separate Reality, Journey to Ixtlan, The Eagle's Gift, Tales of Power and The Second Ring of Power... These books document a cultural anthropologist 's study of Mexican Indians, psychedelics and Toltec Warriors.  The first book is about psylocibin, datura and peyote experiences but the author quickly outgrows these and embarks on a magical journey learning the ancient arts of "stalking" and "dreaming".

A complementary author is Don Miguel Ruiz... The Four Agreements... They work well together.

and I remember doing a POWER WALK after a Grateful Dead Concert... I took ONE STEP and Grocked Everything there was to know about That Location... and then I took Another Step... and Grocked THAT Location... and Many Silly Deadheads Mocked Me For Walking SO FAST! "Watch Out Everybody! This Guy is Speeding TOO FAST! Danger Danger!" and I walked that way 

all the way to my car in the parking lot...

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Great Book: "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz, a Toltec Brujo from Mexico. (Doctor/Priest/Teacher.)

1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don't take anything personally.
3. Don't make assumptions.
4. Always do your best.

READ MORE:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/great-books-four-agreements-by-don.html

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Tripping 

(1999 Ken Kesey / Merry Pranksters documentary)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh2kK5IfS-8

Great Books: "1984", "Siddhartha" and "The Teachings of Don Juan" - All of these Books Help a Person to WAKE UP and NOTICE REALITY.

Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of government over-reach, totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of all persons and behaviours within society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

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Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_(novel)

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The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge was published by the University of California Press in 1968 as a work of anthropology, though many critics contend that it is a work of fiction.[1] It was written by Carlos Castaneda and submitted as his Master's thesis in the school of Anthropology. It purports to document the events that took place during an apprenticeship with a self-proclaimed Yaqui Indian Sorcerer, don Juan Matus from Sonora, Mexico between 1960 and 1965.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Teachings_of_Don_Juan

Carlos Castaneda and Don Juan

Carlos Casteneda wrote a series of Anthropology Books documenting the teachings of a Yaqui Brujo, Don Juan Mateus. Starting in the 1970's it tells of adventures in the deserts and mountains of Mexico eating Peyote and smoking Jimson weed with psilocibin mushrooms. Required reading for Cultural Anthropology Class at Chico State College... EATING WAS OPTIONAL...

Quickly, Carlos learned to go beyond the "little smoke" and experienced events that are totally unexplainable... People flying to the tops of Eucalyptus trees pulled up by glowing tendrils of light attached to luminous eggs that encircle their bodies... Eventually the teachers Don Juan and Don Genaro exit the world by jumping off a cliff... but their bodies were not found at the bottom. They simply dissapeared... It became Carlos's task to lead a team of 8 apprentices in their study of Toltec sorcery.

Seeing the world in a different state of mind... Carlos wrote of "seeing" people as luminous eggs...

The world we know is referred to as the "Tonal"

everything else is known as the "Nagual"  

The Nagual appeared as a giant moth... An Ally...