The title of this book is taken from an allegory that is recounted to Castaneda by his "benefactor" who is known to Carlos as Don Genaro (Genaro Flores), a close friend of his teacher don Juan Matus. It is about an alleged apprenticeship to the Yaqui "shaman," Don Juan. Journey to Ixtlan is the third book by Carlos Castaneda, published as a work of non-fiction by Simon & Schuster in 1972. Journey to Ixtlan (The Teachings of Don Juan #3), Carlos Castaneda In which we must try our Uttermost, day in, and day out, to make the world around us a better place -Īnd, when the final evening comes, throw ourselves on the Dust Heap,Īn Ultimate Sleep of Personal Fulfillment.Īnd just seeing the truth of that strategy stopped the world, for me:įor to silence our hopes and fears is to stop time. Who said the only well-lived life is an honest, bare-bones life (like an Aspie's). I saw that religion - and indeed the morality of the workplace - is a sham without practical and edgy ethical discernment.įor without it, marginal Aspies like me are ruthlessly doped and sequestered.Īnd I remembered then, the story told by the great modern writer, George Bernard Shaw… Well, I watched that, and suddenly, all my hens came home to roost.
It featured in-depth interviews with natives who had been unwillingly snatched from their safe homes into a form of slavery (and sometime brutal liquidation) in the hideous Canadian Residential Schools, over a half century period. The program I discovered that day was a Canadian aboriginal show. And stopping the gnawing within my heart, and the world itself. At first it was mindless channel surfing, but one afternoon I found it - my entertainment pass to peace. All I had to do was pick her up with our shopping cart after doing whatever I pleased, just trying to stay happy. I was free, though, with my better half off shopping most of the time. So the beginningless, endless Teacher showed me how. And He wanted to gladly teach ME how to stop the world and find peace. NEVER use that world Impossible within hearing of God.įor HE then showed me a way to do it without the props of drugs or alcohol. Which goes to show Someone Upstairs was still looking out after me, and… So now pensionable, I simply called it quits. (Me, I completely imploded into deep burnout!) Guess what? When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, something's going to give. Remember that classic Broadway hit, Stop the World - I Want to Get Off? Yeah, well while in the workplace I invented hard and fast methods of doing just that, and as the stress peaked, worked harder and harder on it. The question posed to the reader in this book is simple: How can we Stop Reality - without chemicals but with the aid of a teacher? After all, there are times when all of us want to press the Pause Button on our stressful lives!
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