Once in the Canyon’s you will be accompanied by amazing guides with an endless fountain of knowledge. However, to maximise your experience of this world heritage site we do advise that you have a basic knowledge of the area before you go. You will then be able to build on this throughout your trip. The list of books below covers everything from general infomation about the area to the history, to the wildlife so feel free to choose any area that is of particualr interest to you.
The Witch’s Dream: A Healer’s Way of Knowledge (Compass) [Paperback]
By: Florinda Donner-Grau, Carlos Castaneda
A student of don Juan Matus, Florinda Donner-Grau entered the world of spiritual healing as an anthropologist, but her involvement soon deepened. This is the extraordinary account of Donner-Grau’s experiences with dona Mercedes, an aged healer in a remote Venezuelan town known for its spiritualists, sorcerers, and mediums. Working as dofia Mercedes’s apprentice, Donner-Grau witnessed first hand the power and beauty of true healing. At the same time, she came to know the many people who approach dona Mercedes for help. Interwoven with their haunting stories is Donner-Grau’s own tale of self-discovery.
A Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Mexico’s Copper Canyon Region
By: Linda J. Ford
This is a user friendly field guide 6″ x 9″, color photographs, flowers listed in order of color, text and photographs together, and text in both English and Spanish. Also sections about the Copper Canyon Region, How to Get There and How to Plan your Trip, and How to Use This Guide.
Magical Passes: The Practical Wisdom of the Shamans of Ancient Mexico [Paperback]
By: Carlos Castaneda
For us to perceive any of the worlds that exist beside our own, not only do we have to covet them but we need to have sufficient energy to seize them. In this revolutionary book, Carlos Castaneda offers readers the key to this energetic conditioning for the first time, revealing a series of body positions and physical movements that enabled various sorcerers, and their apprentices, to navigate their own sorceric journeys. By sharing this centuries-old wisdom, Carlos Castaneda makes it possible for readers to travel to some of these other realms, which are as real, unique, absolute, and engulfing as our own world. Castaneda offers both a philosophical history of magical passes and an innovative, easy-to-understand instructional format, complete with more than 450 computer-generated illustrations. Written with humor, clarity, and authority, Magical Passes further illuminates the true meaning of sorcery and magic.
The Jungle Effect [Paperback]
By: Daphne Miller
Why do the relatively poor native populations in Mexico and Africa have such low levels of the chronic diseases that plague the United States?
Why is the rate of seasonal affective disorder in Iceland—a country where dreary weather is the norm—so low?
Why is it that older women in Okinawa have such low breast cancer rates that it is not considered cost-effective for them to get screening mammograms?
The Jungle Effect has the life-changing answers to these important questions, and many more.
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, 40th Anniversary Edition [Paperback]
By: Carlos Castaneda
Forty years ago the University of California Press published an unusual manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda. The Teachings of Don Juan initiated a generation of seekers dissatisfied with the limitations of the Western worldview. Castaneda’s now classic book remains controversial for the alternative way of seeing that it presents and the revolution in cognition it demands. Whether read as ethnographic fact or creative fiction, it is the story of a remarkable journey that has left an indelible impression on the life of more than a million readers around the world.
Guide to Mexico’s Copper Canyon: Facts, Faces, Places, & A Smattering of Spanish
By: Richard Gordon
Contains profile of the Chihuahua-Pacifico railroad through Mexico’s Copper Canyon with specific orientation legend to be used in connection with the railroad Kilometer markers along the way. Introduces the Mennonites, Tarahumara, and Mayo cultures as well as the small towns enroute. Survival Spanish for the trip is included.
The Second Ring of Power [Paperback]
By: Carlos Castaneda
Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan [Paperback]
By: Carlos Castaneda
In “Journey to Ixtlan,” Carlos Castaneda brings to a new height his account of the teachings of Don Juan.
Fire from Within [Paperback]
By: Carlos Castaneda
Each of Carlos Castaneda’s books is a brilliant and tantalizing burst of illumination into the depths of our deepest mysteries, like a sudden flash of light, like a burst of lightning over the desert at night, which shows us a world that is both alien and totally familiar — the landscape of our dreams. Fire from within is the author’s most brilliant thought-provoking and unusual book, one in which Castaneda, under the tutelage of don Juan and his “disciples,” at last constructs, from the teachings of don Juan and his own experiences, a stunning portrait of the “sorcerer’s world” that is crystal-clear and dizzying in its implications.
Tarahumara: Where Night is the Day of the Moon [Paperback]
By: Bernard L. Fontana
The Power of Silence: Further Lessons of don Juan [Paperback]
By: Carlos Castaneda
Millions of readers worldwide have treasured the visionary brilliance of Carlos Castaneda, who first explored the world of the Yaqui Indian sorcerer in The Teachings of don Juan. Now, at last, don Juan returns in The Power of Silence — wise, infuriating, capable or working miracles and playing practical jokes, but always seeking the wisdom of the warrior. The Power of Silence is Castaneda’s most astonishing book to date — a brilliant flash of knowledge that illuminates the far reaches of the human mind. Through don Juan’s mesmerizing stories, the true meaning of sorcery and magic is finally revealed. Honed in the desert of Sonora, the visions of don Juan give us the vital secrets of belief and self-realization that are transcendental and valid for us all. It is Castaneda’s unique genius to show us that all wisdom, strength, and power lie within ourselves — unleashed with marvelous energy and imaginative force in the teachings of don Juan — and in the writings of his famous pupil, Carlos Castaneda.
The Eagle’s Gift [Paperback]
By: Carlos Castaneda
Carlos Castaneda takes the reader into the very heart of sorcery, challenging both imagination and reason, shaking the very foundations of our belief in what is “natural” and “logical.” His landscape is full of terrors and mysterious forces, as sharply etched as a flash of lightning on the deserts and mountains where don Juan takes him to pursue the sorcerer’s knowledge–the knowledge that it is the Eagle that gives us, at our births, a spark of awareness, that it expects to reclaim at the end of our lives and which the sorcerer, through his discipline, fights to retain. Castaneda describes how don Juan and his party, left this world–”the warriors of don Juan’s party had caught me for an eternal instant, before they vanished into the total light, before the Eagle let them go through”–and how he, himself, upon witnessing such a sight, jumped into the abyss.
The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life Death And The Universe [Paperback]
By: Carlos Castaneda
Near the end of his life, Carlos Castaneda gathered together and reviewed his seminal works on his training as a shaman initiate, recorded in a literary career that spans over thirty years. The result is this groundbreaking collection of quotations — the essence of Carlos Castaneda, drawn from his landmark volumes including The Teachings of Don Juan, Journey to Ixtlan, A Separate Reality, and Tales of Power. Enhanced with an introduction and original commentary by the author, this powerful work illuminates the shaman’s life as never before. Castaneda’s words explore how the ancient shamans could literally touch and direct the wheel of time — a profound yet pragmatic tradition that can be felt even in our day.
Tales of Power [Paperback]
By: Carlos Castaneda
Don Juan concludes the instruction of Castaneda with his most powerful and mysterious lesson in the sorcerer’s art — a dazzling series of visions that are at once an initiation and a deeply moving farewell.
Sorcerer’s Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda [Paperback]
By: Amy Wallace
Sorcerer’s Apprentice opens with Amy Wallace’s first meeting with Carlos Castaneda, the infamous anthropologist-turned-shaman, whose books described meetings with Yaqui Indian spiritual teacher don Juan. Castaneda’s rise was meteoric in the late 1960s as he wrote massive bestsellers, inspired many to experiment with psychedelics, and was dubbed “the Godfather of the New Age.” The possibility that Castaneda’s experiences may have been fabricated did little to compromise his legend.
As the daughter of best-selling novelist Irving Wallace, Amy was rarely shy around famous people. When her father insisted she meet Castaneda, she at first demurred. Little did she know that a delightful first meeting would begin a 20-year friendship, followed by her descent into the dramatic and deeply troubled affair chronicled in this book. Sorcerer’s Apprentice unblinkingly reveals the inner workings of the “Cult of Carlos,” run by a charismatic authoritarian in his sixties who controlled his young female followers through emotional abuse, mind games, bizarre rituals, dubious teachings, and sexual excess. Wallace’s story is both specific and universal, a captivating cautionary tale about the dangers of giving up one’s power to a tyrant–and about surviving assaults on body and spirit.
The Art of Navigation: Travels with Carlos Castaneda and Beyond [Paperback]
By: Felix Wolf
The Art of Navigation examines the author’s life-transforming association with the enigmatic shaman and anthropologist Carlos Castaneda, from a first encounter in 1980 up to the present, more than a decade after Castaneda’s death. Journey with a modern-day shaman’s apprentice on his more than thirty year trek across the globe, from hedonistic beginnings towards surrender and awakening, from a focus on magic and power to the emergence of love and compassion. The central theme of this memoir is the art of navigation, which entails living life in the spirit of an enchanting treasure hunt – playful, intuitive, fluid, and fully aware.
Starting with a mind-stopping event that occurred shortly after Castaneda’s death, the narrative jumps back to follow an action-packed and magical path of discovery through Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Germany, France, Mexico, and the United States. This is the Art of Navigation, an unusual and fascinating spiritual awakening into our essential nature.
The Life & Teachings of Carlos Castaneda [Paperback]
By: William Patrick Patterson, Barbara Allen Patterson
