Carlos Castaneda was an anthropology student who abandoned his studies in 1960 for the Mexican desert, where he apprenticed with shaman Don Juan Matus. Castaneda went on to describe his experiences and his own achievement of shaman status in a...
Imagine a bookish man named Francis D., swimming at a public beach in Cape Cod, who drifts out beyond his depth. Imagine that he doesn't drown, that the tide carries him to a private cove where he is rescued by two mysterious young women named...