Sorcerer's Apprentice: My Life with Carlos CastanedaNorth Atlantic Books, 18 dic 2007 - 448 pagine 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. |
Sommario
Meet the Worlds Most Elusive | 1 |
The Interim Years | 26 |
Reunion with Florinda | 38 |
Bats | 46 |
The Next Reunion | 49 |
My Reunion with Carlos | 56 |
Meet an Alien | 65 |
A Poisonous Lunch | 70 |
A Peek Behind Oz Curtain and The Shroud of Turin | 242 |
Carlos Sends a Witch to Move Me | 253 |
A Magic Table | 260 |
The Nagual Fails at Seduction | 265 |
Sundays Very Bloody Sundays | 277 |
The Halfway House for Losers | 283 |
Sorceric Sex and Sorceric Love | 292 |
Projections of Betrayal | 307 |
Were in Business | 75 |
Carlos Castaneda Goes on a Date | 83 |
Sex Magic Leads to Danger | 91 |
A Magical Tour of the Sorcerers Secret Home | 109 |
Ripe for the Picking | 114 |
Give Up My Cats Become a Waitress and Scandalize Infinity | 131 |
Disaster | 140 |
Hire a Private Detective | 145 |
The TruthDefier | 152 |
Workshop Hopping Leads to Transformation | 163 |
The Sunday Class | 171 |
Energy Vampires | 177 |
Fairy Dust | 184 |
Heads Will Roll | 197 |
The Theatre of the Real | 202 |
Fat and Bodies | 210 |
The Truth about Hierarchy | 218 |
Jewelry Wars | 227 |
Claude and Her Friends Play Dolls | 233 |
Astrid Burns Her Past | 315 |
The Naguals Final Months | 318 |
Last Visits with My Husband 323 | 323 |
A Hummingbirds Goodbye | 331 |
Taishas Farewell | 338 |
Hes Gone | 343 |
Christmastime in the Asylum | 355 |
Coke vs Pepsi | 363 |
The Hierarchy of Emptiness | 372 |
Implosion | 379 |
Does Sorcery Tough Love Work? | 387 |
Epilogue | 394 |
Afterword to the 2007 Edition | 403 |
A Guide to the Cast of Major Characters | 410 |
Where Are They Now? | 417 |
Carlos Castanedas Will and Death Certificate | 421 |
Glossary | 426 |
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