The reality of Native American magicians and their allies is so dangerous for the usual system of perception that Carlos, an anthropologist from Los Angeles, tried to escape it forever after writing his first book. But Strength decided otherwise: two years later he returned—and a new cycle of training began.
“Separate Reality,” like the first book, describes an experience that the author himself still doesn’t fully understand. No wonder many esotericists recommend starting to study the teachings of the Toltecs from the third book of Castaneda—“Journey to Ixtlan”—and only then returning to the first two, because on the one hand it would be too sad to be frightened by an inaccurate description of the Path and throw it away, and on the other hand it would be a shame not to learn those most important points of the teachings that ended up precisely in the first two books.