"Carlos Castaneda - The Second Ring of Power" - читать интересную книгу автора (Castaneda Carlos)

Carlos Castaneda's extraordinary journey into
the world of sorcery has captivated millions of
Americans. In his eagerly awaited new book, he
takes the reader into a sorceric experience so
intense, so terrifying, and so profoundly disturb-
ing that it can only be described as a brilliant
assault on the reason, the dramatic and frighten-
ing attack on every preconceived notion of life
that is don Juan's remarkable legacy to his ap-
prentice.

At the center of the book is a new and formi-
dable figure, dona Soledad, a woman whose
powers are turned against Castaneda in a strug-
gle that almost consumes him. Dona Soledad has
been taught by don Juan, transformed by his
teachings from a bent and gray-haired old
woman into a sensual, lithe, deeply sexual figure
of awesome and mysterious power, a sorceress
whose mission is to test Castaneda by a series of
terrifying tricks. In dona Soledad, Carlos Cas-
taneda has recorded for the reader a personality
as instantly recognizable as don Juan himself and
has illuminated the strengths and the feelings of a
remarkable woman who, despite her sorceric
gifts, expresses some of the deepest and most
basic feminine concerns and ambitions. For dona
Soledad, drawn out of the shadows of a de-
feated and meaningless life by don Juan, has
herself become a warrior, a hunter and "a stalker
of power." Castaneda's combat with her, his
gradual realization that she not only derives her
power from don Juan but is fulfilling his plans, is
all a prelude to an astonishing discovery. For
Castaneda unfolds for the reader a sorcerer's
family, in which dona Soledad, her "girls,"
Lidia, Elena ("la Gorda"), Josefina and Rosa,
themselves changed and transformed by don
Juan, are part of a small closed society in which
the teachings of don Juan have become a way of
life, touching and explaining every aspect of the
world, altering the relationships between them so
that they are no longer mother and children, man
and wife, sisters and brothers, friends and
enemies, but disciples, witnesses, accomplices in
don Juan's grand design.

Extraordinary as all Castaneda's books have