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

been. The Second Ring of Power goes far beyond
anything he has written before: it is a vision of a
more somber, frightening and compelling world
than that of Castaneda's years of apprentice-
ship-the world of a full-fledged sorcerer, in
which dangers lie in wait on the journey to impec-
cability and freedom, and in which the message
of don Juan must be transformed into real life.


Jacket Painting and Design by Robert Giusti
(C) 1977 Simon and Schuster

Contents


PREFACE

1
The Transformation of Dona Soledad

2
The Little Sisters

3
La Gorda

4
The Genaros

5
The Art of Dreaming

6
The Second Attention



Preface

A flat, barren mountaintop on the western slopes of the Sierra
Madre in central Mexico was the setting for my final meeting
with don Juan and don Genaro and their other two appren-
tices, Pablito and Nestor. The solemnity and the scope of
what took place there left no doubt in my mind that our ap-
prenticeships had come to their concluding moment, and that
I was indeed seeing don Juan and don Genaro for the last time.
Toward the end we all said good-bye to one another, and then
Pablito and I jumped together from the top of the mountain
into an abyss.