The Don Juan Papers :

Further Castaneda Controversies
by Richard De Mille

ASIN: 0915520257

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Synopsis:

De Mille attempts to unmask Castaneda as a bogus fieldworker -- viewing the Castaneda books as psychological allegories -- but takes him seriously as a "Trickster-Teacher," a deceptive truth-bringer who taught a new conception of "reality" to millions of readers. In 44 chapters some thirty scholars and laymen celebrate or bemoan Castaneda's influence on social science, philosophy, education, psychotherapy, religion, literature, library science, and private lives.

An "Alleglossary" displays two hundred passages, found in libraries, which furnish certain or likely origins for don Juan's teachings and Castaneda's adventures.

A must-read biographical chapter offers startling information about Castaneda and is illustrated with several likenesses of him, as a child, youth, and man.

Reviews:

A reader from Maine, USA , November 10, 1997 Castaneda's Sorcery Apprenticeship Debunked as Mythology
"The Don Juan Papers" is Richard Demille's scholarly and fascinating debunking of Carlos Castaneda's popular series of cult bestsellers about his apprenticeship to Yaqui sorcerer, Don Juan Matus. Demille makes convincing argument that these books are in fact "fiction", rather than anthropological "non-fiction"