Carlos Castaneda faked an anthropology classic, then built a cult
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#76HS7)
Carlos Castaneda's 1968 book The Teachings of Don Juan recounted his apprenticeship to a peyote-dosing Yaqui shaman named don Juan. The University of California Press published it as anthropology; it became an international bestseller and drew fans from John Lennon and Joni Mitchell to George Lucas and Octavio Paz. - Read the rest
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