After all is said and done, I find myself wanting more... wanting to know more about the teachings, although some of them creeped me out a bit. I found it very hard to put this book down once I started it because don Juan's teachings interested me to the extent where I couldn't wait to read on to see what happends next. That last few chapters got to be really interesting when Castaneda tried the "smoke" a few more times. I'm skeptical about the whole crow ordeal.. I mean I understand that the smoke helped with the hallucinations but to that extent? And that fact that don Juan was trying to bring him back for three days sort of blew my mind as well. If I was in that kind of scenario.. I would have freaked out or thought that the person had slipped into a small coma of some sort.
Another part that made me skeptical was when don Juan left to search for Castaneda's soul and left him there to 'fight' against anyone who comes near him. I mean.. did he really see someone portraying themselves as don Juan? I was relieved that nothing bad had happened to him at the end of the book, although it was hard to tell with all of the weird situations arising. Reading this book made me want to somewhat, and I mean somewhat, want to be a part of this experience. A lot of the stuff that Castaneda went through really, really creeped me out.. but wow, what an adventure he was on. As other's have posted in their blogs, I too think that Castaneda really wanted to accomplish and feel what don Juan had felt when he went through the teachings before, although he didn't, he felt something that don Juan also hadn't either. I would definitely recommend this book to my friends.. very interesting, to say the least.
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