Wow one paragraph in and were already talking about drugs. I guess this is why this book is relevant to this class. When I read the first entry it made me wonder why Don Juan didn’t want the author to know about peyote. I guess it must be an Indian thing to be reluctant to let people know about these things. I think that Don wanted the author find another way to learn about the drug other than “just wanting to learn.”

I wonder why there is so much silence between the men in the opening of the chapter. The only thing I could come up with is that maybe it is an Indian custom. Chewing something out of an old coffee jar doesn’t like a smart thing to do. The one hallucination about the dog was really interesting. I think it would be cool to see something just vanish and still see the action of what the dog was doing. It almost seems like an X-ray but one that looks real. I mean something that isn’t just black and white. To me his peyote experience would be very exhausting like he described, but I find it hard to believe that he remembered the truck ride and the man when they arrived a Dons house.

I almost think the author will come out of the teachings with a drug problem. I mean he goes for one drug to another. I really think that don has a drug problem because he really knows a lot about the drugs. Don still seems to be in touch with nature. Because he talk about the devils weed having only a few friends. One of the friends is the paloverde tree.
I find it interesting that Don give the drugs human characteristics. For example the Mescalito is gentile and kind once you get to know it.