Author(s): Richard de Mille

Spirituality

Carlos Castaneda was a brilliant scholar but legitimacy bored him. At UCLE he got a Ph.D. in anthropology by turning the latest social science theories into controversies with a mushroom-smoking hermit and feeding them back to his professors as an ancient Indian wisdom.”Careful, balanced, and scholarly … definitive work.”—Weston La Barre, Journal of Psychological Anthropology “Should satisfy anyone still in doubt”New York Times Book Review