In all of these books don Juan Matus was a nagual who was the leader of a group of practitioners in the tradition of mystical self-actualization.

Castaneda's unprecedented success with published recollections of his training implicitly confirms that Mescalito ( who sponsored him as an apprentice to the nagual Juan, as recounted in " The Teachings of Don Juan ") wants the knowledge propagated worldwide, the seeding of mankind with concepts necessary to the evolution of our species.

In modern rural Mexico, nagual is sometimes synonymous with brujo (" witch "): one who is able to shapeshift into an animal at night, ( normally into an owl, bat, or turkey ) drink blood from human victims, steal property, cause disease, and the like.

In another direction the phenomenon of repercussion is asserted to manifest itself in connection with the bush-soul of the West African and the nagual of Central America ; but though there is no line of demarcation to be drawn on logical grounds, the assumed power of the magician and the intimate association of the bush-soul or the nagual with a human being are not termed lycanthropy.

In another direction the phenomenon of repercussion is asserted to manifest itself in connection with the bush-soul of the West African and the nagual of Central America ; but though there is no line of demarcation to be drawn on logical grounds, the assumed power of the magician and the intimate association of the bush-soul or the nagual with a human being are not termed lycanthropy.

The word nagual derives from the Nahuatl word nahual, an indigenous religious practitioner, identified by the Spanish as a ' magician '.

In secret societies we find bodies of men grouped together with a single tutelary animal ; the individual, in the same way, acquires the nagual or individual totem, sometimes by ceremonies of the nature of the bloodbond.

The costume worn by the women is the Huipil Red, black cut, strip, strip was produced by the same women in the municipality, the color is red huipil its meaning is the blood spilled by our ancestors cut the dark or black evening, the bar the nagual of Women, the belt force and purity of women.

The nagual is acquired along with the other characteristics of a person's birth day at birth.

While the familiar is often regarded as the alternative form of the magician, the nagual or bush-soul is commonly regarded as wholly distinct from the human being.

A pre-Columbian Chatino stela depicting a nagual transforming into a jaguar.

The nagual is different, where the tonal is the day spirit proper, the nagual is the spirit familiar of the day.

The jaguar also is important for shamans who often associate the jaguar as a spirit companion or nagual, which will protect the shamans from evil spirits and while they move between the earth and the spirit realm.

Juan Gabriel Valdés, Chile's foreign minister in the 1990s, described the Chile Project as " a striking example of an organized transfer of ideology from the United States to a country within its direct sphere of influence ... the education of these Chileans derived from a specific project designed in the 1950s to influence the development of Chilean economic thinking.

The anthropologist Juan Villarías-Robles, who works with the Spanish National Research Council, said " Richard Freund was a newcomer to our project and appeared to be involved in his own very controversial issue concerning King Solomon's search for ivory and gold in Tartessos, the well documented settlement in the Doñana area established in the first millennium BC " and described his claims as ' fanciful '.

Dana described the locale, including neighboring San Juan Capistrano, as " the only romantic spot on the coast ".

Tommy Muñiz's life is described in two books: an autobiography named " Así he vivido " (" That's the way I've lived ") and "¡ Juan, Juan, Juan!

* The marimba is described for the first time by Juan Domingo Juarros, a Spanish historian, in his Compendium of the History of Guatemala.

During the 1930s, Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, in charge of health services for the Institute of Tropical Medicine in San Juan, wrote a few letters to friends in the United States in which he described his hatred for Puerto Ricans.

In their preview of Star Fox: Assault, IGN editors Juan Castro and Matt Casamassina described Fox's voice as juvenile yet tough.

Officially they were discovered by Amerigo Vespucci, whose cartographer Juan de la Cosa first described the islands.

J. Posadas ( 1912 – 1981 ) ( occasionally referred to as Juan Posadas ), was the pseudonym of Homero Rómulo Cristalli Frasnelli, an Argentine Trotskyist whose personal vision is usually described as Posadism.

The coypu was first described by Juan Ignacio Molina in 1782 as Mus coypus, a member of the mouse genus.

Gay and Zenatello would live together the rest of their lives, and were often described as husband and wife, although they may never actually have gotten married, and legally Maria Gay may still have been married to Juan Gay Planella until his death in 1926.

The Strait of Juan de Fuca between the United States of America and Canada was named for him by British Captain Charles Barkley because it was at the same latitude that Juan de Fuca described as the location of the Strait of Anian.

When the English captain Charles William Barkley, sailing the Imperial Eagle in 1787, ( re ) discovered the strait Fokás had described, he renamed it the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

The site of the village, used from approximately 1200 CE until 1776 when the Acjachemen were moved to Mission San Juan Capistrano, is variously described as an ancient / pre-historic village and as a gravesite.

This show was later described as " the best show with the biggest attendance in history " and as " somehappy that his album had sold more than those of Juan Luis Guerra and Juanes, and that this was an " official proof that reggaeton's principal exponent defeated the rest of the genres ".

The last contemporary mention of the Qarmatians is that of Nasir ibn Khosrau, who visited them in 1050, although Ibn Battuta, visiting Qatif in 1331, found it inhabited by Arab tribes whom he described as " extremist Shi ` is " ( rafidiyya ghulat ), which historian Juan Cole has suggested is how a 14th Century Sunni would describe Ismailis.

In his 1840 classic, Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana, Jr. described the port of Juan Fernandez as a young prison colony.

In 1916, Dr. Juan V. Pagaspas, a doctor of philosophy from Indiana University and a much beloved educator in Tanauan, Batangas described the Kundiman as " a pure Tagalog song which is usually very sentimental, so sentimental that if one should listen to it carefully watching the tenor of words and the way the voice is conducted to express the real meaning of the verses, he cannot but be conquered by a feeling of pity even so far as to shed tears.

In September 1542 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo described them as islas desiertas ( desert islands ).

The first examples were collected by C. H. Sternberg in the San Juan Basin in New Mexico and described by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1923, who obligingly gave it the specific name sternbergii after its discoverer.

The Strait of Anian, claimed to have been sailed by Juan de Fuca for whom today's Strait of Juan de Fuca is named, was described as passing through a land ( Anian ) " rich in gold, silver, pearls and fur ".

Long fascinated by Carlos Castaneda ’ s The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, Fellini accompanied the Peruvian author on a journey to the Yucatán to assess the feasibility of a film.

In July 1844, the Mexican government granted Rancho Cotate ( encompassing present-day towns of Cotati, Penngrove and Rohnert Park, and home to Coast Miwok people ) to Captain Juan Castaneda, a Mexican military commander from Texas, in payment for his service as a soldier under General Vallejo.

Originally home of the Coast Miwok native people, the Mexican government granted Rancho Cotate to Captain Juan Castaneda in July 1844 for his military services in the region.

* Carlos Castaneda – Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan

* Carlos Castaneda – A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan

* Carlos Castaneda – The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

Don Juan Matus is a major figure in the series of books on Nagual ' Sorcery ' by Carlos Castaneda.

Carlos Castaneda never claimed Juan Matus to be a shaman and yet the actual existence of don Juan has been disputed by a handful of critics who claim his practices and beliefs are inconsistent with his alleged identification as a Yaqui shaman.

Regardless of whether don Juan is a fictional character, or an actual human subject of study in Castaneda's books, Juan tells Carlos ( the personage representing Castaneda ) that he is a brujo ( Spanish for sorcerer or medicine man ); a sort of healer, sorcerer or shaman, who had inherited ( presumably through a lineage of teachers ) an ancient Mesoamerican practice for vastly enhancing one's awareness of, and interaction with, the energies of the Earth and its assorted beings.

Castaneda recounts that he was recruited in 1960, and paints a word-picture of the methods and concepts in the guise of conversations with his teacher, who he calls Don Juan in the series of 14 books he wrote on the subject.

Interestingly, none of the ferocious detractors review the techniques and their effectiveness, but instead concentrate on whether Castaneda has been entirely truthful, despite his open admission in the opening pages of the first book that he lied shamelessly to the Nagual Juan.

* The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda

According to the book The Teachings of Don Juan Matus, a Mexican shaman by the name of Don Juan Matus, who had taught his student Carlos Castaneda, the book's author, about the true nature of the physical universe and how intense concentration can summon, apport, and even materialize objects out of thin air.

Originally home of the Coast Miwok native people, the Mexican government granted Rancho Cotate to Captain Juan Castaneda in July 1844 for his military services in the region.

* The Don Juan Papers: Further Castaneda Controversies, Ross-Erickson, 1980.

The Don Juan Papers: Further Castaneda Controversies.

The term has also been used to refer psychologically to the Yaqui Indian sorcerer experience of ' a shift in the assemblage point ' described by Carlos Castaneda in The Teachings Of Don Juan etc.

* The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, Carlos Castaneda ( 1968 )