The Don Juan Papers

About the Book

Carlos Castaneda was a brilliant scholar but legitimacy bored him. At UCLA he got a Ph.D. in anthropology by turning the latest social science theories into conversations with a mushroom-smoking hermit and feeding them back to his professors as ancient Indian wisdom.

About the Author

Richard de Mille, received a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Southern California. He has published in the Psychological Bulletin,American Anthropologist, and numerous other scientific and scholarly journals and popular periodicals. His other books include Castaneda's Journey, Put Your Mother on the Ceiling: Children’s Imagination Games, and My Secret Mother: Lorna Moon (about his famous family).