This book was a total escape into another world for me. I went through a phase of reading all the books I could find from Carlos Castaneda. He is known as the Godfather of New Age. The top review of the book from the publishing company mentioned psychedelic drugs but that wasn’t what the book was about, drugs were only used a tool to get to a different mindset. The journey was the point of the story. You take a totally urban man; put him in Mexico with a teacher to learn the ways of a Yaqui shaman. From there, the entire book is something you don't want to put down and you wish it wouldn't end. At least that was the way I felt reading them. There’s been a lot of controversy over the books. A lot of people have tried to debunk them as being totally fiction. The critics say Don Juan never existed and the Yaqui never smoked peyote—which is the drug mentioned in the books. The book felt genuine to me, nothing fake or new agey. The book publisher still lists the book as non-fiction. I’d recommend it, I loved all the books.