An intriguing if incredible-sounding account of anthropologist
Abelar's training by the same mysterious family of sorcerers that
allegedly spawned Carlos Castaneda. In the late 60's, while she was
sketching the mountains around Tucson, Abelar met Clara Grau, a
charismatic Mexican woman. Somehow, Grau persuaded young Abelar to
abandon her solitary and rudderless life and to visit her house in
Sonora, Mexico. What followed was an extraordinary induction into a
family of 16 sorcerers. In a serf-consciously academic preface,
Abelar describes her training as a sorceress as "breaking the
perceptual dispositions and biases that imprison us within the
boundaries of the normal everyday world and prevent us from
entering other perceivable worlds." In the telling, however, the
movements and exercises that led up to the perceptual leap called
"the sorcerers' crossing" is pure, well, Castaneda, full of
walloping energies and wise teachers dispensing dramatic insights.
Castaneda himself explains in a supplemental preface that Abelar
was trained as a "stalker" - as opposed to a "dreamer": no drugs,
but an exercise called the "recapitulation," in which Abelar had to
liberate herself from every imprisoning memory and attachment. Why
was Abelar chosen? While searching for a men's room at a California
drive-in, the patriarch of the sorcerer family stumbled onto Abelar
as she was seducing a pimply young kid. Then and there, he vowed to
save her for a better fate. An absorbing riddle of a book. Much is
made of the Abelars and the Graus, the stalkers and the dreamers,
the two sides of the sorcerer family that live on right and left
sides of their magical Mexican house like right and left
hemispheres of the brain. This and much else here seems
suspiciously symmetrical and pat. But who knows? (Kirkus Reviews)
Some twenty years ago, anthropologist, Carlos Castaneda,
electrified millions of readers by describing his initiation -
under the Yaqui Indian brujo, Don Juan - into an alternate reality.
Now Taisha Abelar, who was taught by the female members of Don
Juan's group, recounts her own "crossing" in this arresting book.
While travelling in Mexico, Abelar became involved with a group of
sorcerers and began a rigorous physical and mental training process
designed to enable her to breach the limits of ordinary perception.
THE SORCERERS CROSSING details that process, giving us a highly
practical sense of the responsibilities and perils that face a
woman sorcerer. Abelar's enthralling story is invaluable as a
virtual "sorcerers manual", as anthropology and as a provocative
work of women's spirituality.
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