Sustained Action Bookstore - special order book page
Here are additional selections discussed or referred to on the site. (The
site will not receive revenue for purchases of these items--because
they are special order, back order or out-of-print books--but they
are works that many of us have found important in shaping our understanding of
the Castaneda phenomenon. These links are for our readers' convenience.)
1. Lowell Bean, Native Californians: A Theoretical Retrospective (click
here for excerpts)
2. Ettore Biocca, Yanoáma:
The Story of Helena Valero, a Girl Kidnapped by Amazonian Indians (summary
and excerpts)
3. Richard de Mille, The Don Juan Papers: Further Castaneda Controversies
(related summary)
4. Daniel C. Noel, Seeing Castaneda (summary)
5. John Middleton, ed., Magic, Witchcraft, & Curing (excerpts)
6. Interviews with Oscar Ichazo (summary
& excerpts)
7. Len Oakes, Ph.D., Prophetic Charisma: The Psychology of Revolutionary
Religious Personalities (summary
& excerpts)
8. Marlene Dobkin de Rios, Visionary Vine: Psychedelic Healing in the
Peruvian Amazon
9. Ruby Modesto and Guy Mount, Not for Innocent Ears: Spiritual
Traditions of a Desert Cahuilla Medicine Woman
10. Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad, The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian
Power (excerpts)
11. Lowell Bean, California Indian Shamanism
12. Lowell John Bean and Katherine Siva Saubel, Temalpakh: Cahuilla Indian Knowledge
and Usage of Plants (excerpts)
13. Jane Holden Kelley, Yaqui Women: Contemporary Life Histories (excerpt)
14. Michael Harner, ed., Hallucinogens and Shamanism