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 traveling 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.