In the closing book, don Juan reveals that sorcery is not an end in itself, that it is not to be sought as the alternative to our commonplace sense of “reality.” The sorcerer’s way is not alternative but complementary to the average person’s way. Drugs, we learned in journey to Ixtlan, are not essential to the apprenticeship in sorcery.
Like the previous books, Tales of Power repudiates much that has gone before. Tales of Power is inconclusive, but as the book draws to its close the reader feels a strong sense of comple tion, a sense that Castaneda has said all he will say. The fourth and final book of the don Juan series, Tales of Power, answers some of the questions the books have raised, leaves many other ques tions unanswered, and ends on a tentative note quite different from the openended, serial conclusion of the first books. (New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1974. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:īook Reviews Tales of Power.
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