Carlos Castaneda's Journey

This great comix book has many small stories featuring the adventures of Dr. Hunter S. Toxin. In one of which he drives out to the desert to meet Don Juan, who tells him to handle the medicinal plants with respect so as not to offend the spirits. His reply, "Fuck those spirits! Let's brew this stuff up and get off!"

The next panel shows Dr. Toxin looking very worried in a surreal landscape saying, "I can't find my car!"

Fear and Laughter

Only Printing / September, 1977 / 36 pages / Kitchen Sink

Scott Shaw is one of those guys who can do a lot of things very well. He produced hundreds of TV commercials as the Senior Art Director at Ogilvy and Mather in L.A.; won four Emmies for his work on Jim Henson's Muppet Babies TV show; worked as an inker, writer and penciller for Marvel Comics; and is an accomplished conductor of concert music. In the '70s he produced a number of stories for underground comics and served as mastermind and editor for this book here.

Fear and Laughter is a parody of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's book Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. In 14 short stories, we follow Dr. Hunter S. Toxin through a variety of drug-induced, profanity-laced adventures written and illustrated by an army of comic book pros. Funny stuff and well worth tracking down.

HISTORICAL FOOTNOTES:
Kitchen Sink printed approximately 10,000 copies of this comic book. It has not been reprinted.

COMIC CREATORS:
Scott Shaw (editor) - 2, 8 (script, inks), 18-20 (art, script collaboration), 21 (script), 28-29 (script), 30-31 (script, inks), 35 (inks), 36
William Stout - 1, 3-5 (script, pencils)
Bill Wray - 3-5 (inks), 8 (inks)
Bob Foster - 6-7
Carl Taylor - 8 (pencils)
Carol Lay - 8 (lettering), 18-21 (lettering), 28-29 (script, art), 30-31 (lettering)
Barry Siegel - 9-10 (script)
Bruce Simon - 9-10 (art)
Rick Geary - 11-17
David Scroggy - 18-20 (script collaboration)
Roger Freeman - 18-20 (script collaboration)
Rick Hoover - 21 (art)
Barry Alfonso - 22-23 (script)
Dave Stevens - 22-23 (art)
Bud Gutz - 22-23 (lettering)
Larry Todd - 24-27
Carl Macek - 28-29 (concept)
Marc Schirmeister - 30-31 (art)
David Clark - 32-34 (script)
John M. Pound - 32-34 (art)
Lord Stephen Garcia - 35 (script, pencils)
Raoul Duke - 35 (lettering)

https://comixjoint.com/fearandlaughter.html

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge was published by the University of California Press in 1968 as a work of anthropology, though it is now widely considered a work of fiction. It was written by Carlos Castaneda and submitted as his master's thesis in anthropology. It purports to document events that took place during an apprenticeship with a self-proclaimed Yaqui Indian sorcerer, don Juan Matus from Sonora, Mexico, between 1960 and 1965.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Teachings_of_Don_Juan

Richard de Mille (February 12, 1922 – April 8, 2009) was an American author. He was the son of screenwriters Lorna Moon and William C. deMille and the adopted son of director Cecil B. DeMille. He was briefly a member of the Scientology movement during the early 1950s and spent much of his career as an academic psychologist. He is noted for his 1976 book Castaneda's Journey, an exposé on the spiritual writer Carlos Castaneda, as well as a 1998 biography of his mother, My Secret Mother: Lorna Moon.

De Mille wrote Castaneda's Journey: The Power and the Allegory in 1976, a book describing the detective work through which he said that Carlos Castaneda was a hoaxer and plagiarist and that don Juan is fictional. He edited a second book on the same subject, The Don Juan Papers in 1980, when he found that his exposé did not lead Castaneda's most ardent followers to fall away. This book contains documents representing views of Castaneda across the spectrum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_de_Mille

The inside scoop on Castaneda's life as guru.

Sorcerer's Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda by Amy Wallace.

Amy Wallace (July 3, 1955 – August 10, 2013) was an American writer. She was the daughter of writers Irving Wallace and Sylvia Wallace and the sister of writer and populist historian David Wallechinsky. She was co-author of the bestselling book The Book of Lists (1977).

Wallace is best known for her books of lists, with topics that ranged from the rare, curious and unusual to crime and horror. In 1977, she lived in Berkeley on her brother's commune and during school breaks, worked with him and their father on what was to become a bestseller, The Book of Lists. The book ran to three versions.

In 1990 she entered a relationship with anthropologist Carlos Castaneda, which she wrote about in her memoir, Sorcerer's Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda, published in 2003. The book was the first to reveal the private life of Castaneda, and detailed his hitherto mysterious "inner circle" of women who lived with him on a closed compound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Wallace

Sorcerer’s Apprentice opens with Amy Wallace’s first meeting with Carlos Castaneda, the infamous anthropologist-turned-shaman, whose books described meetings with Yaqui Indian spiritual teacher don Juan. Castaneda’s rise was meteoric in the late 1960s as he wrote massive bestsellers, inspired many to experiment with psychedelics, and was dubbed “the Godfather of the New Age.” The possibility that Castaneda’s experiences may have been fabricated did little to compromise his legend.As the daughter of best-selling novelist Irving Wallace, Amy was rarely shy around famous people. When her father insisted she meet Castaneda, she at first demurred. Little did she know that a delightful first meeting would begin a 20-year friendship, followed by her descent into the dramatic and deeply troubled affair chronicled in this book. Sorcerer’s Apprentice unblinkingly reveals the inner workings of the “Cult of Carlos,” run by a charismatic authoritarian in his sixties who controlled his young female followers through emotional abuse, mind games, bizarre rituals, dubious teachings, and sexual excess. Wallace’s story is both specific and universal, a captivating cautionary tale about the dangers of giving up one’s power to a tyrant–and about surviving assaults on body and spirit.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/185044/sorcerers-apprentice-by-amy-wallace/9781583942062

Amy Wallace's memoir of her complex relationship with Carlos Castaneda plunges readers deep into the reality of the Castaneda cult and the psychological terrors it perpetrated. With the skill of a master storyteller, Wallace recounts early meetings with Castaneda, shares previously unpublished material straight from the Nagual, and explores the aftermath of Castaneda's death and the long term effects of his legacy. Insightful and unwaveringly honest,Sorcerer's Apprenticeis simultaneously a love story, a cautionary tale about the dangers of giving one's power to another, and a joyous account of healing and self-affirmation.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Sorcerer_s_Apprentice.html?id=9O4OgShAe74C

This book is very interesting and has a ring of honest truth.

Ultimately, Carlos comes across as a narcissistic misogynist, because when a man mistreats women that is not love, it is evil abuse. He was, in my opinion, a brilliant writer with a wild imagination who had an impact on his, and our times, but in direct simple terms he was a real fucking asshole.