Fascinating interview with Castenada here.
Or is it?
('Castaneda' 'himself' - or the figure purporting to be Castaneda - raises all sorts of questions about the difficulty of identitying 'Carlos Castaneda'.)
Key quote, on sorcery:
'Did he trick you?
It's possible. What he did was teach me that there's much more to the world than we usually acknowledge -- that our normal expectations about reality are created by social consensus, which is itself a trick. We're taught to see and understand the world through a socialization process that, when working correctly, convinces us that the interpretations we agree upon define the limits of the real world. Don Juan interrupted this process in my life by demonstrating that we have the capacity to enter into other worlds that are constant and independent of
our highly conditioned awareness. Sorcery involves reprogramming our capacities to perceive realms as real, unique, absolute, and engulfing as our daily so-called mundane world. '