The exclusive goal of this journal is the dissemination of ideas. The ideas I am referring to were proposed to me by don Juan Matus, a Mexican Indian sorcerer or shaman who guided me through a thirteen-year apprenticeship. I intend to present these concepts directly and concisely.
My attempts to publish this journal go back as far as 1971, but it was turned down because it did not conform to the preconceived notion of a scholarly journal, a magazine, or a newsletter. I envision it as an attempt to join the Western man’s world of philosophical speculation with the seeing-observations of the Indian sorcerers of ancient times.
I have decided, backed by the unanimous agreement of my cohorts, to change the name of this journal from, The Warriors Way, to READERS OF INFINITY. It conforms to one of don Juan’s seeing-observations: he called it reading infinity. He said that when one has acquired “inner silence,” the horizon appears to the eye of the seer as a sheet of lavender where a point of pomegranate color bursts into an infinity that can be read. A worthwhile challenge conceived by don Juan for such readers is to become readers of infinity. This journal is an invitation to all to become readers of infinity.
(Carlos Castaneda, The Warrior’s Way – A Journal of Applied Hermeneutics)
