Matus next introduces his own "most marvelous ally," the "smoke of diviners."Ĭastaneda learns how to cultivate Datura and how to prepare the smoke mixture.
Despite its painful side effects, Matus is convinced that the Datura ally likes him. Although he dislikes his benefactor's ally, devil's weed, Matus introduces him to it first, showing how to pick and prepare the four "heads," and gives him a potion to drink. Precise steps are needed to acquire allies.
They are neither guardians nor spirits, but aids in doing great things. Gradually, following his benefactor's methodology, Matus introduces Castaneda to allies. Matus advises him to concentrate on his calling, rather than on his fear, and to see the marvels around him. During his first peyote experience, Castaneda convulses and feels suffocated, but cavorts with a glowing black dog, whom Matus assures him is Mescalito in a rare display of playfulness. After a year of growing friendship and a test that shows he has the backbone to meet "Mescalito", the anthropomorphism of the hallucinations caused by ingesting peyote buttons, face-to-face, Castaneda begins a "long and arduous" apprenticeship. Seeking information about peyote, Carlos Castaneda meets an expert Yaqui shaman, Don Juan Matus. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge describes the effects of three hallucinogenic drugs taken by a graduate student under the supervision of a Yaqui Indian shaman, first as a narrative of the experiences and then as a systematic, scholarly analysis.
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