Something was grabbing the edge of the mirror as if from the inside of the glass; as if the glass surface were an open window and something or somebody were just climbing through it.

Don Juan and I fought desperately. The loud thrashing continued unremittingly like an enormous fish in our bare hands. A strange shape was actually trying to climb up through the mirror.

I vacillated a second and the mirror flew out of my hands.

Don Juan yelled, "Grab it! Grab it!"

"A Vision of the sorcerer's world that is full of mind-spinning implications in the Castanedian tradition." - United Press International

"His stories of intiation into the world of magic and sorcery... can be both shocking and terrifying... "The Fire From Within" will facinate you." - The Nashville Tennessean

"One can not exaggerate the significance of what Castaneda has done." - The New York Times

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Each of Carlos Castaneda's books is a brilliant and tantalizing burst of illumination into the depths of our deepest mysteries, like a sudden flash of light, like a burst of lightning over the desert at night, which shows us a world that is both alien and totally familiar .. the landscape of our dreams.

THE FIRE FROM WITHIN is the author's most brilliant, thought-provoking and unusual book, one in which Castaneda, under the tutelage of don Juan and his "disciples," at last constructs, from the teachings of don Juan and his own experiences, a stunning portrait of the "sorcerer's world" that is crystal-clear and dizzying in its implications.

"It is impossible to view the world in quite the same way after reading THE FIRE FROM WITHIN."

     - Chicago Tribune