Notable works

• The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge (1968) ISBN 0-520217578
• A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan (1971) ISBN 0-671732498
• Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan (1972) ISBN 0-671732463
• Sorcery: A Description of the World (1973)
• Tales of Power (1975) ISBN 0-671732528
• The Second Ring of Power (1977) ISBN 0-671732471
• The Eagle's Gift (1981) ISBN 0-67173251X
• The Fire from Within (1984) ISBN 0-671732501
• The Power of Silence: Further Lessons of Don Juan (1987) ISBN 0-67173248X
• The Art of Dreaming (1993) ISBN 0-06092554X
• Readers of Infinity: A Journal of Applied Hermeneutics (1996) Number 1/2/3/4
• Magical Passes: The Practical Wisdom of the Shamans of Ancient Mexico (1998) ISBN 0-060928824
• The Active Side of Infinity (1999) ISBN 0-06092960X
• The Wheel Of Time : The Shamans Of Mexico (2000) ISBN 0140196048

Brief Description of Books

1. Yaqui way of knowledge - description of plant allies and way towards knowledge: mescalito (peyote cactus)- the protector of man, seeing beings as liquid colors; mushrooms- learning to handle, fly, and percieve as animal form; datura (weed)- female spirit, hard to handle, gives strength, lengthy procedure
2. Further conversations - idea of will
3. Journey to Ixtlan - lessons about the warriors way, or stalking the world, routines, personal history, self-importance, not-doing, dreaming
4. Tales of power - description of points of perception in body or luminous cocoon, tonal or toñal (1st attention, known, right side awareness, left-brain) and nagual (2nd attention, unknown, left side awareness, right-brain), dreaming double
5. Second Ring of Power - experiences with the women warriors of the original nagual's party, 2nd attention (second ring of power), losing human form, human mold, dreaming, gazing
6. Eagle's gift - description of the force that creates, destroys, and rules the universe (or at least the 48 bands of earth), also source of emanations themselves, description of the eagle's command to man, the rule of the nagual, various levels of petty tyrants, and way towards freedom, self-stalking and dreaming, power spots. Note that don Juan described the energy-structure/entity called eagle a thing that is not what we call an eagle, but rather a thing so vast as to be incomprehensible.
7. The Fire from Within - step by step (actually chapter by chapter) elucidation of the mastery of awareness or the new seers knowledge:
1. everything is energy (eagles emanations or luminous emanations)
2. the luminous cocoon and assemblage point(glow of awareness)
3. the known (1st attention or tonal),unknown (2nd attention or nagual), unknowable (outside luminous cocoon)
4. petty tyrants as a way to move assemblage point and foster warriors way
5. twin worlds of organic and inorganic ( more correctly matter-beings and non-matter-bound beings -- carbon-based/not-carbon-based wasn't what was meant )
   shifting the assemblage point and other bands of awareness
6. bundles of emanations that are the basis for the different species source of awareness and forms/molds
7. the human mold
8. the rolling force or tumbler (that hits luminous cocoon)
9. the death defier
10. self-stalking, intent, and dreaming
8. Power of silence - stories about essentially the mastery of intent, set into what were called sorcery cores.
9. Art of dreaming - steps to mastering control and consciousness of dreams, called gates.
10. Magical passes - tensegrity, sets of magical passes with pictures
11. Active side of infinity - recapitulation, making a log of significant life events (as seen by the spirit)

Related authors

Two other authors, Taisha Abelar and Florinda Donner-Grau, have also written books in which they claim to be from Don Juan Matus' party of Toltec warriors. Both Abelar and Donner-Grau were endorsed by Castaneda as being legitimate students of Don Juan Matus, whereas he has dismissed many other pretenders. Another author of note is Victor Sanchez; Sanchez claims to have had similar teachings, and met Castaneda, but emphasizes in his books that Castaneda does not endorse his work.