A true encounter with non-existent worlds for our Western rational culture - yet real, if you accept the effort to find them. Real experiences of contact with things beyond the apparent, in our own eyes and perceptions, the surface of things. This experience is narrated by Carlos Castaneda. His admirable initiation into the world of magic by Don Juan - a man of knowledge and a man of power. A magic that is more of a new worldview and way of life than a practical extramundane mystery. An initiation that is not at all a stirring of supernatural images and sounds in eyes and ears that keep intact the filters of Western thinking. But it is the clearing of the eyes and the opening of the ears, an unimaginable expansion of their field of perception, to the areas where knowledge is the experience of the incomprehensible - where power is the material of uninterrupted wonder. From this world they stand, willing and unwilling "the profane". And yet he is accessible to every desire that truly desires him.