(1931 – 1998) While a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA, Casteneda published The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge (1968), which recounted his spiritual and drug-induced apprenticeship with a Native American shaman. While other anthropologists soon questioned his data, the vivid adventures of this book and its bestselling sequels reverberated with both spiritual and pharmacological quests of the 1970s. As a mysterious pop cultural guru, he developed his shamanistic ideas into a spiritual program, “Tensegrity” which took on New Age and cultic overtones by the time of his death.