"The sorcerers' revolution," Don Juan continued, "is that they refuse to honor agreements in which they did not participate.
"Nobody ever asked me if I would consent to be eaten by beings of a different kind of awareness.
"My parents just brought me into this world to be food, like themselves..."
This book is dedicated to the two men who gave me the impetus and the tools to do anthropological fieldwork: Professor Clement Meighan and Professor Harold Garfinkel.
Following their suggestion, I plunged into a field situation from which I never emerged.
If I failed to fulfill the spirit of their teachings, so be it.
I couldn't help it.
A greater force, which shamans call 'infinity', swallowed me before I could formulate clear-cut social scientists' propositions.
-Carlos Castaneda