Now I do not know what Carlos Castaneda was smoking while he wrote Journey to Ixtlan: the Lessons of Don Juan, but it sure did bring out his creative side.

Throughout Journey to Ixtlan, the reader is constantly perplexed and confused by the enigma that is don Juan. Don Juan is a teacher, if you want to call him that, and he teaches Castaneda how to stop the world and how to erase personal history. In reality I really do not think don Juan existed, he was merely a figment of Castaneda's peyote-influenced imagination.

When we watch television, or read through magazines, we often see advertisements featuring stars, or celebrities that we respect. Companies use the celebrity's influence on people to get the public to buy their product, because we will listen to someone that we think knows what they are talking about. So, I believe that in...