Open fire from Within is the author’s most brilliant thought-provoking and unusual publication, one where Castaneda, under the tutelage of don Juan and his ‘disciples,’ at last constructs, from your teachings of don Juan and his own experiences, a stunning family portrait from the ‘sorcerer’s globe’ that’s crystal-clear and dizzying in it is implications. Each of Carlos Castaneda’s books is usually a brilliant and tantalizing burst of illumination into the depths of our deepest mysteries, like a sudden adobe flash of light, just like a burst of lightning on the desert during the night, which shows us a world that’s both alien and totally familiar — the scenery of our dreams.