I studied the Don Juan series back in the 1970,s, and found them helpful in opening my belief system. I saw each book as a continuation of the previous one, so I would suggest starting with the first one, and reading them in the order they were published. I believe the first in the series was "Tales of Power", then "Journey to Ixtlan", then "A Separate Reality". I could never believe all the happenings Casteneda described really happened, especially in his later books, but I read them with an "as if" attitude; as if they were true.
During the time I was reading them, I had a startling onset of "clarity", which has stayed with me all my life. In my case, it was not from overcoming fear, but guilt, through gestalt therapy.
Namaste...
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