Castanata - Is He a Sorcerer?

After the 19 73 time article pointed out some of the problems with his claims, castanada withdrew from public view and became even more secretive. This was supposedly in keeping with don juan's teachings about a sorcerer erasing his personal history. But you can also suppose that he simply didn't want to feed public examination of his claims and harm the marketing of his supposedly non fiction books. He may have had a genuinely paranoid streak in his personality that began to manifest increasingly.