“Let me unequivocally get this out of the way,” Marshall stipulates early on. “It was all a hoax, a trick.” The books were ...

Ru Marshall's new biography "American Trickster" unmasks bestselling author Carlos Castaneda's evolution from UCLA grad ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Los Angeles Times illustration; images from OR Books and Adobe Stock) The 1970s were thick with New Age spiritual fads and ...

(Los Angeles Times illustration; images from OR Books and Adobe Stock) The 1970s were thick with New Age spiritual fads and movements, from the benign (crystals) to the unspeakably toxic and cultic ...