The Simpsons do not stop and its 33rd season will premiere on Disney Plus in October. Throughout its history, there have been numerous references to our country Peru: like the time the yellow family went to Macchu Picchu (which the show used to make a metaphor about the overprotection of children), or the time Lisa used a painting of Marisol Espinoza, vice president of Peru during the government of Ollanta Humala, to replicate her natural habitat.
But one of the first references made by the animated series to a Peruvian was in its eighth season with the episode “The mysterious journey of our Homer”, in which, after consuming hot chili, Homer has a mystical experience with a coyote.
The episode was inspired by the work of the writer carlos castaneda, Cajamarca naturalized American. On the commentary track of the eighth season DVD of The SimpsonGeorge Meyers, co-executive producer of the episode, reveals how the chapter came to be.
“I was interested in doing a chapter based on the books by Carlos Castaneda, who was writing about mystical experiences he had with a shaman in Mexico, and I thought it would be fun to put Homer in an experience like that. So I proposed the episode, but I think at the time it seemed very strange to the other members of the team, ”recounts Meyers on the DVD of season eight of The Simpson.
A Matt Groening he loved it. But just as the creator of The Simpsons relates, also on the commentary track, that Meyer’s proposal left many of the team silent and a little scared. It wasn’t until three years after Meyer pitched the episode that Groening rescued it for season eight. Interestingly, the musician Johnny Cash He voiced the coyote that guides Homer in the episode, which was based on the dog that guides Castaneda in his book “The Teachings of Don Juan.”
Who was Carlos Castaneda?
Carlos Castaneda was a doctor of anthropology and a naturalized Peruvian writer from the United States. He was the author of a series of books in which he recounted his mystical experiences while consuming Mesoamerican hallucinogenic drugs. Castaneda, who took off his ñ when he arrived at USA, used to lie about his past. But there are official American records that show that Castaneda was born on December 25, 1925 in Cajamarca.
The writer Manuel Carballal He made a chronicle for El Mundo where, thanks to acquaintances of the writer, he documents a little of his origins. “He studied first at fiscal school 91 and then at the prestigious San Ramón school. His desk mates, Juan Jave and Alejandro Vélez, and his sister, Lucy, helped me reconstruct his childhood. In 1944 he moved to Lima and entered the School of Fine Arts”, narrates Carballal.
“According to Byron [uno de sus compañeros de piso en los 50]10 years before don Juan, Castaneda had already met several native sorcerers, such as don Rosendo or Marcelo Ocaña, and had several romantic relationships at the same time: Gudrum Edwars, María Kazanz… Rubio confirms that he was already lying about his past. He built a biography arguing that he was a Brazilian nobleman educated in Italy”, relates the writer Manuel Carballal.
carlos castaneda He died on April 27, 1998 in California, United States.
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