Doctor Bill wrote, in a PM, and wondered if a bildungsroman can be "mystical"? I'm not sure but I think that, maybe, a dose of sort of stuff written by Carlos Castaneda in the The Teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui way of knowledge and A Separate Reality and Journey to Ixtlan might make Urrea's book a "mystical bildungsroman." The idea would be that someone moves from being a novice, seeing only the surface of the world, apprehending only what is available to the unaided senses, and progresses to see the mystical import of events, people, places and things which was inapparent as a neophyte. Works?