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Nevertheless, a warrior who struggled all his life to reach the parameters of impeccability
does have a second chance . He can gather the events of his existence, and pick up the
scattered energy in order to pass into the world of the nagual."
I asked him what a sorcerer does in that world.
He answered:
"For most people, to die is to speechlessly enter something very unfamiliar, much like what
we experience in ordinary dreams. There, nothing has a linear sequence, and the concepts of
time, space, and gravity do not apply. Imagine what a warrior with the control of his dreaming
double can do on a journey of that nature! No doubt you can see that this is a great feat of
awareness.
"A sorcerer is somebody who spends his life tuning himself through arduous discipline. When
his time arrives, he faces death like a new stage in his travel along the path. Unlike to an
ordinary man, he doesn't try to soothe his fear with false hopes.
"The warrior departs for his definitive journey filled with joy, and his death greets him and
allows him to keep his individuality like a trophy. His sense of being is so finely tuned that he
becomes pure energy, and disappears with the fire from within. In that way, he is able to
extend his individuality for thousands of millions of years."
"Thousands of millions?"
"That's it. We are children of the Earth, it is our ultimate source. The option of sorcerers is to
unite with the awareness of the Earth, for as long as the Earth will live."
The Final Choice
That afternoon, he was limping when he came to the meeting. We asked him what had
happened, and he told us that while he was at the hotel, for one fraction of second a toe on his
left foot lit up and was scorched with an internal fire.
"I had to move quickly, because my assemblage point had begun the process of alignment!"
Moved by his strange experience, he talked for a long time about the final exercise of
sorcerers, by means of which they catch fire from inside and enter pure awareness in their
totality, shoes and all.
One of the people in the room asked him why, if the passing into awareness is the final
objective of sorcerers, he had fought to retain his individual self today, instead of taking
advantage of the opportunity.
With a roguish smile, Carlos told us that the question made him remember one of his
ancestors, a Portuguese, who devoted himself to the business of transporting people to Brazil,
with the story of the promised land. The man made a small fortune that way, and he did a
great job creating propaganda about the advantages of Brazil, but he had never been there.
"And here I am, transporting you!"
After we had laughed at his anecdote, Carlos changed the expression on his face. In a very
formal tone, he explained that warriors don't act for reasons of self-importance, and therefore,
their decisions are not theirs.
"Don Juan told me how some men of knowledge, after a life of impeccable fight, decide to
remain, while others dissolve like a puff of wind into infinity.
"The thing that makes some warriors fight to retain their self, is something unrelated to
personal concerns. To belong to a lineage of power implies bonds of such a deep nature that
our personality is annulled. It becomes just a minuscule detail in an energy structure that the
new seers call 'the Rule'.
"In that situation, individual choice no longer exists for the warrior, properly speaking. All he
can do is accept his destiny and fulfill the commands of the Rule; anything else would just
lead to his extinction."
The Seers Of Ancient Mexico
In the beginning, one of my worries had to do with Carlos' historical sources. To what extent
were Don Juan's teachings the product of a tradition of men of knowledge which stretched
back thousands of years, and to what extent had they been influenced by Western ideas?
On various occasions, I tried to validate what Carlos told us through comparisons with what
has been left to us from prehispanic antiquity, but I must admit that I always ended up
frustrated. I wanted to question it in terms of the most orthodox anthropology. However, it
seemed inappropriate to approach this delicate matter in front of people, so I postponed my
questions.
One afternoon, I mentioned what was on my mind. He was perfectly affable, and told me that
this was a doubt that assaulted almost all his listeners, because we have all been presented
with the image of the communities of ancient Mexico as primitive towns.
He added that my mistrust regarding his statements was normal, and that the problem I was
presenting in such a straightforward way, was actually about finding definitions for
experiences which don't fit within the syntax of modern languages.
"I made a similar error with my teacher. For Don Juan, anything that didn't serve the objective
of the teachings was-a waste of time. Every time I tried to find some relationship between his
words and those I read in history books, he simply stopped speaking and turned away.
"Once I asked him about his reticence and he answered: 'Behind your professional concern
hides a professional doubt. If you don't
discard it, you won't understand the core of what I am telling you. I know the sources of the
information which I am passing on to you, so I don't need to prove them '.
"Later, he spoke about a time in which sorcerers traveled enormous distances across the
world, in order to share the results of their spiritual search with colleagues on other latitudes.
Unlike today, sorcerers moved in dreaming with complete freedom, and nothing was more
respected than being a seer.
"The credit for the knowledge those men accumulated cannot be awarded to any one country
in particular, the knowledge is universal. But the organization of their principles into the
arrangement which today is called 'nagualism' or 'the path of the warrior' definitely took place
in ancient Mexico.
"Starting from their primary observations, the ancient seers arrived at the most profound
understanding of universal truths that man has ever achieved. The power of their attention had
so much force that it is still active today, generating potentialities which are affecting certain
areas of Mexico and the Southern United States, creating favorable conditions for an energy
concentration that you'd be hard put to find anywhere else in the world.
"Partly, those sorcerers were helped by a peculiar configuration of the luminous field of the
Earth, whose epicenter rotates around the Valley of Mexico. They see that peculiarity as a
gigantic funnel or pleat of light, where emanations coming in from the universe fit with those
of the planet, producing a heightened level of awareness.
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