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 —I have talked to you about breaking the self-image, of reaching the site where there is no compassion, and reaching the silent knowledge; and state moods that give them sobriety. The intent handling is somewhat more veiled, is the stalking art, is impeccability...

—Of course we have a dark side —said—. We kill on a whim, don't we? We burn people in God's name. We destroy ourselves; we annihilate live on this planet; we destroy Earth. And then we put on religious clothes and the Lord speaks to us directly. And what does the Lord tell us? He tells us that if we do not behave well he will punish us. The Lord has threatened us for centuries and things do not change. And not because there is evil, but because we are stupid. The man does have a dark side, called stupidity...

After a brief pause, don Juan explained that in the same way that a ritual requires common man to build huge churches as monuments to the personal importance, also requires witches to construct morbidity and obsession buildings. All naguales task, therefore is to guide conscience so it flies toward the abstract, free of charges and mortgages.

—The ritual can catch our attention better than anything else —said—, but also requires a very high price. That price is morbidity; and morbidity could charge very high charges and mortgages to our being conscience..." C.C.	    

THE TICKET TO IMPECCABILITY

Don Juan tells Castaneda one of the power abstract centers most touching stories. Don Juan tells him how he left his nagual and fled in search of a misunderstood freedom.

On this journey to the North, Don Juan tells how he fell in love of a woman and her children, losing in less than a year all he had learned at the home of his nagual. He had to learn that a witch cannot hook to ordinary people, because the price is very high. Don Juan had to pay with his life having lost the opportunity to go to the immeasurable. He had to die so that the spirit would give him "a new ticket", another chance. The ticket to go to impeccability.

In the end, Don Juan insists that everything is based on the lace point shifting and this requires all energy saved and then rechanneled through impeccability. This seems very simple and yet it is very difficult to achieve.

The common man and the warrior problem is themselves; the problem is reduced to the energy use and saving. Don Juan says that modern man senses his internal resources, but does not dare using them; his evil comes from the counterpoint between his stupidity and ignorance.

Don Juan says that now, more than ever, men needs to learn new ideas that have to do with his inner world, ideas relating to the human facing the unknown, in front of his personal death. Don Juan said that, as never, humans now need to know what is the impeccability and the lace point secrets.

"—Impeccability, as I told you so many times, is not morality —told me—. It only seems to be morality. Impeccability simply is, the best use of our energy level. Naturally requires frugality, anticipation, simplicity, innocence and, above all things, requires the absence of the self-image. All this seems similar to the monastic life manual, but is not monastic life.

The witches say that in order to have control over the lace point movement, energy is needed. And the only thing that accumulates energy is our impeccability...