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This book contains 13 chapters on 280 pages, and is intended to penetrate into the art of dreaming, and as noted by Castaneda, he and the warriors understand that trying to talk or write about the dream is unreasonable, given that making rational statements about something so abstract is absurd because it is impossible.

The complete Castaneda works is intended to describe the multiple possibilities of human perception of the surrounding universe. The Toltecáyotl or Don Juan teachings, is the attempt to "embody" some specific, theoretical and practical premises from the possibility of perceiving the world without obsessions, and others, such as energy charges, as real and valid, as those we all perceive.

The Toltecáyotl developed a number of techniques to penetrate these various energy worlds. For this, have to rearrange the energy perception capacity, and this was called "the dreaming art", which is the entrance to the human possibilities "infinity" and the immeasurable universe.

Here Castaneda said something important to understand the effort the new lineage of modern naguales are making, represented by Castaneda and the three female warriors, he claims that Don Juan said he was convinced that humanity needs -to survive this chaotic phase- changing the social perception base. Which somehow be understood, why should this ancient Mexico millenary knowledge be made public.

The perception of the world we all currently have is a social perception, because, ultimately, everything around us is composed of molecules and these, in turn, are composed of atoms; and atoms are energy loads. So the "essence" of everything that surrounds us is energy.

However, since birth we were taught to perceive energy as objects; this is what Don Juan called "the first attention" (or the first power ring); the majority of human beings live and die with only this way of perceiving the world. But the Toltecáyotl -or the so-called Don Juan teachings-, which is a millenary practice and a fraction of the inheritance of a totally unknown and ignored cultural heritage, enables us to perceive the essence of things; or in other words, it allows us, through a very disciplined rigorous technique, "see" the universe essence.

This means perceiving energy directly. Ancient practitioners of this knowledge describe the universe essence as incandescent threads expanding in all directions: small bright filaments that possess self-consciousness.

Immediately after that the ancient practitioners "saw" the universe essence, also saw the human being and found that he was made up of an energy whitish and luminous charge load, luminous egg-shaped. Also "saw" that the luminous egg was larger than the physical body and that it contained the same filaments constituting the universe, but had a brighter part at the height of the right scapula, on the energy body. And saw that in this place the internal and external filaments aligned, and this produced perception. This place was called "lace point" and also could "see" that when the lace point moved, it allowed other perceptions.