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 Castaneda notes that Don Juan said: "If you think you owe me something and you cannot pay me, pay to the men spirit" (La Jornada, 29-1-96). Is that what these modern naguales and warriors are doing?

Be it as it may, there are nine Castaneda books and two of Abelar and Donner. There is the millennial knowledge —secretly maintained for a long time— now exposed to the public for those who have a little energy available, for those who attempt to perceive reality, under other premises, for those who have a flexible mind and un-colonialized, for travelers who are willing to pay a very high ticket in the freedom bird.

These texts are not anthropology, literature, or science fiction. In any case are "a separate reality". The beginning of a new knowledge lineage, now transmitted in writing, but that has a lot to do with the past of the millenarian civilization of indigenous peoples, which in these last five centuries of denial, genocide and injustice, have managed to keep their knowledge as impeccable warriors, and now is revealed as "the spiritual Mexico reserve".

Don Juan advised Castaneda not to write his books as a writer but as a witch, through the complex and sophisticated reverie art.

In the same way, Castaneda books should be read as power objects and the readers must humbly assume themselves as modern witchcraft apprentices.

A very important point is that Don Juan "was convinced that human beings to survive this tragic times, should change the social basis of perception". This can be translated as a "culture and human values" global change, which can be through a critical reflection process in which the holder of the economic, political and technological power, by common accord changed this "social perception".

But the most logical change is that it happened by a "global collapse". Indeed, that in one blow, discarded the folly of an economic-consumer system that is deranging human beings and preying nature to the edge of life extinction on the planet. If this “global tsunami of world and life perception” was to occur, the people and the towns who have a strong culture based on ancient wisdom foundations, will adapt to these violent changes.

Don Juan mentions that when the Spaniards arrived in the Anahuac, the "time tonal" changed and that many indigenous peoples died from sadness to see their world perception collapse. A collapse like this, of which there have been many in human history, or a change caused by Earth climatic conditions, that have also occurred, can bring about a change in social perception.

"Don Juan argued that we use most of our strength in maintaining our importance, and that our most pernicious wear is the compulsive presentation and defense of our self; the concern about not being admired, loved or accepted. He argued that if it were possible for us to lose some of this importance, two extraordinary things would occur. One, we would free our energy from having to promote and sustain the illusory idea of our greatness; and two, we would gather enough energy to enter the second attention and glimpse the true universe grandeur...

''—The freedom search is the only force that I know. Freedom to fly in that infinity. Freedom to dissolve, soar, as a candle flame, that even in the face''