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 nourishment. That agreement which becomes a safe and protective jail cell. After the jump to the "dark consciousness sea", Castaneda has ceased to belong to "our world". He will be a ghost among us. Or perhaps, more accurately, Castaneda becomes "a real man", as the Toltecs said and ceases to be a ghost. Castaneda knows he is really alone.

''"Yes, I had jumped into the abyss, I said to myself, and did not die because before reaching the bottom of the cliff, I allowed the dark consciousness sea swallow me. I delivered myself fearlessly and without remorse. And this dark sea provided me with what I needed to not die and end up in my Los Angeles bed..." C.C.  ''