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 In the book A separate reality reflects what could be the reason why a westernized man would hardly have access to the world other reality. Don Juan tells Castaneda that his problem is to think and talk too much, and that he should stop talking to himself. In fact, the world of reason is maintained with our internal conversation. With our internal self-conversation, we renew once and again our idea of the world until the day we die. A warrior realizes that he must fight to stop his internal "talk", and at that point the world will change and the warrior must be prepared to endure such monumental shock. If we stop telling ourselves that the world is as "is", the world will stop being as we say it is. However, we must be ready to withstand a big blow, which should begin by "slowly shedding the world". Of the world, Don Juan says that it is an absolute mystery and that there is no way to untangle all its secrets. The Castaneda encounters with "Humito" become more frequent towards the end of his second learning stage. Each new experience brings him closer to the phenomenon of "seeing". His field experiences have seriously endangered his conception of the world reality. Now he should return to his home; the events lived with the forces of the world have left his opening wide open, it must heal and close before deciding whether he will return to the warrior path.