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 A warrior is always ready. Being a warrior is not the simple matter of just wanting to be one. It is more a never-ending struggle that will continue until the last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, just like no one is born being a reasonable being. We turn ourselves into one or the other... —A warrior dies fighting —don Juan said—-. His death must strive to take him. A warrior does not surrender not even to death." C.C.  THE SECRET OF LUMINOUS BEINGS

According to Don Juan, suspending the internal dialogue (stopping our ideas of how is the world and how we are) is the key of "witchcraft".

From our birth we have been told that the world is a series of ideas and that we, in turn, through a mammoth reasoning effort, have developed an idea ourselves, that is fed all the time, spending most of our energy. Human beings we are not "really" material (solids), we are composed of atoms, and atoms are energy charges! Thus, scientifically speaking, men and the world are composed of energy charges.

The first "witchcraft" of common men is turning the world of energy charges, into a world of solid objects and this is achieved through a great reason effort by a huge energy consumption. This great work is called "being reasonable" and takes about 20 years to achieve. When we are born we do not have control of the world of reason and, over time, with the help of our teachers, we achieve it.

This "first witchcraft" was called by the Toltec "the first power ring". However, human beings, in addition to energy charges are receivers and, at the same time, power generators, which is the truly transcendental. Therefore, human beings are luminous beings, bits of the Sun with another "ring of power" that we never use. The other ring has to do with what Don Juan called "will", and that second ring is used by Toltequity to reach "total freedom".

Don Juan always fooled Castaneda making him believe that the most important thing was the left side (nagual, the "other reality"), but the right side as important (tonal, ordinary world) as the left side of knowledge. They are both complementary and irreplaceable. Even the most impeccable nagual needs the tonal base in order to act.

One of the easier trap to fall, in the Toltequity knowledge, is to assume that the challenge lies in "strange worlds", in messianic concepts, in an esoteric world or forests or deserts. Nothing father from the truth.

Toltequity or "witchcraft" establishes the impeccability of our acts and feelings in the real world and everyday life. There cannot be real progress on the knowledge path if one does not have command of himself and the everyday world.

"—He touched my head and said that it was ''"the reason" and "speech" center." The tip of'' my sternum was the "feeling" center. The area below the navel was the "will". "Dreaming" was on the right side, ''against my ribs. "Seeing " in the left...'' -I say that we are all beings without beginning ''or end, endless and luminous... ''