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 or destroying it. To make the tonal "flexible and tolerant" we must free it from all the "energy trash " that we have been collecting for life and we have been saving in the island, up to the rim and thus we consume all the energy we have.

A warrior understands that he has very little time on Earth and that he can die any time; therefore he knows he must clean his island through energy savings to be able to enter the other part of himself, the nagual.

The warrior above all seeks achieving totality; he knows there is only time for impeccability; all else exhausts his power, impeccability renews it permanently. Impeccability comprises making everything we do the best way possible; in other words, the constant and systematic energy saving, constant saving that accumulates and lies the "personal power".

"You should worry about the nagual only in certain moments —he said—. The rest of the time, you and I are like any other people in this world...

—I have never forbid you to talk —he said—. We can talk about the nagual all you wish, provided you do not try to explain it. If you remember correctly, I said that the nagual is only to be witnessed. So we can talk about what we witnessed and how we witnessed. But you want to deal with the explanation of how is all that possible, and that is an abomination. You want to explain the nagual with the tonal. This is stupid, especially in your case, because you can no longer hide you in your ignorance. You know very well that we make sense talking only because we stay within certain boundaries, and these borders do not apply to the nagual...

The aim of a witch is to endure; in other words, he does not run unnecessary risks, that is why spend years sweeping his island as long as he can until, sort of, he escapes from it...

—An immortal being has all the time in the world for doubts, uncertainty and fears. A warrior, instead, cannot cling to significance made under the tonal orders, the warrior knows with certainty that totality of himself only has a little time on this earth

—A warrior cannot feel helpless —he said—. Confused nor frightened under any circumstances. For a warrior, there is only time for his impeccability; everything else exhausts his power, impeccability renews it...

—Impeccability is doing the best you can in what you do...

The key to all these impeccability issues is the sense of having or not having time. As a general rule, when you feel and act as an immortal being who has all the time in the world, you are not impeccable; at the time you should look around and then you will realize that your sense of time is an idiocy. "There are no survivors on this earth!..." C.C.

THE WINGS OF PERCEPTION

Don Juan said that, apart from discipline, what could help the knowledge path is sensitivity. Generally in the tonal and reason world there are sudden "flashes" of another kind of reality perception; as Don Juan would say: "nagual whispers". To let the nagual whispers guide we must stop our internal dialogue and open the perception wings.

"If you saw what is in my house, you would realize that I know too much to be a common man, but if I saw me with the nagual, you would realize I do not know enough... 

—There is no future! —he exclaimed—, sharply. The future is nothing but a manner of speaking. For a witch there is only here and now..." Don Juan.