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 which is the tonal island. When the apprentice achieves this point, the benefactor intervenes —another witch— to help the apprentice from the outside the bubble or tonal island. The teacher works with the tonal and the benefactor with the nagual. This delicate maneuver opens the perception bubble and allows the luminous being obtain a glimpse of his totality. When the bubble opens and men perceives his totality, will never again be the same and everything will be different.

"the teacher must teach the apprentice another possibility, yet more subtle: the possibility of acting without believing, without expecting reward; acting just for acting...

What an apprentice needs to shore up is sobriety and strength... The warrior considers death a more treatable counselor, who can also become the witness all we do, just as self-compassion or anger...

I meant that one can only reach oneself totality when one fully understands that the world is just a vision... Said that not wanting anything was the best achievement of a warrior..." C.C.

When the warrior becomes aware that he is a luminous being is when he realizes that he is an energy charge, but that he also has a weak "membrane" that separates him from all other energy, membrane that is composed of the tonal island and his vision of the world. But he also knows that he can open the membrane to join all the other energy with his own conscience and later, upon returning, being able to say that he "understood" the witches explanation.

"—He is losing personal importance —said—. That is why he looks younger...

In the life of a warrior there is only one thing, a single issue which in reality is not determined: how far can one go in the ''knowledge and power path... ''

Impeccability is really the only act which is free and, therefore, the true measure of a warrior spirit..." C.C.

THE PERCEPTION BUBBLE

The perception bubble is in the tonal and it is there where all our feelings are structured; location of our "unified organization" of the millions of atoms which have the will to shape our unity. When we are born the "cluster" is formed and disintegrates and returns to the place of origin when we die. What witches do when entering the nagual is very similar to death, except that the "cluster" does not disintegrate but expands without losing its union.

Witches through Toltequity, can enter the nagual from a point they call "the will", which allows them to expand their cluster and let it organize and reorganize in all possible ways, and return from the nagual to the tonal island (This is what Castaneda manages when he leaps from a mountain, and concluding his learning of the tonal side). That is the moment in which a warrior becomes a man of knowledge, given that he has achieved impeccability on the tonal island, and humbly seeks total freedom in the nagual.

"And your perception deployed its wings when something in you realized your true nature. You are a cluster."

"This is the witches explanation. The nagual is the unpronounceable. All the feelings and all beings, and all the one-self’s that are possible float in him forever, as boats, calm and constant. Then the glue of life glues some of them...

When life glue sticks to those feelings a being is created, a being that loses the sense of his true nature and blinds with the brightness and the clamor from the area where the beings are: