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 material objects, such as the Tula Atlantes, and that everything on which men or witches set their obsessive concern had a harmful potential. In this sense, Don Juan recommended warriors not to focus their power on anything material, but in the spirit. The warrior must rid himself of these "miserable passions", remove these fixings, in order to be light and fluid. ''"I lived in the city of Tula". I know these pyramids like the palm of my hand.'' The nagual told me that he also lived there. He knew everything about the pyramids. He was ''Toltec himself... ''

He told me that some of the pyramids were huge non-doings. These were not accommodation places, but places for warriors to reverie and practice their second attention. All they did was recorded with drawings and figures carved in the walls...

What channels our total being energy of our being, to produce anything that can be found within the possibly boundaries, is known as will. Don Juan could not say what were limits, except that at the level of luminous beings our scope is so wide that it is useless trying to establish limits: so that the luminous being energy can turn into anything through the will...

He had reached this conclusion on the following premises: First, that we are not only what our common sense demands that we believe to be. In fact we are luminous beings, capable of becoming conscious of our luminosity. Second, that as luminous beings conscious of our luminosity can focus different facets of our consciousness, or of our attention, as don Juan called it. Third, that such an approach could be produced through a deliberate effort, as we were trying to do, or accidentally, through a bodily trauma. Fourth, that there had been an era in which witches deliberately focused different facets of their attention on material objects. Fifth, the atlantes, judging from their spectacular appearance, should have been fixity objects of another time witches..." C. C.

SEEING TOGETHER

“The fat lady” and Castaneda start "working" together to remember the left side teachings, for which they must discard everything, since a warrior cannot hold onto things, feelings or thoughts. They mention sex as a concern that interferes with learning.

To appease Castaneda, the “fat lady” massages his calves, practice taught by Don Juan. In this regard on page 186 of Human Body and Ideology written by Alfredo López Austin, it is noted: "It is very likely that both ideas were associated, and believed to when a witch seized some sort of force located in the calf of the victim, stole energy and hurt the enemy by depriving them of an essential element of his human condition. In current tales it is commonly said that if someone destroys the mometzcopinique female magicians calves during a supernatural trip, bad women die." Many of the practices that Castaneda describe in his works are implicit or explicit in traditions, uses and customs of many indigenous and peasant peoples of today’s Mexico.

—"You have to abandon your desire to cling —suggested—. The same happened to me. I held onto things, for example food that I liked, the mountains where he lived, people that enjoyed talking to. But overall I held to the hope they loved me...C.C.

If that is called seeing, my intellect logical conclusion would be that seeing is a corporal knowledge...C.C.