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 As a result, "seeing" is the result of an alignment different from normal and is nothing more than shifting the lace point; therefore the "seeing" act is not with the eyes, and implies the wonder of knowing the essence of things. In other words, perceive the world around us as energy charges.

Humans consciousness of being develops gradually; at birth, inner luminosity is not fixed to the outside, develops through everyday life. This practice is what Don Juan called "The first power ring". The Eagle command fixes external luminosity with the internal, and does it "naturally" through the will, when the warrior, in a personal way, moves his lace point; this “directed" will is called "intent". In this part of Castaneda book talks about sex as an energetic process, the nagual Julian said that sex, was an energy issue, because the Eagle command is being consciousness brilliance transmitted through sexual intercourse. During sexual intercourse the Eagle emanations are contained in the two conscious cocoons (man and woman), suffering a deep agitation and both cocoons do their best to provide consciousness to the new being they are going to create; each sexual act involves a donation our conscience and our energy, although this does not necessarily create another being. Don Juan advised Castaneda be stingy with his sexuality, not moralistically but to save energy, which is one of the warrior primary tasks. This knowledge forces the apprentice to be responsible of his energy.

THE FIRST ATTENTION

"The being consciousness", is a maturation or development that goes from the animal and instinctive to more elaborate forms; This is done through each individual existential growth. The being consciousness development produced, that Don Juan called "attention", is the single most important individual achievement and gets to cover a very large array of human possibilities.

Don Juan says that viewers classified three types of attention or three levels of performance, which resulted in three levels of energy purification. The first is rough animal consciousness, which because of existential processes of human experience, becomes a complex ability, intricate and extremely fragile, which is what creates the concepts and objects everyday world, and everything we are and do as ordinary men.

Second attention has to do with the unknown and is a cocoon glow, much more intense, and covers a larger area, also known as "the left side conscience".

The third attention is the supreme seer achievement and is achieved when the consciousness luminosity is transformed into internal fire; this internal fire is the product igniting all the Eagle emanations that are inside the human being cocoon.

All persons, at the end of life, reach the third attention, because death ignites all Eagle emanations and frees them from the cocoon to return them to totality. But the seers, through the ancient and complex