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 "—To move to the assemblage point —don Juan said—, is the culmination of what the warrior seeks. From then on is another search; properly said, it is the search of the seer.

He repeated that in the warrior path, moving the assemblage point is everything...

He said that warriors are different because they move their assemblage points enough to realize the tremendous price paid for their lives. This move gives them respect and awe that their parents never felt for life in general, or for being alive in particular...." C.C.

THE EARTH’S BOOST

According to the Anahuac ancient Toltec tradition, the earth is a living being. Even today's indigenous people and peasants still have in their offering and gratefulness practices and rituals to Earth. This is different to the western concept that earth is an object that must be possessed, dominated, modified, transformed, and exploited.

Peoples heir of the profound Mexico, the one talked about by Bonfil Batalla, syncretically keeps, sometimes clearly, the memory that Earth is a living being, that is loved, cared for and grateful. Tlaltecuhtli represented the earth deity and was a key figure in the Anahuac religion and cosmogony.

From antiquity the Toltec, when "seeing", understood that the earth was a living being, constituted, just as human beings, by the Eagle's emanations. Earth also has a luminous cocoon; it is a huge conscious being subject to the same forces as human beings.

In the book Journey to Ixtlán, don Juan says in the warrior path there can be no loneliness or sadness, because they do not exist when the warrior learns to love the earth. The way of entering emanations with earth is inner silence and earth can give us what don Juan called "a boost" to align other great bands of emanations. "The magic key that opens the earth's doors is made of inner silence and anything that shines...

''He explained that what he called the key to everything was the direct knowledge that the earth is a conscious being, and as such can give the warriors a tremendous boost; that boost comes from the earth's awareness, at the instant when the warrior's emanations inside his cocoon align with the emanations inside the earth's cocoon. Because both the earth and men are conscious beings, they share emanations; or rather, the earth contains all emanations men has, or for that matter, all emanations present in all living beings, organic and inorganic. When a moment of alignment takes place, living beings use this alignment in a limited way, and perceive their world. Like all others, warriors can use alignment either to perceive, or as a boost that allows them to enter unimaginable worlds...''

''—A nagual never lets anybody know he is in control —told me—. A nagual comes and goes without a trace. This freedom is what makes him a nagual...''

the assemblage point position is everything, and the world we perceive, whatever it is, is so real that it leaves no room for anything, except for that reality..." C.C.  

THE ROLLING FORCE

When Castaneda had his first brief encounter with the Eagle emanations, he saw "balls" beating him; these were "the tumbling or rolling force".