...that was the way human beings are; they love to be told what to do, but they love even more to fight and not do what they are told, and thus they … - Carlos Castañeda

The only thing that could be done was to follow the quotations, and let them create a sketch of the skeletal form of the thoughts and feelings that the shamans of ancient Mexico had about life, death, the universe, energy. They are reflections of how those shamans understood not only the universe, but the processes of living and coexisting in our world. And more important yet, they point out the possibility of handling two systems of cognition at once without any detriment to the self. (Introduction)

We unwittingly focus on fear and distrust, as if those were the only possible options available to us, while all along we have the alternative of deliberately centering our attention on the opposite, the mystery, the wonder of what is happening to us.

Until the energy body is complete and mature, it is self-absorbed. It can't get free from the compulsion to be absorbed by everything.