The shaman seers of ancient times, through their "seeing," first noticed that any unusual behavior produced a tremor in the assemblage point. They so… - Carlos Castañeda

"Now you will understand everything I am going to say to you," don Juan said to me, looking into my eyes as he had done in

"Our way of perceiving is a predator's way," he said to me on one occasion.

"A very
efficient manner of appraising and classifying food and danger. But this is not the only
way we are able to perceive. There is another mode, the one I am familiarizing you with:
the act of perceiving the essence of everything, energy itself, directly.

"To perceive the essence of everything will make us understand, classify and describe
the world in entirely new, more exciting, more sophisticated terms." This was don Juan's claim. And the more sophisticated terms to which he was alluding were those he had been taught by his predecessors, terms that correspond to sorcery truths, which have no rational foundation and no relation whatsoever to the facts of our daily world but which are self-evident truths for the sorcerers who perceive energy directly and see the essence of everything.

For such sorcerers, the most significant act of sorcery is to see the essence of the
universe."

В мире, где за каждым охотится смерть, не может быть маленьких или больших решений. Здесь есть лишь решения, которые мы принимаем перед лицом своей неминуемой смерти.