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I wanted to know how it was possible that a topic of such importance goes unnoticed in the
life of the immense majority of people.
He answered that the movement of the assemblage point is something as natural, and at the
same time as sophisticated, as speaking or thinking. If we are not taught how to do it, we
never do it.
He assured me that the key to either reaching or losing the extraordinary achievements of
sorcery resides in consensus, in the agreements we make.
"To verify facts, one first has to agree on their meaning. Unfortunately, for most people to
agree means to be rigid, and not depart from the official description. We must have a strong
will to learn, if we are to dare exploring other areas of consent.
"Sorcerers have found that there are two ways of agreeing. The first one is the collective
consensus; it starts from reason and it can take you very far, but it will inevitably throw you
into a paradox in the end. The other is the consensus induced by a movement of the
assemblage point, and it can only be corroborated by those that share similar circumstances.
"A consensus based on individual experience has an advantage over one based on
explanations, because the life of the senses is complete in itself; reason, on the other hand,
only works by means of comparisons, positive and negative, certain or false, and so on.
"The first effect of penetrating the consensus of sorcerers is that those dualities we have
always accepted as something self-evident stop being operative, which in the beginning is
extremely disconcerting for the reason. In time, sorcerers learn that in a world where there are
no solid objects, but rather beings who flow
among various states of awareness, it doesn't make sense to try to separate truth from lies.
"Don Juan said that the truth is like the cornerstone of a building, a sensible man should not
try to remove it! When we surrender to definitions, our energy becomes stagnated, or blocked.
The tendency to do that is an imposition of the foreign mind, and we have to put an end to it.
To substitute the reason-based consensus with experience was what Don Juan called 'to
believe without believing'. For sorcerers, this completely redefines the concept of
corroboration.
"They don't look for definitions, but for results. If a practice is able to elevate our level of
awareness, what does it matter how we explain it to ourselves! The means by which we will
start acting to save and increase our energy are not important, because once we are in
possession of our totality, we enter a new field of attention where we don't care about
concepts anymore, and things demonstrate themselves.
"Perhaps you think these statements just give permission to be irresponsible. But a warrior
understands the real message: 'Reality' is a 'doing', and a doing is measured by its fruits.
"Anyone who judges a sorcerer from an everyday point of view, will judge him to be an
irremediable liar, because the universes of both don't coincide. And if the sorcerer tries to
explain inexplicable things with borrowed words, he will inevitably become entangled in
contradictions and be seen as a humbug or a lunatic. That's why I have said that from the
point of view of the everyday world, the world of the nagual is a fraud.
"In fact, this goes for all 'isms', nagualism is not an exception. But as opposed to the defenders
of reason, who seek followers for their particular kind of agreement, a sorcerer won't tell you
that his vision of the world is the real one; he tells you: 'I believe because I want to, and you
can do it, too'. This expression of will is something very powerful, and will provoke, as an
avalanche, events of power.
"If you pay close attention, you will notice that children don't just
'innocently' believe in the magic of the world; they believe because they are complete and
they see! And the same thing happens with sorcerers. The fabulous stories I have told you
don't belong to the plane of reality in which you and I are having this conversation, but they
happened!
"Nagualism is like somebody who inherited a story and a treasure map, but doesn't believe in
it, so he comes to you and gives his secret to you. And you are so clever, or so naive, that you
take the story as truth and dedicate yourself to deciphering the map. But the map is coded
with various keys, which makes you learn several languages, go to difficult places, dig in the
ground, climb mountains, descend into ravines, and dive in deep waters.
"In the end, after years of searching, you arrive at the place where the treasure should be, and
- oh how disappointing! - you just find a mirror. Was it a lie? Well, you are healthy, strong,
well educated, full of adventures, and you've had a great experience. Truly, there was a
treasure there!
"Keeping in mind that there are neither truths nor lies in the flow of energy, a warrior chooses
to believe by predilection, for the excitement of the adventure, and in this way he learns to
focus on the world from another point of view - the focus of silence. It is only then that the
immense treasure of the teachings is revealed."
A New Stage Of Knowledge
When the presentation of his new book ended, we left and walked along Insurgentes Avenue.
It was night, a little cold, and surprisingly clear. The air smelled clean.
While we walked, Carlos commented that what he didn't like about that kind of activity was
meeting so many sycophants, and the fact that they forced him to toast with champagne. His
technique was to keep one full glass during the whole event, without having even one sip; that
way, they stopped inviting him.
He added that his literary career began with a challenge. One time, Don Juan put forward the
proposal that in order to utilize the heaps of notes he had taken during his apprenticeship, he
should write a book. "In the beginning I considered it a joke, since I was not a writer.
However, Don Juan outlined it to me as a sorcery exercise."
Once he had started, he began to take pleasure in the work, and ended up understanding that,
for him, books were an avenue to his real mission as a nagual.
I asked him if he didn't fear that divulging the knowledge to all kinds of people would end up
corrupting it.
"No!" he answered. "What degenerates knowledge is secrecy. Putting it within reach of
people renews it. Nothing is more healthy for energy than fluency, and that concerns the
knowledge of sorcerers most of all. We are temporary recipients of power, we are not entitled
to retain it. Also, this knowledge only makes sense for those who practice it and achieve the
necessary energy to corroborate it. The rest don't matter.
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