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function; but not the 'heading control'. Formed in four pairs constituted a rattlesnake, key animal in the Toltec culture."

Professor Laurette Séjourné in her book Thought and Religion describes on page 169: "other metaphors all point to the same freedom longing. The fire serpent is individual with ardent wishes to transcend his terrestrial condition."

"Explained to me that, given we were divided into pairs, we were a living organism. We were a snake, a rattlesnake. The snake had four sections and was divided into two longitudinal, male and female halves. She said that her and I were the first snake section: the head. It was a cold head, calculating, poisonous. The second section, formed by Nestor and Lidia, was the strong and beautiful heart of the serpent. The third was the belly: stealth, capricious, distrustful, formed by Pablito and Josefina. And the fourth section, the tail, where the rattle was, formed by the real life couple that could rattle with their tzotzil tongue for hours, Benigno and Rosa...

She said that a warrior knows that he is waiting for and also know what is waiting for him, and while waiting, delights his in the world. For him the maximum warrior feat was enjoying... C.C."

AN HORDE OF ANGRY WITCHES

The warrior medicine, before the many mixed feelings within which the common man operates, is the sobriety sense that gives a very personal style. His sign is unchangeable. If a warrior finds obstacles in his path, tries to overcome them impeccably. If while doing it finds pain and unbearable hardship, then he cries, aware that all his tears combined will not change his situation.

"I told them that I had reached the fair conclusion that, as a warrior, don Juan had changed the my life course for the better. I had considered over and over again what he had done with me and the conclusion was always the same: don Juan brought me freedom. Freedom was all I knew, and that was all I offered to anyone who got close to me..." C.C.

SECOND PART

THE REVERIE ART

LOSING THE HUMAN FORM

It is interesting to read in this book the Castaneda honest confession, that after many years of being a Don Juan disciple and observing his techniques and procedures, manages to lose the human form. He confesses that he experienced a decline in his personal links with the world, but only intellectually; in the everyday world he continued as usual, until many years later he lost the human form.

Losing the human form is not taking a superficial indifference attitude or negligence or alienation or loneliness. It is rather a feeling of remoteness, a special ability to live everything intensively but without having thoughts and expectations. The persons actions no longer have value because there are no expectations. Castaneda said that force that governed his life was a strange peace. He had come to the detachment that Don Juan repeatedly recommended.

For a warrior without human form there is no place for jealousy, sadness, envy, anger, love or human passions; these prevent us from being free. Not