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face it all. A warrior knows the worst that can happen is death, and since this is our inexorable fate, as there are no "survivors" in earth, then he is free of fears.

Only when they lose everything, humans no longer have anything to fear nor lose; when this happens shackles are released and the person is free.

Don Juan said that during his lifetime, during alignment humans only use ten per cent of emanations, and the balance remain asleep. If people took advantage of their potential, their lives would have another dimension.

What happens at death, is that the cocoon collapses, and all internal emanations align with the external, and here is the warriors question in this regard: If when we die we do with all the emanations, why not seek to align them all, while alive?

In this part of the work, Don Juan again mentions Castaneda an individual that changed destiny and the Don Juan lineage path. We refer to the "tenant" which went looking for nagual Sebastian in 1723, who was the Cathedral sacristan and who was asked for energy in exchange for knowledge, since the tenant belonged to the initial seers.

This part is very obscure and it is still not very clear, upon the nagual Castaneda "death" and since he was not a four-pointed nagual, who has continued providing energy to the tenant?

"Don Juan commented on how easy it was to find faults in everything the ancient seers did, and yet, never ceased repeating the marvelous accomplishments they had. Not only discovered and used the lift from Earth, but also discovered that if they remained buried, their lace points aligned emanations that were normally inaccessible, and that such alignment used Earth’s strange and inexplicable capability to divert the rolling force relentless blows. As a result, developed the most amazing and complex techniques, to bury for extremely long periods, without any damage. In their struggle against death, they learned how to extend those periods to cover thousands of years...

—You say that they are alive, don Juan —I said—. You must mean that they are alive as the allies are alive, is it not so?

—It is so, —he said—. It is not possible that they are alive as you and me are. That would be ridiculous.

He continued explaining that ancient seers concerns over death made them investigate the most bizarre possibilities. Without a doubt, those who opted for the allies mold had in mind a shelter desire. And they found it, a fixed position in one of the seven inorganic consciousness bands. Seers thought that there were relatively safe. After all, they were separated from the everyday world by an almost insurmountable barrier, the perception barrier set by the lace point...

—You have to admit, despite your dislike, these demons were very bold -continued-. As you know, I never liked them either, but I cannot stop admiring them. Their love of life is beyond my understanding...

He thought they were afraid of dying, which is not the same as loving life. I say that they did not want to die because they loved life and because they had seen wonders, and not because they were greedy monsters. No. They were lost because nobody ever challenged them, they were capricious as mischievous children, but their audacity was impeccable and so was their courage..." C.C.