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Chapter Eleven This chapter is enormously important for those who have been plagued by “alien interference”. I realize that I am repeating some things, but that is only because they are so important that they bear reading more than once. Let’s go back for a moment to what don Juan Matus told Carlos Castaneda about the Predator and Carlos’s first glimpses of same: “Ah, that’s the universe at large”, he said, “incommensurable, nonlinear, outside the realm of syntax. The sorcerers of ancient Mexico were the first ones to see those fleeting shadows, so they followed them around. They saw them as you’re seeing them, and they saw them as energy that flows in the universe. And they did discover something transcendental. [...] They discovered that we have a companion for life... We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings are its prisoners. The predator is our lord and master. It has rendered us docile, helpless. If we want to protest, it suppresses our protest. If we want to act independently, it demands that we don’t do so. [...] You have arrived, by your effort alone, to what the shamans of ancient Mexico called the topic of topics. I have been beating around the bush all this time, insinuating to you that something is holding us prisoner. Indeed we are held prisoner! This was an energetic fact for the sorcerers of ancient Mexico. “Why has this predator taken over in the fashion that you’re describing, don Juan?” I asked. “There must be a logical explanation.” “There is an explanation”, don Juan replied, “which is the simplest explanation in the world. They took over because we are food for them, and they squeeze us mercilessly because we are their sustenance. Just as we rear chickens in chicken coops, the predators rear us in human coops. Therefore, their food is always available to them”. I felt that my head was shaking violently from side to side. I could not express my profound sense of unease and discontentment, but my body moved to bring it to the surface. I shook from head to toe without any w-- Vato 2 ce ek “No, no, no, no”, I heard myself saying. “this is absurd, don Juan. What your saying is something monstrous. It simply can’t be true, for sorcerers or for average men, or for anyone”. volition on my part. “Why not?” don Juan asked calmly. “Why not? Because it infuriates you?” “Yes, it infuriates me”, I retorted. “Those claims are monstrous!” [...]