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“Discipline taxes the foreign mind no end. So, through their discipline, sorcerers vanquish the foreign installation. The flyers’ mind flees forever when a sorcerer succeeds in grabbing on to the vibrating force that holds us together as a conglomerate of energy fields. If a sorcerer maintains that pressure long enough, the flyers’ mind flees in defeat. “When one is torn by internal struggle, it is because down in the depths one knows that one is incapable of refusing the agreement that an indispensable part of the self, the glowing coat of awareness, is going to serve as an incomprehensible source of nourishment to incomprehensible entities. And, another part of one will stand against this situation with all its might. “The sorcerers’ revolution is that they refuse to honor agreements in which they did not participate. Nobody ever asked me if I would consent to be eaten by beings of a different kind of awareness. My parents just brought me into this world to be food, like themselves, and that’s the end of the story.” At home, as time went by, the idea of the flyers became one of the main fixations of my life. I got to the point where | felt that don Juan was absolutely right about them. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t discard his logic. the more I thought about it, » and the more I talked to and observed wo a ea re a. a myself and my fellow men, the more intense the conviction that something was rendering us incapable of any activity or any interaction or any thought that didn’t have the self as its focal point. [...] The end result of my internal struggle was a sense of foreboding, the sense of something imminently I made extensive anthropological inquiries into the subject of the flyers in other cultures, but I couldn’t find any references to them anywhere. Apparently Carlos didn’t read Eliade’s Shamanism. or Vallee’s Passport to Magonia. These works are full of the historical and ancient references to these beings that don Juan calls “flyers”. “TT he flyers’ mind has not left you. It has been seriously injured. It’s trying its best to rearrange its relationship with you. But something in you is severed forever. The flyer knows that. The real danger is that the flyers’ mind may win by getting you tired and forcing you to quit by playing the contradictions between what it says and what I say. “You see, the flyers’ mind has no competitors. When it proposes something, it agrees with its own proposition, and it makes you believe that you've done something of worth. The flyers’ mind will say to you that whatever I am telling you is pure nonsense, and then the same mind will agree with its own proposition. That’s the way they overcome us. 317 High Strangeness — Part Three Castaneda writes: dangerous coming at me. Don Juan tells Carlos: