Don Juan slowly walked around me. He seemed to be deliberating whether or not to say something to me. Twice he stopped and seemed to change his mind.
"Whether or not you return is thoroughly unimportant," he finally said. "However, you now have the need to live like a warrior. You have always known that, now you're simply in the position of having to make use of something you disregarded before.
But you had to struggle for this knowledge; it wasn't just given to you; it wasn't just handed down to you. You had to beat it out of yourself. Yet you're still a luminous being. You're still going to die like everyone else. I once told you that there's nothing to change in a luminous egg."
He was quiet for a moment. I knew he was looking at me, but I avoided his eyes.
"Nothing has really changed in you," he said.
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In Carlos Castaneda's next book, "Journey To Ixtlan", Carlos retells the story of his apprenticeship from the beginning. At the time of writing it, Carlos was older and wiser- and realized that he was in grave error about the significance of the role of psychotropic plants.
Therefore, his third book, "Journey To Ixtlan", is a deeper and more enlightened retelling of his relationship with don Juan Matus.
The first 17 chapters of "Journey To Ixtlan" cover the same time period which his first two books had covered.
The last three chapters of "Journey To Ixtlan", [18, 19, and 20] pick up where this his second book, "A separate Reality", leaves off.
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