Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do. They don't want to do any work. They want to hang on your energy and try to drain it.

You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll lock you away in an institution.

The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack control. What can you teach someone who lacks control?

Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.

Close your eyes and simply "feel" the spot your finger is touching. Then, after a couple of minutes, let your hands down. Continue to hold your attention on the spot just as you did when your finger was there.

The burden you are carrying around is the burden of self. You seek release from that. You want to let it all go. You want to forget who you are and what you are. You wish to be the whole universe, infinite, endless.

Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went through that process.