There's many, many meditation techniques that shut off the internal dialog, but that is not enough, that's one thing I would like to say that just to have it quiet inside is fine, but what happens when you go back to work and you're surrounded by people and an angry boss or at home and your children and people are yelling at you? You want to be able to have silence and equanimity and resolve in any situation, so we were always sent back into work situations, into school, academic situations, where we would practice quieting the internal dialog.
A warrior has no self-reflection. S/he can maintain total silence. The "Ethereal man" is a warrior in true silence. In a moment of silence, can reconstruct the world. Our internal dialogue is banality, has nothing to do with life and death. With discipline the warrior is prepared to meet that immensity. "The mind cannot resist persistence." In normal life the fantasy of self-importance helps us fight off the immensity.
It took Don Juan many years to help Carlos bring his energy body in to the point that it was superimposed upon the physical body. Carlos said that who in his lineage would have believed that just in a period of weeks so many people's energy bodies could have returned. He said that the combination of doing the Tensegrity and having his energy body talking directly to our energy bodies caused the reunion. He said that sorcerers teach their students by bypassing the rational mind and talking directly to the energy body. When the energy body unites with the physical body then half the battle is over. Carlos told us that we had become the germination of his lineage. He said that his task was to explode the knowledge of his lineage and it was happening.
Don Juan can pinpoint things. He has the ability to exhaustively laugh at things, and kick one subject until its death. What he lacks is the tragedy of a Western man. By that I mean that most of us are tragic figures, sublime beings grovelling in the mud. Don Juan is not. He's a sublime heing, he told me himself.
All of them were incredible. Friendly, down to earth, hilariously funny, and at the same time absolutely ruthless and chillingly detached. Florinda spent a lot of time talking about how we (especially the men) are all just a bunch of poor babies who constantly make excuses, see ourselves as victims, and want to be tended to by our mommies/wives.
Depending on how much you give yourself to intent is how much you will get back. Give yourself totally, it will take care of you totally without doing. This is the end of the whole lineage. We have to do it ourselves. Our only guide is the energy body. I intend that your assemblage point move, the books intend it. Just allow it.
How we present ourselves in the world, how we fit into the social structure. The recapitulation lets you think about all this, how you fit in, it is a looking glass of how others see you in your hopes and fears. All this takes energy. The warrior looks instead at what he or she is doing the face of death and what conduct, what intensity is really appropriate in that light.