Chapter 4, The Struggle for Power Summary

The next day, while Wil and the narrator are traveling, the narrator is sore and tired and ready to complain. Wil asks the narrator if he remembers being told that each insight comes to every person when they are ready. Wil says he wants to go to a village called Cula, but that he wants the narrator to be alert to coincidences that may alert him that he is ready to learn another insight. The narrator agrees and, moments later, sees a man parked on the side of the road who reminds him of someone he once worked with. When he tells Wil this, Wil turns the jeep around and decides they must talk to this man.

The man, Chris Reneau, is a French psychology professor teaching in Brazil. Reneau's truck has broken down and...