"When I asked him once what was the essential character of the seers of the new cycle, he said that they are the warriors of total freedom, that they are such masters of awareness, stalking, and intent that they are not caught by death, like the rest of mortal men, but choose the moment and the way of their departure from this world. At that moment they are consumed by a fire from within and vanish from the face of the earth, free, as if they had never existed." Narrator, Foreword, p. xiii

"Seeing is a peculiar feeling of knowing, of knowing something without a shadow of doubt. In this case, I know what those men did, not only because of my seeing, but because we are so closely bound together." Don Juan, Chapter 1: The New Seers, p. 4

"Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it- what weakens...