Chapter 5: The Requirements of Intent (The Ticket to Impeccability) Summary and Analysis

Man warriors find themselves stuck between being average men and sorcerers, although they all know that they are moving in the sorcerer direction. But the mirror of self-reflection holds them back. To abandon the mirror of self-reflection, the sorcerer must become impeccable. Don Juan tells Carlos the story of how he came to impeccability, through his own death.

We return to the time in Durango where don Juan is dressed in women's clothes. He ends up at a hacienda where the monstrous man cannot find him. The hacienda housed seven beautiful women who care for don Juan for the next several days waiting for Belisario to return, but he does not. Don Juan, fearing the monstrous man, asks to stay, and the women agree so...