A Separate Reality - Epilogue.

A Separate Reality. ©1972 by Carlos Castaneda.

Epilogue.

Don Juan slowly walked around me. He seemed to be deliberating whether or not to say something to me. Twice he stopped and seemed to change his mind.

"Whether or not you return is thoroughly unimportant," he finally said. "However, you now have the need to live like a warrior. You have always known that. Now you are simply in the position of having to make use of something you disregarded before.

But you had to struggle for this knowledge. It was not just given to you. It was not just handed down to you. You had to beat it out of yourself. Yet you are still a luminous being. You are still going to die like everyone else. I once told you that there is nothing to change in a luminous egg."

He was quiet for a moment. I knew he was looking at me, but I avoided his eyes.

"Nothing has really changed in you," he said.