Version 2006.05.15

## "The Power Of Silence" - ©1987 by Carlos Castaneda

### Foreword

My books are a true account of a teaching method that don Juan Matus, a Mexican Indian seer, used in order to help me understand the Total Freedom Warriors' world. In a sense, my books are the account of an on-going process which becomes more clear to me as time goes by.

It took years of training to teach you and I to deal intelligently with the world of everyday life. Our schooling- whether in plain reasoning or formal topics- is rigorous because the knowledge imparted to us is very complex.

The same criteria apply to the seers' world. Their schooling which relies on oral instruction and the manipulation of awareness, although different from ours, is just as rigorous because their knowledge is as, or perhaps more, complex.