For don Juan and other practitioners like him, a sorcerer was any person who, through discipline and purpose, was capable of interrupting the effect of the interpretation system we use to construct the world that we know. Sorcery is a maneuver of interference. Don Juan Matus called practitioners of sorcery “warrior guardians,” a term he used as a synonym for sorcerer.
The only thing that differentiates some warrior guardians from others is that a specific goal has been designated for some of them. A case in question is the three Chacmools. The reactions of those three warrior guardians made it imperative to dissolve their configuration, as don Juan had warned that a warrior must obey the dictums of energy, which opens or closes the way.
The present format of warrior guardians that has replaced the Chacmools has been selected by energy itself and is called the Energy Trackers. “To track energy is to be able to follow the tenuous trail that energy leaves as it flows,” don Juan explained. Don Juan said that the sensation of the flow of energy is not a visual effect but a physical feeling, which sorcerers nonetheless speak of as “seeing energy”. After the Chacmools’ collapse, a new group of warrior guardians emerged with a remarkable capacity for tracking energy. Energy trackers do not impose their volition; they simply allow energy to show itself to them.
(Carlos Castaneda, The Warrior’s Way – A Journal of Applied Hermeneutics)
