Definition of

Saving Energy
Shift back and forth between levels of awareness to show him how to save energy needed to strengthen his connecting link.

Trickery of the spirit, trickery of the abstract, stalking oneself, or dusting the link (Silence, 52)

The spirit cajoled the man by making him shift back and forth between levels of awareness to show him how to save energy needed to strengthen his connecting link.

Each story was an abstract tragi-comedy with one abstract player, intent, and two human actors (the nagual and his apprentice) the script was the abstract core.

The process of bringing an apprentice into the realm of spirit (Silence, 53)

Don Juan said that perception is the hinge for everything man is or does, and that perception is ruled but he location of the assemblage point. (Silence, 58)

Stalking was an art applicable to everything (Four Moods) ruthlessness, cunning, patience and sweetness. (Silence , 67)

The average man only acts if there is a chance for profit. Warrior say they act not for profit but for the spirit. (Silence, 79)

Words are tremendously powerful and important and are the magical property of whoever has them.

Very succinctly he defined stalking as the art of using behavior in novel ways for specific purposes. (Silence, 81)