See also, “Looking.” (Ixtlan, 72)

(Long) Don Juan said that the core of our being was the act of perceiving, and that the magic of our being was the act of awareness. For him perception and awareness were a single, functional, inextricable unit, a unit what had two domains.
– The attention of the tonal–The first ring of power
– The attention of the nagual–The second ring of power (Ring, 274)

As the hinge for all man does; ruled by the assemblage point (Silence, 56)

Words are the magical property of whoever has them. (Silence, 81)

A definition of perception. A capacity of living beings to apprehend with the senses.
A sorcerer perceives his actions with depth; tridimensional (see Here-Here); the third point of reference (Silence, 221)

For sorcerers, having life means having consciousness. It means having an assemblage point and its surrounding glow of awareness, a condition that points out to sorcerers that the being in front of them, organic or inorganic, is thoroughly capable of perceiving. Perceiving is understood by sorcerer as the precondition of being alive. (Dreaming, 45)

The assemblage point moving, rendering our system inoperative. (Dreaming, 76)

The first step to total perception is the total materialization of an object. (Dreaming, 232)

The mystery is perceiving not so much what we perceive, but what makes us perceive. (Fire, 125)

A moment of perceptual blankness [is called] the wall of fog. (Fire, 257)

The perception of the world is never final. (Fire, 267)

The world [is] whatever we perceive, in any manner we choose to perceive. Don Juan maintained that “perceiving the world” entails a process of apprehending whatever presents itself to us. This particular “perceiving” is done with our senses and our will. Will is a relation between ourselves and the perceived world. (Reality, 147)

He carefully repeated three of four times that the most import aspect of my endeavor was to find some holes. He emphasized the word “hole” and said that inside them a sorcerer could find all sorts of messages and directions.
…I should focus all my attention on listening to the sounds and do my bet to fin the holes between sounds. (Reality, 221)

He sad the the “holes” in the sounds were use by sorcerers to find out specific things, a sorcerer’s ally would reveal complicated affairs through the holes in sound. (Reality, 225)

Ordinarily a man des not have the speed to catch the holes, and thus he goes through life without protection. (Reality, 226)

Don Juan insisted that the whole issue of sorcery was perception…that jump was the practical accomplishment of my perception, not as an average man, but as a sorcerer. (Ring, 208)

…your perception unfolded its wings. (Power, 272)

I have called that cluster the bubble of perception…the bubble opens only when one plunges into the nagual…or at death. (Power, 273)

The cluster of feelings can be made to assemble instantly anywhere…one can see the here and there at once. (Power, 275)

You may gather the power needed to unfold the wings of your perception and fly to that infinitude. (Power, 278)