Don Juan behaved toward these states of non-ordinary reality not ‘as if’ they were real but ‘as’ real. (Reality, 6)

Things are real only after one has learned to agree on their realness. What took place this evening, for instance, cannot be possibly real to you, because no one would agree with you about it. (Power, 20)

…We involved ourselves in a long discussion about the reflexive nature of our world. The world according to Don Juan had to conform to our description; that is, the description reflected itself.
Another point in his elucidation is that we had learned to relate ourselves to our description of the world in terms of what he called “habits” introduced what I thought was a mor engulfing term, intentionally, the property of human consciousness whereby an object is referred to, or is intended. (Power, 23)

That’s the flaw with words…they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn to face the world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment. For this reason a sorcerer seeks to act rather than to talk and to this effect he gets a new description of the world–a new description where talking is not that important, and where new acts have new reflections. (Power, 24)