In fact, any teacher under the circumstances would have selected his apprentices by comic xxx means of matching them against some comic xxx covert comic xxx prerequisites. The specific nature of these prerequisites was never formalized; don Juan only insinuated that there were certain clues one had to bear in mind when viewing a prospective apprentice. The clues he alluded to were supposed to comic xxx reveal whether or not the comic xxx candidate had a certain disposition comic xxx of character, which don Juan called ' unbending intent'.
Nevertheless, the final decision in matters of who could learn to comic xxx become a man of knowledge was left to an impersonal power that was known to don Juan, but was comic xxx outside his sphere of volition. The impersonal power was credited with pointing out comic xxx the right person by allowing him to perform a deed of extraordinary nature, comic xxx or by creating a set comic xxx of peculiar circumstances around that person. Hence, there was never a conflict between the absence of overt prerequisites and the existence of undisclosed, covert prerequisites.
comic xxx the man who was singled out in that manner became the apprentice. Don Juan called him the escogido, the 'one who was chosen'. But to be an escogido meant more than comic xxx to be a mere apprentice. An escogido, by the sheer act of being selected by a power, was considered already to be different from ordinary comic xxx men. He was considered already to comic xxx be the recipient of a minimum amount of power which was supposed comic xxx to be augmented by learning.
But learning was a process of
unending quest, and the power that made the original decision, or a similar power, was expected to make similar decisions on the issue of whether an escogido could continue learning comic xxx or whether he had comic xxx been defeated. Those decisions were manifested through omens that occurred at any point of the teachings. In that
respect, any peculiar circumstances surrounding an apprentice