Don Juan talks about the next natural enemy to becoming a man of knowledge. “Clarity! That clarity of mind, which is so hard to obtain, dispels fear, but also blinds. It forces the man never to doubt himself. It gives him the assurance he can do anything he pleases, for he sees clearly into everything. And he is courageous because he is clear, and he stops at nothing because he is clear. But all that is a mistake; it is like something incomplete. If the man yields to this make-believe power, he has succumbed to his second enemy and will fumble with learning. He will rush when he should be patient, or he will be patient when he should rush. And he will fumble with learning until he winds up incapable of learning anything more.” This sounds like a kind of arrogance, that the being defeated by clarity is one who thinks himself, falsely, as enlightened—falsely complete. Don Juan says, “He will no longer learn or yearn for anything.” Sounds like a lot of atheists and skeptics! (Which we know the ETs are.) The antithesis of humility. What is Creator’s perspective?

This is another way of expressing the truism, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." This description, that one begins to feel they have a clarity of vision about where they are, their attainments and capabilities, and become too self-confident in a kind of smugness, and then complacent they have arrived and no longer need to work so hard and keep striving and putting in effort as they have done before, this is indeed a false clarity or overconfidence. It is describing a state of being where one has partial knowledge that is falsely reassuring that one has all one needs, and this can indeed lead to a feeling of arrogance that one is superior to others and above them, by virtue of their having achieved clarity that is truly overconfidence, and a consequence of a continued state of ignorance they are simply unaware of. So this is definitely a kind of trap that can ensnare the learner, who is partway along in their quest for mastery, to make them think, wrongly, they have achieved what is needed because their state of ignorance cannot give them further encouragement to keep going. We would say that all of life is a learning opportunity, and growth will only continue as long as a desire for learning is maintained and the pursuit of knowledge never ceases. Being a lifelong learner will be a constant reward and will bring a perpetual further attainment of enlightenment all along the way.