The medicine man sees through you. Your conscious experience of your attention, judgments, desires is false, and only the medicine man's judgment of you is true. Your behavior is false, and only the medicine man's choices for your behavior are true. In your most deliberate, driven moments you are most lost.
You are an abandoned puppet in need of a puppeteer, and although you are incapable of choosing one for yourself (you poor puppet), the medicine man will graciously puppet you.