Learn to be fearless by discovering that "[fear] is life's only true adversary" (Martel 161). This event is where Pi truly chooses to convert. Raymond Paloutzian, author of Religious Conversion and Personality Change, supports this statement in his analysis of conversion by stating that it “can lead to profound life-transforming changes in mid-level functions such as goals, feelings, attitudes and behaviors, and in the functions of more self-defining personalities such as identity and the meaning of life”. Eventually, Pi begins to develop a sense of control over his new religion. While observing the Royal Bengal Tiger, Pi realizes that as long as he respects the majestic beast, Richard Parker has no intention of killing it. Pi discovers that Richard Parker is not the barbarian portrayed by the hyena or the tiger who killed the goat long ago, but an animal of necessity. He only ate and drank when he was hungry and was otherwise a very peaceful individual. Pi begins to modify his ferocity and tame it in a way he hadn't been able to do before. Clearly, Pi demonstrates his conversion to savagery as a form of his castaway religion during his time spent on the lifeboat with his castaways.