Return of the Warriors — Théun Mares

T. Marez - "Sophia"

I don’t know what you would like to know about my future books. The second book, Scream of the Eagle, is now in print and is due out in July this year. Its content corresponds to the description given at the end of the “Return of the Warriors”. I began writing a third book, entitled “The MIND OF KNOWLEDGE OF DRAGONS” (?), “MISTS OF DRAGON LORE”, and I hope that this book will be published in early 1998. Both the second and third books are about positions that were never mentioned by Carlos Castaneda or his companions. In fact, the third book departs substantially from all the Toltec teachings that are known to the public now, and is the first part of a series of seven books — each of which is supposed to be related to three of the twenty-one aspects of awareness that Castaneda only hints at when he mentions the twenty-one abstract core. In addition, these books will develop unknown techniques and concepts, including the four sections of the Magi Explanations — for which Castaneda describes only a small part of one section — as well as the Tridentine Nagual Rule, which Castaneda does not seem to have received.

In addition to these supposed books, I am going to publish two volumes devoted exclusively to the Toltec aphorisms - there are so many of them and by their nature they are so deep and complex that they deserve special attention for the simple reason that they cannot all be included in the books described above. Since Castaneda has never really explained what structure the Toltec teachings actually have, it may be interesting for you to find that, in addition to the division into two main groups, called the “right-side teachings” and the “left-side teachings”, the full set of teachings is divided into three major sections. First, there are FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES, which can be considered the skeletal structure of the Toltec tradition and are based on the Mastery of Awareness. Secondly, there are practical methods that can be compared to the system of muscles necessary for action, and which are based on the Art of Stalking. Third, there are Aphorisms, timeless universal truths that can be considered the life essence of the Toltec teachings and whose content is deciphered only through the Mastery of Intention.

I don’t know what else to say about future books. So far, I can not give their names, as well as accurately outline their content. At this point I can only say that the Toltec teachings are so vast that even 11–12 books will probably cover only one-tenth of all knowledge. Moreover, I do not yet know whether it will be my duty to reveal something more than the teachings I have mentioned. Even if I have to reveal more, let's cross that bridge when we get to it!

Theun Marez.

June, 1997, Cape Town

PRESENTATION TO THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

When I began to write the preface to the Russian edition, I found myself experiencing a strange mixture of feelings, feelings undoubtedly connected with the current moment, although they were mixed with a sense of their amazing antiquity, as if the icy fingers of the events of the long past suddenly stretched through time to squeeze some vague part of my memory.
The elusive scenes of the last days of Atlantis, immediately preceding the destruction of this world, rose from the depths of memory to soar in it, like the ghosts of a cemetery. Days filled with oppressive heat and unnatural windlessness, which brought all the priests of Atlantis to insanity... Days that seemed ready to break out unknown... Days during which all people desperately tried to penetrate the meaning of the unbearable feeling of impending doom - the anticipation of death, causing, despite the relentless heat, cold chill.

Although these scenes are vaguely shrill in the distant past, although I write these lines in the winter cold, it seems to me that the heat of these last days with supernatural force permeates centuries. The heat that summer was unrelenting - the scorching sun violently fell on the entire Atlantis, and even the most persistent vegetation withered and died in the hot air, fluttering and bending grotesque images. The water supply was reduced to alarming levels, and then the peasants began to slaughter cattle in a hurry. The price of meat has gone down just as incredibly as fresh fruit and grain have gone up, as all the gardens and fields have dried up in the arid conditions of that deadly summer. There has not been a summer like this in the history of Atlantis.
This sense of impending fateful threat was supplemented by obsessive memories of many empty and looted rural houses, and city mansions, silent witnesses of the split among the people and the fact that the White Emperor no longer rules the City of the Golden Gate. Expelled from the city two years before. The White Emperor and his advisors, with several hundred rulers, priests and guild masters who continued to support his right to the throne, set out in search of a new world in the hope of finding a corner unaffected by the Black Emperor's brutality. After that, men, women and children from all over Atlantis, under the guidance of their guild masters and their assistants, began to gradually leave their native continent in small groups, running away at deep nights to escape punishment from the followers of the Black Emperor. Teaming up with other groups along the way or meeting them at pre-assigned locations, hundreds of thousands of residents eluded their country to reunite with their rulers and priests and follow the example of the White Emperor. Over time, entire villages and huge areas of large cities came into disrepair, and farms and previously flourishing crafts were left to fend for themselves, waiting for their native continent.

But the most haunting memory was that in the fall that followed this terrible summer, an entire tribe suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth in just one night. The direct heir of the fierce Ural-Altai (Turanian) people, this tribe became famous because for some deep philosophical reasons it abandoned most of the extremely ruthless traditions of its warlike ancestors. While still undoubtedly a warlike people, they, however, forbade men to use swords and practiced only the use of knives and short copies, both for hunting and for fighting.
It is not known what happened to this tribe. They never appeared at any of the designated meeting places, and none of the settlers knew anything about this tribe and its fate. Their disappearance from Atlantis is the last fact known about this people. But many years after the death of Daitya and Ruta, the scouts of one of the branches of the settlers reported on the nomadic tribe they met on the plains of Tataria, whose representatives did not use swords, but with supernatural skill possessed knives and short spears. However, when the scouts began to ask about their origin, the nomads only shrug their shoulders, answering that they do not remember about him, and do not particularly strive to remember. No one knows for sure whether this tribe is a descendant of the Ural-Altai, but for a long time it was believed that they really represent the lost people of Atlantis.

Why am I so often haunted by the memories of this lost tribe? I often asked myself this question, but I could not find a satisfactory answer. That last summer of Atlantis for some reason was clearly imprinted in my memory, but still, oddly enough, this memory belongs not to me, but to someone with whom I think I have an incredibly strong connection. Although I very often scrutinize my memory, I have no personal memories of being in Atlantis that summer, or of being a member of that tribe. It’s as if I can see through the eyes of one of those people.
I can’t remember the plains of Tataria, but I remember my life in the mountains of Norway, a rural life associated with vivid memories of my father, who rode and lanced better than any other member of the community. I also remember the long winters during which our country house was completely covered with snow for many months, the winters we spent cutting figurines from wood and practicing military skills using a variety of knives. Perhaps that is my connection with the lost people of Atlantis? Was my father a member of that tribe? If so, how did he end up in Norway and how and why did he part ways with his people? In such cases, the return of memory does not mean anything, since, as a rule, only the knowledge learned in a past life is remembered, but not life itself. Nearly all Toltec knowledge of the past is based on generational oral histories and thought ideograms sent by the Nagual to the mind of his successor. Only occasionally, along with the accumulated knowledge in those days, the fragments of events rise to the surface. But why is this particular piece so important? And why is he haunting my mind over and over again as I write the foreword to the Russian edition of this book?

Perhaps this is because this fragment of the deep past has a certain content when viewed in the context of one of the most obscure prophecies of the Nameless One. Among the many recorded prophecies, there are some that do appear to be vague, as they appear to represent accidental penetrations into an unknown future. And yet, based on past experience, it can be found that many of these seemingly strange prophecies are not so vague at all — only certain indications in their content may seem strange, inconsistent with modern world events, but not the content itself. Below I give one such prophecy, explaining the bizarre thoughts that cause me to think about the Russian people, and why, during the creation of this preface, I recall my inexplicable connection with the lost people of Atlantis.

From the cold North they will come, brave men and women of many tribes, forming a strong race and continuing to follow in the heart of their hearts the path of the Hidden Truth, though they will remember neither the cause nor the purpose of their voluntary exile. In their ancient quest for redemption of sin, which they did not, these people put aside the Sword of Power and preserved only the Spear of Destiny.

Before they appear, the forces concentrated in this spear will destroy many of their beliefs and tear down the walls that have separated them from their fellow tribesmen for so long. Because of the exile, because of this separation, the soul of these people will be marked by the great poverty of the body and the all-consuming loneliness of the spirit. But it was this poverty of the body and the loneliness of the spirit that breathed into them the immense power of purpose and the deep thirst for life. In the hearts of the people, there is a burning fire of desire and passion, and the flames will allow them to hear the call.

The arrival of these people will cause fear in the rest of the world, but not for spiritual reasons. This fear will be basic to the causes of ignorance, and therefore their true arrival will be at first unnoticed... That is why they will come unseen and take the world by storm. They will take it not by the Sword, but by the Spear, by the power of fate and by the power of their passion for life and for the One Truth, This power of purpose, this burning passion will sweep everything in their path, like a huge unremitting tide, They will hiccup in all minds and hearts of the One Truth and will not cease their search until they find the sound that is eternally echoed in their hearts. This sound will saturate their inner fire, and around it they will build a new empire — an empire based not on political power, but only on the One Truth — and spread it across all political and natural boundaries.

This is what the ancient prophecy says. The reason why such prophecies seem unclear is quite obvious.
And yet, for the reasons already described, I feel this prophecy is about Russian people.

The West has long feared the political and nuclear power of the Soviet Union, but now that USSR no longer exists, the West has ceased to regard it as a threat and has weakened its long-term vigilance. Moreover, the character and position of the people described in this prophecy is remarkably suited to the Russian people of our day, and if we think about how calm and sterile most of the West has become now, when Soviet socialism no longer poses a political threat to them, the idea that the ardent spirit of the Russian people will be able to rekindle the vision of a new world in the minds and hearts of the West will not seem so strange.

It seems to me, and I think it is quite striking, that there is a huge sense in the fact that so soon after the appearance of this book it is the Russian publishing house that first appeals to us about the rights to translate into a foreign language. However, we cannot build our future on uncertainty, and therefore too much remains to be confirmed before perhaps even presumably accepting my feelings about the above prophecy. And yet I continue to remember him, and I am sure that it is worth watching carefully the response of the Russian people to the Toltec teachings. Perhaps the Russian people will really take this world by storm. In this regard, the West definitely needs a new flash of vision and internal fire. Perhaps the lost people of Atlantis will be recognized and accepted into the arms of the world. Perhaps I will eventually solve the mystery of this hazy fragment of my memory.

Tayn Marez.

This book is a greeting to my beloved teacher, the Nagual J., who guided my fellow warriors and myself through the iron will and uncompromising discipline of a man who takes his responsibility seriously; his unconditional love for all of us, and deepest wisdom, has always been a source of powerful inspiration for us.

THANKS

To the many people who generously gave their time and energy to help me bring these books into being. To Marianne, the nagual woman, for her inexhaustible encouragement, calming strength and feminine knowledge; to my own students for their marathon proofreading sessions and enthusiastic support; to Anne-Thia for her help with the initial editing; to Susan, Emily and Roshedd for their inspired illustrations; to Olivia for the immense work on the index; to Elizabeth for her support; to Charles Mitchley, my English editor and publisher, for his sensitive approach to work that is often difficult to express in clear English; to Sophia Publishing: translator Kirill Semenov, editor Ina Starykh, manager Andrei Kostenko and commercial director Andrei Dikhtyar, for their open friendliness and enthusiasm; to the many people, too numerous to name, who played a major part in bringing this project to fruition; and last, but by no means least, to my four-legged friends, who so often waited patiently for a walk or a meal, allowing me to finish another chapter.

I hug you very much, thank you all!

Theun Marez.

In the days before the beginning of times when the orange-red sun was very young, and the planet Earth had not yet arisen in the flesh, when the heavens were torn apart by the War Spirits, and man was still shrouded in the fiery mists of solar existence...

INTRODUCTION

Up until 1968, when Carlos Castaneda published the first book entitled "The Teachings of Don Juan: The Way of Knowledge of the Yaqui Indians", it was believed that the Toltec tradition was long gone and forgotten. However, the curiosity and admiration ignited by this book quickly won Mr. Castaneda not only fame and recognition, but also a lot of enthusiastic followers, whose ranks were interspersed here and there by inevitable critics, to the extent of their abilities trying to discredit him. Trying to avoid attacks, both fans and critics, Mr. Castaneda calmly and persistently continued to release the book after the book. But now, twenty-eight years later, after the publication of nine of his books, the readers of Carlos Castaneda are still puzzled by two obsessive questions — questions that could not be satisfactorily answered by his fans, nor by critics: first, did the legendary don Juan really exist, and, secondly, even if don Juan did exist, are Mr. Castaneda’s incredible experiences genuine or fictional?

Although the material in this book will at times seem to be an attempt to protect Carlos Castaneda’s personal statements, its purpose is not to do so, since, if Mr. Castaneda wished for protection, he would certainly be able to provide it himself.

This book has a different purpose. It is intended, first, to confirm the continuous existence of the Toltecs during all these ages; secondly, to substantiate the validity of the teachings of Mr. Castaneda; thirdly, to fully reveal to the world the true essence of these ancient teachings; and fourthly, to pave the way for Toltec warriors returning to public recognition after their voluntary "expulsion" in order to regain their rightful place.

In the defense of Carlos Castaneda, one can only say that without the consent of the Toltecs, he could not have published what has hitherto been transmitted exclusively in oral tradition. In truth, Mr. Castaneda was destined to reintroduce to the world a system of knowledge that had been considered lost for many years. The reason for all this, as well as the fact that this book explains who the Toltecs are and what their tradition is, is the mighty turning of the huge wheel of evolution. As a result, the Toltecs of the whole world were called upon to unite under the banner of their common goal and to direct their combined knowledge and power to the disposal of those who have from time immemorial guided the fate of all living things on this planet - those whom the Toltecs call the Guardians of the Race. This appeal is made because the world in general, and humanity in particular, has reached a decisive crossroads — crossing paths that require all life on the planet to make a vital choice and at the same time provide it with an unprecedented opportunity.
This crossroads of human history, described in an unimaginably ancient prophecy, was long planned by the Guardians of the Race, and they looked forward to when we would reach it. As time weaved the web of fate, the Toltecs came to realize their intended role in the history of the planet and with the growth of their knowledge began to understand that this ancient prophecy tells about them.

Here is the content of this prophecy:

“Now we will all manifest the Temple of the Spirit!” cried the seventh son, the Dragon, and then the seven great Sons of Being, who are the reigning Three, moved squarely to their lands in the East, North, West and South to begin their great task.

The doors of the Temple were shut and guarded, and there was darkness within, for the Light had not yet shined, and therefore all parts of the Temple were invisible. No sound has broken the silence, for the sacred Word has not yet been spoken.

The seven had not yet manifested their color and announced their vibrations, and only completely silent communication between them marked the progress of their work.

Epochs passed, until at last the sound of life was heard outside the Temple, and the younger son of the Spirit did not knock on the door of the Temple. immediately the doors opened to let the son of man in, and when he was in the Temple, he joined his forces to what was happening inside. Thus, one by one, the sons of the earth appeared, and as each of them in turn was admitted to the Temple, the light inside began to burn brighter.

The sons of man crossed the Temple from North to South and from West to East, in the center they appeared before the Rose and there they found the heart, knowledge and strength necessary for work. They cast aside the veil of the inner sanctuary and stood bathing in the pure White Light.

As time went on, the Temple became more and more beautiful, as its architecture, proportions, details and decorations took their forms in a growing light.

Then came the call from the east: “Open the doors to all the sons of the earth so that they may seek light and find the Temple of the Spirit. Remove the veil from the inner sanctuary so that all may enter the Light, let the warriors of the Spirit who have been hiding their deeds for so long, move the Temple of Life to the plains of the Earth, let the Light shine, and let the Word sound, let the process of transformation begin.

This is necessary in order for the Temple of Light to be transferred to Earth and illuminate the dreamer’s dream there. Then man will awaken in the East and, faced with his fear, meet his trials in the West, then man will be directed towards seeking respect in the South and accumulating strength in the North. Then man will look only for the true light and learn the secret of the orange-red light that shines forever in the East.

"Why should we allow all this?" asked the Seven Kings of Three.

“Because the time has come, the Warriors are ready, and the Spirit has already moved to the light, exposing its hidden color and emitting creative vibrations. Now all the sons of man are able to seek strength and join the battle for freedom. There is nothing else left to do.”

“Let it be so,” replied the seven kings of the Three, “let all the sons of the earth go into battle.”

Thus says an ancient prophecy written down in the times before the beginning of time from the words of the oracle of another world. Carlos Castaneda's works, like this book, are merely the fulfillment of this prophecy, for it is evident that the teachings of the Toltecs do not belong to any particular sect, but are divine knowledge, to which every man and every woman have a birthright.

Since the main reason for the emergence of this and subsequent books is to allow the reader to come into contact with the true essence of the teachings of the Toltecs, for greater clarity, these books are divided into separate volumes. In addition, in order to provide the reader with a methodical acquaintance with this ancient doctrine, this, the first volume consists of three parts. Starting with a general overview, each part gradually moves on to more details and more complex issues.

The first part of this book is devoted to the origin and historical development of the Toltec tradition. This historical information should be seen as a necessary background upon which various concepts will then be superimposed — as many of them may seem quite alien at first glance.

The second part deals with the depth of the fundamental concepts that form the basis of the teachings. In order for the subtler aspects of the teachings to have any value, it is necessary to fully grasp these basic principles.

All the Toltec teachings have a huge number of axiomatic expressions that can be considered the life essence of these teachings. Such axioms, traditionally called aphorisms, are universal and timeless truths. For a more convenient search, all the aphorisms used in this book are highlighted in the text.

The third part of the book includes detailed instructions on the first steps taken by all students of the Toltec tradition. However, one warning should be made regarding these steps: The Way of the Warrior (the traditional name for the Toltec teachings) is different from all other ways known to man. For this reason, it should not be taken lightly, but should be pursued with due care and respect. Nowadays, in our age, when society is offered all kinds of ways leading to so-called instant enlightenment, some may be disappointed when they find that I do not promise to give the reader the formula "Way to miracles for the lazy." I do not mean that the Toltecs are not able to work miracles - just to achieve this level, even the Toltecs need to undergo a long and difficult training. Accelerated courses lead to a short career, besides, as you know, insufficient knowledge inevitably becomes dangerous knowledge.

I would be dishonest with my readers if I convinced them that the Way of the Warrior was easy because it was too far from the truth. Admittedly, of all the possible paths, the Way of the Warrior is the most difficult. Few people are prepared for the difficulties of acquiring the knowledge necessary to master the higher stages of this noble path. And yet, given the fact that small steps are being taken along this path, any adult is able to cope with quite elementary practices that unimaginably improve the quality of his life.

The Warrior’s path is somewhat like climbing a steep surface of a rock — at first glance, it seems impossible, but then we notice a crack that can be grasped by a hand, or a ledge that allows you to put your foot — and then we begin to climb, discovering all the new cracks and ledges. But the golden rule of such a rise is to look up only to find another crack, and never look down, avoiding attacks of fear of falling. The path to the top of the rock is long, but what a accomplishment, what freedom and what strength! - And all this begins with the simplest exercises. However, it is in them that each student faces the first difficulty - the fact that everything looks too easy and too simple.

The axiom for the Toltecs is the fact that anything that has power rarely — if ever — attracts attention, since rational reason usually tends to academic complexity.
This is the complexity of the Warrior’s Path — not in academic complexity, but, paradoxically, in its apparent simplicity.

Many of his teachings are so refined that he is easily and quickly overlooked by the enthusiastic novice. Perhaps this statement will become more understandable when I notice that the reader has already taken his first step on the Way of the Warrior if he has read this book down to these lines.

As for the origin and historical development of the Toltec tradition, the only comprehensive written evidence of them is the history of the Toltec civilization, which flourished magnificently in the Mexican Valley from 950 to 1160 AD. However, this period is only a tiny fraction of the history of the Toltecs and in most cases distorts its true picture. The presentation of the history of people who most often hid behind the scenes and, in addition, made supernatural efforts to erase their personal and collective stories from the memory of contemporaries is not an easy task. Among other things, it is complicated by the fact that the Toltecs are seers, and their knowledge is based on what they see. Since this knowledge does not always coincide with the theories of orthodox science, the scientific interpretation of Toltec history seems to have become increasingly irrational as this history has been traced back in time.

In order to understand not only the origin of the Toltecs, but also the true nature of their teachings, one should carefully watch not to try to place the Toltecs in any frame of reference different from their own. In contrast to the modern beliefs of mankind, there are points of reference that differ from the one that is usually adhered to by most of the Western world.

For the Toltec teachings to have any meaning, the Toltecs themselves, as well as their origin and purpose, must be considered in their own context. This does not mean that the Toltecs dogmatically adhere only to their own particular doctrines — rather, they use many systems of reference and move along them, overcoming the barriers of time. As fantastic as it may sound, Toltecs use four dimensions, and therefore they cannot be understood in a frame of reference strictly limited to three dimensions.

The decision to fully reveal the true history of the Toltecs was not one of those decisions that accompanied the naive belief that the world would easily accept such a revelation as an irrefutable fact. The Toltecs are clearly aware that humanity — which is three-dimensional and therefore limited to the concepts of time and space — will instinctively be skeptical of Toltec history. However, the Toltecs are so precisely because they have never been influenced by public opinion. The Toltec motto is: Truth is more important than public beliefs, and anyone who feels the need to align their knowledge with public approval is a person unworthy of truth. In the spirit of this motto and without any attempt at justification, this description of the history and knowledge of the Toltecs is compiled in a free manner and allows the reader to decide for himself whether to believe in the statements presented to him or not.

First of all, this book is intended for thinking people all over the world, who have become convinced that humanity cannot continue to follow the modern indefinite path and that decisive changes in human views and thinking are necessary to ensure the prosperity of the world.

Secondly, it is a book for those who value truth above words, who are convinced that experience-based knowledge is an invaluable gift of life, who recognize the existence of interconnections, interdependence and interaction of all living things.

Most important, perhaps, is that this book is for those who, up to the present, have been searching for the truth, the existence of which they clearly feel, but which they have not yet been able to discover. These are truly meek souls who do not despair, but patiently, truly modestly wait. Keeping in their hearts the calmness of life, these people know that one day they will have a favorable opportunity.

Since the need to create this book came to me at a time when ID seems to mean more than the person himself, I have been thinking relentlessly about what kind of evidence of qualifications might be acceptable for this reason. Realizing that neither my academic background nor my career had anything to do with the story I had to tell, I decided to turn my attention to the modern fashion for this kind of literature. What I discovered made me incredibly upset, as it soon became clear to me that nowadays trust is usually focused on books written with the words of either disembodied beings or extraterrestrial intelligence.

Given this startling discovery, I can’t wait to state that I am neither an incorporeal nor an extraterrestrial being — I am a living human being, made up of flesh and blood like any other person on this Earth. Moreover, I do not consider myself particularly gifted or in any way extraordinary, except that I am a product of the Toltec Tradition. And yet I am constantly struck by the fact that, although this tradition is a system of teachings as ancient as humanity itself, the stories associated with it seem to fill most people with feelings of awe and fear. The fact is that humanity as a whole is not yet ready to accept the Toltec teachings, although they are the natural heritage of all people of the Earth. For this reason, we have been the custodians of this tradition since time immemorial and, fortunately or unfortunately, have earned the dubious title of “magician.”

It may seem that the indefinite title of "magician" can also serve as evidence of the qualifications that I inherited thanks to my predecessors. But since the word "magic" in the circles of educated people can usually be seen, the eyebrows rising, and the magicians themselves are most often considered quite suspicious personalities, declaring their disembodied or extraterrestrial status the herd would in a certain sense be a more convenient trick, since it would certainly arouse more trust and respect.

Such a step would be tempting enough if it were not for the fact that I am unable to understand why disembodied or extraterrestrial beings somehow miraculously manage to become more trustworthy than mere mortals with ordinary thinking. After all, if a person is a liar while in a physical body, why does he suddenly begin to preach the truth, turning into a disembodied state? Similarly, who in their right mind would trust a completely unknown extraterrestrial being who is clearly superior to man in intelligence? There is very little sense in such logic, and since this book is intended for sensible and sensitive people, it may be more useful not to confuse an already vague problem with even greater uncertainty. Since I have never been able to come to any concrete support for my right to write this book, I imagine myself as an ordinary human being — however, despite this commonness, I will try not to be very boring.

Now, without any further ado, I will present to you the history of my people.

PART ONE
TIMES BEGINNING

VOLK
They will be called the Wolf People. In their hearts they will forever carry vague memories of a bygone world, the orange-red sun that was once man's home, which was once his glory and his honor. By day they will flee from the abominations of human madness, and by night they will gaze upon the pale light of the moon and weep their pain for lost freedom, for forgotten spears, and swords.

Excerpt from the prophecies of the Nameless

CHAPTER ONE
ORIGIN OF TROLTEK MILITARY AND KNOWLEDGE

There are a handful of thoughtful and lonely students scattered around the world, spending their lives in obscurity, far from the word of the world, and studying the greatest problems of the physical and spiritual universes. They have their secret records, which preserve the fruits of scientific research of the long chain of recluses, whose successors are these students.

E. P. Blavatsky, "CURSE DESIGN."

For those of us who prefer to do things in a conventional style, I will begin this story in an old-fashioned manner that I believe is more than appropriate for such a story.

Eighteen million years ago, several groups of people who would today be called priests and priestesses of ancient temples came to this world with humanity — with such humanity as we know it today.

Questions about how all this happened and where man came from remain mysteries far beyond the scope of this book; one can only say that the arrival of man on this planet was something of a semi-voluntary exile from his homeland. However, the planet imposed such severe restrictions on the emerging forms of life that the person was completely absorbed in the prison that we call matter. This had such serious consequences that a person forgot even about his native world and about who and what people are really. Confused and confused humanity turned to priests and priestesses for spiritual guidance only to discover that they had experienced the same harmful effects as the rest of the people. It was a dark era of seemingly endless days of struggle and hopelessness.

All this happened in those distant times, when humanity was at the stage of evolution, now known as the Lemurian race, and lived on the ancient continent of Shal-mali. Immersion in matter and man’s struggle with the exhausting consequences of this immersion lasted for many millions of years. In those days, the civilization of Lemuria produced seven subraces. The fourth sub-race of the Lemurians was called the Barnishads, or Divine Hermaphrodites, and from it arose the race of rmoahals, the first sub-race of Atlanteans. From the rmoachals, tlawatli appeared, and it was in this branch that the priests and priestesses of the past began to be born again, who gradually restored some of their former memories.
As the memory slowly returned to them, the priests and priestesses again began to lead their peoples and therefore received the name "Toltecs", meaning "people of knowledge". Having restored their memories, the Toltecs again assumed the responsibility to return humanity to its true homeland as soon as possible. For this reason, they also became known as warriors of the Spirit fighting for freedom.

This was the beginning of the history of Toltec warriors on this planet in an era when humanity was just beginning to measure time in the form in which it is understood today. In the process of remembering their past training, the Toltecs began to develop the ability to see as they possessed what we now call the Third Eye. Seeing Toltecs experienced temporary mental blindness only during the period of immersion in matter and the memory loss caused by it. However, once some of them began to remember, the ability to see returned and allowed them to quickly recall past knowledge that had been taught while in their home world.

The totality of this knowledge included primarily what is called willpower, mathematics, astronomy, and astrology.

The Toltecs were so adept at using willpower that they had no difficulty in levitating and lifted themselves into the air, as well as solid objects of enormous size and weight - this ability was used much later for the construction of such structures as the Great Pyramid in Egypt or Stonehenge in England.

The Toltecs then began to teach their contemporaries the mundane but practical crafts necessary for physical prosperity, such as fishing, hunting, cooking, construction, basic mathematics, and a variety of arts, the most notable of which was sculpture. However, the Toltecs had one serious problem, because, despite the fact that their knowledge was comprehensive, they remained completely useless, because they belonged to another world.

The Toltecs had little understanding of the complexities of life on the physical plane - although they had spent millions of years on Earth, this period meant little to them due to initial memory loss. As a result, their knowledge of matter was limited. At that time, the Toltecs did not understand the abstract, because they saw things exactly as they were, and therefore everything was very clear to them, but at the same time one-sided. Because of this limitation, the Toltecs could not comprehend the subtleties of duality or its purpose. As a result, concepts such as the interconnection and interaction of all living things remained incomprehensible to them, although the Toltecs used them instinctively.

In time, this ignorance of the abstract will lead to the first fall of the Toltecs, for it is the beginning of the worst form of selfishness imaginable.

For thousands of years, the Toltecs had been in excellent control of their people, and their entire world, by then called Atlantis, was flourishing and possessed enormous material wealth and power. The name of their world arose precisely in connection with the rule of the Toltecs, since the word atl means "chapter", or "lord".
The people of Atlantis had an Emperor who was called White because he possessed the greatest knowledge among the Toltecs and was likened to the great white light. The emperor ruled the people from the capital city of Toltec called the City of the Golden Gate.

Because the trades they learned from the Toltecs were specialized, people divided into clans much like guilds, and each such guild was ruled by a small group of Toltecs. These clans lived in cities, and each city was ruled by a senior Toltec, whose status corresponded to that of a viceroy. In turn, the viceroys were led by the Emperor, surrounded by a group of the most knowledgeable and powerful Toltecs.

Time passed, people’s knowledge increased, and then some clans, along with their viceroys, began to strive for greater knowledge and power. Dissatisfied with the knowledge they possessed, these people began to look with envy towards their neighbors and the more developed Toltecs. Very soon, greed forced some Toltecs to begin experiments to improve their psychic abilities in an attempt to achieve superiority over other people. This was the beginning of magic and the practice of black art.
Not having a true understanding of the abstract, the Toltecs as a whole were no more aware of their psychic abilities than the duck understands how it swims. For this reason, the Toltecs who turned to magic began to develop increasingly sophisticated and complex rituals that allowed them to accumulate power.

Although they did not realize that all these rituals served only one purpose - to strengthen their will - the magicians still managed to increase their power to such a level that they began to seize and seek power over other cities and Toltecs. When the Toltecs began to fight for power with the other Toltecs, rebellions and strife began in the country. The methods of warfare were discovered and developed very rapidly, and, as these wars used not only physical but also mental weapons, they led to terrible destruction.

Eventually, the White Emperor and his group of Toltec advisers were expelled from the City of the Golden Gate, and one of their representatives was elevated to his throne.

By that time, the White Emperor, his advisers and many viceroys had reached a sufficient understanding of the relationship of all living things and could foresee the consequences of the use of magic. This led to the beginning of the great Toltec migration, as the White Emperor and his followers went north to Egypt and west to North and South America, trying to save the lives of their people from the catastrophes they had foreseen. The power of the black Toltecs over the forces of nature has become so great, and their understanding of the interconnections of all things remained so limited that it took very little time for the forces of the Earth to get out of balance and natural disasters began.

The first terrible catastrophe occurred in about 850 000 BC. Earthquakes and powerful tidal waves split the main continent into a huge variety of islands of different sizes and destroyed the City of the Golden Gate along with the Black Emperor and his magicians. This warning stopped the practice of magic for a while, but it was a relatively short time later, and greed raised its head again. For this reason, around 250000 BC, the second strongest cataclysm left only two large islands from Atlantis - Daitya and Rutu. This time, the warning was not remembered for long. The Toltecs' hopeless addiction to black art led in 75000 BC to another catastrophe, in which both Ruta and Daitia died, and a large island, called Poseidonis, arose. In 9564 BC Poseidonis suffered the same fate, and it was hidden by a huge tidal wave caused by a strong volcanic eruption. Atlantis and black magicians finally disappeared from the face of the Earth.

During the entire period of destruction of their home continent, the remnants of the Atlanteans moved from one part of the world to another, including those lands that arose as a result of severe disasters that destroyed Atlantis.

In general, these groups of people, led by viceroys and Toltec priests, had a very hard time. Some of them, however, managed to find lands where they could settle and flourish. The most notable of these flourishing communities were the Egyptian dynasties, Chaldeans, Peruvians, Akkadians and Tibetans, as well as smaller groups scattered across Europe, Asia and Africa.
The purpose of this book is not to provide a detailed description of the history of all such groups, it simply explains why the Toltecs were scattered around the world. To this day, Toltecs can be found everywhere, precisely because at least some of these groups managed to survive in the harsh conditions of the following centuries.

Over time, the weakest communities lost their rulers and Toltec priests both in wars and for natural reasons. Where there are no descendants of seers, people began to fall into barbarous ignorance. The same fate befell many stronger communities, and they too came to a miserable state.

The number of authentic visionaries was declining rapidly as the search for and training of suitable followers became more difficult. In addition, due to the inevitable development of rational reason, the atavistic abilities of the first seers began to die. The development of rational thinking was necessary in order to achieve a greater understanding of the abstract, matter, and the forces of duality.

By the time Poseidonis ceased to exist, only a handful of native seers remained in the world, but they were also dying out. This meant that most of the descendants of the Toltecs, although they had a wealth of knowledge and remained leaders, were no longer seers.

The lack of vision of the herd is an obvious obstacle. In an effort to regain the abilities of their ancestors, the Toltecs used the knowledge of medicinal plants and plants to help them see. Drugs helped to a certain extent, but the Toltecs quickly found that the damage caused to the physical body and brain by the constant use of these plants exceeds their advantages. The Toltecs, however, had no other means of providing vision, and, despite their failures and increasing cases of death and madness, they recklessly continued their experiments.

No matter how dark and terrible this time may have been, however, it has brought the Toltecs face to face with the hard facts of life on the physical plane, and the consequences of the inevitable development of rational reason have led to the Toltecs suffering heavy losses. But it also meant that, although the Toltecs had lost their atavistic abilities, they had the opportunity for the first time to understand what those abilities were in the first place and why they acted in practice.

It was only much later that the Toltecs were able to retrospectively appreciate the goodness of these dark times, as it was during this period of incessant struggle and failure that they learned to look deep into themselves and discovered qualities there that they did not even know existed. Without realizing it at that time, the Toltecs took a huge step forward in their development and, among other things, formulated one of the basic principles of the Toltec Way: a warrior lives by challenge.

As time went on, the Toltecs became more selective and more adept at using drugs. The number of failures and deaths decreased, and the number of seers increased. But by this time, the Toltecs were faced with a new problem - a problem so subtle that they didn't even notice it until it was too late.

The Toltecs found themselves so obsessed with their desire to see that vision became more important to them than knowledge itself. Because of this obsession, their previous knowledge was quickly replaced by the same arrogance and sense of self-importance that caused the decline of Atlantis. Black art once again raised its ugly head, and now even the few remnants of the Toltecs have fallen victim to magic. This is the era that Carlos Castaneda referred to in his books as the Age of the Ancient Seers.
Using their new-found ability to see, the Ancient Seers began to resurrect most of the previous practices, and it did not take them long to restore rituals and spells that belonged to the special knowledge of the magicians of Atlantis.

These rituals allowed the Ancient Seers to manipulate their awareness while achieving what are today called altered states of perception. Applying these rituals to transition to different states of awareness. The ancient seers learned a lot not only about themselves, but also about other forms of life, both organic and inorganic, living on this planet next to man. Like their Atlantean ancestors. The Ancient Seers had a considerable talent for accumulating facts and information, but because their sense of self-importance was incredibly great, the Ancient Seers used this information to achieve power and manipulate anything that had the misfortune to attract their attention.

During this period of Toltec history, the Ancient Seers largely restored the same clan systems, or guilds, that were used in ancient Atlantis. These guilds became so powerful that they invariably achieved power even over the leaders of entire peoples - kings and emperors. It happened all over the world, no matter where the Toltec story unfolded.

Regarding the last point, it should be noted that the Toltec civilisation in the Valley of Mexico described by Carlos Castaneda was only one of many later civilisations. From a historical perspective, only one lineage bore the name Toltec; however, as explained earlier, all the world’s Civilisations, whatever their names, arose from the migration of the Toltecs from Atlantis. For this reason, the core of all civilisations consisted of seer-priests trained in the Toltec tradition. As a result of this shared heritage and tradition, and despite the vast intervals of time separating the different civilisations, Toltec knowledge throughout the world has always developed along more or less similar lines.

The ancient seers ruled for a very long time, during which they continued to accumulate a huge amount of information about the manipulation of awareness, but they used this knowledge for the most part to support black art. Many rituals and magic spells preserved in the world to this day are softened versions of those techniques that were used at one time or another by the Ancient Seers.
Magic flourished, and depending on which civilization they belonged to, many Ancient Seers retained their influence until the coming of Christ and the founding of the Christian Church — and even after that. It is precisely because of the illegible means of action and the harmful aspirations of these Ancient Seers that the Christian Church began the great persecution of the Gentiles.

However, contrary to popular belief, the death of the Ancient Seers was not caused only by the Christian Church. Even in the absence of Christians, the Ancient Seers were often at the mercy of other conquerors. This was because, although the Ancient Seers had become almost as powerful as their Atlantis predecessors, they still had one major flaw that they could not get rid of. This disadvantage was that the ancient seers did not fully master the willpower that the Atlanteans used with amazing ease. In many ways this was a blessing, for if the Ancient Seers had possessed the will, the misfortunes of Atlantis would have been repeated, for they would surely have unleashed upon their enemies the full force of their knowledge.

It was this inability to control the will that saved the world from new methods of mental warfare and eventually led to the destruction of the Ancient Seers. For all its power, the rituals of the Ancient Seers remained cumbersome and impractical. In cases of physical encounter with enemies, the lack of time required to read spells and perform rituals left the Ancient Seers as defenseless as the people who obeyed them.
At this alarming time, and especially during the persecution of pagans by the Christian Church, some of the most perceptive Toltecs broke with their ancient tradition and began to rethink their position in the world. It was from these Toltecs that the era began, which Carlos Castaneda called the era of the New Visionaries.

The new seers were able to clearly see the shortcomings of the long and intricate rituals. But even more importantly, they were able to understand the futility of trying to control and manipulate other people, as such attempts inevitably led to continuous strife. This split in the Toltec tradition was the most important event in their history, as it marked a turning point in their knowledge and became the magic key that the Toltecs have been looking for since the death of Atlantis.
Like I said. The ancient Seers had sufficient knowledge and ability to manipulate the awareness of their victims, and did so without any remorse.

The fact that awareness can be manipulated is a vital principle of Toltec knowledge, although modern people are skeptical of this truth. Although arts such as telepathy and hypnosis have helped to dampen detailed skepticism, it is still difficult for people to believe that someone is able to manipulate their awareness without their consent or understanding what is happening. This is what the ancient seers were able to do.

Today, the Toltecs no longer seek to develop the infinite techniques of the Ancient Seers, for, although these techniques remain powerful means, they have already outlived their purpose. However, despite the fact that the Toltecs scornfully rejected this aspect of their heritage, such techniques still remain an integral part of their knowledge due to their very belonging to tradition.

Another important fact must be noted: thanks to the peculiarities of their tradition, the knowledge of the Toltecs was never and cannot be lost. This has always been one of the strengths of the Toltecs, since the accumulated knowledge was the main means by which they could gain their strength.

As we have seen, for the ancients. The seers turned out to be weak, since it was this part of the Toltec tradition that tempted them to return to the disgusting principles of the Atlantean magicians. In their arrogance and vanity, the Ancient Seers sought a form of power that gave them power over people, and although in a sense it would be an exaggeration to call the Ancient Seers the personifications of evil, they came close enough to this.

One of the most serious mistakes of the Ancient Seers was their inability to understand the need to make their knowledge more rational and practical so that they could be used on the physical plane. Instead, because of their sense of self-importance and obsession with power, their methods of manipulating awareness have become even more confusing and impractical. What's more. The ancient Seers were too lazy to systematize their abundant and rapidly growing knowledge. In time, they could no longer see the trees of the forest. Their sense of self-importance undermined their power, and although they had at their disposal sufficiently frightening knowledge, their chaotic nature prevented the Ancient Seers from deriving any real practical benefit from it.

Although we can no longer accept the errors of the Ancient Seers today, we must pay tribute to this evil, for it has revealed some truly startling facts about awareness, facts without which the Toltec tradition would have become much poorer.
The challenge faced by the New Visionaries was to critically review their overburdened tradition and reassess the vast legacy of knowledge. From their own experience, the New Seers were able to understand that the Ancient Seers had strayed too far from the right path, but by that time their knowledge was too abundant and so chaotic that none of the New Seers could confidently separate the valuable from the useless.

The only logical step they could take was to accept the hypothesis that all the achievements of their predecessors remained questionable. As a result of this decision, they had to classify a huge amount of knowledge that they received. This was the end of chaos and the beginning of the long-awaited orderliness and sobriety.
The New Seers rejected numerous theories that had been formulated by the Ancient Seers and were central to their knowledge, and began to look for practical ways to use this knowledge. Gradually, they managed to reduce most of their heritage to several fundamental principles that allow for practical application.

The first of these concepts is related to what the Ancient Seers called the Eagle. In their attempts to understand the meaning of existence, the Ancient Seers really learned to see the source of all life, which in the interpretation of rational reason resembled something like a black and white eagle. For this reason, the Ancient Seers metaphorically called this source Eagle.

The Eagle’s vision was an event that cost a huge number of Ancient Seers their minds, their lives, or both. However, on the basis of what they saw, they concluded that the meaning of existence is to improve the quality of awareness. It was an invaluable discovery, and it formed the basis of everything that the modern Toltecs know and do.

The ancient Seers were able to see that it is the Eagle that gives all beings awareness at birth and takes it away at the time of death, while enriching themselves with the life experience of living beings. The ancient Seers understood this in the sense that the Eagle is nourished by awareness, and the sole purpose of existence is thus to maintain a constant renewal of awareness, allowing all its latent potentialities to be released.

Of course, it is important to understand that in fact there is no Eagle or something like that - in this incomprehensible source of life there is nothing visible at all. However, even the seer is subject to the conditioning of the rational mind, which by its very nature tends to interpret objects, and the visual image of the Eagle is the result of such an interpretation.
The manifested universe is an infinity beyond our conceptions of time and space, for its dimensions and complexity cannot be readily stated in the words of language or the conceptions of mortal men. This is not God, for God is ultimately part of what we know. Churches, preachers of religion, and even ordinary people are constantly trying to explain God to us, and therefore God becomes something that fits into the framework of words, into the sphere of conceptualization. Beyond words, beyond descriptions, and beyond concepts, however, lies an indescribable, unfathomable Non-Existence that can only be described as Ineffable.

This was another mistake of the Ancient Seers. In their ignorance, they have never ceased to believe that much of what constitutes the manifested universe is manifestly unknowable and unknowable within our human conditioning. "The New Seers have corrected this error" by identifying and denoting three completely different levels of awareness. They called the first of these levels known - it consists of everything that a human being is able to notice in his usual awareness. The second level, called the unknown, is an extremely vast and mysterious field, which, however, can gradually and consistently become known and known as the seer achieves more and more mastery in vision. But the third level, the unknowable, means that level of awareness which can never be known by man as long as he retains his “humanity.” To enter the unknowable means to lose all the inherent properties of man, and that is why so many Ancient Seers lost their minds.

Generations of Ancient Seers have collected vast amounts of awareness data, but never formulated it in an orderly manner. When the New Seers began to put these facts in order, they discovered a number of other very important concepts; all of them were brought together in an ordered set and formed a set of principles called the Truths of Consciousness.

The New Seers regarded these principles as paramount to all their knowledge, and these truths are the foundation of the Toltec teachings up to the present day.

Most of the Truths of Awareness are based on the act of perception and how it happens. The New Seers found that the whole mystery of perception can be adequately described by the following nine principles:

1. The universe is made up of an infinite number of znergetic fields resembling filaments of light.

2. These filamentous zergetic fields come from a source of unimaginable length, metaphorically called the Eagle. For this reason, the energy fields are called Eagle Emanations.

3. Human beings also consist of an infinite number of such thread-like energy fields, which manifest themselves in the form of a large luminous egg. The size of this egg vertically is equal to the height of the human body with arms stretched out over the head, and horizontally it extends to the width of the hands placed to the sides. This egg is called a human cocoon.

4. At any given time, only a small fraction of the energy fields inside the cocoon are illuminated by a brightly shining point of light located on its surface.

5. Perception occurs when the energy fields illuminated by this point of light spread their glow to the corresponding energy fields outside the cocoon. This point of light is called the point where perception is collected, or, abbreviated, the assemblage point.

6. The assemblage point can be shifted to any other position on the surface of the cocoon and even inside it. Since the assemblage point illuminates any energy fields with which it interacts, the new energy fields illuminated by such a shift define a new perception. It is this new level of perception that is called vision.

7. When the assemblage point shifts far enough, a person perceives a completely new world, as real as the world of ordinary perception.

8. There is a mysterious force called intention throughout the universe. This power provides perception, since it is the intention that first adjusts the energy fields and, secondly, is the reason for realizing this adjustment.

9. The goal of warriors is to experience all possible perceptions available to man. This is called full awareness, and it leads to a different way of death.

To see, the Ancient Seers had to use hallucinogens to shift the assemblage point, but the New Seers realized that this was as impractical as all the rituals of the Ancient Seers. More than ever, they needed practical ways to move the assemblage point, and to find those ways.

The new Seers began to study the assemblage point with vision, although they had to use the Force plant to achieve this state in the beginning. The research justified the effort, as the New Visionaries not only found the necessary techniques to allow them to move the assemblage point, but also discovered the mystery of the will.

The ancient Seers knew about the existence of a mysterious force that their predecessors, the Atlanteans, used with incredible ease. Through observation, they also knew that this power is present in everything in the manifested Universe. The ancient seers called this phenomenon force, but never comprehended it and could not master its use.

The New Seers discovered that this mysterious force is actually the energy of attunement, that is, the force that is released when the energy fields inside the cocoon begin to tune into the energy fields outside the cocoon. The New Seers called this force will and defined it as "a continuous flow of energy that the seer can control by intention."

The New Seers also learned that will is the force that causes people to behave according to their perceptions. Thus, this power determines our perception of the world. It is the will that fixes the assemblage point where it is located. In this respect, it is important to realize that although there is a certain area, within which there is always an assemblage point, its exact position is determined by habitual and repetitive actions. Obviously, each person has their own habits, so there are no two people whose assemblage points are in exactly the same position.

The human assemblage point is usually located on the surface of the cocoon, approximately opposite the point between the blades. In its development, an ordinary child first finds the most suitable place for his assemblage point, and then fixes it with repeated actions. This repetition first occurs under the influence of encouragement from the elders, and then through the usual internal dialogue. Today, the Toltecs know that man is only able to maintain his view of the world through the continuous affirmation of these views through internal dialogue with himself. This means that the world always looks exactly as it is in man’s constant affirmations addressed to himself.

However, the most important aspect of Toltec knowledge is that once the internal dialogue is stopped, the assemblage point can move freely. Stopping the internal dialogue allows a person to spontaneously experience altered states of perception.

This is the magic key that the Ancient Seers so passionately sought. If they realized that the only true meaning of their rituals lay in the ability to shift the assemblage point, they too would discover this key element and unravel the mystery of will or force.

Once this discovery was made, the Toltec knowledge was transformed and the New Seers found their way to correct the mistakes of their predecessors.

To move the assemblage point, the New Seers identified three basic techniques based on the nine Truths of Awareness. The first technique is called the Art of Stalking, the second the Art of Dreaming, and the third the Mastery of Intention. These three techniques have led to the development of three different spheres of activity in which each student, if he aspires to become a Toltec, must achieve full mastery - this is the Art of Stalking, Mastering Awareness and Mastering Intention. In this scheme, the Art of Dreaming enters the Mastery of Awareness and is used solely as a means by which the assemblage point can be moved to achieve altered states of perception.

These three areas of activity have traditionally been defined as the three challenges that must be met and addressed by warriors walking the Path of Power.

The art of Stalking is called the heart problem. It describes the feeling of bewilderment that warriors experience when they begin to realize, first, that the world looks as we see it, only because of the peculiarities of our perception and, secondly, that in a different perception of this world our ideas about it, which seemed so indestructible, completely change.

Mastering awareness is called the problem of the mind. This is the amazing infinity that warriors begin to feel when they comprehend the unfathomable mystery and extent of human awareness.

Mastering the Intention is a problem of the human spirit. This is the ultimate paradox, which is the ability of a person to perform actions - physical, emotional and mental - that go beyond normal human understanding.

With regard to the learning process, the most important discovery of the New Seers was what the Ancient Seers had already discovered — that there are two types of awareness in man, which are called the right and left sides of man. The right side means the thinking, logical, rational side of the human mind. On the right side, all knowledge flows linearly and consistently. The left side, on the other hand, is the feeling, irrational side of the human mind, which functions quite independently of the logical, or linear, flow of successive patterns of thought.

The best way to understand the right side as the opposite of the left is to consider an example of both.

Imagine a mother being told on the phone that something had happened to her son. On the right side of the mother will be as follows:

The phone rings, and the mother picks up the phone without expecting any trouble. When she is informed of an accident, she first experiences shock and fright and then worries about her son's health. In her mind, many questions are consistently swept through: “Is he injured? Where is he? What's wrong? Is he in the hospital?"

This is a somewhat simplistic, but still typical logical reaction, during which some thoughts are replaced by others. But if the mother could see her left side, her perception would be completely different, for example:

This morning, while her son was still alive, her mother felt anxious about his safety, and although there was no logical reason for her to be worried, she could not get rid of him. Then, late in the morning, she experienced an unexpected sense of anxiety. At that moment, she felt the presence of her son and could feel that he was in great pain. The mother did not linger on her thoughts about it, but instinctively went to the phone, wondering how she could find a son or someone who could calm her down. Before she reached the phone, he rang, and, picking up the phone, the mother felt cold goosebumps crawling on her back, as she already knew she would hear about her son's accident. However, it wasn’t until she started talking on the phone that her mother somehow knew he wasn’t hurt and just experienced a shock.

These two examples clearly show the difference between the right and left sides. Right means a rational reaction to solid evidence that is lined up in a sequence of logical thoughts; left is an irrational feeling that has nothing to do with logic or with the original clear facts. These irrational feelings will be reinforced by the necessary confirmations a little later. When trying to understand these concepts, it should be borne in mind that the concepts “right” and “left side” refer to the glowing human cocoon and do not mean the right and left hemispheres of the brain and their corresponding functions.

The ancient seers called the left side heightened awareness, and since the lack of logical thinking increases clarity, they transferred their students to this state so that they reach the level of concentration necessary for studying magic. The only drawback of this method of teaching is that students with great difficulty remember the positions taught to them in a state of heightened awareness. Such a lack of memory becomes a serious obstacle, because before the student can apply the acquired knowledge, he has to hard remember them. Such a struggle often stretches over years, and as a result, by the time the student remembers learning, he is completely absorbed in it due to prolonged efforts.

Modern Toltecs have different ideas, as we now know that man is always taught simultaneously on both levels. However, learning and remembering what we learn, like everything else, requires energy. This leads to a new problem: the vast majority of people simply do not have enough energy to realize that they are absorbing both the left and right sides.

Sometimes the energy of a person is at such a low level that he is not able to remember even what he has assimilated with the right side, not to mention the left. The peculiarity of our awareness is that the right side is always superior to the left. All available energy is used primarily for awareness, and then for remembering the knowledge of the right side, but only excess energy is directed to the left side.

In the current pattern of learning, students are very rarely translated into heightened awareness, for the simple reason that the time required to remember is too precious. From the very first day of preparation, the student is given instructions that allow him to achieve a natural and unintentional transition to a state of increased awareness. Although at the very beginning such transitions are inevitably brief, very soon the student begins to achieve mastery in this art. Accordingly, as the student gains the ability to dive deeper into heightened awareness, the instructions he receives become more complete. This new method has two great advantages: first, the student learns from the beginning to manage his own awareness and, second, he does not waste time on long-term recall.
This is a very brief summary of the new approach and training scheme that were developed by the New Visionaries based on the knowledge they inherited from their tradition. The activity of the New Seers only began to gain strength when the Christian Church began to persecute paganism for a long time. In spite of all the misfortunes this persecution brought, it still provided the New Seers with an unparalleled opportunity to hone their newly acquired abilities and turn them into strikingly accurate tools. Mistakes and negligence in following the techniques led to torture and death at the hands of the persecutors. Those soldiers who did not have time to learn or simply were not skilled enough in their new arts, very quickly died. This was the most uncompromising period in Toltec history, because, although they managed to perfect their knowledge, persecution in many parts of the world was so devastating that the Toltecs had to make extremely important decisions everywhere.

In an attempt to survive the centuries that followed, the Toltecs of the world at one point or another decided to disperse. As a result, the leaders separated their groups from each other. This was a serious step, and it not only led to the formation of various lines, but also for the first time in the history of the Toltecs caused an isolated development of their knowledge.

This decision and its results became known as the “Independent Development Doctrine.” The widespread consequences of this move were so far-reaching that today all Toltec groups are in solitary confinement and well hidden from the public eye. There is no connection between the groups, except for the telepathic mental communication of the Toltec leaders. However, even such a mental connection is so subtle that no team leader is able to establish the identity or location of another.

To understand the historical development of the Toltec tradition as a whole, it is necessary to realize another aspect of Toltec knowledge. The new teaching method, still in use today, has another important advantage: it allows for specific instructions for certain “new” types of people who have now begun to incarnate. This fact is mentioned here only as an interesting detail, as it does not apply to most students. The so-called new type is still very rare. It includes Toltecs who in previous incarnations have undergone a very special training, the quality of the power they possess is extremely different from the well-known. These Toltecs received the title of Warriors of the Third Attention.

To avoid serious confusion in the future, we note that, although all Toltecs may seem similar to each other, this is not quite so. In accordance with the level of training and skill of the Toltecs can be divided into three different categories. These three categories of Toltec existence are called courtyards.

The first, the outer court, embraces those who are called Warriors of the First Attention, the second, the inner court, includes the Warriors of the Second Attention, and the third court - the Holy of Holies, so to speak - form the Warriors of the Third Attention.

These three courtyards are not to be confused with what are called the three stages of warrior development: hunter, warrior, and man of knowledge, although, strictly speaking, these three stages do often coincide with the boundaries of the courtyards. Thus, progressing through the three stages, the student becomes first the Toltec of the First Attention, then rises to the level of the Second Attention and finally reaches the Third Attention.

Of course, such training usually cannot be carried out in one lifetime. Therefore, the Toltecs of the whole world pass through the next courts gradually, although there are always rare personalities moving forward faster than others. Such people invariably become leaders even among the Toltecs. For example. The ancient seers were mostly First Attention warriors, but there were Second Attention leaders among them who determined the course of action of entire groups. The New Seers were, in the Whole, Warriors of the Second Attention, but they in turn had leaders who began to take possession of the Third Attention.

The three levels of skill, or courtyards, are easier to understand if you consider all three stages of the student’s preparation as a whole.

Each student begins a training and ordinary awareness, which is called First Attention, since the corresponding teachings are available to everyone. It is, so to speak, the level of the average person from the street, and it is associated with the theory and practical applications of those basic principles that relate to the acquisition of knowledge about personal power.

Such training covers all aspects of the Toltec tradition, known as right-hand teachings, and is usually learned with relative ease as it targets the rational mind. This section of the teachings is called The Hunter's Way. The ability to master the instructions given in this section, as well as the ability to move the assemblage point, allow the student to achieve the title of First Attention Warrior.

In parallel with this section, the part of the teaching that is associated with consciousness in terms of increased awareness, or, more precisely, with the Second Attention, is taught. In this section, the student is constantly manipulated to shift his assemblage point to left-hand awareness, and when he enters this state, he is forced to reevaluate everything he has learned in ordinary awareness.

It is in this field of activity that the principles of stalking, dreaming and intention are taught to the student. Such training constitutes that knowledge which is called the Way of the Warrior; it prepares the student for a more developed level of activity.

Mastering the Way of the Hunter and the Way of the Warrior means the level of knowledge corresponding to the title of the Second Attention Warrior. If, in addition to mastering these spheres of activity, a warrior is able to see without help, he is considered a Toltec - this concept, as we remember, means a seer, or a person of knowledge.
From this moment on, the warrior no longer needs instructions as such, since everything is revealed before the force of his inner vision. However, awarding Toltec status at this stage of warrior development is not strictly correct, although it has been widely used by the New Seers in the past. According to tradition, such a status is awarded only when the seer assumes responsibility for leading his people.

Having reached this level in his development, the warrior becomes an independent master, and therefore the next section of his training does not imply instructions in the usual sense of the word. These instructions are rather a guide to helping it as the magical creation of the universe to spread its full power and responsibility.

The knowledge corresponding to this section is connected primarily with the altered states of perception and their application, as well as with other worlds, the inhabitants of these worlds and their interaction with man. During this period of his training, the warrior is directed to perform his true functions as one of the four different types of men and women in the Toltec group; in addition, he receives instructions on the purpose and fate of his group (English unit.) of warriors and the larger group (English group.) to which they belong. While the initial training of a warrior is mainly associated with the development of personality, this stage of training implies the principle of group effort. It is based on intelligent cooperation in guiding the entire race and man's responsibility towards the other forms of life with which he shares this planet.

Mastering this section of knowledge is exactly what makes up the Toltec Path. This is the pinnacle of Toltec development, and if it is achieved, it leads the warrior to what is called the Last Choice.

The last choice of a warrior means choosing one of the two ways that Toltec can go, which has reached this level in the development of its power. One path is called the Way of Freedom, and the other is called the Way of the Great Adventure. The second direction is the greatest temptation for warriors, for it is a brilliant and seductive path, offering those who have chosen it a dazzling power that can only be described as something intoxicating, although this path does not lead warriors to freedom.

Followers of the Great Adventure Path develop the full potential of Second Attention, which allows warriors to enlist the support of inorganic beings, transform the human body and even slow down the aging process to such an extent that they achieve relative immortality.

On the other hand, those warriors who have chosen to give up such power continue their quest without succumbing to the spells of Second Attention. Over time, these warriors discover that they have moved to a level of awareness called Third Attention. These warriors walk the path of freedom, and they are called the Warriors of the Third Attention.

The Third Attention Warriors always remain in the group to which they belong and continue their research work, the content of which is not easily conveyed in words, as it implies the transfer of thought patterns and the manipulation of awareness and perception beyond ordinary human understanding.

This type of activity is most accurately described as group-oriented, however, not quite in the usual sense of the word. Suffice it to say that, though all the Warriors of the Third Attention have long, long ago labored to understand that their power does not give them the right to intervene in situations in which there is no need to intervene, they still with unfailing readiness proceed to any tasks that are periodically put before them by those whom the Toltecs call the Guardians of the Race.

As mentioned, the evolution of the world has reached a decisive crossroads these days. The Toltec evolution faced the same crisis, as the test facing the world coincides with the problems that the Toltecs faced. Today, the Third Attention Warriors recognize the fact that if Toltec evolution proceeds according to the Universal Law and they regain their true position in society, they will have to abandon the Doctrine of Independent Development. If the Toltecs as a single Whole have to fulfill their true destiny in determining the fate of the planet, the Toltecs of the whole world must once again unite and reunite their forces and knowledge.

Similarly, in order to achieve prosperity and peace in the world, humanity needs to abandon sectarianism, racism and separatism and develop a universal course that will unite all the peoples of the world and their knowledge into a single fund of universal purpose.

This does not mean that there should be one world government or even one world religion; rather, humanity should strive to understand the relationship and interconnection of all living and any true knowledge. There is only one humanity and only one truth. The source of isolation and division, misunderstanding and hatred is only that man is not yet able to recognize the fact that there is not only the single frame of reference, which he so dogmatically adheres to. If a person could pause and think that the world may not be what he makes himself to be, he would come to realize that the diversity of religious beliefs or the differences in political ideologies do not mean that some are right and others are wrong — rather, they all represent some kind of facet of comprehensive truth.

As soon as this statement becomes clear, it is not so difficult to see that it is necessary to grasp all its facets in order to understand the whole truth — and then the concept of universal brotherhood will not seem so idealistic and unattainable.

Toltecs have always known that understanding depends on the frame of reference used. If such a system changes, so does our perception of the world, and therefore our understanding of the truth. After all, the only truth worthy of attention and aspiration is that any perception is generated by the mobility of the assemblage point, the mobility that is necessary to achieve full awareness. This very special knowledge is the gift that the Toltecs bring to humanity, and man's hopes for future prosperity and peace in the world depend on the ability to dispose of this knowledge.

As life shows, it is impossible to establish such calm in the world through political agreements based on empty promises. Prolonged peace can be achieved only if it is recognized by all and is based on a common understanding of the relationship and interconnections of all living things. Of course, such a principle is far from new, since mankind has always dreamed of universal brotherhood. However, as long as a person dogmatically adheres to the idea that the physical plane of reality is the only existing frame of reference, he will continue to fight for his brothers to accept his point of view, his beliefs and his ideology as the only correct one.

A good example of this is the Christian Church. Although there was only one Christ who brought the good news to the world, today there are so many different directions of the Christian Church, claiming that they are the ones who have the true truth, that the head goes around. Other world religions, especially the New Age movement and the school of esoteric thought, do not look better in this respect. Anyone who embarks on a search for truth these days is inevitably attacked by the most fantastic claims, heralded by a host of movements and personalities, who quite shamelessly benefit from the complete confusion of a person trying to determine what to follow.

Given what has happened to the religious institutions of humanity, it is not surprising that scientists around the world have distanced themselves from the beliefs on which their ethical and religious thinking was based. However, the Toltecs can provide invaluable help and science. Toltecs’ knowledge of the human psyche, its reflection in the universe and nature is not something based on random assumptions and superstitions. This knowledge could be methodically and scientifically confirmed if only orthodox science wanted to do so.
The same is true of medicine, although in this case it is quite clear that orthodox medicine will surely snort indignantly, considering this one of the next scams, which, unfortunately, sometimes do occur, hiding behind the name of alternative medicine. This does not mean that non-traditional medicine is nonsense — just that there are a lot of ignorant people in the world who imagine themselves to be healers.

If humanity is to accept the relationship of all living things as a working hypothesis, education will also automatically undergo great changes — essential if we are to provide the next generation with the knowledge that will enable them to meet the current and future needs of the world.

In order to achieve all this, the world as a whole must now turn its full attention to that tiny orphan of the world called South Africa. This mysterious country, in which mixed peoples coexist, mixed beliefs, opposing political ideologies and socio-economic differences, has long wandered in the shadows of human failure and despair, but it was in this darkness that it began to seek hope, caused by the universal reconciliation and interdependence of all living things.

In this country, a whole new order of human society will emerge, based on gentleness and tolerance, coming from those people who have finally managed to grasp the importance of each individual as an individual unit necessary for the well-being of the whole. By the year 2000, the world will seek advice on all humanistic issues from South Africa. South Africa has come face to face with the significance of brotherhood and the world's good waves because of its long and brutal separatism. It is to this result that the Guardians of the Race have made every effort over the past decades. For the same reason, it is in this country that the Toltecs will begin to move towards reunification and the renewal of their long-abandoned leadership over world thinking.

These lines complete the account of the historical development of Toltec knowledge through long ages up to our time, and I hope that the reader now has certain ideas about the circumstances against which the activities of Toltecs seeking to move along the Path of Knowledge should be considered.

If it were necessary to describe the Toltec Way in a few words - although, of course, such a description can hardly be accurate - then one could say that in the end it is the Way of Power, as well as the Way of Freedom, This is the Way of Power, firstly, because in this way we learn to acquire a power that allows us to realize the potentialities hidden in each of us, and secondly, because we learn to use this potentiality not to discover this potential in the realized. As soon as a person comprehends the secrets of perception and masters them, our forces and abilities to bring peace and prosperity into the world are fully revealed and become ready to use.

But this is also the Way of Freedom, because along the way we learn that we have a choice. By our own choice, we can remain victims of fate, stubbornly adhering to one — the only view of the world. On the other hand, we are able to expand our awareness, to accommodate in it all possible forms of perception available to man, and thus connect with their fate. When we connect with our destiny, we rise above it in a sense and thus gain a certain degree of freedom.

The Toltecs teach that each of us has the ability and the right to make our team a team of Eagles, as this is what we call the Eagle's gift to man. However, very rare people really realize that the only thing that is required of us in order to accept this truly priceless gift is knowledge and energy that allows us to move the assemblage point.

In this regard, those of us who have dedicated our energies to the guardians of the Race and are helping the spiritual growth of all life on this planet are ready to begin to educate humanity with full force. Toltecs strive to put all their knowledge at the disposal of the world, so that humanity can finally enjoy the fruits of its right heritage. For a very long time, the Toltecs had to play the role of guardians of this heritage, and therefore they had to bear the heavy burden of exclusive responsibility for their peoples. In the past, this was necessary, but today the situation has changed. Humanity has reached a mature age, and therefore it is time to take on a common responsibility for the peaceful and successful advancement of the evolution of all life on our beautiful planet.

Thus, the Toltecs will play a role in explaining to humanity what exactly his legacy implies, and then ancient secrets will be revealed to man. This book is just the first step in that direction. Indeed, the hour of the power of mankind has come. This is the time when humanity must seize a fleeting moment of chance — an opportunity that man cannot miss if he really wants to become himself, the magical creation of the universe, which he is by divine birthright.

All this is done according to the Divine Law, and therefore let the ancient prophecy be fulfilled.

PART TWO
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES

LYSA

The warrior recognizes the existence of higher forces that guide him and other beings. These forces dictate the circumstances of both life and death.

CHAPTER TWO

WORD PROPERTIES

To tell the truth, you need two - a narrator and a listener.
HENRY DAVID TORO

As I said in the introduction to this book, the Toltec teachings cannot be understood in their entirety unless they are considered in a special context, in their own frame of reference. In Toltec concepts, such a frame of reference is called a world view and depends on the position of the human assemblage point, which under certain circumstances can be forced to move, which leads to a different view of the world. Usually, the assemblage point is rigidly fixed, and therefore each person has only one reference point, according to which any knowledge and experience received by him is naturally determined. For this reason, it is absolutely necessary to introduce and define some fundamental principles in order to proceed to true teaching.

The first principle to be described relates to words and their use. The way we see and know the world in general depends on how we understand and use words. It should be emphasized that words, no matter how carefully they are chosen, always hide the truth. This fact is never given special importance - a person stumbles over and over again about words, because he does not yet see in them the symbols that they represent, and therefore he hears and reads words in the context of his social conditioning.

MAN'S ERROR IN THAT HE ALWAYS LOOKS FOR EXPLANATORY EXPLANATIONS, SUPPORTING HIS THINKING VIEW OF THE WORLD.

As for the use of words and trying to see in them what they really are, one should realize that there are three types of bad habits in which a person indulges again and again.

WHEN A MAN IS STOPPED WITH SOMETHING OUT OF THE BACKGROUND FRAMEWORK, HE ALWAYS GETS TO ONE OF THE THREE TYPES OF BAD ADVICE:

— A fanatic will ignore the case and make the appearance that nothing has happened.

A BELIEFING MAN TAKES A CASE FOR PURE MONETATION, WHEN HE CONSIDERING WHAT IS GOING ON.

The blind man is left bewildered and does not know whether he will accept it or reject it, and therefore he will become the question he has been left with.

If the reader wants to understand and appreciate the teachings of the Toltecs, he should carefully avoid these bad habits and take the position of a warrior.

WHEN A WARRIOR STILLS WITH SOMETHING UNUSUAL, HE LEADS HIMSELF SO WELL AS NOTHING HAPPENED, FOR HE DOES NOT BELIEVE IN THE NAME OF FAITH. WHILE THE WARNER TAKES IT ALL FOR A PURE MONET, HE DOES NOT LOOK AT THIS ATTENTION, AS HE KNOWS THE WORLD IS NOT WHICH IT LOOKS. FOR THIS REASON, THE WARNERS CONTROL THE SITUATION SO LIKELY, IF IT IS REALLY PROBABLED, AS THE THANKS TO THIS BEHAVIOR, IT WILL REMAINS THE DEBT.

Let’s see how this happens, using as an example the history of the Toltecs, described at the beginning of the book. Fanatics consider this story fantastic and do not attach any importance to it. On the other hand, believers can accept this story at face value and consider it to be true. To be confused, however, as to which parts of the story are plausible and which are unacceptable, would be to become obsessed with such questions, the answers to which only lead to more questions. Asking questions to which there is no answer is a rather fruitless and stupid activity.

Contrary to the first two, a warrior has a completely different way of thinking, since he is very familiar with the property of words to mislead and the fact that they always hide the truth. For this reason, a warrior reads and listens to words, accepting them at face value, but does not for a moment begin to believe that the words themselves are the truth he seeks. A warrior knows that words carry the truth, just as a cup holds water. Obviously, the cup and the water it is filled with have nothing in common; just as one cannot compare the literal meaning of words and the truth they carry in them.

Let’s take an example of the energy field. There is probably no way to understand the term in its literal meaning, and yet we have to accept it at face value, as it allows us to enrich ourselves with knowledge.

The concept of the “energy field” evokes in the rational mind the idea of any radiation, whether it is light, color, sound, magnetic properties, electricity, awareness or any other form of radiation. In addition, such a field is clearly three-dimensional, although nothing in the concept itself makes it impossible to unambiguously determine what form this field takes. Is it round, oblong, filamentous, or spherical?

The concept does not explain where this field came from, nor what effect it has. We do not know whether it is spreading linearly, pulsating, changing, or oscillating. In other words, we do not know the purpose of this energy, and therefore we cannot say what role it can play for us. Moreover, we do not know whether this energy field will not be perceived differently when observed within a different reference system.

Obviously, the concept of “energy field” is of great help in formulating our knowledge, but in itself it is completely inappropriate if it describes what the seer is able to comprehend in an instant. Indeed, a seer can write a whole dissertation about that something he saw in all its fullness in one moment of perception. After that, he can write another thesis in an attempt to substantiate what he saw, then another about its meaning, and then many others about possible goals, applications and the origin of what he saw, and so on. Once the reader of such dissertations has thoroughly penetrated all these endless descriptions, he will still not be able to clearly understand what the energy field is on the grandfather himself - for the simple reason that he has never seen it and has not noticed its effects.

If a warrior had to resort to such learning, he would, like any ordinary person, become hopelessly lost in a labyrinth of meaningless words. On the other hand, if he sees and uses words as symbols of what he has seen, he begins to understand that words are merely springboards to true knowledge, keys that open a truly new world of perception.

It is for this reason that a warrior takes everything at face value, but does not believe anything. This means that the warrior does not attach importance to the literal meaning of words, realizing that they only hide the truth, but at the same time gives meaning. They say it because they know that if used properly, it will lead them to the knowledge they are hiding.

Therefore, it is also said that a warrior never believes in the name of faith itself, because he knows that the world is not what it looks like. Thus, by reading or listening to words, the warrior understands that he learns words that need to be delved into or, strictly speaking, to give them a sound.

This process is known as sound work. Working with sound is more the work of the heart than the work of the mind. It involves the ability to recognize and trust that strange feeling, which is most accurately described as listening to something that sounds right.

Sensitivity to such a feeling leads to an incredible flow of knowledge - knowledge that a warrior often possesses without even knowing it! However, at such a moment, the mind always intervenes, denying this feeling as imaginary. For such moments there is a good way of distinguishing, which is rightly called a double-edged sword. A distinction of this kind can either help a warrior achieve clarity or destroy new knowledge.

For this reason, the warrior behaves as if he were in control of the situation, although he may in fact be completely bewildered, since recognition of the feeling of knowing and the ensuing trust in such knowledge arising from the heart pose the greatest threat to the rational mind, which sees this as a challenge to its authority. Consequently, the warrior fears his own irrationality and the prospect of sinking into a quagmire of fantasies. The only way to overcome this fear is to act as if he were in control, because, paradoxical as it may sound, “acting as if” is the best way to calm the rational mind.

It should be emphasized that the so-called imagination represents the ability of the mind to form images - although it is something more, much more. A simple picture is worth a million words! An architect can describe everything he’s going to build with a couple of drawings, even easier to do it by showing a three-dimensional model. Today, such models are easily performed with the help of computer graphics, but thanks to the ability of the mind to form mental images, they can be created no worse, much faster and with greater flexibility!

Of course, the model is not the same as the finished construction in the physical world, it is equally true that the mental image of knowledge is not yet a justified experience on the physical plane, but in both cases it is imagination that leads to their materialization. If Bell thought his mental image of the phone was a fantasy, he would never be able to create a real phone! Similarly, if seers thought what they saw as a shift in the assemblage point was pure fantasy, modern warriors still could not shift their assemblage point, and the Toltecs, like all others, would remain limited to a single frame of reference.

An important principle of war is that it must believe, as faith is a necessary condition for its existence.

The fact that words are only a symbolic form that provides a deeper understanding is one of the most difficult concepts for any person.

In an effort to make the human view of the world more sophisticated, linguists have for centuries defined and redefined the words of language, ensuring that every word that a person uses today has a fixed meaning within the context prescribed for him. As a result, the words have acquired great importance" something knowledge that they were originally supposed to convey.

Today, a person’s education is assessed by how he speaks, not by the real content of what he says. Words have become more important than knowledge itself, and theory has taken a privileged position in human life. It is amazing to see the power of words and the influence of human speech, which is characteristic of the modern view of man on the World. It is said that after any spoken word the universe never becomes the same, if so, it would be even more fair to say that with each spoken word the human view of the world becomes more rigid.

Whenever a person encounters something new that is beyond his rational mind, he is immediately taken to describe it and explain it in words. By the time he completes his explanation, what has happened is in a strong and secure position in his view of the world — that is the power and the trap of words.

A warrior cannot avoid using words, but he is able to avoid their trap. He achieves this, first, by reducing the use of words to the necessary minimum, and secondly, by carefully choosing the words used. The warrior knows that all explanations and descriptions are relative and related to his chosen frame of reference, but as all frames of reference change, the warrior does not attach much importance to explanations as such. For a warrior, the explanation is the exact opposite of what the word implies, derived from the word clarity. To consider a word more carefully, it is literally taken out of its plane, out of its true context. The moment a concept is taken out of context, the information gathered about it inevitably becomes incomplete, in most cases completely inaccurate.

The only effective way to get around this word trap is to practice what is called non-doing*. This practice is more fully described in Chapter 9. Words can be used without fear if you refuse to take them literally and do not forget that words are only symbols of the knowledge they hide.

In fact, the only value of words is that they make us think wider and deeper than before. Words are tools by which we can help others explore the unknown, and in this respect they can rightly be considered extremely important — although that is where their significance ends. Moreover, it is very important to remember that the ability of words to reveal knowledge depends only on the experience of the listener in the use of words and is associated with his understanding of their value.
What should be the approach of a person to the use of words?

All of the above answers this question in sufficient detail, but the following statement will make it even more understandable.

THE WARNER NEVER MAKES A DEPENDENT ERROR: HE DOES NOT ACCEPT THAT THE WORLD IS EXACTLY WHAT THE WORDS DESCRIPTION IS. A warrior lives by a challenge, and for him the word is no more than one challenge, no more, no less.

To recognize the challenge of words, a warrior must listen to their sound, their context, and most importantly, what they mean. The true meaning of words is what they mean, not the absolute meaning they carry by definition. In the whole, the warrior is able to see the true knowledge hidden in the words used by man — and not so much in the words themselves, but in what they mean. Most often, the most profound content can be derived from words that the speaker has not used, that is, from questions that he consciously or unconsciously avoided.

By exercising in reading between the lines and listening to unspoken messages of human speech, the warrior begins to see.
It should be explained that vision does not inherently mean something visual; rather, it is a direct flow of knowledge that arises between the speaker and the listener, and even between the object and the observer. Visionaries explain it in terms of tuning energy fields, which is quite correct from a technical point of view; however, the vision begins with the warrior’s recognition that words were invented only as communication tools. Initially, the words were quite harmless, then they turned into a means of determining the view of the world acceptable to both interlocutors and finally became the tools by which one person can seek power over others, even over the whole people. However, no seer can be suppressed by the power of words, and it is extremely difficult to hold him captive to a rigid frame of reference or view of the world.

All seers begin their journey in the same way. Having set a goal to destroy the fixity of their perception, the students begin to ask themselves questions about everything around them. These questions are not related to whether this phenomenon is true or not - seers are trying to understand what they have not yet noticed, This is the only difference between a scientist and a seer, but the results of their research are completely different.

The scientist tries to prove any position in accordance with a rigid reference system and therefore comes to such results that show the correctness or incorrectness, truth or falsity of such positions.

The Seer, recognizing a changing, moving universe in which the concept of absolute meaning is meaningless, tries to find only the use of the forces of the universe without worrying about explaining them. The seer knows that the explanations are valid only within the framework of the chosen frame of reference and therefore have no influence on the forces he seeks to use.

An excellent example of this is the use of imagination.
No orthodox scientist will ever allow himself to be accused of “fiction.” On the other hand, the seer does not worry about his reputation at all and therefore seeks only the best use of this most magical property of the human mind.

"Intellectual scientist" will fight long days and nights trying to prove or disprove their theories. Conversely, the seer is not at all concerned with such proofs, since the only necessary proof for him is the validity of his theory. Currently, neither scientists nor seers can prove the existence of the assemblage point, however, working with it, moving it, the seer can do what the scientist is not capable of. For the seer, the very use of the assemblage point is sufficient evidence that it is real, tangible, and can be manipulated. From a scientific point of view, it would be quite possible to consider the assemblage point itself, but not the results of its use!

The fundamental difference between a scientist and a seer lies in their attitude towards man and the world. For most scientists, everything unknown can be explained at a certain stage in terms of a rigid frame of reference using words, formulas, and theories. In general, scientists see man and the world as fixed within a system of absolute values, even if this system is not understood by them completely. For this reason, man and the world are for the scientist only an intellectual exercise.

In contrast, for the seer, man and the world are the most striking combination of ever-changing permutations — the amazing miracle of orderliness within what can only be described as chaos. Both man and the world are delightful mysteries to the seer, which, as he knows, he can never fully comprehend, since any understanding is based on a rigid frame of reference, and kaleidoscopic movements and permutations caused by continuous movement, change, and fluidity are not subject to logical understanding.

The scientist sees in words the hope of the possibility of reducing man and the universe to an understandable intellectual formula. The seer finds in words, or rather in what they imply, the possibility of expressing his admiration for the astonishing mystery and depth of man and the universe. The difference between a scientist and a seer, manifested in the results of their approaches, is simply stunning. The scientist leads humanity to a sterile life and increasing boredom, seeing reminds a person of his endless legacy of a magical creature living in an amazing and unknowable Universe.

Because of his fear of the unknown, man has inadvertently, though of his own free will, traded this admiration for boredom, an adventure for safety — and the words are a fine testimony to that. It is much more common for a person to adhere to the absolute and understandable content of words than to risk the unknown, wondering about the validity of their literal meaning.

A warrior who is, firstly, a free being, and secondly, a traveler and discoverer, is always looking for the hidden challenge and mystery that lurk behind the literal meaning of words.

Deep down in his heart he feels, feels, and simply knows that every word holds the key to the solution. For this reason, the warrior pays close attention to words, repeats them again and again mentally and thinks from all sides, trying to reveal all the possible meanings that are contained in them. For a warrior to take a word in its literal meaning means to be immediately trapped in ignorance and boredom — and this is a nonsense and a ridiculous waste of time and energy for him.
All of the above is related to the Toltecs' view on the use of words. But it is not only the Tolkiens who understand words in this way.

Below is a selection of quotes from the works of the best writers and poets of the world, which shows how each of these masters uses words in their own special style. Writers who use words in a manner most reminiscent of Toltec’s point of view are chosen. In this respect, the passages given will help the reader to become better acquainted with how words should be approached if one seeks to express the truth hidden in them.

As an exercise in figurative learning and the ability to read between the lines, the reader is encouraged to try to identify in this section two different basic approaches used by writers. These two approaches will be defined and described in detail later; it will suffice now to say that all men are naturally divided into two special types, which in the Toltec tradition are called dreamers and stalkers.

Dreamers are characterized by a rather serious approach, especially emphasizing the good, beautiful and mysterious. On the other hand, stalkers are more sociable, sometimes even chatty, and pay great attention to truth, paradox and humor, sometimes reaching a rather sarcastic satire.

Writers of both types require a reasonable and careful approach from their readers, since none of the works used here can be taken literally, and every word, every phrase contains deep subtext.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe gave excellent advice regarding the use of words when he said:

"Action is everything: reputation is nothing."

In this simple statement, the author argues that no matter how expressive a person's words may be, they remain mere words unless backed up by real action. Goethe said, “The theory, my friend, is dry, but the tree of life is always green.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson said:

A good book is made by a good reader.

It clearly emphasizes the importance of the reader’s experience in using words. Elsewhere, he states:

“Talk with reason in a sublimely simple way, and literature will become like a search for the right words.”

In this sentence, Emerson shows that he is well aware that the content of a person's words is more important than the words themselves.

William Blake echoes this in verse:

To see Peace in the Sand,

Heaven in the Wild Flower,

Squeeze the Infinity in your palm

And eternity is in the hour. 

These words are a fine example of the mind being sublimely simple, but they also contain something more. 

The first two lines describe the principle that the world is not what it looks like. Toltecs teach that the little things of life, which are so often overlooked as little, are just as important as anything else. Therefore, for a warrior, a grain of sand is something infinitely more than just a grain of sand, and a wild flower reveals to him the richest knowledge.

Similarly, the last two lines of Blake’s verse are not mere poetic words, but statements of great value. The expression “clamping Infinity in the palm” is an allusion to the God-like potential of a person.

Man in his true essence is an infinite being, compressing in his own palm the development of his destiny, that is, his potentialities. The last line, “and Eternity is in the hour,” is a scientific law no less valid than all the laws that the modern orthodox spider recognizes. In one short sentence, Blake describes a law that the Toltecs call time compression.

Albert Einstein mathematically proved that time is a special dimension, but the Toltecs have understood and used it since ancient times. However, science has not yet grasped all the subtleties implied by this law. In simple terms, time is inversely proportional to awareness. Mathematically, this can be described by the following equation: If t is the time spent on a task, and a is the level of awareness involved, then:

t = c / a, where c is constant (time).

So if you want to go to infinity, then t goes to zero:

0 = c / infinity

In practice, this law means that the higher the level of awareness, the less time is needed to understand a principle or perform a task. This is what is meant when it is said that a warrior compresses time.

Continuing the analysis of the words, Henry David Thoreau explains:

"To tell the truth, it takes two, the narrator and the listener."

This clear statement points to the importance not only of the reasonable use of words, but also of their accurate understanding. As if deliberately emphasizing that words always hide the truth, Oscar Wilde said:

Truth is rarely pure, and never, it is simple.

And Jonathan Swift added that the correct use of words is a sure sign of an impeccable stalker. He says:

“The right words in the right place are the true mark of style.”

As if confirming Swift’s point of view, Stephen Spender wrote the following stanzas — great words that use the technique of a real stalker.

I think of those who are great.

People who have fought for their lives,

Who carried in their hearts the fire of love.

Born of the sun, they did not travel long to the sun,

Leaving the life-giving air marked by their honor.

In these lines Spender says a lot about the origin of man, the principle of rebirth and the activities of the Toltecs over the centuries. The true content of these verses, however, is beyond the scope of this book; they are included only to demonstrate how stalking techniques are applied through words.

Like everything else in the universe, words are neither good nor bad in themselves; they only reflect our intention. Words can express confusion, boredom, and devastation — or, on the contrary, beauty, mystery, and unspeakable truth. The strange paradox of words is that any language was born by the mind of man, but its roots lie in the human heart. This is typical of all paradoxes: if a person has to answer the riddle of the Sphinx, he uses both his mind and heart to bypass the deadly trap of the monster. Bernard Shaw said:

"The man who listens to reason is lost: reason enslaves everything, minds not strong enough to cope with it."

As if to foresee that this statement might raise questions, Shaw clarifies it in another work:

A reasonable person adapts to the world, a reckless person persistently tries to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, any progress depends on reckless people.”

Once again we meet with a virtuoso demonstration of stalking, allowing us to feel a fragment of wisdom. Continuing in the same manner, the inimitable Shaw concludes:

“A man of common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.”

In the above sentence, Shaw wittily points out the debilitating effects of social conditioning and the mediocrity generated by prudence. In his own humble manner, Blaise Pascal adds:

"The heart has its own thoughts, about which the mind does not know"

Responding to this statement about the value of inherent knowledge, Emerson advises a person:

"tie your cart to the stars."

Then, making us feel that any true knowledge is in the heart, he says:

“Although we travel the world in search of the beautiful, we must carry it with us, otherwise we will never find it.”

In the following short passage, Blake develops this principle by emphasizing the futility of accumulating external things in trying to find happiness and, consequently, knowledge:

"He who tries to draw joy to himself,

Destroys the life of the soul.

But he who kisses the Joy flying by,

It is in the dawn of eternity.” 

One way or another, but when it comes to the use of words, the warrior's approach is clearly described by the words of Walt Whitman:

“Look, I don’t give lessons or do small charity work — when I give, I give myself.”

In this sense, the warrior uses the same criterion to assess the potential invested in other people’s words. As one student once put it very clearly:

“Some people are so wrong!”

Oscar Wilde put it this way:

“A little sincerity is dangerous, a lot of sincerity is absolutely deadly.”

I hope that reflection on these examples will allow the reader to better understand that a warrior should approach words like any other challenge in his life. Accepting words at face value or using them lightly is complete nonsense. Jesus said:

“Not that which goes into the mouth defiles a man; but that which comes out of the mouth defiles a man.”

The warrior pays great attention, first, to his own speech and, secondly, to the words of others. It should always be remembered that a person is what is revealed in his words - taking into account that the listener knows how to listen and does not find himself on the hook of the literal meaning of words.

All of the above was an attempt to show both stupidity and the power of words, their falsity and truth and, in particular, their humor. Words become a powerful weapon in the hands of a warrior who sees them not only as a challenge, but also as a responsibility.

In general, people do not appreciate words. Today, people all over the world demand, among many other things, freedom of speech. But at the same time, they often refuse to accept the responsibility imposed by words. So we can only laugh with Oscar Wilde, who said:

“Democracy is nothing but the thorns that people get from people in the name of people.”

It is easy to speak, and even easier to speak with great conviction. People are so carried away by their own or others’ words that they can even afford to die for individual statements. However, as William Thackeray noted:

"It's hard not, death in the name of faith, Mr. Harry, any nation has examples of such people. To live in the name of faith is what is difficult.”

A man utters something that sounds very good, and he himself begins to believe it - this is the power of the spoken word; in essence, it is an obligation. In this regard, the warrior follows Goethe's advice:

"Genius grows in silence and forms character in the turbulent course of life."

Silence, both internal and external, is the door to true knowledge, and masterly mastery of words, the ability to both speak and listen, is the door to freedom. Silence and words are two sides of the same coin — communication — and an ineffable word often contains much more than what is spoken.

Finally, one should realize that, using words, a warrior is actually seeking knowledge. Gaining this knowledge, however, requires skill:

The skill of a warrior lies in his ability to reconcile fear and admiration.

The only way a warrior can develop such skill is by developing a sense of humor. The author who perfectly understood this was Oscar Wilde, who noted:

“We all sit in a gutter, but some look at the stars.”

This observation of Wilde perfectly describes humor, recklessness, indomitable intention and the position of a warrior. Tears are said to purify the soul, and if so, such purification alone is not enough for a warrior to live. The ability to laugh is vital to a warrior’s well-being, as laughter brings him temporary relief from the strain of the battle he is fighting day by day. Goethe understood what it means to be a warrior, because he wrote:

"You must either conquer and rule, or suffer defeat and serve, suffer or rejoice, be an anvil or a hammer."

Speaking of recklessness, Bernard Shaw, a very witty man, able to laugh at himself, wrote:

“I never resist temptation, for I have discovered that what is harmful to me does not tempt me at all.”

The folly of our own actions becomes for us an inexhaustible source of laughter. Edgar Allan Poe expressed the principle of recklessness very eloquently:

"Everything we see and appear to be,

Just a dream in a dream.”

In these two short lines, but very expressively sums up the attitude of the Toltecs to the usual human perception of the world. People see and perceive the world in accordance with their frame of reference, however, if the assemblage point is shifted sufficiently, a completely new and different world is assembled in it, as real as the world that a person perceives in the usual state. In comparison, all the aspirations of everyday life look completely ridiculous.

The greatest writer William Shakespeare expressed recklessness in this way:

"The party is over.

In this presentation

The actors, I said, were spirits.

In the air and in the air,

And when they did their job, they did it.

Like ghosts without flesh,

Someday they melt like smoke,

And the mountains are covered with clouds,

And proud palaces and temples,

And yes, the whole world.

And as with these disembodied masks,

There will be no trace of them.

We are made of the same substance.

What our dreams are.

And sleep surrounds our whole little life.”

Frank Herbert adds a caustic remark to Shakespeare's words:

“I think about the joy of being alive, and wonder whether I will ever be able to leap inward, to the very centre of this flesh, and know myself as I once was. Whatever action of mine may help reveal it lies in an uncertain future. But I am capable of everything within human power. Any action of mine may lead to it.”

This is the most appropriate description of a warrior’s attitude. It indicates how he sees himself and the task of his life, that is, his attempt to unravel the mystery of his own being. On a calmer note of almost reverential reverence, Herbert, like a warrior, concludes:

“There is no boundary between gods and men; some merge gently and imperceptibly with others.”

Ultimately, no one may have been able to express the warrior's position better than Hermann Hesse, who wrote:

“With my body and spirit I knew that I needed to sin, that I needed to lust, that I had to crave possession and experience both disgust and depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, to love the world and not to compare it with some desirable and imaginary worlds, with fantastic images of perfection, but simply to leave it as it is. The stone is a stone, but it is also an animal, and God, and Buddha. I respect and love him not because he was one and will someday be something else, but because he already is everything and will always be everything. I love him only because he is a stone, because now and now he seems to me like a stone.

Such is the attitude of the warrior, such is the perfection of his spirit. That's his challenge. Words spoken and written are only part of this challenge.

TIGR
No one can be trapped without their consent.

CHAPTER THREE
THE LIGHT LEADING TO FREEDOM

The only harm in life is rejection.

Those who think about the life of ordinary people of our time are invariably struck by the painfully boring and banal existence that they, in a certain sense, simply have to drag out. The average person is born, grows up, goes to school, maybe even to college or university, finds a job and a spouse, starts a family, saves money for a car, a house and furniture, goes on an annual vacation, grows old and eventually dies. It remains only to be surprised that a person manages not to go crazy and even find satisfaction in such harsh conditions of constant boredom. This is how most of humanity lives today.

At some point in their lives, at least some people wonder: "Is this all that you can live?" However, they rarely find a way out of this difficulty. Sad as it may seem, they are unable to find a reasonable and practical solution, and feel that they will have to accept their fate and rely only on what they have.

LIFE IS AN INFORMAL AND MONOTONAL ENTERTAINMENT FOR A GENERAL MAN, EXISTING FROM ANY DEFINED PLEASURE, IN WHICH PERFORMANCE, BUT A MAN HAS BEEN TRANSFERING FROM ONE FORM OF ACTIVITY MAN STARTS TO OVERCOME THE FEELINGS OF DESERTIFICATION AND THE ENTITLED STRENGTH TO FILL IN THIS EMPTY, BUT HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE WANT TO DO, AND ONLY THE SURGERY TREATMENT IS FULL. VERY soon he realizes that all life has been skewed through his fingers, and has been wasted on the immeasurable balances of human pettiness.

We all start life as ordinary men and women, but this does not mean that we do not have the opportunity to give meaning to our lives by our own choice. We may feel like victims of fate, but while no one person can really escape it, we are all capable of rising above fate if we only make that choice. At some point in life, each of us has the opportunity to decide for ourselves what we want from life.

The problem is that we are all born blind, just like our human condition.

In our stupidity, we are extremely proud to be human. As a result, we demand certain privileges and rights for ourselves, and then make a big noise and get very upset when our demands turn out to be unsatisfied.

But look at the person carefully. See what he does with this planet, with his fellow creatures, and with other creatures that live on the earth next to him. Look at his secret feelings and hidden thoughts. People can talk a lot about ethics and morality, but carefully hide their thoughts and feelings, which often turn out to be so low and disgusting that they cause mental desecration - even more destructive than physical pollution.

A man thinks he is more animal than an animal, but in most cases he has a worse existence than any animal.

If we live such a life, then what is surprising in that sooner or later we begin to feel like victims? This is the way we live, because we fear that another life will turn out to be madness.

To my regret, we are all already insane.

Take a closer look at this person and compare their situation with yours. Are you able to deviate from what was considered right from childhood, from what was taught to you as right? Are you capable of this? Oh, no.

Because of their social conditioning, people are in mental environments. TO CONTINUE A PERSON IN PHYSICAL SOCIETY MEANS SLAVERY; TO CONTAINE IT IN PSYCHIC DEPENDENCE IS TO BE DEPENDENT BLACK MAGIC. SOON, FROM THIS EVIL ALL HUMANITY IS PASSED, WE ALL MAKE OUR LEG INTO IT. A MAN IS STRENGTHENING THIS HARD PRACTICE BY LOOKING THIS LIFE TO HIS CHILDREN. It is for this reason that the actions of any person are invariably determined by the indirectivity generated by social conditioning.

Of course, we are able to rationally justify our behavior in order to feel better about our actions. For example, as parents, we constantly convince ourselves that we act solely for the benefit of our children. After all, our parenting responsibilities are to guide our children in the right direction. Unfortunately, too often we continue to consider ourselves good parents when we impose our will, our thoughts and beliefs on children. And then, when we successfully complete this brainwashing and children’s behaviors, feelings, and even thinking become like ours, we enjoy self-satisfaction knowing that we have given the world submissive citizens who will humbly wander on a leash.

Such excuses do not change anything. It is one thing to guide your children with love and perseverance, but to impose your will on them is to abuse your position as parents. It is our duty to encourage independent thinking and responsibility for our own actions. On the other hand, to suppress their will by forcing them to submit to our judgements is an unforgivable infringement on human rights.

Children need love, care and strong leadership, but they need understanding and, above all, respect. If we never listen to our children, we should not be surprised that children stop listening to us. If we listen to them only to be constantly drawn away by our remarks, we have no right to be offended if one day they bring down their anger or bitterness upon us. Children learn much more from visual examples than from words. If we listen to their questions, requests and wishes with respect and understanding, they will also listen to our advice and guidance with the same respect and understanding. If we love our children without turning our love into chains, our children will always respond with the same love.

What is true for us as parents is also true for us as citizens of the world. All of us have to suffer from the cruelties of social conditioning, but it must be understood that there are really no victims.

NO ONE CAN BE IN A TRAVEL WITHOUT HIS CONSENT.

No one can enslave a man against his will. There are a lot of people in the world who have grasped this, started to struggle and freed themselves from all traditional styles of behavior and rules. It is only unfortunate that, although such people have enough personal power to liberate themselves, they usually do not have enough strength to determine for themselves a new goal and a new direction in life.
Without purpose and direction, such people often find themselves on the other side of the law, a law created by ordinary people leading ordinary existence. Having broken free from the traditions and customs of this law, the rebels do not find sympathy with the law imposed by those from whom these people tried to escape in the first place.

If the rebels cannot find a new purpose for life, but are intelligent enough to remain on the right side of the law, they invariably become what the Toltecs call petty tyrants. Small tyrants spend their lives spilling out inner rage and irritation and turning the lives of others into continuous misfortunes. These people very often commit the same crimes against their children that were committed by their own parents.

With all of this in mind, ask yourself who you are. What scenario of life do you follow? Be honest with yourself. Don’t be fooled by the hasty notion that you are unique, as none of us live in isolation from life.
Are you secretly inclined towards black magic? Could you be petty tyrants? To answer these questions, think about the people with whom you are connected in your life. Do they respect you? Do they truly love you? Do they trust you?

People are always mirrors in which we see our own reflection. But these mirrors also show our prejudices. If some mirrors reflect love and others reflect anger, we can understand who we love and who we despise.

We all tend to be dishonest, but our mirrors never lie. Mirrors always show us exactly how we think, feel and act in relation to the world around us. We can deny this reflection as loudly and passionately as we like, but it will not change until we change ourselves. As soon as a person changes, his image in the mirror will become different - this is the law of light and reflection.

However, a warrior can sometimes cause a deliberate image of himself, designed to mislead others. It's called stalking. There are several reasons why a warrior might want to hunt down others, and the most important of them is a clash with a petty tyrant. Dealing with petty tyrants is always unpleasant; in other words, they, in one way or another, make our lives miserable, but the right behavior towards them can bring the gift of rich knowledge.

Small tyrants are much more than mirrors, for they show us our weaknesses. It is for this reason that a warrior can, of his own free will, force a petty tyrant to pursue him. To achieve this, a warrior must lure a petty tyrant, but then, a warrior must quickly and effectively change his behavior in order not to fall into his power. This is much like teasing a lion — not just risky, but extremely dangerous.

However, if proper stalking is applied to the petty tyrant, this experience teaches us a lot and allows us to reveal such potentialities in ourselves that we could not otherwise learn about the existence of which we could not.

The only justification for the physical existence of man is learning. IT IS A DESIGN THAT HE CAN'T AVOID UNDER ANY COMMUNITY.

Learning should be understood as knowledge by experience, as the Way of the Warrior is primarily a practical way. Accumulation of information does not mean learning. Information remains useless in every way if one does not find good practical use for it in one’s daily life, and the only truly valuable knowledge is that which enables one to better understand one’s purpose and to speed up its fulfillment. This is true, as hard as it is to accept these people who believe that they are in control of their lives.

Man has been discussing the question of freedom of choice for centuries, but he still stubbornly refuses to admit that he has only two options: either to contribute to the realization of his destiny or to hinder it. If he follows his fate, he will have a happy and prosperous life, but if he, on the contrary, hinders it, he is haunted by difficulties and misfortunes.

It is incomprehensible that a person is able to prevent the fulfillment of his destiny. And yet very often, even unconsciously, he does just that — and all because he finds himself in the flow of social conditioning. Social conditioning allows us to do only what our fellow human beings expect.

It should, however, be recognized that social conditioning is, of course, based on a mutually agreed and universal view of the world. Such a conventional approach requires that each person use the same frame of reference as everyone else.
It automatically excludes all views, ideas and feelings that are not consistent with the common human point of view. However, the purpose of man never doomed him to a single point of view.

THE DESTINATION OF MAN IS IN THE STUDY OF ALL POSSIBLE, IMMEDIATE MANIFESTATIONS OF LIFE IN OUR UNIVERSE.

The real possibility is to shift the assemblage point from its normal position and, as a result, achieve a completely new view of the world. Humanity does not do this, primarily because of the lack of necessary knowledge. It must be admitted that this knowledge was not always publicly available, but it must be borne in mind that there are no free gifts in the world as such. We have to pay for everything we receive, even for so-called gifts.

IN THIS UNIVERSE, NOTHING IS JUST THAT — ANY KNOWLEDGE CAN BE GOT FOR A HIGH PRICE.
PAYMENT FOR SUITABLE KNOWLEDGE IS A PERSON'S LIFE. THE KNOWLEDGE YOU ARE LOOKING FOR MAY ONLY BE RECEIVED IN THE CASE IF YOU DIVIDED ALL OF YOUR LIFE TO THEM. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO GO THE WAY OF KNOWING WITHOUT SURVIVING THIS KNOWLEDGE. Therefore, your self-employed should be complete. A man does not enter the path of knowledge by natural way; Therefore, any training is compulsory.

Many people would like to gain knowledge, but they would prefer to just buy it somewhere and avoid the need to earn it. It is for this reason that today there are so many schools selling enlightenment, and it is not difficult to find such gurus who will take on your duty to learn for a fee. However, as already noted, true knowledge is self-knowledge, and this knowledge can not be given to us by anyone - it can not be bought even with all the money of the world.
The only thing a true spiritual master can give his students is the necessary guidance to allow them to reveal their own hidden reserves. To achieve this, the spiritual master must make the students learn who and what they really are, for without such knowledge, a person is not able to reveal his potentialities. However, the need to face yourself, critically evaluate yourself and recognize everything in yourself, including shortcomings, is always unpleasant and in most cases extremely frightening.

Given this, it is not surprising that many people seek only such teachers who will allow them to feel great and promise to do all the work for the students. It is never easy with a true spiritual master, because he inevitably makes us look at those aspects of ourselves that we have been trying to hide from everyone around us and from ourselves all our lives. Such a teacher does not care what students may think about him, whether they like him or not, he only cares about making sure that they receive the knowledge they are looking for and for which they came to him. Obviously, there are very few such teachers, and they are difficult to find for the simple reason that they are really rare people who put their reputations at stake and love their students more than universal recognition.

KNOWLEDGE IS ALWAYS HIGHER AND POWERFUL. TO GO THE WAY OF KNOWING IS TO TAKE CARE OF LIFE. Therefore, if you come to this path to learn, you should be ready to do that, to get rid of it, as if it depends on your entire life. In the beginning, no one knows what it means to be a human being because he does not know what it means to be a human being. THAT'S why he's hungry for the award that's in the majority. Occurred to be contrary to its purpose and therefore cannot be fulfilled.

In general, people are fascinated by stories about the so-called supernatural, about heroes and amazing feats of geniuses. Listening to or reading such stories, any man, woman and child secretly, deep inside, puts himself in the place of the character and begins to imagine what he would do, being a hero with supernatural abilities. However, even thinking about it, people do not believe that they are really capable of such accomplishments, and in most cases they are extremely embarrassed if their secret dreams are discovered.

Social conditioning does not allow anything supernatural for ordinary people. It is allowed only to heroes and heroines who are consistently beyond the parameters of social conditioning. The use of magic is acceptable to a magician, since magicians exist outside the boundaries of ordinary people; but if the secretary suddenly shows magical abilities in the setting of his office, this will be regarded as a serious violation of social traditions.

In their fear of being isolated from society or seeming abnormal, people are desperately clinging to the limits of social uniformity. They only have to indulge in secret dreams from time to time.

In such secret dreams, people create a new life for themselves, and depending on how much they themselves believe in the possibility of realizing their dreams, they begin to unconsciously transfer their innermost desires, hopes and fears to the world around them. If such a person experiences strong inner anger, he sooner or later begins to see rage in the world around him.

Everyone around him seems to be aggressive. Similarly, if a person feels inner fear, the world around him becomes more threatening and frightening.

It is important to understand that a huge part of the secret dreams of a person rarely rises to the surface, to the light of full awareness.

On the contrary, such dreams lurk in the ghostly world of half-conscious emotional impulses, usually manifested in an irresistible sense of guilt. There, in a shadowy world, these dreams are fueled by the juicy fruits of repressed emotions and desires. Abundantly nourished, these dreams lead to the appearance of those forms of strangely distorted ideas and hopes that a person considers the goal of his life and the reflection of his true self.

In the light of all this, it is not surprising that a person does not know who and what he is on his grandfather and what his true desires and thoughts should be. Therefore, no one embarks on the Path of Knowledge with a right expectation of what is to come and, therefore, with the right motivations.

The best thing a beginner can do on the Path of Knowledge is to approach it with an open mind, with the willingness to do whatever is necessary to reveal the true nature of knowledge and, more importantly, the true nature of his being. Only then can real progress be made. It is only when the seeker begins to sink into those parts of himself which he has confined to the dark regions of the sex of the conscious that he is able to understand how frightening knowledge can be. From this follows the need to prepare to fight and fight as if the outcome of the battle depends on human life.

I AM NOT THE MOST FIGHTING, BUT I AM THE MOST HAZARDOUS OF ALL THE STRENGTHS. Getting close to KNOWING is like getting married for life. Therefore, the warrior comes close to knowing with complete awareness, with fear, respect, and absolute confidence. ANYONE WHO WILL BE SO GLUP TO COME TO KNOW DIFFERENTLY WILL Grate HARDLY ABOUT THEIR ERROR. ON THE OTHER PARTY, IF IT IS Sufficient TO KNOW YOUR SEARCH FOR LIFE AND DEATH, THERE WILL BE NO REASON FOR COMPLAINTS, AS A SIMPLE APPROACH IS AGAINST EASY CHILDREN.

The above aphorism is known as a warrior shield and requires careful analysis. His full analysis will be presented in the next chapter, but he has been cited here to make it clear that any approximation to knowledge is a serious step for which the seeker must bear full responsibility. To approach knowledge carelessly or lightly means to make a fatal mistake, since something learned can never be forgotten. Information can be quickly collected and forgotten just as quickly, but with true knowledge, the situation is different.
In general, a person never achieves true knowledge, mainly because he does not know what he is looking for. Most people live only in gleams of light reflected from the surface of their awareness, and as a result never penetrate into the dark depths of this awareness, that is, never become integral human beings.

However, in order to acquire real knowledge and the ability to use it, a person should become holistic. He needs to get to know every part of himself. Whatever happens, he needs to illuminate all his potential abilities with the light of full awareness, no matter how frightening or unpleasant these dark areas may seem to him. It is for this reason that every student of the Way of the Warrior is taught a technique called replay.

From the very first day of its preparation, the student is expected to begin viewing his whole life to the smallest detail, from the current moment back to the very moment of birth. It is obvious that this task is not simple and cannot be completed quickly, in most cases, the acquisition of full memory requires many years, but it must be passed and carried out properly, if only the student is going to succeed on the Path of Knowledge. Only through a recapitulation of his whole life the student is able to truly understand his whole essence. This technique is described in detail in Chapter 8.
On the basis of all that has already been said, the quality and nature of knowledge become quite understandable.

GOOD KNOWLEDGE SHOULD LIVE IN YOUR INTERNAL SELF, BUT, AS THE INTERNAL ESSENCE OF EVERY PERSON IS UNIQUE, KNOWLEDGE CANNOT BE BENEFITED WITH THEM. KNOWLEDGE RECEIVED FROM OTHER PEOPLE DOES NOT RECEIVE THE TRUST TO USE THEM. CONFIDENCE IN KNOWLEDGE IS ONLY A THANKS TO PRACTICE.

No one person can take advantage of the knowledge of another, because with confidence you can use only that knowledge that is learned from personal experience. Anyone can read the rope-walking theory, but it will not save him from falling when he steps on the rope. Only with regular practice by trial and error will he eventually learn to walk on a rope without breaking off.
A more subtle example: we all know that it’s not enough to hear that you’re beautiful if you think you’re ugly. We only accept compliments when we think we are pretty, and the only way to believe you are really beautiful is to exercise the belief that you are beautiful. It is said that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” and although this ancient saying is often used by many people, they hardly believe it for real. However, what is good for one is often completely unattractive to the other.

For example, some men find women with lush breasts extremely attractive, while others prefer women with small, well-defined breasts. And yet neither of the women of both types will consider themselves beautiful if she does not believe in it and will not exercise confidence in her charm.

Both examples are true for any situation in our lives, because we so often face the devastating effects of social conditioning. If a child has difficulty learning to walk, he is constantly told that he is clumsy.
Even when he becomes an adult, he continues to be reminded of how not - a dexterous and clumsy child he was. Such a person will certainly begin to believe that walking on a rope is absolutely not for him.

Similarly, if modern magazine fashion is designed for women with large breasts, women with small breasts begin to feel damaged, but if this fashion changes in favor of flat-chested ladies, women with large breasts will make desperate attempts to hide their splendor.

The first task that is set before the student is the methodical disregard of all forms of his social conditioning, for as long as he adheres to this conditioning, he is unable to make any real progress. The technique to achieve this is non-doing, which is done along with re-viewing. This technique is described in detail in Chapter 9.

Just as it is impossible to get rid of social conditioning in a single night when you have full memories of a person’s whole life, which takes a long time. The student cannot immediately succeed in failing to accomplish something of real importance, but methodical work allows him to gradually, step by step, weaken all his social conditioning. Very often the student finds that he has approached some insurmountable obstacle in the singing of remembering or not-doing. He may be said to be stuck and feel that, despite all his efforts, he simply cannot remember something really valuable or cope with not-doing.

EVEN IF THE WARNER DOES NOT ATTEND A SPECIFIC SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE, HE DOESN'T ATTEND THE ATTACK OF KNOWLEDGE WE'RE THINKING A LOT OF THINGS TO WIN IN ONE AND GAME OTHERS. SUCCESS IS NOT DETERMINED BY THE QUANTITY OF COVERS, but BY THEM, SO GOOD WE HAVE BEEN.

If the student is faced with such an obstacle, he has nothing but a long struggle and attempts to break through the barrier. It may seem to him that he has failed, but it is not - such obstacles are only temporary difficulties.

By continuous struggle, the student breaks the fixation of the assemblage point. This is very important because we can’t make real progress until we learn to shift our assemblage point. This is why the Ancient Seers always forcibly moved their students’ assemblage points before proceeding to learn.

No one spends a lifetime with an assemblage point that is in the same position as it was at birth. During life, a person constantly unconsciously "corrects" the position of his assemblage point. However, at the same time, he “forgets” most of his perception and the means by which he gained this knowledge.

To understand this, it should be remembered that the assemblage point is very similar to the radio set-up handle. The purpose of such a pen is to allow us to tune in to different radio frequencies, to certain radio stations. Every time we move it, we move to a new frequency band, which refers to a new radio station.

The human assemblage point works in the same way because it gives us access to the various energy fields that make up our perception of the world. Thanks to it, we accumulate certain experience and knowledge inherent in this perception.

When we move to other energy fields, we get a different perception. This new view of the world makes us lose touch with, or “forget” our previous experiences and knowledge. Needless to say, we don’t really forget anything — it’s just that our earlier views are obscured by the influence of the new perspective and the associated perception.

When some knowledge overlaps with others, the former become what is called subconscious or unconscious knowledge. The fact that knowledge is subconscious does not mean that its impact is waning. On the contrary, our thoughts and feelings, and therefore our actions, are continually influenced by such subconscious knowledge. This is why students often struggle with old habits. Such subconscious knowledge is usually manifested at the most unexpected moment, and the student discovers that he is performing actions caused by his subconscious knowledge before he understands what he is doing.

For this reason, it can be concluded that in order to achieve a full return of memory and successful practice of not-doing, it is necessary to be able to shift the assemblage point to all its previous positions. Only the achievement of the old position of the assemblage point allows us to recall the knowledge gained in this position and identify the habits that arose as a result of this experience.

It is important to realize that it does not even matter that at first we are faced with only obvious failures. Paradoxically, success on the Path of Knowledge is not about the results of our struggle, but how flawlessly we fight, for it is the fact of the struggle that forces our assemblage point to shift. Once we are able to move the assemblage point, everything gently and effortlessly falls into place. The only thing that requires a struggle is the need to move the assemblage point at least once. Once this is done, there is a free path ahead, the need to fight for the displacement of the assemblage point is the only valuable indication that is given to the student. It does not matter what specific method is used, nor what task is set, the only goal of any training is to guide the student to the struggle for the mobility of the assemblage point.

Moreover, the more difficult this struggle is, the greater the student’s mobility will become as a result. It’s like training a heavyweight: the more weight he has to lift, the stronger he becomes. However, the consequences of social conditioning are such that if a person tries at first, but fails, he immediately decides that he has completely failed. Having concluded on this basis that he simply does not have the necessary abilities, such a person inevitably abandons his attempts.

An important point is a clear definition of what are the so-called failures and successes. These principles can only be understood in the context of what is called following any path, whether it is a spiritual path or a career.

The value of the path lies in the way it goes. IF YOU FEEL THAT THE WAY YOU'RE GOING IS NOT YOURS, YOU SHOULD LEAVE IT IMMEDIATELY. HOWEVER, YOUR DECISION TO FOLLOW THIS OR ANOTHER WAY SHOULD BE BASED ON THE CLEARNESS BORN FROM THE DISCIPLINED LIFE OF THE WARNER, NOT ON FEAR OR CHOOSTUALITY. SOLUTIONS TAKEN IN THE BRIGHT LIGHT OF CLEANNESS, CAN YOU CLEAR SOMETHING — AND LESS YOURS — DISSEMINATION.

As we have seen, in the end it doesn’t matter how many battles we won or how many we lost, because the only thing that matters is whether we fought or not, and if so, how well we did it. Did we leave the battle out of fear, or did we fight bravely, forgetting everything?

No warrior would deny that knowledge can be extremely frightening at times — especially knowledge that turns our sense of security into a sense of threat. Most people simply don’t have the courage to engage in a battle that they know could end their most cherished ideas and beliefs. In the run-up to such a test, people usually push their tails and run away so as not to face the possibility of parting with their ideas, which they use as the foundation of everything that is important to them. Such a fear of loss can become so overwhelming that if a person is pushed into a corner and threatened with this battle, he can even commit suicide, but will not give up.

Going off the road because you can’t face the battles is cowardice. Similarly, turning away from the path simply because it does not meet your original expectations is sheer stupidity. None of these actions has true clarity, since the first is based on fear and the second is based on bias generated by ambition. Both fear and ambition lack sobriety, and without sobriety, failure will sooner or later displace any further success.

On the other hand, we often see that even when a person has realized that his path is completely unsuitable for him, he continues to follow it only because a person does not have the courage to leave this path. For such a person to give way means to admit to himself and others that he was mistaken, and he considers such a confession an insult to himself and even to those around him. In such cases, the person begins to passionately defend his path, struggling to justify his actions with rational reasons, instead of admitting that he was wrong.

CAREFULLY VIEW ANY WAY, VERIFYING IT WITH ANY WAYS THAT ONLY YOU NEED, AND TAKE YOURSELF — AND ONLY YOURSELF — ONE QUESTION: “Whether this way. ONE OF THEM IS VISIBLE, THE OTHERS ARE DIRECTLY, BUT AT THE END OF THE END, NO ONE WAY WILL LEAVE ANYONE. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WAYS IS THAT SOME HAVE HEARTS, AND OTHERS DO NOT. THE WAY THAT HAS A HEART raises the mood, FAILURES the foot, and brings joy. ON THE WAY WITHOUT A HEART YOU FEEL AND FALL THE SPIRIT; IN THE FINAL ACCOUNT, THIS WAY MAKES YOU LOOK AT YOUR LIFE WITH Wrath AND HOTNESS.

An ordinary person rarely finds himself on a path with a heart, since most of the time he follows the path intended for him by his social conditioning. Most people hate a lot in their lives — work, car, home, relatives, or a pet. As a result, they spend most of their lives feeling irritated and grieving, often cursing her incessantly and dreaming that she would be different. From such people you can hear comments like: "If only I had better health ... If I had money ... If only children listened to me ... If the political situation in the country was not so threatening ... If I could go back in time ... If I could foresee the future ... If..."

Such a person never lives in the present moment, because he is either in the past or in the future. The present has no meaning for him and no consequences, since it is always supplanted by an unhappy past or an uncertain future. It is obvious that this is not the way with the heart, for it brings neither peace nor joy, nor a feeling of wonder and mystery; on the contrary, it offers only a desperate journey, black and inanimate, boring and completely depressing.

If we live such a depressed life, we do not have a special desire to fight in any battles, for what is it worth fighting for in such a life? Slowly but surely, a person is completely absorbed by the exhausting sensations of meaninglessness and dissatisfaction. He feels a heavy sense of futility and eventually capitulates, parting with his will to fight. It's like a wire. Stopping attempts means complete defeat.

The point is that there can be no defeats as such in life. Losing one of the many battles we have to fight in our lifetime doesn’t mean failing; it’s just one lost battle. Even if we fail, we gain important knowledge through this experience. If we fight flawlessly, we learn, and the value lies in learning, not in the outcome of the battle. The only defeat in life is the refusal to fight.

A warrior is a person who fights for freedom from social conditioning, for freedom to think and make independent decisions, for freedom to move an assembly car of his own free will and thereby achieve any view of the world of his choice, but above all for freedom to enjoy this life and the rich experience it brings. This way of life does not mean that all desires of a person are automatically fulfilled, as it depends on his purpose in the current life. However, this means that the fate of a person - it is in wealth and a luxurious mansion or in a modest life in a small house - will unfold calmly and quietly. In this silence of life, a person finds joy and wonder, generated by the understanding that he follows the path with the heart, since the heart is always where our true destiny passes.

Before we begin to understand who we are on the grandfather and what is our true purpose in this life, we always have a huge number of desires and aspirations that we believe will make us completely happy, if only they will be fulfilled. But when our destiny is finally realized, we are invariably, without exception, overwhelmed by its beauty and wonder. In the craziest of dreams, we could never have imagined something as beautiful and delightful as our own true destiny.

THE WARNER IS THE MAN WHO LEARNED TO LOVE LIFE AND ALL THE WEALTH THAT IT LOOKS TO HIM — AND BEFORE ALL THE WAYS THAT HE LOOKS. There is no greater joy for a warrior than to follow the path of his heart. HE GOES ON THIS WAY, ENJOYED BY THE MIRACLES, AND IN HIS HAPPINESS FROM THE HEART OF THANKS FOR THAT AMAZING HONOR, HONORING EVERYTHING THAT THEY WILL MEET, WITH LOVE AND AT SIGN.

To lead the life of a warrior fighting for freedom is to succeed in life — success in following a path with a heart in which the destiny of a person is fulfilled in the most delightful and joyful way. In such a way, any obstacle that a warrior encounters is another exciting battle for him, an adventure that, as he knows, will bring him the discovery of another miracle of this life, and yet every warrior begins his life like any person.

The disciple of the Way of the Warrior has the same fears and doubts as any ordinary person, the only difference is that he squeezes his courage with both hands and, tempering himself, penetrates the luminary to freedom.

As soon as we become brave enough to seize a fleeting moment of opportunity, one thing begins to lead to another until, finally, one day in the midst of battle, we suddenly discover that our team has truly become the Eagle’s team.

From this moment on, we become free beings, the world is no longer our sink, and joy permeates us unimpeded and endlessly.

This is the Eagle’s gift to man — to all people who want to try and continue their attempts at any cost. However, the reward for this is much higher, much more precious than all the efforts expended to achieve this goal.

BEARS
If you don’t have the strength to fight, you have no choice but to live as a slave. But the hunter is a free being who cannot condemn himself to slavery; he has no choice but to fight. If he dies in this battle, then at least he dies as a free being, not as a slave.

CHAPTER FOUR
HUNTING FOR FORCE

THE BEST HUNTINGS ARE NOT WHO HAVE WELLNESS TO HUNTING, AND WHO HAVE TO FIGHT FOR A LONG TIME AND TRY TO LEARN ALL THE FEATURES OF THIS TRAINING.

Before we move on to the concept of the hunter and the meaning of the concept of "power hunting", you should define the object of hunting. So the natural question is, "What is power?"

Power is not easy to define without being in the web of words. It should be remembered that, according to the Truths of Awareness, force is defined as the energy of attunement; this means that it is that force that is released when the energy fields within the cocoon are tuned to the corresponding energy fields beyond it. The result of this adjustment is perception. Therefore, we can say that power is a product of perception.

There are two traditional definitions of power, but in themselves they say very little about how we should interpret power in practice. We are not able to observe force, just as we are not able to see perception, but we can witness the effects of both.

Perhaps the manifestation of power is best described as something we understand by the life force, or, otherwise, by energy. If you experience a rise while watching the sun go down, this surge of strength is an effect of force, or an effect of perception. A surge of strength, or life force, is not a force in itself; rather, it is a consequence of strength, or rather, personal power.

Based on these definitions, it can be concluded that if the assemblage point is rigidly fixed in one position, the perception is also fixed. This means that we perceive everything in accordance with that particular frame of reference, which is called the view of the world. This view of the world does not change as long as the assemblage point does not move, since no energy fields are available to us except those that are peculiar to this particular position, and the available energy fields cannot be located otherwise.

From this it becomes obvious that perception is directly determined, firstly, by the position of the assemblage point, and, secondly, by the specific form of placement of available energy fields. These are very important points that need to be fully realized in order to avoid further confusion.

To understand this, you should know that the assemblage point of a person is a hemisphere of bright light about the size of a tennis ball. Available energy fields are those fields that are illuminated by this hemisphere, crossing it.
Energy fields are rays of light not thicker than ordinary filaments, and therefore seers liken them to filaments of light. Because the energy fields are so thin, literally thousands of such fields cross the assemblage point and tune into the corresponding energy fields outside the cocoon.

However, this setting does not necessarily mean matching A and A, B and B, B and B and so on; A-B, A-C and any other possible placements are possible. The energy fields outside the cocoon are identical to those outside, but the number of possible combinations of these fields when they are set up is absolutely amazing. A mystery even for the most experienced seers is what exactly determines the different choice of settings and what consequences different types of settings lead to. Suffice it to say that all this is due to the unclear properties of intention.

To further explain this principle, we need to define two expressions, namely, the movement of the assemblage point and the shift of the assemblage point. Even though there is disagreement among the different Toltec lines as to how these two expressions should be defined, the difference is so slight that it can be neglected.

For the purposes of this book, it is sufficient to familiarize yourself with generally accepted and traditional definitions.

The movement of the assemblage point is defined as its rotation in the normal position, leading to a new placement of energy fields.

This is much like rotating a radio handle to improve the sound quality of a selected radio station. The shift of the assemblage point means that it moves to a completely different group of energy fields. A shift can mean the transition of the assemblage point to any position on the surface of the cocoon or inside it.
It is the location of energy fields in a separate setting that determines, firstly, a person’s specific view of the world, and, secondly, his ability to communicate. If we meet someone who uses the same configuration combination, the placement becomes consistent: A to A, B to B, and so on. With such a person, we achieve a wonderful mutual understanding and do not experience difficulties in communicating.

But if, on the other hand, we meet someone who uses the diametrically opposite of our placement, communication becomes terrible, in communication with such a person we are faced with complete misunderstanding, and mutual understanding is achieved only by accidental hits to the goal.

An important feature is that if we are not able to move the assemblage point, our perception is rigidly fixed and the same thing happens with our view of the world. It is this fixation that causes repetitions and habitual actions, whether they are physical, emotional or mental.
However, the opposite is also true, since the repetition itself further fixes the assemblage point and increases monotony and boredom.
As soon as boredom is established at our level of awareness, we experience suffering, since repeated perception very soon becomes subconscious. This is the beginning of a vicious cycle in which we gradually become less aware as our perceptions become more repetitive and boring.

In this regard, it is interesting to note the difference between adults and children. In children, the assemblage point is naturally mobile as long as they do not have to fix it under the influence of social conditioning. As a result, children are able to move their assemblage point quite spontaneously. Through this movement, they manifest a continuous change in their perception, which in turn generates not only novelty, but also an abundance of vitality and a surge of strength.

Personal power is needed to move the assemblage point. Energy requires everything we do, including movement or shift of the assemblage point. In fact, we need a significant amount of personal power even to keep the assemblage point in a fixed position.

It is obvious that if the assemblage point — and therefore our view of the world — is fixed, the amount of personal power we possess corresponds to our level of perception, because personal power is a product of perception. However, perception is in turn proportional to the level of awareness. Thus, if as a result of the “boredom of the mind” we are in a half-sleep, we do not track our perception well enough.

The lack of awareness of perception does not mean that personal power is not generated at all, but rather that all generated personal power is absorbed by those habitual and repetitive actions — physical, emotional, and mental — that keep the assemblage point in a fixed position.

But if we don’t have an excess of personal power with which to move the assemblage point, then where should we look for additional power? The solution is quite simple, but it is much more difficult to apply than to describe.

If all personal power is absorbed by our habits, then we should obviously stop all useless actions. It is also necessary to get rid of your view of the world, since it is this rigid view of the world that is the basis of habits and keeps the assemblage point in a fixed position. The only way we can really do this is by fully waking up, that is, by being fully alert at any given moment.

It is only through an expanded awareness of everything that happens in our lives that we can begin to distinguish between what is important and what can rightly be regarded as useless. Warriors are always reminded to pay special attention to all the details of their daily lives, since it is the full set of these seemingly insignificant details that makes up our general behavior and determines our view of the world.

When working on this, it is very important to understand that, wanting to be fully aware, we actually intend perception. This is a crucial and imperative requirement for the Way of the Warrior. We should remember what is written in the Truths of Awareness: it is the intention that determines our perception. At this point, we will not dive into the definition of intention, it will be enough to say that the more we intend to be conscious, the wider our perception becomes and, consequently, the more personal power we develop.

There is no magic, there is only intention. THAT THE DEEPS RECORD AS MAGIC, IS THEIR ONLY MANIPULATION OF INTENTION; The magician is simply the master of intention.

But the importance of intending full awareness is not just that, for it is a decisive fact. In the struggle for perception, we are actually exercising our intention.
Since it is the power of intention that allows us to perceive, this power is, of course, indirectly related to the position of the assemblage point. For this reason, by maintaining our view of the world, we actually use the power of intention to fix the assemblage point in one place.

From the above, it should be clear why it is so important to get rid of your view of the world. To do this, we need to be fully aware of all the little things in our daily lives — then we will be able to recognize what our view of the world is and what we are doing to support it. Once we begin to clearly understand our own view of the world and how we support it, getting rid of this view with the help of the non-doing technique becomes quite simple.

Let’s return to the concept of power hunting. Now it should be clear what that means. To hunt for power is to look for ways to increase our level of personal power so that we can reach the mobility of the assemblage point.

When understanding this principle, it is important to remember that we are all by nature lazy. It is always easier to dream and talk about having power than to really pursue it. But if we want strength, we need to act; we need to hunt for strength and do it well.

HUNTING IS EXCLUSIVELY DISCIPLINED MAN, AS ALL THE PARAMETERS OF HIS EXISTENCE ARE EXTREMELY ACCURATE.

The hunter is smart enough not to hope that the prey he is tracking will just, politely, approach him and accidentally fall into a bowl of soup. Therefore, the hunter leads a very harsh life, which means that he is completely devoted to hunting. The hunter is a student of hunting in the truest sense of the word, and therefore directs his efforts to teaching everything that can be known about hunting.

THE HUNTER IS FULL OF HUNTING; ONLY UNDER THIS CONDITION CAN HE SUCCESS.

It has been said above that in order to hunt for power, we need to have full awareness at any moment. In practice, this means that we need to live with awareness. A hunter who is only aware from time to time will never be a good hunter. Very soon, he will no doubt become the victim of some more powerful predator. But constant awareness is a real battle for people who are used to being in a half-sleep. Therefore, before we become hunters in the full sense of this title, serious changes must occur in our lives.

REAL CHANGES ARE NEVER EASY — A MAN IS CHANGED ONLY IN WHEN HE HAS TO CHANGE. Sometimes, even in cases where a man has to change, he is blind to it until he sees the benefits of change.

Unfortunately, whenever a person is offered to make any changes in his life, the same complaint is invariably heard: “I have no problems, but if you only saw my wife! I swear to you, she's in trouble enough! If only I could convince her of her shortcomings, we would live a fine life.” Such remarks are typical for an ordinary person, regardless of whether he complains about his wife, other relatives, boss, work, go just to life in general. This is commonly known as playing the blame game, shifting responsibility, avoiding the question, or, roughly speaking, nagging, since such changes are not genuine changes — they are just ways we invent to make our old habits look fresher and more palatable. These actions help us feel better and pretend that we have changed something in ourselves.

The only change in nature, which can be called gradual, is the aging process, which in the true sense is characteristic only of physical or material forms. A stubborn person does not become less stubborn with age - he only seems softer, as his body weakens and he has less energy for grumpiness. If you press hard enough on such an old man, then quickly make sure that he considers himself still at the height of his position and has not abandoned his former habit. All genuine changes, even changes in character, are always unexpected and have far-reaching consequences.

THE ONLY CURRENT CHANGES ARE THE ONES THAT ARE PERFORMED WITH TREE.

It is important to understand that in order for change to be effective, it must be sober, that is, made consciously and voluntarily. Sometimes a person really makes spontaneous changes in his life, usually as a result of some violent emotional reaction. However, in most cases, such changes disappear relatively quickly again. For example, a person can change his lifestyle as a result of severe shock, after an illness or accident, but as time begins to have its healing effect, the impact of shock gradually decreases, and very soon the person again resorts to his previous tricks.

TO SUCCESS ON THE WAY OF KNOWLEDGE, A COMPREHENSIVE CHANGE IS NEEDEDED. YOU NEED TO BUILD YOUR TOnal ISLANDS. A man is by the nature of his pure spirit, which is called a nagual, but from birth he begins to use a physical conductor under the name of a tonal. TONAL represents the person. IT IS LIKE AN ISLAND DEPENDED IN AN UNLIMITED OCEAN OF PURE BEING, OBJECTIVE. ON THIS ISLAND IS EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR LIFE ON THE PHYSICAL PLAN.

The island of the tonal directly or indirectly embraces everything that we consider to be part of ourselves. The tonal is the physical body, emotional inclinations, and mind. Our thoughts, feelings, and actions on the physical plane are all parts of the tonal. If I'm poor, it's my tonal poor, because the nagual, the spirit, just can't be poor. Similarly, if I am sick, it is my tonal that is sick. If I am angry, it is my tonal that is angry. If I lack personal strength, it is the lack of my tone.

In other words, the tonal is a luminous cocoon and all the energy fields that enter it.

In general, if we have a name for something, if we can describe anything in any way, then that something is a feature of the island of the tonal. This is as true of a human being as it is of the entire Universe, for the tonal is the state of manifestation in all its innumerable diversity—physical, emotional, mental and even what we define as spiritual. The nagual, on the other hand, is pure spirit, or pure being; it signifies unmanifested spirit.

The tonal is Something, and the nagual is Nothing.

Everything in our lives is determined by the features of our own island of the tonal. These features can quite literally be called the island’s landscape, since they make up what we call our view of the world. If aggressiveness is a feature of our island, then aggressiveness forms part of our view of the world. Similarly, if poverty is a feature of the island, we automatically regard ourselves as poor, and for as long as we hold that view, we will always lack the means to support ourselves.

The problem is not in the island itself and not in its features. Neither the island nor its features are bad. Rather, it is the landscape that forms the various features of the island that tends to create problems in our lives and turns the island into either a paradise or a living hell. It is important to remember that every thing on the island is necessary for our life on the physical plane, and therefore no single feature of the island can be lost or destroyed. In fact, no matter how much we try to get rid of any feature, we quickly find that it is completely impossible.

Therefore, the student's task is to completely transform his island of the tonal. It has to change its landscape. By this is meant that the student must not only rebuild his features, but also change their arrangement so that everything takes its proper position on the island. After that, all its features will harmoniously coexist with each other and with the person himself, and the student will turn his island not only into a place of practical use and hospitality, but also, depending on his abilities and temperament, into a place of great beauty.

To clarify this, let’s take the example of aggressiveness. Let's make it quite figurative and like aggression to the sword.
So, if aggressiveness is a trait of a person’s character, he can think about it and come to the conclusion that it is an ugly and dangerous weapon. Fearing that because of his aggressiveness, people will begin to treat him badly, a person can spend whole years trying to get rid of this character trait, and during all this time he will hide his sword as far as possible. In fact, he can hide it so well that no one will ever believe that he is aggressive. Such a person will feel that even if he is not able to completely get rid of his aggressiveness, he can at least keep it under strict control.

That’s one option that most people use. However, this is a bad option, because by hiding your sword and refusing to use it, a person will never learn how to properly handle it. The man has suppressed his aggressiveness, but, as in the case of any suppressed emotions, the day will come when he will be so cornered that he will suddenly snatch his sword. When he takes it in his hands, the years of suppressed aggressiveness will merge into one mighty rush of all-consuming rage and, not knowing how to handle the sword, a person will begin to wave it, causing irreparable destruction. Due to his inexperience in the use of the sword, a person not only brutally injures everything and everything around him, but also inevitably injures himself.

Obviously, for the hunter, this option is unacceptable, since the hunter must be ready to skillfully use any of his weapons.
The disciple of the Way of the Warrior is obliged to admit his aggressiveness, not to suppress it. This does not mean that the student or the hunter — if there is any difference between them — must give himself free rein and show this aggressiveness throughout the world around him; rather, if necessary, he must learn to use it constructively and skillfully.

Recognizing his aggressiveness and carefully practicing with this sword, the student eventually becomes an experienced swordsman, masterful in his weapons. Aggression, which is the character trait of this man, has not been removed from his island of the tonal — it has been turned into a valuable skill, completely subject to his control. If need arises, such a person will raise his sword in the blink of an eye, and before you realize what is happening, he will be able to shave you clean if it is necessary. You will not be seriously harmed, because if you prefer to wear a beard, you can grow it again - but you never want to quarrel with this person again. In your heart, you will be amazed at this, because this skill is beautiful and frightening.

The transformation of the island of the tonal through the restructuring of its features is a complete change necessary for the successful search for man's power. It is not as difficult as it seems, because the only thing we need to do is to critically evaluate our lives and reveal our merits.

For the hunter there are no bad qualities - there are only potential, not yet developed opportunities. Of course, undeveloped potential abilities are the disadvantages of his island, but the hunter knows that over time they will cease to be disadvantages. Undeveloped fencing abilities are a real disadvantage, but when this potential is developed, it will become a very valuable quality.

YOUR WEALTHS ARE YOUR UNREALIZED POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES.

If we want to succeed in the hunt for strength, we need all our potential abilities. Social conditioning can teach us that many of our potentialities are bad, but it only means that our fellow human beings are holding us in their shackles and in their view of the world. No hunter will allow himself to be limited in this way.

The hunter is a free and mobile being who follows the path with the heart. For him, there is no heart in such an island where there are physical shackles, suppressed emotions and limited thought.
On the island of the hunter, we will notice the incredible beauty of the skill with which this island was modified. Since the hunter is a mobile creature, he seeks to change the shape of his island as soon as the need arises. These changes bring him exciting new adventures - and who knows what hidden treasures of the spirit he will be able to discover with a new change in his tone?

The secret of slipping out of the embrace of social conditioning lies in the fact that the hunter occupies a position beyond psychological manipulation.

THE HUNTER CONTROLS THE WORLD WITH SO MUCH PRECIOUSNESS THAT DOES NOT LEAVE A FOLLOWING. TO LEAVE THE MIND IS TO BECOME A VALUE TO SOMEONE MORE POWERFUL THAN THE HUNTER.

This does not mean that the hunter becomes a hermit. This is simply not possible; to be a hunter, one must act in the world and remain a part of it. Therefore, the hunter does not try to hide from the world - he simply does not allow himself to turn into a prey.

THE ART OF THE HUNTER BESIDES IN HIS CAPABILITIES TO CHOOSE THE TIME AND PLACE OF THEIR ANNOUNCEMENT. THANKFULNESS OF THIS INTERACTION WITH THE WORLD BECOMES ACCIDENTAL AND MODERN, AND THE HUNTER GUIDES TO FIND EXISTENCES LIKE ITSELF AND THE WORLD. THE HUNTER IS CONFIDENTED OF HUNTING CAPACITY, AND IT DOES NOT FEEL NEED TO BE WORRIED. PEACELESSNESS MAKES A MAN CAREFULLY FOR HIS WORLD AS HE WAS, AND WITH SUCH DEPENDENCE, HE EXISTS TO HIMSELF AND THE WORLD.

The most important reason why people tend to become prey is that they do not have genuine self-confidence, and therefore they always seek approval and support from others. Obviously, if people behave in this way, they cannot escape the grip of social conditioning and therefore always give themselves to the mercy of others. This makes it clear that anxiety is the most debilitating cause of addiction. People find any cause for concern and, without even realizing what they are doing, constantly underestimate their own strength and lose self-confidence.

If, for example, a person is constantly worried about his health, this anxiety takes away so much energy from him that sooner or later he really has a variety of pains, ailments and diseases.

Similarly, if a woman is constantly worried about whether her husband really loves her, by her behavior she herself so madly torments him that in the end he is tired of having to convince her of his love. As a result, a man pushes his wife away not because he does not love her, but simply because he feels the need for free space. This, of course, only makes a woman even more restless and even more demanding of his attention. Over time, the man will become so detached from the house that he can begin to look for consolation in the arms of another woman.

In these two examples, the results of anxiety can be clearly seen. Constant anxiety forces people to make their worst fears come true. Sadly, both men and women probably never realize that their misfortunes are their own fault. On the contrary, they will be inclined to believe that the outcome was the result of what they suspected from the very beginning.

The hunter, on the contrary, trusts his ability to hunt and therefore has the confidence and understanding that he should not worry. But to achieve such confidence, a person must educate her, choosing the way of interaction with the outside world. The hunter chooses not to seek approval or support from others. He makes this choice not because of any sense of arrogance or alienation, but simply because he has enough self-respect to recognize his own abilities and valuable qualities. As a result of this self-respect, the hunter also imbued with the deepest respect for the world around him, because he knows that if he wants to live in the fruits of the earth, he needs to live in harmony with it.

The hunter is intimately familiar with his world, but remains detached from it. Due to this detachment, the world around does not affect the hunter. A hunter’s close acquaintance with his world means that his detachment is in how he will interact with his world, but not in the fact that the world does not bother him at all. This is an extremely important distinction; this approach requires great skill in execution.

No hunter would ever succeed if he did not know every detail of his world. However, there is a danger of being so involved in the world that a person’s judgments become incomplete. For example, a hunter may become too familiar with the prey he is hunting, and one day find that he is simply not able to hunt it. On the other hand, if the hunter does not worry about his world, he begins to simply plunder it, since hunting becomes only entertainment for him. In both cases, the hunter will begin to starve, as he will either love the animals so much that he will not be able to hunt them, or lightly exterminate them all.

THE HUNTER DOES NOT EXIST OF HIS WORLD — HE IS BROUGHT FROM IT ONLY FOR WHAT HE REALLY NEEDS. BY THE same token, the hunter will take care that his stocks —friends, food, happiness, or power — will never be exhausted.

It is important to understand that the occupation of the hunter means much more than just hunting. The real hunter is also partly a psychologist. Through his experience, he tracks repetitive actions and predictable behavior in both humans and animals and therefore comes to understand the importance of studying the prey he hunts.

TO UNDERSTAND THE GOOD, THE HUNDER SHOULD NOT ONLY KNOW HER TRAFFIC, BUT MAKE HER SUCCESS.

If the hunter had placed his snares in such a way that his motives would have been obvious, no prey would have been foolish enough to fall into his trap. Therefore, the hunter must set traps so cunningly that the victim does not notice them until they work. The hunter is also well aware that, since he is a predator himself, there are other predators who will not hesitate to hunt him if they are given the opportunity. Avoiding becoming a prey, the hunter takes care not to repeat the mistakes made by the prey, and learns stalking. Accordingly, the hunter makes sure that his movements and actions are always unpredictable.

BECOME A PRESENTED MEANS TO BECOME A GOOD WAY.

In general, an ordinary person is very predictable. Clamped by insurmountable and all-consuming habitual actions, an ordinary person becomes an easy prey for anyone who wants to hunt him.

Consider, for example, a man who always dines at 13:00 in a quiet little restaurant around the corner, near his office. This man always finishes work at exactly 17:00 and rushes to the station to catch the train at 17:25. A person follows this habit five days a week, from month to month. Anyone who wants to corner him will have no difficulty — all he is required to do is wait for him at his favorite restaurant table at a certain time or at a station around 17:25.

On the other hand, it is not so easy to squeeze into the corner of a person who eats only occasionally and always in different restaurants. It’s not easy to catch him on his way home, because sometimes he goes there on the first train, sometimes stays in his office for a long time, and sometimes first goes shopping, and then gets on the bus and visits before returning home his friend. Obviously, such a person is elusive, and although the time of his work can be fixed, he will always find a way to make even this period almost unpredictable.

In these examples, we looked only at the physical habits that people follow, but it is important to realize that habitual emotional responses and fixed patterns of thinking also make us vulnerable. Moreover, they mean vulnerability not only in terms of tracking down others, they mean that a person openly exposes himself to forces that affect our lives.

When we become predictable, we lose mobility. Not only does this make us vulnerable, but it also rigidly fixes the assemblage point in that particular view of the world that prevails at the moment. As we have said, man’s purpose is not to be doomed to a single view of the world; man needs to learn from experience the vast array of possibilities inherent in our lives. Thus, if we get stuck in our view of the world, the forces of our destiny begin to track us down, trying to get us to move again.

THE GOOD HUNDER recognizes THE EXISTENCE IN THE UNIVERSE OF HIGHER FORCES THAT DIRECT HIM AND OTHERS. These forces dictate the circumstances of life and death.

This very important provision not only serves as a reminder that we are being hunted by predators and the forces of fate, but is also directly related to the issue of ethics and morality. Beyond material status, concepts of ethics and morality also often disturb and confuse a person and make him worry more than anything else. In fact, it is issues related to money, ethics, and morality that usually keep a person rigidly limited in social conditioning.

When a hunter wants to eat, he sets traps, and if, upon returning, he finds prey in his trap, he immediately kills it with quiet gratitude. The hunter knows that the animal was trapped not because of its intelligence, not because of the device of the trap, but thanks to the forces of fate that sent the animal into his trap.

Fate has predetermined this animal to become the food of the hunter. Knowing this, the hunter does not feel pity for the animal and does not release it, for to do so would mean denying this animal the fulfillment of its destiny. No hunter worthy of this name will ever dare to interfere with the fate of another creature. Such an action would imply that he is wiser than those forces that determine the life and death of all creatures, including the hunter himself. No real hunter would ever allow such arrogance.

IN THE FINAL ACCOUNT, WHAT CAN BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN LIFE AND DEATH? THE POWER THAT CONTROLS LIFE AND DEATH IS THE APPROPRIATE OWNER OF ALL BEINGS.

In fact, pity is one of the worst crimes against humanity, against all forms of life in general. One should always beware of those virtuous people who bring down their pity on everyone around. Such people do not respect the purpose of other beings, and the only purpose of their lives is to get involved in other things and interfere in those issues where their participation is not necessary. Such people are constantly loudly protesting, hiding behind the flag of morality and general decency, not for a moment, without thinking about the possible consequences of their actions.

Individuality and the full development of awareness always suffer at the hands of such people, regardless of what motives they hide. There are times when help is really needed, and in such cases the hunter willingly and thoughtlessly provides it, but he never offers help if no one asks for it. To impose help when it is not needed is to be unfair to the other person.

The hunter does not allow himself to interfere with the forces that control the life and death of all creatures, but at the same time he takes full responsibility for his actions. If he finds two animals in his trap, but he only needs one, he will take one animal and let the other go. Taking two animals would mean that the hunter was consumed by either greed or anxiety, and this, of course, would make him vulnerable.
Moreover, the hunter treats his world with infinite care and never exhausts it. This is the discipline of the hunter, this is the perfection of his spirit.

Discipline and integrity are crucial to understanding the complexities of power hunting. Up until now, we have been talking only about the training of the hunter, but obviously the goal of all his training is that he can learn to hunt his main prey, namely, strength. This preparation is not easy; it takes time and careful attention to the details that allow you to achieve the discipline and perfection that the hunter needs.

Without such careful preparation, no man will succeed in the hunt for power, for the hunt for power is infinitely more difficult than the hunt for animals or humans. Animals and humans are not only extremely predictable, but also tangible. Strength, on the contrary, is always completely unpredictable and, of course, not material. Hunting for prey, which is intangible and unpredictable, is not only the most difficult challenge in the world, but also a very dangerous occupation.

Tracking the force requires infinite attentiveness and a very subtle sense of awareness. A hunter who breaks through the bushes like a bulldozer will not only scare off his prey, but will most likely fall victim to someone or something stronger than him. In this respect, it is delightful to observe how many well-intentioned but misled people, at any opportunity, begin to pursue knowledge in haste. These people jump everywhere, as if in spiritual madness, loudly and with childish delight announcing any of their findings.

Watching them, we can conclude that they really look like children - children with toy guns playing hunters.

In his training, the hunter comes to understand what it means to hunt for strength. Having accumulated this knowledge, he does not abandon the hunt, since the hunter knows that his victim, being intangible and unpredictable, can well lure him into a deadly trap. This is a very important point that should be fully understood.

The only reason for the hunt for power is to accumulate enough personal power to declare freedom. But to declare this freedom, we also need to be able to assert our personal power in a way that the Eagle does not impose the gift of freedom on those who are not strong enough to fight for their personal power. The only way to become stronger is to fight, and the harder the battle, the stronger we become. It is for this reason that the hunter, unlike the average person, does not complain about the challenges in his life, the Hunter knows that the more difficult the challenge, the greater his gift of power will become.

In this respect, the hunter also knows perfectly well that the forces that guide all life on Earth will not show any pity and mercy towards him. For a hunter to accept mercy would be to give up the opportunity to fight for victory and, on the contrary, to condemn himself to a life of slavery.

IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO GET STRENGTH, THERE IS NO CHOICE BEFORE YOU LIVE, BUT THE HUNDER IS YOUR FREE CREATION THAT CANNOT GIVE YOURSELF SLAVERY, THERE IS NO OTHER GOVERNMENT. IF HE DIED IN THIS BATTLE, THAT, IN THE EMERGENCY, HE DIED AS A FREE BEING, NOT AS A SLAVERY.

There comes a time in every person’s life when they just know they can’t keep being a slave. From that moment on, whether or not he was trained as a hunter, he enters the hunter’s path.
Without yielding to anything else, at least to slavery, the hunter begins to worry about wasting his personal power in stupid actions. He sits quietly to critically reevaluate his life and his situation. He knows that he himself made this bet on strength and was trained precisely in order to prepare himself for this hunt. The rules are quite simple, but also deadly: do not spare and do not wait for mercy; the winner gets everything.

In the face of a battle in which the stakes are so high, the hunter will be a fool if he does not carefully weigh his capabilities. If the hunter wins the battle, he will gain enough personal strength to be able to declare his freedom, but if he is destined to lose, he will lose everything. Obviously, the hunter cannot enter into such a battle lightly.

THE HUNTER DOES NOT MAKE ANY DESIRE, EXCEPT HIS OWN, IF HE ENTERS ANY ACTION, ONLY IF THE FULL KNOWS THE POSSIBLE OUTPUT OF THESE ACTIONS. HUNTING NEVER ALLOWS YOU TO BECOME A VICTIM, IN HIS ACTIONS HE TAKES INTO ACCOUNTING THE UNCONDITIONAL, AND IT NEVER HAS TO GET INTO ACCOUNT. BY THE same token, it avoids most of the events that are considered unlucky by the blind.

Critically evaluating his life, the hunter realizes that, although the risk is great, he still has no choice but to fight - this is the irony of the Way of Knowledge. In our battle for liberation from the foundations of social conditioning, we find that we have instead become slaves to power. The average person believes that he has freedom of choice, but the hunter is a person who has reached an understanding of the futility of his faith. For him there are only two possibilities: either he fights for freedom from social conditioning, or he refuses to fight and returns to the stupidity of his fellows.

Obviously, the second possibility is not one that the hunter can take; in turn, this means that he has no choice at all. To fully realize this, it should be remembered that the hunter becomes a hunter in order to avoid the shackles of social conditioning. He does this to gain the personal power that will allow him to choose his own frame of reference.
When a hunter goes this far, he has no way to turn back, as he no longer wants to live in a world left behind. So he realizes that he has nothing to lose but his life, but what is his life worth if he spends it in the shackles created by his own brothers?

This moment in the life of a hunter is always the most painful. It is at this crossroads that the hunter realizes that he has no choice. However, the journey into the unknown still requires all his courage and even more, since he knows that this path can become a journey without a return. Such a journey requires the hunter to say goodbye to everything he knew before. Admittedly, the world he knew was not the one he wanted to stay in — but it was the only world known to the hunter, and although there are many things in this world that the hunter does not like, it also contains a huge amount of treasure of spirit. In the end, it was in this world that the hunter first learned to dream of freedom and strength, and it was in it that he took his first trial steps in teaching the art of the hunter.

It is only after reaching this crossroads that the hunter truly begins to feel the influence of the forces that guide him throughout his life. Now, retrospectively, he can see the purpose of everything that happened to him, and how that experience led him to the position he is in now. Although his purpose is still vague and hidden in the future, he can already comprehend enough to realize that his bet on strength and subsequent training as a hunter is predetermined. It is then that he understands without further doubt that his bet on power is final.

Analogy can help make the principle of power betting more understandable. Let’s talk about the child and that the obvious purpose of a person is to walk directly.

Born, the child is not yet able to walk. For a long time, he is completely satisfied with the fact that he just lies and moves his limbs arbitrarily. then he wants to sit down, but first he can do this only by leaning on pillows. Time passes, and the baby gains enough muscle strength to start crawling. It's like training a hunter. After achieving this new freedom, the child begins to explore his world. It is thanks to the ability to crawl that the child begins to distinguish certain aspects of the surrounding world. Through trial and error, he learns very quickly to follow where he crawls and what he touches.
Then comes the day when the child is already strong enough - he suddenly gets up. This seems like a simple action, but the change is striking. Thanks to this action, the child makes his bet on walking. The child may still lack sufficient muscle coordination, his knees are shaking, he loses his balance, but one step follows another, until finally he begins to walk and then run. A child’s bet on walking is irreversible, because if he was not born a cripple, his fate is straight walking.

None of us can escape the forces that guide us throughout our lives. Our purpose, whatever it may be, must be fulfilled. The hunter recognizes this and then critically evaluates himself and his new life. Like a child insecurely taking his trial steps, the hunter takes his first steps on the Path of Knowledge.

STARTING FOR POWER HUNTING, THE HUNGER UNDERSTANDS THAT HIS PERFORMANCE WILL LOSE HIM EQUALITY, BUT, BEING FULL OF RELIABLE AND DEVELOPING LIFE SUPPORT, IT WILL CURRENTLY NEED EQUALITY.

If we continue our analogy with a child who learns to walk, we will see that when a child first has to go down the stairs without help, he is in danger of being badly injured, even killed. And yet there will be no danger if the child approaches the stairs in full awareness and does not try to jump through three steps at once.
A hunter who remembers his training approaches the Path of Power in exactly the same way. Fully aware of the danger, he openly begins to hunt for intangible and unpredictable prey; he moves quietly and acts with great caution.

So he begins to develop the confidence he needs to feel stable in any battles that force can unexpectedly bring down on him.

The reason for our failure is the complete coherence of all our actions.

This aphorism is vital to everything the Toltecs know and do. When we retreat from our experience, ignore it or treat it lightly, we lose our balance. Yet when we lose our balance, our most natural response is to pause, to be still for a moment so that we can regain it. This pause is what is meant by the tranquillity of life.

Life is undeniably continuous, but it is a continuity consisting of intermittent bursts of energy, or pulsations. The hunter moves in accordance with the pulsations of life, suspended before each of his actions. This allows him to focus all his attention before the jump. When he gives this action his undivided attention, the hunter's judgments are impeccable, and his spirit never loses its balance - the hunter is completely awake.

Thanks to such a life, the hunter controls any situation of his life. Notice what I said: "situation." The hunter does not control his life as such, since such control is not in his power, but in the hands that guide his life forces.
By controlling any situation of his life, the hunter achieves the stability and confidence necessary to enter the battle for strength. However, he is still painfully aware of the scarcity of his human capabilities — and so the hunter is afraid. But this fear does not paralyze him; it makes him act and be fully awake. This is the fear that comes from knowing that the rules of hunting allow neither pity nor mercy.

Knowing the rules of hunting and the reason for their absolute uncompromisingness, the hunter is filled with deep respect for his opponent. Deep in his heart, the hunter feels that his battle is the noblest.

He has no doubt that she will be rife with cunning, but he also knows that her outcome will be honest, since the winner gets everything. Such a battle, in which everything honest and treacherous is taken silently and with dignity, is the noblest of all possible battles.

If the hunter has gone so far, he has no choice but to sit quietly and wait. He is in no hurry, for he knows that now that he has made a bet on power, the forces directing his fate will seek him out and engage him in battle. The hunter knows that turning into a coward and trying to hide or escape from the battle when it began will not bring any benefit, since the forces of his fate will continue to hunt him and wait around every corner. Realizing that his only chance to survive is to stand firmly on the ground and fight, the hunter is filled with a feeling of absolute confidence. After all, what does he have to lose, except a life that has already lost all its meaning for him?

This is how the hunter approaches the battle for strength: he is completely awake, fearless, respectful, and completely self-confident. It's his shield. Faced with irresistibly unequal forces, he can oppose them with little, but that is all he has, and it is for this reason that he has been preparing so long and hard to use his forces flawlessly.

This is the nature of the hunter’s fate, but his mood never turns into melancholy or pessimism. The hunter never feels any reason for regret and, moreover, for resentment or bitterness. On the contrary, he feels chosen and joyful. He feels himself chosen, for he wonders why he is so fortunate of all men to have fought a duel with power; he is glad, because he now knows that the worst thing that can happen to him is the fulfillment of his fate, but that is what he has ultimately striven for.

For the hunter, this is a time when a breathtaking miracle, a delightful dream, becomes a reality - a challenge that requires only flawlessness and courage in battle. Nothing less can justify the honor of such a gift.

At this point, the hunter takes his first step on the path without a return, because even if his bet on power was reversible, he would not have thought about turning back. We can see a clear reflection of this in the soldiers who have long participated in the war. When the war finally ends and these soldiers return home, they often do not sit still and want to return to their former lives - even leaving their homes, wives and families.
This is usually rationally explained by one or another logical diagnosis, but the truth is that these people have lived for too long the very essence of life and death. In this experience they discovered new aspects of themselves and of life, and these qualities made them detached from the banal existence they had had before they were at war.

STRENGTHENING DISCIPLINE AND ARTIFICIAL HUNTING MEANS IS THE ONLY SUCH HONOR THAT WE CAN TEST ON, AND STRENGTHENING THE SPIRIT OF THE HUNDER IS THE ONLY RIGHT TO SURVEY.

CHAPTER FIVE
CALL OF WAR

No man can take the path of knowledge unless he is ready to die. DEATH IS THE BEST ADVISOR OF THE WAR.

When the hunter has relied on strength and has been trained in the skill of hunting for strength, he can only accumulate the necessary practical experience. It is thanks to this experience that he rises to the level of a warrior, since the only difference between a hunter and a warrior is experience. Due to the lack of experience, the hunter is quite poorly aware of the practical details associated with the hunt for strength. A warrior, on the contrary, is a man hardened in the battle for strength.

WE DON'T DECIDE TO BECOME WARRIORS OR NOT. This decision depends on the forces that direct the lives of all beings.

This aphorism often causes the student excessive anxiety and anxiety. However, if we remember that the forms of training of the hunter and the warrior, as well as their goals, completely coincide, then we will have no reason for worry. Ultimately, the difference between one and the other person determines only the accumulated amount of practical experience.

Given this, it should not be forgotten that personal experience can not be planned, since it is not subject to human control. No one is able to escape his destiny or change it, namely fate determines what experience a person will receive in a particular embodiment. All that is required of us is to contribute to the development of our own destiny by intelligently cooperating with those forces that guide us through many lifetimes.
In this case, we will be able to use all our opportunities and get the maximum experience. In such reasonable cooperation with the forces of our destiny is the main purpose of the Toltec teachings. Everything that is taught to students, including the movement of the assemblage point, is aimed at helping them gain this skill.

An important point that must be emphasized, since it is very often overlooked, is that the life experience of an ordinary person, hunter and warrior is a triangle vital for the integrity of the real Toltec. When this triangle is neglected, people tend to fall into the misconception that being Toltec means leaving the world in a certain sense. Nothing can be so far from the truth; neither warrior nor hunter ever leave the world, for to do so is to part with one's humanity.

These three forms of life experience are three different, yet interacting and therefore interdependent qualities of human awareness. Each student should strive to develop the maximum potential of all three qualities of awareness and apply them very carefully in life.

It would be crazy to assume that someone can become a man of knowledge, renouncing the qualities that make up his humanity. The whole contents of the tonal island exist because it is necessary for the accumulation of the necessary experience. To become a warrior, one cannot lose any object of this island - including various levels or qualities of awareness.

Both the hunter and the warrior understand that the only true purpose of human existence on Earth is to achieve full awareness. Through his experience, the warrior also comes to realize that knowledge is really power, it is not difficult to understand, if we remember that power is the energy of adjustment. Acquiring knowledge through experience means that we perceive something through experience that we have not previously realized. Of course, this perception is the result of adjustment, which, in turn, produces strength.

Needless to say, this only applies to knowledge, not information. We should not forget that information is only a theory, whereas knowledge is something obtained only with experience. If information and theory are not put into practice, there is no power in them, and knowledge is power.

Thus, to gain strength, it is necessary to make the best use of all your experience. This, in turn, means that we should strive to perceive as much as possible. It is this desire for perception that constitutes the hunt for strength, but since strength is an intangible and unpredictable opponent, the life of a warrior turns into an endless challenge.

THE WARNER LIVES A CHALLENGE, THAT IS WHY HIS LIFE IS A CLEAR STRATEGY.

Obviously, no one can succeed in the hunt for power if he leads a disorderly life in a sex conscious state.
As we have said, the hunt for strength requires discipline and constant vigilance of the hunter — but this requirement of discipline is often misinterpreted. In his attempts to be fully alert, the student desperately tries to analyze and understand any event of his daily life. There is nothing wrong with this, unless the student forgets that all the information he accumulates in this way is invariably subordinated to his view of the world.

Trying to determine the meaning of one’s experience is a good and correct exercise, since only in this way can we come to knowledge, but it is dangerous to make the mistake of assuming that the discovered meaning is the only possible reality.

It is extremely important to remember that when the assemblage point is forced to move or shift, any content of the experience changes. Thus, any meaning associated with experience is only a fraction of the truth, and a fraction of the truth, in the end, does not mean complete truth. If we hunted a lion and got only a small piece of his mane, it must be admitted that the lion himself ran away from us.

THE WARNER DOESN'T WORRY ABOUT THE MEANING OF EXPERIENCE. HE HAS A CASE WITH AN INDEPENDENT AND UNEXPECTED ANTI-PERSONNEL, SO THE RATIONAL EXPLANATORY EXPLAINS IS A DANGEROUS LOSS OF TIME AND ENERGY.

To admire the fact that we have learned the meaning of any experience is the same as to rejoice in a small piece of lion’s mane. The truth is that the lion has escaped from us, and we have received a very small piece of knowledge. Even a fragment of knowledge can be useful, but only to the extent that it will help us to become stronger and wiser in the further hunt for strength.

It is at this point that the student almost always blindly falls into the trap of rational explanations. Forgetting that he had received only a part of the knowledge available through this experience, the student begins to enthusiastically theorize about his newfound knowledge. Soon he forgets about the hunt for strength and falls into an intellectual fever.

This does not mean that the warrior stops thinking and weighing his capabilities. On the contrary, a warrior notices the smallest details of his life with infinite attention and carefully evaluates any situation. But he does this not because he seeks to discover the meaning of the event, but because he needs clarity for effective action.

BETWEEN UNDERSTANDING SENSE AND CLEARNESS IS A VERY THINKING BORDER. IN ANY SITUATION OF WARNERS, THERE IS NO REFERENCE TO THE MEANING OF THE EVENT.

Any situation that arises in our lives is a challenge, because it provides an opportunity to learn something.
By accepting this challenge, we automatically associate this situation with a certain meaning. But since this meaning is invariably based on our current frame of reference, it will obviously be limited — and it is very important for us to keep this in mind.

Realizing all this, the warrior does not waste time and energy on rational justifications for such a meaning. Instead, he uses the perceived meaning to achieve the clarity of vision that will allow him to determine his next step in the development of the current situation.

The distinction between meaning and clarity is not always easy to see, but an example will help us make it more understandable. Imagine a situation in which a man accuses his wife of spending money.

If a woman becomes obsessed with her desire to understand what her husband means by accusing her of excessive spending, she will spend a lot of time and energy trying to justify her spending. Such excuses will lead to endless disputes about who is right and how to spend money correctly. Worse, it is likely that both husband and wife will start to blame each other’s characters. In the heat of the quarrel, they will be desperately convinced to defend themselves and their point of view. In the end, both will feel equally attacked and will make judgments of which neither is sure.

The warrior is extremely attentive to such traps. If the wife were a warrior, she would simply not allow herself to be trapped in literal content, but, on the contrary, would focus on this situation as an opportunity to gain knowledge. She would do so, first, by recognizing the challenge in her husband's accusations and, second, by seeking the necessary clarity in the situation.

Recognizing the literal meaning of her husband’s words, the woman would pay attention to whether she really has enough experience in managing money. In an effort to be honest with yourself, a woman cannot afford to dive into trying to justify her costs. On the contrary, she should become aware of the need to evaluate her husband’s complaints, and then begin to carefully monitor how she spends money. Only in this way can she achieve the necessary clarity that will allow her to gain knowledge.

If, after some reflection, a woman comes to the conclusion that she can learn from her husband something useful about the distribution of money, she will be just stupid if she refuses his advice and help. On the other hand, if she can clearly see that she is using the money correctly, she should evaluate the whole situation. If she now feels that her husband's accusations are not fair, she has every right not to attach importance to his complaints. However, such a step alone cannot be the solution to the situation, since it is simply impossible to avoid the problem if you do not pay attention to it.

WARNERS WIN NOT because they don’t pay attention, they win thanks to clarity.

As a warrior, a woman realizes that the real problem was not how she handled the money, so her husband’s complaints clearly implied something different. In other words, the real challenge lies in something else.

In this example, it is clear that the warrior requires great honesty and sobriety. It is always very difficult to perceive a situation in which our integrity is challenged. The natural human reaction is to immediately start defending yourself by trying to justify your actions. Yet such a reaction invariably traps us in the direction of strengthening our view of the world, so that we are only more mired in the conditions we seek to change.

Only a warrior can survive a battle for power.

The only way to escape the traps of our human condition is to live like a warrior and treat every situation in our lives as a challenge to the hunt for power.

THE WARNER'S PREPARED TRAINING REGARDS ANY CHALLENGE WITH LIMITED RESPECT.

Educating himself in such an attitude to situations that arise in life, a warrior gains great respect for everything that he encounters. For this reason, even if someone insults him, the warrior does not lose control of himself, because he sees in the insult the challenge that it is. This does not mean that the warrior respects the offense itself; rather, he respects the opportunity that this challenge brings him. Thanks to this, the warrior achieves not only clarity, but also control, which is vital when faced with an intangible and unpredictable enemy. In doing so, the warrior is never trapped in a literal understanding of anything.

The importance of all this lies in the need to realize that a person constantly feels the need to find explanations that calm his mind, since the unknown not only frightens, but also causes a feeling of unreliability and anxiety.

MAN’S ERROR IN WHICH HE LOOKS FOR EXPLANATORY EXPLANATORY VIEWS OF THE WORLD. THE UNKNOWN IMPOSSIBLE CAN BE EXPLANATORED BY THIS WAY. IN THE RESULT, ALL EXPLANATORY EXPLANATIONS ARE TRANSFORMED IN THE MANIFESTATIONS OF BOLD FAITH OR PREJUDICATES.

There is nothing wrong with finding acceptable explanations, except that it never occurs to a person that he or she is simply giving the world the form that he or she would like to believe the world has. A person always tries to explain everything around him in the desired way; this can calm his reasonable mind, but very often has little to do with the truth. By doing this, a person continuously maintains his view of the world, and, therefore, keeps his assemblage point in a rigidly fixed position.

If the explanations more or less fit into his view of the world, a person feels happy and confident. However, his belief in his own explanations is so strong that when something happens that challenges him, a person becomes confused and lost. He suddenly discovers that his view of the world has faltered, and then he has to either reevaluate his explanations or, unfortunately, more often than not, begin to defend these explanations in an attempt to justify and protect them.

EXPLANATORY NOTES ARE NOT REALITY — IT IS ONLY A TEMPORARY CONTROL OF THE WORLD.

A person should not be confused if he realizes that any explanations are products of a temporary view of the world.

The analogy will help to make this more clear.

Suppose, while walking in the mountains, you find a plant that you have never met before - you carefully study it and come to certain conclusions. You may have decided that this plant is something like a wild rose. Satisfied that we have been able to identify this plant, you are happy to continue your journey.

Soon after, you will be at a wild plant show. There you discover that something you thought was a wild rose is actually a blackberry bush that doesn't even belong to the rose-colored family. If at this point you admit that your assumption was just a guess, you will not feel any confusion. On the other hand, if you were absolutely convinced that the plant you saw in the mountains was a wild rose, you will be extremely embarrassed by the information found.

Similarly, if we keep in mind that our view of the world is only a temporary interpretation of the unknown, we will never be confused or surprised if that view is questioned. However, if we consider our point of view to be indisputable, we leave ourselves no other choice and sooner or later find ourselves in complete confusion.

THE COMMITMENT IS AN IMPLEMENTED STATE OF INTELLIGENCE. WE CAN ENTER IT AND LEAVE IT AT OUR OWN WILL. A MAN INTENSIVELY INSTRUMENTS HIMSELF TO HIDE HIS INDEPENDENCE.

Confusion is the most convenient form of escape from life and is used by a person when he has to face something frightening or unpleasant. However, we are always fully aware of what we are doing, although we may choose not to admit to ourselves in our true motives.

A man’s discourse is led by the importance of the irrevocable judge whom he himself counts. TO COVER, LIFE IS BETTER THROUGHOUT THE HUMAN DISTRIBUTION

Our reason is in most cases too presumptuous and imagines that it is able to cope with those issues that do not belong to it. The only purpose of the mind is to allow us to discern and calculate wisely. Instead, the mind tries to assume the responsibility of understanding, but it cannot imagine that there is very little that can be understood in a moving universe.

IN AN UNKNOWN UNPRODUCED BY UNPROVED VOICES OF POWER, UNDERSTANDING HAS SOME SMALL SIGNIFICANCE.

Understanding is just an excuse for excessive rational reasoning. As an example, let’s look at a duck that will enter the water for the first time. To swim, a duckling does not need to understand the laws of hydrodynamics at all - it simply enters the water and begins to swim instinctively.

Similarly, when a child learns to walk, we do not need to teach him the laws of attraction and muscular coordination. Instead, we do something quite irrational — we simply encourage the child and help him to do what is actually a miracle. The child will be walking long before he begins to understand the complex laws associated with gravity and anatomy. And yet the human mind prefers not to pay attention to such facts.

Reason always insists on trying to find a logical explanation for everything that a person has encountered, even if it means trying to shut the round hole with a square stopper. However, if the mind is unable to reach an acceptable understanding of the event, it often finds refuge in irrational action — in a complete denial of what happened.

KNOWING THAT IT IS NOTHING TO UNDERSTAND, THE WARRIOR RECOGNIZES THE EXISTENCE OF THE BARRIER WHEN YOU COME TO HIM, AND THEN JUST EXISTS HIM.

When a warrior encounters a problem in his life, he calms his mind by recognizing an obstacle in the problem, but instead of dipping into rational reasoning in trying to understand the problem, he simply immediately begins to overcome it. Problems in themselves have no value other than that they make us stronger emotionally, more intelligent, and wiser spiritually.

In the process of training soldiers, as well as athletes, often have to overcome obstacles. They know that the purpose of each obstacle is to force them to identify those potential abilities that could not be detected otherwise. The problems that a warrior has to face in life serve the same purpose.
The only understanding that matters to a warrior is an understanding of himself and his potential — and that is what all his problems ultimately lead to.

The obstacles are not only caused by the situations that arise in life, but also by what is called our dark half, our vices. Again, it is important to recognize the crippling limitations of social conditioning. From early childhood, people are taught to hide aspects of themselves that are considered unworthy of human behavior. And yet we should never forget that no man can become whole if he denies any aspect of himself.

THE NEXT STORY IS THE WORST FORM OF SELF-INDULGATION. THE WARNER SEES IN HIS FAILURE THE PROCESS OF MOVEMENT TO POWER.

In general, a person is forever trapped in attempts to justify his behavior and search for rational explanations for everything in his life. It is amazing how often one hears: “If yesterday I knew what I know today, I would choose another activity... If I defended my thesis, I would not have to fight for existence today... If there were fewer problems in my life, I could spend more time trying to live as a warrior...” Such reasoning is meaningless, and yet people constantly indulge in them, forgetting that everything in life is exactly what it is.

NO ONE CAN CLAIM THAT THEY COULD HAVE GAINED POWER IF THEIR LIFE AND ITS CIRCUMSTANCES HAD BEEN DIFFERENT.

The curse of man is his belief that life’s problems do not allow him to fully realize his potential abilities. Every problem we face is a challenge, a gift of strength, and provides us with an amazing opportunity in battle to pave our way to freedom. We have already discussed this in the previous chapter.

It is especially important to recognize both your dark side and what are called defeats and failures. It should be noted that this is not an easy task. As a result of our social conditioning, if we are brought face to face with our failures, we usually begin to suffer from a cruel sense of guilt and defeat. Yet we should always remember that our failures are simply untapped potentialities — potentials that are not yet fully developed.

Most people cannot achieve freedom because they feel guilty when they claim their rights and demand what is rightfully theirs. A warrior has no qualms about claiming what is his, regardless of whether it is money, respect, love, knowledge, or his dark side.

Mindfulness to our own failures allows us to realize that each of us has its own merits. For this reason, your failures should be carefully studied and then turned into the potential abilities that they are. Only then can we become truly whole and free. The dark side of man is really dark, and no warrior will deny it, but to hide this darkness by pretending that it does not exist at all is a huge folly.

Usually people refuse to look into their dark sides, because they are afraid to admit their shortcomings even to themselves.
This fear is based on the fact that a person is constantly worried about maintaining a certain image of himself among his fellows. However, the irony is that when a person faces a mortal threat, he involuntarily begins to act only in the name of survival.
At such moments, a person no longer thinks about preserving his image: selflessness can turn into incredible selfishness, and courage can turn into frank cowardice.

WHEN A WARNER COMES TO KNOW, HE IS FULL OF DEATH AND WHEN HE EATS ANY TRAFFIC. The warrior is preparing for the worst. I can’t believe it, because it doesn’t look like it’s going to survive. LOOKING INTO THE FACE OF DEATH, THE WARNER REFUSES FROM ANY EXTRACTION, AND THEN HIS FACE DEVELOPS FAT.

How many of the debilitating effects of social conditioning could be wiped out if we realized that death is always behind us! Somehow he managed to convince himself that he was guaranteed a long life.

Being sure of this, he is ready to spend all the time of the world on indulgence in various fears, doubts and trifles. However, in the face of death, almost all such fears and trifles turn into something insignificant. The warrior knows this as well as the principle of immortality is an idea for fools. Most likely, no one is able to justify the belief that he can live at least one more hour.

Aware of this, the warrior accepts his death. Constantly realizing that he can die at any moment, the warrior refuses everything that distracts him from the search for freedom. The warrior does not hope to survive, and very cleverly bypasses all the traps of social conditioning, because he is not bothered by the stupid desire to worry about the image of himself.

Moreover, taking such a position, the warrior does not worry about the results of his actions. This does not mean that the warrior acts lightly. On the contrary, it is precisely because he preys on power that he acts with infinite attentiveness, but, unlike the ordinary man, he does not care about the need to win. Victory only matters if the person is going to survive the battle.

One of the worst pitfalls of believing in one’s own longevity is the endless chain of human hopes. When we begin to hope for something, we are completely open to surprises, disappointments and, generally speaking, misfortunes. To fully understand this idea, imagine a soldier saving his life.

Let the only path open to the fleeing soldier pass through the minefield, and he knows it. Time passes very quickly, and therefore the soldier has no opportunity to indulge in petty doubts or fears. If he remains in place, his enemies will destroy him, but if he runs through a deadly field, he has a weak chance to survive.

Such a soldier is fully awake, his vigilance is heightened. He is not disappointed to have faced such a challenge. He quickly realizes that the enemies who laid these mines themselves are unlikely to follow him. Not hoping for his survival, the soldier chooses this path, no matter how dangerous it may be, as his only chance of survival.

To be caught by surprise in such an area would mean certain death; therefore, the soldier moves with extreme caution. The only thing that is needed in such a situation is acute awareness and accurate assessment. A soldier knows that a foot placed on the ground in a hurry or at random will cause immediate death. Life for this soldier is now measured step by step, second by second.

In conditions of extreme tension, the soldier discovers in himself such potential abilities, the existence of which he did not even suspect. His feelings become more subtle than before, and he himself is in inner silence, in which there is no temptation to think about anything other than where to put his foot next. Time seems to have stopped, for the soldier’s concentration is so great that he does not dare to think about how far he has gone and how far he has yet to go. Allowing the mind to deviate even for a second would mean dying. The soldier’s full attention, all his personal power, must be devoted entirely to this act of survival.

There is nothing in life but a challenge. THE CHALLENGES ARE NEVER GOOD OR BAD, WE DO FROM OUR CALL WHAT WE WANT.

The soldier’s chances of survival are practically zero, and he knows it. However, he also knows that if he had not entered this field at all, he would certainly have died at the hands of his enemies.
Now that he has chosen his path, hopelessness has given way to challenge. One small mistake is enough for a soldier to die. In the face of such inequality, the soldiers’ chances would be simply foolish if they did not consider themselves already dead. For a warrior, however, the luxury of indulging in mourning his fate would be a waste of precious personal power and a loss of challenge.

The real challenge the soldier faces is not how to survive, but rather how long he can win, how far he will go before he dies.

THE GUY IS ALIVE. A normal man sees everything in his life, whether it be blessing or cursing. THE WARNER SEES ALL THE CHALLENGES.

Looking at this soldier, one could prove that this minefield was a blessing for him, since the enemies would not follow him to this place. On the other hand, one could say that the need to cross such a dangerous place in an attempt to escape from enemies is a curse and bad luck.

This approach is typical of most events in our lives. However, situations such as this cannot be rationalized. Any situation is only what you wanted to make of it, and has the importance that you associate with it.

ANY LIFE SITUATION IS NEUTRAL. WE MAKE IT POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE MEANS RELATED TO IT. BUT the acquisition of meaning does not change the content of the situation itself, for this reason, thinking is necessary only for the sake of understanding.

The example clearly shows that the soldier does not take the position of rational thinking of the situation, and therefore no reflections are no longer relevant to him.

IMMEDIATELY FOR ANY MAN WOULD WANT A LIFE DIFFERENT FROM HIS OWN. Similar wishes are based on an unintelligent notion that the hardness or the lazy, or whatever, are honorable aspirations.

If a soldier began to dream of being somewhere else, or to wish for a better situation, he would only allow his mind to deviate from the challenge he faced. Obviously, this would be the most stupid thing to do and would lead to unhappiness. In this challenge, the life of a soldier has become much more important than fanciful desires. If he keeps his mind under control, each new safe step prolongs the soldier’s hanging life for a moment.

To think that we have at our disposal all the time of the world is not only foolish, but such a belief prevents admiration of life, for where there is no awareness of death, boredom and dissatisfaction quickly reign. A warrior knows that his death is constantly stealing from him, and therefore, no matter how much time he has at his disposal, this is the most priceless gift. Realizing that time does not wait, the warrior fills this gift to the brim and enjoys every moment of precious time. It's called living on the edge.

A human being can be surprised if he does not take into account the inevitable. WHEREAS, AWESOMENESS REFERS PERSONAL POWER, A WARRIOR IS OBLIGED TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNTING THE IMMEDIATE IN HIS SOLUTIONS. IT MEANS THAT THE WARRIOR IS ALIVE ON THE BORDER. THE WARNER IS AUTHORIZED TO LIVE ON THE BORDER, BECAUSE HE HAS MISSING AND COMPLETE CONSCIOUSNESS.

Generally speaking, a person is very rarely in full awareness, since he spends most of his life dreaming either about the past or about the future and therefore only occasionally pays attention to the present. For this reason, it is not at all surprising that he so often allows himself to be taken by surprise and gets into trouble. Moreover, the lack of awareness of the present and the challenges it brings is gross arrogance and arrogance. When we do not pay attention to the present, it is as if we claim that the precious gift of life does not bother us at all, and we prefer waking dreams.

This attitude is the opposite of the warrior’s attitude, for the warrior is a being who has grasped the true value of life. Recognizing its significance, the warrior sees what a wonderful privilege it is to be able to live.

Realizing that he has nothing to offer in return for this incredible gift, he offers the only thing he has, namely his complete admiration. The warrior is ashamed of the scarcity of his human potentialities, and the only way he can justify the amazing gift of life is to be reverent about each manifestation in a state of full awareness.

Of course, full awareness also includes the ability to anticipate the unexpected, as the warrior knows that he lives in a moving universe riddled with unpredictable bursts of force. Therefore, whenever a warrior has to make a decision, he always does so, taking into account the fact that he is not able to predict in advance what the outcome of his decision will be.
Having come to terms with the unknown, the warrior is never trapped in the assumption that he does not have to have full awareness.

The conscious life of a warrior is never empty or boring - on the contrary, it is filled with a constant stream of wonderful events, and they all lead to new adventures, to new challenges. Each new challenge promises him an exciting experience, because in his life at the very edge, a warrior recognizes the subtle line separating death and survival.

For the average person, living on the edge is equivalent to having a devastating nightmare, but for a warrior it represents a chance that he enjoys, for living on the edge means for him a way of expressing deep appreciation and respect for life itself.

THE WARNER ACCEPTS THE CHALLENGES OF LIFE WITH SUCH MIDDEN MEMORY. Irrespective of what his fate may be, it will never be the cause of his inadequacy, it remains a real challenge, and it is his privilege to be in the position to accept it.

The only reason a person hates the very idea of living on the edge is that he stubbornly believes that his life is not what it should be in his opinion. Such a person too often embraces a sense of dissatisfaction and bitterness, and he constantly hopes to turn his life into what it should be according to his imagination. To support these hopes, a person has to believe in a future in which he can translate his desires into reality.

It is not surprising that in such representations a person should be disgusted with the idea of life on the verge, since this principle and everything that follows from it are a threat to his view of the world and fill a person with an all-consuming sense of uncertainty and fateful predestination.

At the heart of a person’s inability to accept his life as it is, is the assumption that he knows everything better than those forces that guide the pass throughout life.
It never occurs to such a person that there is no way to justify such an opinion, since none of us has the insight that would allow him to evaluate his own fate. In the absence of such insight, assumptions of this kind inevitably turn out to be based on ignorance and reason.

A common man, a Samaritan, always has his heart set on him, and he stands before his head. THE REASON 3BELIEVES US THAT IN OUR LIFE WE SHOULD BE AVOID BY ANY PRICE OF CHALLENGES. BUT THE ONE WHO DOES NOT WANT SELF-MOTION TO APPLY TO THE EXCELLENT DAT OF JI3NI IS A WORK.

A warrior is not characterized by the arrogance that an ordinary person considers to be his right, since a warrior is not only extremely modest, but also does not give reason the reverence that is characteristic of an ordinary person. Thus, a warrior is much more intelligent than an ordinary person, since to believe that reason fully justifies the need to avoid challenges in life is to behave completely unreasonable.

A warrior uses his mind only to guide him to the perception of life in its entirety, and not as an excuse to escape from challenges.

There is a huge difference between high-level and low-level. THE HIGHER IS BASED ON THE PERFORMANCE THAT A MAN IS PREVENTING SOMEONE OR SOMETHING. MISSING IS RELATED TO THE KNOWING THAT A MAN IS NOT HIGHER AND MORE IMPORTANT THAN ALL THE OTHERS. SOMEONE BELIEVES A SYMPHER WHEN THERE IS ANYTHING THAT IS TAKEN BY THE EMPLOYMENT TO THE HIGHER, FOR THIS REASON IN HIS SELF-AIDING HE IS OBLIGED BY THE HIGH COMMERCE.

A man can only accept a challenge when his mind convinces him that he will win. It is very rare for people to take on a task of their own free will that they believe could harm them. Such reasoning is always based on the belief that defeat means shame and loss of significance in the eyes of one’s fellow men. In turn, this implies that a person has already been elevated to a certain high position, since he can lose his significant position only if he already has it.
Unlike the average person, a warrior knows that he is no more and no less important than everything else. He knows this because he lives. The priceless gift of life that he is endowed with is the very life force with which the king, the pauper, and the insect are rewarded. Such knowledge is extremely sobering, and only a vain fool will not put up with thinking about this fact.

The warrior is not arrogant, in his humility he has deep respect for all living things, regardless of what kind of life it is - his own, the life of a king or a beggar, an animal or a plant, an insect or an atom.

People often confuse humility with arrogance, and therefore they have no real respect for life. Think of a soldier saving his life. Would you have acted differently if you were in his place? Faced with the threat of certain death, you, like a soldier, would try to take every chance. And yet in everyday life, a person likes to complain and indulge in a sense of helplessness. In fact, there is nothing wrong with feeling helpless, but to indulge in it is quite another matter. If a soldier had simply indulged in his sense of helplessness, he would have very quickly become a dead soldier.

Humanity has become accustomed to indulgence in feelings of helplessness, and this is often considered a sign of humility. When a person declares that he can do nothing in this situation, he manages to manipulate others and shift his responsibility to them, and although there are always those who are looking for opportunities to prove themselves, the helpless person does not want to be helped really. It is obvious that helplessness is an extremely convenient tool that can be used in any encounter with a frightening challenge. The fact that people usually seek to help a helpless person does not change the fact that this person simply manipulates others for his own benefit. In manipulation there is nothing of humility - on the contrary, it is arrogance.

Such situations, in which they seek help sincerely, are very rare, in these cases, another person never has to take on the responsibility of others. The transfer of responsibility is always associated with manipulation and is the most powerful method by which people maintain the so-called order of social conditioning.

IN A CRITICAL SITUATION, WE ALWAYS FIND OLD ADVICE, EVEN IF WE HATE THEM IN THE OWN CONDITION.

To avoid the trap of old habits, and especially indulgence in feelings of helplessness, the warrior takes a position that was briefly described in the second chapter.

STALKING WITH THE UNKNOWN, THE WARNER IS BEING SO, THERE IS NOTHING HAPPENED. KNOWING that the world is not what it looks like, the warrior does not believe in what is in the name of faith, and everyone else takes it for a pure coin. That's why the warrior recognizes it. NOT RECOGNIZING, AND TAKES ATTENTION WITHOUT ATTENTION. A WARNER NEVER DOES A VIEW THAT HE UNDERSTANDS ALL OR UNDERSTANDS NOTHING. TOGETHER HE CONTROLS THE SITUATION SO LIKELY, EVEN IF IT IS REALLY PERFECT AND PUBLIC. Occupying such a position, the Warrior escapes the Retaliation.

In order to understand all this more fully, let us return to the example of the soldier. If we did not know the circumstances faced by the soldier, we would see a completely different picture.

We'd see a soldier slowly wandering through a hilly field. By observing his actions, we could conclude that he is looking for something lying on the ground or in the grass. Indeed, completely absorbed in the search for soldiers would seem to us the personification of cold-blooded concentration. Looking at him, an outside observer would decide that the soldier has all the time of the world, and his slow and cautious movements would never allow him to suspect that he is a desperate man trying to save his life. This is what it means to act as if nothing has happened, to control the situation.
If a soldier decided that he had no chance to escape, he would not even try to use his only opportunity. It was absolutely necessary for the soldier to accept the whole situation at face value, since the enemies would have captured him if he had not gone through the minefield. However, by entering this deadly field, he is likely to die anyway.

In other words, the soldier had to understand that inaction means death, and action is also likely to lead to death.
To act, a soldier had to believe that he could die at the hands of his enemies. Similarly, in order to make his way safely through a minefield, he should have believed in the possibility that he would step on a mine and be torn apart. And yet, although the soldier fully realized the proximity of death, he did not give up his attempts and did not succumb to despair. To give up would be to surrender to death, something that would never come to the mind of a true warrior.

THE WARNER NEVER GIVES HIS PERSONAL POWER TO NOTHING — EVEN DEATH.

Instead of sinking into a sense of helplessness, the soldier uses his chances, no matter how small they may be, and enters a real hell. In his actions, the soldier recognizes the proximity of death, but does not give up to it. This is what the words mean: a warrior recognizes without recognizing, and pays attention without paying any attention.

BEFORE A FACE OF TRUE DEATH, NOTHING IS ALREADY AVAILABLE AS THE WORST IS AHEADED. BY ACCEPTING DEATH AS AN IMPOSSIBLE SIDE OF LIFE, THE WARNER ALWAYS STILL STILLS CALM AND PRESERVES CLEARNESS.

The soldier has no idea what the outcome of his actions will be, but this does not bother him at all. Taking responsibility for the situation, the soldier chooses the only way he can survive. At the same time, he acts flawlessly and therefore, without any reflection, understands that the outcome of his actions does not depend on him. The only thing he can do is to give his full awareness to the deadly field. This means that the warrior does not pretend that he understands what is happening, although he does not ignore the situation. A warrior simply acts flawlessly on the basis of the knowledge that is available to him at the moment.

WARNING'S IMPOSSIBLENESS DOES NOT LET HIM BECOME A RESPONSIBLE THINKING ABOUT THE POSSIBLE OUTCOME OF HIS ACTIONS. WINNING OR IMPROVING IT DOES NOT REALLY WORRY — IT IS COMPLETELY ASSIGNED BY THE CALL OF THE CURRENT MOMENT. BECOME A DETERMINED MEANS TO LOSE THE CONTROL — SOMETHING THAT A WARNER CAN'T LET HIM DO IT, AS THE WARNER SHOULD BE RIGHT AND INSTRUMENTAL.

Acting in this way, the warrior behaves as if he is in control of the situation, and therefore, seeing him in action, no one will believe that the warrior can be completely puzzled and frightened. Thanks to impeccable behavior, the warrior avoids the deadly trap of obsession. To become obsessed with anything means to be defeated without having yet entered the battle.

If a soldier were obsessed with staying alive, he would panic and quickly die. If he was obsessed with running away, he would have gone too fast in the field, which would have been suicide. Not being obsessed with the fear of death or the hope of salvation, the soldier recognizes both, while recognizing nothing. This is a beautiful state of mind, which is the very basis of the warrior’s position. For the average person, this state is a nightmare, but for a warrior who lives a challenge, even a nightmare is a challenge worthy of the most refined behavior.

The basic requirement for a warrior to exist is that his control must be unimpeachable. Thanks to him, he will never allow anything to affect him. A WARNER CAN LOOK INTO THE EYE OF DEATH, BUT IT WILL NOT EXPRESS IN HIS ACTIONS.

The soldier’s only hope of salvation is to accept death and allow it to guide the development of his destiny. If he is destined to survive, death will guide him safely through the minefield and allow him to escape from enemies. At the same time, the threat of death will not allow the enemy of the soldier to pursue him in this place. On the other hand, if a soldier is to die, then at least he can die flawlessly, and not a pitiful death of a whining coward.

We all die one day. If we can die tomorrow or next year, why not today, not now? In human fear of death, we avoid it with all our might, even at the expense of a decent life. Although the warrior is also afraid of death, he knows that she should be his constant companion and best adviser.

Therefore, the warrior does not try to avoid death, but knows that as long as he treats it with the utmost respect, it will guide him to a flawless life filled with brightness, strength and delightful challenges:

AFTER THE WARNER HAS VIEWED THE ESSENCE OF LIFE AND DEATH, THE WORLD HAS NOTHING HE CAN'T DO WITH, WANTING HIS BEHAVIOR NEVER TO LET IT PASS.

The Toltecs argue that the impeccable life of a warrior is the only justification for the fact that a person is endowed with an invaluable gift of life. They can claim it with dignity, without arrogance and vanity, because they know the true value of life and death. Only the truly humble can understand that life is no more important than death. Without death, the value of herd life would be paltry and utterly insignificant.

SLONA
A gentle giant is a warrior, a friend and a pillar of strength.
The old woman, a symbol of the human tonal, ugly and exhausted by years of oblivion, is waiting among the mountains with flat peaks, above the Cape Storm, dreaming of the day when the young elephant will free her and re-feed her with her love and care of the former strength and beauty - the strength and beauty of the universal mother.

An excerpt from an ancient African myth

CHAPTER SIX
WAR'S PREVENTION

TIME IS THE ESSENCE OF SURFACELESSNESS. THE IMPACT OF DEATH is the only thing that makes a person want to act unconditionally.

By watching warriors, one can easily believe that they are completely self-confident people. However, it should be realized that there is a huge difference between what a person usually calls self-confidence and the deep consequences that this concept implies. This concept is important in that it makes clear the difference between two concepts: perfection and perfection.

Impeccability is difficult to define without affecting the principle of perfection, and yet there is a clear distinction between these concepts. It is the difference between arrogance and humility, two principles that can only be understood by the concept of self-confidence. If we want to enter the Way of the Warrior, we must carefully define these concepts.

EMPLOYMENT IN THE GENERAL UNDERSTANDING OF HIGH-COMMERCIAL SELF-AFFAIRS; MISSING DEFINITES IMPUNITY OF ACTION AND FEELINGS.

In order to understand this, one must realize that when the ordinary man does not doubt the approval of his fellows, he acts with great conviction and calls it self-confidence.

However, the moment such a person feels that his fellows do not agree with him, his former bravado suddenly disappears. This is due, firstly, to human arrogance, which supports the belief that one person can be more important than another, and secondly, because a person’s sense of self-confidence depends on the approval of his fellows.
Since a warrior does not consider himself more or less important than his fellows, it does not matter to him whether he loses his face in their eyes.

In other words, the warrior is not characterized by a sense of self-importance, and he does not worry about public approval. This freedom from seeking approval is a real humility. Since he is no longer afraid of the impact his actions will have on his sense of self-importance, the warrior's only aspiration is to act on his own knowledge with full use of his abilities. Accordingly, a warrior understands that his self-confidence means confidence in his own ability to act as an impeccable warrior.

As obvious as the difference between the two approaches is, people often mistake the pursuit of approval for self-confidence. In search of approval from others, a person rarely acts freely based on his own knowledge. Avoiding action according to one’s own knowledge in order to earn the favor of others means a lack of integrity.

Impeccability means action with the full use of their abilities on the basis of all the knowledge available to man in the current moment. TIME IS THE ESSENCE OF SURFACELESSNESS. THE IMPACT OF DEATH is the only thing that makes a person want to act unconditionally.

When a person is asked to think about the principle of perfection, he is usually not able to distinguish perfection from perfection.
But perfection is not the same as perfection. In the pursuit of perfection lies the desire to become the best. There is nothing wrong with that, considering that a person strives to become the best not only to earn the recognition or approval of his fellows. In addition, perfection usually means that huge amounts of time and energy are spent trying to achieve any goal. A person who strives for perfection usually makes the mistake of assuming that he has all the time of the world at his disposal. The motto of such a person: "If I do not succeed now, I will try again."

Like the desire to be the best, there is nothing wrong with repetition as such, since most actions in life can only be improved by constant practice and repetition. The problem is simply the notion that we have unlimited time at our disposal to continue trying, because if repeated efforts are not colored by a sense of urgency, they inevitably lead to timidity. A timid person rarely gives up all his strength without a trace.

ABSOLUTE PERFECTION CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVEED IN SUPERIOR CONDITIONS. THE PURPOSE OF WAR IS TO ACHIEVE THE MAXIMUM PERFECTNESS ON WHICH IT IS AVAILABLE IN THIS OR OTHER SITUATION.
A warrior approaches the principle of perfection quite differently than an ordinary person. Realizing that death is always behind him, the Warrior is fully aware that he may not have time for a second attempt if he fails the first time.
This idea is very clear to the actors. When the curtain rises, the actor has only one chance to show his game. If he does not seize this opportunity, his future career will be hanging in the balance.

Similarly, a warrior recognizes that the best in his life is never repeated. When repetitions begin, the initial impulse is lost and only another choice remains. To clarify this, let’s look at the example of recorded music, and live performance. Recorded music is a good substitute for live performance, but regardless of the quality of the recording, it remains just a substitute that can never be compared to live music. During a live performance, there is an exchange of vibrating energy between the artist and the audience and there is excitement caused by the uncertainty of the future. Perfectly performed live performance is always infinitely more exciting than the most perfect recording. The real difference is the likelihood that something will go wrong during the performance; as a result, both the artist and the audience are on the verge and in a state of full wakefulness.

At the end of the performance, when everything ends well, there is always a strange mixture of all-consuming happiness and heart relief. This feeling never really takes hold of us after listening to the recording — for the simple reason that there is no edge to the fact that the performer only has one chance.

In this regard, the warrior is the executor of his own way of life. A warrior cannot afford the luxury of confusion or uncertainty, since the presence of death leaves him no time to indulge in careless activities. The warrior knows that any action he takes may be the last one on this earth, and must therefore be performed in the best possible way. This does not mean that the warrior is always perfect in his actions, he simply tries to act as perfectly as possible in the conditions of a single chance.

Thus, his actions acquire a vibrating quality of full awareness, mixed with deep insight based on the understanding that the current moment will never happen again. Every moment of our lives is gone forever. No moment can be returned, and we never have the opportunity to repeat something in the literal sense of the word.

In the example of music, we could see that even if a musician performs the same work a hundred times, there are not two exactly the same among his performances. Life never repeats itself — only mechanical recording can be called identical repetition.

Since not a single moment of life can be returned, there is no point in wasting time on small things, doing anything in the best way. People do this only because their lives are filled with regrets, grievances about wasted youth, or frustrations about lost opportunities and broken relationships. We are all mortal, and no one knows where or how he will face his death. Death has been following us since birth. In the presence of death, any action, regardless of its scale and significance, can be our last action. Death can overtake us in the store, in the car, for food, during a date with a loved one, or simply by watching the beautiful sunset.

If any action can be our last action on Earth, it is only natural that it should be our best action, and man should taste every detail of these last moments.

To live with the knowledge that every moment, every action is extremely important, means to fill your life with incalculable wealth and to color all your actions with the quality that is called perfection. It does not matter to a perfect warrior that his life or actions may be imperfect.

A warrior leads a full life and performs any action with full dedication, and therefore he does not regret anything and does not suffer from remorse. Such a life is filled with joys and miracles, because there are no missed opportunities or lost moments of pleasure in it.

Man’s relentless pursuit of perfection in its countless and varied manifestations is the chief cause of the world’s lack of happiness. Most often, a person simply postpones his pleasure from life, transfers it to the time when he will make a perfect career, will have a perfect home or a perfect bank account.

In the pursuit of perfection, a person is never satisfied with the current moment or situation and therefore rarely makes all his efforts to them. Instead, a person leads a life in which happiness is uncertain, which is filled with unpleasant, only partially perceived experience and not at all flawless actions performed in half.

Perfection is a loss of time and personal power, when it is perfected by the perfection of personal power.

The reason why man attaches such importance to perfection is that he enjoys the thought of his own superiority over his fellow men. As a result, people usually spend an incredibly long time thinking about perfection in one form or another. Such overthinking generates a huge amount of fear and doubt based on the feeling of disproportionality of their requests. A person justifies such negative thoughts, considering them a sign of a thinker - someone who has deep insight and, therefore, is able to see both sides of any situation. Sadly, this is too far from the truth, for such a person does not think in the true sense of the word, but simply indulges in his fears and doubts, while wasting precious time and opportunities.

INSTANT THINKING, TIME FOR LONG-TERM, THINKING NEEDS ONLY BASED ON FEELING, OWN IMPORTANCE OF BANALITY.

Because of social conditioning, man began to believe that the pursuit of perfection is the ultimate goal of mankind, and the human mind convinces him that indulgence in doubt and confusion is quite normal. A person looks around and when he sees that his fellows think exactly like him, he feels self-confident and arrogant. In seeking approval, both from his mind and from his fellows, the ordinary man finds himself in a closed circle created by himself.

To break out of this circle, he must want to take advantage of his chances and part with any approvals — especially the approval of his rational mind.

THE WARNER CANNOT SUPPORT THE LOGIC OF INTELLIGENCE, AS HE KNOWS THAT DEATH IS UNCONDITIONAL TO THE CONSCIOUS PRESCRIPTIONS. That's why the warriors are always ready to take over the mig of chance.

Reason is man's greatest obstacle. When a person has any chance, the mind inevitably intervenes with a variety of forms of doubt and fear.
The mind has no craving for adventure, no sense of humor, it is a harsh and jealous quality. The mind is so jealous that it cannot tolerate even those cases when a person pays attention to his other properties, such as feelings and intuition.

As soon as the mind discovers that something is threatening its authority, it immediately resorts to incomprehensible attempts to force a person to admit defeat; for this reason, the mind most often uses confusion.

By infusing a fog of confusion, the mind usually succeeds and causes the person to move to the so-called intelligent approach. This invariably leads to the fact that a person becomes timid and frightened, and in this state he will not be able to use his chance. People never realize that it is through the fault of their reason that they lose opportunities, choosing instead a safe path.

Incredibly, the mind would rather force a person to admit defeat than agree to lose their control over him. Therefore, a reasonable person always seeks excuses for his inaction - instead of catching a fleeting moment of chance.

A common man always seeks refuge in injury and tries to give himself up to the conditions of reason. THERE IS NO ATTEMPTATION, THERE IS NO WAY TO THINK OF WIN.

What one usually calls failure is not defeat at all, but an excuse to refuse a challenge that the mind does not like. The only way to avoid mind control is to remember that mind has power only as long as one considers one’s view of the world to be a reality. Stop looking at the world and the mind will gently move to its proper place. Reason cannot behave arrogantly if one does not cling to social conditioning, since the human mind is completely subordinate to social conditioning.

However, as we have already seen, it is possible to stop your view of the world and break out of social conditioning only if a person lives as a warrior.

NO ONE IS BORN OF A WARRIOR, NO “reasonable” BEING — WE CHOOSE WHO WE BECOME.

To become a warrior, a person needs to be ready to take advantage of new opportunities and fight for his freedom. There's no other way.

A MAN CAN'T BECOME A WARRIOR, JUST WANTED IT. BECOME A WARRIOR IT MEANS TO COME INTO A LIFETIME.

A warrior faces the same problems as an ordinary person. In his struggle for perfection, there are many situations in which even a warrior absorb doubts and fears, feelings of unreliability, helplessness and, above all, loneliness. However, the warrior knows that all these feelings are just moods that push him to even more grandiose peaks, and therefore he plunges into the depths of these feelings, trying to discover their hidden meaning.

Unfortunately, the average person never tries to question the authenticity of their moods - they just accept them at face value.

IF THE WARNER TAKES A NEED FOR CONVENIENCE, HE JUST CHOOSES SOMEONE OR SOMETHING, BEING A FRIEND, A DOG, OR A MOUNTAIN, AND EXPRESSES HIS SUBJECT FEES. FOR A WARRIOR IT DOES NOT HAVE A SIGNAL, IF HE WILL HEAR IT, AS HE SEEKS NO UNDERSTANDING, NO HELPING — EXPRESSING HIS FEELINGS, HE JUST EXCESSING THE EXTENSION OF HIS BATTLE.

Such is the disposition of the warrior, such is the perfection of his spirit.

However, when the need for comfort is felt by the average person, he invariably seeks to confirm his view of the world. In such cases, a person usually faces a challenge that he himself feels he simply cannot cope with, and therefore he turns to someone who, according to this person’s sincere belief, will agree with him. Feeling the disproportion of their desires, a person tries to convince his listener that there is no point in trying to fight.

Thus, he seeks to give his friend the impression that he needs encouragement to admit his defeat. If his friend agrees with him, the person feels confident that he has the right to surrender on his own terms instead of continuing to try.

The basic requirement of the Way of the Warrior is a state of perfection, however, in order to achieve it, it is necessary to sacrifice your view of the world. The most important component of this view is the belief that we have unlimited time at our disposal. Thus, the mind always takes us aside, because it makes us believe that it understands and keeps everything under control.

Yet there is little to understand in the world, except that we all have incredible abilities and amazing potentialities that rise to the surface only when the sword hangs over us.

Accordingly, the warrior prefers to live by challenge and recognizes the fact that he cannot afford to act like some immortal being. A warrior does not waste time complaining about life, he does not waste his personal power to blame others.

Life on the verge of life makes a warrior ready to catch a fleeting moment of chance and claim his rights to power. A warrior is an impeccable being fighting for his freedom, and in this struggle he sees life as it is. For a warrior, life is a brief but delightful journey, therefore, to an amazingly beautiful world — an extravagant, challenging, and opportunity-rich journey in which he is equipped with everything necessary to make this journey a joyous and successful one.

Today, all of humanity is on the threshold of a new era. As a result, the forces that guide the life and death of all living beings have led you to this book. In accordance with the ancient prophecy, I reveal in this book the knowledge that was previously available not to everyone, but only to the chosen ones. You can no longer use your ignorance as an excuse. There's a Spirit knocking on your door right now.

You can either open the doors or ignore the knock. If you wish, you can seize the fleeting opportunity and follow the Spirit, or return to your former existence if that is what your heart tells you to do. Before deciding, however, ask yourself: “Does my path have a heart?”

I cannot answer this question for you, nor can I express the full significance of all that has been communicated so far.

Instead, I offer you the touching words of Walter de la Maire. In his poem "Listeners" de la Maire most deeply expresses the mood and intensity of this moment.

 "Is anyone here?" the wanderer exclaimed,

Knocking on the door in the moonlight.

The horse silently searched for grass between the ferns,

Sliding over the grey earth.

And the bird rushed out of the tower,

Sliding over the Wanderer's head.

And he hit the door one more time,

He said, “Is there anyone alive here?”

But no one came down to open it,

And from the covered leaves of the windows

He did not look into his eyes,

And the stranger was quiet and confused.

And only a bunch of ghostly listeners,

People who have forgotten their homes.

Frozen in the silence of the moonlight,

Listening to the voice of the world of people;

In the pale light of the moon crowded on the stairs,

Going to a deserted room,

Listening to the breath, excited

Calling the stranger.

And he felt in their hearts an alienation,

Their immobility in response to the scream;

And his horse peacefully pinched the dark turf

Under the starry sky and leaves.

And the stranger hit the door louder

He looked up at the windows:

"Tell me I came, but no one answered,

I have kept my word.”

No one listening made a sound.

Though all that was said to them,

It echoed through the twilight of a quiet house

The last one left alive.

And they heard his foot come down into the stirrup,

Iron on the stone sound -

And silence again gently covered everything,

When the hooves have subsided away.

If you believe that your current path will bring you the satisfaction you seek, there is no need to open the door. Put this book out of your mind, but remember one thing: the Spirit comes to any person only once in a lifetime. Life does not allow itself to be repeated, as this would lead to obstinacy. To think that you will catch your chance later is a game for fools, because knocking on the door. The spirit waits only a moment and then leaves. In this respect, the only constant companion of a person throughout his life is death, which, of course, does not give us any guarantees of life.

On the other hand, if you decide to open your door, then remember that this is the path without a return. Once a person enters the Path of Freedom, his life is irreversibly changed, and such a change does not allow a person to return to his former existence. Again, I cannot express this better than the last verse of T's poem says. Eliot's "The Magician's Journey":

“We have returned to our homes, to these kingdoms, but there is no longer God’s handiwork, only strangers who have seized on their gods. I would love another death.”

PART THREE

TEACHINGS: PRACTICAL TECHNOLOGIES

DRAGON
With a focused intention, they will divide the world in two, so that light and darkness appear in full revelation. Then the Spear of Destiny will once again rise into the air, and the Sword of Power will once again ring with the One Truth and will burst into the blue flame of the One Power.

Excerpt from the Prophecies of the Nameless One

CHAPTER SEVEN
WORK WITH EMOTIONS AND INTENSION

Before we move on to practical techniques such as replay and non-doing, it is necessary to clarify some of the key principles mentioned above. In this regard, it is extremely important to remember that the Way of the Warrior is a practical way.
This means, firstly, that in order for these teachings to benefit the reader, they should be put into practice and, secondly, that the only true knowledge is only that which arises from personal experience. These principles are repeated here, as so many students are trapped in the misconception that practical exercises are enough in themselves — but they are not.

All the teachings are necessary, and if the student does not try to practice the whole set of principles, he will not succeed in the Way of the Warrior.

This is especially true with regard to provisions on emotion and intention. The knowledge sought by the warrior is a product of perception, namely power, but perception can only occur within the framework of the events of everyday life. Obviously, this perception is unique to each individual, and therefore the knowledge gained from personal experience will also be unique. After a very short practice, a person quickly realizes that most of this knowledge cannot be expressed in words, although he can perfectly understand it. It is for this reason that the Toltecs have always held the view that genuine teaching never was and could not be written down or coded in any form.

Contrary to popular belief, all knowledge arises on the left side and is therefore irrational. The only activities that occur on the right side are the computation and structuring of knowledge obtained on the left side, as well as the ordering of theoretical information. It should be remembered that the left side is irrational, it does not obey the linear and consistent patterns of thinking experienced in the usual state of awareness, that is, on the right side. As a result, it is impossible to express the left side with words - at best, we are able to describe the experience of the left side with words, or, in other words, to express and describe what we saw from the left side. These descriptions will only be logical interpretations of knowledge beyond the possibilities of words, since the consistency of words by their very nature requires a linear and consistent placement.

The new student is usually completely confused about the true nature and manifestations of left-sided awareness. Yet there is nothing so mysterious in left-hand or heightened awareness as is commonly believed. In fact, all ordinary people are familiar with it, although they never realize and do not fully understand it. In order to achieve greater clarity, we will talk about this in a little more detail. To do this, we should return to the Truths of Awareness, which are repeated for convenience below.

TRUTH OF CONSCIOUSNESS

1. the universe consists of an infinite number of energy fields resembling filaments of light.

2. These threadlike energy fields come from a source of unimaginable length, metaphorically called the Eagle. For this reason, the energy fields are called Eagle Emanations.

3. Human beings also consist of an infinite number of such thread-like energy fields, which manifest themselves in the form of a large luminous egg. The size of this egg vertically is equal to the height of the human body with arms stretched out over the head, and horizontally it extends to the width of the hands placed to the sides. This egg is called a human cocoon.

4. At any given time, only a small fraction of the energy fields inside the cocoon are illuminated by a brightly shining point of light located on its surface.

5. Perception occurs when the energy fields illuminated by this point of light spread their glow to the corresponding energy fields outside the cocoon. This point of light is called the point where perception is collected, or, abbreviated, the assemblage point.

6. The assemblage point can be shifted to any other position on the surface of the cocoon and even inside it. Since the assemblage point illuminates any energy fields with which it interacts, the new energy fields illuminated by such a displacement define a new perception. It is this new level of perception that is called vision.

7. When the assemblage point shifts far enough, a person perceives a completely new world, as real as the world of ordinary perception.

8. There is a mysterious force called intention throughout the universe. This force provides perception, because it is the intention that first adjusts the energy fields and, secondly, is the reason for awareness of this setting.

9. The goal of warriors is to experience all kinds of perceptions available to man. This means what is called Full Awareness, which leads to a different way of death.

These nine concepts represent the cornerstone of the Toltec Teachings. Everything a warrior knows and does is based on these fundamental principles. Therefore, the Truths of Awareness should be studied until they are fully understood and then perceived by the whole being of man. Without this alphabet of the Toltec Way, their teachings degenerate into a useless collection of empty intellectual considerations.

With regard to the Truths of Consciousness, one should never forget that man is a microcosm of the macrocosm, that is, he is an exact miniature copy of the whole Universe. There are seven huge bands of interacting energy fields in the universe, and each of them is divided into seven sub-bands. This is also true for human structure. In the human cocoon, there is a group of sub-strips that stretch across several large bands and form a special combination of energy fields. This group of fields provides that quality of awareness that is defined as inherent in a person.

This group of sub-stripes is most confusing to all but experienced seers, and is called very simply: the Human Band. However, since most of the available forms of perception in the Human Band go beyond the ordinary experience and awareness of a person, they are also called unknown.

In Toltec doctrine, ordinary awareness is known as First Attention, that is, the right side. The left side is called the Second Attention. First Attention is defined as all possible permutations of perception at the "normal" position of the assemblage point. In this respect, an ordinary person who does not have a moving assemblage point always uses only one of the possible permutations available in his habitual awareness and calls it known. On the other hand, the warrior who has reached the mobility of the assemblage point uses all possible permutations of the First Attention and calls this clarity or sobriety, the Second Attention, or left side, is a set of all possible perceptual permutations that become available when the assemblage point shifts to any position within the Human Band, that is, within that group of energy fields that constitute the truly human experience. In the future, great confusion can be avoided if we now fully realize that these energy fields, of course, include the fields of the animal kingdom, one of whose representatives is man.

 Logical thinking, which has the property of linearity, is possible only under the influence of reason. However, the mind can function only in ordinary awareness, since thinking can proceed linearly and sequentially only when the assemblage point is tuned to certain energy fields that make up First Attention. This is both a feature and an advantage of First Attention. When the assemblage point is tuned to energy fields that are not part of First Attention, linear thinking ceases and knowledge arises according to an irrational pattern unrelated to the sequence and therefore to time.

When knowledge arises in an irrational way that has no discernible connection with time, a person experiences direct spiritualization, or insight. Such insight is technically called vision; if, due to lack of energy, it is slow, this experience has a sleeplike character.

Since few students have sufficient personal power at the beginning of their studies, any experience gained by shifting the assemblage point is, for convenience, called a dream.
During sleep, the assemblage point of a person is no longer fixed by First Attention, as a result of which it involuntarily and chaotically shifts; as a result, we all experience “ordinary dreams”.

In addition, only very rare people have a fairly disciplined mind and remember ordinary dreams. Most people often forget the left-hand experience when the assemblage point returns to its usual position. Forgetting left-hand awareness does not in any way reduce the impact of this knowledge - this knowledge is manifested in what psychologists call the subconscious, even ordinary dreams have a subconscious effect on our awareness and, consequently, on our life experience, which can be confirmed by any serious psychologist.

Although this may seem shocking, the ordinary person does not think at all, because, firstly, he never remembers his left-sided awareness and, secondly, is not able to choose different permutations of perception in the state of ordinary awareness. As a result, the average person rarely finds original solutions to special problems; on the contrary, in order to solve the current problem, he tries his best to manipulate those ideas and thoughts that he inherited from his social environment.

The result is always what is called cyclic thinking, or internal dialogue, which results in a person trying to plug a round hole with a square stopper.

People who are capable of causing an assemblage point to move within either the First or Second Attention are the true thinkers of the Earth. What is commonly called a sudden idea or flash of insight is invariably the result of the movement of the assemblage point. In this respect it is worth noting how many brilliant ideas first appeared in dreams, regardless of whether these were dreams in reality or dreams usually experienced during sleep.

Needless to say, the first task that each student faces is the need to accumulate enough personal power to move the assemblage point. The student must first move his assemblage point within the framework of ordinary awareness in order to achieve clarity of understanding, and then learn to shift the assemblage point to heightened awareness in order to achieve altered states of perception.

The resulting paradox, which usually leads to confusion, is that it is possible to master enough personal power to move or shift the assemblage point only with the help of intention. It should be remembered that it is the intention that allows us to perceive, and personal power is the product of perception.

Intention is defined as the one and only force present in the universe is the indomitable will, or purpose, of the Eagle.

Intention is inherent in all forms of life, organic and inorganic, and therefore is clearly manifested in the kaleidoscopic picture of diversity and modification.

The true purpose of the human being is to learn to develop and direct the power of intention, which is as rigidly held in the awareness of man as it is in the awareness of the Eagle himself. Thus, intention is not a strange and alien force, but by right a heritage belonging to every person. We are all born with the ability to develop intention to its maximum potential.

So, it is very important to define the concepts of human and human. Toltecs describe the human being as a social person on the physical plane, that is, the tonal. In English, the word human, "man", consists of the prefix "hu" and the word "man". The prefix "hu" etymologically comes from the Egyptian language and means "tiger".

Therefore, the concept of “human” literally means “tiger man” or, more simply, “animal man”. It should be understood, however, that it is not the human being that is being reborn, but rather the nagual’s awareness. This awareness, which in most esoteric schools is called the reborn ego, is called the dreamer in the Toltec tradition.

The concept of man is thus defined as the aggregate of the nagual, the dreamer, and the tonal.

The principle of the dreamer goes far beyond the scope of this first volume, but is mentioned here, firstly, in order to avoid an excessive number of gaps in the information provided and, secondly, to emphasize that the tonal is often called visible in a dream. In other words, during the physical incarnation, the dreamer dreams not only the tonal, but also the purpose of this tonal. This is a very important principle for understanding, since it is the share of the human dreamer that forces the intention to manifest in his instrument, the tonal, on the physical plane.

Thus, it can be understood that it is not very difficult to develop an intention, since this is part of the purpose of each person. This requires only sufficient effort, which is the value of practical work.

To complete the story about this section of the teachings, you need to describe another, last topic. It is related to what is called the Third Attention. Although, as has been explained, the present Third Attention is generally not a matter of immediate importance to most students, it is still partly due to intention, as well as to two other concepts that are now of interest throughout the world, namely meditation and magic.

I am often asked how the Toltecs feel about meditation. However, in order to understand the Toltec point of view, it is very important to understand the principle of the dreamer. Meditation is neither a cyclic thinking nor a random repetition of the mantra, as it stops the internal dialogue. True meditation is total inner silence, a silence in which only awareness is present. This awareness is, of course, a dreamer, and when a social being enters into such a state, he literally makes a connection with his dreamer.

This, in turn, means that in a state of meditation a person goes to full awareness and is able to understand the purpose of his dreamer at the current time. For this reason, it should be clear that genuine meditation cannot be achieved until one has mastered the art of stopping the inner dialogue. However, stopping the internal dialogue, like everything else, requires personal strength.

Ultimately, it does not matter what form of meditation is used, if only it is applied in a way that leads to the cessation of internal dialogue and the mastery of personal power. This is the true purpose of all meditation techniques, but unfortunately, most practitioners are trapped in either forms of meditation or mantras and therefore never achieve the desired goal. In Raja Yoga, for example, a person usually becomes obsessed with visualization, not realizing that visualization is only a help in stopping the internal dialogue.

Similarly, a person engaged in mantra meditation becomes obsessed with the continuous reading of the mantra and does not understand that at a certain point the repetition of the mantra must stop, so that inner silence reigns in him. In both examples, the human obsession becomes an obstacle and holds the assemblage point rigidly fixed in ordinary awareness.

An important point is that when a warrior accumulates sufficient intention, he is able to stop the internal dialogue, which, in turn, allows him to overcome the fixation of awareness and make his assemblage point mobile. Once this has been achieved, the warrior not only enters into the awareness of his dreamer, but also becomes one with the dreamer, who, of course, is his real self.

This state of being called Third Attention is the level of awareness at which the warrior is able to consciously manipulate the manifestation in his dreamer of a single universal force, namely, the will of the Eagle, or intention. For this reason, it is said that in the life of a warrior there comes a moment when the team of a warrior becomes the team of the Eagle.

This statement is not to be confused with the religious principle of the One or Universal Consciousness, or Reunion with God, or fusion with the Mind go to the Heart of God and other similar concepts.

In this respect, it should always be remembered that Third Attention implies the ability to direct the assemblage point at will to any position within the Human Band. Warriors are not so presumptuous as to forget that they simply move within the unknown without affecting the unknowable.

Being a microcosm of the macrocosm, a person carries the unknowable, but to enter this area of energy fields means to leave the Human Band. It is quite possible, but to go into the unknowable is to cease to be human. There is no doubt that one day man will reach a level of awareness that will allow him to safely penetrate into the unimaginable expanses of the unknowable, but the modern goal of dreaming mankind is not this. The transition to the Third Attention is quite a challenge for most people living today.

With all that said. Third Attention can be defined as the quality of awareness that is expressed as the dreamer’s goal. The result of expressing this quality on the physical plane is what the ordinary person calls magic or miracle. This goal, which we call magic, is divided into three directions and manifests itself as movement, sound, and color. Naturally, this trinity is associated with the dreamer.

On the physical plane, we can find that movement corresponds to action, sound to thinking, and color to emotion. Therefore, we say that emotions are the beginning of thinking, which is embodied in actions.

In this volume, it is impossible to tell anything more about intention, except that magic, in its truest possible definition, is nothing more than the use of intention through the manipulation of color, sound, and movement, or by emotion, thought, and action. The only reason this question is touched upon here is that it is extremely important to understand that emotions are manifestations of the dreamer's intention on the physical plane. Thus, it can be seen that in all aspects of the Toltec teachings, the meaning of emotions is again and again emphasized.

To clarify any possible difficulties with regard to magic, it should be noted that magic has two forms of manifestation. One of these forms, called the Second Ring of Power, is described above; in it the magician uses the power of pure intention. The second form is known as the First Ring of Power, an ancient form of magic based on rituals, spells, witchcraft, and magic formulas of all kinds. This second form of magic, which is the most commonly known, is bulky and rather limited as it is based on the power of the tonal.

A strange and profound, not yet fully understood mystery of the Toltec tradition is that a perfectly controlled and disciplined tone really has its own power. However, this power is not only limited in comparison with the power of intention, but also depleted. Thus, a person engaged in the second form of magic can devastate himself and his power, and this is something that the Toltecs cannot treat with particular delight. Intention is not only more practical and powerful, but also limitless and inexhaustible. These two paths are often called the Great and Small Paths of Magic, the Elder and the Younger Paths of Power. Pure Intentional Magic and Formula Magic, Magic and Shamanism, and so on.

It is important to remember that in the end there is nothing but the intention - the will of the Eagle - and this intention manifests itself in man, first, as the color of his dreamer and, secondly, as the emotions of his tonal. For this reason, the task of the student in any practical exercises is to learn how to develop his natural heritage, intention.
Once he understands this, the path lies open before him. One thing leads to another until the student finally masters the art of manipulating intent, which in turn gives him the ability to work with sound and movement.

This means that soon the student automatically turns into a magician, although this does not always manifest itself in the generally accepted sense of the word.

The magic of life involves more than just supernatural acts causing such awe. The true purpose of a person’s magical abilities is not to entertain others, but to create in the true sense of the word. Sometimes, for some other reason, it is very important for a magician to demonstrate his strength on the physical plane, and in this case he develops such abilities, if only he spends the necessary effort and time. However, the manifestation of supernatural abilities is not the fate of every person in the current rebirth.

The magician of pure intention is not a circus animal; his activity requires the discipline and integrity of a person who understands the relationship of all living things. In accordance with this, the real magician enters into a reasonable cooperation between man and the forces of fate and learns to use his magical abilities in the eternal and majestic game of creation.

However, such activities take place behind the scenes, in worlds inaccessible to the eyes of mortals. In these invisible worlds all Toltecs move, and it is there that they all begin the so-called final journey of power.

The key to the invisible world lies in the ability and experience of the warrior in managing, first, emotions and, secondly, intention.

Therefore, the first practical task that is set before the student is to be able to recognize in emotions what they are on the grandfather himself, and then to teach their wise use.

At this point, each student asks how he should use these emotions, but such an inevitable question cannot be answered. The student might as well ask how to use his lungs for breathing or his feet for walking.

Questions like this make no sense for the simple reason that if you don’t breathe, you will die, and if you don’t get up on your feet, you won’t be able to stand or walk. It is enough to remember that none of us was taught how to breathe or walk.

These actions, like everything else we do, are simply manifestations of intention, and in this respect, the use of emotion is no different from breathing and walking.

However, many people never master deep and complete breathing, like this, most people are not able to correctly distribute the weight of their body and achieve the maximum use of their muscle system. Any opera singer will confirm that proper breathing is a special art, and each gymnast recognizes that before he acquired gymnastic dexterity, he spent long hours, many years, practicing the correct distribution of body weight and the ability to allocate and control each muscle separately.

The Warrior Path student undergoes a similar training program, studying the correct use of emotions. I want to emphasize that we all breathe, use our body and our emotions, but some people do it better than others.

There are very few people in the world who can rightly claim to be in control of their emotions. Most of the time, a person’s emotions are partially or completely suppressed and, to some extent, are not subject to his conscious control. And yet, the art of releasing and using emotions is not at all difficult, although it requires some careful consideration if necessary to avoid unpleasant situations or circumstances.

However, before we learn how to do this, one issue that often causes confusion should be clarified.

This question is related to the difference between feelings and emotions. These two words are not synonymous. Feelings often involve emotions — and this is true of thoughts, by the way — but feelings are not emotions. The true nature of the senses will be described in the following volumes, so long as it is sufficient to say that the senses are a sense of left-hand knowledge that does not fit into the frame of reference of the rational mind. On the other hand, emotions are secondary impulses that are caused by the act of perception and depending on the individual level of sobriety, they are either pure and simple, or mixed and complex.

To understand this, there are only four kinds of pure emotion: anger, fear, joy, and discouragement. All other emotions are a mixture of two or more basic emotions and are therefore called mixed emotions. All four pure emotions are expressions of desire, the physical manifestation of a single universal force, intention. Anger is the desire to fight, fear is the desire to retreat, joy is the desire to live, and sadness is the desire to change.

From the above, it should be clear why it is so important for the student to learn to recognize in his emotions what they really are, since only under this condition he is able to use them wisely and usefully for himself. The only way to achieve this is to develop that level of awareness, which is called total awakening, this is the very first requirement of the Way of the Warrior. Becoming a warrior in a state of half-sleep is simply impossible.

The warrior is fully aware of what emotions arise in his perception process, what is their cause, as well as what their purpose and potentialities are.

To clarify exactly how emotions should be used, let’s look at a few examples. Imagine a man named Leon, who has a quick temper and easily loses his temper. We have previously talked about the futility of trying to suppress emotions, but Leon, of course, cannot allow his aggressiveness to get out of control. If Leon wants to succeed and become a warrior, he needs to learn how to skillfully manage his aggressiveness with tackle, as well as use it as one of the means in the replay technique.

In assessing Leon’s task, imagine that he once noticed a neighbor throwing garbage under the fence of his garden. Needless to say, Leon is instantly furious, however, if he just breaks his neighbor’s nose, it will not help him anything. Although Leon would have loved to beat up his neighbor at the moment, he knows he shouldn’t. However, he cannot ignore this case. Leon is working on a plan. Taking the bag with him, he gently cleans the garbage, then comes to the neighbor’s house and calls.

When the neighbor opens the door, Leona still shakes with anger, but he makes himself calm down, politely hands the neighbor a bag of garbage and says, "I think you've rubbed it in my garden." Blush with shame, Leon's neighbor humbly takes the package extended to him and mumbles some apologies. Leon just grins and, assuring his neighbor that he was very pleased to return the lost things, turns around and leaves.

In this case, Leon does not suppress his anger, but acts perfectly, allowing anger to become the driving force of his actions. At the end of the incident, Leon is satisfied with himself and realizes that using emotions in this way is actually quite fun. In addition, Leon realizes that by controlling his anger, he has avoided what could have been a rather unpleasant story.

If Leon were timid rather than aggressive, he could have handled the situation in the same way — allowing his anger to fill him with courage. On the other hand, if it seemed to him not very reasonable to meet with the neighbor personally, he could simply put a package on his porch, attach a polite note to him and gently suggest to the neighbor to refrain from such actions in the future. The result would have been the same, and somehow Leon would have been able to accomplish his task.
Let us now consider the case of a woman named Lydia, who is usually very shy and vulnerable. In fact, unlike Leon, Lydia is not aggressive at all, but spends most of her life in fear, afraid of what people can say about her.
One day her sister comes to visit her and, not at all going to offend Lydia, jokes about her weight. Lydia instantly feels offended and begins to be ashamed of her figure, but instead of being as quiet as usual, she reacts in a way that catches her sister by surprise.

Quickly considering the situation, Lydia rests her hands in the hips, spreads her elbows wide and, demonstrating the indignation, which she does not really experience, boldly declares to her sister, parrying the clumsiness: "Welcome, dear sister. And even if I’m fat, I’m at least polite enough to make my sister feel at home.”

Stunned by Lydia's unexpected reaction, the sister rushes to correct her rash joke, but Lydia again brings her out of balance, laughing heartily and brushing off her sister's apology. Not knowing how to behave in the future, Sister Lydia carefully refrains from commenting on Lydia throughout the visit.

Lydia won the battle for the simple reason that she refused to respond to the neglect in her usual manner, instead of submitting to her fear, Lydia used it for a witty response. In other words, although Lydia had been locked away in the past for fear that her body might not be as slender as it might have been, she now let her fear of new ridicule help her to make a comeback.
At this moment of spontaneous reaction, Lydia’s first weapon was her sense of humor, and with his help she switched roles with her sister.

Another example: a man named William suffers from what he himself considers depression, as his wife filed for divorce. However, after careful consideration, William realizes that this so-called depression is only a side effect of a deeper feeling - despondency. Moreover, as he reflects on this, he begins to realize that discouragement often occurs throughout his life and clearly rises to the surface precisely when he is faced with important changes.

Realizing this, William realizes that he has two choices; first, he can try to suppress his sadness, and secondly, he can follow her and see what gift of power she will bring him. Obviously, William is very difficult to part with the woman he loves, and with whom he lived for more than a dozen years, and yet he understands that she would not apply for divorce if she really wanted their marriage to continue.

Deciding not to suppress his sadness, William allows himself to immerse himself in it with healers, to his surprise, finds that sadness cleanses him from any feeling of resentment towards his wife. At this moment of clarity, it becomes quite clear to William that his wife is not so much willing to divorce, as desperately trying to get rid of those patterns of behavior that he had during their marriage. Remembering how his wife several times stated that he was not the man she was marrying, William with unexpected clarity realizes that a divorce will not change anything. In fact, he needs to change those patterns of behavior that caused the split of his married life. Suddenly feeling a surge of strength, not depression, William decides to fight for the preservation of the family.

A girl named Cynthia is sent for an interview, but is terribly nervous and very worried that she will not be able to get a job. Realizing that the excitement only makes her nervous even more, Cynthia decides to try to think about something else and imagine how happy she will be if she gets this job. For a few moments, Cynthia experiences a genuine sense of joy, and despite his fleetingness, it turns out to be enough for her to realize that she can come to an interview either tense and excited, or relaxed and happy. Well aware that no anxiety can change anything, Cynthia once again focuses her attention on more pleasant thoughts, and by the time she finds herself getting along before her possible employer, Cynthia is already completely master of her nervousness and is able to behave easily and cheerfully throughout the conversation. In other words, Cynthia used joy to subdue anxiety and nervousness.

These examples should make it clear what behavior is expected of the student in relation to, first, his understanding of emotions and, secondly, the ability to use them in their favor.

However, it should be realized that, although it is not difficult to use emotions, their conscious and effective use still remains a difficult game. The use of emotions in its favor is a special art that can be mastered only through constant practice in combination with the technique of not-doing, which we will get acquainted with later.

Thus, the reader needs to study non-doing in light of what has been said regarding dealing with emotions. In turn, this approach will lead to a deeper understanding of the elusive force called intention, a principle that is beyond the scope of this book, to which we will return again and again in the following volumes. In addition, the use of emotions is an extremely important prerequisite for the technique of revision, and in the next chapter we will learn how to use it.

DREAMING HUMANITY

Everything we see and feel is just a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

Chapter Eight:
REVIEW

To understand the technique of re-viewing. it is very important to clearly understand the true nature of the glowing human cocoon. This life-force cocoon is actually an electromagnetic force field composed of innumerable fibers of energy.

These fibers are not individual strands, but consist of the finest energy hairs. In other words, energy hairs are electromagnetic pulses that uniformly fill the entire range, called the energy field. Moreover, awareness is also electromagnetic in nature, and what is called the assemblage point is actually awareness inherent in the life force.

Thus, when it is said that the assemblage point illuminates a group of energy fields, it is implied that awareness vibrates at a frequency corresponding to those fields on which it is concentrated. These energy strands arise as a result of movement or interaction between atoms.

In other words, the energy strand can be defined as the electromagnetic interaction between two atoms. For this reason, it is quite clear that such threads are very thin and fragile and do not require much effort in order to “damage” and destroy them. Usually within the field there is only a small number of broken threads, and the general field looks intact. But in the case when many threads are destroyed, the whole field becomes “damaged”.

In his daily life, a person interacts emotionally with the world around him. This interaction is possible only through perception, that is, it is perception that causes emotional reactions to any situation. These emotions cause certain thoughts, and the relationship between emotional reactions and thoughts determine the actions taken by a person.

Emotional reactions are caused by electromagnetic impulses that arise in the process of perception. It should be remembered that perception occurs when a person adjusts his energy fields to fields outside the cocoon. This in turn means that the awareness of the observer generates primary electromagnetic pulses, which are then carried to the observed through the energy fields by the electromagnetic pulses that form these fields. This is something like how an electric current is generated by the movement of electrons.

It is obvious that the observed in a similar way perceives the observer. When both the observer and the observed simultaneously generate such impulses, they mix and interact, generating secondary impulses. These secondary impulses, which are transmitted to both the observer and the observed through the energy fields, represent what a person calls emotions.

Perception-related processes usually don’t cause any harm, but if the emotional reactions that arise are powerful enough or aggressive enough, some fibers of energy fields can break down. In other words, either the observer loses some of his fibers directed to the observed, or vice versa, or both of them take away from each other some of their fibers. How exactly the destruction occurs is too difficult to describe in this book.

Suffice it to say that emotions can lead to the fact that the energy fields of a person are irretrievably changed and may lose their former strength or become contaminated under the influence of the applied external force.

Since the assemblage point of an ordinary person is fixed, he condemns himself to use only one group of energy fields. For this reason, it is quite understandable that over time the energy fields used by him are “worn out” and polluted. This is a technical explanation of the consequences of social conditioning; as such wear and tear increases, the perception itself also becomes increasingly obscure and inaccurate.

Therefore, the student’s task is to “cleanse” his energy fields, firstly, removing all foreign fibers from his cocoon and, secondly, returning the lost fibers.

Although all this seems rather vague and mysterious, even orthodox science is not far from understanding the unity of life.

Life is essentially a web of interconnected, interacting, and interdependent electromagnetic forces, and everything that happens in the tiniest part of this web affects the entire plexus of fields. In this force matrix, there is a continuous flow of motion, and energy moves along and across the electromagnetic currents that form the entire web.

The description of man’s relationship with the universe is not part of the purpose of this book, but at least minimal explanations are needed to understand the principle of energy transfer or exchange.

The best thing to do in this book is to present an extremely simplistic description of this process. The loss and return of fibers is not so much due to personality particles, but rather to what is called alignment.

In other words, when a warrior returns his fibers left in another person, he does not take them out of that person in the literal sense of the word, but simply extracts the necessary fibers from the web.

Of course, this action puts the web out of balance, and in order to recover, the web, in turn, itself extracts fibers from the person who took them from the warrior.

The same happens if a warrior has to take his fibers from a person who has already died, since the fibers are pure energy and therefore not subject to time and space. Similarly, when a warrior gets rid of foreign fibers, he simply pushes them into the web, and the web returns them to the one to whom they belonged earlier.

To learn to do all this, the student needs to re-view any experience that he has, up to his smallest details. When faced with this herculean task for the first time, each student feels completely overwhelmed, and yet it is possible, no matter how difficult it may seem.

Since man can achieve the maximum evolution of awareness in any particular experience, the life force has a habit of repeating experiences according to well-defined Cycles, and anyone who is sufficiently interested in this can quite easily track such cycles in their lives. For this reason, much of a person’s life experience is simply a “re-imagination.”

With this in mind, recall can be reduced to the need for a complete recapitulation of only one life cycle. The remaining cycles are only its repetitions and therefore they can be handled very quickly. This does not mean that replay is an easy or quick technique, but it is not an insurmountable task either. Full, up to the moment of birth, review is extremely important, and usually it takes many years of constant and diligent practice.

However, the student simply needs to regain a full memory of his life before he can move forward on the Way of the Warrior - each replay session helps him move forward, and with each movement of the student, more and more energy and strength accumulate in him, like a snowball.

With regard to practical work, it is necessary to note the excellent method of keeping a diary of the work performed and the knowledge gained. Such a diary is very helpful in the education of discipline and an orderly approach to learning.

Go early when a person crosses a certain threshold of understanding, diaries are no longer needed, and in this case they usually remain somewhere on the shelf as personal memories. However, until that time comes, they provide an invaluable service.

Ultimately, the Way of the Warrior is the most important and exciting journey one can undertake, and any worthwhile journey is worth describing in a diary.

When working with a diary, everything related to the Way of the Warrior should be entered in one notebook, and not create separate diaries for various aspects of the activity. At first glance, this approach seems quite chaotic, but it has one advantage: it emphasizes those hidden trends and details that can easily be overlooked if you work with several diaries.

For this reason, describe everything in one notebook - re-view, events, dreams, comments, thoughts, and so on. When the book is full, start a new one. You should become disciplined and make at least one record every day. Another useful habit may be to mark the date of each entry, which will later help to establish cross-references between events.

Most students briefly refer to re-viewing as "recaping".

There are two types of re-viewing: active re-viewing and spontaneous or passive re-viewing. With active re-viewing, the student sits down and begins to recall the events of the past, while with spontaneous re-viewing, the events of the past involuntarily and instantly flash into memory. For optimal use of time, the student is advised to benefit from both types of recapitulation,

At the beginning of the practice, the most beneficial results are usually brought by spontaneous re-prosthetics. On the other hand, active re-viewing is often slow and time consuming, but this form is an invaluable exercise that develops intention.

As the intention grows stronger, both types of recapture are facilitated.

At the very beginning, all students are involuntarily trapped in intellectual memories of the past.
It should be emphasized that this is not recapping, but what the Toltecs call "accounting." Such intellectual memories should only be used as a guide for re-viewing.

Authentic recapitulation means having to relive the entire event as if it were happening at the moment. This means that a person should remember and relive all the emotions associated with this event. Only the recollection of emotions allows us to fully live the event of the past and understand what exactly happened then. Similarly, only when we know what really happened can we get rid of the alien fibers and take back our own fibers lost during this event.

ACTIVE REVIEW.

It doesn’t matter where we start to recapture, because ultimately, we need to achieve full memories of any event. Obviously, the most logical step is to start with the most significant event of its recent past. It is very useful for the student to make a list of all the important events that he remembers, and start with the recent past, gradually going back in time. This is what is meant by active recapitulation.

Once a student has compiled such a list, he simply selects the first event from the list and tries to recall as many details as possible. There is no point in rushing, because the more details he can remember, the easier it will be for him to restore the emotions he experienced at that moment. One of the most useful proverbs for the student regarding this technique is the advice: "Hurry slowly "

A student working under the guidance of the Nagual will have to perform a certain breathing exercise from time to time, but such exercises can become dangerous if performed without the supervision of an experienced master; strictly speaking, they are not absolutely necessary for the recapitulation technique. Breathing can help, but without it, remembering can be no less successful and safer. For safety reasons, this book does not describe breathing exercises.

The best way to understand the replay technique is by its example.

A disciple who works under the guidance of the Nagual has a real experience from his own life, but for the purposes of this book we will consider a hypothetical example. Imagine a man named Peter, who constantly feels guilty because he considers himself a coward.
In the recent past, Peter found himself in a situation in which he felt he needed to stand up for his rights, but instead he kept quiet and allowed himself to miss the opportunity. Looking back on his life, Peter realizes that this is his old habit, especially when he feels that if he speaks, he may face physical opposition. Remembering the school season, Peter realizes that he avoided any form of physical collision and violence, up to the point that he simply hated sports. As a child, Peter often suffered from being called a coward, and grew up convinced that this was true.

However, as Peter reflects on his life in general, he realizes that in many cases he did not behave like a coward, but on the contrary, acted with more courage than other people. In this, Peter finds the first clue - he behaves like a coward only when he feels the threat of physical violence. At first, this puts Peter at a standstill, as he knows that he is not a weakling, and although he is not a very strong person, he is sufficiently developed for his weight and height.

Reflecting on his problem even more deeply, Peter recalls that as a child, when he was ridiculed, he began to boil with rage, although at the same time shuddered with fear of physical pain. Peter’s fear of physical pain always forced him to avoid a fight, after which he despised himself for this cowardice.

It was normal for Peter’s childhood, and going back in his thoughts to the past, Peter could not remember any case when he would change such a pattern of behavior.

In attempts to replay Peter suddenly remembers one incident that occurred several years ago. He was working in his garage when a stray cat, chased by a neighbor’s dog, suddenly entered the room and dived into an open drawer. When the dog left, Peter tried to take the cat out of the box, but he resisted. Although Peter always loved animals, the stubbornness of the cat for some reason made him furious. Without even thinking about what he was doing, Peter began to yell at the cat and cover it with scolding, but even this did not affect him in any way, and Peter completely lost his temper.

In a rage, Peter grabbed the old newspaper, rolled it into a tube, set fire to one end, and shoved it into a box in an attempt to get the cat to jump out of hiding. However, the cat did not appear, and then, extinguishing the flame, Peter in a fit of anger tore the drawer out of the chest. In the corner of the box squeezed cat with fear eyes and completely burned mustache. When Peter saw him, all his fury instantly faded away - he was stunned and ashamed of what he had done. He realized that he had not caused serious harm to the cat, and still terribly frightened him. Looking into the eyes of the petrified animal, Peter experienced a rush of devastating remorse and overwhelming feelings of guilt in front of the cat.

Peter's actions that day haunted him for a whole month. Each time he remembered the incident, he shuddered with guilt and shame. For some reason, this case was for Peter confirmation of what a coward he was, as he could not stand for his rights in front of people, but put his anger on a frightened and defenseless animal.

One day, while continuing his recapitulation, Peter recalls another incident at work after the incident with the cat. That morning, Peter’s boss had issued an order penalising employees who arrived late for work. At lunchtime, Peter popped out to a shop to buy some paint, but traffic delayed him on the way back, so he returned to work a few minutes after the appointed time. As so often happens, Peter’s boss was already waiting for him, and when Peter came through the door, his boss’s fury nearly brought the ceiling down.
At first, Peter simply petrified, froze on the spot, and his boss, like a sleepwalker, shouted incoherent accusations. Then Peter was overwhelmed with burning anger, which caused a strange ringing in the ears and trembling hands.

During this encounter, Peter's superior stood facing him and his back to the large, human-sized mirror, and for some reason Peter looked at its reflection in the mirror.
At the sight of the boss’s back in the mirror, Peter had an angry thought in his head. At this moment, Peter decided to put the boss in place, and as soon as this idea took shape, he felt a rush of adrenaline in his body. Angered to the point that he could not utter a word, Peter was ready to kill the boss, and he wanted to immediately smash this mirror with his head. In his blind rage, he saw the mirror split, and his fragments crumble around, stained with the blood of the boss.

Fortunately for Peter, the fellow worker standing next to him must have felt his blind anger, as he immediately clasped Peter’s shoulder tightly with his hand. The touch of a colleague brought Peter back to a sober state, and his rage almost calmed down. At the end of the incident, Peter just looked at the boss and silently left the room.

For days afterward, Peter puzzled over his reaction to the boss’s behavior. The rage of being yelled at and the thirst for revenge that it caused was completely out of line with the situation, all the more so, Peter realized that he was really guilty by being late for work. Although Peter was not entirely sure about this, for some reason he felt that this incident, like the case of the cat, was related to his re-viewing activities.

Then one day Peter suddenly remembered the incident that happened to him and one of his cousins when they were both only five years old. They played under a tree, and Peter built a homemade hut out of twigs and bars. When the hut was finished and Peter was about to get inside, his brother pushed him away and got into the hut first. As the cabin was too cramped for the two, Peter began to beg his cousin to give him a place so he could also sit in the stall. But his brother was in a good mood and did not give in. Peter suddenly got angry, grabbed his brother by the hand and pulled himself. He dragged him as hard as he could and became increasingly aggressive, but when he realized that he would not be able to pull out his staggered brother, he vindictively bit him by the hand.

Needless to say, Peter's brother screamed out of the stall and screamed at the top of his voice. This was the first time Peter had started to assert his rights and went into a physical collision. However, Peter was frightened by his brother’s reaction and at the same moment realized what he had done. Not knowing what to do, Peter quietly climbed into his hut, experiencing confusion, uncertainty, guilt and disgust for himself.

A few minutes later, Peter’s mother appeared, deciding to find out what was the reason for such a noise. Seeing Peter's teeth marks on his cousin's arm, she grabbed Peter's hand and forced him out. By then, Peter had already realized that he had done something terrible. At the end, he realized that his actions had caused his mother’s intense anger. Up to this fateful moment, he always turned to her when he felt insecure, but since then he could not do it. His mother gave Peter a good shriek right in front of his brother.

Remembering this incident, Peter clearly recreated every detail of the entire episode, and he was again filled with all the feelings that he felt during that harsh punishment. He again felt the shock and pain of the beatings, the horror of the deed and, above all, the emotional suffering caused by his mother’s anger. The common feeling that these moments left in Peter’s heart was a deep sense of shame and confusion.

Continuing the replay, Peter realized that from that day he had begun to avoid collisions and still could not get rid of the feeling that he had betrayed his mother’s love for him. Peter continued to feel an overwhelming shame and hated himself for what he had done. He remembered that for years after that fateful day, he often caught himself in the glimpses of his aggressive nature and as a result began to fear them more than anything else in his life; he considered it a vice that led to the loss of what he needed most - his mother's trust.

This was the beginning of his lifelong suppression of his own aggressiveness; fearful of the consequences of allowing it to surface, Peter preferred to become timid. This, in turn, caused him to suffer from endless ridicule and teasing, but for his childish mind all this was a fair retribution for the betrayal of maternal love.

Peter punished himself for most of his life, and it was only after he had re-examined the case that he finally understood the reasons for his supposed cowardice. Realizing what really happened that day, Peter takes a position that allows him to correct the situation. However, he should not be too hasty with the work that is now to be done, since every event causes many consequences in our lives. Everything in life is interconnected, and even seemingly insignificant little things leave consequences that spread like ripples on the water to all aspects of our lives.

Before we find out how Peter can fix what happened to him, let’s look at how recapture happens in the process of spontaneous recapitulation.

PANEL REVIEW.

We are already familiar with Peter’s problem, but Peter himself always had a mental block when trying to recall the fact that most likely became the immediate cause of his feeling that he was a coward. This is not uncommon when re-watching, especially in cases where the original incident was quite traumatic. Children especially often block memories of painful experiences by spontaneously moving their assemblage point immediately after such an event. When this happens, the child can no longer easily remember a recent incident, and with age, memories of it become increasingly inaccessible.

Peter managed to relive the cases of the cat and the boss, but he still could not remember what caused his ideas about his own cowardice. One day he visited friends who had two young sons. Sitting with his friends in the courtyard of their house overlooking the garden, where the boys were playing some game, Peter accidentally noticed one of them violently biting his brother by the hand. The moment the injured boy made a shrill cry, Peter's memory was shattered, and he suddenly remembered with complete clarity and vivacity all the details of the day when he bit his cousin.

This is a typical example of how a spontaneous replay occurs. However, you don’t have to witness a specific scene. Sometimes it is enough to hear about a case from someone else’s mouth. Sometimes, in order to remember the past, a person has to relive an almost similar experience.

However, the fact remains that, one way or another, we are always able to revive our memories, since none of us really forgets anything.

The apparent memory loss is always due to mental blocks or easy movement of the assemblage point. Using the technique of re-viewing, we can remember the smallest details of our lives, if we wish.

Let’s think about what Peter can do now that he’s remembered his cousin’s case. The first thing he should do is to recognize all the numerous consequences that this incident has caused in his life as a whole.

In our case, it is enough to consider only a few examples, but in practice it is very important to identify and consider each such consequence. As in other cases, it can be very useful to make a list.

After compiling a list of consequences, Peter realizes how deep a trace left in him the incident with his cousin. First, he experienced anger and despair, followed by shock from the realization of the commission of something terrible. These feelings were exacerbated by the mother’s reaction, her frustration and anger, which culminated in beatings. Finally, Peter experienced confusion, shame and guilt, but above all, a deep aching feeling that he betrayed his mother’s trust in him.

That day, Peter lost many fibers that gave him confidence in the battle in his own battles, and those fibers were replaced by those maternal fibers that were imprinted in his mind as an understanding that fighting is bad. At the same time, he lost many threads that allowed him to express his anger with confidence, and because of his love for his mother and in attempts to compensate for his bad deeds, he pulled the fibers of timidity out of her.

Before that fateful day, Peter never thought about what shame is, the reaction of his cousin led to the fact that Peter received from him some of the fibers that allowed him to distinguish right from wrong. In his confusion, Peter completely forgot that, above all, he had hurt his brother, and as a result he took away from his brother the threads that caused Peter to blame himself for the troubles that other people brought him. Peter also took from his mother those fibers that made him feel ashamed for betraying her love. For the first time in his life, Peter understood the meaning of betrayal, and, thanks to his love for his mother, he tried to compensate for it by tearing out the threads that caused him the destructive need to punish himself.

The example described gives a definite idea of the thread exchange that happened to Peter that day, and the consequences that left a mark in his entire subsequent life. One of the worst was Peter’s subconscious decision to suppress his aggressiveness. We have already seen examples of the painful manifestations of such suppression, but for Peter himself it had numerous secondary consequences.

The main secondary consequence was Peter's idea of himself as a coward. As a result of the constant ridicule that he is a coward and gentle, Peter gradually began to avoid any collisions, including ridicule, until, finally, he began to consider himself a coward. Pitiful and frightened at every threat of a collision, even with innocent teasing, Peter became shy, withdrawn, and rather lonely. Completely devoid of self-confidence, Peter found it increasingly difficult to get along with people and eventually the herds felt at ease only when he was alone and playing or working alone with himself.

After rewatching this case, Peter realizes what really happened in situations with the cat and the boss.
In both cases, he was very close to recalling the case of his cousin. The way the cat flew into the garage, hid in the drawer of the chest, and then refused to leave, reminded Peter how his brother did not want to get out of the stall.

Similarly, when his boss was reporting his lateness, Peter felt a moment of savage rage at this attempt to intimidate him, for at that moment all his aggression, which had been held back for many years, suddenly burst to the surface, and Peter saw in his boss a symbol of all the ridicule and teasing that he had endured as a child.

Now that Peter knows how his sense of cowardice came about, he realizes that he was never really a coward. On the contrary, in order to withstand endless bullying and not to show suppressed aggressiveness, he needed all his courage and complete control over himself.

As soon as he came to realize this, the whole process immediately reversed. The only thing Peter needs to do is to methodically get rid of alien threads in his cocoon and take back his fibers that have been lost, and this he can achieve with the help of the non-doing technique.

CONTROLLED GLADNESS.

What controls your stupidity, your own purpose or social conditioning?

CHAPTER NINE
WEEK AND STEELKING

The technique of not-doing is actually identical to stalking, or stalking, since not-doing is the art of stalking yourself, as opposed to stalking someone else. Both techniques are defined as deliberate action. The purpose of this is manipulation. By learning how to free oneself from the limitations of social conditioning, the student must learn to track both himself and everyone around him.

In this regard, stalking others may seem immoral at first glance, but, in truth, every man, woman and even child very quickly learn to manipulate the world around them and continue to do so throughout life.

The fact that we are all involved in manipulation does not justify it, but a careful approach to stalking makes the differences between stalking and ordinary manipulation quite obvious.

Manipulation in the form in which it is usually carried out cannot be tolerated regardless of who participates in it. When one person manipulates another in order to fulfill his demands or accept his point of view, he literally imposes his will on him.

Imposing one’s will on another being for any reason is black magic and comes down to violence — physical, emotional, or mental. People constantly resort to violence against others and in their ignorance are even proud of such actions.

Two different examples will help us to understand this clearly.

Imagine a man who has an employee named John. John is very young and works with great enthusiasm. Watching this, his employer constantly assures John that if he will work as well, then in this company he will have a brilliant future. John is working harder and spending more and more time at work. Very soon he does twice as much as his position requires, but in his zeal he does not even think about the forces expended.

Soon John gets a raise and a raise. Admired by the results of his efforts, he takes up the business with even greater fervor, and after the second increase in salary he experiences ecstatic happiness. But now he’s even working weekends. As a result, John has no time to meet with friends, nor to rest at home. In fact, he has no free time, and he is able to think only about work.

John and his boss are happy. His boss has never had such a diligent employee, and John could not dream of such an honest and grateful employer. On the outside, everything looks very honest and fair, and John continues to spend all his energy and time on his work. Finally, he gets the post of deputy director with the corresponding salary, privileges and service car. In other words, John is in a strong position.

However, behind all this apparent success lies a terrible truth. John’s employer exploited his enthusiasm for his work until this natural interest turned into a drive for success.

As a result, he has no other life but work, and the greed of his boss and John himself made him nothing but a money-making machine. Now he is not a diligent and free-thinking young man, but an ordinary worker, addicted to his work as other people get used to alcohol or drugs. John was seduced by promises of fame, and then subjected to mental abuse. In his ignorance, he allowed this to happen and even feels gratitude to his boss for it.

Consider the case of a girl named Janet, who has lived with her mother since her father died in an accident. Janet has always been an exemplary student and daughter, diligently studied at school and helped her mother in any work in their small house. After graduating from school, Janet wanted to become a clothing designer, but this idea did not meet with the approval of her mother. Janet’s mother was very firm in her decision and quite clearly explained to her daughter that she herself worked so hard after her husband’s death only so that Janet could go to university and learn something worthwhile.

Mother wanted Janet to study medicine, and although Janet had no interest in the profession of a doctor, she did not want to disappoint mother. Being a sensitive girl, she always realized how hard her mother worked, especially after the death of her father. Now, her mother used her own victim as leverage to play on Janet's inherent sense of guilt. As a result, Janet gave in to persuasion and entered the university, and then became a doctor.

Without the slightest hesitation, Janet’s mother always stressed that Janet had achieved success in life thanks to her; in an attempt to express her gratitude for everything that her mother did for her, Janet bought her a beautiful house and settled with her. Janet does not find joy in her work, but her character makes her work hard. On the other hand, her mother now has the opportunity to rest after a hard life and enjoy the success of her daughter. Social conditioning leads Janet to believe it should be, but the sad truth is that she has been emotionally abused by her mother and continues to put up with it day in and day out.

Both examples clearly show how people allow themselves to be manipulated; social conditioning leads to the fact that there are always those who are simply happy to obey such manipulations. However, a real warrior never resorts to manipulation of this kind. Such acts of psychological violence are abhorrent to a person who believes in freedom. Stalking differs from conventional manipulation in that it leads to freedom rather than enslavement.

Admittedly, when a warrior tracks down another creature, it is still manipulative, but its purpose is to free not only the warrior himself, but also the creature he is tracking. The examples of Leon and Lydia in chapter seven are essentially samples of both stalking and non-doing. Not allowing himself to react in the usual way and choosing instead a different, thoughtful way of acting, Leon and Lydia practiced non-doing.

In addition, through their thoughtful actions, they taught their opponents a lesson in how to behave towards other creatures. As a result, Leon, Lydia, and their opponents benefited from what happened - this is exactly how it should be, this is the basis of the interdependence of all living things.

However, as will be seen below in this chapter, a warrior never uses stalking to gain an unfair advantage, and never tries to teach people a lesson unless they themselves have demanded it by their actions.

WEEK.

The principle of non-doing is very easy to understand, but its implementation in practice requires skill, which can be achieved only under the condition of strict discipline. Essentially, not-doing means being fully and constantly alert and watching your own emotional reactions closely. This constant vigilance instills in the student a sense of detachment, which provides him with the necessary "space" to be completely objective. It is a well-known fact that if we act as objective observers, we see the situation more clearly than if we are participants.

The practice of not-doing allows the warrior to always remain an objective witness - even in those situations in which he is deeply involved.

A warrior needs to be not only completely vigilant and objective, but also use the emotions he is experiencing at the moment as the driving force of his actions. This is very important, because in this case his actions, firstly, will become reflexive and fast, and secondly, they will acquire the spontaneity that ensures their vitality and effectiveness. It is simply impossible to do non-doing when a person is in a semi-sleepy state.

Non-doing is the process of playing the role we choose at a given moment, but since we never know in advance what the next moment will bring, such a performance requires the ability to improvise, everyone has great difficulty with this at first, but as a person develops an understanding of himself, he can begin to anticipate his emotional reactions. Gaining an understanding of oneself is one of the reasons for the importance of the technique of revision.

It is obvious that the better we know ourselves, the more we are able to foresee; for this reason, it becomes easier and easier to do not doing - besides the fact that it is just a great pleasure!

In the process of non-doing, we deliberately play a role diametrically opposite to our ingrained and habitual behavior.

If, for example, the student lacks confidence, he will practice non-doing, deliberately playing the role of a person who is completely confident in himself. The student is well aware of the fact that this is only a game, but if he performs his role flawlessly, others will be convinced that he is really confident in himself. Noting this reaction of the audience to their non-doing, the student is encouraged and begins to believe in his ability to play the chosen role.

At first, this does not change much, but if a student often behaves like a confident person, he slowly but surely continues to accumulate confidence in his ability to play self-confidence. Once this process begins, the student continues to gain more confidence in the chosen role until he finally begins to live this role.

Living his role, the student eventually fully submits to the role he performs, and once, without even noticing the moment when the transformation occurred, the student realizes that he has become confident in the full sense of the word. Although he lacked self-confidence in the past, he is now the personification of self-confidence.

The games we play with ourselves or with other people are extremely useful because, while in general people are not aware of this, these games are power games fuelled by intention. Every game starts out as a game, but if we play it well and long enough, it becomes a reality.

Non-doing is a warrior game — a game he plays with himself, something like a psychological solitaire.

That’s called tracking yourself.

Playing non-doing, the warrior is able to regain lost threads and get rid of threads alien to his cocoon.

However, this is not the last advantage due to non-doing. By practicing non-doing, the warrior realizes that he is slowly but surely freeing his assemblage point and moving it millimeter by millimeter. The analogy will help us to clarify this point.

If we compare the assemblage point with the rusted nut on the bolt of our obsolete habits, then not-doing. is like a deeply penetrating oil, the reason for doing not-doing is like the wrench by which we try to unscrew the nut-and what we call the inducement is nothing but intention! Over time, not-doing soaks and softens the rust of social conditioning, and our constant attempts to free the nut strengthen the intention until it is powerful enough to move the nut away from its place.

STALKING.

Much of what should be said about stalking has already been described when we talked about the art of tracking ourselves down, but there are a few more points to discuss with tracking others. First, it must be understood that the only justification for stalking others is to get them to cooperate.

No true warrior walking the Path of Freedom ever uses stalking to get another creature to fulfill his wishes.

Ever. A warrior uses stalking to accumulate an advantage, but using it for selfish purposes is violence. For example, before the surgeon begins surgery, he needs to be anesthetized, but the surgeon who uses his advantage over the patient under anesthesia is not worthy of the title of surgeon.

This is also true for the stalker. A warrior who knows the art of stalking does not use it to gain an unfair advantage over people.

A warrior uses stalking for two reasons: first, to prevent other people from trying to manipulate him, that is, for self-defense, and secondly, to help a person who otherwise could not understand that he needed help.

However, we should never forget that warriors do not make individual decisions about whether someone needs help, as this, as already explained, would be interference in the fate of another person.

The examples of Leon and Lydia prove this quite well. Leon did not make the decision that his neighbor needed help; he had to act only because his neighbor threw garbage into Leon's garden. The same is true of Lydia, as her actions were provoked by her sister. Both examples clearly demonstrate the interaction of life.

To track down another person, stalker, as in the process of not-doing, it is necessary to be completely vigilant and completely objective. If a person is immersed in the current situation, he simply can not track someone else.

The stalker always has superiority, because, firstly, he is removed from the situation, and secondly, having complete control over his emotions, he is able to change the situation in any direction he chooses.

This is the advantage of the stalker, since he always manipulates his opponent and translates him into a form of state of mind in which his emotional reactions can be changed.

When the enemy's reactions are changed, the stalker can only direct it in the desired direction.

The art of stalking is nothing more than the performance of a role. However, if the stalker wants to succeed, he cannot, of course, allow his opponent to understand that he is being tracked.

For this reason, the stalker often assumes a very prominent role, which is easily recognized, but at the same time hides his true motives. Such a clear role allows the stalker to develop a plan of action, and if his opponent is not familiar to him, this role helps him to gain time and study it. To understand all this, as usual, consider an example.

Paul was invited to lunch. Appearing at them, he noticed that the company is quite tense due to the fault of an uninvited guest named Mark. Mark strives to dominate the conversation, tirelessly trying to impose his spiritual ideas on all those present. After they were introduced to each other by Mark. Paul sits quietly at the table and watches what is happening, and in a minute sees in Mark the person who he really is. From that moment on, Paul pays Mark undivided attention, and Mark, delighted that Paul is so interested in talking, readily begins to turn Paul into his faith.
Apparently. Paul is absolutely fascinated and listens to Mark with complete concentration. From time to time, he interrupts him and asks detailed questions regarding Mark's next statement. Unaware that he is being tracked, Mark happily explains his words. Thus, Paul skillfully sticks a “suicide rope” in Mark, and when he feels that Mark is tightly wrapped with it, he begins to pull her ends hard. The whole conversation could have happened this way: Mark talks about the importance of understanding that a person's soul can be saved, and this allowed Paul to ask if Mark can explain his words. Mark humbly goes into a long description of what happens after death, and the benefits of going to heaven, not hell. Paul then asks if anyone can go to heaven, and Mark replies that, strictly speaking, and according to the Bible, only the few who have been chosen by God can go to heaven. Paul asks if, in Mark's opinion, there is a person in this room who may be one of these chosen ones. At this point, Mark begins to hesitate, but then says that although he is not entitled to judge this, but to live as a good Christian should, it is the responsibility of every person.

Paul then asks whether it is true that only a Christian can be elected and saved, and Mark does not hesitate to answer that this is so. At this point, Paul slightly deviates from the topic and asks Mark to tell about what Christ actually taught.

Mark finds himself in his element and begins to tell everyone present about the carpenter from Nazareth, who taught people that they need to love each other as they love themselves. Paul adds that Christ also taught that one should not judge others so as not to be judged oneself. Mark heartily confirms this - and himself threads his head into a loop.

Paul looks Mark straight in the eye and asks him why he is trying to convert everyone in the room to Christianity. Before Mark responds, Paul points out two important circumstances. First, if only a few who have been chosen by God can enter Heaven, then to promise salvation to people without knowing for sure if God will accept them is simply a lie. Second, if Mark agrees that no one should judge others, he has no right to believe that those present are not good Christians and perhaps one of the few chosen.
Mark defeated himself in his own words, and although Paul did not attack Mark's faith, he still managed to put him in his place.

In other words, Paul did not harm Mark and at the same time did not allow Mark to harm himself or anyone present. Moreover, Mark now has something to think about, and he can learn to understand his own religion more deeply. It must be admitted that Mark was frightened and embarrassed by Paul’s counterpronunciation, but through such actions, Paul helped him understand the futility of trying to impose his own ideas on someone. It's a sign of a real stalker.

Although both stalking and non-doing are complex arts that can be mastered only after a long practice, but if the introductory provisions presented in this book are studied and applied in life, they will be quite enough for the reader to create a strong foundation for both arts.

However, there is one very important issue that requires further explanation: detachment. We mentioned it very briefly at the beginning of this section.

It is impossible to be detached in the true sense of the word until we begin to treat those with whom we come into contact as mirrors of ourselves. It is vital to remember that we cannot perceive anything outside of our own frame of reference. For this reason, when we perceive something in another person, we should recognize the fact that we are able to perceive it only if we ourselves have what we perceive. This is what is meant by the attitude to others as mirrors. Not only do we achieve objectivity, but we are also able to control our emotions.

When using other people as mirrors, we should not fall into the trap of mindfulness solely to the literal content of the actions of others. It is necessary to look for ulterior motives, or fundamental reasons. Sometimes we can apply the external meaning of the actions of others, however, in most cases, we are connected with the reasons for their actions.

Thus, if we meet a dogmatic person, we should turn to our own life and find in it those areas in which we are no less dogmatic. Similarly, if we encounter a person who seems particularly pleasant to us, we should look for the same softness in our lives. In this regard, it should be understood that mirrors can be both positive and negative. Let me clarify this with two examples.

Mary meets a woman whom she perceives as completely arrogant. This woman shows her arrogance by constantly repeating that she is the best mother in the world and that it is thanks to her wisdom and experienced leadership that all her children have become so wonderful. Mary realizes that she doesn’t look like a woman. In fact, Mary never considered herself a particularly good mother. However, after thinking more deeply about the arrogance that Marne herself reflected in this woman, she begins to realize that she is also arrogant, it just manifests itself quite differently.
Mary herself has always felt that when meeting arrogant people, she should remain silent - first of all, because she considers herself above such behavior. That is Mary’s arrogance. Considering herself superior to those who behave arrogantly, Mary smugly indulges in her indifference to them.

Ben has a brother, a brilliant scientist. Because Ben himself never excelled in scientific achievement, he grew up in his brother’s shadow. This was never particularly troubling to Ben himself, for in a sense he was always proud of his brother and often admired his academic success.

Ben's brother gained strength and eventually became a truly outstanding research physicist.

In contrast, Ben studied at the College of craft and, having proven himself a good fitter and turner, got a job in a large engineering company. Very soon he showed himself perfectly at this job. Recognising Ben's excellent abilities, his superior offered him to continue his education. Ben took this advice with great attention and five years later became a senior designer in the research department of the company.

Both Ben and his brother were equally talented in research work — Ben in engineering, and his brother in physics.
The two brothers had different talents, but the underlying reason was the same.

Using people as mirrors, we can learn a lot about ourselves — and all thanks to objectivity. As we have known for a long time, it is much easier to see the virtues and vices in other people than in oneself. Moreover, if we know that the actions of another person are only reflections of ourselves, then, no matter how unpleasant they may be, it is no longer so easy for us to poke a finger at them. You might say you’re not a thief, and you’re probably right. Maybe you are an unusual thief. How do you steal and from whom? Do you steal time at work or maybe office supplies? Perhaps you steal from other people, but in other, more subtle ways?

Ultimately, a good stalker is good for the simple reason that it knows how to use people as mirrors and does so.

It is not at all difficult to predict the actions or reactions of a person if we use ourselves as a guide. When we see people reflect themselves, they turn into open books for us - we just have to look into ourselves and find all the answers there.

CHAPTER TEN
LAST WORD

It can be seen that this book does not say anything about the art of dreaming. The fact is that the Toltec dream is very complex and therefore goes beyond this first volume. All four practical techniques presented in this book, namely: dealing with emotions and intention, re-viewing, stalking, and not-doing, are applied in ordinary awareness. On the other hand, in the dream, the student passes to altered states of awareness, and therefore it is not told in this volume, which was written primarily from the point of view of ordinary awareness.

In this regard, I feel that the time has come to offer you friendly advice. Drugs are a serious problem in our day, in our age, in which so many well-meaning people sincerely striving for the truth live. In trying to achieve altered states of perception, in hopes of catching a glimpse of knowledge, people of any age allow themselves to undertake drug travel.

As already became clear from the book, there was a time when the desperate Toltecs also tried to go the way of drugs.

Therefore, we do not condemn those who still follow this unfortunate path, although, from personal experience, any real Toltec will agree that in the end, the effectiveness of drug use is not justified due to side effects. Anyone who aspires to possess genuine knowledge must become a complete person and put all his abilities into action.

However, the harm caused by drugs, both to the brain and nervous system of the physical organism, is irreversible, and this makes a person unfit for the title of a warrior. As soon as there is damage to the brain or nervous system, it becomes impossible to have complete control over emotions and, consequently, over intention.
In addition, the theoretical positions and practical techniques presented in this book are much more powerful than it may seem at first glance.

If you strictly adhere to the described provisions, they will remain completely safe and lead a serious student to a uniform and natural development of awareness. By spending the required time and effort, the student will sooner or later reach altered states of perception, and then - knowledge and freedom.

However, a fool would be someone who tried to amplify the effect of these teachings by the constant or even accidental use of drugs. Anyone who is stupid enough to do so will have to take responsibility for such stubbornness on their own shoulders. Treatment of psychosis caused by accelerated displacement of the assemblage point, or schizophrenia, which leads to its unstable position, is still not subject to modern medicine. Anyone who tries to use drugs in combination with this book will make their development unnatural and dangerous and, without a doubt, risk spending the rest of their life in a mental institution!

Beware of those who try to convince you otherwise. Such people are usually not interested in true knowledge, they are just trying to ride on a profitable teaching. There are people who declare their desire for knowledge and freedom, but secretly crave only the pleasure of strange actions or delight in their asociality. There are also those who are not interested in anything but their own gain, and these types will sell drugs as long as there are simpletons falling into this trap.

Social conditioning puts a heavy burden on us, and therefore most young people are either afraid of being different from their friends, or simply do not want to be called weaklings, dumbass, and so on. But you have to think with your head.

Do you want to become a warrior or do you prefer to bury yourself in social conditioning and sink into the mire of mediocrity?

A warrior is not afraid to remain alone in his decisions, since he is a free being, proudly responsible for his own life. Even if a warrior is detached from his fellows, he never feels like a victim, because he is familiar with the honor of the life of an impeccable warrior.

In life, the real fools are those who try to be like everyone else.

There is another question very briefly mentioned in the introduction to this book. It is related to the need for reflection and attentiveness regarding the existence of a huge number of spiritual teachers today. A little further down, I will use rather harsh words, and it will seem to many that I take the right to criticize and judge. However, the time for silence has passed, and I encourage you to develop your ability to evaluate. In general, most modern teachers do have good intentions, but only a few of them are really able to lead others. In many cases, we are faced with a classic example of how the blind lead the blind.

Beware of those who make lofty promises and majestic statements, for in reality no one is capable of doing anything for another person. We can learn the direction, but each of us has to go his own way and remain alone in his knowledge. Even the students under the Nagual’s direction must do all their work on their own. The nagual cannot take a step instead.

Be especially careful of those who promise instant success at all costs. There is no instant success. It is possible to perform an unexpected miracle only under supernatural circumstances, but even in this case it disappears as quickly as it manifests itself, after which a person does not become wiser at all and remains as helpless as before. Anyone who wants genuine knowledge and strength can achieve it, but each of us needs to be prepared to spend the necessary effort and time to achieve the desired goal.

There is nothing wrong with a spiritual teacher demanding payment for his services. Although there are still many people today who believe that spiritual teachings should be distributed free of charge, it should be remembered that a spiritual teacher, like any other person, should eat, pay for electricity and an apartment, and so on.

However, one should beware of those who accept money, but clearly do not justify it.

Money is a crystallized power and as such cannot be the property of one person. Money comes to us just as power comes to us, so we can use it and learn from it. Like strength, money should never be wasted, it should be saved and used wisely — but it should still be used.

In other words, in order for the relationship of all living things not to be disturbed, money must circulate and remain in motion. Thus, make sure that you do not waste all your savings on those who, obviously, just fill your pocket, but you should be ready to pay for genuine spiritual training.

In all spiritual and material matters, learn to listen to your heart, for on the way with the heart everything is clear and clear. Rational reason sometimes prefers to be confused and thus avoid thorny problems or hide its true motives, but the heart is only full of honesty. If you follow your heart, you will not be able to deceive yourself or let someone else mislead you.

A sign of a true friend and a true teacher is that they encourage the interdependence, interaction and relationship of all living things. These people seek unity, not separation, seek love, not hatred.

In your journey, learn to clearly distinguish useless information from genuine teachings. Genuine knowledge and power can only arise from the practical experience of everyday life. If you fall victim to a petty tyrant at work, what good can there be for you to know that there are two races of creatures on Mars? If you have a great sense of flight during meditation, how can it help you avoid a robber in an alley?

A true teacher who has something to offer is sure to impart teachings that allow practical application in your life. Knowledge and power are needed in everyday life, not in the mountains or the desert.

Similarly, the ability to act, and the strength you need at the moment, because you may simply not have time for meditation, allowing you to call all your strength.

I have mentioned above that the time for silence has passed, and I am therefore making the final report.

In our age of continuous speculation, we must discover the truth associated with the so-called end of the world and the concepts of Heaven and Hell. These principles play a large role for many people and often cause considerable confusion and fear.

As a starting point, let us say that behind the scene of the world there is the Silent Observer, the Spirit of Atl, surrounded by His small but powerful group of helpers — those whom the Toltecs love very much and are called the Guardians of Race, invisible and unknown to mankind, these beings work hard day and night, neglecting rest and even their own freedom, maintaining the light, thanks to which humanity can succeed in the great test, thanks to which mankind can succeed in the great test.

Atl is neither the God of Christians, nor Christ, nor Buddha, nor Krishna, nor Mohammed, nor any deity known to mankind. The Toltecs do not pretend to know who God really is, and prefer to leave this question to the theologians of the world.

We can only say with certainty that Atl is not a mystical entity who spends his time in listening to prayers.

He is a very real being who, as the Toltecs learned, crosses vast expanses of time in a measured and consistent way. The Toltecs do not try to understand His true essence and say only that in the Christian Bible He is described as "Melchizedek ... the king of truth ... the king of the world, without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither the beginning of days nor the end of life ...".

It was His Toltecs who were called the Lord of the World, the Being in which we live, move and exist.

In the unseen worlds, Athl unleashes the mighty forces of the universe, and while humanity as a whole is not yet aware of this, people are at the very center of the battle that has already begun. The fall of communism, the destruction of the Berlin Wall, political changes in South Africa, the complex problems of the world economy are some examples of the ongoing battle. Over the next few years, huge and irreversible changes will take place on our planet.

A person will either move away from the place along with these mighty currents, or be buried under them - by his own choice. Man’s purpose is to acquire knowledge and to arm himself with force, but there is no other way to train force than to claim it. It is for this reason that Atl brought people into this battle - this is His gift of power to mankind, but a person will need to prove his rights to this gift.

The Toltecs are at the service of the Spirit of Athl and His helpers, and at this momentous time in human history, we are ready to play our part as necessary. For humanity, this is an hour of strength, a challenge that a person must face alone and without help, so that his gift is not underestimated or destroyed. In keeping with this, Atl deliberately took a back seat and even forbade the Guardians of the Race to intervene and help people.

However, since we Toltecs are members of the human race, we and all other people of goodwill have been given the right to help others as soon as possible.

This battle is about the so-called end of the world, but not in the sense in which this concept is usually understood.

There must come, and there will come an end to human madness, which destroys not only man himself and the beings living next to him on this planet, but the planet itself. The end of the world does not mean the end of life on Earth or, even more so, the destruction of the entire planet.

This means that the end of the world of division and destruction must come. The awareness that causes so much hatred, such division and such destructiveness, must give way to understanding and accepting the relationship of all living things and the importance of a separate part for the well-being of the whole.

Is there heaven and hell? In a sense, they really are.

Achieving heaven is about coming to the end of your life without regrets, realizing that you have lived a good, strong and flawless life.

To be in heaven means to understand what an amazing privilege life is, to love and enjoy every moment of it, every challenge of this amazing gift.

To reach heaven is to love people and those beings who share this planet with them. To be in heaven is to love a beautiful world in which all this is possible.

Going to hell means ending your life with resentment, anger, and bitterness. Hell means understanding that you hated the precious gift of life and trampled on any opportunities presented to you to learn, love and rejoice.

To go to hell is to realize that it is impossible to turn back the clock and say, “Sorry. Let me try again.”

To be in heaven means to leave this magical world, knowing that you could enjoy life as a warrior — and did it; to go to hell means to understand that you could be happy, but did not do it.
As far as I'm concerned, I just wish you luck on your journey.

Know that our strength is your strength, just as your joy is our joy, for that is the meaning of the relationship of all living things.

The truth is that we all have to follow the Path of Knowledge alone and without help, and yet in reality we are never alone.

Stay firm in your determination to move forward and know that this is our most sincere wish to you. Where, those strong and free, unencumbered bonds of social conditioning, and we will support you in this.

Be brave, fight your battle for strength and in this battle let your spirit soar freely in the joy of life.

If you do this, then, thanks to the interaction of all living things, we will be there to help you, for the spirit of man is one, and he enjoys freedom and strength. And above all, always remember that although a person’s spirit may be delayed or rejected, it never suffers a final defeat.

The only harm in life is rejection.

CHAPTER ELEVEN
PURSUANT TO Prophecies

In the days before the beginning of time when the orange-red sun was very young, and the planet Earth had not yet arisen in the flesh, when the heavens were torn apart by the War Spirits, and man was still shrouded in the fiery mists of the solar being, the oracle, already ancient and known only as the Nameless One, surveyed the universe and, seeing what was to happen, uttered this prophecy:

At the end of time, when man begins to measure time, Atl, the lord of the world called Earth, will proclaim a call to all the leaders of mankind, ordering them to show the fruits of their labors, for on these fruits rests the future of this restless world, the planet of sorrows, the beautiful dark stone of the Universe, which is destined to shine like his sister, the brilliant planet of Dawn.
The first people who spoke out at the call to show their skills were strong people who brought an abundance of fruits, blinding the eye and opening the path to sweat, but when these fruits were laid on the scales of justice, a great and terrible darkness descended over the earth, for these fruits were conceived in the dark corners of the human mind.

Atl, the Lord of the World, said not a word more: complete silence reigned in this darkness, the time was running out, and although the fruits gathered by the leaders of mankind were abundant, people everywhere starved, their faces were seeking - wives bitter fruits, eyes glazed with despair of despair.

When the great and terrible darkness became like the night, when other leaders came out to offer their fruits of fear and death, then from the shadowy valleys of the earth came a few people, and they turned to the Lord of the World.

"Lord," they said in one voice, "We are the travelers who came from the valleys of the East, West, North and South, We are only seven tiny groups, Lions, Elephants, Tigers, Bears, Foxes, Wolves and Dragons, We have come empty-handed, O Lord, for we have nothing to offer but ourselves, but in our long lives We have seen the source. If it pleases you, O Lord, we will bring people to him, for here they will all perish from hunger."

“Do as wisdom bids you,” answered the Lord of the World, bowing in silent gratitude, the people turned their faces to the world with open palms and open hearts and, calling everyone after them, went to show them the way, to measure their step. Some immediately and without a word followed them, others hesitated in confusion. Some grumbled unsatisfiedly, others openly resisted and sat down to stay and starve.

Memory!

What would have happened if my memory hadn’t returned? Rest! It would be a blissful peace, born of ignorance. Ignorance and peace! That's ironic.

No, you fool! This is no time for cowardly thoughts.
Remember that peace can be found again in every life, in the midst of battle.

Yeah! Again, as it has been many times before, I must find peace — that serene peace in the midst of battle. Yes, as long as I have only memories — sweet, painful memories — a memory that frightens me, and yet I will not sacrifice it in the name of a cowardly sense of peace.

Again, the history of the present, the history of the past, the history of times before the beginning of time haunts my mind. All these people... so many hopes and dreams...

So many battles won and so many lost.
And the ancient prophecies... I also remember them, those that have already been embodied, those that are manifested now, and those that will be fulfilled in the indefinite future.

But the great wheel still, epoch after epoch, life after life, spins the pattern of purpose.

Damn the prophecies! Ignorance is probably better. But maybe not. Anyway, what difference does it make?

A wheel is a wheel, and a drawing is a drawing. And yet I can’t get rid of the fear of memories, of all this struggle and pain. How painful...

It always hurts so much...

Atl, I don't expect you to hear me go even want to listen to it, but I have to ask in the name of my own selfish self, as I have done many times before. Why so much fear and pain?

I see the pattern of fate woven by the rotation of the great wheel, and I understand why you made that choice. But, Atl, will this be the end?

Are we so unreasonable that our fear must always be so strong and our pain so unbearable?

Will anything change in this time cycle?

How long have we been doing this — or yours? — impossible task? I do not complain and I can hardly regret, for you know as well as I do that if we started it anew, we would again on our own water would embark on the same path, with the same determination.

We are you, Atl. Your will is our duty, your life is our honor: could it have been otherwise?

But, Atl, please, let something change in this circle of time.
Let in this circle of time we really put aside fear and pain!

I will do my part, Atl, as will my brothers, and together we will fight this endless battle. Please, let this time in our struggle something will change!

I hope they hear us. Will they hear? Why should they listen to a gathering of madmen? Yes, it's about us - we're just crazy! Only a madman tries to teach people what they don't even want to hear!

As I look into the tunnel of time, I see a fate ringing like a hammer that hits the anvil — trying to give shape to what resists the form, to what must be red-hot in the crucible of life before it can take on any form — a fire that burns the soul, a ringing that paralyzes the mind and hurts the heart, which has become tender thanks to this, perhaps, naively, all. Is there an end to this? Atl, will there be an end?

I think so!

Truly a stupid question; after all, you are the Divine Rebel, the One who simply had to take on the role of the Great Sacrifice! You just had to be a bloody hero, didn't you, Atl?

Goddamn it, I get it! And I curse you for dragging me into this! I curse all the Guardians, including this Christ who keeps me on a leash!

I’m not as strong as any of you! Or am I stronger than I want to believe? Whether I am strong or not, how can I escape the fate that I am? Can I run away from you, Atl? Did I ever want that?

Don't! Damn it all! I can't escape my fate!

I can't stop loving you!

But why? Just tell me, why should there be so much fear?

So much pain? There's always so much pain in it!

They are coming to me now, Atl, with their fears and hopes. They look at me with eyes filled with the ineffable hope of those who believe that I will bring them relief — that I am able to banish this fear, this pain.

Damn you, Atl! How can I take away this fear and this pain from them, if fear and pain are the very essence of your own being, our being?

What? How do I do that?

Oh, yeah, I know! I am who I am and I do what I have to do.

Why is there always so much fear? Why so much pain?

I know that. I am a wolf, a messenger of hope and freedom. Not a firm hope, but at least some hope, not a certain freedom, but at least some freedom.

I also know that I was born a Dragon, the bearer of a double-edged sword. A sword capable of dissecting and dividing, so that the wisdom of discernment may bring a new unity, not a clear separation, but some division, not a single wisdom, but at least some wisdom.

See, Atl, I really know! And I want to! I want to stand up because I understand your purpose. I will guide to freedom all those who come to me, if I can. But why should there be so much pain?

I look forward to battles, for your goal is both my duty and my honor, for I can do almost nothing — I can only love them and you.

Why should there be so much fear?

Again, a silly question, for I already know that there is no other way!

They tell me that my name is Theun Marez, and that in ancient language it means "Theun of the Great Waters," the beloved son of Mary, the One in Tears. Tears... yes, tears. There are always so many tears in that!

The name of the past, woven into the times I'm not trying to remember. Name! That's funny! I know who I am, and besides that, I already have a name, a beautiful name that my parents have given me in this life. But the wheel has woven the name of Theun, and who can resist the pattern? That's why it will be: Theun.

Do I believe in all this? Did I ever want to believe all of this? 

Did I have a choice? Stupid! Idiot! A warrior must believe, remember?

Otherwise, there's nothing left! Nothing? No wheels, no pattern, no destiny? No names! No debt! No responsibility!

How seductive! Horrible seductive! But can I accept that there is nothing but human madness in a chaotic universe that has no purpose?

Don't! Of course not! I can't! Was there a time when I could? Don't! Of course not! Stupid! Crazy, crazy fool, that's who I am!

But Atl? I know you understand.

Sometimes it helps to throw fate aside for a short while, for a few stolen moments of selfish desire.

But even so, I stand. I'm fighting! How can I not fight?

For I am the Wolf — hope and freedom.

For I was born of the Dragon — division and wisdom.

Dragon-Wolf — separation-hope... hope-freedom... freedom-wisdom...

Great Spirit of Atl, I, Dragon Wolf, Theun of Great Waters, son of Mara,

The one in tears, welcome you!

I stand, and when I stand. The spear of fate flies high. I fight, and when I fight. The Sword of Power rings the One Truth and flashes the blue flame of the One Power. I am who I am. I do what I have to do.

Atl, Lord of my being. My duty is my honor! My life is yours! I swear by this Rose, the sacred Source of Life and my spirit. From now on and forever!

Let those who have ears to hear listen to the ancient words of the Nameless One. Listen to how we all listened, and study how we all learned.

You who have come in search of the Warrior's way, make sure you listen to my words, for when I look into the tunnel of time, I see that it will be many, many years before you comprehend the deepest content of my words.

Realize that I can only hold before you a vision of what lies beyond words.

The Ineffable can never be spoken; we can only describe in words our vision of the Unexplained. That's the law.
We all enter the Warrior's Path in ignorance.

In the Way of the Warrior, we all have to learn that we don’t know what true learning is.

This is because this path is really a journey into the unknown, but there is no way to know the unknown in advance.

This is the Law, Warriors are the pioneers, and although the pioneers may return to tell you what they have seen, such data remain for the listener only a theory, not knowledge, acquired from their own experience.

Besides, how can a trailblazer tell you what he saw in the unknown if you can only comprehend what he knew?

Therefore, if you sincerely seek to know everything that is connected with the Way of the Warrior, you need to go this way yourself; only then will your perception correspond to what you have seen. That's the law. Know one thing and listen carefully, for now I will talk about the past, present and future, I will talk about the atavistic person, about the tiger person and about the person who is aware.

First of all, warriors are people - humble people who are not able to escape the limitations of the Law, the task of their lives is to study and draw up a Map of the great unknown,

For what6It is necessary to enter these mysterious spaces, but every time we enter them, those energy fields within us that correspond to the great unknown outside undergo transformation.

This transformation affects our entire existence, and then the very state of our being changes irreversibly.

 Sooner or later, transformations lead to transformation, to getting rid of everything undesirable. The inevitable consequence of transformation is transformation, complete metamorphosis.

Know that once this process begins, there is a chain reaction that cannot be stopped. Therefore, the Way of the Warrior is the path without return - by transformation, transformation, transformation, such is the Law,

Now go and do your task, for it is time for all of us to change! But as a new volunteer, Atl's Man, carry these words in your heart...

This turning of the wheel is already completing its own beginning - the serpent of wisdom bites itself by the tail!

Purpose requires that this day end, and this world becomes only a ghostly memory for you, at the end of this day you will be transferred to what will become your new home, your new responsibility, and you will forget everything!

And yet you must fight to remember what it means to be an Athlete Warrior, what it means to be an Atllama! And above all, you must fight to remember what it means to be Toltec, You can never and must never forget the hidden truth that is in you!

For this purpose, a grain was put in the heart of each of you. You are seven groups, and there were seven grains for seven groups. And so you will be seven times seven from this moment to the end of time. And then, though some of you, from each group, will remember what it means to be Toltec and that out of the seven grains there must grow seven keys that will rediscover the seven seals of the One Power, if you never remember this, our common Nagual will be deprived of the One Power and will therefore be lost forever in the ancient Darkness.

After these moments, I cannot speak to you again, for the pattern demands that now the fire of the forge be lit, and we come in and endure it...

Warriors of Atl, I salute you!

Love, which is the essence of your true, innermost, fiery being!

Perfection, which is your invincible power!

A humility that celebrates your free spirit!

May the peace and harmony of the Yellow Rose of Friendship be with you from now on and forever!

Farewell, Atl'aman, the man of Atl! Now go and learn what it means to be human, go and learn what it means to stand on your feet! go and learn what it means to fight!

The wheel will turn, and the great snake will bite itself by the tail many more times before you remember. But as soon as you start to remember, let the Spear of Destiny rise high.

Let the Sword of Power ring with the One Truth and blaze with the blue flame of the One Power!

Atl's man! I swear to you! Remember the hidden truth! Remember, remember...