Not forever on Earth,
only a little here.”
Don Juan makes Castaneda see that he must not be "hooked" with his peers. Tells him that those "surrounding you" are not to be blamed for living without a warrior purpose making mistake after mistake. It’s not their fault, they do not have the opportunity to "realize". They have no other way to face the world and life. Tells him that he is to "blame" for judging them and when doing it receives the worst of them. The challenge is to accept people as is and leave them alone.
"—Warriors travellers do not complain —don Juan continued—. They take everything given by the infinite as a challenge. A challenge is that, a challenge. It is not personal. It should not be interpreted as a curse or a blessing. A warrior-traveler or wins the challenge or the challenge ends with him. It is much more exciting to win, so win!...
—These are the ups and downs of everyday life —don Juan said—. You win and lose, and you do not know when you win and when you lose. This is the price paid for living under the self-reflex domain..." C.C.
CLAY SHADOWS
For the attentive reader, Don Juan, despite his wild proposals was a practical being and his teachings, in spite being frightening, are perceived in realistic terms and with a sobriety style.
One of the most awkward and perturbing proposals of the Don Juan teachings, which is nothing more than a knowledge line of the many the Toltec left as legacy, is in the discovery that human beings we are nothing more than food for beings possessing "a different order consciousness".
The fact that human beings are bred as farm chickens, provides a huge blow to our personal importance and existential arrogance as civilization. Everything can be accepted, except only being a small link in the large universe food chain.
So, turns out that according to Don Juan, human beings have a few predators that control us we and keep us docile and weak through giving us their minds. In other words, they make us think like them. The predator mind is contradictory, morbid, saturated with fears and concerns of being discovered.
Explains that humans produce a conscious energy layer covering the energy cocoon. This energy is our predators food and they will consume it, ensuring that a little is left so humans can produce more. It's like a permanent pruning.
The Toltecs discovered a way to avoid being eaten by predators and preserving the full energy potential for the road. A road built with discipline to the extent that these beings do not touch us. The Toltecs called this predator "the flyer", because it jumps in the air.
The Toltecs called this discipline to the ability calmly and with sobriety facing, circumstances which are beyond any "logical order" in our world. This discipline makes the consciousness layer that shines on the luminous egg surface,
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