In this book he demonstrates how he faced them as part of the Don Juan instruction and how he managed to become the group nagual, when he "remembers", how to recover Don Juan Group warrior experiences and lessons, in the teachings of the enhanced consciousness world, Don Juan used the support of his “litter” peers, who also were his teachers (although he does not remember), with whom he experienced the enhanced consciousness teachings.
The first Castaneda challenge is received from Doña Soledad, an old and fat woman who fed Don Juan and his group, and whom he now finds as a splendid warrior that he will have to confront to die or continue. Castaneda recognizes, in disbelief, not only the physical transformation of Doña Soledad but also the strength and power that she has acquired as a witch. Given that warriors conceive the world and living beings as energy charges, and they save energy, they can now make incredible transformations of their body or tonal. However, despite these great changes they can never think of total success, as the battle against "the old self" is for a lifetime.
Castaneda also faces "the Sisters", who fiercely force Castaneda to be impeccable with them. The sisters are able reverie practitioners, specially Josefina who, from being very beautiful, learned to confuse people in order to pass unnoticed (unlimited freedom of unknown being). The sisters teach that, only when there is nothing to lose, enough courage is acquired to be impeccable; if we have something to lose, we hold to it.
Another encounter was with 'the fat lady”, Don Juan apprentice that somehow, provided the most support to Castaneda; one of her advances was that she had lost the human form and therefore did not have "human" feelings towards people. In other words, she was no longer hooked to the everyday world.
Don Juan said that warriors should lose the human form. The warriors know that they may not change one iota, that in principle it is not permitted, and that is the advantage they have over common men, who think they can do everything. The warrior, since he knows he cannot change, is never disappointed when failing in an attempt to change.
In this book Don Juan clearly tells the apprentices that they are "Toltec" because they are receivers and preserve these mysteries. Miguel León Portilla, in the philosophical vocabulary of his book "Nahuatl philosophy", says: "Toltecáyotl: Toltequity, set of traditions and discoveries arising from the Toltec. It should be noted that the nahuas of the period immediately before the conquest attributed the highest of their culture a Toltec origin. Thus, they mention the artist as a toltécatl; the speaker as a ten-toltécatl (Toltec of the lip, or the word). On the one hand, this proves what has been called the Nahua "historical consciousness", as well as their improvement desire and culture that takes them to compare their sages and artists with what for them was the symbol of knowledge. This is why their high priests, supreme Calmécac directors, were given the Quetzalcoatl title, thus evoking the Toltec genius par excellence."
The revealing part of Castaneda work is that it gives a "logic" to the academy studies on the legendary Toltec knowledge. Indeed, the euro-centrism and cultural colonization, denied at the academy, any deep universal value to the Toltec knowledge. Judged from an assumed supremacy pulpit, rarely trying to interpret in their scientific research, the philosophical aspect of the Anahuac civilization, as a transcendental value and much less as "universal" knowledge beacon. For researchers, the Toltecs are only a culture, not a
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