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 discover you are disguised. To do this, you need to be ruthless, shrewd, patient, and nice". C.C.

THE FOUR STALKING DISPOSITIONS

The Don Juan teachings central and fundamental axis is, without a doubt, the stalking art, which indicates to be ruthless, shrewd, patient and nice. The apprentice must implement these four basic fundamentals with everything and everybody. The main stalking principle is the apprentice must stalk himself, must first select minor behavior attitudes for its later analysis and then stalk them, so when hunting them as prey, they will fall one behind the other, until he can stalk "major preys" on his behavior.

When an apprentice fully develops stalking, he must attempt the intent, and this way, will be able to move his lace point.

A male or female warrior is a human being with an uncompromising will and an impeccable discipline; the warrior stalks to temper the spirit. He only seeks in everyday acts a vehicle to reach, after hard work and much effort, freedom and consciousness. A warrior does not think of personal benefits from his daily actions, as it is the case with common people, that will not move a finger unless there is some kind of reward expected.

Castaneda comes to understand that Toltequity cannot be translated with words but with existential actions experienced by the entire body. He understands that this knowledge has always been available to any human being, to be felt, used, but that in no way it can be explained. The key to open the door to this knowledge is a change of consciousness level; enhanced consciousness, as a result, neither can be explained, it can only be used.

"—Feeling important is a real tyranny —he said—. It makes us unbearable jerks.

We must work tirelessly to end it...

"From what we have seen in you, you cannot be taught to be violent or obtuse. You already are, but you can learn to be ruthless, shrewd, patient and nice...

''He asserted that in witchcraft, stalking is the beginning of everything. First of all, the witches must learn to stalk; then must then learn the intent and only then they can move their lace point at will...''

''—The very first stalking principle is that a warrior stalks himself said looking at my face—. Stalks himself compassionless, astutely, patiently and nicely"..." C.C.	    ''

THE SPIRIT DESCENT

For millennia the ancient Toltec through "seeing", discovered that Earth is a live being and conscious, whose conscience, somehow, can affect modern humans who live in a reflection of themselves.

In the Anahuac common humans maintained a deep relationship with Earth who they called Tonatzin, "our dear mother". But there were a very large number of devotions which the Spaniards called "gods", but that the anahuacas took as variants of the same reality. Contact and balance with nature and the cosmos was the sustaining life base of ancient peoples, not only of the