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 self-image; this was the only real help Castaneda received from Don Juan; if anything, teaching him that the world is something more of what is there in front and that the human being has immeasurable undeveloped power. Toltequity is not a question of words or ideas, it is a matter of actions and energy perceptions.

Don Juan tells Castaneda that Toltequity at first is an adventure, to the human essence. That in that path there is no need of teacher, guru or method. Simple and plainly to restrict the ego limits. Significantly reduce personal importance, to get rid of attachments, be humble and live flawlessly. Whether a common human being or a warrior apprentice.

What an apprentice requires is just a minimum opportunity to have spiritual consciousness; aware that the world is an energy whole and that human beings are "luminous eggs" with a delicate cocoon containing a fraction of the external energy; that men perceives "the world" from the external and internal energy alignment, and that it is called "the lace point"; that personal importance requires an extreme energy consumption to fix the lace point in a certain cocoon location and that if personal importance is reduced, can release energy, and with the energy released can move the lace point that is called "intent", and that the intent is to direct the Eagle commands at will; and that doing this creates a link with the spirit that can launch the warrior to the third attention, to be consumed in internal fire, to receive the "Eagle gift", to total freedom, total consciousness; for each of these levels the new Toltec seers have developed, from the ancient Toltec seers knowledge, a strategy which they called "the warrior path" which, in turn has various techniques, but that most try by various means to release the apprentice self-image and is nothing other than moving the lace point.

Toltequity is a return journey to the spirit, the abstract, silent knowledge. Longtime ago humanity had its center in the abstract and the warrior needs to fight ruthlessly to return to it. Warriors and common people do not need masters, guides or aids. Everything begins in them, is in them and ends up in them. What is important is that individuals are aware of their possibilities, possesses a fierce discipline, keep a sustained effort and an unyielding intent. His battle field is in the everyday world and the enemy to defeat is himself.

Our Toltec grandparents very poetically said it through the battle that Jaguar and Eagle warriors had to fight in the florid war, to make their "heart flourish". These men of those times called themselves "the Sun brotherhood" or "White Brotherhood". They were the spiritual supporters of the Fifth Sun, the feeders of the Eagle-Sun, with their spiritual sacrifice.

The image modern human being have of themselves, is what has moved them away from the abstract, the spirit. The world of the self-image is the mind world, very fragile, by the way. The world of the mind is held by a few key ideas that serve as basic order and are ideas accepted by both the silent knowledge and reason.

When these ideas fail, the basic order collapses, ceases to operate.

One of those key ideas is that we are a solid block, that we are immutable. The mind can accept that our behavior can change, that the way we think and act alsochange; but the idea that we can change our