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 X. THE ACTIVE SIDE OF INFINITY.

First English edition, 1999

Carlos Castaneda completed the task of transmitting Toltec wisdom as it was taught by his teacher and benefactor. Don Juan and Don Genaro already are dust on the road. Castaneda jumped from a mountain turned pyramid in the Oaxaca Sierra Norte. He jumped into the depth of the second attention and fully entered, by the same token, to infinity.

Thus far he wrote the four first books on techniques for "sweeping the tonal island" or right side and continued with the next four, which in human time, wrote in a second stage, but the teaching was given in the first period, in the area of enhanced consciousness, so he had to "remember" the knowledge with his litter peers, the lessons for the left side and be able to "assemble it" into a continuous whole.

In the ninth book begins a new stage, perhaps, the new lineage cycle of a "modern nagual". At this stage he does not have his teacher nor benefactor. In addition, they let him know that their lineage had no experience dealing with crowds. Don Juan lets him know that there are other lineages and each one is different and they do not know each other, but Don Juan, has a unique feature that makes it even more different from others.

The presence of a nagual from the first Toltec cycle, which perhaps has been alive for a millennia and is called "the tenant". This shadowy figure has given this lineage naguales, knowledge and very special techniques, in exchange for energy to remain alive.

Castaneda faces the challenge of disseminating this ancient knowledge called Toltecáyotl by the Academy and Toltequity or witchcraft by practitioners, among ordinary people. The following books will lose the "level", not only in the literary aspect, but in the works didactic discourse. The author, mentions that at times his teacher almost dictated to him, so he wrote certain conversations that Don Juan considered very important.

We might suppose, at the risk of error, that the following Castaneda texts enters Toltecáyotl knowledge, but no longer from a "programmatic structure". Many of his claims and stories have a very personal character, especially the last book, "The wheel of time". And perhaps the most innovative is the eleventh book "Magical passes", where he delivers "written" techniques to practice "Tensegrity", which will later disseminate these practices through courses and videos, some of which are in Internet:

http://mx.youtube.com/watch?v=lauKs7tbtV8&feature=related