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 Don Juan proposes that modern human beings sense their hidden resources, but does not dare using them and goes between their stupidity and ignorance. The tonal times are changing. Our "reality" and our "world" are a bunch of "ideas". The changes that occurred in the world in the last five years would have been impossible to conceive only ten years ago; and the changes that we will suffer in the remainder of this century, are unimaginable today.

However, nothing really has changed; the way we appreciate things has changed, ideas change and only the ideas we have about the world.

Don Juan says that it is precisely now when humans need to renew their ideas, but not ideas about the common man, social ideas with concepts and objects. The man needs new ideas to face the unknown, his personal death, about impeccability and the lace point secrets. New times lying ahead require that incomprehensible knowledge (which has always been there, through thousands of years and in various parts of the world) to make it understandable and functional at everyday consciousness.

Humans require the ability to perceive and act in the world we know. Men requires perceiving the world not only as a concept cluster and "material" objects, but also, as an energy charges world and needs to be perceived not only as an energy conglomerate, but as an energy creator.

Mexicans are the children of one of the planet Mother Cultures and, therefore, are people with identity; what has happened in the last 500 years is that we have suffered from "cultural amnesia" caused by yesterday and today colonial forces, thus we have gone through a loneliness maze, carrying our rich cultural heritage.

This paper aims to search for and an encounter through this new interpretation of what was and is ancient Mexicans knowledge, without fear nor ambition, as Don Juan says.

Without fear of being attacked and censored by the intolerant holders of the "scientific" truth; without the ambition of finding a blinding light on the path and that lead to messianic attitudes.

Many Toltequity knowledge are deposited —unconsciously— in the daily lives of the Mexican peoples, and in general in all continent indigenous and mestizo peoples; however, pretending that all of us become "men or women of knowledge" would be a true folly, because even in the TOLTECÁYOTL heyday, only a few had the necessary elements to attempt such an impressive and daunting challenge; but if it is considered important that Mexican people search in their past, in their own wisdom and experience, elements that allow them to feel excited and proud their past and, confident of who they are, and imagine and create their own future based on their own dreams and aspirations.

Don Juan is very clear and says: "The warrior path is everything. It is the archetype of physical and mental health. I cannot explain it in any other way." In fact, a disciplined, responsible people with internal strength and historical awareness, is required, to break the colonial exploitation and injustice chains, in which we have lived these five centuries. The proposal is that the Mexico past and that of all