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 ''diabolical and books the Dominican talked about were destroyed by the Spaniards. They are just a few notes about the interpretations. Among the remaining sources are the poor texts about dreams of the FIRST MEMORIALS and succinct statements of Fray Diego Durán. But at least the missionaries views were registered in the sense that dream interpretation was a constant practice and a supposed source of great value knowledge to indigenous."''

And on page 246 of the same book we read: ''"very significant is for this topic the word cochitiehualiztli, which does not appear in Molina, but is registered by Simeon, supported by Paredes. It means 'Reverie', but etymologically is 'the rising while asleep'. Smaller support of the idea of the TONALLI journey during sleep is the meaning of the verb 'awakening', which according to Molina is ZA NI (NI-ZA) or hualiza (NI). Its literal translation is 'being here in the second'." ''

"I am sure that if we try, we can do it, because there are no specific steps for all a warrior does. There is only personal power… -It was imperative that I interiorized an equanimity state in difficult social situations, and for this no one could have been a better coach than the Fat Lady..." C.C.

THE RIGHT SIDE AND LEFT SIDE CONSCIOUSNESS

In Toltequity all knowledge abilities, opportunities and success, from the simplest to the most complex, are in the human body itself.

The human body is not "really" flesh and blood, it is composed of atoms, molecules and cells as indivisible part of "this matter", and as we know, the atoms are not solid particles but energy charges. Therefore, we can "scientifically" consider the body as a set of energy charges and, by logical consequence, we must see it as "a luminous being". What matters is not knowing that we are energy but that we can create energy. This energy is spiritual.

The teacher’s art is making the apprentice reason "flexible", without him "losing his mind", so that then, he manages to accept that he is a luminous egg surrounded by a world of energy charges; that the luminous egg is a perceiver and that through perception of one of its parts (right or tonal) has "created a world of solid objects" through reason, becomes a bold challenge.

The body, in the end, is all we have. Here are the three premises under which all earth live are "equalized". The first is that we are alive; Second, we feel, and third, we are going to die. For the Anahuac cultures, the body was a knowledge source and had a deep relationship with the earth and the cosmos. Within the body two large divisions crossed in the navel, place where, according to Don Juan, the "will" is connected with the "outside world".

The navel concept of has deep philosophical meanings in the cultures of the Anahuac civilization. The first men division is made of the top (the sky) and bottom (the earth), taking the navel as a reference point in a cross-section. The second division is the right side (tonal) and the left side (nagual) always taking as the navel as a reference in a longitudinal view. The point in which all four sides converge is center or fifth point.