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 myth, the brotherhood or being trees offspring. For the Oaxaca Mixtec culture, their origin is from Apoala trees.

''"—The cocoon of a giant tree is not much larger than the tree itself. The interesting thing is that some very small plants have a cocoon nearly as high as a man body and three times wider. These are plants of power. They share the largest emanations amount with men, not consciousness emanations, but other emanations in general..." C.C.''

STALK, INTENT AND REVERIE POSITION

In Toltequity history the first Toltec or seers got lost in the complexities of the worlds and realities they explored. Upon the old seers failure, the new Toltec or seers reviewed their practices and knowledge and began again. They found that shifting the lace point was basic, thus they found practical steps to move it. They delineated three techniques: the first is stalking mastery; the second is the intent mastery the third is the reverie mastery.

The Toltec noticed that when warriors systematically and continuously behaved differently than usual, their lace point subtly moved, then began to practice their behavior control and this was called "the art of stalking", which is nothing but the everyday behavior with people; they discovered that tyrants are supporting external elements to achieve our behavior change and by developing this technique, they could move their lace point.

But they realized that at the lace point was something more than just alignment; they discovered an energy that comes from the alignment, which they called "will", and it operates impersonally and uninterrupted, as an energy blind outburst that makes us behave the way we do. Through it we perceive the everyday world, and indirectly, through perception that has to do with the lace point location.

The Toltec discovered that the will could be intentionally "guided" to establish other alignment; this technique was called "intent mastery"; with this mastery could enter at will the left side consciousness, the nagual or the other reality.

These truths discovery took centuries of experimentation and during that time the Toltec noted that when men sleeps their lace point moves slightly, because what produces dreams is precisely a slight movement of the lace point to the left side; for this reason, interfering with dreams was to interfere with the natural movement of the lace point. But they also discovered that when they interfered with a warrior dream, he became compulsive and capricious, and to correct this effect the Toltec created the warrior path.

The warrior path is to develop an internal force capable of providing him a sense of equanimity, almost of indifference; a feeling of ease and quiet, to get a deep and natural inclination through analysis, understanding and tolerance; in short: a sense of sobriety.

The warrior path begins with a strong determination and awareness of change; then it takes an act that must be deliberate, precise and continuous, a small act that does not offer much resistance. If this act is carried out constantly, one