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EspañolTOLTEC (CASTANEDA)
The term "Toltec" is used in the works of writer Carlos Castaneda to denote a person who has achieved a high state of spiritual awareness. Castaneda makes it clear that his use of the term is specialized and does not refer to the Toltec people in general.
Castaneda, via his primary teacher, Don Juan Matus a Yaqui Indian, maintains that while the peak of "civilization" in the accepted Western sense (which may be thought to include technological advances, science and logical progression in most fields) is occurring right now, the ability to understand, manipulate and subjugate the processes of the "physical" mind and the phenomena of magic, belief, shamanism and other states of non-ordinary reality peaked then waned with the Toltecs and has now almost entirely been lost.
Don Juan insists that a man of knowledge knows that everything is not knowable or explicable by science and that logic itself is just one tool for exploring the universe. Contrary to scientific rules, however, logic itself has limitations: like religion it requires "belief" and is not a set of undisputed facts, but is itself in a constant state of flux through history and subject to change. Today's scientific "fact" may be disproven tomorrow.
Don Juan referred to the Toltecs as being the Sorcerors of Ancient Mexico 10,000 years ago.
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Castaneda, via his primary teacher, Don Juan Matus a Yaqui Indian, maintains that while the peak of "civilization" in the accepted Western sense (which may be thought to include technological advances, science and logical progression in most fields) is occurring right now, the ability to understand, manipulate and subjugate the processes of the "physical" mind and the phenomena of magic, belief, shamanism and other states of non-ordinary reality peaked then waned with the Toltecs and has now almost entirely been lost.
Don Juan insists that a man of knowledge knows that everything is not knowable or explicable by science and that logic itself is just one tool for exploring the universe. Contrary to scientific rules, however, logic itself has limitations: like religion it requires "belief" and is not a set of undisputed facts, but is itself in a constant state of flux through history and subject to change. Today's scientific "fact" may be disproven tomorrow.
Don Juan referred to the Toltecs as being the Sorcerors of Ancient Mexico 10,000 years ago.
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