A Golden age

Once there was a uniting global system of unity, I am sure. Before a great cataclysmic event that put an end to peace and stability on this planet and plunged the world into darkness… war and destructionI am convinced there was a Golden age of peace and prosperity, where there was once a worship of […]

The Spot

Carlos Castaneda’s books have conquered the world. Fifty years after the publication of his first book, “The Teachings of Don Juan”, his work is still being translated into other languages, and continues to be found on the shelves of bookstores around the world.. Many of us have dreamed of seeing his story on the big […]

The Tenant

“I have met with the tenant and got distinctly the impression that they were Mexican in origin, at least they were wearing Mexican peasant clothes.”

“Reciprocity“

The function of a nagual is that if you approach them wrongly, with poor intent they will cause you more detriment than you thought possible…it’s the same with witchcraft….in which there is a saying of true witches…either “KILL OR CURE….” Heal or harm… the choice is yours; there is no middle ground, in this instance….. […]

The Elders

When i was a child, i had a vision that was to never leave me. I lived in rather an ordinary town, which sat on a hill. Beyond the elevation on which the town was situated, the rest of the landscape was completely flat – ‘as far as the eye can see’, so the horizon […]

Last Dance

The Warrior’s last stand is an important aspect of Toltec teaching as it not only concerns “living like a warrior” but also the practical application; an alternate means of dying….. Don Juan and his party is said to have “burnt with the fire from within and left the earth”. The Eagle is the force in […]

A Threshold of Pain

They say it is always darkest before the dawn, and this is without a doubt, applicable to life, death and the search for truth. In our deepest darkest moments there is a tension that exists. It manifests in the form of energy, which creates a dis-ease. While, were we to go beyond this point – […]

The Eternal Now!

A funny thing about time…. Everything is happening right now; everything exists simultaneously….Past Present and future… everything co-existing in the Moment. Reality is happening right NOW – in a congruence of a confluence of an aggregation… creating the Present Moment we perceive….Yet time is always moving, fleeting, flowing like a river in a Mobius of […]

The magical thread

There is a Magical thread that runs through our lives, a list of magical events – you know, all the moments which have seemed strange, wonderful, or weird…A chronology of happenings that are noted in our perception. Everybody has them! Often these events come into our storytelling or they sit at the back of the […]

The Toltec Tollbooth

“My will controls the folly of my life –
And there is nothing I can do to change the folly of my life” ~ Toltec Warrior

The crate

I had not dreamed lucidly for sometime; in fact my dreaming had been scant for a while. I was in an unusual place to sleep – but a place where i had slept before but not many times. I fell quickly asleep, but had a distinct awareness of myself falling into that sleep. The scene […]

A Place Called “Home”

A warrior knows that Obsession is a debilitating condition which ultimately leads to deleterious effects on the luminous being of the warrior man or woman. Obsessional behavior is becoming fixated, on a specific position of assemblage point. If the warrior has been successful in dropping the customary position; and in finding the second attention, obsession […]

Mother Ayahuasca

The Shipibo-Conibo are an indigenous peoples who live along the Ucayali River in the Amazon Rainforest in Peru. The Shipibo are one of the largest ethnic groups in the Peruvian Amazon. They are highly regarded in the Amazon as being masters of Ayahuasca, and many aspiring shamans and Ayahuasqueros from the region study with the […]

The meaning of cave painting

Art is intended to guide society. Our early development as a species was principally based upon art, language and imagination. To our ancestors there would have been no barrier between the real and the imagined. In the first place ‘Art’ was our sacred science, and the guiding force of culture… Let me explain…. Cave paintings are […]

Living helter-skelter

“All I can say to you is that a warrior is never available; never is he standing in the road waiting to be clobbered. Thus he cuts to a minimum his chances of the unforeseen. What you call accidents are, most of the time, very easy to avoid, except for fools who are living helter-skelter.” ~ […]