Encounters
There comes a moment on the warrior’s path when attention begins to turn inward. The world ceases to be merely what strikes us through the senses — it starts to be perceived as a hall of mirrors, where outer reflections […]
Intent
Gateways of Perception:
A Bridge Between Don Juan’s Hallucinogens and Contemporary Entheogenic Paths There comes a point when the known world begins to dissolve—not as illusion, but because the perceptual structures that held it in place begin to shift. That point is not
When the Will Reveals Itself
There’s a secret that breathes in the space between two breaths. There — in that silence that doesn’t fit into any clock — we perceive that the body is merely the visible edge of something vaster. The skin vibrates like
The naming of a person in the Toltec tradition
The naming of a person in the Toltec tradition means Seeing. To understand the luminosity of the candidate, to be aware of the surrounding omens. When sorcerers are confronted with a potential Core member, the Seeing of a new name
Journal of Applied Hermeutics – Fourth Principle of the Warrior’s Way: The Energy Body
The fourth unit of the warriors’ way is THE ENERGY BODY Don Juan Matus explained that, since time immemorial, sorcerers have given the name of energy body to a special configuration of energy which belongs to each human being individually.
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Perception as an Act Organized by Attention
Everything experienced as reality depends on perception. But perception is not a passive reflection of the world — it is an energetic act, a living and intentional construction shaped by attention. Attention is the instrument through which the being organizes
Controlled folly
Controlled folly is not something that a person can practice and learn progressively. . In the challenge of learning to control folly, the key point is to understand what folly (or madness) is, and to discover what it is that
The Masteries to Move the Assemblage Point: Stalking and Intent
“In a very low voice don Juan said that because I was in a state of heightened awareness, I could understand more readily what he was going to tell me about the two masteries: stalking and intent. He called them
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