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"The Teachings of Don Carlos:Practical Applications of the Works of Carlos Castaneda", by Victor Sanchez (c) 1995
Published by Bear & Company, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA 
Copyright 1995.

"Toltecs of the New Millenium", by Victor Sanchez (c) 1996
Published by Bear & Company, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Copyright 1996.

The Toltec Path of Recapitulation
Healing Your Past to Free Your Soul
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MEXICO Las Ensenanzas de don Carlos	MEXICO Toltecas del Nuevo Milenio	USA The Teachings of don Carlos	USA Toltecs of the New Millennium	USA The Toltec Path of Recapitulation	GERMANY The Teachings of don Carlos	GERMANY Toltecs of the New Millennium
FRANCE The Teachings of don Carlos	FRANCE Toltecs of the New Millennium	FRANCE The Toltec Path of Recapitulation	ITALY The Teachings of don Carlos	ITALY Toltecs of the New Millennium	HOLLAND The Teachings of don Carlos	GREECE The Teachings of don Carlos
						El Camino Tolteca de la Recapitulación Sana tu Pasado para Sanar tu Espíritu (En preparación por Ediciones Alfa Omega)
ISRAEL The Teachings of don Carlos	RUSSIA The Teachings of don Carlos	POLLAND The Teachings of don Carlos	CZECH REPUBLIC The Teachings of don Carlos	ESPAÑA Las Enseñanzas de don Carlos	ESPAÑA ]Toltecas del Nuevo Milenio
PORTUGAL Las Enseñanzas de don Carlos	BRASIL Las Enseñanzas de don Carlos	CHILE Las Enseñanzas de don Carlos	COLOMBIA Las Enseñanzas de don Carlos	USA Earth Walks by  James Endredy	USA The Gospel of the Toltecs  by Frank Diaz

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"The Teachings of Don Carlos:

Practical Applications of the Works of Carlos Castaneda",

by Victor Sanchez (c) 1995

Synopsis

"The Teachings of Don Carlos" is a book whose main objective is to provide, through exercises and explanations, a way of putting into practice many of the surprising proposals contained in the work of Carlos Castaneda.

It is directed principally to those readers who, in spite of having a great interest in Castaneda's work, have not found a way to apply "the teachings" to the context of their everyday life, so far from those solitary and mysterious places which he narrates to us through his books.

Regardless of how strange the world of don Juan-style sorcery may seem to us, we have discovered a notable confluence between the content of Castaneda's proposals and the vision of the indigenous mesoamericans past and present, which could well prove applicable and very beneficial for modern man and society which, being in a constant state of conflict, no doubt requires a fresh perspective for renewal and exploration of healthier ways of living and being.

After having worked for more than twelve years in the practical application of the principals, techniques, and proposals contained in Castaneda's work, in my own person as well as those who have participated in the work groups which I have promoted and coordinated, we offer this work as a testimony to the results we have obtained. It is not our purpose to establish an ultimate truth in relation to the mysteries set forth by Castaneda, but to simply indicate the way in which we have approached them and show how, upon carrying out these principals, we have seen our own lives, and the lives of those who have participated with us, change substantially. At the same time, we seek to share our experience through 77 precisely detailed exercises, which any interested reader can put into practice and experience for himself the access to the "separate reality" spoken of in the work of Castaneda.

Another of the primary antecedents of this work is found in the author's experience of living and working in indigenous communities of toltec descent, in particular the nahuas and huicholes, from where were derived many of these applications which, in combination with those resulting from the living study of the work of Castaneda, have made up the content of our courses and workshops, as well as that of the present work.

"The Teachings of don Carlos" is not intended to be a simple repetition of the ideas and concepts contained in the work of Castaneda, but rather it provides a specific method whereby such concepts may be applied within a context closer to that of the average person. Therefore, the techniques presented for practical application in such areas as, "stalking", "the art of dreaming", "the quasi memories of the other self", "stopping the internal dialogue", among others, are - in many cases - a more detailed description of practices mentioned only superficially by Castaneda, while others are completely original exercises which, nevertheless, share the same sustaining principles as the donjuanist teachings and which lead to similar results.

More than a book of analysis or speculation, "The Teachings of don Carlos" is a book having to do with practical application which treats the "warrior's" way as a real alternative to our way of living, which can be experienced by anyone who has sufficient interest, without the need of anyone to assist him.

The work is divided into three parts that include an introduction, ten chapters and an appendix. The first part is a general explanation of the basic concepts on which are based the practices of the warrior's on don Juan's world, related to us by Castaneda. In the following two sections, which compose the heart of the work, are found more detailed explanations and practical exercises in the fundamental areas of "The Teachings of don Carlos".

The second part is entitled "The special handling of ordinary reality" and it refers to that part of "the teachings" which take place in ordinary everyday reality but which have the capacity to transform it into a magical experience.

The third is termed "The access to the separate reality" and is comprised of the practices for "the left side" that permit the practitioner to enter into states of non-ordinary reality, which reveal through the unsuspected possibilities of awareness, the existence of a "separate reality" in the world and a hidden form of awareness in each one of us called "the awareness of the other self".

At the end are included, in addition to a bibliography, two glossaries of classified techniques. The first of these contains all those found in the eight works of Carlos Castaneda (up to 1990), mentioning the book and page number to aid in finding a specific technique. The second contains all the techniques found in this book. For further reference a general index of the present work has been added at the very end.

"Toltecs of the New Millenium",

by Victor Sanchez (c) 1996

Synopsis

Toltecs of the new millenium is a book that deals with survival of the spiritual tradition of the ancient toltecs at the dawn of the third millenium.

If the profundity and the richness of prehispanic indigenous knowledge is something which is normally accepted without difficulty, due to written testimonies, pictographs, and archeologists which give testimony to them, as well as myths, legends and oral traditions which speak of the greatness of the ancient toltecs, it is almost always assumed that this richness is a thing of the past from which, perhaps, we can "glean" a few isolated features. But it is not that way.

In this very moment there exist in Mexico indigenous groups which have been able to survive and keep practically intact their way of life, their religion, and original culture and who are the direct inheritors of the spiritual tradition and the material culture of the historical toltecs.

In an era in which the search for spiritual paths is intensified due to the growing pressure of the crises of our time, the discovery of the survival of the toltec tradition constitutes an event without precedent.

In a first part, Victor Sanchez reveals to us how and why he enters into contact with the surviving toltecs and the spiritual task revealed to him among them.

In the second part, he gives us a brief sketch of the characteristics of Toltequity, the geographic and historical location of the ancient toltecs and the way in which they linked and transmitted their tradition to those indigenous groups which keep alive that tradition. He tells us also of some characteristics of the lineage or group of indigenous peoples with whom he connects as a participant.

And in the third part, the author gives us some examples of what he proposes as a new and more consistent way to approximate the indigenous world; what he terms "anti-anthropology" and which refers to the necessity to "submerge oneself" fully as a participant in that world, assuming the necessary transformation of one's person as a requisite for entrance into the "separate reality". In this section, which in a way is the most important part of the book, Victor Sanchez relates three experiences lived in the world of the Wirrarika; the indigenous peoples of Mexico who have kept in their purest form the practices of ancient Toltequity. Each one of these experiences corresponds to a phase of the process which carried him each time further inside the way of the Toltec tradition.

One of the fundamental proposals of Toltecs of the New Millenium is that in the elements, forms and practices of Toltequity, the searcher of our time can find the keys which bring him to encounter the toltec which, secretly, we all carry inside, and constitute thus the seed of new Toltequity which each time with more force, begins to manifest itself beyond the confines of the strictly indigenous, representing a substantial alternative for non-indigenous peoples who live in modern society.

One of the principal values of this book is that, placing itself at a prudent distance from academic studies of the so-called "scientific anthropology", as well as esoteric literature or "new age" dealing with indigenous knowledge, the author presents to us the testimony of an experience which, without limiting itself to the narrow conceptual framework of the academic investigator, rigorously relates the practical experiences among indigenous peoples of flesh and blood, whose concrete existence can indeed be verified.

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