—There is the door. Beyond there is an abyss, and beyond that abyss is the unknown.
—Now we will be dust on the road again —don Genaro said—. Perhaps someday will again get into your eyes.
—Don Juan and don Genaro moved back and seemed to get lost in the darkness. Pablito took my forearm and we said goodbye. Then a strange impulse, a force, made me run towards the northern edge of the plateau. I felt his arm when we jumped, and then I was alone." C.C.
In this way, when jumping from a cliff, Castaneda said goodbye to this world and start his journey to Ixtlán, his journey without return to melt in the infinite knowledge. It has been a very long journey, which he has been almost alone, surrounded only by a small group with a huge responsibility. In effect, the power has entrusted him with the task of disseminating ancient Mexico knowledge and, perhaps create a new knowledge lineage.
After this extraordinary and illogical act, nothing is the same in life, because "nobody" jumps into an abyss with the certainty that will disintegrate and become energy, that will rise and fall as a fire ball on the mountain. After this incredible event, Castaneda appears in Los Angeles, California and will later return to the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca to ask Pablito, what happened that night on the ashes hill. From there, Castaneda began his long, lonely journey to Ixtlán, his trip to the immeasurable.
"What Genaro told you is his story is just that. Genaro left his passion for Ixtlán: his home, his people, all the things that mattered. And now wanders perhaps here and there carrying his feelings; and sometimes, as he says, about to reach Ixtlán. We all have this in common." (Journey to Ixtlán. 1972).
Castaneda was a "knowledge man" disciple, a Toltec heir of the wisdom, knowledge and philosophy (Toltecáyotl) with which the dazzling miracle of the Anahuac or ancient Mexico civilization was forged, through over 7500 years, although Don Juan Matus argues that their knowledge is over 10 thousand years old in the Anahuac. Knowledge engendered by this wonderful human evolution, as important as China or India, and that has been stubbornly denied by the invaders, from 1521 until our days. The ancient Mexicans for "specialists" and public in general, only managed to be a bloody polytheistic religion and build monumental "ceremonial centers" to worship "the Sun, water and wind" and not to develop a polished and sophisticated set of mysterious knowledge about the human being luminous essence, perhaps more advanced knowledge than what the occidental culture has today.
Toltecs of yesterday and today, seek the existence transcendence from an energetic body, in synthesis seek, what all wise people of the world have sought... the infinite light.
The Don Juan teachings were a ruse or means to get to the knowledge essence. In fact, all 9 books Castaneda wrote about don Juan Matus teachings is a hoax! Because essentials are not taught. It seems funny, but it is. Those of us that "study" each of his books for many years, never knew that the constant "stretches” by Don Juan, were the famous "magical passes" and as Castaneda did not have enough personal power to understand them, the readers had much less. So until
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