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A Toltec Way Part 1: The Warrior

According to the Toltecs, the Warrior is an aspect of the self, along with the Stalker and the Dreamer.

The Warrior is the foundation of a developed self.

The Warrior aspect is self-discipline. The Warrior has the ability to declare a goal and take deliberate steps to accomplish it in the face of any resistance. He or she keeps the attention on the goal and does not waver despite the 10,000 distractions. The Warrior has will.

Koyote the Blind, a Toltec Master with whom a group of us have worked, told us that to accomplish our will it was necessary to set up and fulfill a series of small intents. An intent is a pre-selected mood, physical form (it can be dynamic), and concept that one consciously adopts.

The goal to be achieved must be truly necessary, in the sense that it could not be otherwise. It is not merely incidental to the universe but through a magical act has become inevitable. However, the angels still require hands for the work to translate to this plane.

The goal could be your goal, if you know how to create true necessity, or it could be borrowed from someone else.

Suppose the goal you are fulfilling is to write and publish a book. Some intents might relate to spending a certain amount of time every day sketching, writing, and rewriting a particular chapter for completion by a certain date. You will consciously evoke from yourself a certain mood and make the work fit a certain pattern. Other intents might relate to researching publishers, developing a marketing strategy, and writing query letters. The emotional, mental, and physical parameters of one?s activities are chosen ahead of time and adhered to.

How can such prosaic plans require a Warrior?

The plan is only a map. The real world is a jungle. No one ever knows for certain what will be encountered when the path of service is engaged in earnest, when the goal is pursued for the sake of something higher. Death wakes up. Death is the Beloved of the Warrior.

 Eric N. Peterson is a Toltec priest and member of The Tequihua Foundation, a Riverside, Southern CA nonprofit whose mission is to continue the ancient consciousness-transforming arts of the Toltecs. The Aka Dua is an energy prepared by a particular Toltec line. The Aka Dua assists in the alchemical process of transformation by which an ordinary human becomes the shaman.

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