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Mayan stelas, talking nearby...
Carlos affirmed that the simple act of contemplating some archaeological pieces in a state of
inner silence is enough to project the observer's attention to the position of the ancient artists.
Hence, some of those pieces work as veritable traps of attention.
"Many of them were designed like that with deliberate intention. Their purpose was not
ornamental or symbolic. Each one of their proportions and designs contain a detonator of
psychic states and flows of energy. Those pieces are, you might say, catapults for the
assemblage point. No professional investigation will ever be able to figure them out, because
their creators were not in the least interested in adjusting themselves to rational criteria. To
align with them, we have to have the guts to meet the challenge, and perceive in terms of
silent knowledge."
He maintained that, because of their intent, the creations of prehispanic antiquity are true
deposits of the second attention, an oasis of power in the middle of the dry sterility into which
current civilization has thrown man.
"By encouraging me to present the heritage of ancient Mexico to the world at large, Don Juan
began a kind of journey to the roots in order to validate aspects of the teachings which had
remained hidden right up until today, and return to man the true dimensions of his being.
"As seekers of knowledge, we can have the full benefit of the old seers' intent today, in order
to continue their work with renewed vigor."
Somewhat shyly, I asked Carlos if we could meet in some museum or archaeological site,
where he could give me a practical demonstration of the keys to sorcery.
But he didn't approve of that suggestion. His answer was emphatical:
"All you want to know about your country; go and find out for yourself! As a Mexican, you
are the best qualified to recover the Toltec message. That is your task, your commitment to
the world. If you are too lazy to take it on, somebody else will."
The Antennas Of The Second Attention
One time, while we drank coffee in a restaurant in the center of the city, I told him that I got
confused by his enthusiasm when he spoke of ancient Mexico, in contrast with the warning
made in one of his books about the dangers of visiting ruins or picking up objects from that
time. I was referring to the thrilling stories he wrote about some of his fellow apprentices,
who got into serious trouble due to their habit of prowling around archaeological sites.
He replied that I had misunderstood.
"What happens is that I don't confuse the abstract knowledge of the new seers with the
cultural focus of the seers of antiquity, because they are not the same thing. The old seers
lived in the second attention, they were fascinated with its intricate details and they tried to
reproduce them in their daily life by means of their sculptures and buildings. In that way, they
put big chunks of that dark fascination within reach of the masses.
"But Don Juan said that any form of representing knowledge is a subterfuge, it shuts you off
from true, silent knowledge. In spite of the prodigious quantity of information that they were
able to extract from the other side, the old seers ended up paying a high price for their
propensity: Their freedom.
"Therefore, one of the priorities of a modern nagual is to direct his apprentices, at least during
the first stages of the path, so that they are not trapped by the external side of knowledge.
"Also, there was another reason why Don Juan insisted to some of us that we must not waste
our time trying to make sense of something that has none. At that time, most of his
apprentices had still not lost their human form, which meant that we felt impelled to classify
knowledge, systematizing it as quickly as possible. That is not valid with the artifacts of
ancient Mexico, because what has come down to us is too fragmented . There is still a lot of
work to
be done, and it is risky work, which can turn against the investigator."
"Why?"
"As I have already told you, these creations are not innocent. The problem with them is the
passion they stir up. The old seers were masters of obsession. Their works are full of tricks,
and all of it continues operating today with the same vigor as on the very first day, because
the fixation of a sorcerer's attention doesn't wear away with time."
He added that the Mexican tradition of wisdom was designed by men of power in a supreme
act of altruism. The intent was to rescue our essential freedom, but it only worked for a short
time. And because they were steeped in rituals and superfluous beliefs, in the end their
creations became means of fixating the assemblage point of that society.
"Those works are enormous concentrations of intent, but the teachings they guard are not
pure, they are blended with the self- importance of their creators, and to focus on them should
only be done through stalking. Pyramids are particularly powerful captors of attention. They
can bring us quickly to states of inner silence, but they can also turn against us. There comes a
point when it is preferable to abstain from them rather than venture without defenses into the
domain of the old seers.
"Keeping in mind my morbid inclinations, Don Juan had forbidden me to go to museums or
archaeological sites on my own. He said that those places were only to be trusted when in the
company of sorcerers. One day, while walking trough the ruins of Tula, I had a truly
unpleasant experience and began to change my opinion."
"What happened to you?" I asked him.
"Something that made me tremble with fear," he answered. "I
could see that the pyramids exuded enormous energy fields,
undulating like a bottomless sea, completely wrapped around the visitors. A very enjoyable
condition for certain sorcerers, but not for us."
I asked him if that phenomenon is only linked to Mexican pyramids, or if it can be seen in
other parts of the world, too.
He answered that fixation is not a local phenomenon, it is universal. It appears wherever
awareness strives to exist. But on Earth, only the human society invests a considerable part of
its energy in creating symbolic objects of no utilitarian value, whose exclusive purpose is to
generate states of attention.
"In fact, if they did not have this characteristic quality of being extraordinary energy
accumulators, those objects and monuments would not exist. They are in this world, but they
are not from here. They are agents from the other side, antennas of the second attention. Their
design and construction were personally directed by inorganic beings in every latitude and
era.
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