Intuition
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I like art where the expression and meaning come through in the subtle and abstract details. The pencil marks and the texture express indirectly the feelings that the artist was having while working. This method resembles "speaking without words" and is capable of delivering the most subtle meaning and inner feeling that could not be expressed otherwise.

The theory expressed in Toltec is that human beings are born with total freedom of perception and varying levels of energy allotted to each person. We are taught from a very young age to perceive the world in a particular way. I would say 95%- 99% of the world perceives, "dreams" the world in in this particular way. Over time, our perception becomes crystallized in this one particular way and we forget that we were born with total freedom of perception. We never question the dream we are having. We forget that there are many more ways to perceive, "assemble" the world. In order to return to our original in-born freedom we must un-do what we have been taught. 

I can see that in the world the could be different "phases" people are in, although I don't believe any two are the same. The majority of people have never questioned the perception they were taught from a young age. They live and die in this perception. Some of them are fairly happy, some in the middle, some sad. They follow all the dictates of that particular perception. But they are never free.

Some people, a minority, catch glimpses of another way to perceive and realize that the perception they have is not totally concrete. They know there is something else.

Like a parasite in their world, they can never see things in quite the same way. They may go insane, they may reason out a particular religious belief to explain away what they have experienced, etc, etc. They have seen a crack in there egg.

Some others Intentionally crack the egg because they believe there is something outside the shell, or they are continuing the cracking of a previously started crack.

These people are Castaneda and many others. The also could go completely insane, or form a much more mystical religious view, they could go all the way to the total removal of the shell or just various levels of removal. The mystery's one learns are up to each individual. Controlled folly is the way these liberated or partly liberated people interacts with the majority of people still inside the "shell" of their particular "dream".

A master of perception has control over the dream he dreams. he can go into the dream of the majority of mankind and also go into other dreams. A person who doesn't have control over this process may go completely insane because their perception is constantly adrift, They cannot communicate with the majority of mankind because they cannot adjust there perception to the common dream. The key is liberation mixed with control. This is the Shamans power.

So there you have it. Most are locked away in a dream they may never leave. They rest are at different levels of liberation.